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I also have an opinion about the thing!

No worries, thank you.

That… may actually be relevant for what I was searching for, thank you.

(I have a vague memory that 16 was sacred to some ancient god or power)

Not at all what I was looking for. Truly humans are the most fuckery-inclined species.

Here's a wild find that came up on a poorly-formed search: THE WORLD'S SIXTEEN CRUCIFIED SAVIOIRS, OR, CHRISTIANITY BEFORE CHRIST, 1875 www.gutenberg.org/files/38600/...

Survival of Transplanted Allogeneic Beta Cells with No Immunosuppression | NEJM The need to suppress a patient’s immune system after the transplantation of allogeneic cells is associated with wide-ranging side effects. We report the outcomes of transplantation of genetically m...

They’ve done it.

They’ve found a cure for type 1 diabetes.

Now it’s just a question of “Will our broken and useless healthcare system allow it to be used for the people who need it?”

Forgive me if I’m not optimistic.

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

SFF friends: this is a good 75% of my energy/climate work right now. Dealing with the power demands of incipient data centers on the electric grid, and how those demands are resulting in more expensive and dirtier electricity for everyone.

Local Journalism Directory | Media and Democracy Project We created a directory to help you find local journalism and local news sources in your area worth reading and supporting.

Hey here's a list of local news sources. Might be of interest if you, like, care about anything. www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...

Oh I’m not going anywhere! I just realize that 1) I’m only opening the app like once a day and 2) if I’m getting actual information other places I can maybe filter this place more into actually interacting with people.

Fair, I just sometimes prefer to read my news 1) in longer form and 2) not bracketed by the Panic Du Jour

So I’m moving away from “social media” (this is less a Statement and more an observation). I get most of my internet via RSS now. Please share with me recommendations for good feeds, especially for quality news reporting. (Boosts for spread appreciated as well)

I knew you’d come through on this. Thank you!

Mevada? No, YOU vada, you brought him.

This is like the more sex-centric version of the observation that the quicker they say “like and subscribe” the more dubious I am of what they say.

So I’m moving away from “social media” (this is less a Statement and more an observation). I get most of my internet via RSS now. Please share with me recommendations for good feeds, especially for quality news reporting. (Boosts for spread appreciated as well)

My girlfriend's totally real, you just haven't met her, she's from New Jefset.

It actively degraded the way "smart" people talk about politics.

Of the fascism debate's many sins, maybe the worst is how it drained the life out of political questions and substituted them with dreary, pointless ontological debates on how to classify and label things.

New game: Read, Research, Recycle

(One you read for fun, one you research for years, one you put out with the old paper)

Bleak House, David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend

Me:”oh I don’t know about Bauhaus, they’re a little more aggressive than I like”
*listens to this album*
Me, a few years later: “yeah Converter is great but it doesn’t go as hard as I want”

I always knew that guy was a douchebag (infosec drama subskeet edition)

Given the current political situation, has anyone checked to see if @mikeduncan.bsky.social has stopped taking notes long enough to eat recently?

“I am smug about my music taste” is the broad translation, but you already knew that.

Embrace this.

This is a wonderful thread and I wish this is the direction the conversation had taken

For a poem praising him, the 11th century King Cnut rewarded its author with a purse containing silver worth 200 cows.

So yeah freelance writing rates have definitely not kept up with inflation

The Grateful Dead is just Fairport Convention for people without enough cultural history to have a cogent mythos send skeet

Arrakis runs on Duncans

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Fire up the app and look at the catalog: there are selections, topics, Best Of collections, and whole-hog copies you can download for free and for good.

The setup…AND the delivery! The crowd goes wild!!