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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

current reading: a bunch of books that sound like podcasts. at least I am 76% the way through In Search of Lost Time

Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I (slightly) move in these circles - they really believe it FWIW, I do think these models can cause serious damage, they're very good at finding security exploits, you can use them to make lots of computer viruses etc.

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Well, I've been playing Idle Dice 2...I'm going to roll *so* many dice and make *so* many big number

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Hate AI-generated emails. You know what I think should be more socially acceptable? Bullet points. I would rather someone just send me a message with a ton of bullet points (though I acknowledge people use AI to translate messages, and I think that's fine)

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

*small voice* I think overrelying on goodwill is one of the major problems

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I was writing an email to my friend and reminded myself that this excellent Borges story exists: www.yourhomeworksolutions.com/wp-content/u...

yourhomeworksolutions.com

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

every day I log into the torment nexus and I see discourse in configurations I never could have dreamed of

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A few things you can never talk about in UK media: nations are recent social inventions, and were a bad idea; 'borders' are not physical boundaries, but capricious, arbitrary violence by the state against innocent people; people born elsewhere are inherently as valuable as people born nearby

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Steve Brown - astronomy and astrophotography @sjbastro.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Nice evening #Perseid meteor I caught last night, just on the edge of frame of my fisheye lens. #PerseidMeteorShower #Astronomy #Perseids #Astrophotography

A pink-coloured Perseid meteor passing close to the constellation of Corona Borealis on 13 August 2026 at 21:24 UT. The meteor is seen through passing cloud. Taken with a Canon 250D DSLR with 7.5mm fisheye lens at 15s exp, 7.5mm fl, f/3.5, ISO-1600.

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I think, as a nation, we need to have a serious conversation about Clacton.

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Steve Brown - astronomy and astrophotography @sjbastro.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It was a bit cloudy for post-peak #Perseids last night but I still managed to see a few. Rates will drop off quite rapidly from now on, before the shower ends on 24 August. Hope you got to see some #Perseid meteors over the past few days. #Astronomy

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Disappointed that Farage won (on brand for me). But, hey, investigation

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Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It’s actually really hard to get a UK visa and, despite how much the lot of them go on about it, there are precisely three people in the whole of the political and media class who actually know how the UK’s immigration system works

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

UK: Fuck off foreigners. Do not come here. We will treat you appallingly. We will blame you for everything. We will charge you a fortune for impossible admin processes. There is nothing for you. Do NOT come here! Also UK: Why will no one come to our universities? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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UK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international students

Higher education figures call on Labour to reverse tax on fees and warn institutions at risk of ‘going under’

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Purity tests are morally bad and it's morally bad to make them.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 14/08/2026

Shit, do you really think the guy who lies about everything would just go and lie about that?

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Regularly destroying or disposing of books or records is a completely essential part of any archival or records management or librarianship program.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....

Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist.

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Come listen to a thing I made! It was soooo much fun recording this #podcast #comedy #radioplay

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I actually started a book club because I was *so annoyed* about Odyssey discourse. I love seeing people bring their different translations. One week we spent a lot of time talking about how "polytropos" gets translated differently into English and Spanish

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

#amreading Fagles' translation of the Odyssey: The princes reached the wheatlands, straining now for journey's end, so fast those purebred stallions raced them on as the sun sank and the roads of the world grew dark. (Book III)

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Steve Brown - astronomy and astrophotography @sjbastro.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I think a bit of passing cloud makes a partial #eclipse something extra special 😀 #PartialEclipse #SolarEclipse #Astronomy #Astrophotography

Shot from the partial eclipse of the Sun on 12 August 2026, at the time of the greatest eclipse. The Sun is a thin crescent with some passing cloud making the sight more dramatic.

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Kadir @candidframe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Sunlight filtering through a large tree’s leaves illuminates a building during the solar eclipse. #art #photography #solareclipse #eclipse

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

How do the trending topics get selected and titled on Bluesky? Currently "Farage wins Clacton seat" is at number 1 but...the polls don't close until 10pm BST? C'mon, this has gotta be someone's responsibility

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Hand on heart, I hope Binface wins in the by-election because that would be very funny. But I do take heart in knowing that even if he doesn't, Farage will still be under investigation :)))

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you're a UK-based academic in Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences and keen to acquire/develop a new skill over 6-12 months, this scheme may be for you. Maximum value £10,000.

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"The existence of towering geniuses is almost always a sign that a discipline is still in the early stages of development and hasn’t reached a stage of maturity yet." YES SAUER YES THANK YOU

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

#amreading Hanno Sauer's paper "The end of history" on the (non)utility of history of philosophy: research-portal.uu.nl/ws/portalfil... as a trained historian I'm looking forward to the arguments Sauer presents and how to argue with them :')

research-portal.uu.nl

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'll do line editing, copyediting, and developmental editing! I've also localized EN -> FR for romance with SF elements

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Open Science NL @opensciencenl.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Are you an open science professionals? Do you want to gain knowledge and experience abroad that is not available in the Netherlands? Than apply for funding for the new call Mobility & Development. openscience.nl/en/news/new-call-gives-a-boost-to-the-professionalisation-of-open-science-professionals

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Anyway, enough traumadumping, back to building cool stuff.

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I do not know how to talk about it in part because willingly volunteering that I am an immigrant and *where* my family immigrated from (Israel) is opening myself up on 2 different attack surfaces of you-are-a-problem-to-be-solved-away-from-us-decent-people

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I do not know how to explain to people when migration policy is just straight bad. I do not know how to explain to people that rewarding politicians for xenophobia is bad. I do not know how to explain to people that I am tired of being treated as a problem to be solved rather than another human.

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

In light of recent discourses about migration, I am thinking about all of the polite exhortations I have received from people to Be More Normal about migration. I simply do not know how to participate in The Conversation about migration when The Conversation is so skewed anti-immigrant.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 11/08/2026

🔭 Six Moons of Saturn Image Credit & Copyright: Alexandre Trentini ap260811

See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download
the highest resolution version available.

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Danny Robb @inverting-vision.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

60 Years ago today, the first Lunar Orbiter launched on a mission to photograph the Moon in preparation for Apollo. For the occasion, I wrote a history of the camera, originally built by Eastman Kodak for a classified Air Force program. #otd #HistSTM 🗃️🔭 invertingvision.com/2026/08/10/k...

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Kodak’s “Pre-Invented” Lunar Orbiter Camera; or, The Fate of SAMOS Readout

Left: The Lunar Orbiter camera system sitting in the bottom half of the pressurized shell. Project Manager Cliff Nelson (left) stands with NASA/Langley team members Calvin Broome, Israel Taback, an…

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This, but unironically. AO3 is an international treasure.

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Can someone ELI5me the fundamentals of the economic growth in these countries

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Dr Osnat Katz Moon 🌙🟣 @astrosnat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I flip-flop between going and watching it because my friend is peer pressuring me into it, and not watching it because the costumes look poorly made in a way that I find jarring

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