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Valdis Krebs

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I’m all about #patterns and #emergence. #NetworkScience to find non-obvious patterns in data, #Photography to capture patterns in the wild, and improvise #Music to […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@Valdis, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 4h
Gig worker “physical hub” to be introduced in Edinburgh theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2026/10/… Edinburgh is set to become the first area in Scotland to introduce “physical hubs” for gig workers and delivery riders in a push to improve […]
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Reinhold @h0ldi.sueden.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Huch!
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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
Early November Morning Walk (2025) #MorningWalk #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Autumn
View of a lake surrounded by swamps and wetlands with lush vegetation of by this time of the year mostly dry grasses, bushes, bare trees. Some beautiful goldenrod and reeds in the foreground. Bright sunny day with clear blue sky, also reflected in the almost still water.
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punk @yesandno.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#BlueSkyArtShow #weather #blackandwhite #egypt #redsea #fullmoon
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
“This is what failure looks like. Failure for President Trump to live up to his promises to lower costs for Americans. Failure to protect America from its adversaries,” the Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, joined by Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who is the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations […]
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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Vale Margaret Hamilton. She was a Software Engineer. She was the _first_ Software Engineer because she defined the term, Software Engineering: "When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a […] [Original post on aus.social]
A B&W photo of a person standing next to a stack of printed paper as high as the top of their head. This is Margaret Hamilton, at work as a Software Engineer and the leader of a team of extremely specialised programmers who worked for NASA. The photo was taken in 1969, and it shows a physical form if her work since she joined the Apollo project in 1965 (she joined at the age of 29 by my calculation). My interpretation of the expression on her face is a mix of pride and mild amusement.  She has glasses, long, straight hair, and neat office attire. Margaret Hamilton has her hands placed gently on the stack of printouts to keep it all balanced upright. The pages appear to be arranged in bundles, ranging from 8-10 centimetres thick, to 20cm thick or more. The resulting stack of printouts is physically impressive for being an unusual feat, and it represents something even more impressive: it's the printed form of the source-code she and the team she led wrote for the NASA Apollo project. Their software ran on the Apollo Guidance Computer that was that on board each Apollo command module and Apollo Lunar Module. The Apollo Guidance Computer onboard the Eagle was an essential flight instrument for Neil Armstrong when he piloted the craft to land on the surface of the moon.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine "have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner" reports @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Ali Atmaca @aliatmaca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ghosts on sticks. #photography #blackandwhite #bnw #monochrome #classicmono #nature #landscape #scape #hiking #travel #trees #forest #forestfriday #coloraday #bwfri #stunday #artyear #eck
A dense forest on a sloped hillside with tall beech trees and leafy canopies. In the foreground, a small sign stands between two prominent tree trunks, reading "Oriental Beech" on the first line and "Fagus orientalis" on the second line. Further down to the right, a trail marker and a lamp post stands partially obscured in the background.
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Jaycee Crawford / Vision Logic Images @jaycee-visionlogic.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
'Expansive Skies at Low Tide' (2026) -- Wharton's Point / Maquoit Bay, Brunswick, ME #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #BWFri ✨ #Stunday ✨ #PaintByWords ✨ #BlueSkyMonday ✨ #TidesOutTuesday ✨ #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford
View onto a seemingly infinite bay of deep mud at low tide, the water is no where to be seen, the reeds in the foreground growing 
to the edges of empty tide pools and land's end itself
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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 🥾 @alinagrafik.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
#31DaysOfOctober My favorite spooky photo. An oak tree with a wooden swing hanging from a branch in the hills of San Luis Obispo. #ECK #ClassicMono #Hiking #Halloween #Spooky #OakTree #WestCoastKin
A darkish black and white image of a large, old oak tree that has twisted and gnarled branches. It stretches wide in all directions and is growing on a hillside covered with dead leaves. There is morning fog which makes the tree look mysterious and adds depth to the tree and space. A wooden swing tied with rope hangs from the tree, light reflecting off the wooden seat.
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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Kāpēc tik maz cilvēku aizgāja uz vēlēšanām? Un kāpēc tieši tagad, 2026. gadā, ir viszemākā vēlētāju aktivitāte Latvijas vēsturē? Kas tāds notika pēdējos četros gados?
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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
This new episode of The Reckoning Project’s podcast unpacks the role of propaganda in genocides and war crimes, from WWII to the present day. Wonderful to work on it, despite the dark subject matter...please do listen! www.bylinesupplement.com/p/fighting… […]
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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HLK 🧛 @hlkfotos.com · 12/09/2026
Swallow. #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsInAbstract 📷🌿🪶
A black and white photo of a tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) in silhouette, backlit and perched on a very thin branch while holding a feather from a larger bird in its small beak. The swallow is rendered almost entirely black against a soft gray background, while the feather glows bright and white.
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
Apple is trying to get consumers to accept, and even welcome, a new reality: Your tech is always listening. At Wednesday’s Surprise and Shine event, where the company introduced its new hardware lineup, the real surprise turned out not to be the foldable iPhone, but how the privacy-sensitive […]
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#WheresMitch
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
Xylitol is a sugar alcohol present in some natural foods in very low amounts. It is also added – often in amounts 1,000 times higher – to artificially sweeten foods, beverages and oral care products. Despite its growing use, the long-term health impacts of xylitol have never been widely studied […]
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
RE: c.im/@cdarwin/117173752794045890 Xylitol is sometimes also called birch sugar as it can be extracted from birch wood. It should not be confused with birch syrup, which is made from birch sap and contains only trace amounts of xylitol.
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Guntis Stirna @stirnagun.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Interesanti. "Flight tracking data confirmed a large US military aircraft travelled to Russia from the US via #Latvia on Tuesday. It departed later on Tuesday."
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CIA chief travels to Moscow for unannounced talks, US media reports
Flight tracking data confirms an American military aircraft travelled to Russia from the US via Latvia on Tuesday.
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
This powerful predictor of longevity isn’t what you think The single leg balance test is considered a leading indicator of neuromuscular aging, says a 2024 Mayo Clinic study. “The duration an individual, whether male or female, can maintain balance on one leg,” it concluded, “emerges as the […]
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arnemorken @arnemorken.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
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Trump & Epstein: Biz partners. @mugsysrapsheet.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026
#Republicans ❤️ to take credit for legislation they voted against. #GOPHypocrisy
Tweet from Steven Havre

Trump is taking a victory lap because
prescription drug prices just fell 3.1%, the
biggest drop since 1963.

Cute.

Medicare's first negotiated drug prices
kicked in this year, cutting prices on 10
major drugs by 38% to 79%. The out of
pocket cap came from the same law.

That law?

Biden's Inflation Reduction Act.
Not. One. Republican. Voted. For. It.
Republicans love Democratic legislation
once there's a ribbon to cut.
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
Sorry, but anyone who scolds you for reacting spontaneously emotionally to an awe-inspiring natural phenomenon is just being a jerk. It's as much your solar system as theirs, and you're entitled to your own response to it. You aren't being "unsophisticated", you're being a human experiencing joy […]
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Images that make you smile @img.freyjas.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026
Moi (Rebecca Bagnol) **Artist** : Nicolas Larriere **Model** : Rebecca Bagnol **Origin** : #redlib #model #blackAndWhite #bnw #boudoir #monocrome #schwarzweiß #photography #photos #fotografia #fotografiainbiancoenero #fotografie #artphoto #misskey写真部 #kunst […] [Original post on freyjas.org]
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Ojārs Kapteinis @ojars.kapteinis.lv · 12/08/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@mrudokas/117082316… Also, here in Rīga at 20:06 Rīga time, it's a good moment to start humming Richard Hawley's song where he sings "don't stare at the sun too long" www.youtube.com/watch?v=C77PlrGxMbU
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Svavar the Neurozesty @svavar.masto.svavar.com.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026
The Epstein / Savile class really doesn’t get it.
A line drawn cartoon of a woman walking in a crowded outdoor environment. The other pedestrians and visibly displeased. The woman touches her black rimmed glasses and says “Hey Meta, why are all my friends avoiding me?”
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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026
Same as it ever was... Research on ME/CFS patients has long looked at reactivated viruses....various herpesviruses, cytomegalovirus...viruses that almost all of us are carrying around in small amounts seize the opportunity of a dysfunctional immune system to replicate and cause problems […]
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026
One month before her position was due to become permanent, Lisa was made redundant. In the months before, Lisa says a public relations agency had been tasked with producing AI-generated material that she and her colleagues were asked to edit. She says her skills were used to train the AI on […]
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Pusher of Pixels @pixelpusher220.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
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Meme of Smokey The Bear.  It has 2 panes.  The first one is the normal "Only YOU can prevent forest fires!

The 2nd pane is "No I'm being serious.  We're defunded so you're on your own"
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
And the Epstein files.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
Panel one: a climber reaches the top of a towering cliff. There, among the clouds, a serene figure with a long beard, wearing a robe, sits crosslegged on the bare rock. He is "The Great Wise One of the Mountain"

Panels two, three and four: sitting serenely crosslegged on successively lower clifftops we see the Assistant Wise One of the Mountain, The Post-Doc Research Fellow of the Mountain and a group of  PhD Students of the Mountain
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
We’ve been dealing with the climate as an isolated, almost linear concept, where it’s a problem with a fix. But not a single nation stuck to the Paris agreement. People are getting solar panels, but we’re all using more carbon-emitting fossil fuels as well – our habits aren’t changing. We’re […]
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Valdis Krebs @valdis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026
NATO says a Russian missile crashed in Poland. Ukrainian jets tried to destroy threats right up the border, Warsaw says www.businessinsider.com/russia-miss…
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NATO says a Russian missile crashed in Poland. Ukrainian jets tried to destroy threats right up the border, Warsaw says.
The missile flew for roughly six minutes in Polish airspace before crashing 60 miles deep into the country, the military said.
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026
"Worse on Purpose" is great. It focuses on consumer products, and their relentless decline in quality as brands get absorbed by enshittification-happy financial manipulators. But the site also tells you who's NOT wrecking things -- who you can still trust. www.worseonpurpose.com (I'm […]
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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026
"One individual the authors discuss in detail in the book is former UK prime minister #TonyBlair and the lack of accountability seen over events such as the invasion of #Iraq. Often now deemed a so-called expert on the Middle East, Making A Killing shows how #Blair has built his wealth on the […]
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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
We have done many field experiments documenting the policy relevance of social contagion and I wholly agree that “diffusion should be part of behavioural policy making.” This paper is a valuable exploration of mechanisms involved.
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
Red graffiti on a pale building reads, “If you don’t like graffiti, look away like you do for genocide,” while several police officers stand nearby on a cobblestone street.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Genuinely terrifying. And remarkably similar to how the Nazis began their criminalisation of dissent and their dehumanisation of any who resisted. It's happening. In the US. Right now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner
Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
In case facts still matter…
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Guillermo Esteves @gesteves.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026
Jackson Lake after the drawdown, Grand Teton National Park. September, 2021. 📷 Fujifilm X-T3 + XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR 🎞 16 mm – 1/45″ – f/11 – ISO 400 🔗 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
The dry lake bed of Jackson Lake after being drawn down, seen from the Jackson Lake overlook on a hazy afternoon.
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Bodhipaksa @bodhipaksa.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026
I just finished reading "This Is An Uprising" by brothers Mark Engler and Paul Englar. For a heavily-footnoted non-fiction book I have to say it was often thrilling. It tells the story of the rise and rise of nonviolent resistance, details its successes and […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]
Cover of the tenth anniversary edition of "This is an Uprising; How Nonviolent Revolt is Shaping the Twenty-First Century" by Mark Engler and Paul Enger. The cover is a smoky-bluw colored photograph showing a figure surrounded by mist, which is probably from smoke bombs or teas gas. The figure is holding up a black umbrella and what looks like a very small broken umbrella. In the background you can just make out a couple of other people, but it's hard to make out anything about them.
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Dr. Elīna Reitere @elinareitere.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Es uzstājos ar referātu, ko mums - baltiešiem - nozīmē skatīties tādas filmas kā "Krievi karā" un "Kremļa burvis", jo mums šajos apstākļos tās vairs nav tikai filmas. #RUTA2026
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