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@pickabar
pickabar
7 years
The other day someone told me “the problem with life is the small sample size” and I’m starting to think that’s the realest thing I have heard in a long time.
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@atsboxing
ALL THE SMOKE Boxing
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The final word 🎙️ Stream the #SpenceCrawford fight week presser LIVE at 4PM ET/1PM PT: https://t.co/bzKfMoRCMZ
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@Phil_Lewis_
philip lewis
3 years
All foster kids in California can now attend any state college for free
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@Ziggys_Duck
Ziggy_Sobotka
3 years
For the 99% that don’t know. They’re not rich, brisket eating, laughing at the rest of us people actors. They go to work everyday and deal with the same stuff that we do. @TheRealKostroff . #TheWire fans will recognize him as Maurice Levy. The man gives a great performance in
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@mcnees
Robert McNees
3 years
Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born #OTD in 1943. As a grad student at Cambridge in 1967, she discovered an entirely new type of celestial object: Pulsars! Photo: National Science & Media Museum / Science & Society Picture Library
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@rosariodawson
Rosario Dawson
3 years
Happy Flashback Friday y’all!
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@hankgreen
Hank Green
3 years
Listening to Silicon Valley guys talk about how the future isn’t amazing enough while ridiculous shit like this happens in the background is honestly a little pathetic.
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@Kasparov63
Garry Kasparov
3 years
Having been defeated repeatedly by Ukraine, Russian forces have found an easier opponent, one with corrupt leadership, incompetent commanders, and low morale.
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@sciam
Scientific American
3 years
Insects have surprisingly rich inner lives—a revelation that has wide-ranging ethical implications
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@MikeDrucker
Mike Drucker
3 years
DOCTOR: “I’m sorry. You have cancer.” DORK: “No I don’t. Debate me!” DOCTOR: “I understand if you want a second opinion. In fact, I encourage it.” DORK: “Sounds like you won’t debate the issue because you know you’re wrong.” DOCTOR: “I’d love to be wrong.” DORK: “Then debate me!”
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@radleybalko
Radley Balko
3 years
DOJ just released the report from its two-year investigation of the Minneapolis police department. Here's a thread of notable excerpts. This first one happened *while a DOJ investigator was on a ride-along.*
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@Austen
Austen Allred
3 years
"Don't learn to code. Soon GUIs will do it all for you." - 1985 "Don't learn to code. Soon that will all be done offshore for pennies." - 2003 "Don't learn to code. Soon nocode tools will do it all for you." - 2015 "Don't learn to code. Soon AI will do it all for you." - 2023
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@PENamerica
PEN America
3 years
🧵Ta-Nehisi Coates’ acclaimed memoir Between the World and Me was removed from an advanced placement course in South Carolina after students complained it made them feel “ashamed to be Caucasian."
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@JoePerticone
Joe Perticone
3 years
Chuck Grassley tells me he hasn’t read the indictment because he’s “not a legal analyst” (he previously chaired the judiciary committee)
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@olliecarroll
Oliver Carroll
3 years
Yevgeny Prigozhin. Putin created him. Could the outspoken mercenary become the next president? (No.) https://t.co/mKv8WMBRn1
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Putin created him. Could the outspoken mercenary become the next president?
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@coreyspowell
Corey S. Powell
4 years
24 hours of Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground. We're all hanging out on this spinning rock. Brilliant video by Bartosz Wojczyński.  https://t.co/wPpQ5HhXKC
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@mcnees
Robert McNees
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Computer scientist and engineer Tim Berners-Lee was born #OTD in 1955. He proposed a global hypertext experiment at CERN in 1989 and now we all live in it. Image: CERN
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@BBCSport
BBC Sport
3 years
Lionel Messi will join Inter Miami this summer! 🇺🇸 Read more from @GuillemBalague, here 👇 #BBCFootball #Messi
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@xkcd
Randall Munroe
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@dril
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thinking about the insane tax breaks i'll get when i produce 10000 dog shit AI generated tv shows just to cancel them
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@KenRoth
Kenneth Roth
3 years
It is the date the Beijing would like us all to forget: June 4. But we remember: Tiananmen Square, 1989.
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