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Ren @bothildr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

walking downtown #YEG today w/ the younger offspring & saw a city employee preparing a parking ticket for a cyb3rtruck, & cheered her on

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Ren @bothildr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

scrolled back a ways so i could repost this and holler "SAAAME"

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Instead of a thousand words. Pavlo, a Ukrainian Defender who has returned from Russian captivity, takes down his picture from a wall of missing and captives. He spent 50 months in Russian captivity. That's over four years.... 📷: iamslimaa/Threads

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 24/09/2026

Pals I see you sharing links to London Daily & need you to know it's AI bullshit. The Louise Michel is real, Banksy really funded it, but that started in 2020 & the LD link people are sharing is timestamped to today but written as if it's 2020 & elides all the actual journalism about it.

Screenshot reads as follows:

Welcome to London Daily, an innovative and unique news experiment driven by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Our AI system conducts extensive research and fact-checking, presenting a non-biased and diverse perspective on each topic. It meticulously filters out biased or manipulated content, offering you factual summaries essential for your knowledge as an informed citizen.

Our aim is not to replace mainstream media but to provide you with succinct summaries of key headlines, encouraging you to explore these stories in greater depth through your favorite mainstream news sources.

As a privately funded, non-profit initiative, our mission is to provide a concise and comprehensive overview of current events as part of a broader project to enhance fact-checking and AI journalism for journalists and publishers worldwide.

We are building a tool that will help professional journalists and traditional mainstream news outlets enhance their news delivery, boost their readership, ease their workload, and lower their costs while increasing their productivity—all aimed at improving content reliability and readability.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 22/09/2026

Our subscription drive is still going and is now 70 new subscribers short of its goal. We had hoped to reach that in time for our 20th anniversary issue in October so we could give everyone their raises as part of that celebration. It's going to be close. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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Subscribe to Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

HiPOD: Sulfate Deposits in Iani Chaos This HiRISE image shows light-toned layered deposits within Iani Chaos. Many of the same deposits occur within the depressions of Iani Chaos, as well as several nearby regions like Aram and Aureum Chaos. More: uahirise.org/ESP_092877_1780

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

British mathematician & physicist Phyllis Nicolson co-developed the Crank–Nicolson method, a foundational algorithm in numerical analysis. Her contributions during/after WWII laid the groundwork for modern computational science, fluid dynamics & heat transfer modeling. Born #OTD 1917. #WomenInSTEM

A black-and-white portrait of British mathematician and physicist Phyllis Nicolson (born Phyllis Lockett, 1917–1968). The head-and-shoulders shot is against a clean, plain, and bright studio background with no visible objects. Nicolson is posed facing forward with a subtle, pleasant smile and bright, intelligent eyes. She wears her dark, wavy hair styled in a mid-century chin-length cut with volume around the ears and curls framing her face. Her attire is a simple, light-colored collared shirt. The overall mood is dignified, optimistic, and intellectual. The composition utilizes soft lighting that minimizes harsh shadows, highlighting her features cleanly. This image holds historical significance, capturing a pioneering woman in STEM whose wartime and postwar contributions co-developing the Crank–Nicolson method laid foundational work for modern computational science.

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Ren @bothildr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

surprised to notice an absurdly high no. for Followers on my @bsky.app profile, about 4x what shows in my actual list. i think it must be counting all the bots & spammers I've blocked. anyone else notice similar on their profile?

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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The myth Alberta 'subsidizes' the rest of Canada is the most powerful meme in the separatist armoury. But it's utterly false. I show that most Albertans get more back from federal programs than they personally pay in federal taxes, for @thetyee.ca: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026... #abpoli /2

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No, Alberta Does Not ‘Subsidize’ the Rest of Canada | The Tyee

The vast majority of workers get more from federal programs than they give.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 15/09/2026

THIS IS TODAY AHEM

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

1/x The widest ships in the world are not tankers or aircraft carriers. They are four Norwegian survey vessels, 104 metres long and 70 metres across the stern, shaped like slices of pie. They exist for one purpose: to listen to rocks. This is the Ramform Titan class. #shipbuilding

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

May you cross the sky as one who is on his throne, may you tread on the heart of him who would exclude you, (CTF1)

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When creating PDFs, avoid using "Print to PDF." A screen reader user may still be able to access the text of PDFs created this way, but heading structure, alternative text, and any other tag structure will be lost. Using "Save As" or "Export" can preserve these tags.

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Ethan Sacks @ethansacks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I stood with a face full of shaving cream smearing the phone as I reassured my brother-in-law in Japan that my wife was in the other Tower. Her family were worried over the breaking news they were getting from across the Pacific. We watched together ... 1/

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Dr. Wendy Panero @mineraltoplanet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I just noticed that the number of recognized exoplanets [6360] recently surpassed the number of recognized minerals [6239]. It’s like noticing your car odometer at 100,003 miles. #mincup26

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

On this Star Trek Day, please enjoy some Star Trek art from me

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Join us in celebrating the people who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay

illustration of two farm workers loading the crop onto a truck, with “Happy Labor Day!” text, UFW eagle emblem in a red circle, and 09.07 date.

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Rachel Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 06/09/2026

Hey, remember how I resolved to stop reading about Alberta separatism yesterday, because it was giving me panic attacks? This is different. DO read this.

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ESA Operations @operations.esa.int · 03/09/2026

ACQUISITION OF SIGNAL CONFIRMED! 🎉🛰️ #BepiColombo telemetry shows the Mercury Transfer Module has successfully separated from the spacecraft stack! ✅ First step of Mercury arrival phase - complete! 👏 Next stop: Mercury orbit insertion for MPO and Mio in November! @esa.int #JAXA #Mercury

First signal after seperation from BepiColombo

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 01/09/2026

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully activated the mission’s Coronagraph Instrument, which will block starlight to view planets and dusty disks around nearby stars. #NASARoman 🔭

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NASA Roman's Planet Imager Has Powered On - NASA Science

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully activated the mission's Coronagraph Instrument, which will block starlight to view planets and

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 01/09/2026

You are at point to lose your liberties.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. Wendell Berry, What Are People For?

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 27/08/2026

ALSO HI if you are local to Edmonton #yeg I would love to see you in person at @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social on September 15 at 7:30 for the launch party for my fantaspionage novel WICKHILLS! :D Pls dress as a spy *undercover is fine audreys.ca/events/58407...

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Book Launch with Premee Mohamed | Audreys Books

Edmonton's Oldest Independent Bookstore selling new books for adults and children

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I wrote about Dolly and Appalachia for this week’s Scratch. www.talkscratch.com/dolly-parton...

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Dolly Parton Loved Being Dolly Parton

It was one of the most important aspects of her art.

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Ren @bothildr.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"Care to step onto my battlefield?" -Capt. Benjamin Sisko

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Ren @bothildr.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If a text has not been written by a living human being, there is no good reason under or among the stars for any other human being to read it.

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Ren @bothildr.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"A person who buries his head in the sand offers an engaging target." -Mabel A. Keenan

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Astronomy Picture of the Day (unofficial bot) @fanapod.baldanders.info · 15/08/2026

#apod 2026-08-15 Bright Perseids from Sweden Image Credit: Clear Skies Web page: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260815.html

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There is no good use of generative AI because the technology was built on theft of creative labor. If that position surprises you from an artist whose life's work was scraped and used without permission to train trillion dollar technology, educate yourself. www.michaelwhelan.com/faq/#digital...

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