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Posts by Steve Dent
remember that atlantic article that pretended to be a first person account of a mother's loss of a child from measles? this is the real thing and it's brutal.
Blue 2, by Joan Miró, 1961
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
DaVinci Resolve is gradually removing any reason for needing an Adobe subscription www.engadget.com/apps/blackma...
you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of
The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.
Quality sketch 👌
something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.
Hall of fame FT correction
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X.
This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5)
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All generations who were born outside of Canada and have direct Canadian ancestry can become Canadian citizens, as long as they possess the correct documents.
Considering becoming a dual citizen? Read this:
I think this is a good precautionary analysis but I’d bet huge amounts of money against a relevant quantum computer by 2029 or even 2035.
Black text on a light, textured background showing the sentence “Healthcare is a basic right.” repeated multiple times in a stacked list, with the phrase “basic right” visually emphasized in bold each time. A small EU-style logo appears in the bottom-right corner.
Healthcare is a basic right.
Not a privilege. Not a luxury. 💙
There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.
Soundcore's Nebula X1 Pro projector slash sound system is one of the most interesting gadgets I've ever tested www.engadget.com/home/home-th...
Artemis II sent a pic of the beautiful garden planet we are too greedy, lazy, short-sighted, and ungrateful not to destroy:
The 20.8MP D5 optimizes dynamic range at higher ISOs (and has big pixels) so it's perfect for a photo like this
Hospital Decides Cancer-Sniffing Leopard More Trouble Than It’s Worth
Hospital Decides Cancer-Sniffing Leopard More Trouble Than It’s Worth theonion.com/hospital-decides-cancer-...
Yeah, much as I'd like to see a Yaris-ier world, the Rav4 is just a modern station wagon and doesn't belong in the Yanktank bin
TikTok video. Caption: “day 1 of having a man who's not my bf as a roommate he just asked me if I wanted to go buy a Lego set”
skaddles i had a platonic male roommate, we didnt fall in love he just brought home a metal detector one day at 7 am and kept beeping stuff in our apartment and saying "oh god its everywhere" 3-8 Reply View 20 replies v ©120K K. Wilson I had 5 platonic male roommates on study abroad and they would bring me various trinkets from their drunk outings and then I would choose the best one and he would be the winner that week. it was very competitive. Iw Reply 1,545 View 6 replies v
oliviaf109 My platonic male roommate also did this at random, and would ask me at 3 am when I got off work if I wanted to go get sheet cakes from Walmart "because we had adult money and we could" @cherry.terry From d Tiktok comment 3-8 Reply View 20 replies v ~27.2K ⑦
cat my first dude roommate and I had different schedules so it was like living alone with a ghost that would magically fix everything and leave tools around while leaving a stack of cash on the counter once a week. 3-8 Reply View 45 replies v ©31.2K •
TikTok is a very underrated source of accidental Dudes Rock content.
There are career stuntmen who have flipped fewer cars than Tiger Woods.
a tumblr post with a user named bvckbiter writing "is this character good or bad" "is this shop unproblematic or not" "is this arc deserving of redemption or not" girl... underneath it is a screenshot from the show shōgun of a character saying "i don't have time for this christian nonsense"
How I feel reading 99% of art and media critique these days
Progressive Paris has many weapons to fight the far right, but the best? Spaces where you can simply hang out | Alexander Hurst
What makes Rowling different is that she doesn’t just promote the juice, she owns the orange groves.
So that’s worse.