6-0 Italia! ๐ฎ๐น
@jftitone
Librarian and data stuff. Scholar of online credibility and sci comm and GIS. Visiting faculty @ a SLAC UTexas iSchool PhD, now novice Californian ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธsupporter and will be loud about it #unionyes she/her
6-0 Italia! ๐ฎ๐น
Yeah - and Tommy Lasorda and Joe Torreโฆbut I didnโt realize there were this many players currently.
Italy is up 3-0 vs the U.S. in this thrilling #WBC matchup. The Italian diaspora has a heckin bunch of ballplayers - who knew!?
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Mercury in retrograde and now some blistering Santa Ana Winds in the fire horse year?
To quote my late dad, hold on to your butts.
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Excellent!
I honestly think itโs a distinction without a difference. Vaccine hesitant parents are swimming in the same socially-led information/misinformation environment as the fierce anti-vaxxers. And the solution isnโt more information (itโs not an info deficit problem).
My first full time library job in 1993 involved maintaining our Gopher page.
GM assembly plant worker (and UAW member) and a printer.
I used to rock and roll all night. And party ev-er-y day. Then it was every other day. Now Iโm lucky if I can find half and hour a week in which to get funky.
Primaries are weird beasts. Weird in 50 unique ways.
having written about how banning web scrapers from a code forge i host made it usable again and saved ~60โฌ/y in power bill, let me tell you:
you cannot fathom the offloaded cost of GenAI on small web hosts. it is a veritable distributed denial of service to the entire web. Every web admin sees it.
I'm still on my first cup of coffee and processing the news itself, so can't quite get my head around what Polymarket is saying here: Is it that Iranians should be monitoring Polymarket to see if their children will be murdered the next day?
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Panera is gonna Panera.
A picture of Kyle Maclachlan as Dale Cooper in the pilot of Twin Peaks. He's driving, and the subtitles read "Diane. 11:30am. February 24th."
Entering the town of #TwinPeaks
Every time I go visit my mom she offers me the stack of COBAL and
FORTRAN books in her basement. Maybe next visit I should grab them.
Turns out Kim Guilfoyleโs ex is a whole mess.
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and her Lover. Saw this with my teenage friends in the theaterโฆwhich someoneโs parents maybe should have nixed. #genx
perfetto โฆsenza appunti
As the granddaughter of an immigrant, exactly this. I have my haunting plan in place in case any of my descendants decide to give 2060 fascism a go.
As a 2016 UT Austin PhD grad, the speed of the deliberate dismantling of this public university is stunning. I wasnโt naive about Texas politics but still. Damn.
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A speaker addresses a room full of attendees seated at tables in a classroom, with a โWe Teach UC!โ banner visible on the wall.
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Solidarity with @ucaft.bsky.social lecturers as they kick off contract bargaining today at Berkeley!โ #WeTeachUC
I think we need to get better at telling rich people NO when they want to do dangerous stuff.
Ok - IANAL just trying to make sense of what Iโve read so far. I am not a Black voter obviously but I am a former Texan and I think itโs pretty obvious the dem establishment has once again decided to go with a more โmainstreamโ white man than the stronger candidate in Crockett.
From what I understand the field of declared candidates is 8 people - depending on how you interpret the policy it could apply to all of them.
This is appalling. Joaquin Castro is paying attention and speaking out.
Contractor: Youโre in LAโฆshould you have any stormwater plans for heavy rains?
Trader Joeโs: Hahahahahahaha no
Tyler Austin Harper on twitter: Iโve spent the last year working on a story about the Mellon Foundation, the mega-wealthy private nonprofit that has a monopoly on humanities funding in America. The article, about how Mellon has held the humanities hostage to its progressive political ideology, is out today.
hey cool man while you were deep in research or whatever you might want to catch up on some other stuff that has happened in the world in the past year
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. Itโs always a matter of will not resources.