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huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city

Are Bee @arebee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The phrase “large enough to be seen from space” is so disconnected from the realities of resolution of spy satellite images … from the 70s.

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Are Bee @arebee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The gaming group that has adopted me is so fun. Genuinely positive and imaginative play. Feeds the soul, even when the characters are wrestling in literal shit.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.

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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Flydubai co-pilot who tried to hijack a flight to Tel Aviv is a former cryptocurrency speculator who four years ago was living with his parents and calling women “rotten meat”... Hammami peppered his diatribes with the language of the manosphere. www.ft.com/content/a92b...

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The online life of the Flydubai attacker

Co-pilot of flight 1073 gravitated towards the ‘manosphere’ and expressed misogynistic views

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As completely deranged and fucked up and wrong as he is, I gotta say it is stressful to have the damn president of the United States constantly attacking my state of Minnesota, sending violence, calling for violence, putting all lives at risk, killing our neighbors. Like it really takes a toll.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 08/10/2026

Howsoever the Artcraft folk have built their "clean room" Rust versions of the Adobe Creative Cloud, they have at least delivered one thing that Adobe has promised for years and singularly failed to even ship a beta... ...an ARM 64 version of Lightroom for Windows.

A list of downloadable Windows binaries for an application, including ARM64 amongst the usual x64 and x86 builds.

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Are Bee @arebee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Without Me” on the radio … it holds up as an infectious beat. Also 20+ years old? Wow.

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 08/10/2026

Cool example. But Elon wasn’t an H-1B. He was admitted to the United States on a student visa. He violated the terms of that visa, and worked illegally in the US.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

News from me: there are two versions of OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof, one for humans, one for computers. Now it seems that they don't match. That does NOT mean OpenAI hasn't solved Navier-Stokes (both proofs can be correct) but it does mean that there are big questions about trusting AI mathematics

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OpenAI mistranslated mathematics into code for its Navier-Stokes proof | New Scientist

When OpenAI announced its surprise solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, it produced one proof for humans and one for computers – however, they don't match

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pay to play, baby...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man, it's a good thing Jared Polis pardoned this woman. She has absolutely learned her lesson.

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Are Bee @arebee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Grrr. Wordle 1,936 6/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 07/10/2026

I've found myself automating workflows where data is trapped behind a site with no API, and I gotta say, @microsoft.com really nailed it with Playwright. I've done web scraping in the past, but this takes it to another level, including the ability to automate browser interactions. playwright.dev

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Fast and reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps | Playwright

Web automation and testing for apps, scripts, and AI agents

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 07/10/2026

Anyone calling it Super Intelligence tells you everything you need to know.

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Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(my personal favourite story is we wouldn't have had deep learning if Microsoft Research hadn't given a summer research grant to a student who wanted to prove his professor's approach worked for speech recognition; it works and his professor goes off and build speech rec for Google)

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Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

it's rare for Microsoft to assert their role in the history of computing so interesting to see Satya and Jensen reminishing on stage; Nvidia was founded because PCs in the Windows 3.11 era made it possible to put a decent graphics card on someone's desk, without DIrectX you don't get CUDA and so ML

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Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

if you don't have CUDA and the HPC work Microsoft did and the investment Azure made in Infiniband, Microsoft could never have built the training compute for OpenAI and ChatGPT wouldn't have brought transformers out of the lab

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is not strictly the legal position but does it not seem a little bit strange that betting 50 quid on the 2024 election date was a criminal offence while manipulating the Libor fix for up to £1m a time was not? www.ft.com/content/9c61...

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Ex-Barclays traders’ rate-rigging convictions quashed

[FREE TO READ] Court of Appeal ruling comes after Tom Hayes’s guilty verdict was overturned last year

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 07/10/2026

The Job Trail, a web game about making it through 52 weeks as a laid-off creative worker. Based on The Oregon Trail. My first try: “You have died of burnout. Week 13. 51 applications, 1 ghosting.” [labs.ficuscreative.com]

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The Job Trail

It is 2026. You have been laid off. Somewhere there is a job.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Trump is about to sell out Ukraine, basically the culmination of the 2016 influence operation, but that history has been memory holed. www.youtube.com/shorts/yDK-8...

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Trump's Team Sells Out the US

YouTube video by emptywheel

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People in my comments are arguing that there’s no way Claude can clone Photoshop without decompiling the binaries. My brother in Christ, you can literally tell Claude to click around an app on your phone or laptop then rebuild the app from scratch. Every surface feature of an app is now clonable.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Google just launched a new website that enables you to verify whether an image, video or audio clip was generated using AI tools that support its SynthID watermark. This includes content from Google, OpenAI, NVIDIA and Kakao, with Apple coming soon.

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SynthID Detector

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026

there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not

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Are Bee @arebee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Key part of really high quality thread on OAI math proofs.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 07/10/2026

Rick sits down with historian Timothy Snyder, author of ON TYRANNY and ON FREEDOM. His message: Trump isn’t strong. He’s weak. The answer isn’t fear—it’s mockery, organizing, and overwhelming turnout this November. A historian’s warning—and a battle plan. WATCH: youtu.be/7Y3o9rPG34U

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Some places get plague pretty often for a variety of reasons. For example, there are a lot of plague outbreaks in Madagascar. They've got a "plague season" Oct-March. These have been going on for years! Without ever making it into the news in the US. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st-ce...

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21st-century Madagascar plague outbreaks - Wikipedia

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As Terence Tao told New Scientist recently, this is not ok

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Are Bee @arebee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thoughts and prayers to my friends at HBO Max and WBD in general.

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Europe is BACK. Mistral shocks these Yankees by launching a vastly improved open model that allows companies to tweak weights.

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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 06/10/2026

Adulterous fraudster Ken Paxton isn’t satisfied with cheating on his wife with a married mother of 7 or taking bribes from other criminals– he’s trying to kill children too. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...

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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)

Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saying... Plague is a disease that is endemic in Asia, the western United States, and other places. We know how to treat it with antibiotics. It is not extraordinarily transmissible. There are 1000 to 2000 cases a year across the world, maybe 10 in the US.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

IF the strike aircraft were driven out of RAF Fairford by an enemy threat, then that enemy has enjoyed more success than the Luftwaffe during the whole of the Battle of Britain.

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Are Bee @arebee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@manmademoon.bsky.social has Rogue got a US distributor yet? in cinemas or streaming?

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And in the USA it really is a direct competition: one party is running on government reforms and restraint and the other party is running on, "if you vote for us, we will give the people we like $5000 in cash." It is not subtle.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Indeed the frequently accurate stereotype of developing world politics was that the political choices were between different corrupt and patrimonial parties. The USA traditionally avoided this but we now have one patrimonial party; what remains to be seen is if a non-patrimonial one can compete.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Worth noting that American political elite is explicitly signaling they will not do anything about the budget deficit. They are deliberately stoking a bond market crisis.

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