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Because of the Nobel Prize, a lot of people will be talking about neutrinos today (including me I’m sure)! I *also* talk a lot about neutrinos in my new book, “How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking),” which is available for preorder now! www.astrokatie.com/book-htbau

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How to Build a Universe — KATIE MACK, ASTROPHYSICIST

Information about "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 6h

Most state attorneys general released Meta from Cambridge Analytica-related claims as part of the child safety settlement. New Mexico wasn't part of that deal, and a jury there just found 26 of 29 past statements about Cambridge Analytica, hate speech and misinformation willfully deceptive.

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Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe

A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

First look at "The Trouble with Peter", the new indie short film by Robert Valley (Gorillaz, Love Death & Robots, The Beatles Rock Band...). Screenings start next week at film festivals (NonStop Barcelona, Toon Dook, VIEW...). www.instagram.com/robert_valley

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Allan Barte @allanbarte.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hiérarchie de l’information : @acrimed.bsky.social a pris son chronomètre et les journaux télévisés de France 2. Spoiler Alert : Y’a rien qui va ! Pour soutenir la lutte dessinée, engagée et indépendante : ▶️ ko-fi.com/allanbarte ▶️ fr.tipeee.com/allan-barte

Infographie d'Allan BARTE intitulée "Au JT de France 2 : poubelles brûlées partout, revendications des lycéens nulle part"
"Décompte d’Acrimed portant sur les journaux télévisés de 13h et de 20h, du lundi 28 sept au jeudi 1er oct"Au centre, un camembert divisé en part représentant des pourcentages.Les 3/4 du cercle est jaune, rempli de flammes rouges et orange représente un incendie avec le meme d'Elmo au milieu des flammes.
En haut à gauche, un encadré jaune indique : « 75% du temps d’antenne est consacré aux violences et dégâts matériels ». Des petits engrenages sont légendé par un encadré vert indique : « 2% sur l’organisation du mouvement ».

Une lycéenne tient une pancarte avec du texte partiellement visible.
Un encadré jaune indique : « 8% sur les revendications du mouvement ».Un personnage portant des lunettes devant l’inscription « LFI = accompagnée d’un dessin de crotte.
Un encadré bleu indique : « 12% sur les accusations contre LFI ».
Un petit secteur rouge avec une dent et un oeil représente les violences policières.
Un encadré rouge indique : « 3% sur les violences policières ».

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Edwy Plenel @edwyplenel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Alors qu’un maire d’extrême droite des Pyrénées-Orientales a débaptisé le cinéma René-Vautier de sa ville, Mediapart diffuse, en hommage au grand cinéaste anticolonialiste français, « Afrique 50 », qui valut à son auteur quelques mois de prison. www.mediapart.fr/studio/docum...

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« Afrique 50 », premier film anticolonialiste français

Alors qu’un maire d’extrême droite, dans les Pyrénées-Orientales, a jugé bon de débaptiser le cinéma René-Vautier de sa ville, « Mediapart » diffuse à partir de samedi, en hommage au grand cinéaste a…

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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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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 02/10/2026

Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.

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US appeals court blocks Minnesota's AI 'nudification' law for now in XAI lawsuit

Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US ‌federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as ⁠the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 03/10/2026

Oxford Street has long been the nation’s high street. On Monday 26 October, it’ll go permanently traffic-free and pave the way for a greener, more welcoming street with new opportunities for retail and leisure.

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Oxford Street to be pedestrianised from October | LBC

Vehicles will be prohibited from accessing almost a kilometre between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street from October 26

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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 02/10/2026

🚨TRIGGER WARNING🚨 Discussion of rape/sexual violence & strong language. ☑️ Bear ☐ Man This spoken word poem stopped me in my tracks The bear was never really the point. The point is why so many women understood the answer immediately Listen to her words. They matter. —Claire Donohoe🐻💜 #SheShed

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Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2nd of Owltober! It's ten years to the day that this lil guy, a Northern Pygmy Owl, had surgery for a broken wing. The op was possible thanks to supporters of Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah. Want to donate to WRCNU? wrcnu.org/donate Source: fb.com/128878567450... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

Lurking in the folds of a soft blue towel is a Northern Pygmy Owl. One eye is covered by the towel's herringbone stitch; the other peers out at the clinic and its occupants with a level of distrust appropriate for a wild animal. A deep blue bandage is located at the owl's shoulders, reminiscent of a heart-shaped diamond. It's worth noting the photo is rotated - the original has the owl upon a corkboard surface, lying on his/her side like Rose Dawson, but with more clothes. This is a reference to a nude scene in Titanic (1997) played by seven-time Oscar nominee Kate Wins-owlet.

This image has 3 horizontal panels: Panel one shows the patient (same owl + same towel) receiving anaesthesia gas via a transparent cone-shaped mask with a tube out the top. Text to the right reads "naptime". Panel two is an x-ray of the owl's wing with an arrow pointing to the biggest bone. Text in red says "break in right wing humerus" but I don't think it's very funny. Panel three shows the operation. The vet surgeon wears white medical gloves and wields metallic tools aimed at a hole in a plastic sheet covering the patient. A text block reads "not for the squeamish!" and occludes the grisly details.

Twin vertical panels show similar profiles of the Pygmy Owl held aloft for the camera. The owl is a scaled-down rugby ball in shape, and has dark royal-green gauze wrapping the wing injury. The owl's feathers are muted brown with lighter tan-to-cream streaks on the face and flecks on the forehead and chest. These flecks are like tiny trees, or symbols in a map legend for wetlands ( 𐠮 𐠮 𐠮 ). At bottom of frame the owl's feet are lightly pinched about the ankle by human fingers. Bunches of pale yellow appendages also known as "toes" emerge from said feet, looking like aglet-sized bananas with the world's tiniest scythe blades attached. The owl's face says, "Don't make me use them."

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The Daily Tech Feed @thedailytechfeed.com · 22/09/2026

Meta’s Muse AI on Mac exposed by zero-day—urgent patch released. #Security #MetaMuse #MacOS #AI #Vulnerability #Privacy thedailytechfeed.com/major-vulnerab…

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 26/09/2026

#OtD 26 Sep 1950 a US naval ship sprayed Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria into the air two miles off the coast of San Francisco for six days as part of a secret experiment in biological warfare. Officials believe they exposed 800,000 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9872...

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A Roman glass model of a #boat, dating 2nd c. AD. It was found in St. Aldegund in a 4th-century woman's grave. Six of such boats are known. We don't know their function: Were they used as women's urinals, as components of water clocks and sundials, as...🧵1/2 🏺

A translucent blue glass vessel shaped like a boat, with a curved hull, upturned ends, and small protruding feet for support. The surface has visible cracks. A soft shadow is cast beneath the object on a neutral background.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Éric Vautier @ericvautier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Watched 27 of these *Hollywood* series I think, but couldn’t make it to the end of a few of them (e.g. rapidly LOST interest). But yes, golly, no Rick & Morty, Foundation, Wanda Vision, Silo, Arcane?

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/09/2026

See Amy Goodman at an upcoming screening of "Steal This Story, Please!" in London, U.K. More details: www.democracynow.org/events

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream

A canary in a sealed box attached to an oxygen tank

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Éric Vautier @ericvautier.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'll wait until the creation the first Chatbot union syndicate.

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Éric Vautier @ericvautier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'd recommend the miniseries and its portrayal of Alya and the Twins, as well as Paul's later choices (but that might require you to finish reading the trilogy first). I've also developed a certain fondness for Lynch's take, certainly idiosyncratic but with gripping scenes and a fantastic Mohiam.

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Éric Vautier @ericvautier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/koja... Incredible.

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Éric Vautier @ericvautier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yes, and the side effect is that they agree to be responsible and "slow down", i.e. curb runaway investments at a time when revenue is not flowing in, so that's all very convenient. A week ago, @melaniemitchell.bsky.social excellently broke down what happened. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...

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Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today it landed on my doorstep! What a lovely book 💙

The newly released hardback edition of The Hobbit, with illustrations by Tove Jansson

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Euronews @euronews.com · 14/09/2026

China will lead the creation of an "open-source zone for artificial intelligence" for BRICS countries, President Xi Jinping said on Sunday at a summit of the 11-nation group in New Delhi.

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China's Xi Jinping proposes BRICS 'open-source AI zone'

China will lead the creation of an "open-source zone for artificial intelligence" for BRICS countries, President Xi Jinping said on Sunday at a summit of the 11-nation group in New Delhi.

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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 13/09/2026

Andrei Tarkovsky on the set of his final film THE SACRIFICE returns to the PCC in a beautiful new 4K restoration from our friends at @curzon, screening Sun 27th Sep at 11:30am and Thu 22nd Oct. 🎟️: buff.ly/9IH5IeJ

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

RIP OPT? What an unmitigated disaster for everyone.

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW: Meta is facing a proposed class action alleging it used Facebook and Insta photos to build its NameTag face-recognition system and train AI models without consent. WIRED found code for NameTag hidden inside Meta’s AI app downloaded by tens of millions. Meta said the feature “doesn’t exist.”

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Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems

The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature...

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Rosa🌸Louette🔻 @rosalouette.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

🗓️L’année 2026 en France, c’est l’année ou l’Action française a des minutes de silence à l’Assemblée et où France Télévision censure des émissions de La Grande Librairie.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/09/2026

“I was on top of the North Tower during the attacks, and after I rescued a couple hundred people, I had to jump because there were too many flames for even me to deal with.” — President Donald Trump

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Trump Claims He Was Falling Man

WASHINGTON—Saying America could frankly be more grateful for the enduring image he provided, President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that he was the previously unidentified Falling Man captured midai...

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