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  Reading through the 2026 state ballot information booklet for #Colorado and wow, we have some trumpian doozies in here!! If you're a voter in Colorado READ THE BOOKLET and the for/against arguments. The amount of pro-#TABOR boilerplate crap is amazing. The people who supply the words don't even try anymore, they just lead with "massive tax increase" and "reduce TABOR refund checks" which apparently dog-whistles with the 12% hardcore conservative minority in the state...

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  Oh good, it's 103F outside! #Colorado

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  The earth she do rotate! #Sunset #Photography

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  Leave me alone, I'm eating. #Photography #Dragonfly

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  I don't see a solution here #Caturday

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  It's annoying to me that #JosephSeed"s belt loops wouldn't work. The rivets go through the belt itself!! #FarCry5 #Gamestodon

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  #Caturday apparently!

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  This is pretty long, sorry. #RetractionWatch raising the real ethical questions related to AI; "The 40th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (#NeurIPS)—which is slated to take place in Sydney, Australia, in December 2026—bans peer reviewers from uploading papers they referee to AI chatbots, as the practice breaches confidentiality." “Designing a trap that presumes bad faith corrodes the relationship the whole system depends on,” #SörenAuer, a computer scientis...

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  Okay wide open aperture atf2.8, 1/1000 shutter speed to freeze the movement and I'm ready for this action shot; #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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  Oopsie (another paper in support of AI as a learning tool is retracted); "The Editor has decided to retract this paper owing to concerns regarding discrepancies in the meta-analysis. These issues ultimately undermine the confidence the Editor can place in the validity of the analysis and resulting conclusions. The authors have not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction." Discussion in Norwegian; https://www.khrono.no/studien-hevdet-at-chatgpt-ga-bedre-laering-n...

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  Using my Canon 50mm lens to get action shots at my son's volleyball game I noticed that, while it's a prime, it's not an L so wanted to see what the best 1990's L Canon lens was for 50mm and Ken pointed out that, depending on your needs the Canon 85mm f/1.2L II might be better. Okay I may need to buy one of these lenses just because of this description from #KenRockwell; https://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/lenses/85mm-f12.htm "AF speed is slow, slower th...

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  Thanks #RetractionWatch I'd post a link to the article but it's a #Substack, Substack platforms nazis and I don't. If you want to read the Substack or the article they share it's linked in the most recent email from Retraction Watch. From the text; "Earlier this month, The Washington Post broke the news that Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the CDC’s temporary top official, prevented a Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness paper from appearing in the agency’s flagship sci...

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  Good news, University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) has changed its name! Now it's going to be CU Colorado Springs (CUCS)! #GoCUCKS! #UniversityOfColorado

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  Nothing earthshaking here but we did show that; "Despite its clinical utility, #6MWD and 6MWD decline do not correlate strongly with spirometric or radiographic markers of disease severity or their decline. We believe this is likely due to the nature of the test: 6MWD is self-paced and typically does not elicit physiologic exercise limitations. Correlates of 5-year decline in 6-min walk distance in the #COPDGene cohort" People tend to think that measuring the distance a person can wa...

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  I finally got a copy of the obscure ass album "Marty Thau Presents 2x5, New York New Wave". This album was released in 1980 and it includes #TheFleshtones, #Revelons, #Comateens, #StudentTeachers and, most interestingly, #BloodlessPharaohs. "Why", you may ask, "would I give a shit about the Bloodless Pharaohs?" "Well", perhaps, I would interject, "you might find it interesting to know that the Bloodless Pharaohs a...

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  Since we're discussing #Smocks; #Smock #Poll (Corrected)

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  Thanks #RetractionWatch for another fascinating rabbit hole! https://www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/exclusive-springer-nature-retracts-removes-nearly-40-publications-that-trained-neural-networks-on-bonkers-dataset/ "A Kaggle user broached these same concerns in a comment, and #Piosenka responded that he had not violated privacy restrictions because all images were publicly available, adding “how can one be more ethical than to try to foster early detection and treatment of Autism i...

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  Okay the #StarTrek homage to #Alien in #StarTrekSNW is just awesome! Re-inviting the #Gorn was just about perfect. Well I suppose it's pre-inviting given the timeline isn't it. Good thing #Kirk encountered a mature Horn #AmIRight!

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  "@SenMullin Sir, you were 24 on 9/11. You were 25 when the U.S. illegally invaded Iraq. You were 28 when I enlisted after high school. You didn't serve. You were an able-bodied young man who chose to inherit your daddy's business instead of serving. You need to shut your fucking… https://t.co/AYvx9V6w8Z — Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 (@cmclymer) March 3, 2026" Make these fascists lives hell every single time they raise their heads out of their cosplay reality. #NazisRaus

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  I tried going up from 205 to 225 on the bench and pulled it off without injury; 3 sets of 4 and 1 set of 3. Now I need a nap! I'd been doing 4 sets of 4 at 205 for five of six weeks, twice per week and nobody was around so I didn't feel embarrassed to try! #Gymstodon (is that even a thing?)

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  K-Pop flavored #Ramen by #Shin. I love black and green but mostly gold, I'll be doing a taste test of #ShinToomba tomorrow and I'll report on exactly how "Spicy & Creamy" I find it to be! #Ramenstodon #Cookstodon

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  “No matter what, the United States will ensure the FREE FLOW of ENERGY to the WORLD. The United States’ ECONOMIC and MILITARY MIGHT is the GREATEST ON EARTH — More actions to come. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Oil asshole, you are protecting oil, that's it.