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Middle-aged, middle-class cishet white dude. Sorry.
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Today in 2020, 5 years ago: United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.

#OnThisDay

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This is a lowkey horror story. Forum posts dated 18 years ago turn out to be backdated AI slop, falsely attributed to what used to be human accounts.

@hakan_geijer https://kolektiva.social/@hakan_geijer/113891105255157286

HÃ¥kan Geijer (@[email protected])

I cannot get over how fucked the internet is becoming because of LLMs and how absolutely critical it is to create meaningful 1-on-1 relationships rather than going for "reach" or "virality." https://hallofdreams.org/posts/physicsforums/

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The main storage facility for the Bodleian library, at Swindon, UK. It holds 10 million books.

#books #libraries #knowledge #archives

The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster

At the start of the New Year, with no warning, Microsoft gives its flagship productivity app a name change and a huge price increase. Why would the company make this mess? I asked Copilot, who explained it very well.

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Today in 1947, 78 years ago: Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.

#OnThisDay

Computers are a trap. You love computers right up to the point that you learn slightly too much about computers, and then you hate computers
I discovered a newer Boston area concert listing website, and I'm a HUGE fan - bookmark this one, @solong.bsky.social puts it together (i think) by webscraping like a hundred different sources:
https://bostonshows.org
#BostonMusic #boston
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Boston Shows: Live Music Listings

Concert calendar for Greater Boston

If you are an American citizen, please pay attention to this news as it develops, and consider contacting your senators and representatives to tell them to put pressure on NIH and the Executive to allow grant reviews to resume. Biomedical research saves and improves lives. We all know people affected by cancer, or Alzheimer's disease, or drug addiction, or long covid. Let's not give up on them, let's not give up on ourselves.

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