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The final word 🎙️
Stream the #SpenceCrawford fight week presser LIVE at 4PM ET/1PM PT: s.sho.com/729PC
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All foster kids in California can now attend any state college for free themessenger.com/news/all-fo…
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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 every damn thing he does.
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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
ALT Black and white photo of Jocelyn Bell Burrell, when she was a graduate student, holding a printout on a roll of paper and standing in front of a large radio dish. She is wearing a coat and glasses, smiling and looking toward the camera.
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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.
ALT The cost of solar from 2010 to 2020 shown falling precipitously and far faster than projections.
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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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Insects have surprisingly rich inner lives—a revelation that has wide-ranging ethical implications trib.al/cz4VIRn
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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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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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"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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🧵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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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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Yevgeny Prigozhin. Putin created him. Could the outspoken mercenary become the next president?
(No.)
economist.com/1843/2023/06/1…
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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.
artuniverse.eu/gallery/19070…
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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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Lionel Messi will join Inter Miami this summer! 🇺🇸
Read more from @GuillemBalague, here 👇
#BBCFootball #Messi
ALT Lionel Messi will join Inter Miami this summer
