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Center for Strategic Politics @stratpolitics.org · 21/09/2026

We polled five routes for Trump to leave office before the end of his term. A plurality of Dems support four of them, including a military coup and death by natural causes. The only one underwater, an assassination, is still supported by 29%.

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Fubar 🇨🇦 @captainfubar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The Undersecretary of State tried to provide "Data Republican" a MAGA influencer with materials on Cuba to disseminate to help manufacture consent but because everyone involved is extremely stupid DR interpreted the information as the "deep state" and now the undersecretary had to spill the beans

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akliyen @akliyen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The tech industry is entirely responsible for the low-trust, low-info digital environment that results in data center conspiracy theories. Hoisted by their own petard.

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 16/06/2026

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

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Talia al Ghoul 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Oh my gd. He drives a diebuster-themed itasha.

That's absolutely true! So how did it feel to be a media star, not for being the astronaut that you are, but for being an anime fan? Did your coworkers bust you a bit about it?

Dr. Stanley Love: No, they already know me pretty well. I drive an itasha car. So they thought that was just normal behavior for me, and I didn't get any extra ribbing from them.

An itasha car with Nono from Diebuster on it.

Dr. Stanley Love's itasha--featuring Nono from Diebuster.

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akliyen @akliyen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Wow they made mechsploitation real

From https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2025.2507458: Weighing against this potential benefit, cyborg-drone warfare could also usher in at least two serious ethical risks. The first risk, associated only with BCIs which are surgically implanted, is that a pilot who is captured might suffer indiscriminate harm. While it is generally permissible for enemy forces to intend harm against combatants, a person ceases to be a legitimate target when they are rendered hors de combat. This change can ordinarily occur when a combatant is captured, disarmed, and imprisoned. However, in the absence of a sufficiently strong jamming signal, an interface device that has become part of that pilot’s body could provide constant connectivity with (and control over) a nearby Loyal Wingman and its onboard weapons. In that case, an enemy might reasonably regard a known and unjammable cyborg as posing a continuing military threat, even while in captivity (McAllister 2019, 72). Non-combatant status would not have been acquired at the moment of capture, and the enemy would retain moral permission to neutralise the pilot’s brain as a source of signals that could summon a drone strike. This might be done simply by killing the pilot quickly, or (if the enemy were willing to risk taking more time) by conducting a coerced surgical procedure to remove the implanted BCI. From the perspective of in bello ethics, the problem in this scenario is that the legal protections traditionally afforded to a prisoner of war (a category of non-combatant) could be undermined. In this hypothetical future, that is, captured cyborg pilots might be denied non-combatant status even if they have and
express no intention of fighting on. And, more generally, an enemy’s fear of human-AI interfacing could prompt the swift and indiscriminate harming of all captured pilots (cyborgs and non-cyborgs alike) on the mere suspicion of their harbouring a BCI which connects them to a weapon.

From https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2025.2507458: The second ethical risk associated with using BCIs to supervise Loyal Wingmen is that these devices (whether implanted or not) might diminish a pilot’s moral agency during combat. The risk of diminished agency has previously been highlighted in relation to pharmacological approaches to cognitive enhancement. Jessica Wolfendale has argued, for example, that administering certain performance-enhancing drugs to soldiers might also produce a mental condition of dissociation. A potential result of this might be the commission of atrocities by a perpetrator who is not fully aware of what they are doing (Wolfendale 2008, 35). This risk has been associated with the use of some amphetamines, especially (Holley 2015; Saniotis and Kumaratilake 2020, 69). By contrast, in the circumstance of BCI-based augmentation of the brain’s data-processing capacity, the diminishment of moral agency could instead result from a cyborg’s sensation of cognitive convergence with AI technology. In this way, through the experiential blurring of artificial and human intelligence, the use of BCIs might compound rather than alleviate the problem of humans’ excessive trust in AI. This, in turn, could diminish rather than
preserve the adequacy of human control over an AI-enabled weapon system.

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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I need people panicking over certain stuff in the news to understand that the US is not the UK and categorizing things as a "terrorist organization" doesn't actually mean anything legally

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Arvy @arvy.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

A graph titled Scope of video games according to Hushcrasher Classification System. The Y axis shows Game Size (from 10 MB to 100GB), the X axis shows Credits count (sourced from Mobygames).

The clustered dots on the graph represent 4 distinct scale categories of games - Kei, Midi, AA, AAA. The larger correlation between the size and the credits means larger category of a game.

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akliyen @akliyen.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Interesting microcosm of the Xi-Putin dynamic: Putin makes an unhinged claim about organ transplant immortality while Xi makes a remark on life expectancy trends.

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akliyen @akliyen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Actually Existing Solarpunk

Screenshot from https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/climate/pakistan-solar-boom

Pakistan’s story is unique, said Mustafa Amjad, program director at Renewables First, an energy think tank based in Islamabad. Solar has been adopted at mass scale in countries including Vietnam and South Africa, “but none have had the speed and scale that Pakistan has had,” he told CNN.

There’s one particular aspect fascinating experts: The solar boom is a grassroots revolution and almost none of it is in the form of big solar farms. “There is no policy push that is driving this; this is essentially people-led and market driven,” Amjad said.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

thinking about the GE Beetle tonight. wild to think that the USAF was for realsies going to build patlabor-scale mechs to handle the radioactive cores of nuclear powered bombers back in the sixties.

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triple cheeseburger @triplchii.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

machine that makes wormholes #art

Infographic showing a strange rounded metallic object with three protrusions extending from it. Each protrusion features a hole that retreats into darkness. The surface of the object is scratched and covered in strange ciruclar winding dents and grooves.

To the right is an image depicting that same object glowing blue-hot, a thin glowing beam rushing into the larger of the three holes it posesses.

In the bottom left is a simple illustraion of a woman with long hair holding the object on the tip of her finger.

There's a lot of text that unfortunately doesn't fit in the character limit here, but the gist of it goes as follows:
- This object takes in large amounts of mass and spits out a non-orientable wormhole.
- The object is 7 millimetres in diameter but weighs 112 billion tons.
- It is reflective to basically all light and is nearly indestructible.
- How it produces wormholes is unknown. During operation the machine exceeds temperatures of 100,000 kelvin.
- The wormholes it produces are less than a millimetre in size. Due to being non-orientable wormholes they turn matter passing through them into antimatter, and vice versa.

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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Still on the "If DMS detection is proven, then the planet almost certainly has life" bandwagon, but evidence for DMS detection appears weaker than the paper presents it as

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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Much better argument against DMS detection in K2-18b's atmosphere than the "It's a sub-neptune so it can't have life" arguments. My area of expertise is biochem, not astronomy, so it seems I overlooked some statistical tricks to make DMS detection seem more certain than it actually was.

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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

GUYS HOLY SHIT THIS IS THE REAL DEAL This is genuinely strong evidence for life, to the point where it's hard to posit any alternative explanation for the observations - and I'm usually the kind of person to pooh-pooh these hypotheses www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Promising hints of life found on distant planet K2-18b

Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.

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akliyen @akliyen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I can't believe we're literally doing the Tech Bro Great Leap Forward now

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Yadana @yadanathreefour.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

biomech division

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akliyen @akliyen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

gonna start a paranormal conspiracy theory about the new glenn booster vanishing mid flight

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akliyen @akliyen.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Maybe it's just an artifact of the image quality, but these flaps look like they're flexing and there's no visible hinge. Are these compliant control surfaces?

Zoomed in photo of the rear control surfaces of the recently unveiled Chinese next generation fighter from a bottom angle.

Zoomed in photo of the rear control surfaces of the recently unveiled Chinese next generation fighter from a bottom side angle.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

there's a scenario where the government shuts down and stays shut down through january and the house cannot come to an agreement on a speaker on 1/3, making it unable to certify the results of the election because it's trapped in infinite speaker votes

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akliyen @akliyen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Prediction: There will be a scene where a character is typing in the name of the Gundam, makes a mistake, and is stuck with the name "GQuuuuuux".

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Caz @timberwindart.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

tumblr ask #1

Tumblr ask from anonymous user: text reads "the "relativistic correction not applied" on the DOB on the ID gave me an idea: the issuing agency could make the ID contain a clock so that it tracks proper time so long as the holder keeps it on them.
the clock could be something nondigital, like an ampule of tritium embedded in the ID (which could be used to make it glow for easier locating, though keeping radiologicals on something that's meant to stay on your person most of the time is a bad idea.) or some slow diffusion process (e.g. a labyrinthine lead wire with a tip of gold - you sample the age by using x-ray fluorescence to check for how far the gold has diffused along the wire. or merely characterizing the process of outgassing that the plastic exhibits. or tagging a region of the plastic by deuterating it. a lot of these techniques unfortunately have a substantial temperature coefficient)"

A dog-like transhuman woman holds an ID card in one hand. Looking at it, she says "y'know, I actually think these things *do* have some kind of embedded timekeeping, part of the tap ID chip or something"

Top: The transhuman's hand, holding the ID card and flexing it slightly. Accompanying text reads "l think the reason the whole thing isn't a display that'd show my age *accurately* - I'm only some 26 Msec younger than I'd be if I hadn't spent the first half of my life at a third of c, mind - is for plain old cost minimization reasons. A 'dumb' printed card with a readable chip is always going to be easier to make than a MEMS nanoware wafer. Which might not matter to a high-energy polity, but there's not many of those kicking around these days..."

Bottom: A cutaway of the ID card. Accompanying text reads "The clock... y'know I don't think I ever looked into how it works. From a look at the MangalaGov Wiki, seems like it's a fairly simple rad-hard semiconductor timer, run off a little piezo circuit backed up by a warm SMES trickle battery. Not exactly atomic decay clock precise, but I guess it... works. Oh! They do have a deuterated patch as an anti-tamper measure though - It's my photo! Kind of funny..."

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

The Rocketplane: a plan to stick a rocket motor onto a small private jet and give it afterburning turbojets to go on suborbital 100km altitude flights, and even expand into a micro-sat launcher: flightopportunities.ndc.nasa.gov//media/uploa...

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akliyen @akliyen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

When was the last time you went down a Youtube rabbit hole?

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akliyen @akliyen.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

empirical evidence that robotgirls > puppygirls

Dogs Obey Commands Given by Social Robots
>As far as dogs are concerned, social robots have some humanlike authority

From:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/dogs-obey-commands-given-by-social-robots

Results of the experiments showed that the dogs paid significantly more attention to the robot than the speaker, and were significantly more likely to follow a sit command from the robot

From:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/dogs-obey-commands-given-by-social-robots

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akliyen @akliyen.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

broke: any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic woke: any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from biology

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akliyen @akliyen.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

If I were worldbuilding a space opera setting, I would make this location very important

Photo with arrows pointing out the galactic center and the antimatter fountain emerging from it.

Original caption: GALACTIC GUSHER. A jet of hot gas and antimatter 3,500 light-years long rises up from the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy.

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akliyen @akliyen.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

real ones know this move is historically progressive and a necessary step towards legalizing orion drives for space travel abcnews.go.com/Politics/whi...

Two sources familiar with deliberations on Capitol Hill said the intelligence has to do with the Russians wanting to put a nuclear weapon into space.

This is not to drop a nuclear weapon onto Earth but rather to possibly use against satellites.

"It is very concerning and very sensitive," said one source, who called it "a big deal."

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akliyen @akliyen.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

have you ever thought about the eldritch horror of ai generated articles? a book trying to trick you into reading it by pretending to be human, filled with unsettling images that are clearly not from our reality

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akliyen @akliyen.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

>Theoretical physicists have a hard time finding relevant work >There are a bunch of weird empirical practices in deep learning that either lack or defy theoretical explanation I think there's a clear solution to both of these problems here

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akliyen @akliyen.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

This is regime food. Under my regime, entire sections of grocery stores will be filled with nothing but this stuff.

HelloFresh Heat & Eat promotion food. Depicted is a woman holding six Heat & Eat boxes with various meals listed on the front labels.
"GAMETIME TURKEY CHILI WITH BASMATI RICE"
"CAULIFLOWER & BEANS COCONUT CURRY"
"LOUISIANA STYLE CHICKEN & SAUSAGE GUMBO"
"PENNE PEPPERONATA"
"LASAGNA-STYLE MAC 'N RICOTTA CHEESE"
"VEGETABLE TAGINE WITH COUS COUS"

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akliyen @akliyen.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

hitman mission where you assassinate a suspiciously wealthy furry by hacking their high tech fursuit

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akliyen @akliyen.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

Does anyone else get annoyed at those 15 minute Youtube videos that have a question as a title, but spend most of the video explaining the question and only actually answer the question at like the last 30 seconds of the video?

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akliyen @akliyen.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

Did anyone else read this as a kid?

Cover of "The New Ways Things Work" by David Macaulay. The cover has the caption "From levers to lasers, windmills, to web sites. A visual guide to the world of machines."

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akliyen @akliyen.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

transhumanist take: humanity would be way better off if we all had an organ that can generate random numbers

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