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IBM Comms. Bookworm. Cool mom. Hudson Valley, NY.

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IBM scientists unveil the first ever “half-Möbius” molecule, with the help of quantum computing A team at IBM Research has assembled a strange new ring-shaped molecule that bends around like a more complicated Möbius strip

A team at IBM Research has assembled a strange new ring-shaped molecule that bends around like a more complicated Möbius strip

05.03.2026 19:30 👍 27 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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How IBM became an AI darling It has pulled off yet another striking turnaround

Rather than trying to beat the top tech firms, IBM is taking a different route in the AI race

03.02.2026 10:00 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Support local journalism!

02.12.2025 21:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps) Last Sunday I spent hours at the Brooklyn Book Festival, a too rare occasion for me to pull myself away from the internet for an entire afternoon. As I looked around at the crowd on their way to pa…

My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...

25.09.2025 14:24 👍 376 🔁 123 💬 14 📌 16
Why IBM's CEO Thinks His Company Can Crack Quantum Computing | WSJ's Bold Names
Why IBM's CEO Thinks His Company Can Crack Quantum Computing | WSJ's Bold Names YouTube video by WSJ Podcasts

Why IBM's CEO Thinks His Company Can Crack Quantum Computing www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SY4...

19.09.2025 19:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NASA’s new AI model can predict when a solar storm may strike Surya, an AI model developed by NASA and IBM, tries to find hidden patterns in solar data to detect solar flares and winds.

Surya, an AI model developed by NASA and IBM, tries to find hidden patterns in solar data to detect solar flares and winds.

20.08.2025 13:25 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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Google and IBM believe first workable quantum computer is in sight Recent breakthroughs have revived confidence about creating full-scale quantum systems by end of the decade

IBM has published a blueprint for a full-scale quantum computer that could be built by decade’s end. www.ft.com/content/2fe4...

12.08.2025 12:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lemony Snicket’s Anti-Summer Summer Reading List

I love summer, but I also love this anti-summer reading list: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/b...

24.07.2025 14:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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IBM rolls out new chips and servers, aims for simplified AI International Business Machines on Tuesday announced a new line of data center chips and servers that it says will be more power-efficient than rivals and will simplify the process of rolling out artificial intelligence in business operations.

IBM rolls out new chips and servers, aims for simplified AI reut.rs/460cW1G

08.07.2025 11:25 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1

It’s official: fireflies have appeared in the Hudson Valley. 🔥 🪰

14.06.2025 11:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Blaming everything I do—or do not do—today on it being Friday the 13th.

13.06.2025 17:46 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Coming to Poughkeepsie:

12.06.2025 20:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A wave of new owners brings fresh energy to independent bookselling Amber Salazar is the kind of idealist you just knew would end up running a store like Banned Wagon Books.

“In the age of social media, people are craving genuine connection and community...And books often provide a catalyst to that feeling of community.” apnews.com/article/inde...

27.05.2025 15:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hermann Hesse on breaking the trance of busyness, how the "little joys" magnify life, and the most important habit for living with presence www.themarginalian.org/2017/03/06/h...

09.05.2025 04:47 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Something Good in the World: Let’s Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day This Weekend I was going to write something else for today’s column, something complain-y but righteous that would allow me to get some stuff off my chest and maybe even get some rage clicks. Shit is bad. But I…

Love this: "If you’re not sure what you can do right now to make a difference in the trajectory of our country, this is an easy win. Go out on Independent Bookstore Day and look around, support a local business and maybe even read a book or two." @maris.bsky.social lithub.com/something-go...

24.04.2025 17:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As a lapsed Catholic, for me, Pope Francis introduced layers to a religion I'd grown up in, was unsure of, and became even more critical of in adulthood. He opened up different conversations on faith and care than I was used to hearing in church growing up. I'll be thinking about that a lot.

21.04.2025 13:04 👍 70 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1
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Our voices are stronger when we howl together 🐺🐺

18.04.2025 00:57 👍 14690 🔁 2356 💬 247 📌 181

I love this and would add: You can be ANYTHING and not be disrespectful to the choices others have made.

10.04.2025 12:39 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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More Teachers Than Ever Before Are Trained on AI. Are They Ready to Use It? The number of districts that provided AI training to teachers has doubled year over year.

The number of districts that trained teachers on generative artificial intelligence more than doubled from 2023 to 2024... but not evenly distributed: teachers and students in high-poverty districts won’t have the same opportunity to learn from AI tools
www.edweek.org/technology/m...

10.04.2025 12:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cheerios in a coffee maker

Cheerios in a coffee maker

Happy April Fools from a silly 6-year old.

01.04.2025 10:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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When the local elementary school performs Newsies, the small business ads in the playbill are adorable.

29.03.2025 13:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Excited to read this! Congratulations @itsafronomics.bsky.social

25.03.2025 16:58 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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The best free AI courses and certificates in 2025 I have a master's degree in education and have been working with AI for decades. Here are the top free AI courses online I'd recommend to anyone looking to upskill right now - and why.

“IBM, of course, is IBM. It led the AI pack for years with its Watson offerings. Its generative AI solution is called Watsonx. It focuses on enabling businesses to deploy and manage both traditional machine learning & generative AI” @davidgewirtz.com on IBM SkillsBuild

www.zdnet.com/article/the-...

21.03.2025 17:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Women unlikely to reach parity with men for 134 years: JPMorgan In C-suites worldwide, women are far from attaining equal status, holding only about 10% of the most powerful roles such as CEO and CFO.

Women unlikely to reach parity with men for 134 years: JPMorgan

In C-suites worldwide, women are far from attaining equal status, holding only about 10% of the most powerful roles such as CEO and CFO.

buff.ly/mLBHzRY

#Equality #Inclusion #Diversity #FinTech #FinServ #Banking

18.03.2025 17:00 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

2025 survival tip #17: diversify your comfort foods. Pizza one day, ramen the next. Tacos, pasta, grilled cheese. I’m just saying, if we let potatoes get burnt out on us we’ll never survive this.

17.03.2025 15:11 👍 1611 🔁 132 💬 47 📌 12

One of my favorites. So happy to see folks celebrating @ologies.bsky.social

12.03.2025 10:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Teacher Funding Cut As National Shortage Reaches Breaking Point America's education system is facing a crisis that threatens to undermine the future of millions of students: a severe and growing teacher shortage.

In a @forbes.com piece from this weekend, Scott White includes public-private partnerships like IBM’s SkillsBuild as one successful approach in a challenging moment www.forbes.com/sites/scottw...

10.03.2025 13:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Child care costs in the United States Learn more To learn more about the high cost of child care, check out these EPI resources: EPI Policy Agenda: Education and Child Care  EPI Family Budget Calculator  EPI Minimum Wage Tracker...

Scary findings on the cost of childcare across the U.S. www.epi.org/child-care-c... "child care is unaffordable for working families across the country, but especially for low-wage workers, including those who provide child care."

07.03.2025 19:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AI Skills You Need For 2025 | IBM We need to invest in education and upskilling to fully reap the benefits of AI

Interesting piece from Ana Altcheck @businessinsider.com about how humanities degrees and tech skills can be combined in this AI era www.businessinsider.com/notebooklm-e...

This is something we're working on through IBM SkillsBuild www.ibm.com/think/insigh...

05.03.2025 15:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0