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World's largest on-the-nose metaphor the 990-ft long abandoned ocean liner SS United States is being towed to its final resting place at the bottom of the ocean off the Florida coast after decades languishing at a port in Philadelphia.

RIP, old friend.
https://www.abandonedamerica.us/ss-united-states

The SS United States, the fastest liner ever built and the largest built on US soil, was at long last towed from Philadelphia yesterday to be sunk as an artificial reef. To see what it looked like in its final years and learn its story, visit Abandoned America https://www.abandonedamerica.us/ss-united-states

World's largest on-the-nose metaphor the 990-ft long abandoned ocean liner SS United States is being towed to its final resting place at the bottom of the ocean off the Florida coast after decades languishing at a port in Philadelphia.

RIP, old friend.
https://www.abandonedamerica.us/ss-united-states

The SS United States, the fastest liner ever built and the largest built on US soil, was at long last towed from Philadelphia yesterday to be sunk as an artificial reef. To see what it looked like in its final years and learn its story, visit Abandoned America https://www.abandonedamerica.us/ss-united-states

World's largest on-the-nose metaphor the 990-ft long abandoned ocean liner SS United States is being towed to its final resting place at the bottom of the ocean off the Florida coast after decades languishing at a port in Philadelphia.

RIP, old friend.
https://www.abandonedamerica.us/ss-united-states

World's largest on-the-nose metaphor the 990-ft long abandoned ocean liner SS United States is being towed to its final resting place at the bottom of the ocean off the Florida coast after decades languishing at a port in Philadelphia.

RIP, old friend.
https://www.abandonedamerica.us/ss-united-states

The SS United States, the fastest liner ever built and the largest built on US soil, was at long last towed from Philadelphia yesterday to be sunk as an artificial reef. To see what it looked like in its final years and learn its story, visit Abandoned America https://www.abandonedamerica.us/ss-united-states

World's largest on-the-nose metaphor the 990-ft long abandoned ocean liner SS United States is being towed to its final resting place at the bottom of the ocean off the Florida coast after decades languishing at a port in Philadelphia.

RIP, old friend.
https://www.abandonedamerica.us/ss-united-states

The SS United States, the fastest liner ever built and the largest built on US soil, was at long last towed from Philadelphia yesterday to be sunk as an artificial reef. To see what it looked like in its final years and learn its story, visit Abandoned America https://www.abandonedamerica.us/ss-united-states

World's largest on-the-nose metaphor the 990-ft long abandoned ocean liner SS United States is being towed to its final resting place at the bottom of the ocean off the Florida coast after decades languishing at a port in Philadelphia.

RIP, old friend.
https://www.abandonedamerica.us/ss-united-states

I wrote a thing for @thetransmitter. The attack on scientific infrastructure happening in the US shows that relying on any one country is not a good option for science. We need to start supporting and building international, decentralised infrastructure for science.

https://www.thetransmitter.org/policy/science-must-step-away-from-nationally-managed-infrastructure/

#science

I wrote a thing for @thetransmitter. The attack on scientific infrastructure happening in the US shows that relying on any one country is not a good option for science. We need to start supporting and building international, decentralised infrastructure for science.

https://www.thetransmitter.org/policy/science-must-step-away-from-nationally-managed-infrastructure/

#science

We scientists would love to be left alone to do our work, but powerful people won't give us that option. Science, as the pursuit of truth, however imperfect, is fundamentally challenging to power. If we want to keep the option to do the science we want, we have to work at making science resilient.

Yes it's uncomfortable for many to think about science as political. Yes, the thought of building and maintaining our own infrastructure for data, papers and code might be mind numbingly tedious and scarily outside our skill set, but nobody we can trust in the long term will do it for us.

We have to stop wishing that we could go back to how things were before because that way of doing things is what got us in this mess in the first place. Let's look to the future and build our own way of doing science.

Edited to add an article I wrote expanding on this:

https://www.thetransmitter.org/policy/science-must-step-away-from-nationally-managed-infrastructure/

#science #politics

I wrote a thing for @thetransmitter. The attack on scientific infrastructure happening in the US shows that relying on any one country is not a good option for science. We need to start supporting and building international, decentralised infrastructure for science.

https://www.thetransmitter.org/policy/science-must-step-away-from-nationally-managed-infrastructure/

#science

"Any single point of failure makes science fragile. Instead, we need multiple organizations across as many countries as possible, collectively providing access to overlapping data and services, so that the loss of any one or several of these doesn’t stop us from doing science."

As it is for so much of human knowledge and wellbeing and progress.

https://www.thetransmitter.org/policy/science-must-step-away-from-nationally-managed-infrastructure/

I wrote a thing for @thetransmitter. The attack on scientific infrastructure happening in the US shows that relying on any one country is not a good option for science. We need to start supporting and building international, decentralised infrastructure for science.

https://www.thetransmitter.org/policy/science-must-step-away-from-nationally-managed-infrastructure/

#science

We scientists would love to be left alone to do our work, but powerful people won't give us that option. Science, as the pursuit of truth, however imperfect, is fundamentally challenging to power. If we want to keep the option to do the science we want, we have to work at making science resilient.

Yes it's uncomfortable for many to think about science as political. Yes, the thought of building and maintaining our own infrastructure for data, papers and code might be mind numbingly tedious and scarily outside our skill set, but nobody we can trust in the long term will do it for us.

We have to stop wishing that we could go back to how things were before because that way of doing things is what got us in this mess in the first place. Let's look to the future and build our own way of doing science.

Edited to add an article I wrote expanding on this:

https://www.thetransmitter.org/policy/science-must-step-away-from-nationally-managed-infrastructure/

#science #politics

I wrote a thing for @thetransmitter. The attack on scientific infrastructure happening in the US shows that relying on any one country is not a good option for science. We need to start supporting and building international, decentralised infrastructure for science.

https://www.thetransmitter.org/policy/science-must-step-away-from-nationally-managed-infrastructure/

#science

YES! @neuralreckoning gets it perfectly right!

https://www.thetransmitter.org/policy/science-must-step-away-from-nationally-managed-infrastructure/

Now everybody get up and talk to your library director and/or library committee that this is what you want to happen!

I've even started to put together some lines for you to use:

https://cryptpad.fr/doc/#/2/doc/edit/C65EM+kOfMsSklipy5iSYWWE/

Maybe you want to chime in and help make this a convincing odcument?

#neuroscience #science #opendata #openscience #infrastructure

YES! @neuralreckoning gets it perfectly right!

https://www.thetransmitter.org/policy/science-must-step-away-from-nationally-managed-infrastructure/

Now everybody get up and talk to your library director and/or library committee that this is what you want to happen!

I've even started to put together some lines for you to use:

https://cryptpad.fr/doc/#/2/doc/edit/C65EM+kOfMsSklipy5iSYWWE/

Maybe you want to chime in and help make this a convincing odcument?

#neuroscience #science #opendata #openscience #infrastructure

Read. Boost. Share.
Marc Elias’s open letter to Musk.

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-open-letter-to-elon-musk/

@GottaLaff

READ ME!
My Open Letter to Elon Musk - by @Marc.E.Elias Democracy Docket

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-open-letter-to-elon-musk/

Marc Elias open letter to Elon Musk. Please share far and wide.

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-open-letter-to-elon-musk/

#ElonMusk
#Elon
#FuckElon
#Democracy
#democracyMatters

#Via Marc Elias
@marcelias
Feb 20, 2025, 7:56 AM

"Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are 'undermining civilization.' He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from 'generational trauma.' This is my response:"

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-open-letter-to-elon-musk/

I’m so glad that Marc continues to fight the good fight to protect our democracy as he has for years. https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-open-letter-to-elon-musk/

Marc Elias open letter to Elon Musk. Please share far and wide.

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-open-letter-to-elon-musk/

#ElonMusk
#Elon
#FuckElon
#Democracy
#democracyMatters

#Via Marc Elias
@marcelias
Feb 20, 2025, 7:56 AM

"Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are 'undermining civilization.' He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from 'generational trauma.' This is my response:"

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-open-letter-to-elon-musk/

Marc Elias open letter to Elon Musk. Please share far and wide.

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-open-letter-to-elon-musk/

#ElonMusk
#Elon
#FuckElon
#Democracy
#democracyMatters

Read. Boost. Share.
Marc Elias’s open letter to Musk.

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-open-letter-to-elon-musk/

@GottaLaff

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-open-letter-to-elon-musk/

#ElonMusk
#Elon
#FuckElon
#Democracy
#democracyMatters

Speak up now or forever watch the pieces fall

Illinois Governor Pritzker Gives the Speech We Should Be Hearing From All Politicians
#Politics
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/02/20/illinois-governor-pritzker-gives-the-speech-we-should-be-hearing-from-all-politicians/

Speak up now or forever watch the pieces fall

Illinois Governor Pritzker Gives the Speech We Should Be Hearing From All Politicians
#Politics
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/02/20/illinois-governor-pritzker-gives-the-speech-we-should-be-hearing-from-all-politicians/

Speak up now or forever watch the pieces fall

Illinois Governor Pritzker Gives the Speech We Should Be Hearing From All Politicians
#Politics
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/02/20/illinois-governor-pritzker-gives-the-speech-we-should-be-hearing-from-all-politicians/

Speak up now or forever watch the pieces fall

Illinois Governor Pritzker Gives the Speech We Should Be Hearing From All Politicians
#Politics
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/02/20/illinois-governor-pritzker-gives-the-speech-we-should-be-hearing-from-all-politicians/

Speak up now or forever watch the pieces fall

Illinois Governor Pritzker Gives the Speech We Should Be Hearing From All Politicians
#Politics
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/02/20/illinois-governor-pritzker-gives-the-speech-we-should-be-hearing-from-all-politicians/

Speak up now or forever watch the pieces fall

Illinois Governor Pritzker Gives the Speech We Should Be Hearing From All Politicians
#Politics
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/02/20/illinois-governor-pritzker-gives-the-speech-we-should-be-hearing-from-all-politicians/

Speak up now or forever watch the pieces fall

Illinois Governor Pritzker Gives the Speech We Should Be Hearing From All Politicians
#Politics
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/02/20/illinois-governor-pritzker-gives-the-speech-we-should-be-hearing-from-all-politicians/

Speak up now or forever watch the pieces fall

Illinois Governor Pritzker Gives the Speech We Should Be Hearing From All Politicians
#Politics
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/02/20/illinois-governor-pritzker-gives-the-speech-we-should-be-hearing-from-all-politicians/

Speak up now or forever watch the pieces fall

Illinois Governor Pritzker Gives the Speech We Should Be Hearing From All Politicians
#Politics
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/02/20/illinois-governor-pritzker-gives-the-speech-we-should-be-hearing-from-all-politicians/

Speak up now or forever watch the pieces fall

Illinois Governor Pritzker Gives the Speech We Should Be Hearing From All Politicians
#Politics
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/02/20/illinois-governor-pritzker-gives-the-speech-we-should-be-hearing-from-all-politicians/

A few thoughts on why I don't use writing or coding assistants.

"[AI Assistants] create distance between me and my thinking and my writing, they alienate the visible output of my work from my work. They alienate me from my writing."

https://tante.cc/2025/02/21/im-helping11/

"#Writing isn’t exactly #thinking. Writing is writing. But writing is a useful tool to help one’s thinking. Thinking towards writing something down can help me create structure in my thoughts. Can help me focus. It also forces me to actually get to some form of conclusion or result – as temporary as that result might be. And #assistants disturb that process. And unlike cats or kids they’re not even cute or loveable."

https://tante.cc/2025/02/21/im-helping11/

A few thoughts on why I don't use writing or coding assistants.

"[AI Assistants] create distance between me and my thinking and my writing, they alienate the visible output of my work from my work. They alienate me from my writing."

https://tante.cc/2025/02/21/im-helping11/

A few thoughts on why I don't use writing or coding assistants.

"[AI Assistants] create distance between me and my thinking and my writing, they alienate the visible output of my work from my work. They alienate me from my writing."

https://tante.cc/2025/02/21/im-helping11/

"#Writing isn’t exactly #thinking. Writing is writing. But writing is a useful tool to help one’s thinking. Thinking towards writing something down can help me create structure in my thoughts. Can help me focus. It also forces me to actually get to some form of conclusion or result – as temporary as that result might be. And #assistants disturb that process. And unlike cats or kids they’re not even cute or loveable."

https://tante.cc/2025/02/21/im-helping11/

A few thoughts on why I don't use writing or coding assistants.

"[AI Assistants] create distance between me and my thinking and my writing, they alienate the visible output of my work from my work. They alienate me from my writing."

https://tante.cc/2025/02/21/im-helping11/

A few thoughts on why I don't use writing or coding assistants.

"[AI Assistants] create distance between me and my thinking and my writing, they alienate the visible output of my work from my work. They alienate me from my writing."

https://tante.cc/2025/02/21/im-helping11/

A few thoughts on why I don't use writing or coding assistants.

"[AI Assistants] create distance between me and my thinking and my writing, they alienate the visible output of my work from my work. They alienate me from my writing."

https://tante.cc/2025/02/21/im-helping11/

A few thoughts on why I don't use writing or coding assistants.

"[AI Assistants] create distance between me and my thinking and my writing, they alienate the visible output of my work from my work. They alienate me from my writing."

https://tante.cc/2025/02/21/im-helping11/

A few thoughts on why I don't use writing or coding assistants.

"[AI Assistants] create distance between me and my thinking and my writing, they alienate the visible output of my work from my work. They alienate me from my writing."

https://tante.cc/2025/02/21/im-helping11/

Landlord just raised my rent, so if you’d consider sponsoring @elementary I’d appreciate it 🙏🏼 https://github.com/sponsors/elementary

We’re about to land the workspaces switcher in the dock and the new multitouch gestures backend is almost ready, so there’s cool stuff to test in early access. And don’t forget you get a monthly email from me, sometimes with stuff that doesn’t make it into the blog. And sponsors only chat on discord!

Helping me pay rent 🤝 getting perks

Landlord just raised my rent, so if you’d consider sponsoring @elementary I’d appreciate it 🙏🏼 https://github.com/sponsors/elementary

We’re about to land the workspaces switcher in the dock and the new multitouch gestures backend is almost ready, so there’s cool stuff to test in early access. And don’t forget you get a monthly email from me, sometimes with stuff that doesn’t make it into the blog. And sponsors only chat on discord!

Helping me pay rent 🤝 getting perks

Landlord just raised my rent, so if you’d consider sponsoring @elementary I’d appreciate it 🙏🏼 https://github.com/sponsors/elementary

We’re about to land the workspaces switcher in the dock and the new multitouch gestures backend is almost ready, so there’s cool stuff to test in early access. And don’t forget you get a monthly email from me, sometimes with stuff that doesn’t make it into the blog. And sponsors only chat on discord!

Helping me pay rent 🤝 getting perks

Landlord just raised my rent, so if you’d consider sponsoring @elementary I’d appreciate it 🙏🏼 https://github.com/sponsors/elementary

We’re about to land the workspaces switcher in the dock and the new multitouch gestures backend is almost ready, so there’s cool stuff to test in early access. And don’t forget you get a monthly email from me, sometimes with stuff that doesn’t make it into the blog. And sponsors only chat on discord!

Helping me pay rent 🤝 getting perks

Landlord just raised my rent, so if you’d consider sponsoring @elementary I’d appreciate it 🙏🏼 https://github.com/sponsors/elementary

We’re about to land the workspaces switcher in the dock and the new multitouch gestures backend is almost ready, so there’s cool stuff to test in early access. And don’t forget you get a monthly email from me, sometimes with stuff that doesn’t make it into the blog. And sponsors only chat on discord!

Helping me pay rent 🤝 getting perks

Landlord just raised my rent, so if you’d consider sponsoring @elementary I’d appreciate it 🙏🏼 https://github.com/sponsors/elementary

We’re about to land the workspaces switcher in the dock and the new multitouch gestures backend is almost ready, so there’s cool stuff to test in early access. And don’t forget you get a monthly email from me, sometimes with stuff that doesn’t make it into the blog. And sponsors only chat on discord!

Helping me pay rent 🤝 getting perks

Landlord just raised my rent, so if you’d consider sponsoring @elementary I’d appreciate it 🙏🏼 https://github.com/sponsors/elementary

We’re about to land the workspaces switcher in the dock and the new multitouch gestures backend is almost ready, so there’s cool stuff to test in early access. And don’t forget you get a monthly email from me, sometimes with stuff that doesn’t make it into the blog. And sponsors only chat on discord!

Helping me pay rent 🤝 getting perks

Landlord just raised my rent, so if you’d consider sponsoring @elementary I’d appreciate it 🙏🏼 https://github.com/sponsors/elementary

We’re about to land the workspaces switcher in the dock and the new multitouch gestures backend is almost ready, so there’s cool stuff to test in early access. And don’t forget you get a monthly email from me, sometimes with stuff that doesn’t make it into the blog. And sponsors only chat on discord!

Helping me pay rent 🤝 getting perks

Landlord just raised my rent, so if you’d consider sponsoring @elementary I’d appreciate it 🙏🏼 https://github.com/sponsors/elementary

We’re about to land the workspaces switcher in the dock and the new multitouch gestures backend is almost ready, so there’s cool stuff to test in early access. And don’t forget you get a monthly email from me, sometimes with stuff that doesn’t make it into the blog. And sponsors only chat on discord!

Helping me pay rent 🤝 getting perks

Landlord just raised my rent, so if you’d consider sponsoring @elementary I’d appreciate it 🙏🏼 https://github.com/sponsors/elementary

We’re about to land the workspaces switcher in the dock and the new multitouch gestures backend is almost ready, so there’s cool stuff to test in early access. And don’t forget you get a monthly email from me, sometimes with stuff that doesn’t make it into the blog. And sponsors only chat on discord!

Helping me pay rent 🤝 getting perks

The end of the postwar era
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/trump-ukraine-postwar-world/681745/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31RhLcP-tNiCRWkRZwfyq10&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

The end of the postwar era
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The end of the postwar era
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The end of the postwar era
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The end of the postwar era
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The end of the postwar era
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The end of the postwar era
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The end of the postwar era
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«radically increase military spending, planning, and coordination #EuropeUnited [..] Europeans have contributed more resources to Ukraine’s military and economic #survival [..] despite Trump’s repeated, untruthful claims to the contrary [..] willing to distort reality [..] wasn’t interested in discussing their security [..] flipping the #narrative, turning arguments upside down in the manner of a Russian propagandist»
#NerdReich #NewSpeak
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The end of the postwar era
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