Dr. Tanya Samman

I'm outraged at this. They say that the office of the privacy commissioner is reviewing, but shouldn't that happen *before* a new policy is rolled out?

Reminder that resisting the nazis was not only about active violence, but also about the grinding and halting of sand in the gears, various kinds of bureaucratic sabotage, the disruption of food and manufacturing processes, and so much more. Every single small act of sabotage can have large impacts.

This is a great video on speciation after the Chicxulub impact, well worth watching.

Video here:

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Credit
@geosociety.bsky.social

youtube.com/@geogirl

Paper:
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"Tell me you know nothing about the Muppets without telling me you know nothing about the Muppets."

Interview: Tawny Newsome On “Gargantuan Task” To Give DS9 “Resolution” On ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ The 'Lower Decks' star co-wrote the latest episode of 'Starfleet Academy.'

ok so *now* I'm crying because I watched Starfleet Academy “Series Acclimation Mil” & I'm not trying to spoil anything but just... my heart, my heart. God bless you Tawny Newsome for doing right by that writers room, for all of it, & Cirroc Lofton & Avery Brooks for ever & ever & ever ❤️

Nnedi standing beside an intricate magnificent clock

Today was amazing and I’m too tired to post about it (I’m in Los Angeles).

However, here’s a magnificent creature of a clock I saw before the event (yes, its pendulum was swinging 🕰️🦄):

... no, no they could not, lol.

When your ideas are too nuts even for the mad mango of disinformation.

BBC Audio | Newshour | Britain’s former PM calls for ethical reforms in public life Former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown appointed Peter Mandelson as a cabinet minister

I talked with the BBC World Service this morning about why AI data centers are a silly idea promoted by deeply unserious people. They're not going to happen, no matter what ignorant fascists like Elon Musk say. You can hear me starting at 39:15 here: www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...

But just imagine spending YEARS trying to convince people that you are not, in fact, a child. And suddenly people are like no ma'am you are grown.

It's destabilizing.

It was illegal at the time, but the actual rule text said it was illegal 'to land on two feet.'

So she did it on ONE. Believing this adjustment would grant an allowance.

The crowd went absolutely wild.

The judges very obviously punished her by bumping her from 6th place down to 10th.

Surya Bonaly preformed the move in the 1998 Nagano Olympics.

After suffering a groin injury earlier that was so severe she couldn't even walk.

Her original program had her doing a triple jump as the closing move, but the injury was so bad she decided she'd do 'something easier.'

Shut it all down. We're never going to top this

Can ChatGPT compete with emergency medicine specialists? A two-stage assessment of ECG interpretation supported by clinical information - BMC Emergency Medicine BMC Emergency Medicine - The increasing integration of AI-powered large language models into clinical workflows has created new opportunities for augmenting diagnostic decision-making in emergency...

A specialized version of ChatGPT designed to interpret ECGs was found to interpret ECGs with 24% accuracy.

…Meaning it was wrong 76% of the time at the time-sensitive test used to diagnose heart attacks and arrhythmias, among other things.

Jeff Bezos makes enough money to fully fund this literally every two minutes.

Pretty sure I watched both of these live, or at least as soon as I could make the time zones work. Damn, she was incredible.

Trump blindsided Mexico with Cuba oil export tariff threat, says Mexican president | CBC News U.S. President Donald Trump blindsided Mexico with an executive order threatening tariffs on any country that supplied Cuba with oil, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum revealed on Friday.

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Anti-homeless sentiment is so ubiquitous across the political spectrum that it's become a jump scare. I can't tell you how many times someone whose politics seemed very good has just out of nowhere said something about people sleeping on the sidewalk that's indistinguishable from Fox News sludge.

China criticizes U.S. for WHO pullout, accusing it of sidestepping international law China criticized the United States for withdrawing from the WHO, saying countries should not place domestic politics ahead of international law.

China criticized the US for withdrawing from #WHO on Friday, during a meeting of the WHO executive board. A Chinese representative said the US was putting domestic politics ahead of international law. A North Korea rep said the US should pay its unpaid bills. www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/c...

‘I don’t have to create his legacy, I just have to protect it’: Chadwick Boseman’s widow Simone on grieving a global star – and guarding his secrets Black Panther made him a megastar, but in private the actor and his wife Simone Ledward Boseman were dealing with his terminal cancer diagnosis. In a rare interview, she talks about the shock of losing him, and how a revival of one of his plays has helped her heal

‘I don’t have to create his legacy, I just have to protect it’: Chadwick Boseman’s widow Simone on grieving a global star – and guarding his secrets

Halle Berry Reveals Her Teachers Refused To Accept That She Was Voted Prom Queen Over A White Girl

Just awful.

Two African penguins standing side by side in front of a rock face. They posing like they're trying to look intimidating.

A turaco (a bird with an iridescent blue body, a big yellow beak, and a red tuft on its head), perched on a wicker basket in front of a jungle background, giving the camera a curious look.

A ground hornbill (big black bird with very large, protruding beak, a featherless face with dull blue and red skin, and large eyes with prominent eyelashes) looking straight at the camera. He is in an indoor space in front of a large animal crate.

An eastern screech-owl, red morph, on a glove outside. They are looking up at the camera with a very ferocious scowl that is not intimidating at all because they are so tiny.

As a zookeeper who has worked with around 50 kinds of birds, I can confirm, they are Muppets.

a man in a red jacket is dancing in front of a yellow background with the word nah written on it . ALT: a man in a red jacket is dancing in front of a yellow background with the word nah written on it .

Dear settlers, it is #BlackHistoryMonth, and it’s time that Caucasians stop acting like they’re BLACK.

Enough with the body language, hand gestures and cultural appropriation of their people.

Basically, if you aren’t Eminem you cannot pull that shit off!

You look and sound ridiculous! 🪶🙄🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸💙

3 Doors Down singer Brad Arnold dies of cancer at 47 | CBC News The band said in a statement that Brad Arnold "passed away peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, in his sleep after his courageous battle with cancer."

🪶💔🎤https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/brad-arnold-3-doors-down-obituary-9.7079483

The AI industry's plot to make people stupid, so it can rule. Thiel: "The basic idea was that we could never win an election...because we were in such a small minority." Enter Big Tech.

"“Lower Artificial Intelligence Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity” (Journal of Marketing, 13 Jan 2025).

How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

"It’s hard not to read these files and come to the conclusion that Epstein helped engineer the ultimate elite impunity — in which our society has been totally destroyed so the richest and most powerful men in the world can do whatever they want." — @lopatto.bsky.social

with guns is why! You treat them like you cannot exist without them and would start another #CivilWar to protect your fallacy of the #2ndAmendment.

When “thoughts and prayers” is the go to phrase after a school shooting, they never grasp that #ItsTheGuns is the “mental illness” they attribute to…

I’m watching #Dateline as I often do as I’m interested in criminal justice-I have a Masters in Criminology I’d like to finish one day but the cost is why it’s on hold.

It amazes me when gun violence is the crime and Americans are shocked “How could this have happened?”

The 🇺🇸’s obsession….