Ian Ramjohn

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Wikipedia expert at @wikieducation.bsky.social. 
Plant ecology Ph.D. 🇹🇹Trinbagonian in exile https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2910-0526 (if you want to verify my account's authenticity)

Cricket legend Sir Garfield Sobers dies
And please do not stop eating fruits and vegetables. If you are really worried about this, just cook your vegetables and fruits, which kills the parasite.
“Likely what happens is, it gets into the water supply that’s utilized to irrigate crops,” Marler says. He adds that agricultural workers typically get blamed for outbreaks, but “this is unlikely to be one lone worker not washing his or her hands, or someone pooping in the field. Something has gotten a water supply contaminated, spreading over a larger amount of produce.”
AI makes you wonderfully faster at producing things you already understand. It makes you dangerously faster at producing things you don't.
When two cars from the Israeli military pulled up, Mr. Khanna assumed the soldiers were there to help him pass. Instead, the soldiers smoked cigarettes, chatted with the men and after the settlers left, moved a car to block the road, he recounted.
Bee balm (Monarda fistulosa) looking a bit bleached out in the bright sunlight.
He bought the tickets for about $550 apiece in December. Then, two days before the June 14 match, he received an email from StubHub telling him, “The seller can’t deliver your original tickets.”
The McCarthy-era statute grants the government enormous powers over recently minted citizens: it can revoke their citizenship if, in the five years after they become naturalized, they join an organization that, had they been a member at the time they applied for citizenship, would have caused the U.S. government to reject their application. Ahmed traveled to Somalia intending to join the militant group al-Shabaab, which would later be designated a terrorist group by the U.S. government. The law frames these actions as proof that he willfully misrepresented his state of mind when he took an oath of allegiance to the U.S.
County leaders such as Chaney had signed nondisclosure agreements with TeraWulf that prevented them from discussing the company’s plan’s publicly, and the sudden filing left them scrambling to come up with a messaging plan that would paint the project as an economic good.
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However, recent polling from the Glengariff Group, commissioned by the Detroit Regional Chamber, which endorsed Duggan early on in the race, noted that Benson had all but consolidated Democratic support in the race. It also noted that Duggan was beginning to potentially hurt the Republican candidates more than the Democrats by eight points.
McDaniel was arrested and charged with operation of a vehicle in a closed section of the lake, not having a valid boat registration and other water safety equipment violations.
Janet Mills Bows Out of Maine Senate Race as an Insurgent Democrat Rises. Her withdrawal reflects the energy of the party’s left and voters’ unease with older candidates and paves the way for Graham Platner to challenge Senator Susan Collins in November.
By comparing the estimated age of the mutation that contributed each selected allele to the extrapolated time to reach fixation given its estimated s value, we find that about one-third of the favoured mutations are ancestral alleles and another one-third are derived alleles with true ages an order of magnitude older than the expected sweep age, indicating that selection coefficients must have shifted over time at these variants (Fig. 2c). The remaining up to one-third of the signals that we detect are consistent with classic sweeps where the newly arising variants have been under consistent positive selection since they arose (but they arose recently enough that the sweeps are not complete).
Carrie Sheffield is director of the Center for AI and Technology at Independent Women.
Countless Americans face a scary retirement. This rule could change that. When it comes to retirement investing, the deck is stacked against most workers.
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Iran’s tolerance for pain appears far higher than Mr. Trump anticipated
Montague Summers childhood home. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tellisford_House_and_Trinmore,_Clifton_Down_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5909536.jpg
For years, she told The Times, Mr. Zampolli had dangled the prospect of marriage — and the path to citizenship that comes with it — and then taken it back. She held a string of temporary visas, the last of which expired in 2019.
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The fantasy elements could be more clearly delineated. Non-humans live and conduct their business alongside humans, but this seems not to have materially affected geopolitical history
The ideal solution would be to address the problem at the root by eliminating white supremacy, but I suppose that’s beyond the scope of this book review.
All this suggests that, like his actions in Venezuela, Trump won’t be interested in a protracted war in Iran and will seek to wash his hands of what he’s already done as quickly as he can. That, of course, would leave the Iranian nation under the same repressive regime as before, just as Trump did with Venezuela.
The dispute over Governor Walz’s remarks is therefore not really about Anne Frank at all. It’s about whether Holocaust memory is allowed to function as a warning about how states govern populations they deem disposable. Those defending strict particularity sever the Holocaust from modern practices of surveillance, categorization, detention, and removal, while those defending Walz’s invocation argue that such severance empties “Never Again” of all meaning.
Stop co-opting the victimization of working class immigrants just because you got called out for being a right-wing K-hive shitheel. And don't you dare pretend you face the same threats they do, you privileged fuck.
Videos show security forces firing into crowds in at least six cities
Poll on Nextdoor: "Looking for a good, honest plumbing service to replace my old sump pump. Need recommendations" Options in the poll: Honest and Dependable. Dependable is beating Honest 83% - 17%.
ANDERSON: Yeah, so several experts I spoke to said they're hearing from police leaders that community trust in local policing is eroding. That's often tenuous to begin with. I spoke with Tanya Meisenholder about this. She's with the NYU School of Law's Policing Project, and she said part of that growing mistrust of police stems from President Trump's immigration crackdown. TANYA MEISENHOLDER: For many folks in the public, they don't distinguish between types of law enforcement agents. ANDERSON: So she said that that could make people less likely to call the police when they need help, and it could also make people less likely to help police and prosecutors as witnesses, too.
A new way to ask. We built a research assistant to unlock curiosity that scales. It combines two modes of exploration: dashboards for patterns and a conversational interface for digging deeper. You can start with a chart of trending issues, then ask follow-up questions in plain language. We built it by blending what already worked. On one side, classifiers and charts that structured millions of tickets into product areas and themes. On the other, GPT‑5, which could summarize raw tickets and generate flexible reports in plain language. The combination gave us both speed and depth that was simple enough for anyone to use. “What are healthcare customers saying about new integrations?” “What’s driving support tickets this quarter?” “What major features are hitting the mark?” In minutes, the system returns a report sizing the problem, showing prevalence, and highlighting friction points. Leaders no longer have to borrow bandwidth or view static dashboards. Anyone can follow their own questions wherever they lead. For product teams, that means faster iteration on real feedback—knowing what’s working, what isn’t, and drawing clear insights to guide both product launches and long-term roadmaps.
It was considered essential that a girl, before being launched on Society, should spend at least a year in England, preferably three or four, being 'finished'. There only would she have a chance to eradicate the insidious singsong Creole accent and acquire that poise and complextion, that cachet, which would enhance her chances of making a 'good match'
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
Kennedy Center board votes to rename to ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’. Trustees voted to rename the center after President Donald Trump. A law professor has said name changes require Congress’s permission.
Dr. R.N. Sharma who arrived from Demerara, took up residence in Tunapuna; S.M. Hosein, a Moulvite educated in Hindi and Urdu; Moulvi Mohammed Hassan Shah, who came from Gaya, India, travelled to Mauritius and South Africa, made connections with the Ghadar party in San Francisco, California and eventually set up Jumma mosque in San Fernando; Latiff Mohammed, a lawyer’s clerk; P.M.H. Allahar, a barrister; Tej Jumul a assistant clerk; G.Adhad, a photographer and Keshwar Raw, a member of the Anglican church held private meetings under the name of “Hindustanee Sanha”. These men read extracts from the Free Hindusthan paper to awaken the political consciousness of others to revolt against Britain to prove their solidarity with India’s struggle for Home Rule.
I have 3.5 TB of movies and 600GB of music in my torrenting folders. Lots of it rare stuff I would've never found another way. I have more knowledge than the supposed Library of Alexandria on a couple of hard drives. Stuff that is lost or unavailable. I'm not a thief, I'm an archivist.
Its so cringe to talk down to poor people for pirating a little art to enjoy when it's tech oligarchs and capitalist elite that create the conditions that devalue artists and exploit art as a product so that it becomes unaffordable to the common man. I buy what i can when i can direct from artists.
People who skeet an especially hostile take on AI and trying to shame those of us who use it, work with it, and build it.
LLMs mine data and present it in a way which a thinking mind can evaluate.
Well, they passed a law in '64 To give those who ain't got, a little more But it only goes so far 'Cause the law don't change another's mind When all it sees at the hiring time Is the line on the color bar
Authorities are trying to charge his brother with “interference or obstruction of investigation,” Cesar Jimenez said.
I'm an academic who found religion. The reactions have been incredulous. Charles Murray.