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Eric Carroll @ericcarroll.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks! EU P3 vs NA P100, I get it. I wear an EnvPro N99, Envo N95, or GVS SPR457 P100.

Eric Carroll @ericcarroll.bsky.social · 8h

I go through at least one envomask due to gell compartment failure every 1-2 years. Your GVS Elipse is a different colour than my SPR457. What model is it?

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The puppies Penn & Teller, and Richard @rdaily.medsky.social · 28/09/2026

China Just Crossed 1,000 Gigawatts of Solar Power - The largest amount any country has ever installed. Equal to the entire electricity capacity of the United States.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Michael Pratt @prattmic.com · 18/09/2026

Time to set up gVisor to sandbox even the GUI applications I run? Back when we started gVisor I never imagined we'd run anything this complex. It's amazing to see how far the project has come! gvisor.dev/blog/2026/09...

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Who needs VMs? Run systemd and full Linux desktop apps in gVisor

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Just had my 1st dose of shingles vaccine. A few relatives have had shingles in the last few years, and it was *very* unpleasant. In Australia, the Shingrix vaccine is now free for 65+, so if you don’t want your childhood chickenpox infection waking up to torment you again ...

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 02/10/2026

Session highs for 2y, 5y, 10y, 30y yields as well as reals.

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Get The Word Out There

ALT: Get The Word Out There

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Eric Carroll @ericcarroll.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is true of all technology teams.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 25/09/2026

and so a lot of what you've seen since is this weird race where openai and anthropic are not precisely trying to make their models _better_ in some kind of coherently user- or value-oriented way but are trying to make them more like they THOUGHT "AI" would look before LLMs panned out.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 25/09/2026

here is a succinct thing I can say: "alignment"-style AI safety risks DO NOT EXIST or need remediation with LLMs as such (there are lots of other problems) and OpenAI and Anthropic are in the business of TRYING TO MAKE THEM EXIST so that they can remediate them.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 25/09/2026

They don't really WANT to do much of anything. They want you to read their output and say "cool, yeah, good". That's it!

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 25/09/2026

one really important fact that I think a lot of people who aren't super close to this stuff don't realize is that transformers/LLMs were NOT what OpenAI et. seq. (taking Anthropic as an OpenAI spinoff) were founded to work on, and were developed elsewhere. Caught them largely by surprise.

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Air to Ground Message: ANGRY FACE EMOJI Area: Wichita, KS, USA Type: Airbus A319 A: #a61a9b49afa F: #f4c2451315a

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I find that reading this calms me down as few things do, these days.

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Eric Carroll @ericcarroll.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just bought it, next up in the reading queue!

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When they get angry with you (and they will get angry with you) for the precautions you take, remember, my friend: they are not angry with you because they believe that you are wrong, they are angry with you because on some level they fear you are right.

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Andrew Young 🇨🇦 @young.me · 01/10/2026

#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with September 20 data - Kingston, London, Peel, Toronto updated: wwater.ca/Ontario - Also updated: AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, PEI, QC, SK, YT wwater.ca Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/

Wastewater Virus Signals graph for Ontario

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Eric Carroll @ericcarroll.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What's fascinating at first glance to me: Chip ∝ server spend ✅ Power, HVAC, Datacentre flat?!? ❌ There was huge excess capacity of cooled, powered data centres just waiting to absorb all that server spend? Lol. Lmao even.

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Marge Simpson Reacts: What's That Stench?

ALT: Marge Simpson Reacts: What's That Stench?

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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hannover Medical School, 992 people. Among those with Long COVID in 2021 who returned in 2024, 77.4% still met criteria about 4 years after infection. More than 95% were never hospitalized initially. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Factors associated with persistent post-COVID-19 condition and functional limitation four years after SARS-CoV-2 infection - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Factors associated with persistent post-COVID-19 condition and functional limitation four years after SARS-CoV-2 infection

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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September S&P 500 equal-weight performance heat map

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Iain Bancarz 🇨🇦 @iainrb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The tech industry now offers two kinds of new product: - Does a thing I do not want - Promises to do a thing I want, does not work

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David Elfstrom 🍁 @davidelfstrom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ah! Now that we have the decay curve we can calculate ACH. Given: start 1860; end 1100, ambient 435, duration 6 hours. The air change rate in that classroom is 0.13 air changes per hour. That's what air leakage on a mild day looks like. Completely insufficient by any measure!

ACH = negative natural log of (concentration end minus ambient)/(concentration start minus ambient) all over duration in hours

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026

Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev

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Atlas

A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.

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Eric Carroll @ericcarroll.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our mandatory second factor is SMS which we know is laughably insecure because of SS7 but we don't actually care as long as we look like we are mitigating liability to senior management.

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Kevin Ball 🇨🇦 @stairway-to-kevin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

COVID is still a workplace safety issue. And on the books at least, you still have the right to refuse unsafe work. Of course government & public health continue to operate as they have since COVID’s onset—as if neither is true (easier now that it’s less likely to kill you… at least not directly)

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Eric Carroll @ericcarroll.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I thought we poasted into the blue sky...

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I simply do not believe this company when they say they did not access user data or use other unscrupulous methods. There is no reason to believe them, and every reason to distrust them, given their history.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

California is weaning itself off fossil gas, fast. Gas-fired electricity generation in California fell by 26% in the first half of 2026, as utility-scale solar, batteries and the new SunZia wind project feed power in via a dedicated transmission line. buff.ly/QWQoLPc #ShareGoodNewsToo

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How California Is Kicking Its Natural Gas Habit - Inside Climate News

Solar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity.

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am rarely affected by discourse on social media, but the current wave of posts asserting that Long Covid is psychosomatic has angered me. To be very clear: if you're asserting that LC isn't a physical disease, you're ignorant of science. End of.

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Air to Ground Message: WE HAD ATC GIVE A CLEARANCE OF FL400. HEAD SCRATCH. Area: Austin, TX, USA Type: Boeing 737-900 A: #aa782f3baa6 F: #fd898c64e56

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rob pike @robpike.io · 27/09/2026

www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/202/sum...

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oracle is gonna be the wick on that candle Please Plz explode oracle, u can do it

A chart from 2019 to present of
Spending by alphabet Amazon meta Microsoft and oracle. It jumps absurdly

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh shit. THAT is worse than I realized

We are spending almost five billion more on AI related construction and ten billion dollars less on other private construction since 2024

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Average annual spending as % of US GDP

A chart of percentages of US GDP at various tech splend periods, from canals to AI. AI is outpacing all of them

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

chat is this good?

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A few scientific facts. Covid is a multi-system disease with sequelae in all organs. SARS-CoV-2 didn't not disappear; actually a new variant is on the rise in multiple countries (PJ.2.1). It's not endemic. SARS-CoV-2 is airborne, namely it can spread and linger in the air a bit like cigarette smoke.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good morning! 🪶

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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The days are getting much shorter and it’s now a race to get home before the sun sets. But this little female Downy Woodpecker arrived just in time to forage just before sunset! #Birds 🪶

A female downy woodpecker perches on the side of a spruce tree trunk.
It is just before sunset and the sky is orange behind her. She is black and white while the tree trunk is quite dark. There are also some green blurry spruce branches showing in the background.

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LaffingKat @laffingkat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here's a female dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis) of the Oregon subspecies looking rather plump. #BirdOfTheDay #Borbs #Brown #Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin

A female dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis) of the Oregon subspecies perches on a maple tree branch, looking rather plump. She's a small sparrow with a dark brownish-gray hood, brown back, buffy sides, white belly, and white outer tail feathers. She has black eyes and a small, cone-shaped, pale pinkish bill.

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lovely chonks, Rob. I submit this micro-borb with a tinge of ging to your adorborble collection #birds #borbs #BirdOfTheDay

Up-close and personal ruby-crowned kinglet on a teeny stump. He's looking up with a curious, googly-eyed expression, his pate aflame with the eponymous crown.

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Eric Carroll @ericcarroll.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Confabulation is the word of the decade.

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Eric Carroll @ericcarroll.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You would think at some point people would learn to include all the stakeholders...

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Belushi Says 'But Noooo!'

ALT: Belushi Says 'But Noooo!'

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