That's 20ish years of kpop history in those forums. 😢

Academy Museum/La Brea Tar Pits/ whatever LACMA stuff is open during renovation. It looks like the Getty Villa is still closed. Another option is USC-Exposition Park. Natural History Museum, Mercado La Paloma food hall

Oooh, nifty — it's another backdoor way for the administration to choke institutions of higher learning while invoking "antisemitism" or "antiterrorism" as a pretext. Neat.

‘Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest 1977-2015’ Review: Landmark Docuseries Remains Essential Viewing in New HBO Chapter The Million Man March, the birth of Black Lives Matter, urban renewal projects in the Bronx and the aftermath of the Los Angeles Uprising get spotlights in the six-parter.

For those who missed either "Eyes on the Prize III" or my review of "Eyes on the Prize III," one more link to my review:

no college class better prepared me for the real world than a western literature survey course which ran from thucydides to philip k. dick on the premise that every era we think of as a "golden age" actually thought their age was shit and looked back at a prior era as the REAL golden age

On top of everything else, now I have 3 decades of hantavirus fears activated.

Reposting for alt text and account In case you’re unaware the American Medical Associations has a YouTube page, they are doing daily updates on bird flu and other out breaks since the CDC can not

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Oh no! Wonho mug will be reborn!

Every safety regulation was written in blood, frequently with a body count higher than one, and it’s not political to put the blame on people who want to “move fast and break things” when they start breaking human lives.

let's remember that it was an NIH scientist who designed the core of the Moderna Covid vaccine *over a single weekend*

As a supplement to the horrible fire news surrounding LA, let me recommend this great documentary about how this wonderful and dynamic city has been photographed and used in popular culture. For now, the entire doc is on YouTube (link below). #LosAngeles #LAfire #history

I just don't have it in me to muse philosophically about the days to come but I also have no interest in hopelessness or despair. I'm just gonna keep carrying on, watch out for my own and count the days to the mid terms. Protect your mental health. This place is becoming a trauma vortex

An “exit” sign that says MEN.

This looks like a trap for Salt-N-Pepa.

List of concrete actions you can take to defend access to books!

#BookSky #FightBookBans

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Thank goodness the TikTok ban is in effect and now no one can ever use my data for nefarious purposes.

I reiterate: nobody in charge of anything has any idea what they're doing.

Pete Hegseth as defense secretary is a far bigger threat to national security than TikTok if we're being completely honest

You’re telling me this life crisis is mid?

INSULIN NEEDED - if anyone can spare insulin, especially the more shelf-stable pens, please bring them to:

Bernie's Coffee Shop
6101 Wilshire Blvd

before 6pm today

Here’s how you can help, if you’re able to!

♬ Sara Secora TTS Computer AI Voice Soundboard Type your text to hear it in the voice of Sara Secora. The soft hum of the computer AI filled the room, a gentle symphony of technological innovation. Sara...

Here we go. Someone cloned my voice and made it open source for anyone to make it say anything. How incredibly violating. I’ve contacted them about this and now we wait….

If you’re an actor, you may want to check to see if you’re also on this website.

www.101soundboards.com/tts/1093038-...

Stock Show Weather!

I’m watching one of the LA news livestreams, they’re talking about letting people into evacuation areas to get their medications, and it strikes me that they’re isn’t also some coordinated “any pharmacy will refill your emergency prescriptions.”

ok but what about five baby foxes playing in the snow, though, did you even consider that

Conclave should have been called “Think About The Messiest Bitch You Know. It’s A Cardinal, Isn’t It?”

We put dots on our glass door that opens to our backyard last year and haven’t had a bird death since! (We had several before that!!) Very easy to use and super effective!

AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.

“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”