The verb ‘to see’ is very distantly related to ‘to sue’ – and also to ‘segue’, ‘second’ and ‘sequence’.

They all come from a Proto-Indo-European root whose meaning can be reconstructed as “to follow”. In Germanic, it shifted to “to follow with the eyes”.

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a small brown and white puppy is standing on a tiled floor . ALT: a small brown and white puppy is standing on a tiled floor .

Trying to wait patiently but I have an epilogue to read and a gift I can’t even open!

𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝… 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐝!!!

Jo must save another prince, stop a royal wedding, and hunt a witch through tangled tales. @chantalgadoury.bsky.social continues the magic of Until the Last Page in the sequel: Beyond Ever After.

𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: inimitablebooks.com/titles/beyon...

LGBTQ+ people have suicidal ideation because of the ostracization they face in their own homes and they turn to the internet for support. But with KOSA and 18 other bills threatening their digital safe haven, this will worsen their mental health and suicide rates. #stopkosa #savetheinternet

Ambassador of the month: Zara has long brown hair and is wearing a blue turtleneck.

Tell us about you. Name: Zara. Niche: Writer. “I’ve always loved stories in all their forms, but especially reading, so I became a self-published author while in high school.”

One piece of advice. “Be passionate about what you do. It's ok to try out multiple hobbies, but don't stick with something that doesn't bring you joy it'll lead to burnout and that's no fun”

"Be passionate about what you do! Don't stick with something that doesn't bring you joy."

Swipe for ambassador @zarahoffman.bsky.social's advice ❤️

Some Insects Are More Equal Than Others: A Comparison of Popular Large Language Model Chatbots' Treatment of Different Insect Groups Our research demonstrates that in mirroring prevailing human biases towards different insect groups, LLM chatbots oversimplify insect diversity by predominantly restricting “bees” to honeybees and “w...

Research from @smnstuttgart.bsky.social shows #LLM #AI chatbots reflect typical human biases about insects:

- Bees/butterflies good, wasps bad
- 'Bees' restricted to honeybees, 'wasps' to yellowjackets, underplaying masses of vital species

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
#bugsky #scicomm

Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton Met Donald Trump in SNL's "Founding Fathers" Cold Open Lin Manuel Miranda

Okay, but tell me why the captions on www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/... are wrong (he clearly says “whitely” and then the captions say “wisely”) - there are other errors, too. What the hell?

STATEMENT: Federal Funding for Libraries Makes it Case in Court The Trump Administration is attempting to have this case dismissed based on standing.

The Trump Administration is desperate to have this case dismissed

www.everylibrary.org/trump_imls_e... via @everylibrary.bsky.social

sign that says: NAZIS USED TRAINS, ICE USES PLANES

Thinking of this sign from the Sackets Harbor protest:

We're in hell

“Ai would never rebel against me like those accursed human voters”

- every evil billionaire in a movie before his Ai destroys the entire world

ABOUT TIME

WaPo's own AI summary is calling BS

another day, another reason to hate AI

‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’ Writers will gather at the Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the LibGen database to train its AI models Authors and other publishing industry professionals will stage a demonstration outside Meta’s London office today in protest of the organisation’s use of copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence. Novelists Kate Mosse and Tracy Chevalier as well as poet and former Royal Society of Literature chair Daljit Nagra will be among those in attendance outside the company’s King’s Cross office. Continue reading...

‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’

unbelievable that people need to be told that using ai images to criticize ai images is just using ai images

embrace ai and perish

lol

Even Elon Musk's AI Grok says Trump's tariffs will be definitively bad for the U.S. economy.

go AI, fucking die

thanks AI

Overturning democracy and replacing it with one-party tyranny. It's happening right now in North Carolina. Coming to a state near you.

If I wanted to weaken the United States and make us less capable of combating 21st Century threats, I’d be doing exactly what the Trump White House and DOGE are doing.

FDA cancels pivotal advisory meeting about next season's flu vaccine An FDA vaccine advisory committee meeting to discuss next season’s flu vaccine has been canceled, potentially delaying the delivery schedule.

If you want to reach out to the acting commissioner of the FDA to kindly ask WTAF, her name is Sara Brenner, M.D. and here's her email: Sara.Brenner@fda.hhs.gov
abcnews.go.com/US/fda-cance...

these terminations are good evidence that this is just wanton destruction by deranged ideologues. there is no rhyme or reason other than whatever makes sense to a bunch of zoomer nazis and their bosses and enablers

Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business.

We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.

TODAY. ONE DAY ONLY. Don't buy anything today if you can--wait until tomorrow (or if you must, buy from a small business and use cash). Send a message. 👇👇👇

Democrats do not recognize or believe that public uproar, WHICH THEY CAN DRIVE, can change or affect politics. They have instantly forgotten about COVID, 1/6, Charlottesville, the ACA fight, the Kavanaugh fight. They desperately want to believe they have zero agency, so they can relax.

The photo is satire but I totally believe people exist who are like this