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Matt Lewis @neuroclef.bsky.social · 9h

Long Wednesday

Matt Lewis @neuroclef.bsky.social · 1d

www.authorsalliance.org/2025/10/08/i...

Institutional Repositories and AI Scraping

We recently received a question regarding the AI scraping of Institutional Repositories, by which we mean online digital archives that provide access to the intellectual output of scholars, often a…

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Matt Lewis @neuroclef.bsky.social · 1d

The number of accounts on this website that are fake has gotta be high

Matt Lewis @neuroclef.bsky.social · 1d

RIP D'Angelo

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/a...

D’Angelo, Acclaimed and Reclusive R&B Innovator, Dies at 51

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Matt Lewis @neuroclef.bsky.social · 2d

Definitely unhinged

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Matt Lewis @neuroclef.bsky.social · 2d

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'cello Song (Take 4, January 4th 1969)

YouTube video by Nick Drake - Topic

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 4d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Matt Lewis @neuroclef.bsky.social · 4d

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2025 Nobel Peace Prize for Anti-Maduro Leader María Corina Machado “Opposite of Peace”: Greg Grandin

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure. Machado was set to run for president last year, but she was disqua...

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Matt Lewis @neuroclef.bsky.social · 6d

I'm sorry, but are these magnetometers optically pumped?

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Matt Lewis @neuroclef.bsky.social · 6d

200 or 300 sure, but 500, no way

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 7d

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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Matt Lewis @neuroclef.bsky.social · 6d

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 9d

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 9d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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