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aka Juanita Marquez. Pro-choice Christian liberal geek trying to save the world literally+figuratively. Tech, medicine, Muppets, food, travel, random interesting stuff. Wikipedian. She/her.

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Official act. Immune.

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A recent swell of Republican opposition to DEI threatens to upend medical schools' efforts to recruit more Black students, school administrators say

The anti-DEI crusade threatens medical schools' efforts to recruit Black studentswww.whatimreading.net A recent swell of Republican opposition threatens to upend medical schools' efforts to recruit more Black students, school administrators say.

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You want your MTV? ⬇️

Thanks to @archive.org, who has assembled a searchable index of 460,575 web pages previously published on MTV's website, you can search the MTV News archive via the Wayback Machine. variety.com/2024/digital...

MTV News Repository of 460,000 Articles Launched by Internet Archive After Paramount’s Content Takedownvariety.com After Paramount pulled MTV News offline, the Internet Archive assembled a searchable index of 460,575 pages previously published at mtv.com/news.

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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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What the absolute fuck?

Doormat that was recently pulled from sale by Marcket Shirts

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super interesting, e-bike spare parts www.youtube.com/watch?v=evae...

Hard-To-Find E-Bike Partswww.youtube.com BKRE has whatever part you need, and it's getting easier. Find out more by watching this entire 10:01 video.https://ebikerepairfactory.com/Support the channe...

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Adding to this: if for whatever reason your dog, cat, or ferret has a valid veterinary reason to not get rabies vaccine boosters, they should have their rabies titres tested annually. Most unvaccinated or undervaccinated pets have an unknown titer status and thus pose a risk to public health.

People who push the idea that vaccinating pets against rabies is a scam should be hunted down like the monstrous vermin they are.

The Big Scam: Rabies Vaccination - Dogs Naturallywww.dogsnaturallymagazine.com Let's talk about the truth about required vaccinations, particularly the big scam around the rabies vaccination ... and keep your dog safe.

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Well, that was inevitable.

A Florida Man story for @faineg.bsky.social futurism.com/the-byte/flo...

Elderly Florida Man Arrested for Shooting Walmart Delivery Dronefuturism.com A 72-year-old man in Florida has been arrested after shooting a Walmart delivery drone with his 9mm handgun.

Restore your faith in humanity. Give your own example and pass it on. Today, new neighbor left the message that she mistakenly opened mail envelope, was sorry and brought it to me. It was full of $25 Panera gift cards I bought for people. I later went back to neighbor's house & gave her one.

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do not use Telegram, use Signal

Oh god, no, Telegram is NOT a valid option! www.techradar.com/news/telegra...

Telegram had some major security vulnerabilitieswww.techradar.com The bugs were found in a new animated sticker feature

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if there is one survival skill I would REALLY like everyone opposed to the fascist GOP to learn right now, it's "do not say things on the public internet that will provide authorities with useful pretenses for coming after you."

what i am saying is "don't say dumb things on the public internet that could theoretically be used to give authorities an excuse to fuck with you"

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Minnesota Born Adopted people: As of today, you can now request a copy of your ORIGINAL birth record from the Dept. of Health, free of redactions or court orders or permission from anyone else. Here’s the link: www.health.state.mn.us/people/vital...

Birth Records and Adoption - MN Dept. of HealthMinnesota Department of HealthMinnesota Department of healthprintsearchsharefacebookinstagramlinkedintwitteryoutubewww.health.state.mn.us

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The Court ruling today is terrible but expected. I will just gently remind everyone that the election hasn’t happened yet. We shouldn’t assume the worst outcome as a foregone conclusion. That only encourages more apathy than many are already feeling.

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Many Americans haven't had to learn "Internet survival under hostile conditions" skills, and it's high time we took notes on what people in a lot of other countries have been contending with for years. (Again, this is also why I'm a big fan in general of federated/non-centralized social media).

I started my career reporting on how people were using the Internet in dictatorships, and if there's one BIG thing I learned from talking to a bunch of people who literally had served jail time for political blogging, it was "choose your battles wisely, and don't say dumb things in dumb places."

Avocados want to shiv you. Here's how to dodge them. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

Avocado hand: How to avoid an injury so common that surgeons have a name for itwww.washingtonpost.com Most injuries related to cutting avocados occur from April through July. Here’s how to reduce your risk.

Hurricane dips its toe in nice warm water, decides to take its island vacation 3 months early. Thanks, global warming! www.cnn.com/2024/07/01/w...

Hurricane Beryl lashes islands as life-threatening Category 4 in a dangerous early start to the season | CNNwww.cnn.com Hurricane Beryl strengthened again Monday morning into a Category 4 as it roars through the Windward Islands, endangering several island communities with life-threatening storm surge, violent winds an...

Watching "Possession" (1981) has confirmed to me that I am not a film student. But at least I discovered Barbara Baranowska's cool movie posters.

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Don't be seduced by "Crikey!" the musical.

a ruthless predator, alligators will sometimes use jazz hands to lure musical theatre people to their deaths

TIL about stepwells. What a brilliant idea! Also, this one looks like a Escher drawing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chand_B...

Chand Baori - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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It is incredibly infuriating that all the complaining about cancel culture paved a path to this, where state officials are saying that they are allowed to censor any faculty speech that contradicts them. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Fla. argues it could stop professors from criticizing governorwww.insidehighered.com A nationally prominent conservative lawyer, hired to defend the state’s Stop WOKE Act, asserted that what public university professors say in classrooms “is the government’s speech.” The national impl...

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More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers’ lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚🕳️ Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/l...

Isaiah 1:17 - Learn to do good; seek justice, rebuke the oppressor; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.

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Hackers who stole Ticketmaster data from Snowflake account appear to have accessed data through contractor named EPAM Systems. EPAM has workers in Belarus, Ukraine and, before war, Russia. Hacker told me they breached EPAM worker in Ukraine and found plaintext credentials on his machine. My latest:

Hackers Detail How They Allegedly Stole Ticketmaster Data From Snowflakewww.wired.com A ShinyHunters hacker tells WIRED that they gained access to Ticketmaster’s Snowflake cloud account—and others—by first breaching a third-party contractor.

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This isn't SkyNet or HAL or Colossus; it's a bunch of humans handing decisionmaking processes to human-bias-accelerators, bullshit-optimizers, prejudice-exacerbators, & saying either in earnest or in manipulative dissemblement, "Sounds good!Computer=very objectivity! Must be right!" DO NOT DO THIS

Pentagon explores military uses of large language modelswww.washingtonpost.com The Pentagon is meeting this week tech experts to discuss how to incorporate artificial intelligence into military planning.

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Rick does Math and Stuff

Just be careful not to fall into the trap she mentioned of assigning mind where there is none: It does not "understand" that A is a response to B, it does not even understand what a response is – it understands nothing and never will, because it is just a plagiarism-fed auto-complete machine.

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honey wake up the plagiarism machine is drunk

oh my god

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sarah jeong

anyways just in case you were too young or have no friends with uteruses: I was paying FORTY DOLLARS A MONTH for THE CHEAPEST FORM OF GENERIC HORMONAL BC while covered by GOOD university healthcare. After ACA this dropped to 10 / under 10 depending on coverage.

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The Republic Is Ours To Save

I was once denied ER visit coverage by garbage insurance co as a student bc I went to ER pissing blood, had a UTI. They denied coverage bc I’d had one within the same calendar year months earlier, so it was a “pre-existing condition.”

Today is National Poppy Day in the US. Monday will be Memorial Day, to remember those killed in action. After giving a thought to those people, perhaps consider military families and donate to a food bank or take political action. Too many people are going unfed. soldiersangels.org/get-support/...

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