"'[S]ign language processing...[is] an underserved field that sits at the intersection of computer vision, natural language processing, + linguistics. I'd encourage anyone interested in those areas to consider diving in.'" @jhucompsci.bsky.social @jhu.edu #SignLanguage #ASL tinyurl.com/bdfcjzfr
Your reminder that notable authors aren't actually sending you email about your unpublished work. They don't have the time and most of them aren't editors anyway
The official seal of the United States Supreme Court, featuring a circular design with the words “Supreme Court of the United States” surrounding a central emblem of a balanced scale of justice and a laurel wreath, symbolizing law, authority, and fairness.
🧵 The arguments behind landmark Supreme Court rulings have never been freely available… until now.
More than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs (1830–2019) are now open on the Internet Archive.
Full announcement ⤵️
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I love me some libraries! The library was always my sanctuary, my safe space, my second home. Today, the library is sanctuary to the books I write, the stories I tell! Ever and always, my safe space. This is from Jumping Off Library Shelves, an anthology by Lee Bennett Hopkins. #nationallibraryweek
89 candles would have set off the sprinklers, so we settled for one — and one perfect slice of cake (with @bradtakei.bsky.social on ice cream duty). Thank you to every friend, fan, and fellow traveler who has made these 89 years such a joyous voyage.
In case you have not yet heard of "surveillance pricing," which is when companies charge different prices to different people for the SAME item.
"The price tag of you - Click Here" #costs #pricing #surveillance #business
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I was honored to meet Dr. Rushton while a visitor to the Ethics Committee. Her work on moral distress and nursing ethics is invaluable.
Oh myyy! Happy 89th birthday to George Takei, Hikaru Sulu on Star Trek, The Animated Series, Voyager, Lower Decks & Very Short Treks, and in six Star Trek films. He's also a director, author, voiceover artist, and activist, and the subject of a great new documentary called Beam Me Up, Sulu.
If you've agreed to read a manuscript for the purposes of giving feedback and then feed it through ChatGPT to produce the feedback, you are the devil. Don't do that to your creative friends. It's not only unethical, it would put them in violation of no-AI clauses in contracts (including ours).
"Over the past several months, our community has built a blueprint that other communities can use when federal agencies attempt to move detention infrastructure into their neighborhoods..."
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Dear fellow Brits, from this Brit-American:
Please don't come here. It's dangerous. You may be targeted, arrested and unlawfully detained - likely courtesy of ICE - without access to legal representation.
I've told my family to stay away.
Please boycott America. 🇬🇧💙
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A marvelous selection of fiction + nonfiction. Enjoy, and happy National Librarian Day!
#BookSky #librarians #libraries #books #reading #wonder
A screenshot of the linked pdf showing the hardcover bestsellers in fiction and nonfiction, with an arrow pointing to an image of my book cover
THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME DEBUTED AT #9 ON THE INDIE BESTSELLER LIST!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!
What I love most about this is that it means people are supporting indie bookstores ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
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Just watched a video of Andy Weir describing neutrinos and he says they quantum tunnel through pretty much everything and I don’t feel this is an appropriate use of ”quantum tunneling”
Anyway why ask a woman physicist when you can ask a dude novelist
Cover of George Takei's autobiographical graphic novel They Called Us Enemy showing a line of people entering an internment camp as a young George looks back, breaking the fourth wall.
Friends of the Sacramento Library is offering these free for AAPI month
I have read so much work like this, but this might be the single most painful one because, well, everything is local.
I drive through Florin often (It's now South Sacramento), SF is where my mom lives, his dad was my age when
Medical Groups Call for Release of Detained Doctor — Two physicians detained in Texas in less than a week. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
This is what doctors looks like.
ER docs here. We will stick with our scrubs.
Kalo Pascha to my family in Greece and America, and all who celebrate! 🇬🇷
Oh, coooool -- possible worlds!! Can't wait to hear!
(Everyone, Hotel Bar Sessions is such a great podcast; it's always fascinating no matter the topic being discussed. Try it out!) @hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social
#scifi #astronomy #simulations #possibleworlds #philosophy #futures
This woman is facing a copyright claim for her own music by an AI company that took her youtube page and copied her.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois
Brutal.
image from inside Artemis II text: i need more men to understand that two men crying and hugging in space after one of them announced they were naming a moon crater after the other one's late wife is actually what peak masculinity looks like.
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