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> be Alexandra Elbakyan > be born in Kazakhstan in 1988 > start coding at 12 > hack your internet provider at 14 > hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford > get a CS degree from Satbayev University > intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech > speak at Harvard on brain-computer interfaces > notice researchers can't read the papers they need > notice academic publishers charging $30 a paper > notice peer reviewers worked for free > notice editors worked for free > notice universities funded the research with billions of dollars of public money > build Sci-Hub in 2011 > upload nearly every paywalled research paper ever published > give it away for free > get sued by Elsevier > get hit with a $15 million judgment > don't give a flying f*ck > keep Sci-Hub up > get domain after domain seized > register a new one > keep Sci-Hub up > get investigated by the US Department of Justice > don't give a flying f*ck > get accused of working for Russian intelligence > don't give a flying f*ck > have the FBI subpoena your iCloud > get named one of Nature's ten people who mattered in science > get a parasitoid wasp named after you > get a deep-sea snail named after you > get the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge > become a legend

compilation of his scenes in the movie (I have to say, deserve naman ang award.)

getting angry at 4Ps is just dumb it’s not a “free hand-out” — there’s a reason why we call it *conditional* cash transfer you pay the poor to send their children to school, to have medical check-ups in the hope you’ll eventually break the cycle of poverty

The new trailer for the ‘SPIDER-NOIR’ series has been released. Releasing May 27 on Prime Video.

xteink x4 so güd it cleared my reading slump

Beware Guanzon 😄

the local left rly needs to study mamdani’s campaign in new york calling out injustice, focusing on issues people can feel, not being too antagonizing to potential voters, and injecting some joy and hope through tiktoks and reels—the language filipinos can get behind

THIS IS SO WORTH IT ILUVET?!???

OMFG, IT'S BACK Y'ALL LIFE WORTH LIVING AGAINNN

ATTENTION🚨: A radio signal from deep space repeats every 16.35 days from a galaxy 457 million light-years away from Earth.