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Measles cases surge to record high since disease was declared eliminated in the US byteseu.com/1167904/ #America #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USNews #USA #USANews #WeThePeople
Measles cases surge to record high since disease was declared eliminated in the US

Measles cases surge to record high since disease was declared eliminated in the US

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#UnitedStates #USA #US #america #usnews #WeThePeople #unitedstatesofamerica #usanews

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What a chaser convention looks like.

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I turn around to get some RAM for *25 seconds* and Annie decides to investigate, I don't even know how she got up there,
A picture of Annie, the grey tabby standing on top of a Dell R710 who's lid is off, Annie is looking at the other servers that are still fully racked, her paw is standing with one paw on a stick of ram

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There are a LOT of fake quotes attributed to famous philosophers floating around out there, getting reshared and cited by people who don't check the sources. Here's a piece with 10 wrongly attributed to Plato. If you've been using them, well now you know!

gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/…


10 Definitely Fake Quotes Not From Plato

Plato didn’t say any of these, but I can tell you (in most cases) who did!
Gregory B. Sadler (Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy)

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Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure

[For the curious, this is the Arizona Bark Scorpion "the most venomous scorpion in North America. Its venom can cause severe pain (coupled with numbness, lasting between 24-72 hrs. Temporary dysfunction in the area stung is common; e.g. a hand or possibly arm can be immobilized or experience convulsions. It also may cause loss of breath for a short time"]

a pale brown scorpion on a wooden floor it is approximately 2" long, nearly half of which is its tail it has 8 legs, 2 pincers, and DOES NOT BELONG IN MY HOUSE

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#Poesjkin 🐾 zegt bonne nuit.
#poesjkin

Conne reshared this.

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We need each other, say artisans at Smithsonian Folklife Festival
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/05/nx-s1-5455892/we-need-each-other-say-young-artisans-at-the-smithsonian-folklife-festival?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@Arts & Life

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Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas (Molly Taft/Wired)

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Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas

By Molly Taft / Wired. View the full context on memeorandum.
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Finn, my ever present knitting helper.

#cats #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #knitting #knittersOfMastodon

Grey cabled cardigan body on a grey sheet. On top of that is a ginger cat, arm outstretched towards the viewer.
#caturday #cats #catsofmastodon #knitting #knittersofmastodon

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Indigenous man’s ‘jaw nearly hit the counter’ when told he could write driver’s test in Ojibwe byteseu.com/1167898/ #Canada
Indigenous man's 'jaw nearly hit the counter' when told he could write driver's test in Ojibwe

Indigenous man’s ‘jaw nearly hit the counter’ when told he could write driver’s test in Ojibwe

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#canada

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project2025.observer/

#Project2025Tracker

Where things stand as of now

#ThereIsNoDemocracyInTheUSA

#FascistUSA #FarRightMinorityRule

Project 2025 Tracker

Track the progress on Project 2025
www.project2025.observer
#fascistusa #project2025tracker #thereisnodemocracyintheusa #farrightminorityrule

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Cofre Abierto #1 - An Espil y Abril Olivera - FULL ALBUM

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> En la primera edición de Cofre Abierto, An Espil y Abril Olivera, integrantes de Nafta y dos de las voces más destacadas de la nueva generación musical argen...

#music #cantosdosuldaterra #argentina #nafta #portalsessions

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
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#music #argentina #NAFTA #cantosdosuldaterra #portalsessions
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@Altbot

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Nathan Cullen: The NDP doesn’t have time for a protracted leadership race, and Canadians don’t either byteseu.com/1167895/ #Canada #CanadaPolitics #Politics
Nathan Cullen: The NDP doesn’t have time for a protracted leadership race, and Canadians don’t either

Nathan Cullen: The NDP doesn’t have time for a protracted leadership race, and Canadians don’t either

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#politics #canada #canadapolitics

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Link Post: 'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers asia.nikkei.com/Business/Techn…

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers

Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review
Staff Writer (Nikkei Asia)

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Here's a timeline of the catastrophic Texas floods
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/05/nx-s1-5457759/texas-floods-timeline?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@U.S. News

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Short #Morning walk with coffee to drink it sitting by the nearby Pond

#CapeCod

Sandy area next to a paved bike trail. A bench is in the distance and in the foreground are tree trunks - one straight and the other bent at a right angle just off the ground and then curved again and going up. Green trees in the background
Calm bluish water just gentle ripples between and beyond trees and sandy foreground green trees on waters edge in the distance (middle of frame). Blue sky with some wispy clouds
#morning #CapeCod
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Followed by a short drive to the bay and a leisurely walk - barefoot in the beach

#CapeCod

Seagull flying just above the water that has a tiny wave coming onto the beach
Rippled patterns in sand
Small strip of water before a raised sand bank as water/tide recedes at a beach. People in the far distance. White wispy clouds and haze cover the sky
People walking at the water's edge with the beach to the right
#CapeCod

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Fake #health information – whether shared unknowingly and innocently, or deliberately to mislead or cause harm – can be far more captivating than accurate information.

theconversation.com/why-we-fal…


Why we fall for fake health information – and how it spreads faster than facts

If the health content you see on social media sounds too good to be true, it’s very likely false – but there are ways to check it out before sharing.
The Conversation
#health
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However, I see a growing problem: AI-generated content that dominates google rankings and representatives in the US government who in turn have a negative influence on health data...in my opinion, this combination has a lasting corrosive factor that removes fundamental trust in the long term....

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Masza is grateful to the beavers for building a new playground for her.

#IdąPsięta #DogsOfMastodon #Polesia #wetlands #beavers

A shaggy dog standing on a horizontally laying trunk of a tree which was downed by beavers.
#dogsofmastodon #beavers #Wetlands #IdąPsięta #polesia

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The worldwide crash in science that is underway is mind bogglingly big.

I wonder when or if China will start making a play for academics caught up in all of this.

mastodon.world/@davidho/114802…

David Ho

2025-07-05 18:46:34

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If people think American scientists are somehow going to land in Europe, I've got news for you about the difference between millions and billions.

nature.com/articles/d41586-025…

Bar chart titled "Matters of Scale" comparing proposed US research budget cuts to the European Union's €500-million (US$571-million) "Choose Europe" fund. The chart shows: * National Institutes of Health (NIH): $8 billion in cancelled grants and $18 billion in proposed cuts by 2026 (long orange bar). * National Science Foundation (NSF): $5.1 billion in proposed cuts by 2026 (shorter orange bar). * EU's Choose Europe fund: $571 million (very short blue bar). The graphic highlights that the EU fund is much smaller in scale compared to the US budget cuts. Text above the chart explains the EU’s intention to attract US researchers in response to policy decisions by the convicted felon and rapist Donald Trump.

Some US researchers want to leave the country. Can Europe take them?

As the Trump administration steps up attacks on US universities and scientific institutions, the European Union is campaigning hard to attract scientists from the United States. But how many can the bloc take?
Leeming, Jack

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from my family's context, it's wild to watch this.

It was only a few generations ago on both sides of the family that some people were illiterate and signed documents with an X. And here I am pretty much as highly educated as one can get in this country. Some of my ancestors participated in founding several of the Ivy League schools and across many generations they were heavily involved in supporting education.

And now we're heading back to only the privileged few will have education.

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I know it's Caturday but I'm not allowed pets. So here's a mouse story for you instead!

I recently got into fixing and modding computer mice. This saw me on eBay paying £17 + shipping for a "broken" Logitech G Pro Wireless. It was dirty, both the main buttons were registering multiple presses in one, missing most accessories, but it at least came with the dongle.

After a clean, new switches (Huano Transparent Shell Pink Dots), and replacing the encoder (Kailh 8mm), it looks the part again!

A Logitech G Pro Wireless mouse disassembled on a grey rubber mat, with extra electronics and soldering sundry along the edges.
A Logitech G Pro Wireless mouse fully assembled but upside down showing the red PTFE dot skates
A Logitech G Pro Wireless mouse from a 3/4 head on view from the front right, showing grip tape on the main buttons and the side
A Logitech G Pro Wireless mouse from above this time plugged in to USB and revealing the charging LEDs along the top of the shell
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