Bee Ostrowsky

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Lmao "NSA is not required to find or obtain new technology (outdated or current) in order to process a request"

“Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release it: Intelligence agency claims it “no longer has the ability to view” 1982 recording” The FOIA response shenanigans described in the article are top tier🙄 www.muckrock.com/news/archive...

Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release itwww.muckrock.com In a vault at the National Security Agency lies a historical treasure: two AMPEX 1-inch open reel tapes containing a landmark lecture by Admiral Grace Hopper, a giant in the field of computer science....

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Lost in the ongoing Trumpapalooza is the excellent news that a malaria vaccination developed at Oxford Univ. over the last 30 years and costing only £3 per shot is being unrolled in malaria-prone countries. If it fulfills its promise, this will make an enormous difference to so many lives.

Thankful for leaders who are willing to say “I have an opinion, but I don’t have any facts”, and then actually refrain from commenting.

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Lenacapavir did so well at preventing HIV infection that it hit the threshold where the only ethical thing to do was stop the randomized trial and immediately offer it to literally every participant. That's huge news. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trialwww.npr.org The testing of lenacapavir was halted because results were so impressive — 100% effectiveness. The decision was made to give all participants the injection rather than the alternative daily pill.

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The more you know!

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Today, July 8th, is the 24th anniversary of the infamous "Paddleboro" raid, in which Attleboro, Mass. police broke up a BDSM play party of consenting adults, and charged one attendee with "assault with a dangerous weapon" for paddling the other with a wooden spoon.

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Newspaper: This politician is planning to enact something called Operation Nefarion Pundit: They’re not actually going to do Operation Nefarion. That’s more of a wishlist than a real plan. First off, you could never fit that many people inside an onyx ziggurat

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I was a relatively early adopter and this is the best post on this site so far.

Millennial dads when the kids are letting the air conditioning out.

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The Sword in the Stone - existentialcomics.com/comic/555

I finally saw Die Hard. It was really good. Is there a Die Hard Studies major yet?

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Улетай на крыльяхь вҍтра (2009 blogpost) fromtheheartofeurope.eu/%d1%83%d0%bb... The Gliding Dance of the Maidens from Prince Igor.

Улетай на крыльяхь вҍтраfromtheheartofeurope.eu For years I have been fascinated by the Gliding Dance of the Maidens chorus from the Polovtsian dances of Borodin’s opera, Prince Igor. That earwormy tune has been subject to various interpre…

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Since i didn't know how much I needed it until i heard it, let me just say that a thing you could maybe really use right now is @levarburton.bsky.social reading you Ray Bradbury's "The Toynbee Convector." pca.st/episode/a144...

"The Toynbee Convector" by Ray Bradbury - LeVar Burton Readspca.st The best short fiction, handpicked by the best voice in podcasting and presented in 3D immersive audio. In every episode, host LeVar Burton (Roots, Reading Rainbow, Star Trek) invites you to take a br...

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I wrote to the Tractor Supply board today. Here is what I sent. Even if you've only ever bought one thing there, I encourage you to write, as a customer.

Fuck. This one's going to sting, but add another company to our boycott list. x.com/TractorSuppl...

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on the very day the Supreme Court's conservatives said 'we know best' and put themselves in charge of complicated agency decisions one of the geniuses confused nitrous oxide and nitrogen oxide. So they had to have a do over. Not exactly an auspicious start. www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

Supreme Court Corrects EPA Opinion After Gorsuch Confuses Laughing Gas With Air Pollutantwww.forbes.com The error came in an opinion blocking an EPA policy meant to improve air pollution.

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I love Outer Space. It’s my passion. My academic background is in a field that most people don’t even know exist (space law). And I honestly wish more people cared about and thought about space. But I get the reluctance. Here’s a pretty famous space protest piece by Gil Scott-Heron.

Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon (Official Audio)youtu.be Official audio for Whitey On the Moon by Gil Scott-Heron, released on Ace Records. Subscribe to the official Ace channel for more classics, lost gems, playli...

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My startup NecroSync was founded on a simple yet visionary idea When a customer logs into your website, we run an ancestry search on their name, create AI replicas of all their dead relatives, and play an ad where their grandparents beg them to buy your product We are valued at $74 Billion

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a hybrid signal

i get that this is me pointing at a huge unhinged Pepe Silvia thing right now & at least half of that is because I'm not an academic, i just orbit a lot of them & don't actually know much about how to assemble it all so it makes sense but also, you don't WANT it all to really actually connect up

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Dr. Damien P. Williams: The Birthday Beast

To propose a repository of facial recognition data, government credentials, and personally identifying information is to identify a threat surface, an attack vector, and a tool of potential oppression; to do so without taking clear steps to mitigate those harms is criminally negligent, At Best.

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You can tell who did and who did not moderate IRC/phpBB/whatever back in the day, because all of us who did learned the true shape of online group culture: your culture is the shittiest person you don't ban

yeah, it is entirely possible to have a Normal Functional Discord!

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This is a cool example of what the Biden administration is good at: small, wonky changes that meaningfully make public services easier to access. Am excited about Martin O' Malley as SSA head: a rare politician who cares about implementation. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Social Security to drop obsolete jobs used to deny disability benefitswww.washingtonpost.com For decades, Social Security has used obsolete jobs like pneumatic tube operator and nut sorter to deny disabled claimants.

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Dear folks new to Bluesky: Please do give some consideration to how your first communications with others here will come across. Tromping into a thread in an openly antagonistic manner is not the way to go on a site with an ethos of "Don't Engage, Just Block" to people being jerks. Just FYI. Thanks.

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Today in SF history, we head into the weekend with a lovely antedating of _Gernsbackian_, from 1952 to 1943 (courtesy of @beeostrowsky.bsky.social): sfdictionary.com/view/2515/ge...

Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction: Gernsbackiansfdictionary.com Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction

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i hate to have one of these at all but my big "WE DRANK FROM THE HOSE" opinion is that people younger than millennials really can't imagine what coming of age in a time of media scarcity meant - like, I would read about records and movies and not actually be able to see them for YEARS

Fahrenheit 451 began on a coin-operated typewriter. Ray Bradbury typed "The Fireman" 10 cents at a time, paying the UCLA library for the privilege of contributing this classic to the world. How generous of him to villainize something other than silly library fees! boingboing.net/2024/06/17/r...

Ray Bradbury used 98 dimes to write the first draft of "Fahrenheit 451" on a coin-operated typewriterboingboing.net Before PCs and word processors, coin-operated typewriters were am option for people who couldn't afford their own machines. You could find them in places like train stations, libraries, and hotels.…

I just think the septic tank truck should service Taco Bell outside of business hours, lest someone get the right impression.

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read this before you go to bed so you sleep in a good state of mind

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Friends, the “People’s CDC” is not a reliable source of information, nor are they a good faith actor. Neither FDA nor CDC want to restrict access to the fall booster for the 2024-2025 Covid season. Their claim otherwise is fear-mongering bullshit.

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"At this point, it is inarguable that the state is coming for disabled people. Speak now, because the state that is empowered to dispose of anyone harmed by COVID is surely a state empowered to dispose of you."

I was nervous to write this bc I know all the outlets I called out have a lot more resources than me; however, I’m simply tired of watching journalists bill themselves as leftists while they silently watch us die. Enough. t.co/5Y4qsQ6B4p

Silence from prominent left outlets continues as mask bans spreadt.co Eugenics has been successfully mainstreamed by libertarian think tanks, yet many popular left-wing journalists look on indifferently.

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Socrates: Socrates: *blink* Socrates: Socrates: Okay. Since you have so much wisdom about what makes us human, I have some questions for you. What is a "traffic light"?