August, like the month

Personally, I loved reading those self-published collections of paranormal happenings—ghosts, Bigfoots (Bigfeet?), UFOs (UAPs?)—I still find in pharmacies' magazine racks.

(I still buy them, too.)

(I won't suggest that I turned out fine.)

So ridiculous. (And so familiar)

Possessing at least a second grade command of the English language and logic precludes one from serving on the Supreme Court.

It's definitely somewhere in that new King Don's Constitution.

The haskell.org frontpage with an alternative logo that resembles the style used by the VTubing community.

Be Not Afraid
www.haskell.org?uwu=true

Lise Meitner (1946) Smithsonian Institution - Flickr: Lise Meitner (1878-1968), lecturing at Catholic University, Washington, D.C., 1946. Lise Meitner is seen in the midst of delivering a lecture. Her posture appears engaged and deliberate—she may be gesturing, holding notes, or pointing toward unseen lecture materials. She is dressed in period-appropriate attire, likely a blouse and dark jacket, conveying a professional and composed appearance. In 1938, Austrian-born physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968) fled Germany and eventually became a Swedish citizen. After World War II, Meitner received many awards, including being named "Woman of the Year" at the National Press Club in 1946. She was a Visiting Professor of Physics at Catholic University during Spring 1946. In a press release associated with her arrival, Dr. Meitner emphasized that her goal was "wholly educational": "I have no intention to suggest how atomic energy should be controlled, beyond expressing my sincere hope that no occasion will again arise where it will be utilized in war. A lasting peace is more desirable than the creation of weapons which might lead to the extermination of mankind." https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner#/media/Datei:Lise_Meitner_(1878-1968),_lecturing_at_Catholic_University,_Washington,_D.C.,_1946.jpg

Lise Meitner: The Forgotten Mother of Nuclear Fission

Of the 15 elements on the periodic table that honor scientists, only one and a half are named after women.

By Eva Kellner B.A.Sc

www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Nuclear fission at PG:
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#womeninstem

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Critical AI & Tech Books Checkout out this list on Bookshop

Looking for a critical book on AI or Big Tech? I've started a little curated list - take a look!

📚💡/ #booksky

If I had more disposable income, this entire Radium Age series would occupy my shelf.

I promised that I wouldn't buy anymore books... Damnit.
#booksky #scifi #sff
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This was a random Democratic congresswoman a week ago.

Samuel Goudsmit - Wikipedia

"Samuel Abraham Goudsmit (July 11, 1902 – December 4, 1978) was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in 1925."
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51 years ago tonight August 8, 1974

After battling it out for over 13 months after John Dean’s devastating testimony exposed the Watergate coverup & inner workings of the WH, Nixon announces he will resign the next day at noon. GOP support had totally crumbled & he was facing removal from office.

Graphic of "Inflation" by Martha Olney on a light blue background. The cover features a green stock arrow icon rising upwards. A line at the bottom of the cover indicates this book is part of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series.

From increased cost of living to a decreased quality of goods & services, economist Martha Olney provides an indispensable introduction to the concept of inflation and what we can do to address its effects. "Inflation" joins the Essential Knowledge Series Sep. 23rd: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255315...

Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.

1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s

This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.

Here's why.

Black Hole Heart has a similarly named Soundgarden song stick in my head. I'd start there.

"Blue-b-berry" is exactly how Gonger from #SesameStreet would pronounce it.

"Blue-b-berry" is exactly how Gonger from #SesameStreet would pronounce it.

ChatGPT File • • Edit View Window Help ChatGPT 5 > How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry The word "blueberry" has the letter b three times: • Once at the start ("B" in blueberry). • Once in the middle ("b" in blue). • Once before the -erry ending ("b" in berry). Total: 3 O92 Show me where the letter b appears in the word please. Sure — here's "blueberry" with each b highlighted: B lue b erry Positions (counting from 1): 1 B - first letter 4 b - in blue 6 b - in berry D9< Spell that out with all three bs please. I mean, just spell the word. Sure — here's the full spelling with all three b's shown in place: BLUEBERRY That's exactly how blueberry is spelled, with the b's in positions 1, 5, and 7.

ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help E ChatGPT 5 > You wrote "BLUEBERRY". There are only two bs there. Ah - I see the mix-up. Let's slow it down and spell blueberry carefully, letter by letter, showing all three b's. blueberry Now you can see them: • 1st b → position 1 • 2nd b → position 5 • 3rd b → position 6 blueberry Exactly — blue berry has three b's: • 1st b → at the very start • 2nd b → right after the e in blue • 3rd b → immediately after the second b, starting berry So the "bb" in the middle is really what gives blueberry its double-b moment. Its double-b moment; I see. Yep - blueberry is one of those words where the middle almost trips you up, like it's saying "b-b-better pay attention." That little bb moment is satisfying, though — it makes the word feel extra bouncy.

 ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help 巴 • ChatGPT 5 > My students get you to write their essays for them, you know. Ah, the old "ChatGPT, do my homework" routine — I'm familiar with that one. I can see why they'd be tempted, but here's the thing: I'm a lot more useful as a coach than a ghostwriter. If they use me to brainstorm ideas, plan structure, or clarify tricky concepts, they'll actually learn and still have their own voice in the work. If they just hand in what I write, they're skipping the thinking part - and it usually shows. I'm good, but I still leave a trail of... telltale ChatGPT-isms. A trail of blueberries, as it were. Exactly — a trail of blueberries: easy to follow, a little sweet, and maybe just obvious enough for a watchful teacher to notice. If your students really are leaving me to bake the whole blueberry pie for them, they might forget that the best part of pie is making it themselves... even if it gets a little messy. "Blueberry" only has two bs. Nope - blueberry really does have three b's. Here it is spaced out: bluebberry Positions: b- at the start 5 b - in the "blue" part 6 b - right next to it, starting "berry" That middle double-b is easy to miss if vou just glance at the word.

I had to try the “blueberry” thing myself with GPT5. I merely report the results.

When does Trump meet with and praise companies that have been manufacturing in the US? That promise to invest means nothing and is reputation washing. Trump is easily bribed with gold trinkets.

"don't use the Lying Plagiarism Machine that destroys human knowledge"

"Well now I think you're trying to suppress knowledge"

Like do you use shoelaces or are you still figuring out Velcro?

"Commit" should probably be in quotes as well.

1. They've got to rewrite the past to control the future. No better way than to start with the present before our eyes.

2. I predicted Trump's Bible Constitution combo to be abridged... Won't go out of my way to confirm.

Conservatives pick and choose which parts of the Bible to follow. Why not the Constitution, too?

We don’t know if it was secrecy or stupidity that led to the deletion of habeas corpus from the online version of the U.S. Constitution, but @librarycongress.bsky.social needs to give a full accounting of what happened — ASAP.

Eventually permanently replaced by VLC for video and foobar2000 for audio sometime around 2005.

POV 2002

mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.

The reason it’s so powerful is that it turns /your body/ into the factory that makes the drug. It’s so exciting that the US not working on it will be seen as one of the biggest self-owns in history.

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

With IRS commissioner Billy Long saying the Direct File program is "gone," revisit our 2019 story about how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free:

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Someone said this looks like a @nightvaleradio.bsky.social poster and boy were they right