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Wanna follow the OFFICIAL accounts of News & Media outlets?
If you're on BlueSky, this is a curated Starter Pack of around ~100 accounts I follow. (NBC, CNN, Newsweek, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, etc.)
https://go.bsky.app/TLsSB5e

News & Media - Official Accounts
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In celebration of #Microsoft Corporation officially joining #BlueSky (per Comms Director, Frank X. Shaw)...
...here's a "Microsoft Product Group" Starter Pack of about 15 accounts so far. (I expect a lot more tomorrow. 😁)

Microsoft - Official Accounts
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[ February 21, 2025] Conference or similar: On Morality and Revelation: A book symposium on Amir Saemi's Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond (OUP, 2024) https://philevents.org/event/show/129842

On Morality and Revelation: A book symposium on Amir Saemi's Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond (OUP, 2024)
This online workshop is a book symposium on Amir Saemi's Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond: A New Problem of Evil (OUP, 2024), which will later be published in AGATHEOS – European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. The program: 8:30 – 10 am (est) Speaker A: Robert Audi     Speaker B: Lara Buchak Speaker C: Imraz Aijaz                 10:15 – 11-45 am (est) Speaker A: Farbod Akhlaghi Respose: Amir Saemi Open discussion

After wearing my cargo pants yesterday and being spoiled by decent sized pockets (I could fit my phone in the front pocket, keys, and lipstick without it falling out when I sit) I’m pissed again about the pockets in my current pants, back pocket I can only put my hand up to my second knuckle in the back (might fit a lipstick but it would fall out) and the front ones, stuff keeps falling out when I sit. I’m going to lengthen the pockets based on the cargo pants pockets, I don’t care if it ‘ruins the line of the pants, and adds bulkiness’ because as I always say, women’s pockets, when pants have them, are bullshit. And I don’t care if they make me look fat because I value function and comfort more. My son can fit a whole keyboard in his. I’ve been gradually lengthening my pockets as I get to them, or wearing a Fanny pack, but had to go to a funeral Sunday and got pissed again about my pockets. I want to empower other women with decent pockets, so we can take over. That poem about seditious pockets comes to mind. Or at least carry phones and keys. Will post photos. #sewing #pockets #womenspants

"...the number of dogs euthanized at [Los Angeles] city shelters jumped 72% compared to last year."
"[Dept] general manager, Staycee Dains, resigned. Dains had been on paid leave since August."
Trying really hard to hold back tears after so much EXTERNAL volunteer effort was put into reducing kill rates in LA.
"Days after LA Animal Services GM resigns, dept. faces audit" - K-Earth 101

[ May 30, 2025 - June 7, 2025] Conference or similar: BACK to the THINGS THEMSELVES! 2025 https://philevents.org/event/show/123722

BACK to the THINGS THEMSELVES! 2025
Back to the Things Themselves! (BTTTT!) is an annual attempt to put aside the more conventional scholarly practice of textual exegesis and critique, and return to the lived world to divine the essential structures of experience through careful phenomenological description. In short, BTTTT!‘s main aim is to “do phenomenology”—that is, to generate original descriptions of phenomena in the lifeworld.  BTTTT! is part of the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Cultu…

[ April 10, 2025 - April 11, 2025] Conference or similar: AI and the Ends of Humanity: Thinking Theologically after ChatGPT https://philevents.org/event/show/125022

AI and the Ends of Humanity: Thinking Theologically after ChatGPT
The advent of increasingly sophisticated and potentially autonomous forms of artificial intelligence poses a challenge to understandings of the human place in the cosmos in ways perhaps as profound as the Copernican Revolution.  And while artificial general intelligence is not yet and may never be a reality, digital technologies are already introducing powerful new possibilities for deception, surveillance, and bias, exacerbating polarization, and changing the meaning of intimacy, care, creati…