Valerie

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Physiology professor, mom of a cool teen, dog lover :)

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For my newsletter, I wrote about school shootings, struggling to find that third place, and the one small thing that’s helping me practice hope and plan for an uncertain and unimaginable future. I hope you’ll read it when you have a moment. Link here: craftwork.substack.com/p/one-small-...

One Small Thingcraftwork.substack.com On Building the Third Places

Looks like about $200 would knock out Indiana. Anyone want to support this great program in $10 increments????

It's the 2nd day of the United States of Science, a fundraiser supporting @skypeascientist.bsky.social! Each bubble represents classes we matched in the last year. $10 donations fill in bubbles! Fill a bubble here 👇 givebutter.com/Wj5JGG

United States of Science 2024givebutter.com By Skype a Scientist

I have a ticket to go to a thing tonight. It would be basically my first break from my teen this summer. But given the harassment I've seen and experienced from my ex online, I'm a little nervous going out alone this evening. Trying to talk myself into going.

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I love this invite codes 2.0 are so cool 👀

Today, we’re releasing starter packs — personalized invites that allow you to bring friends directly into your slice of Bluesky! 🚀 Update to version 1.87 of the app or refresh desktop to create a starter pack. (It may take a moment for version 1.87 to appear in the iOS App/Google Play stores.)

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Back up your work and print it out. I’m serious.

I hate to see this. As someone who lost over a decade of work to an old website going dark, this hurts to read.

And now that's all died down, I'll just head back over to Twitter again....

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This Val?

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Guys, it is proper bananas that the size of the Moon and the distance to the Sun are so perfectly matched. It's one of the absolutely coolest things about the sky, and I say this as a person who discovers whole new planets.

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I think there's a very specific type of techbro belief that humanities majors spent college frolicking and fucking while taking easy classes while the STEM kids were being crushed into misery by extremely difficult weed-out engineering courses and they deserve rewards and revenge for this.

Has anyone written a piece on humanities envy among tech bros? The fact that one of the first things they did was go, “AI can write prose! No more writers! YES! And it can make pictures! No more artists! HAHA!” instead of just focusing on AI’s ability to do STEM stuff is so telling.

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So nice to live in a country where kids learn the lesson that if you’re wealthy and white and have a fan base prone to violent thuggishness, you can do whatever the fuck you want. Quite the shining city on a hill we are nowadays

Trump has just posted photos of the daughter of the judge in his hush money trial. It is beyond the pale.

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So many hot & amazing trans people on the timeline Truly a BLESSED & HOLY day

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its comedically frustrating when you make a simple move like chugging a bottle of water and your mood gets better and you almost just wanna be like Oh Fuck Off With That

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happy world bipolar day to my fellow people with bipolar!

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The main upshot of this technology is that voice authentication is now dead. Companies that use it need to stop. More unfortunately, this also means when someone you know calls you, even on a number you recognize, that too will very soon be untrustworthy.

A new OpenAI tool can recreate human voices — from just a 15-second recording. The technology, called Voice Engine, is currently available only to a small group of early testers. nyti.ms/3TGZIyS

OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voicesnyti.ms The start-up is sharing the technology, Voice Engine, with a small group of early testers as it tries to understand the potential dangers.

"Sans serif fonts are easier to read online" is bs exhibit A

He looks like he tried to cosplay as Weird Al, but only had an AI (note spelling) description of Weird Al to go on.

I heard he's been even more thoroughly roasted here on the BlueSky so i came here and people are not disappointing :)

Rob Copeland, NYT, who was tweeting sad frowny “but library copy” at people who were generally really loving his book. He was being roundly and thoroughly criticized across multiple tweets, happily. Not just ratioed on the original.

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The ratio is a delight to behold

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biology once again standing up and proudly proclaiming it is the softest science (i once "ruined the data" of a bio lab on evolution in highschool because i was "too good" at using chopsticks)

Hey, not right now okay

Love having the space to actually start to heal

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FYI if you're on Glassdoor

DELETE YOUR GLASSDOOR cellio.dreamwidth.org/2024/03/12/g... "Glassdoor now requires your real name and will add it to older accounts without your consent if they learn it, and your only option is to delete your account. They do not care that this puts people at risk with their employers."

Oof. I was introduced to this today plausiblydeniable.com/five-geek-so... and OMG so many things make so much sense now. Especially for those exposed to toxic ex's behaviors...

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#UglyDogs and potential uglydogs, you can learn more about what igivearod is and how it all started at igivearod.com

For those new to the #UglyDogs community, a little snippet about Igivearod which will take place today through the red lantern

Me: maybe he really was my soulmate Him: *sends asshole texts* Me: nevermind

I think I feel some panic coming on so I'm trying to deep breathe and think about what is causing this feeling? But I don't like it at all and it feels like it's about to get worse.

The worst kind of missing is to miss a thing that really only existed in your mind

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If you don’t know my journalist hero Linda Tirado, aka @killerMarinis on X, you should. But you don’t have a lot of time. In this interview yesterday, she tells a friend she’s dying, of the delayed effects of being shot by police while covering a story. t.co/7EJwPFbXdb

I get to be the person I always wish I had beent.co They went and finally killed Vice for real this time. Look at the shit-eating way these bosses always talk. Media news: In a memo, Vice CEO Bruce Dixon says the company will lay off hundreds of empl...