iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

Super depressing article but this serves as a reminder to push back against this by simply calling someone and ask if you can join them as they walk their dog. Or if they want to come over. Be the revolution you want to see. www.ft.com/content/989c...

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Why have screens replaced socialising?

The economics of why we increasingly avoid the company of both other humans and books

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

you’re not letting us work three days a week, you’re all going to start competing for who has the most trillions of dollars instead of billions of dollars while spending significant portions of it to make sure that any taxes that could be used to that end never come to pass

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Simon Stähler @exoseismologist.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Love how updates come irregularly, like dispatches from the Glass on burner phones

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Simon Stähler @exoseismologist.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

All the planetary scientists: Pikachu meme

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 26/01/2026

say what you like about Saruman but at least he was a YIMBY

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Simon Stähler @exoseismologist.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026

How many humans are actually in this conversation?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think it's key to understanding their worldview that they imagine a world not *without* immigrants, but one in which immigrants' inferiority is permanently asserted and they become a subservient caste. All these people worship the Gulf States.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I wish just one NATO leader (or all of them) would say, "This is unacceptable. The US president has lost his mind. America come get your boy. He's broken and needs to be under a doctor's care back home." I wish someone would tell the damn truth about what's happening.

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Simon Stähler @exoseismologist.eurosky.social · 06/07/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMJA... (according to my Dutch Master student, this is the reference song about Belgium. A five minute long insult against all other countries and Pluto

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Het Goede Doel - Belgie • TopPop

YouTube video by TopPop

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 06/07/2026

my theory is that it proves that the US just isn't a football nation at heart - sure you can be happy with a bit of shithousery, or with one of your players getting away with something they shouldn't have got away with, but something like *this* is just on a different level entirely

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Seán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"Crazy Beautiful!" 5,234 images from 2 time-lapse sequences photographed by Sophie Adenot & Jessica Meir on ISS Expedition 74 are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this video of aurora australis with music by Andreas Vollenweider. 11m19s 4K youtu.be/22mTjdmpG1M

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This is what makes it art: '(...) the publisher posted a blank white page with the cryptic phrase, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.” Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.' www.science.org/content/arti...

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Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame

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Simon Stähler @exoseismologist.eurosky.social · 28/06/2026

Interessant finde ich ja an der deutschen Topographie und klimatologischen Situation, dass es keinen Hotspot für die Rekorde gibt (Basel oder Furnace Creek), sondern einfach stochastisch irgendein Ort in der Mitte den Rekord knackt.

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Simon Stähler @exoseismologist.eurosky.social · 27/06/2026

Ich hol Bundesliga Manager Hattrick raus.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Simon Stähler @exoseismologist.eurosky.social · 20/01/2026

Apart from the fact that 20-30% of all our pension money is in these companies

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory

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Simon Stähler @exoseismologist.eurosky.social · 19/01/2026

Aber -1°C hier unten in der Stadt...

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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The embarrassing capitulation of the EU on trade and energy in the summer, followed by the humiliating U-turn of the EU over tech regulation in the autumn didn't even buy us goodwill from Trump to make it to the spring. A lesson for appeasers.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Wow, that really is a picture for our times - a woman evidently in one of the care-giving professions standing off - if even for a moment seven over-armed paramilitary thugs who are trying to invade her house.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 04/01/2026

Planetary friends: The LPSC 2026 abstract deadline is coming up this Tuesday. I will not attend because of LPI's shit anti-DEI policy, but I'm curious as to how many people *will* participate this year. If you have submitted an abstract and are willing to share its submission number, please DM me.

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Simon Stähler @exoseismologist.eurosky.social · 05/01/2026

I'm out as well this year. Have no intention to discuss my social media posts at the border

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 04/01/2026

Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories. I hope it helps your transition off US tech!

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Dr. Raphael Marschall @spacemarschall.net · 17/11/2025

Hi #planetaryScience folks, we have an open position for a *Professor in Planetary Sciences* at the Space Research & Planetary Sciences Division of the @unibe.ch. Application deadline: *Jan 31, 2026* Full ad: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo... Reach out to me if you have any questions! 🧵 1/5

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Uni Bern: Professor in Planetary Sciences

The Division of Space Research and Planetary Sciences of the Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland, invites applications for a full-time position as a Professor in Planetary Sciences.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 20/11/2025

The push to break up tech giants keeps running into one obstacle: By the time the government's cases reach trial, the market has changed. Yet the same companies remain on top. We wrote about how Big Tech keeps beating the allegations — by getting even bigger. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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The government failed to break up Meta. It’s becoming a pattern.

Silicon Valley’s ever-changing landscape is blunting the movement to rein in its power.

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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Picard management tip: Admit ignorance and ask a question rather than blunder forward out of pride.

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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

As another weekend of Barclay’s Premier League football gets underway, and a massacre is still unfolding in El Fasher, we cannot lose sight of the fact that the same people who are funding the slaughter in Sudan also own Manchester City Football Club. It is a national disgrace.

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Simon Stähler @exoseismologist.eurosky.social · 01/09/2025

Excited to have Richard join our team and help train the next generation of European space system engineers! 🚀

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/08/2025

I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein

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Simon Stähler @exoseismologist.eurosky.social · 29/08/2025

Congratulations! Highest respect for actually getting papers done!

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

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Simon Stähler @exoseismologist.eurosky.social · 17/07/2025

Hot take: Similarly to the meteoritic impact rate on Mars, we did not really have good data on interstellar small objects and our models relied on wild interpolations. Hence, once better data comes along, there's a phase of confusion before we improve our models on size/freq distribution.

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David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

If you really want a Star Trek future, it’s not just going to space in cool machines. It’s building a society with respect for all life, sentient & otherwise, applying science wisely, and pursuing principles of justice, fairness & reason. Let’s build that and ride it to the stars.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/03/2025

Report: Anti-Science Attitude Strongest Among Those Who Believe Turtle Has Little Apartment Inside Shell theonion.com/report-...

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Simon Stähler @exoseismologist.eurosky.social · 24/03/2025

Is the central park made from empty tiles with trees or 5x30 park tiles? 🤔

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Simon Stähler @exoseismologist.eurosky.social · 19/03/2025

The assumption makes sense, but I'm surprised that nobody talked about it at the conference. It's so small that rumours spread like wildfire

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

His boss is literally firing out executive orders trying to shut law firms that oppose him and saying critical journalism is illegal. The hypocrisy is just wild (and kind of the point).

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ESA Technology @technology.esa.int · 12/03/2025

Especially to mark our Hera mission's moment of closest approach during its Mars flyby, at just 5000 km away at 13:51 CET (12:51 GMT) - here's one we made earlier! www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

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Simon Stähler @exoseismologist.eurosky.social · 06/03/2025

And in a few days, Earth will set and you'll be relieved from *all this*

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David Mimoun @moonnext.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

🚀 In 2029, asteroid Apophis will make an incredibly close pass by Earth—closer than our geostationary satellites! 🌍☄️ #planetaryscience

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Firefly Aerospace @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Watch Firefly land on the Moon! After identifying surface hazards and selecting a safe landing site, #BlueGhost landed directly over the target in Mare Crisium. A historic moment on March 2 we'll never forget. We have Moon dust on our boots! #BGM1 youtu.be/NpHhEybJdxg

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Moon Landing - Firefly Blue Ghost Makes History

YouTube video by Firefly Aerospace

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Hirschers 🌳🦌🎭🦉 @herrhilfreich.eurosky.social · 01/03/2025

Der kleine Maulwurf hat sich die Scheiße jetzt lange genug angesehen.

Die Comic Figur "Der kleine Maulwurf" läuft freudig mit erhobener Axt und Bügelsäge über der Schulter durchs Grüne.

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