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realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · 1h

Goddamnit, *monarchs

realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · 2h

Now if 33-50% of that breed has been regicided, that’s bad news for their life expectancy but good news for their achievement during life.

realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · 2h

Kings Charles if it’s the monarch’s, King Charleses if it’s a bunch of these guys.

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realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · 13h

I grew up liking the Orioles with Cal Ripken, and I liked the Mariners too because we didn't play them much and they had the coolest non-Orioles players (Edgar Martinez, Randy Johnson, Ken Griffey, etc.). Now the Mariners are good again and they got a Cal. Works for me. Go Mariners.

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realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · 1d

The freedom of birds - have you seen this, folks, the freedom of birds? they're flying around, flying and in some cases walking and and it's a big, big problem - the freedom of birds is an insult to me. It's not very respectful, and it's not very nice, and we're going to have them all in zoos.

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realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · 1d

The freedom of birds - have you seen this, folks, the freedom of birds? they're flying around, flying and in some cases walking and and it's a big, big problem - the freedom of birds is an insult to me. It's not very respectful, and it's not very nice, and we're going to have them all in zoos.

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realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · Sep 7

I am once again urging people to read 'The Cave' by José Saramago.

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · Sep 7

There is a feeling akin to cosmic horror in witnessing the plans of contemporary technofascists, but instead of cool eldritch elder gods it's pathetic, disgusting loser human beings wielding monolithic, destructive power akin to that of gods for the most banal reason (more power & wealth).

𐍉𐌸𐌰 𐌶𐌰𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌹𐌰𐌷 𐌴𐌳𐍅𐌰𐍂𐌳 𐌻𐍉𐌷𐍃𐌴 @odraws.bsky.social · Sep 2

Meta is currently building an AI compute center in Louisiana that, when finished next year, will be almost as large as the city of Manhattan, and is projected to draw 2-5 GW of power by 2030. For perspective, Manhattan's annual power usage is ~2.5 GW.

Gen-AI is hastening climate catastrophe.

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realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · Sep 7

Okay, but the response took your rhetorical question and ran with it to inform people about her background, which still worked in the same general direction of discrediting her authority. It's a good response; no need to be snippy.

realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · Sep 7

@theophite.bsky.social was it you who said a few years ago QAnon believed Trump was a "white hat pedophile"?

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realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · Sep 2

Checking the original photos, she does have some pillows which loosely function as a couch so he might be into it

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realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · Sep 2

We've seen the actuarial tables

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realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · Aug 25

Pretty sure it has to do with a map of food. Occam's razor.

realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · Aug 25

To be clear, the video is satirical and the creator is making essentially that joke. Her whole thing is satirizing the earnest trad accounts www.instagram.com/lifewithevyk...

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realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · Aug 25

Just had discovered this and was coming here to post it. Gotta credit her since it's her joke.

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realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · Aug 25

Why is it on the stairs though?

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realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · Aug 24

Why is she cooking on the stairs?

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realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · Aug 24

It recommends foods low in FODMAPs apparently. FODMAP is short for "food map," foods that are high in FODMAPs are very visible on the food map that inflammatory microbes use to find their way to food. So by being low in FODMAPS they're "off the map."

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a bezoar @a-bezoar.bsky.social · Aug 15

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realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · May 31

A lot of these women hadn't been politically active before, some even thought of being apolitical as a virtue, but got very concerned about Trump because they saw what was happening to their husbands.

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realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · May 31

I've seen this phenomenon in rural areas where I was living a few years ago. Boomer-aged women had married men at a time when politics wasn't a big part of their lives, but Trump got their husbands politically obsessed in a wait that made things uncomfortable at home.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · May 27

The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

These various initiatives and policy changes are often regarded as discrete problems, but they comprise a unified assault. The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science. If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us. Like the inquisitors of old, who persecuted Galileo for daring to notice that the sun did not, in fact, revolve around the Earth, they believe that truth-seeking imperils their hold on power.

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realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · May 15

And then there's the quote from the horse's mouth:

Robert MacAuslan, vice president of A.I. at Southern New Hampshire, said that the school believed “in the power of A.I. to transform education”

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realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · May 15

SNHU (one of the universities quoted in the article) seems particularly egregious. It's "one of the fastest-growing universities nationwide" and has 170,000 online students to 3,000 in-person students. Just from the numbers, they have to be pushing adjuncts to crank a ridiculous amount of work.

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realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · May 15

Can't do my classes, it's all in-person, interactive learning in the room.

realhumanbeing.bsky.social @realhumanbeing.bsky.social · May 15

I'm non-TT faculty, and I'd never do this shit. Sooner quit. That said, I agree it's a structural problem that administrators create situations where people might feel pressured to do this.

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