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Undiscovered Scotland

Hermitage Castle, in a remote corner of the Scottish Borders south of Hawick. This is a castle with a truly forbidding reputation and atmosphere, and in our picture is oddly reminiscent of the figure in Edvard Munch's "The Scream". More pics and info: undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/haw

#Scotland #HermitageCastle #Hermitage #Castle #ScottishBorders #UndiscoveredScotland

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Modern day hippies.

bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canad

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Greta Thunberg

Climate strike week 245. #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #TomorrowIsTooLate

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NPR: Corden told the audience: "There are so many people who are trying to stoke those differences and we have to try as best we can to look for the light, look for the joy. If you do, it's out there."#news #NPR npr.org/2023/04/28/1172684048/

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@geospacedman @jwz Ah coo. Thanks!

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Jake Broe has another great video about the situation in Ukraine.
youtube.com/watch?v=g8lVkVwXAe

In case you don't know, Jake is a really great supporter of Ukraine who has updates every two days or so. He always gives a calm and realistic analysis and synopsis of the situation overall. If you can, go and sub to his channel for his amazing support and videos with tons of great insight. He also highlights videos from Ukraine from the soldiers and troops as well at the end of each video.

I've been following him regularly since a long while.

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Saustrup

Well said. #ukraine #russia

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Drea and Team

Today, learn how dormant bacteria come back to life.
astrobiology.com/2023/04/how-d

Scientists revive 48,500 year old virus in a lab
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

#STEM #science #education #lifesciences #biology #microbiology #academic #academics #lifelonglearning

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@jwz Still unsure.

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@jwz I'm guessing that's a screenshot from Alien?

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Just realized that ChatGPT's style of utterly confident yet completely unsourced and unbelievable answers have been coming from computers in movies basically forever, and maybe this explains the whole thing:

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@ramin_hal9001 I completely agree.

And if we look at all of the states in which all of this bullshit is happening - the rewriting of history, the huge religious zeal which involves guns, the re-writing of voting laws to make it even harder for minorities to vote, the way they are gerrymandering districts to exclude as many minority votes as possible - it's almost all the previous slave states from the south where this is happening.

This isn't a new civil war, it's the same one being fought again.

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Ramin Honary

@natharari
They really never learned a single god damned thing about history ever.

You actually could make the argument that Thomas Jefferson was "anti-slavery" in the same way that a manager or a landlord can be anti-capitalist -- opposed to the idea in the abstract but living in violation of your own principles out of comfort/convenience because the law permits you to.

As I understand it, Jefferson apparently is on the record during the constitutional convention saying he thought slavery should be abolished and argued to keep the prohibition in the original constitutional document when it was striken by pro-slavery delegates. But because they couldn't come to a consensus and Jefferson (and the other abolitionists) thought ratifying the new constitution was more important, they kicked the question of slavery down the road.

Jefferson did own slaves, one of whom he treated as a wife after his first wife died -- they slept in the same bed together every night until Jefferson died, they had 4 kids together. He agreed to grant freedom to his two sons in his will. But was this long-term relationship with his slave consensual? Almost certainly not.

But this level of nuance is far beyond the capacity of the average American citizen, as we can see in this interview, and a very different story than what racist shitstains like DeSantis want to indoctrinate children to believe.

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Mastodon Migration

When you post on Twitter(1) or Bluesky(2) you grant them a broad perpetual license to use, modify, and sublicense your content. You effectively make them co-owners of your content. They can mine it and monetize it. They can even sell it. When you post on Mastodon(3) most instances take no license at all. That's right, they tell you what they are doing with your content—storing posts and delivering them—but no license.

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#twittermigration #TermsOf Service #Privacy Policy #ContentLicense

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Quanta Magazine: The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes
quantamagazine.org/cynthia-rud

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From BoingBoing: MAGA couple tries to explain why slave-owners were anti-slavery (video)
boingboing.net/2023/04/27/maga

I just cannot, for the life of me, understand how somebody can become this fucking stupid.
These people are worse than worthless. If they died today, the world would be a better place.

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The Public Domain Review: Punctuation Personified (1824)
publicdomainreview.org/collect

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Michael

One #billionaire owner, twice the #hate #Twitter hate speech surged with #Musk study says

latimes.com/business/technolog
#oligarchs #fascists

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@daphlawless @micahflee Thank you! I didn’t know any of this. I’m about to get some shut-eye for the night but I’ll definitely read it more in depth tomorrow. I appreciate it very much. 👍

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Phlawless

@natharari @micahflee it's bad because Dorsey and Musk are in cahoots. Also, they don't ban Nazis twitter.com/davetroy/status/16

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