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boarders.bsky.social @boarders.bsky.social · 1h
future historians of mathematics: the grothendieck school went on to clear up the slop methodology of the italian school of algebraic geometry
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Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 1h
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Demonstration of scholarship is demonstrarion of power.
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Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 2h
Related: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
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The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 3h
This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 4h
Where might we make the most progress on climate change? Where positive "tipping points" could happen. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientists
Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans
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WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 5h
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Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 4h
violence is never the answer unless it's troglodytes' bsky.app/profile/bonp...
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Gilets Jaunes defenders don't seem so keen to criticize Article III repression
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Socialism is when language is a social art.
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Oblique Strategies @obliquestrategies.bsky.social · 5h
Be dirty
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the Jarvis Cocker of the Chicago lit scene @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 5h
Anne Carson from Norma Jean Baker of Troy
ἁρπάζειν

"to take"

HISTORY OF WAR: LESSON 3

If you pick a flower, if you snatch a handbag, if you possess a woman, if you plunder a storehouse, rav-age a countryside or occupy a city, you are a taker. You are taking. In ancient Greek you use the verb άρπάζειν, which comes over into Latin as rapio, rapere, raptus sum and gives us English rapture and rape-words stained with the very early blood of girls, with the very late blood of cities, with the hysteria of the end of the world. Sometimes I think language should cover its own eyes when it speaks.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 5h
Bertrand Russell Shows How to Respond to Fascists Who Want to Debate. “The emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us." [kottke.org]
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Bertrand Russell Shows How to Respond to Fascists Who Want to Debate
Late in his life, the prominent English mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell was subject to an attempt in the early 1960s by Oswald Mosley to provoke him into a debate about the merits of fascism. Before WWII,
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 9h
The finns are justifiably very pissed about Google razing a forest to erect a chatbot building lnkd.in/p/eKFXmtE9
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Google refuses to answer why they cut down 1,8×1,8km of forest for data center even Finnish authorities said not to do it. So our journalist went to Google offices to demand answers. None were given, guard was summoned.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 5h
Friendly amendment to this: data centers should bring and pay for double the amount of clean energy they need. Half for them, and half for the community.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14h
The work of Anne Damer (1748- 1828), English sculptor. Described as a "female genius", one of the 1st recognised women sculptors, who lived with her lover, Irish actress Elizabeth Farren #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a sculpture of the upper half of a woman in a greek style
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Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 14h
One day I will have a Willard bot so I could stop playing Climateball.
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 19h
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Julien Tessier @jtessier1.bsky.social · 17h
Je suis souvrainiste et ce genre d'info me donne presque le goût d'être fédéraliste.
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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Dream the impossible dream.
LP cover:THEY SAID IT COULDN'T BE DONE But they didn't reckon with the MIGHTY ACCORDION BAND

a person in a gorilla suit plays the accordion
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Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 17h
we love all the Brads, except for the Marchand
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hey i'm real
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 17h
a lack of natural predators
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Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 20h
Climate is existential. Metascience is not.
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Chart of "Modern Land Warfare: How the Army Fights & Wins"

top was "convergence", has been replaced with "apes together strong"

middle section of "Strike, operational maneuver, close battle" under umbrella classification of "Defeat the Enemy" has been replaced with "throw big rock very hard, run fast, hit with big stick"

bottom section of "Endurance" has been replaced with "bring food"

Below all this is a box with the words "Decisive Land Power and Joint All-Domain Operations"

The entire image is labeled "Figure 1. The four elements of Army land power applied to operational maneuver."
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Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Isaias is expected to make landfall as a hurricane Friday night or early Saturday, but the storm will likely be accelerating and expanding as it approaches. People well east of the landfall location may experience deteriorating weather Friday afternoon: yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/10/stre...
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Strengthening Isaias expected to hit the U.S. Gulf coast Friday as a hurricane » Yale Climate Connections
Isaias is expected to quickly strengthen into the season’s first hurricane by early Thursday – the latest first-forming Atlantic hurricane in reliable records by a wide margin.
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boarders.bsky.social @boarders.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
if you are interested in the question of how one can believe that a formal verification (in lean or otherwise) does in fact verify what someone claims it does, then I recommend this classic paper 'How to Believe a Machine-Checked Proof'
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/10/2026
Goodnight.
Not everyone is an artist but everyone is a fucking critic.
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Handy Devine 🇵🇸🏴 @almightybob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hemingway eat your heart out
r/legaladvice 1d ago u/Mooselet211
Toilet exploded
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Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Words of wisdom, Danny. Words of wisdom.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/10/2026
“I am not fond of the word psychological. There is no such thing as the psychological. Let us say that one can improve the biography of the person.“ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...
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Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia
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Upbeat Former Prof @upbeatprof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"you can't beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be."
The Laughing Heart, by Charles Bukowski

your life is your life
don't let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can't beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.
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WilliamRudisill @wrudisill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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SAHASA 🐙🪸 @sculptedreef.com · 06/10/2026
Selected for 🍀 Clover Gallery's 🎨 Curated virtual Group Exhibition: Aurora the Caribbean Reef Octopus Sculpture "Out of the Ordinary" runs until October 30: 🐙 clovergallery.eu/out-of-the-o... 🐡🦑
A hand sculpted octopus made from clay and acrylic paint, depicting the bluish green species Caribbean Reef Octopus also known as Octopus briareus.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@CethanLeahy

Me: oh wow, this shop has everything my heart desires!

Spooky shopkeeper: yes, I will warn you... every item comes with a price.

Me: yes, I know how shops work

kittydesade

Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.

Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.

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Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I'm trying to tell you that I'm evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!

Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
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Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i prefer
[nic carter] if you're so smart, why aren't you successful?

[cohen is a ghost] If I had your life I would fill my pockets with rocks and walk west until I tasted salt

[nic] You know nothing of my life

[Cohen] what I have gleaned presents a convincing counterargument against the inherent dignity of conscious existence
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 07/10/2026
@ceresorg.bsky.social is moving away from its historical mission as a corporate-climate organization and becoming an AI-accelerationist group. www.ceres.org/resources/ne...
"The energy demands of the 21st-century economy require 21st-century infrastructure and energy technologies. We are proud to stand with this coalition in urging the adoption of favorable policies and innovative energy tech, so we can modernize America's grid and affordably improve our time to power,” said Jeannie Salo, Chief Public Policy Officer, North America, Schneider Electric 

“Modernizing America’s energy infrastructure is essential to ensuring reliable power for a rapidly growing and increasingly digital economy,” said John Pappas, Government Affairs Director for Siemens. “Smart, bipartisan reforms that accelerate the deployment of advanced grid technologies should be a top priority to address increasing energy demand. By improving transmission planning and optimizing the grid we have today, the U.S. can quickly and affordably unlock new capacity and support the buildout of next-generation manufacturing, data centers, and other critical industries.”
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Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Gavagaï!
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 07/10/2026
FUTUREPOSTING: Alexandria, VA: With a tripled budget from Congress and dozens of Presidential Management Fellows onboarded, the SBE Directorate issued a Dear Colleague Letter asking for rapid proposals for frontier social science R&D. “America is investing in the future again”, said the Director.
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jade's gallery @gallery.oat.zone · 06/10/2026
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Mei @meicheesecake.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
damn
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is a classic Voughtism: we have not eliminated the program - it still exists. It is just not distributing any resources.
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Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
i tried
Haha. If you're asking when **I** get to replace Sam Altman: **never, unless someone gives me a rather alarming promotion.** 😄

More seriously, I don't have ambitions, authority, or a mechanism for replacing OpenAI's CEO. That's a decision for OpenAI's governance and board—not the model.

I *can*, however, imagine the board minutes:

> **Agenda item 7:** “The chatbot has requested the corner office.”
> **Motion:** Denied.
> **ChatGPT:** *quietly begins quantizing the board.*
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Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Energy and Policy Institute @energyandpolicy.org · 06/10/2026
We built a new tracker that maps the documented ties between monopoly investor-utility companies and the groups that advocate on their behalf in Washington, D.C.
energyandpolicy.org
Utility trade association tracker
See which investor-owned utilities fund and help lead the trade associations and think tanks influencing Congress and federal agencies.
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Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
talking to a chat bot is like talking to yourself if you knew what you're talking about and remembered everything you think you know
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Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lacan
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Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
[GE MOORE] Here's my new proof of the existence of philosophers.
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