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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 1d

Disastrous storm surge struck western AK Sunday. All 6 NWS upper air sites in the area have chronic issues (see alt-text). In addition to no releases from 2 sites, 2 sites are releasing only 1x per day instead of 2x. 2 have intermittent issues, 1 of these (Nome) had no releases 10/9 or 10/10 (1/2)

Map of National Weather Service upper air sites in Alaska. Red circles indicate sites not currently releasing balloons, orange circles sites on releasing routinely once per day instead of twice, and purple sites with intermittent issues with releases.

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 2h

„This will inevitably result in the early deaths of millions of computers that would have otherwise had years of life left, and it is set to affect as many as 42% of all Windows computers worldwide.“

42%. That’s a lot.

Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 2h

404Media has a grim take on Microsoft ending its support for Windows 10: "There’s 400 million computers that are going to enter the waste stream."
www.404media.co/the-end-of-w...

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making

In an example of egregious planned obsolescence, as many as 400 million computers will soon hit the waste stream.

www.404media.co

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Chewbacca But A Wolf Man @jason1749.bsky.social · 2h

I maintain, Daniel Craig's delivery of "the Nazi child masturbating in the bathroom" is the best line read of the century.

Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 13h

Every time the horrible young Republicans group chat stuff is mentioned, I think of Jacob Thrombey. (I should really rewatch Knives Out. It's even a good autumn movie.)

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 1h

Kids.

It's 18-40.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5h

“We are currently clean on OPSEC”

Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 22h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5h

Same with journalism, everyone just fucking cooked themselves to the point of not understanding actual people with jobs. The Washington Post is going to be like “why do subscriptions keep falling even when Catturd2 is writing about the economy?”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5h

GOP’s labor market policy is market protectionism for white men.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 6h

"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 4h

If you have ever wanted to beat the hell of of an abuser then throw five bucks at one with force and alacrity and I will promise you that I will make them howl in rage about it. And someone will be safe.

Venmo linda-tirado-3
PayPal bootstrap industries @ Gmail

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 4h

95% of grumbling about “cancel culture” is disingenuous reactionary bullshit … sustained by the 5% which is legit.

The thing which makes The Thing We Are Talking About When We Talk About “Cancel Culture” scary is the capriciousness and lack of proportion.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 5h

in hindsight it makes sense to see cancel culture as a harbinger of the end of shame rather than an excess of it. "shame" presupposes stable social norms and a sense of what one did wrong and how it could have been avoided. not suddenly a thunderbolt from zeus thrown at random people

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Sean Hollister @seanhollister.bsky.social · 5h

My Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X review.

The top phrases running through my mind while testing it:

"Someone's getting fired for greenlighting this launch"

"This is not an Xbox"

"If this is the future of Xbox, Xbox is screwed."

Went with the middle.

www.theverge.com/games/799698...

This is not an Xbox

Microsoft’s first “Xbox” handhelds are shipping not fully baked.

www.theverge.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3h

It turns out that making things more expensive makes them more expensive.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 3h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6h

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 3h

Having known Fenway Health and its clientele for a great many years, this shocks and saddens me. I feel so badly for younger transgender Americans who are being scapegoated and punished by this administration.

cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 7h

Fenway Health is canceling its gender affirming care program for minors. People uprooted their lives and moved states to come to places like this, and it feels like no one cares even half as much about thing like this as they did literally anything else last year.

fenwayhealth.org/press/

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 3h

Friend: you've become a money-grubbing ghoul that will defend genocide for a paycheck

Her: (screenshotting) oh, "ghoul," "genocide," that's good, that's good. Do you think you could say a little more about how abhorrent my conservative views are and maybe leave out the part about money this time

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 3h

Her believability is so bad that I'm not even 100% sure she's as bothered by losing these friends as she says, and any negative feelings were probably balanced out a lot by the excitement of realizing each breakup lecture provides her more fresh material to write about

Defector @defector.com · 4h

Free Press reporter discovers that being an amoral dickhead can cost you friends: defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you…

defector.com

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All Hallows' D.Ve @sunlightwarden.bsky.social · 3h

If you're caught doing 154 in a 40 down Parkside the camera should not even issue you a ticket, but simply signal an orbiting killsat to disintegrate your car with you in it.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5h

I'm gonna try to articulate something I've been thinking about for a while, regarding *why* disillusionment, distrust, & dissatisfaction with democracy are rising.

Almost everything I read takes this phenomenon as an exogenous shock, assuming no one chose to make it so. I suspect that's incomplete.

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Sue Gowans @sueinnovates.bsky.social · 6h

👀💥‼️Highest speed in a 40 km zone in the Parkdale camera zone? 154 km/hr. Speed kills. Doug Ford is playing to his base or his own preferences. AGAIN.

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 6h

"Safe Parkside" filed a Freedom of Information request to get top speeds from the ill-fated & much abused Parkside camera. The speed limit is 40km/h.

Killers, all of them, with the ear & heart of Premier Doug Ford.

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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 6h

I can't really say anything more than these numbers. If you're removing the camera and not replacing it with anything, you are accepting that this will continue.

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 6h

"Safe Parkside" filed a Freedom of Information request to get top speeds from the ill-fated & much abused Parkside camera. The speed limit is 40km/h.

Killers, all of them, with the ear & heart of Premier Doug Ford.

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2000 SCC 69 enjoyer @sirilyan.com · 6h

The solution is obviously some flashing lights and a sign that asks you to please only do 60.

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 6h

"Safe Parkside" filed a Freedom of Information request to get top speeds from the ill-fated & much abused Parkside camera. The speed limit is 40km/h.

Killers, all of them, with the ear & heart of Premier Doug Ford.

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stucowan.bsky.social @stucowan.bsky.social · 6h

Doug ford is a complete pos

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 6h

"Safe Parkside" filed a Freedom of Information request to get top speeds from the ill-fated & much abused Parkside camera. The speed limit is 40km/h.

Killers, all of them, with the ear & heart of Premier Doug Ford.

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 6h

#VisionZero

Clearly I need to update my Vehicle Collision Energy Calculator to include ludicrous speed! claude.ai/public/artif...

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It's me @justmeinottawa.bsky.social · 6h

Holy fuck… even I’m shocked, being as cynical as I am, at these numbers.

Like sorry, 114 kms OVER THE GODDAMN SPEED LIMIT? Holy shit I feel insane. Fuck this province and every asshole who voted for Ford. Goddammit this is wild…

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 6h

"Safe Parkside" filed a Freedom of Information request to get top speeds from the ill-fated & much abused Parkside camera. The speed limit is 40km/h.

Killers, all of them, with the ear & heart of Premier Doug Ford.

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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 4h

People drive like psychos in Toronto.
I, for one, would be okay with setting the speed cameras to ticket cars going 10 km/h over the limit and mail a warning for any car speeding less than that. It's really not about the money.

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 6h

"Safe Parkside" filed a Freedom of Information request to get top speeds from the ill-fated & much abused Parkside camera. The speed limit is 40km/h.

Killers, all of them, with the ear & heart of Premier Doug Ford.

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