Margaret Hamilton, the groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA’s Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died. She was 90. https://cnn.it/4jI4LxB
look we are too corrupt and ignorant to regulate so it's up to a collection of foppish, pasty sociopaths in overpriced sneakers to hold themselves accountable for killing everyone with monopolized cloud computing
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Rick Scott: "With regard to destroying mankind, these companies need to do the right thing on their own. We're not going to get smart enough to regulate them. We're not going to get something done up here."
Remembering September 11, 2001. 25 years later, here is a look back at how that day unfolded from the Pentagon. statter911.com/2026/09/11/s... #firefighters #pentagon
September 11, 2001 - Statter911
The attack at the Pentagon
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I'm having fun imagining Dolly, Carrie, and Betty on the other side, having adventures together... Art by Lindsay van Ekelenburg(www.lindsayvanek.com)
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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some support ideas here blockclubchicago.org/2026/08/21/g...
Gary Residents Have Been Without Power For 10 Days. Here's How You Can Help
A South Side business is offering free laundry service for storm-affected Gary families, while another fundraiser is collecting money for essentials as some residents face a second week without electr...
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DoorDash, in damage control mode, now claims it supports D.C. home rule and denies lobbying against it. Here’s the letter their lobbyist wrote to Rep. Comer supporting his bill to ban D.C. from ever imposing or increasing a tax or fee without congressional approval. hillheat.com/files/492/DD...
For the last year and a half, DoorDash has been silent as delivery drivers in DC have been hunted in the streets and even killed by ICE and other federal police. Now, the company has come out in support of #HR9720 — the blatant attack on DC Home Rule — just so it can earn more money.
Check out this ongoing thread. Gonna have to dedicate the whole of 2028’s graduating class of accountants to audit where the money went during this administration.
Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 4mo agoA new granite walkway. Refinishing the wall to glue those hideous gold accents. Trump claimed he was paying for all of it. He lied. They’ve been looting the National Parks.
“…the high-water mark for Democrats when it comes to both popularity at the polls and achievements in office – was one in which communists, socialists and other assorted radicals had considerable influence.”
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4mo agoQuick post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS on the idiocy of liberals punching left.
"The study found that resettled refugees contribute $6 billion more to the U.S. economy than they take out. Per year. The Trump administration did exactly what you’d expect: They suppressed the study, and then they lied about it."
Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew from me: radleybalko.substack.com/p/how-bari-w...
I’ve found “Startpage” to be a really good alternative, especially for research questions. No AI, it’s private, and it gives useful results.
TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 5mo agoGoogle is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 6mo agoStill feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.
This is amazing and it does make the hair stand up on the back of your neck. We've all heard plenty of dead men's voices but this is *Robert* *Johnson*.
rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 6mo agoHoly SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...
Tulip bulbs. Just replace "AI" with "tulip bulbs" and that will tell you where we are.
Phillip Anderson@phillipanderson.bsky.social · 6mo agoEverything is fucking dumb all the time now
Here’s @leftliblucy.bsky.social in December www.liberalcurrents.com/medical-rese...
The UnPopulist@theunpopulist.net · 7mo agoKennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.
TIL - both about spandex and sideburns.
Jess-Icabod Zellers@stellagarp.bsky.social · 7mo agoOmg. Spandex is an anagram for expands.
![Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation.
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Tax invisibility is a scourge in our politics > Public childcare isn't free, it's tax-funded. > People buying $34 burgers pay taxes. > Believe $34 burger eaters should pay more? wait until you hear about this idea "progressive taxation" Wow, problem solved, thanks taxes! 😀
They Pay $34 for Burgers. Should Their Child Care Be Free?
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It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.
I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 7mo agoNSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2
You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day
Ooh, time to drag this one out again :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbu...
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republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say
Folks please light up their phones TODAY. The Dems failing to stand together on this is bullshit.
dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 8mo agoSenate Dem looking at funding Trump's war, per Politico: Jack Reed (RI): @reed.senate.gov Gary Peters (MI): @peters.senate.gov Tim Kaine (VA): @kaine.senate.gov Elissa Slotkin (MI): @slotkin.senate.gov Chris Coons (DE): @coons.senate.gov Jeanne Shaheen (NH): @shaheen.senate.gov
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