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Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

What I desperately need is a phonological dictionary of English that tells me how various accents would roughly pronounce words

Like I can easily find RP, SSB, GenAm, sometimes even Australian for most words. But what if I want to know Scottish, or New York, or South African?

As I head home from #MAAthFest, enjoy these wonderful pieces in the Math Art exhibit including pieces by @gwenbeads.bsky.social and @gelada.bsky.social

Photo of me using my finger to indicate the square spiral pattern of a glass bus shelter. My face is showing excitement, I guess?

Here's a photo of me from when I visited Minneapolis earlier this summer. I happened to come across the same style bus shelter, and wearing the same shirt, as in my profile picture. Please pardon my facial expression; I seem to have gotten worse at selfies since 2022.

Text reading "Solve math problems with your camera. Get homework help in the Google app."

Google just offered without prompting to do my math homework for me. (Just tested it out, and the "help" involves providing the answer).

I'm back in NL now visiting friends, and it's astonishing how backwards the US system is in comparison. It's a huge hassle even to pay back our friends for shared expenses — a trivial task if you're used to just giving someone your bank account number to make a transfer!

Only kid is still a bit young, so I'm singing it on the bike when I don't think I'd bother anyone :)

Also @clarabiesel.bsky.social and @ktmulvaney.bsky.social and I are learning the three-part harmony for "What It Sounds Like" (because the melody alone is not that interesting!)

Does it count as owning it if I have it playing in my head constantly?

I'm so sorry

DOJ -- the Obama DOJ! -- tried to send Aaron Swartz to prison for 30 years for downloading too many JSTOR articles, until he killed himself rather than face that

hard to think of many things with this big a gap between what a white man in tech thinks is a great parenting innovation and how an actual human mother would be treated by the public if she tried it

I applied for a mortgage and have received 20+ scam calls on the last 24 hours.

Imagine having a government that felt responsible for its citizens.

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices.

Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire

“Jaffe said the criteria to add a crosswalk included having two accidents at the intersection. ‘Which two of my constituents are going to get hurt or killed before the criteria are met for a crosswalk?’ she asked.”

The Alt National Park Service account. 887 thousand followers. "The officla 'Resistance' team of the U.S. National Park Service. Our Website: www.ourparks.org

The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers.

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When someone asks what parenting be like… 😂🤣
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I'd love to come along next time! I think you have my email — let's get in touch!

9/ my overall takeaways?
✅ Stamford gets it—and they’ve appointed and empowered people who get it
✅ CT cities like Stamford, New Haven, and Hartford are going to be transformed for the better by infill housing and human-centered infrastructure
✅ quick-builds are your public outreach

Essential urban amenities, including a "family restroom".

Strong evidence for a captured apex court. Compiled by the excellent Adam Bonica.

I made it all the way to the end thinking you were describing your *vision* for suburban Connecticut. I was surprised!

Okay, folks. We want to see your grocery-by-bike pics!

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Don't ya just love live TV?

Hi [redacted] Regretfully, I must tender my resignation from [various service roles at professional organization] effective immediately. The reason is that [redacted organization] contacted me yesterday to inform me that they have taken my talk down from the website for the upcoming [redacted conference] because this talk—which is about using data science to fight fascism—is too biased. They have given me the option to rewrite my title and abstract (which were officially accepted months ago), but I have declined. Unfortuantely, this means [redacted] isn’t an organization I can be part of. Please know I still have great admiration for the important work you do. Best wishes, Chad

Hi academic nerds, welcome to just another day in my life. My efforts to "call in" (see yesterday's posts) did not work and I got told "sorry you didn't receive our email in the spirit it was intended." I'm like, you literally censored my accepted talk. How was I supposed to receive it? #AcademicSky

We didn't make a lot of predictions in The AI Con, but @emilymbender.bsky.social reminded me that we did call this one:

"Someday soon, there may be a point where you’ll not only be encouraged to use ChatGPT, but you will be required to use it."

Next up is Connecticut! There are some excellent programs for getting batteries, including paying you for 10 years for sending energy back to the grid, up to $16,000! energystoragect.com/energy-stora...

How one man with a hacksaw and an e-bike became a Texas flood 'hero' Locals call him the “Bicycle hero,” but Texas man Evan Wayne says he’s just doing what he can to help...

A man and his e-bike provided an essential lifeline in the Texas floods: electrek.co/2025/07/14/h...

Goodness, putting aside the whole "maybe let's do try to have a positive relationship with the natural world" thing, having your kid say goodbye to the things they're reluctant to leave is a major parenting hack!

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”