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We're delighted to announce — with help from Electric Literature — the shortlist for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Congratulations to the authors! The recipient of this year's prize will be announced on Ursula's birthday, October 21st. electricliterature.com/announcing-t...

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It's a GREAT time to remind all y'all that you can read "What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia" by Elizabeth Catte, instead of that crappy dude's crappy memoir.

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gotta love how contemporary publishing is 30000000 beautiful, deeply felt, finely crafted books with 7.5 readers each whose authors are just barely making a living, and like 4 books that financially support the whole apparatus, each of which has comprehensively and unforgivably destroyed society

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The rapid response cartoon that ate my Sunday. www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

Cartoon: Our top storywww.dailykos.com As always, if � you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, � Sparky’s List! � You can get it in your inbox or read it on ...

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espn is doing a segment about home runs and the voiceover just said “we love the home run because of what it represents: the triumph of the individual against the collective”

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“there is no place for political violence” says world’s leading authority on enacting political violence

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I mean, it did win the Hugo and the Locus and several other awards, and was a bestseller and still shifts a huge number of copies every year, and is beloved by many. Plus Haldeman's Forever War is on the list and it occupies the niche that OMW might have taken. So I'm good with it.

@scalzi.com Apologies if this has been asked and answered. How do you feel about Esquire's choosing, out of all the books you've written, Red Shirts as one of the top 75 best sci-fi novels?

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…believing, real genuine belief, consists in a habit with which one is contented and which one usually recognizes (though not always)[,], this habit consisting in the general fact that under certain circumstances one would act in a definite way, and would be content to do so.

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“What is most exceptional about the Americans is not the voluminous record of their violence but their extraordinary ability in the face of that record to persuade themselves that they are among the best behaved and best regulated of peoples.” - Richard Hofstadter, American Violence, 1970 🗃️

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JWST's second anniversary image is here! This is a distorted spiral galaxy at the center and an elliptical galaxy to the left of it. They're called the Penguin and the Egg. 🧪🛰️🔭 #scicomm #womeninstem

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Belief does not principally consist in any particular act of thought, but in a habit of thought and a conduct. A man does not necessarily believe what he thinks he believes. He only believes what he deliberately adopts and is ready to make a habit of conduct.

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A belief in a proposition is a controlled and contented habit of acting in ways that will be productive of desired results only if the proposition is true.

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*my first day as a drug dealer* sorry, I only have Pepsi, is that ok

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Political violence always benefits authoritarians because liberals will always condemn it and authoritarians, regardless of whether they are perpetrators or victims, will always use it to claim more power.

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The truly memorable through line that runs from Shelley Duvall to Dr. Ruth and Richard Simmons is that all three were utterly unique, break-the-mold outliers who also came off as genuinely authentic people that cared deeply about the rest of humanity.

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I acquired a new computer this morning; henceforth all my Internet use will be conducted via this machine.

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The Best Of Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller, April 27,1953

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No one will regret anything they don't post.

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are these just the halcyon final hours of the last shred of normalcy before everything gets amped up to 11 tomorrow

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Remember, you don’t HAVE to be a witness to people being horrible on social media. You can take a break on days like this one. That’s what I’m going to do.

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The US should switch to Celsius to make it cooler at night

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“In the back end, these algorithms that need to be running for any generative AI model are fundamentally very, very different from the traditional kind of Google Search or email…”

AI's Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet's Hyper-Consumption Erawww.wired.com Generative artificial intelligence tools, now part of the everyday user experience online, are causing stress on local power grids and mass water evaporation.

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The largest triangles we can measure are such as have the earth's orbit for base, and the distance of a fixed star for altitude.

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we are all God's children. unfortunately he's forgotten us in his locked car on a 105F day

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Sea level rise has killed the last population of Key Largo tree cactus (P. millspaughii) "what researchers believe is the first local extinction of a species caused by sea level rise in the country" 🧪 www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/firs...

First local extinction in the U.S. due to sea level risewww.floridamuseum.ufl.edu The United States has lost its only stand of the massive Key Largo tree cactus in what researchers believe is the first local extinction of a species caused by sea level rise in the country. The Key ...