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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 50m

Effective government is what we need.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 1h

This is just a terrible take. Large chunks of the US government have been destroyed and rebuilding is the first order priority to ensure people get the services they need. The second to make sure it never happens again. Efficiency? Nope. We need a Marshall Plan for the US.

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 8h

So, apparently the T.H. Chan School of Public Health has beclowned itself with a series of studies claiming an association of cancer with proximity to nuclear power plants. The only problem? That association is linked with every single landmark one can test. In other words, a statistical artifact.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1h

Establish that violations of the Emoluments Clauses and the Establishment Clause are impeachable. Establish that war crimes are impeachable. None of these require the mens rea questions that so sidetracked the first two Trump impeachments. The facts are the facts.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1h

such that the impeachment votes could be held seriatim on day one of a new Congress. There could be fifty different charges against Trump. Let the Senate try ' em all. Establish that violations of the War Powers Act, the Budget and Impoundment Act, or the Antideficiency Act are impeachable.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1h

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 2h

The only niche AI music could possibly serve is ambient stuff. Meditation, generic theme background music, elevators, waiting on hold. Stuff that doesn't matter.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 2h

72 day/year in the dark in Northern Minnesota. Do you want to make it 140 days/year? And for what? So adults can see the sun on their commute home? bioturbonick.github.io/DaylightExpl...

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Daylight Explorer

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 2h

Update: Coast Guard search crews located a debris field that has been confirmed to be associated with the missing aircraft. www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releas...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 3h

I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 6h

The question is how much of this survives the subsidy era. How many millions of dollars is solving a math problem worth?

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 7h

Oh wow that's the whole board game, not just the card edition. I... I must assume its just super cheap to manufacture variants and capture a niche market.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 13h

Yes,maybe it does mean that this piece wouldn’t have been published, but maybe that itself is an indicator. If you don’t care enough to put your human time into the writing, why do you care enough to say it at all?

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 13h

I also think most of the edge cases Prachee uses to criticize arxiv’s approach are disingenuous at best. Oh, you have a bunch of experimental results to show at once? Put them all in one paper, and learn to tell the story of your research and YOUR THOUGHTS that got you to run all those experiments.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 10h

New particularly complex disaster breakdown video from USCSB. Also they have a new, more dramatic narrator.

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Alarming Mistakes, Deadly Decisions: Fatal Fire at BP-Husky

YouTube video by USCSB

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 10h

Also it isn't an outbreak? It's one lab worker at this time.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10h

While never great, pneumonic plague outbreaks happen every few years and there is a pretty good protocol for containing them and treating victims.

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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 13h

A24 accidentally and unwillingly becoming one of the biggest entertainment conglomerates in America by being the only people who are aware that highbrow liberals spend more money than anyone else

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 11h

What's with the bouncing trajectory? That is what that line is?

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 11h

Within a company/close collaboration and are truly global, sure. If they aren't at least trying to be considerate, then, well, that says a lot more about the tech world than anything else.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 11h

We could; but then we'd still need a way to roughly know when people across the country are awake and at work if we want to communicate with them. Which time zones really help with. Plus, I think we should strive to keep noon +/- 30 min of actual solar noon as much as we can.

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FBS @fbsxix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

yo did you see this shit yet www.dpreview.com/photography/...

"Are you kidding me" photo -
Photographer description: A young Great Horned Owl had barely settled onto its perch before a protective squirrel launched a surprise aerial tackle, knocking it into the grass below. The most unbelievable part? The squirrel repeated the stunt two more times. The owl and squirrel were shaken up, but unharmed. I have been observing and photographing Great Horned Owls at this location for around nine years, and I had never seen anything like this before. An adult pair was raising two chicks, and once the young owls began branching, I started visiting them regularly in the mornings and evenings to observe their behavior. On this particular morning, I spotted one of the seven-week-old owlets perched in a pine tree along the path.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks Gavin Newsom!!!

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 12h

You're very close to unlocking the real issue - our schedules, not the clock.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 12h

Just wait for the "well some places way up north do it and they do fine" response.

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 12h

The next generation of A.I. sucks chatbutt.

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AI’s rogue hallucinations

A cartoon by Brian McFadden.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 12h

But also, maybe it'd be better to pull together an annual wrap-up collection of whatever hanging bits and pieces you want to get out, which allows reflection and consideration, rather than some piecemeal rapid-release model. Most research doesn't benefit from extreme dissemination speed.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 12h

FWIW, I think there could be some value in that, if the pieces are being selected for value. But there's no reason that kind of model needs to use the existing infrastructure meant for long-form articles.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12h

Anything you share with one person can now become a dataset for someone else's AI agent to mine, without so much as a heads up, because the "human in the loop" doesn't give a shit about ethics.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 13h

This story is a perfect snapshot of a nation with leaders who channel that money is the only thing that matters, accelerated by social media scrambling brains into no concept of morality or shared decency. It’s all just “influencing” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/w...

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What We Learned About American Teenagers Supplying Guns to Cartels (Gift Article)

Our reporting revealed how Mexican criminal groups are relying on teenagers and young adults in border states like Arizona to help supply their weapons.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 13h

Are you uncomfortable with saying copying someone else's words is bad?

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 13h

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Joe Biden helped normalize lack of accountability also by fist bumping MBS four years later www.bbc.com/news/world-m...

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 13h

I like how other Rs explain that it’s not a bribe, he’s talking about a legitimate policy proposal he hopes to enact with R support, and then Trump comes out and says It’s a bribe, I’m bribing you to vote for Republicans.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 15h

You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.

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junhyongkim.bsky.social @junhyongkim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Public forum for communication is a precious resource. All communication channels are being corrupted by tech (e.g. spam calls). Slowing things down is a good heuristic to create a cost incentive for low quality messages.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 13h

Sure. My point is that we do have a mechanism for rich neighborhoods to pay more, and it could be adjusted to be more fair.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 14h

I feel that if the ideas aren't important enough to a person to write directly, or clear enough in their head to express in written form, it probably also isn't worth it to write, and little value to themselves or their readers in having a computer try to do it for them.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 15h

this is the first one of these "the alarm must be raised" pieces that actually makes sense, largely because he says something obvious: no one at the company has any clue about how safety engineering works

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 15h

ONE MILLLLLIONNN dollars. I laughed! $500 is a decent bid at someone’s vote (not $5000, but still good) but to make a difference in any specific race you’d have to target exactly the right people, which I think would be 1) very difficult and 2) more obviously illegal.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 15h

Rich neighborhoods are paying with property taxes, no?

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 15h

In the same sense of it being Hitler's legacy?

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