Nora Streed
@norastreed.bsky.social
Language enthusiast, haphazard gardener, and really good cook.
This is the second time I’ve seen the aurora in southern Missouri in the 5 years I’ve lived here. Note the dog in her blue collar at lower right.
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 AM
This is the second time I’ve seen the aurora in southern Missouri in the 5 years I’ve lived here. Note the dog in her blue collar at lower right.
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Rescuers in Norway resume search for journalist missing in wilderness
Rescuers in Norway resume search for journalist missing in wilderness
Bad weather hampers search for Alec Luhn after he set out for solo hike in remote Folgefonna national park
Rescuers in Norway have resumed the search for an award-winning environmental journalist who has gone missing in bad weather during a solo hike in the remote Folgefonna national park, home to one of the country’s biggest glaciers.
Alec Luhn, a US-born reporter who has worked for the New York Times and the Atlantic and was a regular Russia correspondent for the Guardian from 2013 to 2017, was reported missing on Monday after he failed to catch a flight from Bergen. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Rescuers in Norway resume search for journalist missing in wilderness
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue:
1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance
2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion
3. Don't live post resistance meetings
1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance
2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion
3. Don't live post resistance meetings
This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op
February 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue:
1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance
2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion
3. Don't live post resistance meetings
1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance
2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion
3. Don't live post resistance meetings
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editing an interview and trying to determine whether or not to hyphenate "fuck-ton" when I stumbled across this delightful blog about the linguistics of swearing—sometimes I really do love the internet
stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/01/31/u...
stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/01/31/u...
Units of fucking measure
Shit-ton. Buttload. Fuck-ton. Shall we take a closer look at these eminently useful units of measure?
stronglang.wordpress.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
editing an interview and trying to determine whether or not to hyphenate "fuck-ton" when I stumbled across this delightful blog about the linguistics of swearing—sometimes I really do love the internet
stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/01/31/u...
stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/01/31/u...
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Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.
February 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.
This is fascinating, from 2023:
Elon Musk has described his grandfather as a risk-taking adventurer. @jbenton examined newspaper clips, self-published manuscripts, university archives, and private correspondence—and found something much darker. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Elon Musk has described his grandfather as a risk-taking adventurer. @jbenton examined newspaper clips, self-published manuscripts, university archives, and private correspondence—and found something much darker. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Elon Musk’s Anti-Semitic, Apartheid-Loving Grandfather
The billionaire has described his grandfather as a risk-taking adventurer. A closer read of history reveals something much darker.
www.theatlantic.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This is fascinating, from 2023:
Elon Musk has described his grandfather as a risk-taking adventurer. @jbenton examined newspaper clips, self-published manuscripts, university archives, and private correspondence—and found something much darker. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Elon Musk has described his grandfather as a risk-taking adventurer. @jbenton examined newspaper clips, self-published manuscripts, university archives, and private correspondence—and found something much darker. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
I'm a Groundhog (and This Is My Day)
YouTube video by Mr. Elk and Mr. Seal - Topic
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February 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Chumbawamba - The day the nazi died
YouTube video by Huppelplopp1848
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January 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Boris says “good luck, everybody”
January 21, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Boris says “good luck, everybody”
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It’s important to be clear that TikTok could have stayed up through the inauguration. Joe Biden said he’d not enforce the law.
They made a choice to shut down and display a pro-Trump message. They weren’t forced to.
They made a choice to shut down and display a pro-Trump message. They weren’t forced to.
January 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
It’s important to be clear that TikTok could have stayed up through the inauguration. Joe Biden said he’d not enforce the law.
They made a choice to shut down and display a pro-Trump message. They weren’t forced to.
They made a choice to shut down and display a pro-Trump message. They weren’t forced to.
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One of my favourite things anyone has ever said about art. You'll be missed, David. 🌹
January 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
One of my favourite things anyone has ever said about art. You'll be missed, David. 🌹
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Just in time for the AI policies to go into my syllabi - I've cleared my brain of all of its frustrations regarding generative AI.
I think it's important to resist the stuff. For all of us. And for no greater reason than preserving our humanity.
I think the stakes are that high.
I think it's important to resist the stuff. For all of us. And for no greater reason than preserving our humanity.
I think the stakes are that high.
The ethical case for resisting AI
I had my moment of reality regarding generative AI in my chemistry and physics classes this past term. I’ve always had the student frustration “I can’t Google your homework problems!” as a point of…
chuckpearson.wordpress.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Just in time for the AI policies to go into my syllabi - I've cleared my brain of all of its frustrations regarding generative AI.
I think it's important to resist the stuff. For all of us. And for no greater reason than preserving our humanity.
I think the stakes are that high.
I think it's important to resist the stuff. For all of us. And for no greater reason than preserving our humanity.
I think the stakes are that high.
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“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
fortune.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
Can’t wait to read this one!
Thanks to Barry Zaslow for this Library Journal review of Doc Watson: A Life in Music, coming this month from @uncpress.bsky.social.
"... meticulous research & fluent writing ... important for anyone interested in Doc Watson or the evolution of old-time, traditional, & folk music ...."
"... meticulous research & fluent writing ... important for anyone interested in Doc Watson or the evolution of old-time, traditional, & folk music ...."
January 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Can’t wait to read this one!
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These are two amazing artists. The fact one of America's foremost modern Jewish chroniclers of the Holocaust is turning to Gaza should also not be lost on anyone
Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States.
“I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”
“I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”
Art Spiegelman Won’t Shrink Back From Controversy
The artist has illustrated more than one contentious New Yorker cover in his career, chronicled in a new film, and his next project will be no less gutsy.
hyperallergic.com
December 28, 2024 at 9:07 PM
These are two amazing artists. The fact one of America's foremost modern Jewish chroniclers of the Holocaust is turning to Gaza should also not be lost on anyone
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Elon / Vivek MAGA backlash is in full swing. They should have remembered the old saying:
Beware of geeks bearing grifts.
Beware of geeks bearing grifts.
December 27, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Elon / Vivek MAGA backlash is in full swing. They should have remembered the old saying:
Beware of geeks bearing grifts.
Beware of geeks bearing grifts.
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How about ynstead of pouringe a ton of moneye ynto A.I. we just funde public educacioun and use the bookes we alreadye have that it ys being trained upon?
December 29, 2024 at 12:52 AM
How about ynstead of pouringe a ton of moneye ynto A.I. we just funde public educacioun and use the bookes we alreadye have that it ys being trained upon?
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Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right?
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
December 27, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right?
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.