Reposted by Ben Wibkingpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It’s crazy that if history had gone very slightly differently, 3dfx would now be the biggest company in the world 2365346
Ben Wibking @benwibking.bsky.social · 16/09/2026the one institution in America that survives the fascist onslaught… ze price stabilite must be maintained 000
Reposted by Ben WibkingBenjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 07/09/2026simulating a moka while I drink my moka coffeecompphys.univie.ac.atThe Physics of the Moka 143
Reposted by Ben WibkingAdam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 20/08/2026Is Claude Code making us stupid? www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...thenewatlantis.comStack Underflow: Losing the Craft of CodingSoftware engineers are now Claude Code managers. But how can I manage what I’m forgetting how to do myself? 3816734
Reposted by Ben WibkingDavid Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 06/04/2026americans are finally getting into hot cross buns 14342
Reposted by Ben Wibkingderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/12/2025wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics 1128255004107
Reposted by Ben WibkingOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19/11/2025I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics. COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs? ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons. conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam... 1131330345
Reposted by Ben WibkingDavid Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 07/10/2025i know jean baudrillard would be feasting on this sora AI crap 1172
Reposted by Ben WibkingMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/09/2025"You need to watch a lot of YouTube video essays to make sense of anything."buff.lyAmerica in 2025 or Hollow Knight: Silksong?1. It’s the hotly anticipated sequel of a late 2010s, grimdark existential nightmare. 2. The economy is really, really bad. Like. Really bad. 3. Th... 0203
Reposted by Ben WibkingEd Morrish @edmorrish.com · 26/07/2025my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls 748221217
Reposted by Ben WibkingRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 21/06/2025Exoplanet System xkcd.com/3103/ 322533365
Reposted by Ben WibkingNSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 23/05/2025🚨 SAVE THE DATE: The world's First Look at images from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory is coming June 23, 2025! 🔭🧪 Get ready for a preview of how Rubin will soon #CaptureTheCosmos in its decade-long survey 🌌 More details soon—stay up to date at rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-first-look 410344
Reposted by Ben Wibkingpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Inhaling rhydonium would fix me 2160668
Reposted by Ben WibkingMondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 16/05/2025Survivors describe “hell raining down” on them following Israeli airstrikes on the European Hospital in Gaza. “There is nothing left of the horrors of the Day of Judgment that we have not witnessed in Gaza,” an eyewitness tells Mondoweiss.mondoweiss.net‘The ground split and swallowed them’: Survivors of European Hospital bombing in Gaza recount deadly Israeli attackSurvivors describe “hell raining down” on them following Israeli airstrikes on the European Hospital in Gaza. “There is nothing left of the horrors of the Day of Judgment that we have not witnessed… 38659
Reposted by Ben WibkingPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for: "As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine." 11631681341
Reposted by Ben WibkingThe Onion @theonion.com · 13/05/2025State Department Warns Americans Traveling Abroad To Avoid Lame Amsterdam Windmill Tour theonion.com/state-d... 34138080
Reposted by Ben WibkingGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Pope Francis’ Popemobile, “the very vehicle from which he waved and was close to millions of faithful all around the world, is being transformed into a mobile health unit for the children of Gaza.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...vaticannews.vaThe Popemobile of Peace: Pope Francis’ final gift to Gaza - Vatican NewsPope Francis requests that his popemobile be turned into a health clinic for the children of Gaza. 01049358
Reposted by Ben WibkingFaisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Arabic phrase for the day مزبلة التاريخ Mazbalat al tareekh ‘The rubbish bin of history’ 2214
Reposted by Ben WibkingNigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 29/04/2025As many people have noticed – but let me point it for those who are having problems – all recipes on nigella.com come with a toggle to change metric to US measures and ingredients. PS Tinned tomatoes, anchovies, olives, capers and spaghetti are not, I believe – even in America – difficult to find 1432238136
Reposted by Ben WibkingHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all. 275163995946
Reposted by Ben WibkingCosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 23/04/2025Do you want to work with one of the greatest radio telescopes on the planet? You get to be a part of the legacy and future decision-making for this iconic instrument, a giant in #RadioAstronomy heritage. New job with Murriyang! 📡 03415
Ben Wibking @benwibking.bsky.social · 20/04/2025on.ft.com/42F9x4Q Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazyon.ft.comWelcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazyThe last bits of fellowship and ingenuity on the web are being swept away by a tide of so-called artificial intelligence 030
Reposted by Ben WibkingMichael Zingale @michaelzingale.bsky.social · 18/04/2025NSF funding frozen :( www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comExclusive: Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grantsThe National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE. 044
Reposted by Ben WibkingSandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...gold.ac.ukPalestinian Scholarship 2377482
Ben Wibking @benwibking.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Rashid Khalidi: “Once the quislings who run Columbia University have implemented the diktats of their masters in Washington…teaching and even quoting Fanon will be perilous indeed…. We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet”theguardian.comDoes Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid KhalidiColumbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson 010
Reposted by Ben WibkingGerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now 121160434815
![Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing at diagram while speaking to three other people] PERSON: If the emergency stop is activated, any riders on the waterslide will be diverted into the beam dump, a large graphite block which will safely absorb their momentum. [caption] We regretted hiring an accelerator physicist to design our water park.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicnzdnpjdz4clfa2uhx6isbdwgu72oku5pee4av7paavbjmqpyoiu)
![Comic. [planets and astronomical bodies in various shapes with comments pointing to them] Typical Exoplanet System: Giant planet orbiting so close that it’s actually rolling on the star’s surface; Hot Jupiter; Mini Neptune; Planet that could be habitable, if there’s a form of life that hates water but loves acid and being on fire; Cold Jupiter; Potentially habitable void; Hot Mars; Planet that may actually be in the habitable zone, according to a very optimistic modeling paper by some desperate postdocs; There’s a pulsar here but it’s probably fine; A waterworld paradise with beautiful oceans and warm— Wait, no, we just got new measurements, it’s a hellish steam oven; Mini Pluto; Earthlike data artifact; Wet Saturn; Either a gas giant or a fist-sized rock, depending which calibration method you use; Faint dust cloud that will cause several papers to be retracted; Somehow this whole system is smaller than the orbit of Mercury?!; Planet whose surface may host conditions suitable for rocks](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiarfi2ggmv32pbpagsawnfvq3qpvww6qnptusklp2skmj7dqclewm)
