Austin Reid, Ph.D.

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Physics (assistant) professor at Tennessee Tech. Origami, magnets, neutrons. Davidson, NCSU (TUNL), PSL (ÉNS), IU (CEEM), Trinity College, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi… I collect higher ed ID cards like Pokémon (my IU one is a shiny) he/him 🌻

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Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.

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Why for the love of fuck would you, making a random kiki/bouba labeler, use openAI rather than a fucking random function. Just felt like shooting a panda in the face each time it's used, or something?

It pains me that sea salt is kiki

I'm sorry, but how often do we see a story of supposed heroism or admirable dedication and just realise it's actually fairly abject stupidity...

I almost died trying to get salt from the seawww.bbc.co.uk Darren Peattie put everything into his dream of harvesting salt - at massive risk to his health.

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Americans are massive cultural weirdos for wearing dog-shit covered shoes inside the house. Most of the rest of the planet does not condone such nasty behavior.

Style & Fashion Drawings: Shoes Offputthison.com

Look at this beautiful kiki. Those poor dumb boubas aren’t capable of this level of artistic expression

Frank Stella, Welkom, 1982 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135062

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*INCREDIBLE* photo of the "eclipse comet" 12P/Pons-Brooks next to the Andromeda galaxy, taken by my friend Adam Block. Seriously. Click. www.adamblockphotos.com/12p-pons-bro...

12P Pons-Brooks 2024-03-12www.adamblockphotos.com Previous Release

As we approach Juneteenth, 89% of the House GOP voted this week to restore a statue depicting “an enslaved Black ‘mammy’ holding the infant child of a White [confederate] officer, as an enslaved Black man follows the officer off to war” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Republicans embrace a Confederate symbol, after years of uneasewww.washingtonpost.com The House vote to restore the Confederate Memorial to Arlington National Cemetery failed, but not before it got a lot more GOP support —about 89 percent — than similar recent votes.

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Instead let's ask them what they think about fascists

JD Vance on D-Day: "Ask the Greatest Generation what they feel about sex changes for minors."

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threadswww.threads.net JD Vance on D-Day: "Ask the Greatest Generation what they feel about sex changes for minors."

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This account of the Harvard Corporation’s hostile takeover of the university from Andrew Crespo and Kristen Weld is the story the NYT has not been telling about the real stakes of this year’s debacles www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Opinion | The Harvard Corporation Tries to Kill Faculty Governancewww.chronicle.com This is about a lot more than one university’s disciplinary action.

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bsky.app/profile/did:... This is a blocklist for people that are into lolicon. If you don't know what that is, great, let's keep it that way and use the list. If you do know what it is, I'm sorry to hear, please use this list. I do not need to hear the opinions, or existence, of any of them.

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From one of my colleagues two weeks ago: “Legal cases against former heads of state are commonplace in healthy democracies.” freedomhouse.org/article/us-i...

US: International Context for Prosecuting Former Presidentsfreedomhouse.org Legal cases against former heads of state are commonplace in healthy democracies. The United States, with its strong rule-of-law tradition and independent judicial institutions, is entirely capable of...

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Have been fantasizing about a "human groomer" where they shampoo and blow dry and do your nails and give you treats and all you have to do through the process is not bite the groomer and at some point I realized "I've just invented the spa day"

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The horror twist of course is that it turns out the skeleton is also me

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NEW COMIC: "How to hold a grudge" -- Get my comics free by email: mailchi.mp/davekellett/...

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one of my deepest, dearest loves is hyper-specific trade memes

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Oh my God it’s some sort of Indoctrination Machine

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Scoop from 404 Media: National Archives is banning employees from using ChatGPT. Agency is tasked w/ preserving history; leaked email says "NARA has determined that ChatGPT’s unrestricted approach to reusing input data poses an unacceptable risk" www.404media.co/national-arc...

National Archives Bans Employee Use of ChatGPTwww.404media.co The agency tasked with preserving the historical record is banning ChatGPT, citing the possibility that the tool would leak internal information.

Vonnegut’s rolling donut!

I’d rather not.

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NEW COMIC: Flight feels like it shouldn’t work. — [ Hey friends! You can get my comics for free by email: mailchi.mp/davekellett/... ]

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Inside me there are two wolves. This is not enough to control the deer population inside me, which is degrading the river ecology inside me. I’m attempting to release more wolves inside me to address this, but the ranchers inside me object, and

Forget the myths the media's created about the ~~White House~~ Ivy League. The truth is, these are not very bright ~~guys~~ people, and things got out of hand.

I can confirm that even faculty IDs are deactivated at Columbia today, and that it is impossible to access the buildings without security escort.

POSIWID

college rapists have more rights than protesters.

The purpose of a system is what it does - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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me and the homies when we hear a software developer in the year 2024 un-ironically describe himself as a stoic

Ah, yes, I suppose that statue of Marcus Aurelius has a front. I feel a little bad for ol’ Marcus, considering his tragically cringe modern “stoic” fandom.

Let’s gooooooo

YO???? UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai: “It is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”

Vaccine breakthrough means no more chasing strainsnews.ucr.edu Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.

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other selves ----------------- patreon.com/nhoj

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imo when high schoolers are getting criminally charged for dumb pranks we used to get after school detentions for, it is maybe a sign we should turn the dial way down on policing

Student arrested after sending fax claiming to be the principal resigning, reports say

Student arrested after sending fax claiming to be the principal resigning, reports saywww.fox8live.com A high school student has reportedly been arrested after sending a fax pretending to be the principal resigning.