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Tamera Firman Dunn ๐ฎ๐ช ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ retweeted
MUST READ zephoria.org/thoughts/archivโฆ
Tamera Firman Dunn ๐ฎ๐ช ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ retweeted
Lol @SOCANmusic overhauled their clunky but perfectly useable website and the result was so shitty they had to issue a statement
Tamera Firman Dunn ๐ฎ๐ช ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ retweeted
What's triggering repeated outbursts from a giant, unstable star?
Using NASA's @chandraxray, astronomers found a hidden companion, likely a black hole or neutron star, that keeps pulling material away from the massive star as they orbit one another.
๐ go.nasa.gov/4iH2jqx
ALT A composite NASA Chandra X-ray and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) optical image of the galaxy NGC 4559 located about 30 million light-years from Earth. The Chandra data shows X-ray point sources represented in purple, and the SDSS data shows the galaxy and foreground and background objects in red and blue. The luminous blue variable and supernova impostor AT 2016blu is in the middle of the small square. X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Virgina/M. Aghakhanloo et al.; Optical: SDSS; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/P. Edmonds
Tamera Firman Dunn ๐ฎ๐ช ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ retweeted
#MeteorSighting: Several witnesses reported sighting a fireball off the west coast of Florida on Nov. 8 at 10 p.m. ET. The event was confirmed by multiple publicly accessible cameras in the region, as well as by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper onboard the GOES-18 and GOES-19 satellites. The object - caused by a small, 2 foot fragment of an asteroid - was first spotted above a point in the Gulf due west of Islamorada. It traveled southwest at 54,500 mph before disintegrating above the ocean, northwest of Key West.
More on this fireball: go.nasa.gov/488qpV0
Supplemental data was provided by the American Meteor Society
ALT This graphic reads, Meteor Sighting Florida at the bottom. It features an outline of the state and Florida Keys with an illustrated meteor traveling southwest over the ocean off the west coast. Credit: NASA/Alyssa Lee
Tamera Firman Dunn ๐ฎ๐ช ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ retweeted
weird how quickly liberals started their own racist version of "everybody DSA elected were just DEI tokens"
you all are truly, truly Blue MAGA
Tamera Firman Dunn ๐ฎ๐ช ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ retweeted
Last week, @HSILosAngeles honored Assistant U.S. Attorneys Chelsea Norell, Mirelle Raza, and Rahul Hari with the Prosecutor of the Year award at the annual HSI Los Angeles Awards. The AUSAs were recognized for their work on Operation Broken Blade, a sex-trafficking enforcement action that resulted in 21 arrests and the identification of more than 50 victims, including children as young as 14 years old. (From left to right: AUSAs Norell, Raza, Hari, and HSI Resident Agent in Charge Nicholas DeSimone.)
Tamera Firman Dunn ๐ฎ๐ช ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ retweeted
I mean, come on, yall. Ai is more sentient than a lot of people on this app
Tamera Firman Dunn ๐ฎ๐ช ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ retweeted
Get ready to RISE AGAIN! Melissa Etheridge is hitting the road for the RISE AGAIN Tour, kicking off March 2027! ๐ฅณ
Etheridge Nation, get first access with presale tickets beginning Tuesday, November 10 at 10 AM local time.
๐๏ธ General On Sale: Friday, November 13 at 10 AM local time.
Tickets & Info โ MelissaEtheridge.com/events
RISE AGAIN 2027 TOUR DATES
03/20 - Vashon, WA
03/21 - Vashon, WA
03/23 - Richmond, BC
03/25 - Calgary, AB
03/26 - Enoch, AB
03/27 - Saskatoon, SK
03/29 - Regina, SK
03/30 - Winnipeg, MB
04/01 - Des Moines, IA
04/02 - Nashville, IN
04/03 - Madison, WI
04/05 - Milwaukee, WI
04/06 - Shipshewana, IN
04/07 - Knoxville, TN
04/09 - Danville, VA
04/10 - Columbus, GA
04/11 - Charleston, SC
04/13 - Charlotte, NC
04/15 - York, PA
04/16 - Portsmouth, VA
04/17 - North Myrtle Beach, SC
04/20 - Springfield, MO
04/21 - Wichita, KS
04/23 - Chandler, AZ
04/24 - Tucson, AZ
04/25 - Indio, CA
#TeamME
Tamera Firman Dunn ๐ฎ๐ช ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ retweeted
Double rainbow all the way!! Seen from the Empire State Buildingโs 86th Floor Observation Deck.
๐Plan your visit: esbo.nyc/socials-x โ at Manhattan, NY
Tamera Firman Dunn ๐ฎ๐ช ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ retweeted
A little while back, we heard about a kindergarten project at the Bobcaygeon Public School. These students learned that courage doesnโt mean being fearless. It means moving forward, even when youโre afraid.
Take a closer look at some of the times these kids faced their fears.
Tamera Firman Dunn ๐ฎ๐ช ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ retweeted
a Pirate Bay founder's foil-lined lair, pre-cloud (2000s)
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This photo does not show a Pirate Bay founder. It depicts a Polish ZX Spectrum demoscene member known as MalyRules or Curious in his late-1990s apartment in Lubaล, Poland. The image has been widely misattributed online for years.
wykop.pl/wpis/16711197/
reddit.com/r/pics/commentโฆ
Tamera Firman Dunn ๐ฎ๐ช ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ retweeted
'Arbitrary' comes from the Latin 'arbiter,' which means โjudge.โ
It originally meant โdepending upon choice or discretion.โ
It was used to describe a decision left to a judge's expert determination rather than defined by law.
Tamera Firman Dunn ๐ฎ๐ช ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ retweeted
Hedy Lamarr was both an inventor and an actress.
She was truly brilliant, and pioneered the technology that would go on to power WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth.
Remembering her and her many accomplishments today, which is her birthday.
๐ท: Alamy
Tamera Firman Dunn ๐ฎ๐ช ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ retweeted
Perhaps someone can explain what this means for Canada. Any suggestions on who that might be @hmacbe @bryan_leblanc
A 28-year-old UMass graduate student got a homework assignment to reproduce a famous economics paper, couldn't make the numbers match, and found a spreadsheet mistake in a study that politicians had used to argue for budget cuts.
His name is Thomas Herndon.
In 2010, two Harvard economists, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, published a short paper called Growth in a Time of Debt. Its headline finding: once a country's public debt goes above 90% of its economy, growth falls off a cliff. In their numbers, average growth for that group was minus 0.1%.
It came out right after the 2008 financial crisis, and it spread fast. In the US, the Paul Ryan budget cited it as its only evidence on what high debt does to growth.
In Europe, an EU commissioner pointed to the research in a speech. In Britain, George Osborne cited the authors by name.
Herndon was a PhD student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, taking a class called Econ 753: Applied Econometrics. The big assignment was to pick a well-known paper and replicate it.
He picked this one. He couldn't get the same results.
He asked the authors for their spreadsheet, and they sent it. When he spotted the problem, he called his girlfriend over to make sure he wasn't seeing things.
He wasn't.
> One formula stopped five rows short
> That quietly left out five countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada and Denmark
> Some available years of data for other countries weren't included
> The way the averages were weighted let a single bad year in one country count as much as decades in another
Herndon and his professors, Michael Ash and Robert Pollin, published the critique in April 2013. Fixing the problems, average growth for the high-debt countries came out to 2.2%, not minus 0.1%.
Reinhart and Rogoff publicly admitted the spreadsheet error. They disputed the other criticisms and defended their broader view. Economists still argue about debt and growth today.
But the formula was wrong, and for about three years nobody had publicly caught it.
A student doing homework did.
Most people assume famous research has been checked many times. Often the first person to really check it is someone with nothing to lose and an assignment due.
Have you ever found a mistake in your boss's spreadsheet and kept quiet?
