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Lola McCabe

Lola McCabe

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Lola McCabe
Lola McCabe@MccabeLola·
Why yes, I did save 9 more turtles this morning! 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
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Nav Toor
Nav Toor@heynavtoor·
Amazon Ring died on May 22, 2026. It just doesn't know yet. One dad in Nashville, Tennessee built a free MIT-licensed app that watches your driveway, your porch, your baby monitor, your garage. No cloud. No subscription. No cop ever gets the footage. 32,057 stars. 3,103 forks. Pushed today. Here is the wildest part: You: "How much is Ring Protect Pro?" Ring: "$19.99 a month. $199.99 a year. Per house." You: "How much is Google Home Premium Advanced?" Google: "$20 a month. $200 a year. Per house." You: "What do I get?" Both: "We store your footage in our cloud. Ring already paid the FTC $5.8 million in 2023 for letting employees and contractors watch your videos without your consent. Google just raised Nest prices again in 2025." You: "What does Frigate cost?" Blake Blackshear: "Nothing. It runs on the Raspberry Pi already on your shelf. The footage never leaves your house. I have a day job." Ring sells the camera. Then sells your fear back to you, monthly, forever. Frigate sells nothing. Because Blake isn't selling. He's a dad with 1,267 followers who got tired of Amazon owning his front door. 100% Opensource. 100% Local. 100% Yours. The smart camera industry made one bad assumption. That you'd keep paying rent on a camera you already bought. That assumption just died in Nashville.
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Ihtesham Ali
Ihtesham Ali@ihtesham2005·
A 22-year-old graduate student in Kazakhstan got so angry at journal paywalls in 2011 that she built a pirate website holding 88 million scientific papers, and last month she turned the whole thing into an AI that lets you ask one question and get the actual research as the answer. Her name is Alexandra Elbakyan, and the website is called Sci-Hub. The AI she just launched is called Sci-Bot. It lives at sci-bot.ru and almost nobody outside academia knows it exists yet. Here is the story, because it is one of the strangest things to happen in science publishing in the last 50 years. Elbakyan was born in Almaty in 1988, the year the Soviet Union started to collapse. She taught herself programming at 12. She read Soviet science books that explained things her family used to call miracles. She got into computer security at university and graduated in 2009 with a degree she barely needed because by then she was already a serious hacker. Alexandra moved to Moscow that fall. Then Germany. Then a research internship in the United States. She was working on brain-computer interfaces, the kind of research that requires you to read hundreds of papers a year just to keep up with the field. And every single one of those papers was locked behind a journal paywall that cost between 30 and 50 dollars to read once. She did the math. A graduate student in Kazakhstan could not afford to read science. The first thing she did was learn how to get around the paywalls one paper at a time. She passed the trick around to other students. They asked her for papers constantly. She got tired of doing it manually. So in September 2011, in three days, she wrote a script that automated the whole thing. A user pastes a DOI. The script logs in through a donated institutional credential. The paper comes back free. The website caches it. The next person who asks for that paper gets it instantly because the previous request already saved a copy. That was Sci-Hub. Three days of code. One graduate student. Done. 15 years later, the cache holds 88 million scientific papers. Almost every piece of scholarly literature published before 2020 is sitting on her servers. Researchers in 190 countries use it. Studies in Nature have shown that roughly half of all academic paper downloads worldwide now go through Sci-Hub, not the publishers who actually own the copyrights. Elsevier sued her in 2015 and won a 15 million dollar judgment. She did not pay. The American Chemical Society sued her and won an injunction. She did not comply. Courts in India, France, Russia, and the UK have tried to block the domain. She just moves it. Sci-hub.se. Sci-hub.ru. Sci-hub.ee. The site has had over 20 domains and is still up. Nature put her on its list of the 10 people who mattered most to science in 2016. The New York Times compared her to Edward Snowden. The Verge called her the pirate queen of science. She has not been to the United States in over a decade because she would be arrested at the airport. The Sci-Bot launch in April 2026 is the part that nobody is talking about. She took the 88 million paper database and put a small language model on top of it. You ask a question in plain English. The model searches the entire shadow library, pulls the relevant papers, synthesizes an answer grounded in real citations, and links you to the full text of every source. Free. No login. No institutional credential. No paywall. Three real scientists tested it for a Chemical and Engineering News article last month. They asked it medical and chemistry questions. The radiologist said the answer he got was usable. The chemist said the gaps in recent literature were obvious but the older science was solid. The publisher community is furious. What she built is what the paid academic AI tools are trying to build. Except the paid ones are limited to what their parent publisher legally owns. Hers is limited to almost nothing. Alexandra still lives somewhere in Russia. She does not give her address. She does not do video interviews. She gives talks over Skype with the camera off. She runs the largest illegal library in human history from a laptop and a donation page. A graduate student who could not afford to read science built the system the entire scientific community now quietly depends on. The publishers have spent a decade trying to shut her down. She just shipped an AI that makes their entire business model outdated.
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Viral Reel Addict@ViralReelAddict·
And magically nobody is talking about them anymore. Ted Lieu on camera: "The Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped children." A sitting congressman said this on the record.
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Marco Foster
Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_·
James Talarico: “Many of our fellow Christians are attempting to use their power to force their understanding of Christianity down other people’s throats. I don’t want anyone’s religion forced down my throat. I certainly don’t want it coming from a government”
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Robert Reich
Robert Reich@RBReich·
Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE: -Amazon -AT&T -Booz Allen Hamilton -Caci -Charter Communications -Comcast -Dell -Ecolab -FedEx -General Dynamics -L3Harris -Motorola -Thermo Fisher -UPS Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.
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Turquoise Cat
Turquoise Cat@Turquoise__Cat·
It’s seems like a Republican pedophile is being exposed every 5 minutes. 🤬🤬🤬
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Joel Montfort
Joel Montfort@jmontforttx·
Alligator Alcatraz is closing after one year and wasting $1B to house 1400 immigrants. That's an eye-popping $714,285 per occupant. Everything this administration does is filled with fraud and waste. wlrn.org/2026-05-14/des…
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Robert Reich
Robert Reich@RBReich·
Hawaii just enacted a law that effectively neuters Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.
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Heather Sutton
Heather Sutton@heathercsutton·
The United States already owns an official ballroom. It is Mellon Auditorium and sits, appropriately, on Constitution Ave. And, fantastically, it was just renovated in 2023. So, it's time to stop talking about a $1 Billion dollar ballroom. eventsatmellon.com/auditorium-gal…
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𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉
We're in a weird era where a guy gets publicly shamed for running his sprinklers on a Tuesday, while a data center the size of a Costco quietly drains a reservoir so AI can generate a picture of your cat as a medieval knight. And the data center gets a tax incentive for it.
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Andrea Junker
Andrea Junker@Strandjunker·
Forgive me for sounding like a broken record, but we are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.
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The Tennessee Holler
The Tennessee Holler@TheTNHoller·
Republican C-SPAN caller: “It’s hard for me to say this, but I think if I can open up about it in public it might help others… I regret my support for Trump, and I should’ve known better. He’s a con man. A liar. The worst, most corrupt president we’ve ever had.”
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Covie
Covie@covie_93·
Officer Brian Sicknick's family did not receive a single penny but trump is out here trying to make the people who murdered him millionaires.
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George Wallace
George Wallace@MrGeorgeWallace·
Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.
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Ed Krassenstein
Ed Krassenstein@EdKrassen·
Wow, no one found this horrific Donald Trump mention in the Epstein files because it was a handwritten letter that wasn't indexed properly by the DOJ. How convenient? This woman alleges that Donald Trump was involved with Jeffrey Epstein in the sale of young women to the sex trafficking ring of Epstein and the Saudis. She also claims that Trump forced her to miscarriage after she got pregnant. See the entire 32 page letter on the DOJ website: efta01682031.pdf
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AshleY
AshleY@Aku_700·
Judge Lets Connected Teen Rapist Walk Free After Filmed Strangulation Rapes. This Oklahoma judge gave 17-year-old Jesse Butler — son of a former OSU football director — just probation and counseling instead of prison. He tried to rape two high school girls, filmed himself doing it, and nearly strangled one to death. Facing up to 78 years, he got “youthful offender” status. Victims ignored under Marsy’s Law. Families furious. This elite protection is disgusting.
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Annie
Annie@AnnieForTruth·
Another MAGA pedophile pig. 36 year old Corey Blaine Earp of Newman, Georgia was arrested and charged with 16 counts of child sexual exploitation. 😡 fox5atlanta.com/news/newnan-fa…
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