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Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – awarded the 2026 medicine prize – discovered a remarkable protein, channelrhodopsin, in a single-celled alga. Hegemann wondered how Chlamydomonas, a single-celled alga, is able to swim towards a light source.

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 6h

So... Anthropic is outspending him, right?

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 6h

I mean... women aren't people, are they? Nah, surely not. (I admit to being mildly surprised this guy would write these words and not even bother to consider what this says about his feelings about women)

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Simpsons Skinner

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Who blames GenZ for ruining society? I don't think I see it... I think they actually got extra fucked over, except for the bit where they didn't actually get to see a world that wasn't this screwed up. But so many of them are doing wonders trying to snuff out artificiality and I'm all for it.

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jesus, their faces looked like they were photoshopped in by an intern who was only given the prompt "horrow movie vibes"

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't think Twitter is exclusively fascists, but in the same way that i don't think 1930s/40s Germany was exclusively fascists. It's the Nazi bar analogy. Sure, maybe you aren't an avowed fascist, but you know Musk is, and you're both open to seeing what he wants you to and willing to prop him up

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Eminem, nooooo! What happened to the guy who wrote songs specifically to tell GWB and Dick Cheney to fuck off? I know we all loved it when Elton John forgave you for all the homophobia ane you sang together, but this is the exact opposite scenario! This asswipe isn't sorry!

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wtf #2. Dude, Germany and France do not have a duty to save you from your own stupidity, especially when doing so might screw their own citizens later.

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wtf? I mean, it makes sense from their warped POV (if you can assert Nixon did nothing wrong, presidential immunity is even more bulletproof), but still. Wtf?

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them

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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There’s a concerted campaign to undermine EDI in Canada. The evidence behind EDI policies reducing excellence are based on abysmal, flawed evidence. Look at who feels threatened by equity, diversity and inclusion. They’re the least diverse, least equitable and most exclusive people. Just no.

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I hate Mark Carney with the heat of 1,000 suns. The Liberal Party must be destroyed.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We're arresting seniors wearing pictures of their grandchildren on behalf of the fossil fuel industry

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Turns out "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" is actually slightly less scary than "I'm a rich pervert who wants everyone to die".

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh, FFS! Does no one understand the Overton window? This kind of giving in crap is why the AfD keeps gaining ground

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tell me again how this dude ISN’T the most right wing PM we’ve had in almost a century? #cdnpoli

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If Conservatives were a little bit smarter, we would be SO FUCKED (or they wouldn't be Conservatives, I guess...)

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Aaron Binder @aaronbinder.com · 21/09/2026

Oops. What's that old saying? Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Composite image showing two Investing.com/Yahoo Finance article headlines stacked: top — Frank DeMatteo article (April 7, 2025) "Shopify CEO encourages staff to adopt AI tools for enhanced productivity"; bottom — Mia Osmonbekov article (September 17, 2026) "Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else." Both feature the same photo of a bald man in glasses and red jacket speaking at a presentation.

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm so, so, so tired of having to write to my MP every month or so to get some useless form response and maybe, if I'm lucky, a minimal improvement on their (still terrible) choices.

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

PP... bud, I know Carney is ruining your life by living out all your wildest dreams (both personally and policy-wise), but you GOTTA get better at reading the room and stop trying to fight past fights and resurrect grievancy politicking.

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ah, ok. This makes more sense

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Someone forgot his weekly chat with the boss was for his eyes/ears only, huh?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Who do you think will be the highest bidder for this AI czar role? I think probably not Musk, but who knows?

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The same is true for c. elegans, bacterial clumps, dog vomit slime molds, dicty, etc… complex flexible problem solving is pretty ubiquitous in the natural world and we don’t ascribe anything like what people are trying to force onto chatbots merely by virtue of complex problem solving.

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Way too many of these people's faces look like they asked their surgeons for "as close to the uncanny valley" and you can get and it's terrifying

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This might be one of the best statements I have seen on the Palestinian genocide and the weaponization of anti-semitism accusations against those speaking out, and I have to admit that I didn't expect that something like this would come from Macklemore

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Captain Canada may say all the right words in railing against Donald Trump, but his tactics and destruction of our norms and institutions are absolutely cut from the same cloth. Ontario has been fucking up for two or so decades in basically the exact ways that the US has.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think frankly all of this speaks to the really unserious way that Americans generally but the current GOP in particular think about armed conflict, as if it is against the rules for the other side to fight back. It is not. Which is one reason (of many) why maybe we should do less war.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

These guys - and evidently many Americans - live in a fantasy land where the enemy isn't allowed to shoot back at your *warships* engaged in an active military operation (the blockade), but also apparently it is totally A-OK to murder civilian mariners at will.

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Jesus, why? Who gave a real estate investor the keys to Little Tikes and can they please take them away, he/she is OBVIOUSLY drunk?

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I know he's an idiot and that giving his words even a moment's thought is a waste of time, but I find it hilariously ironic that someone with such obvious thirst for emperor status and who therefore so admired/s QEII and King Charles would say this lol. United Ireland but also Canada should be 51?

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Don’t Smile Don'T Laugh

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

may we honor the memories of everyone killed in 9/11, who died as a result of rescue efforts, either immediately or because of the environmental impact, of everyone bombed and killed in US "retaliation", and of everyone tortured, surveilled and harmed in the vile Islamophobic aftermath

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What the hell? *WE* suggested this shit? Canada took the lead on what eventually became 25 years of absolutely pointless and tragic wars in the Middle East? That is shameful

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It is kind of hilarious that they are building a triumphal arch as they are losing a war against Iran AND abandoning their place as the world's Superpower. Crazy, but hilarious

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

If buying isn't owning then piracy can't be theft. Any reasonable corporation knows that.

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John Bowker @johnbowker.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Infrastructure Ontario’s map of public lands for sale currently points to “Lake America,” notwithstanding Doug Ford’s big sign propertiesforsale.infrastructureontario.ca/Home.aspx #onpoli

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Sue Gowans @sueinnovates.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Every time Trump erupts, Ford wraps his Captain Canada cape back on, hits US media and deflects from THE JET, THE HOTELS, skills dev fund scandal, GREEN BELT, Therme, ON Place, ON Sci Centre, Billy Bishop, Bike Lanes, etc.

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My God, why is he wasting our money on this bullshit?

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ok, but given that it seems that he broke Belgian law, maybe he needs some real consequences?

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Nathan Cofnas and the US Ambassador to Belgium say that the University of Ghent have now lifted his suspension, thanking the US government for supporting him (with threats of retaliation). The Ambassador says that Cofnas will be able to complete his one year appointment to March 2027.

I am grateful to Rector Petra De Sutter for allowing me to stay at Ghent University. I look forward to continuing to work on the project, “The Future of Liberalism,” for 60% of my working time for the remainder of my one-year postdoc.

I wish to personally thank Ambassador
@BillWhiteUSA
. It was beyond my imagination that such a person would take an interest in the fate of a postdoc. The Ambassador responded with great support which helped to bring about a just outcome. Thank you,
@USAmbToBelgium
and
@StateDept
for defending American values. I am proud of my country.

After speaking with all parties, I am pleased to see that Ghent University and Nathan Cofnas have amicably reached an agreement to lift Mr. Cofnas' suspension, which will enable him to complete his one-year postdoctoral appointment. I look forward to working with Ghent University rector Petra De Sutter to continue the relationship between the university and the United States. I am grateful for her willingness to listen to voices calling for protecting academic freedom.

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Unfortunately, these guys are still a US company, so switching to them doesn't help.

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ok, I have mostly come around to the "Canadian tariff response should be about defending Canada and not attacking the US," but surely if they do this, we have to extend their ban to more critical products through export controls. How much would it cost to buy the potash we normally send down there?

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oh, shit. He's trying it? My God, living in idiocracry is the worst

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Camila L @clond.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

To be fair, he might be the first *person with influence* to say this

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Been on a mission for the past 6 yrs to find a bold lipstick that I can wear under a mask & then take off on stage without looking like the offspring of the Joker & Aunt Gladys. That kind of true long wear seemed impossible. I've found two that are damn near perfect & I refuse to gatekeep!

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