Kurt Allerslev
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Kurt Allerslev
@kzrt.bsky.social
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Phytochemist, science policy wonk, book artist, beekeeper, alchemist, queer 🧪🌿🚴🌀
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I restarted my @wired.com subscription this year, and get it delivered. But can anyone help me understand why there's no Wired app?
WaPo and NYT are dumpster fires these days. Curious who David recommends supporting. I have a digital subscription to Wired which has been doing some great work, especially during Musk DOGE assault on our government.
Delhi, NY; Cairo, NY (and plenty others in the Catskills)
This is gross and disturbing fascist xenophobic symbolism. Dept of Labor building in DC
Ok wait. Switched to a Mac. Are you telling me I can't filter #Excel to "Add Current Selection to Filter"??? Wut?
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I agree this is a moment when we all need to work together in getting the temperature down, but that doesn't mean excusing hate speech. Charlie Kirk did not support free and open debate. He supported engaging in bad faith as a monetization strategy and otherwise suppressing free speech.
Funny / Not funny
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Dead Kennedys recording Nazi Punks Fuck Off in 1981.
I think NJ (most densely populated state in the union) is the only state where both species noted are invasives
iNaturalist Animals and Plants

xkcd.com/3118/
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If you refuse to endorse the overwhelmingly popular Democratic nominee for mayor of America's largest city, you should not be leading Democrats in the U.S. House
Hakeem Jeffries again declines to endorse Zohran Mamdani, saying "I don't know him well."

CHRIS HAYES: Why are you not endorsing the guy that won the democratic primary in a contested election in your backyard?

JEFFRIES: I didn't get involved in that primary election, and I don't know him well.
"Come home at dinnertime" said to kids on their way out the door each morning in summer. No parent knew where we were all day
What’s a real thing from your childhood that kids these days would find completely foreign?

Like, how we used to be able to walk right up to the gate to meet our family coming off a flight.

Or how we had to pick a spot to meet at the theater BEFORE we went.
For a long time, I've felt that much of the offered algorithm music on Spotify was AI, fake bands. It all sounds so bland and the bands just don't seem believable. So yeah.
wapo.st/3IgfD5k
A ’60s-flavored band blew up on Spotify. They’re AI.
The Velvet Sundown confirmed Saturday that its viral success is powered by artificial intelligence.
wapo.st
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North Carolina Botanical Garden (Chapel Hill, NC) is recruiting for a Conservation Botanist!

🎓 Relevant post-Bacc degree req'd
⌛ full time, 2.5-year grant funded position contingent upon additional funding
📨 apps due 7/18

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303...

#botanyjobs #plantconservationjobs
a close up of a carnivorous plant with a bee inside of it
Alt: a close up of a venus fly trap closing around an insect
media.tenor.com
Doesn't really work when you're mostly vegetarian
This is a good reminder from my friend @sarahtarrkowalski.bsky.social
This is also what's happened to Spotify as it's adopted AI. It's getting dumber and dumber. And making me feel dumb for using it
Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

t.co/JXeTALBPds
Soon the media will start running stories about aluminum tubes
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When Black people told you that it is a normal occurrence for police to lie about protest and assaulting officers now you see ... the test run for the justification of authoritarianism always begins in communities of color
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Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Jun 14
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.
Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine moves
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.
n.pr
I was at an event when I happened to glance across the room at the same moment Nicole Kidman stepped out of the elevator. We're both fairly tall and our eyes met over everyone's heads and I smiled and nodded thinking I was greeting a friend, only to immediately realize she did not, in fact, know me
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
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"Whatever the nature of the crisis, it forces the revolutionaries to make a choice. Give up—or radicalize. Find compromises—or polarize society further. Slow down—or use violence"
The logic of revolution is always the same
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
This Is What Trump Does When His Revolution Sputters
His military deployment in Los Angeles follows a long, disturbing tradition.
www.theatlantic.com
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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
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After months of baseless claims about “extreme levels of fraud” within Social Security, Musk's DOGE has found only 2 likely fraudulent claims out of over 110,000—that makes it a rate of .0018%.

So DOGE found virtually no fraud and made an integral American system less efficient.
Surprise! DOGE’s Hunt for Social Security Fraud Ends in Total Bust
Elon Musk and his DOGE minions wrecked the Social Security Administration for no reason at all.
newrepublic.com
And this is why it's so important to the current administration to defund science and education and NEA, NPR and PBS, etc.