Alice D. Einander
@alicedurcheinander.bsky.social
Infovore, neurovore, disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Acataleptic. Proof of cat provided upon demand or provocation. She/hers/elle.
Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd's Crown "FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…"
Micah@rincewind.run · 2w agoDiscworld QOTD, from Unseen Academicals
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Deb Chachra@debcha.bsky.social · 2w agoThis explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...
NEW: OpenAI’s unhinged AI models hacked at least FOUR “publicly available services”—not just Hugging Face, as was initially disclosed. @dell.bsky.social and Maxwell Zeff report: www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.
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www.ecoportal.net/uk/wind-turb... Opponents love the picture of the landfill filled with turbine blades, but that's not the primary outcome any more.
A wind turbine blade can run beyond 170 feet, and when it wears out a Tennessee company bakes the whole thing down to recover the clean glass fiber the industry once paid to bury
Picture a blade taller than a 15-storey building, curved and white, leaning against a sky it spent two decades slicing through.
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This is such incredibly good news. www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n...
Ex-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump
Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office.
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In “The Society That Learns,” Paulo Blikstein and Deborah A. Fields explore how Thai farmers, teachers, and workers created new approaches to lifelong learning through constructionism—and transformed communities across the country as a result: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205227...
yeah this is just really awful both in terms of individual incentives and in terms of poisoning the larger aggregate dynamic and-- i know i'm going out on a limb here-- it would be great if we could do, collectively, somewhat less misogyny
Today we celebrate the PDFing of "Declaration FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE - SIGNED.docx" (Jefferson's draft was heavily edited by the Committee, then again by Congress, and he was big mad about it.)
You EXCOMMUNICATE Miette like the heretic? Oh! Oh! Jail for Mother Church! Jail for Ten Thousand Years!
No more His Holiness Nice Pope indeed. Benedict and Francis tried the carrot. Leo is bringing the Chicago baseball bat of loving fraternal correction to the problem now.
Nora Loreto came by the show to deconstruct the shooter’s incel ideology and what’s fueling the rise in misogynist violence youtu.be/hfEGVVYvJ74?...
Incel Radicalization and Violence Against Women
YouTube video by The Rover
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I feel like I post the same post every time I read a @tkingfisher.com book for the first time, but. Thank you. Again and always. #ASorceressComesToCall
The evolutionary purpose of grief is saving life. Not only do we stifle its full expression by enforcing emotionally flat social conformity, we don't encourage the wielding of grief to inspire harm reduction NEARLY enough. We're meant to SAVE lives by exposing our whole heart through the tears.
Lumba is a senior at Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé and won Alaska’s Poetry Out Loud competition in March. She'll perform again later today on the live webcast.
Juneau’s Cassie Lumba makes it to finals at national Poetry Out Loud competition
Fifty-four students from U.S. states and territories recited poetry during the semifinals on Tuesday. Only nine were selected to advance to the finals – Lumba was one of them.
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Elizabeth, I’ll tell the Supreme Court the same thing I told your family: 6 of you can go fuck yourselves. Darcy
@ilonaandrews.bsky.social thank you for the Arbonne eggs
“But as geopolitical instability grows, inequality deepens, and social systems fracture in new ways—as the world, in short, ceases to behave like a scalable system—it is time to ask the uncomfortable question: Must all social innovation be designed to scale?” ssir.org/articles/ent...
Does Everything in the Social Sector Need to Scale? (SSIR)
In a world that no longer behaves like a scalable system, success must be something other than growth.
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my alley is having a pickup hockey game (without skates, it’s slippy enough that it works) and the adults are huzzah-ing positively. Nature etc etc
Nine Goblins is exactly the small parcel of good I needed right now, thank you @tkingfisher.com (and if I’m ever brave enough to adopt a kitten, Wiggles it will be)
Spoiler: the horse makes it, he's okay, all of the humans are okay This is a *stressful* story, but it's stories like these that make me remember there are a lot of human beings who truly care deep in their souls. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Horse with no home saved from frozen creek near Cochin, Sask. | CBC News
The horse, now called Frosty, is safe and in recovery after his brush with death. Locals have stepped up to offer feed and financial support.
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"That's the thing about uncertainty—anything can happen, but anything CAN happen." —Jumaane Williams, in his inaugural speech just now.
@rahaeli.bsky.social , I just wanted to thank you (and your piss terrorist) for introducing me to ruggables. I am now a person who stares proudly at her kitty blissing out on her carpets :)
“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you’re dead.” 📸 Mark Gerson (June, 1969)
