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Growing up in the 80s, my mom was a board member of a 2nd-wave feminist bookshop in Atlanta, so I thought all bookstores were queer-friendly, feminist spaces
As the funny fad of the Internet started to take off, I naturally assumed — for literally months, in the early 90s — that "Amazon" was an online lesbian separatist bookstore in the vein of the Whole Earth Catalog.
In retrospect, my imagined reality was SO MUCH BETTER than what we wound up with

Yale University’s Bird-Friendly Building Initiative, a project that aims to accelerate the adoption of bird-friendly design in the built environment, has been recognized with a 2025 Excellence Award by the International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN).
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Mögliche Folgen für ISS-Crew: Falcon 9 von SpaceX muss am Boden bleiben
Alle paar Tage startet inzwischen eine Falcon 9, vor allem mit Starlink-Satelliten an Bord. Nach einer Störung am Wochenanfang bleibt sie erst einmal am Boden.

Glashaus und Jazzforum aus Bayreuth gehören zu den Preisträgern von „APPLAUS“ https://www.wiesentbote.de/2025/12/05/glashaus-und-jazzforum-aus-bayreuth-gehoeren-zu-den-preistraegern-von-applaus/

Glashaus und Jazzforum aus Bayreuth gehören zu den Preisträgern von „APPLAUS“
Das Glashaus und das Jazzforum Bayreuth gehören zu den diesjährigen Preisträgern des „APPLAUS-Awards 2025 in der Kategorie „Beste kleine Spielstätten und Konzertreihen. und können sich auf jeweils 10.000 Euro Förderung freuen. Die von Kulturstaatsminister Wolfram Weimer überreichte Auszeichnung präm

The third #AAS247 presser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfDmYXvBbV4 about News from the High-Redshift Universe and Local Analogs dealt with the papers The ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST Survey: JWST/IFU Optical Observations for 18 Main-sequence Galaxies at z = 4–6 (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ae0928 with https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/young-galaxies-grow-up-fast and https://public.nrao.edu/news/young-galaxies-grow-up-fast/), A New Population of Point-like, Narrow-line Objects Revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope (https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12177 with https://showme.missouri.edu/2026/scientists-discover-platypus-galaxies-in-the-early-universe/ and https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/scientists-identify-astronomys-platypus-with-nasas-webb-telescope/; slide), Supermassive Stars Match the Spectral Signatures of JWST's Little Red Dots (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12618 with https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/scientists-use-jwst-examine-ancient-monster-stars-may-reveal-birth-black-holes) and Discovery of SiC and Iron Dust around AGB Stars in the Very Metal-poor Sextans a Dwarf Galaxy with JWST: Implications for Dust Production at High Redshift & JWST Captures Growth of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Dust Particles in the Extremely Metal-poor Galaxy Sextans A (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf06a / https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04060 with https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-finds-early-universe-analogs-unexpected-talent-for-making-dust/).

Relative to many, my life is very good,
-- in that I am alive and housed, fed, sometimes employed.
I am healthy and loved.
Still, I am about to lose my entire mind over the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) website,
and the fact that someone,
probably a bot farmer,
has already used my 16-year-old son’s identity to establish a fraudulent account.
This is a common scam,
one that was fortunately detected before any money changed …

FAFSA Is Breaking Me
I think I have been holding it together in the face of everything we can’t stop talking about—the killing and the dying, the explosions and the terror, the eggs and the bird flu and the shameless ghouls ruining the good parts of our country, the weapons and the

An iconic Scottish bird? Golden Eagle.
Bird shown on AI generated draft for a Glasgow mural? American bald eagle.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25785987.calls-stricter-ai-misuse-rules-glasgow-mural-row/
Bird o…

Calls for stricter AI misuse rules after Glasgow mural row
THE Scottish Greens have called for stricter rules to prevent the misuse of artificial intelligence (AI) after an AI-generated mural design was…

"In short, the experience of programming, the one you, dear reader, live day in and day out in your daily job, has not fundamentally evolved in the past 60 or even 70 years. Our command line environments even have the TTY (short for “teletype”) moniker embedded in them. We are still coding… procedures… in text files… using sequential models."
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Bret Victor
The first video of this series will feature none other than Bret Victor in one of his most memorable talks. We have already discussed Bret in a previous article about Smalltalk, where we named him one of the most influential figures in that galaxy. This video, however, shows that his light shines much brighter than that.

@why_not@mastodon.social ich finde die vorstellung, dass, sagen wir 33,34% der Bevölkerung [Deutschlands|EU|Europas|des Westens|der Industrienationen|der demokratidchen Staaten|des globalen Nordens] bereit sein könnte wegen was-auch-immer Alphabet, Amazon und Microsoft zu boykottieren bizarr. Teilweise unmöglich. Alphabet bietet DNS 8.8.8.8 und 8.8.4.4 und das pandemie-traceing-network an. https://mamot.fr/@Khrys/116034466199737167

Artemis-Mission: Warum eine ehemalige Astronautin Kritik an den Raumanzügen übt
Sind die Axiom-Raumanzüge bereit für die Artemis-Mission? Eine ehemalige Nasa-Astronautin übt Kritik an den Anzügen und wirft dabei gleich mehrere Probleme auf.