The Queen's Gambit & today is my birthday too 😀

Watching it now

“a conference on Wednesday held by groups that reject the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change”

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#medlibs

One of my favorite Shots from my Trip to Edinburgh 🖤 #photography #moody #edinburgh #scotland

Coming off a loss in IL primaries, Kat Abughazaleh launches a new effort “merging mutual aid, political action, and apolitical events.” @jesswash.bsky.social covered her campaign’s mutual aid program here: theintercept.com/2025/12/26/k...

Twitter post from K'Bucko @KBucko7 Reading Dune. Frank Herbert was cooking. Close up of text from the book Dune. "Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." "'Though shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind,'" Paul quoted." Response from Alan Levinovitz @grok please explain this post and the quote in it, what should I understand about it?

Oof. This is both funny and sad at the same time...

The Pets Left Behind When Their Owners Are Deported

Ripple on consequences everywhere: The Pets Left Behind When Their Owners are Deported

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/u...

Judge Rules Pentagon Restrictions on Press Are Unconstitutional

Judge Rules Pentagon Restrictions on Press Are Unconstitutional www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/b...

“some critics have likened it to how authoritarian leaders suppress free thought and dissent”

The Trump Administration Goes to War, by Any Memes Necessary

#GIFT_ARTICLE

THE TRUMP REGIME GOES TO WAR, BY ANY MEMES NECESSARY

A series of White House social-media videos attempt to turn the carnage in Iran into gleeful entertainment.

[U.S. officers in the Middle East complain about that]

By James Poniewozik

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/a...

Who’s a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz. A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge. That can make them pretty good writers.

I preferred human writing (“You preferred human writing” in the summary after voting on the five examples)

It was great, especially the Lenny Barking News

Live updates: Trump's EPA revokes scientific finding that underpinned US fight against climate change The Trump administration revoked a scientific finding at the center of U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, a significant rollback of regulations.

BREAKING: The EPA revokes scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger the public health, removing a key basis for the climate change fight.

World Report 2026 World Report 2026, Human Rights Watch's 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.

Break the authoritarian wave, stand up for human rights — this is the challenge of our generation.

As we reflect on the events of 2025 in our annual World Report, we remember that standing up for global human rights is imperative. #Rights2026

a Norwegian man crying on air while being interviewed, with his biathlon stats besides him

In the interview with NRK, he first started by thanking everyone who has helped him on the path to his first individual Olympic medal. And then – unprompted – he made an admission: – And then there's someone I wanted to share it with who might not be watching today. Six months ago I met the love of my life. The most beautiful and kindest person in the world. Three months ago I made my biggest mistake and cheated on her, and I told her about it a week ago. It's been the worst week of my life, he says tearfully in the interview.

new most bizarre moment of the Olympics just dropped

Norwegian biathlete wins bronze medal, then, totally unprompted, reveal he cheated on his GF, she left him, and he wants to apologize publicly hoping she takes him back

www.vg.no/sport/i/vr5g...

I’m in America and it doesn’t make sense, the same thing recently happened in my city to a bakery employee with legal status (he was fortunately released after much outcry)

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Hooray for #winterolympics #GoldZone being back - love the split screen coverage!

We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing "the" labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses. And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant. 9,742 L7 19.4K 43.8K 个 AP The Associated Press @AP Replying to @APStylebook The use of "the French" in this tweet by @AP was inappropriate and has caused unintended offense. An updated tweet is upcoming. 12:18 AM • Jan 27, 2023 • 382.8K Views

Happy 3 year anniversary to this post

IT IS 85 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT ON THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK.

IT IS 85 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT.

Watch the 2026 Doomsday Clock announcement: buff.ly/BGu0Zse

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

If it had been “Bars” renamed to “Drinking Establishments” it would have made more sense to me but “Nightclubs” encompasses a lot more than drinking, even if limiting to things being consumed 😎

Are any #medlibs uploading articles to Google NotebookLM and if so, what “type” besides open access: Those obtained via DOCLINE? Part of vendor (EBSCO) subscriptions? Internal sharing rights purchased via CCC/RightFind? Thanks for any advice/examples before I check w our legal or contracts team.

One Year Since Trump’s Inauguration, the Damage to Environmental Policy Has Been Unprecedented The administration has taken a wrecking ball to everything from clean energy policy to chemical regulations

Today marks one year into President Trump's second term. And one thing has become clear: This puts corporations over people and the environment every time. “I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that President Trump is the most anti-conservation president we’ve seen,” said one policy expert.

That scene kicked ass

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is shutting down, with its final edition due in May.

Someone made $400K by predicting Maduro's capture. Here's what happened The winnings come as the rules governing prediction markets are still evolving.

“What appears to be a newly created account appeared to invest $30,000 Friday in Maduro's exit. After Maduro went into custody Saturday morning, that same investor netted $436,759.61.”

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?!

Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.