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Tucson 4th of July Fireworks Shows List, 2025
thisistucson.com Where to see the July 4 fireworks shows in Tucson 🎆

Fireworks will light up the Sonoran Desert sky this Independence Day. Here’s a list of fireworks shows across Pima County.

Where to see the July 4 fireworks shows in Tucson 🎆
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Things To Do In Tucson, July 2025
thisistucson.com Over 50 events happening in the month of July! 🏖️🌞

Even in the dog days of summer, there's no shortage of things to do in Tucson. Check out these 50 fun events happening this month!

Over 50 events happening in the month of July! 🏖️🌞
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Sabino Canyon would be up for sale if Trump's Senate appropriations bill passes
  • So good news: this item got procedurally removed.

    Bad news? There's so much other terrible stuff in the bill now, like basically destroying the solar industry via removing tax breaks for solar projects and apply taxes to any solar from China. Musk has been freaking out about this all day as gasp, it could actually affect his personal businesses.

  • Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
  • But unlike Google's version, Claude can accidentally regurgitate the entire text or passages from it, yes?

    So it's not really internal and this judge is an imbecile, correct?

    (I know that previous "AI" engines have been tricked into returning the original paintings and faces of people that they had ingested, so I assume this is also a possibility for this "AI" too.)

  • Sabino Canyon would be up for sale if Trump's Senate appropriations bill passes
  • I don't know, this is going to piss of a lot of hunters and other outdoor enthusiasts who tend to vote more conservatively too. At least worth writing your congress critters and spreading the word.

  • Sabino Canyon would be up for sale if Trump's Senate appropriations bill passes
    www.wilderness.org Congress is making more than 250 million acres of public lands available for sale.

    The Senate reconciliation package is a disturbing giveaway that will mandate the “disposal” of public lands across the western United States.

    Congress is making more than 250 million acres of public lands available for sale.
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    [Video] Missiles barrage hits Tel Aviv
  • I’d have ever so much more sympathy if they hadn’t just spent over a year genociding Palestine…

  • No Kings event Saturday, 6/14 2-5pm
    www.mobilize.us NO KINGS! TUCSON AZ · No Kings

    🚨**On Saturday, June 14, join us in Tucson, AZ as we flood the streets with our MOTOR MARCH! Beat the heat with us and protest from your car. Or if you prefer to cheer on from the sidewalk, see the map below with our suggested protest points along the route.** 🚨 **In America, we don’t put up with...

    NO KINGS! TUCSON AZ · No Kings

    Stay cool and stay safe, folks.

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    'AI Is Not Intelligent': The Atlantic Criticizes 'Scam' Underlying the AI Industry
  • About freaking time someone called them on it.

  • Russia offers political asylum to Elon Musk over Trump feud
  • That would be the dumbest thing he could possibly do to himself. Honestly I hope he is smarter than that because Putin would turn him upside down and shake him until every last nickel falls out of his pockets, and put it all into the war effort against the Ukraine.

  • Things To Do In Tucson, June 2025
    thisistucson.com 53 fun events happening in Tucson this June 🌈✨

    Looking for fun activities to fill out your month of June? We have you covered! Check out the list below to cure your summer boredom.

    53 fun events happening in Tucson this June 🌈✨
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    Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Coming to Your Telegram Chats
  • Nope, nope, nope. It's not like I was ever a Telegram fan, but never again, nope.

  • Recommendations after the Murder bot Diaries
  • Humorous rogue cyborgs aren't super common, alas. The tongue-in-cheek humor of it reminds me of Stainless Steel Rat a bit, and occasionally Larry Niven's stuff too. His Gil Hamilton character is pretty droll at times, and it comes through in some of his short stories about him. (For pure humor from Niven, try "The Flight of the Horse".)

    You might try Strata by Terry Pratchett, which is a bit in both camps? It's a one-off, but a lot of fun. Can't say it has anything at all to do with rogue cyborgs though.

  • 'The Last of Us' Season 2 Finale Viewership Down 55% From Season 1
  • Egads, I was unaware that was as thing too. That's even stupider!

  • 'The Last of Us' Season 2 Finale Viewership Down 55% From Season 1
  • I feel like that was an engineered perception based in a vocal group of idiots, TBH. I played the second game at launch and it rocked me to my core. The story was strong in my opinion.

  • 'The Last of Us' Season 2 Finale Viewership Down 55% From Season 1
  • Pedro and Bella had good chemistry. Bella without Pedro? Not so much most of the time. Which is really frustrating because occasionally Bella shows a flash of brilliance and you’re like “OK, she can act.” But too many times Isabela has had to carry the scenes it feels like.

    And Abby… I know they have said she doesn’t need to be physically jacked for the TV show, but I’m sorry, I am not really buying it. No offense to the actress they did choose, just not working in this particular role for me at all.

    Having said all that, I am still basically enjoying Season 2? A lot of it is really well done, TBH. Just suffering from some unfortunate character dynamics that I think have disappointed a lot of viewers more than me apparently.

  • Big Plans For ‘Love, Death & Robots’ Volume 5, But Viewership Drops 50% and Ratings Plummet
  • 400 Boys was decent, I chuckled at Close Encounters and I did quite enjoy How Zeke Got Religion despite the whole WW2 bombers thing being pretty tired as a trope. The rest of them were pretty unmemorable, alas.

    I was especially disappointed at Spider Rose? I don't know how that story didn't hit harder since Sterling is one of my favorite authors.

  • Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’
  • I'll be looking for a new Spanish app when my subscription expires next year now, alas.

  • Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet
  • Honestly I have used Blue Sky and Mastodon and Mastodon feels a lot more elegant to me, personally.

  • Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet
  • What I don't get is why anyone would ever choose commercial social media again given there are Activity Pub clones for practically everything now, where you aren't the product. So many people learned nothing from the ongoing Twitter debacle and the zillion Facebook privacy scandals apparently.

  • Bike Helmets: Stupid Hat or Essential Protection?
  • Having used my helmet multiple times it’s fairly obvious to me they actually performa a useful function. As far as I’m concerned the only controversy is whether they should mandatory or not (and I don’t think they should). But otherwise, if you choose to wear one I think you ARE doing yourself a favor wearing one.

  • Bella Ramsey Says ‘It’s Important’ to Keep Gendered Awards for Best Actor and Actress: ‘Recognition for Women in the Industry’ Must Be ‘Preserved’
  • I mean, that seems relatively obvious to me (best actor and actress being separate categories that is), and I bet they’re trying to stir up shit from a really simple statement she made? Quite possibly they also stoop to hand-wringing about “whatever category should we put a transgender person in?” too.

    I refuse to read the article and give them clicks though.

  • The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind.
  • It is always hilarious and strange to see the buy-in on these things. We have a single coder in his late 60s that has bought in hard to spicy autocorrect. Meanwhile, the youngest on our team (like 22) won’t touch it with a 10 ft pole.

    The other issue is just the morality of it. Do I know people that got rich on Bitcoin? Yes. Do I feel like they’re participating in a pyramid scheme still? Also yes. And with spicy autocorrect, where they got their training data for any and all of these models is so freaking morally bankrupt, and they’re desperate to paper over that and make it “ok” for businesses to use it.

  • Things to do in Tucson, May 2025
    thisistucson.com Over 50 fun events happening in Tucson this May 🎨🕺

    From dance parties to crafts to a pizza throwdown, this month has something going on for everyone.

    Over 50 fun events happening in Tucson this May 🎨🕺
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    FREE Pet Spay/Neuter, Vaccines, and Microchips at Summit Park!
    www.pima.gov Pima Animal Care Center (PACC) | Pima County, AZ

    As our community's only open-admission shelter, we have the largest selection of adoptable dogs, cats, puppies and kittens waiting to meet you.

    From the link, which is terribly presented…

    Join Pima Animal Care Center’s clinic staff as they bring their mobile medical unit, Karen’s Karing Van, to Summit Park, 1800 E Summit Street, to provide FREE services on May 1, 2, and 3! (7am to 2pm)

    Available services:

    On May 1: Check-in beginning at 7 a.m. (40 spots available): Spay/neuter, vaccines, and microchips. Large-breed female dogs will get first priority; other pets will be accepted based on availability.

    On May 1, 2, and 3: From 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. (150 spots available each day): Vaccines, microchips, and wellness exams.

    Vaccines provided will be FVRP and rabies for cats and DHPP and rabies for dogs.

    This event is for Pima County residents only. Cats should be in carriers and dogs should be on leash. There is no limit to the number of pets one person or family can bring, but please be aware that you will be waiting in line and only bring the number of animals you can safely handle in that scenario.

    Please plan to arrive early and wait in line.

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    iRacing: Channel your GTP…
    www.twitch.tv StormMalina - GTP NIS

    Watch StormMalina's clip titled "GTP NIS"

    StormMalina - GTP NIS

    Just Bel doing Bel things. I nearly pulled something laughing at this one, though. 😹

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    The Politics of Neal Asher…

    Neal Asher has a new book out called Dark Diamond. The dedication page in it is quite frankly pretty horrifying.

    >Five years ago, I watched the two Falcon Heavy side boosters come into land at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base. Honestly, it was like something in a game animation and seemingly too perfect to be believable. Others, I've seen landing on drone ships with names taken from lain M. Banks' Culture books. Just recently, I saw a huge booster for the Starship come down to be caught between two metal arms - y'know, they caught something the size of a skyscraper like a dropping stick - and that was an astounding feat of engineering. But these are not in isolation, since SpaceX, as of last month, has launched over a hundred rockets in 2024.

    >Meanwhile, the guy who brought this about, the guy who is aiming to make humanity multi-planetary by putting us on Mars, has a few other projects on the go, like building electric cars, burrowing tunnels under cities, putting up a satellite internet system and, perhaps the most important of them all, preventing the totalitarians of our world from killing free speech.

    >So thank you, Elon Musk, for bringing to reality, right before my eyes, those things I read and dreamed about as a teenager.

    That… is a REALLY unfortunate, given Musk's apparent aspirations to be a Culture-level Bad Guy™. It's like Asher's paid absolutely zero attention to the fact that the Starlink is considered pollution on a massive scale, from an astronomy perspective and numerous environmental aspects. And that Elon's Boring Company is widely acknowledged to have been a ploy to stop Cali from approving light rail projects. And that his purchase of Twitter was in fact a splurge to destroy a free speech platform and bend it to be another disinformation platform instead. Yuck.

    I should add that while I personally don't really enjoy Asher's books all that much to begin with, I was utterly unaware of his politics until now. I will strongly recommend against him going forward, much like I do with Orson Scott Card, despite an extreme fondness for some of Card's earlier works.

    Do you guys worry much about the politics of the authors you enjoy, or is it more of a me thing?

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    Things to Do in Tucson, April 2025
    thisistucson.com 100 fun events happening in Tucson this April 2025 🍻🎶

    What's going on in Tucson, Arizona this weekend: Cyclovia, film fest, wine fest at the zoo, beer fest, touch-a-truck, 2000s party, folk fest and more in Tucson, Marana and Oro

    100 fun events happening in Tucson this April 2025 🍻🎶
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    Car-free block party Cyclovia makes its return this spring 🛼🚲 (Sunday, 4/6/25)

    Everybody get out there and enjoy! Looks like cooler weather ahead too, so should be a great day for it.

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    Things to do in Tucson, March 2025
    thisistucson.com 100 fun events happening in Tucson this March 2025 ☘️🎨

    What's going on in Tucson, Arizona this weekend: tattoo expo, markets, plant swap, STEM expo and more in Tucson, Marana and Oro Valley.

    100 fun events happening in Tucson this March 2025 ☘️🎨
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    Things to do in Tucson, December 2024
    thisistucson.com 100 fun events happening in Tucson this December 2024 🎅🫔

    What's going on in Tucson, Arizona: Holiday light shows, local markets, tamal festival, tree lightings, vegan bash and more in Tucson, Marana and Oro Valley.

    100 fun events happening in Tucson this December 2024 🎅🫔
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    Things to Do in Tucson, November 2024
    thisistucson.com 100 fun events happening this November 2024 🦖🎨

    What's going on in Tucson, Arizona this November: All Souls Procession, Celtic Festival, Dusk Music Festival, Jurassic Quest, El Tour de Tucson and more in Tucson, Marana and Oro Valley.

    100 fun events happening this November 2024 🦖🎨
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    If you have a mail in ballot and haven't mailed it yet, hand deliver it to a polling location past this point

    Tuesday was the last recommended day to mail ballots back, so if you mail it now, it might not arrive in time to be counted.

    You can drop it at any polling place in the sealed, signed and dated inner ballot envelope. (Outer envelope is not required for this activity.)

    Credit to u/SubGothius on Reddit; just cc'ing this info on here for anyone that needs it.

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    Things To Do In Tucson, October 2024
    thisistucson.com 150 fun events happening in Tucson this October 2024 🎃🐊

    What's going on in Tucson, Arizona this October: Halloween haunts, Tucson Meet Yourself, Cyclovia, fall plant sales, insect and reptile festivals and more in Tucson, Marana and Oro Valley.

    150 fun events happening in Tucson this October 2024 🎃🐊
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    www.tucsonsentinel.com 7 things Pima County voters should know ahead of the November election

    Pima County voters should prepare for a long ballot in the Nov. 5 election, with many more races at stake than the presidential contest at the top of the page.

    7 things Pima County voters should know ahead of the November election
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    Things to Do in Tucson, September 2024
    thisistucson.com 100 fun events happening in Tucson this September 2024 👻🎶

    What's going on in Tucson, Arizona this weekend: Charli XCX dance party, burlesque festival, Grandparents Day celebrations, stargazing and more in Tucson, Marana and Oro Valley.

    100 fun events happening in Tucson this September 2024 👻🎶
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    Pima County Voter Registration Office

    Just in case you need to verify your voter registration or register to vote!

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