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Reposting to say that my late parents volunteered helping re-settle Hmong refugees in the 80s and a meal I shared with them was my introduction to S.E. Asian cuisine... oh my God it was so yummy! I'd have been a very happy eater at this feast!

@nwnoggin.bsky.social check this out!

Death Valley National Park isn't the only place to catch this year's rare botanical phenomenon. Here are five other sites worth visiting.

Today, NYT celebrates their successes from the past year, but we are witnessing a major failure of leadership: @nytimes.com mgmt is denying one of our members, Rich Quan, permission to continue working remote, even as a certified caregiver for his 96-year-old father, who suffers from Alzheimer's.

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

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@empty-visions.bsky.social @nwnoggin.bsky.social interesting thread here about music, philosophy and cognition…

Horrific story, especially the horrible teacher

I had mumps at age 12, luckily it only affected my head and not my other parts. I would not wish it on anyone, period. For my kids to get the MMR was personal, measles was already uncommon when I was a kid but mumps and rubella were both common...

Pray you once more, Is not your father grown incapable Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear? Know man from man? Dispute his own estate? Lies he not bed-rid? And again does nothing But what he did being childish?

Potomac, the Pacific Ocean, James and Chesapeake Bay, SF Bay, and now the Columbia

We flew from San Juan island to Seattle in a small plane, as we were boarding the PA called for Stockard Channing to board too. The really cool thing was that the pilot sat my 10 year old in the copilot’s seat because “he’s the only one who can’t reach the controls!”

I have my dad’s copies of the 2 issues of MF&SF that serialized The Pale Brown Thing, need to read “Our Lady of Darkness” to see where he went with it!

NEW: When she worked at NASA’s JPL, Amy Mainzer used to rack up high scores on the 1979 Atari game ASTEROIDS. Very apt, now she’s in charge of a space mission that will save the world from killer asteroids. Planet Protector, my new feature for @science.org, is live. www.science.org/content/arti...

Nola said it best: We are the Northern Mariana Islands We need your help to stop deep sea mining near the Mariana Trench Drop a 🦈 in the comments if you support us Please sign and share our petition Si yu'use ma'ase

I have to share this with my wife’s sister who farms the most amazing squash! Her delicatta squash is yummy!

Chinese Myths, a book for those who are new to China's amazing pantheons and supernatural bestiaries, want to find out more or get a broad overview. Also fun to dip into if you want to read about things you've come across in Cdramas, movies and games. #culture 3/

BOSTON (AP) — Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.

Hey friends, we had a big jump in signatures last night. Thanks so much for sharing our petition to protect our marine national monuments. Please keep sharing it until the deadline on Tuesday forms.gle/jSauarKKXim5...

RFK Jr. and the Trump administration are preparing to do exactly what many of us feared they would. Next week, they are planning to present data that have been misused or manipulated to make it *appear* that COVID19 vaccines caused the deaths of 25 children.

no one has ever been more furious

Start your day off with the unfettered pleasures of Pieter Bruegel's marvelous Children's Games of 1560: an entire town taken over by children at play. Today is Bruegel's day.

DC today

My coworkers in India were already telling me they don’t want to come to the US for work visits, this is going to reinforce that sentiment big time

I love today's xkcd: A straightforward summary of the most popular iNaturalist entries for each state (plant and animal): xkcd.com/3118/

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Among cuts at HHS: most of the workers at NIOSH, incl Pittsburgh national lab that approves and ensures continued quality of respirators - N95s + breathing devices for firefighters, miners, people working w chemicals, construction dust. “Nothing is happening to make sure they continue to be safe”

This is an important win.

Looking to get more involved with weather and climatology? The NWS is looking for help with CoCoRaHS! Check out the site for more details! As always, stay up to date on our happenings via our website and social media pages! #tcmetsoc #mnwx #cocorahs