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Low follower count posting feels borderline unhinged but you've got to start somewhere.
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Eric Silver
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Eric Silver
@ericsilvertech
I study and work at Weber State University in Northern Utah. My header photo is a crop of “Sculpture to Be Seen From Mars” by Isamu Noguchi.
Utah and California Katılım Şubat 2026
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I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who thought to do this.
Kenton Varda@KentonVarda
@GrantSlatton We carefully chose our kids' first names such that they were available as <firstname>.com, which I'm now holding for them. Sure hope email addresses and domains are still relevant when they are old enough to have them...
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Cool that at least one member of the U.S. Space Force is currently in space.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman@NASAAdmin
Welcome aboard the International Space Station, @astro_anil. Your mission is just getting started. Wishing you and your crewmates a successful expedition as you advance research and inspire millions back here on Earth.
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@ZyMazza @nephew_jonathan Surprisingly, there’s an entire category of life adapted to living at the mercy of air currents.
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@nephew_jonathan i would just assume its not very adaptive to be at the mercy of air currents to such an extent
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Is there a biological limitation preventing animals from evolving hydrogen bladders? Is it just that hydrogen leaks so quickly?
clankr@clankrmedia
Researchers built a soft floating robot for indoor interaction. It uses helium and flapping fins instead of propellers. The result is quiet, lightweight, and safe to touch. It can follow people, give reminders, and act as a study buddy. Published at ACM DIS 2026.
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Tony Zhou makes a similar claim about the erudition of Chuck Jones, the Looney Tunes animator. Merrie Melodies is probably the reason I love classical music.
youtu.be/kHpXle4NqWI
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Futurama had literal STEM PhDs on the writing staff. The Simpsons pulled from Harvard. McFarlane put nuclear chemistry jokes in Johnny Bravo. They're the far end of the literacy spectrum /and/ were also capable of writing in a way to appeal to general audiences
Anna@DistractedAnna
I think a lot of people are confusing “successful writers/artists being well read” with “people in general being well read” A lot of dumb culturally illiterate people loved South Park (and the Simpsons and Cheers and Frasier) and just…didn’t get every joke which is fine!
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There are so many fascinating articles being shared in my feed today.
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@EmmettStinson Thank you for sharing this, Emmett. I’ve loved every minute of the recent personal library discourse.
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After the nonsense discussion around owning 10,000 books, it is great to read a thoughtful essay on personal libraries (from someone who owns 12 to 15 thousand books). pghrev.com/a-library-on-t…
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Some commercial experiences work like this, e.g., customer service websites or phone trees. Interesting to think of user-hostile art.
Rota 🚪🧎♂️@pli_cachete
I’m interested in the idea of art that is actively hostile to its audience. Something that is deliberately not satisfying / intentionally makes you miserable or tries to get you to stop consuming it. The game Pathologic sort of works because the jank and tedium and unfairness makes you miserable. You have to be bored and miserable to connect with the endings. The book Sadly, Porn is also like this. There author literally says at the beginning is actively trying to discourage you from reading the book before hitting you with a 20 page long footnote about bizarre sexual habits. What else is like this?
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I’ve been able to get my hands on some really well-priced used books this way and it’s always bittersweet.
Robert Anderson@ProfRobAnderson
Imagine being a librarian and stamping “discard” on this book so you can make more room in the college library for nap rooms.
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It’s weird that @PalmerLuckey hasn’t gone on Conversations with Tyler. He seems like a natural fit for the show.
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I would really like to track this discourse but have no idea how to get my arms around it.
James@James32980438
The entire manufacturing industry is basically, "Needed: highly skilled worker for (X), must already be certified with 3-5 years experience in (X, Y, Z). Must own tools. No training will be provided. 10-20 hours mandatory OT per week. Pays less than entry level McDonald's"
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@ryanzip Today I learned that the individual aircraft are called “Ziplines”. I’d always heard or read “Zips”.
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Ziplines act like little magnets, repelling each other when they need to cross paths (vid @ 2x)
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Honestly the whole Pacific rim is pretty fantastic.
James🗳@_fat_ugly_rat_
This is genuinely the best part of our entire planet
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The algorithm is giving me lots of higher education commentary and it’s great.
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Have you read Hu AnYan’s I Deliver Parcels in Beijing yet? It’s on my list after I finish your book.
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You can be hungry for peking duck or some special Sichuan pepper concoction or a Hami melon or whatever at any time; go on some ap and order, and it shows up 10 minutes later brought by one of these yellow helmet guys. The number of these guys is infinity.
compuficial@compuficial
China is crazy. You could quit big tech, move into a dilapidated leaky Chengdu rooftop shack, train AI models as a freelancer, and still end up doing food delivery at night just to make rent.
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@scottlincicome Parallels how companies like Redwood Materials are repurposing retired high voltage battery packs from EVs into battery energy storage systems.
redwoodmaterials.com/resources/unde…
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"That means the next chapter for an old phone may not be a junk drawer. It may be a server rack." foxnews.com/tech/google-tu…
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@joshshepperd This is an interesting response to the piece. Some cultural practices are lost in the transition from the old set of media forms to the new set but that’s probably been true for 150 years or more.
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The answer is that everyone reads all day long, probably at a greater pace and breath than any time in human history. They just don’t read linearly and in the same organized fashion as before. This is a transitional time, and reading practices will recalibrate.
Jason Colavito@JasonColavito
The Atlantic's cover story for August asks whether we have reached the end of reading, and, sadly, the answer seems to be yes. Almost no one reads substantive, difficult texts anymore, and the consequences of post-literacy are frightening. theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…
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@Jon_Hartley_ @WSJ For anyone who would like the direct link to the report, it can be found here: whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
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"How the Smithsonian Lost America’s Plot" via @WSJ wsj.com/opinion/how-th…
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