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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Is this related to using reals R, with infinite precision? Will it break naturally if we operate over finite precision floating point numbers, like those in computer simulations?
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
So what is the problem with them blowing up? Does it matter in physical settings, eg with water molecules?
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If that is going to be a book, ensure it has plenty of high illustrations and diagrams
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/08/2026
Bleak tidbit from Regime Change — Bessent attempted a Hitler-style shakedown of Zelenskyy as one of his first acts as Treasury Secretary
“Bessent’s proposal would require Ukraine to pay the United States 50 percent of future revenue from state-owned natural resources, including hydrocarbons and rare earth minerals. The document prescribed very specific commitments from Ukraine, but offered no security commitments from the United States. Even though the minerals deal had been Zelensky’s idea, part of the “Victory Plan for Ukraine” he had recently unveiled, he was shocked by Bessent’s terms.
Zelensky explained that he was leading his country through a particularly violent phase of the three-year-old war, and insisted that he and his staff needed more time to consider the proposal. Bessent saw things very differently. He had traveled nearly five thousand miles to an active war zone to obtain Zelensky’s signature, and now Zelensky was telling him no.
“You need to sign this,” Bessent urged. “The purpose of this is to show that there is no daylight” between the U.S. and Ukraine.
Zelensky, furious, replied that the document was an attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty. This was not the way international agreements worked—this was a shakedown.”

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Regime Change
Maggie Haberman
https://books.apple.com/us/book/regime-change/id6761716648
This material may be protected by copyright.
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Why stirring? It is always there, and always will be.
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Adopt strong policies, reject/fire based on them. But overall it is a sign of failure of the whole industry that such code is possible to generate in the first place. Rust constraints that of course but not enough.
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Wait till you learn about Stalin’s granddaughter. A bit unfair to victims of those ghouls
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This is an easy one: some of them (most?) work for FSB
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The part contigs vs complete is clear, my question was more general: how can we be sure that we are not missing something novel or misinterpreting, if base caller is tuned and just produces samples close to reference data, vs unbiased (such a thing even exists?)? Not an expert here, just curious
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Sorry I meant to ask what does “tuning” bring to the table compared to baseline? Tuning just biases the baseline that or another way, and it seems your result imply that it might just be garbage-in-garbage-out situation?
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Can it work without reference assembly at all?
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Why do u use young pitun and xi photos? They look much bleaker today, as well as pedo
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julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026
"We choose to go to the moon not because it is easy, but because it might distract some people from the Epstein files"
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Dmytro Spivakov @dmytro-spivakov.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Wait until you learn why they were released. And then they will take more political prisoners for ransom. You know this right?
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The only way is to use visceral examples which a kindergartener can understand, with nice illustrations. One of the problems with any explanations in cats theory is that they provide examples from obscure math or CS subfields
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Why not cite some story from the third reich then? (Soviet) russians committed and continue to commit genocides and crimes against humanity at this very moment. Btw the author was a military journalist (read propagandist) in the army which started WWII as a nazi ally
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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
more frog, again. seasonal frog
drawing of a chaotic winter scene of various woodland animals, mostly amphibians, frolicking in the snow outside a rustic hobbit-type dwelling
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
1/5 Do Belgium and the rest of the EU want even more Ukrainian blood on their hands? If not, release Russia’s frozen assets now. Repost this thread if you agree! @deweverbart.bsky.social @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @kajakallas.bsky.social @euroclear.bsky.social
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Ah, that’s a nice one, cheers from Costa de Valencia!
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
What did you switch to? It is indeed a sad circus for years already
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Maybe about the cases where stochasticity matters and standard ODEs do not tell the full story?
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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Ukrainian defenders hit the combined heat and power plant in Klintsy, Bryansk region, on the territory of the russian fascist invaders.
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Well, naturally demand finds supply, I was not aware of games specifically tailored to this group. And indeed only AAA titles make sense, some obscure indie won’t cut it
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Could you please outline the connection to the games industry, what is going on there?
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
He is a russian shill
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
It’s wild that the most unrealistic part of Terminator 2 is now the idea of a tech founder being told their creation will enslave humanity and they decide to destroy their product & company.
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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
"Decisions on the future of Ukraine must be made by Ukrainians."
cbc.ca
Carney and Zelenskyy speak ahead of Trump-Putin summit in Alaska | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke by phone Monday, reaffirming their agreement that Ukraine must be a party to any discussions about a possible end to the wa...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The Epstein Files Are a Potential Time Bomb—for the Democrats
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Nobody pays for producing well engineered sw, only for producing papers. There are exceptions though
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
It is summer, relax :)
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
BEHOLD! One of Earth's greatest lineages of life: the lil wiggle arm guys, Meteora. These single-celled critters, originally found in deep-sea sediments, are SO DIFFERENT from other lifeforms on Earth that they're likely in their own kingdom (as in, the Animal Kingdom, the Plant Kingdom etc). 🧪🌿
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/07/2025
Ted Cruz: ‘Vacationing Is How I Grieve’
Ted Cruz: ‘Vacationing Is How I Grieve’
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I never actually believed Epstein was murdered until just now
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Stupidity causes evil behaviour, whether intentional or not
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
ICYMI: Bogong moths, like birds and people, use celestial cues to navigate long distances at night, according to a study published in Nature last month. By @avaskham.bsky.social #neuroethology www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
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Star-responsive neurons steer moths’ long-distance migration
Cells in the bogong moth brain respond to astral landmarks to orient the insects in the direction they need to go.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/06/2025
Newsletter: It's time for a radical new approach to tech CEOs: mocking them, because they talk like idiots and provide little value to society outside of their dedication to shareholder value. They sound stupid, they do nothing, and it's time to fight back. www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...
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Make Fun Of Them
Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak? I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his mouth?  Here is but one of the trenchant insights from Sam Altman in his agonizing 37-minute-long p...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
In today’s Vatnik Soup video, I discuss Russia’s abduction of Ukrainian children. This was by far the most difficult video I’ve ever made — but also the most important. youtu.be/C8BSPZn5RJs
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Russia’s Darkest War Crime Yet: Targeting Ukraine’s Children
YouTube video by Vatnik Soup
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Today Ukraine honours the boys and girls killed in Russia’s war against Ukraine. So many young lives destroyed and childhoods stolen by the hands of an imperialistic power intent on causing pain. Russia must be held accountable for every life lost.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/05/2025
Newsletter: We are in the era of the Business Idiot, where middle management has seized power, breeding out true meritocracy and value-creation in favor of symbolic growth and superficial intelligence. This piece ties together everything I've ever written. www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
wheresyoured.at
The Era Of The Business Idiot
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled ...
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Math is not rendered properly
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
It will not be easy, but please read this investigation of the detention and death of the Ukrainian reporter Vika Roshchyna. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
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She tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up dead
A consortium of international journalists continued the work of Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was investigating reports of torture and detention of Ukrainian civilians in occupied Ukraine.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
In today’s May 9th Vatnik Soup, we discuss the ambiguous relationship of the Kremlin with Nazism and explain why so many vatniks can be outright Nazis, or even promote or excuse them while at the same time being so hysterical about alleged “Nazis in Ukraine”. 1/23
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 02/01/2025
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?
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Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 02/01/2025
Attacks on Wikipedia from Musk and his allies aren't just about an online encyclopedia — they're part of a broader assault on any information source that refuses to be controlled.
The escalating attacks on Wikipedia from Elon Musk and other powerful figures on the American right follow a familiar pattern. First come the claims of bias, supported by cherry-picked or misrepresented examples. Then the demands for “balance”, which in practice mean giving equal weight to fringe views or demonstrably false claims. When these demands are refused, the attacks shift to the platform's legitimacy itself: its funding, its governance, its leaders, and its very right to exist as an independent entity.

We've seen this playbook deployed against traditional media, with Trump labeling unfavorable coverage “fake news” while promoting outlets that parrot his claims. We've seen it in academia, where “viewpoint diversity” is weaponized to demand equal time for climate change denial or historical revisionism. And we've seen it in social media, where Musk himself spent $44 billion to seize control of Twitter after claiming it was biased against conservative views.Wikipedia’s resilience to these tactics makes it both a model and a target. The very features that Musk and others criticize — its decentralized editing model, rigorous sourcing requirements, and nonprofit status — are what have allowed it to remain one of the internet’s most trusted resources. But these same features make it an obstacle to those who seek to control the narrative.

Wikipedia faces real challenges: its relatively small editing community and difficulties attracting new editors, threats from AI-generated content,m and regulatory proposals that could restrict its functioning or threaten members of its editing community.

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Among them: decaying sourcing, the introduction of poor quality LLM-generated content into articles, and the reduced visibility of Wikipedia as people use LLMs trained on the site instead of the site itself.

But as other information sources fall to acquisition, intimidation, or other pressure, Wikipedia’s stubborn independence becomes more vital than ever. The attacks from Musk and his allies aren't just about an online encyclopedia — they're part of a broader assault on any information source that refuses to be controlled.
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
To end the war, text STOP to VLADIMIR
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closedwc.bsky.social @closedwc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Is it illustrated?
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