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legraLeGra @atthenius.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Coastlines in the #NYC metro region are flooding today and over the weekend due to #NorEasterNolo Our infrastructure -- even BRAND NEW NYC -- is not prepared for #ClimateChange #SeaLevelRise. We aren't even well prepared for flooding from this #NorEaster […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

NYC Parks and Columbia University Rowing Dock— completed about a year ago in the Harlem River next to the Columbia Tennis center.

It is pretty much maxed out. Where there should be a ramp down to the water, it is flat.

Tidal Marsh off the Harlem River. NYC Parks department Inwood Hill Park Nature center is adjacent. This dock was rebuilt a few years ago after being destroyed in 2012 by Hurricane Sandy. The floating part is bent up at an odd angle because it is too high.

The dryland of Inwood Hill park is becoming marshland of the Harlem River. Tide water covers up a wide parks path and there are several parks benches standing in the water. The Henry Hudson Bridge is in the background.

Screenshot of a tidal forecast time series from https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/inundationdb/inundation.html?id=8518750#waterlevelplot

The Battery (southern tip of Manhattan) NYC tidal chart with astronomical prediction (dark blue), forecast (cyan), and observed (red) water levels from Sep 24-26, 2026. Minor to Moderate flooding should occur on 9/26 high tides.

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CelloMom On Cars @cellomomoncars.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Soon: 700 EV plugs on NYC curbs "NYC DOT controls what drivers pay. Drivers will be able to pay through multiple apps or by tapping a credit card. The city says prices will be structured to remain affordable while encouraging drivers to move their cars when charging is finished. Where possible […]

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legraLeGra @atthenius.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Today I am grateful for #npr and Chiara Eisner who is reporting on #usa #FederalRelocations including that at my #nyc office of NASA GISS. Also NYC USACE and many others. I know this is Instagram, so someone if you know how to translate to mastodon, please help […]

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🇺🇸 MAYOR MAMDANI: “We remember September 11th as the darkest day in our city’s history… But we also remember what so many New Yorkers did in that darkness.” #NeverForget #911Remembrance @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 09/09/2026

another researcher accuses OpenAI of training on conversations and then claiming a breakthrough

Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro
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BREAKING: OpenAl might have stolen another major proot.
In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAl may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov's soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAl later announced Astra had solved.
I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and one of the most respected scholars in the field. He has spent two decades working on this problem.
If his account is correct, this is not a minor dispute over attribution. It would mean that unpublished human work was absorbed into a model and then presented to the world as a breakthrough by the model itself.

And if the allegations raised by Levent Alpöge, Tristan Buckmaster, and now Andreas Thom are all substantiated, we are no longer looking at isolated incidents.
We may be looking at one of the greatest intellectual scandals in the history of science.
Al is not discovering new mathematics.
Al is stealing human discovery.

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legraLeGra @atthenius.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Future me— tonight you learned about American #DavisBacon wage rates — and the recent push to water it down via « ÔTA » other transactional authority during federal procurement. Apparently, for trade jobs, the #USA has indeed had a national #MinimumWage which is modulated by your locality— just […]

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LegraLeGra @atthenius.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My kids went to preK on 204/Sherman It’s dangerous. @mayor.nyc.gov ->raised crosswalks ->protected #bike lanes “City data shows at least 27 people have been injured in car crashes on Sherman Avenue since 2021” +several folks killed on this 1 mile #nyc stretch gothamist.com/news/inwood-...

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Inwood has been a street racing hub for years. Locals have had enough.

A high-speed early morning crash earlier this month was the latest in a string of dangerous crashes in the Upper Manhattan neighborhood.

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legraLeGra @atthenius.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

heard @mapquest.com was the best map these days #mapquest But not for #bikes? #NYCbike #bikeNYC routes prioritize safety. These are unsafe truck route 1, 2, or 3 are the options- wish they would update. (Or anyone have hints?) I am putting my typical route […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Mapquest suggests using Broadway, St Nicks or 3rd Av- where there was just a fatality. All routes take 2 hours, about twice the actual travel time.

Mapquest routing options are car centric. No options for safety or tailored to bikes.

Receipt from citibike ride. Typical upper Manhattan to downtown Brooklyn route. Uses Westside greenway. Safe and minimal traffic lights so also fast 64 minutes this day on a electric citibike

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legraLeGra @atthenius.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Really loved #UVM Unoversity of #Vermont and their #bike friendly campus. Check out these indoor storage options— really wish #nyc campuses would adopt.

Greenhouse looking side piece on a building that holds 50 bikes.

Campus ID swipe to access then lock up on racks.

individual bike storage bins about 4’ tall (3.5 meters) for bikes.

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Awet Tesfaiesus, MdB @awettesfaiesus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Facts about energy in Africa: 1. Two countries (🇪🇬 🇿🇦) "consume" ~50% of the continent's energy 2. The whole continent 🌍 uses about the same amount of energy as… Germany 🇩🇪 3. Africa is skipping power plant era and is going straight to #Solar / And maybe with some luck #solarpunk […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

A Chilean salmon farm now draws about 57% of its power from panels laid over the water, cutting roughly 136,000 litres of diesel a year and silencing the generators. With the noise gone, thousands of salmon have gathered in the shade beneath the arrays. Ecoportal […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

Amtrak Northeast Corridor trains have been delayed/slowed today by both extreme heat (which causes speed restrictions due to increased risk of rail deformation and buckling) as well as hazardous air (which limits outdoor activity by the crews that service and turn trains). This future we’re […]

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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@SteveBellovin/116… Ok, and I thought I was being sarcastic about the tariffs. Just goes to show: the reality of this administration is always stupider than one can imagine […]

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Ruth Mottram @ruth-mottram.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

🚨new publication alert🚨 Some types of El Niño lead to more melt over the Ross Ice Shelf in #Antarctica. In our paper led by PhD student Sanjiban Dutta, we look at the synoptic relationship where Eastern Pacific El Niños channel warm moist air over the Ross Ice Shelf. One to watch with the […]

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legraLeGra @atthenius.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Reason 1,132 that I love #nyc I thought I had bought tickets for a little home grown Uptown Manhattan #nyc #Inwood #Jazz festival fundraiser. Me and all Inwood folks chipped in to support this event […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Brochure Inwood jazz festival inaugural gala 2026

September 20 2026 A list jazz musicians descend on uptown

Who played w Patience Higgins at the Inwood jazz fest inaugural gala? Silvano Monasterios Alex Gibson

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Tina Fabrique - renowned jazz musician even before her reading rainbow fame

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legraLeGra @atthenius.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

It smells very bad in Upper Manhattan right now. Smoke conditions nearly every summer in #NYC is not natural -- its a symptom of #ClimateChange I'm following along at : fire.airnow.gov The AQI is 152 at the closest station to where I live. #WildFire #Smoke Yuck!

fire.airnow.gov showing a string of low air quality sites from Ontario south to Minnesota and east to New York.

Bad air quality in Washington Heights / Upper Manhattan for the last day with a spike to AQI 152 at the last measurement.

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juliette @juliette.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

I am researching ways to minimize the impact of light pollution on wildlife of all sizes, with a focus on insects, in an industrial area. "Just turn it all off" is off the table, but I can make arguments for reducing it. I want to find out what is actually effective. So far I found one article […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

They also list 4 "disposal failures" which are satellites that died before SpaceX purposefully chucked them into the atmosphere. This includes Starlink 34343 which either exploded or got hit by debris a couple months ago. keeptrack.space/deep-dive/starlink-… 4 out of thousands of […]

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legraLeGra @atthenius.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

I read a headline that the #haiti #soccer team scored their first goal in over 50 years at #fifa2026 dailysports.net/news/a-historic-mom… And I realized in that moment, that my coach in middle and high […]

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

RE: social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/1168… He passed the goal, so now it's happening.

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legraLeGra @atthenius.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

The #bike path connecting Upper Manhattan to lower Manhattan is at risk of closing. Again. Because a teeny, yet mightily important, bike-and-pedestrian only bridge crossing the Amtrak tracks near the George Washington Bridge has taken more than 17 years to even begin planning. Turns out the […]

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legraLeGra @atthenius.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

#nyc people — prepare #GlobalWarming #UrbanHeatIsland All the weather models project us breaking through that sweaty 100 degrees Fahrenheit/ 38 degrees Celsius barrier this week. Get your cooling plan together friends finder.nyc.gov/coolingcenters

Weather projections for 5 days for upper Manhattan end June early July 2026. It will be 100F hot and humid. Numbers matter less than your plan to find a cooling center for you and your family.

https://finder.nyc.gov/coolingcenters/

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LegraLeGra @atthenius.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Schooooools out for the summer…. Well, it will be as of Friday next. Speaking as a kid who cycled in daily:: My heart is happy that NYC kids get to bike to school.

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legraLeGra @atthenius.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

Tonight - after months of coaxing - I got my SO to go to our local #nyc uptown bar and try out the Monday #DungeonsAndDragons — friends:: it was super fun. And this is why this nyc town - in spite of national upheavals and political strife and all that other confounding works — is the best city […]

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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

I miss Web 1.0. You click a link, you get to the website, you read the content. What a concept.

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LegraLeGra @atthenius.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

My family are all from Oklahoma. Its the epicenter of American extreme storms -tornadoes, hail, floods, ++. It’s a logical place to seat extreme weather research It Still baffles me that excellent AI/ML institutes even in districts like OK2, home to R appropriations chair, Tom Cole, got undermined

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Hi I'm Sean @seano.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

:knicks: :knicks: :knicks: IN FIVE

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legraLeGra @atthenius.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

That was some nice flying. #French #Flyover #NYC www.westpoint.edu/news/press-releas… "The Patrouille de France, the official aerobatic demonstration team of the French Air and Space Force, is bringing its […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

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LegraLeGra @atthenius.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Procurement wonkiness stops Greenways. And means a 3 month job for pretty much any public work ends up taking many years. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Can you help?

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

A Justice Department lawyer told a federal appeals court Friday that the Trump administration could demolish the Statue of Liberty before anyone could sue to stop him — and that would simply be the end of it. www.rawstory.com/trump-bulldoze-sta…

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legraLeGra @atthenius.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

Mixed feelings on #fifa But #WorldCup2026 #soccer exhibition game of retired (😎my age) players 7v7 #italy v #usa was neat. Also - the refs missed all the calls. I really need to get my ref license up to date. #Lots of offsides. No calls. <!gnash!!>

Flier promoting fifa legends. Exhibition match for World Cup 2026. Circa 2002 players. 7v7

Don’t look. Some lady in pink sweating it out in the sun and some dude in a blue and black inter Milan jersey.

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legraLeGra @atthenius.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

For allies of American Research, a chance to meet others irl and sweat it out together:: #HikeTheHeights with #nyc #NYCparks GISS & Columbia & CCNY and all the friendly folks meet at 112/Bway outside the abandoned nasa facility. It will be hot and humid - […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@PCMag/116697579224… I need a song to sing every time I see a stupid, destructive SpaceX idea like this. Perhaps to the tune of "California here I come"? "Kessler Syndrome here we come!"

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

White House reclassifies federal epidemiologists and other scientists from civil servants to ‘at-will’ hires The long-anticipated “Schedule F” order strips job protections meant to safeguard federal employees from political interference […]

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Tim Chambers @tchambers.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

This is simply irresponsible theft. #SpaceX "If the company lists on Nasdaq this June as expected, the stock could land in your retirement portfolio within weeks. And some of Wall Street's loudest skeptics think that's a problem. That's thanks to Nasdaq's new "Fast Entry" rule, approved March […]

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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 05/06/2026

Happy Friday, fediverse! Looking at fedidb.com/stats, seems like things have been picking up around here again, nice! Also, some interesting talks at today's Next Socials' PublicSpaces conference around communities, moderation, libraries and digital public spaces, and the […]

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

It occurs to me that Muppets are the anti-AI. AI personas look real, but have no soul. And, despite being made of complex technology, they generate uncanny valley reactions, when they’re visual and not just chatbots. Whereas Muppets look fake, but they have all the soul. They’re made of simple […]

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