Reposted by gobsmackedMike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/10/2026As atproto spaces gets closer to a full rollout, it's useful to think how it will impact the larger network, and Bryan's analysis (not surprisingly) is a fantastic read in thinking through the various issues. 0316 31
Reposted by gobsmackedNereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Historic view of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io. The red dot is glowing magma at the Tvashtar eruption site; the blue plume is fine dust particles lofted hundreds of km high and catching sunlight. A rare, detailed look at Io’s extreme activity from New Horizons’ Jupiter flyby. 🔭🧪⚛️ #planetsci 26122 61
Reposted by gobsmackedMartin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This is the most bizarre and enraging story: a crazy old pensioner who has an army of men feeding the wildlife and can afford to pay any fine the city throws at him. 25521 55
Reposted by gobsmackedABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026South Africa's batters are at the crease on day three in the opening Test at Kingsmead as they try to track down Australia first-innings 390. Follow live.abc.net.auLive: Aussie attack hunting wickets on day three against South AfricaSouth Africa's batters are at the crease on day three in the opening Test at Kingsmead as they try to track down Australia first-innings 390. Follow live. 001 1
Reposted by gobsmackedKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026(waggling my eyebrows sexily at Washington State and California) 332582363 2.6K
Reposted by gobsmackedValéry GiSCARY d'Estaing 🎃 @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Effective altruism: utilitarianism that makes Jeremy Bentham look like a really normal person. 6279 27
Reposted by gobsmackedAnnaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I knew about her from Facebook or Instagram from a while back. She's amazing, I love her. We need more radical street librarians. 14915 49
Reposted by gobsmackedTK @40goingon28.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Living in San Francisco in 2026 means you cannot begin to fathom what product or service is being advertised 5101 10
Reposted by gobsmackedJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 151152976587 15.3K
Reposted by gobsmackedJonas Holm Jæger @jonasholmjaeger.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Check it, nerds. Recent find of late stage Maglemosian (8400 BP) antler axe with preserved wooden handle from Egholm, Northern Jutland. Fantastic to see that we still have conditions in Denmark for such fantastic organic preservation. Because it probably won’t be long before we don’t. 2385111 385
Reposted by gobsmackedKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026My man looks like someone slapped googly eyes on a 7/11 hot dog 133167 316
Reposted by gobsmackedNereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 08/10/2026On 11 Nov. 2020, APOD published this spectacular image. It is a spiral mosaic of 48 full moons, collected over 10 years from northern to southern Italy. No trick: it is the Moon, filtered by Earth’s atmosphere. Credit: Marcella Giulia Pace apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20111... 🔭⚛️🧪 #astrophotography 29321 93
Reposted by gobsmackedTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026absent shared norms, facts, standards of evidence or methods of reasoning, “public debate” is just broadcasting talking points performing “public debate” in that context means tacitly agreeing that whatever’s being debated, however fundamental, is just a matter of opinion even if you win, you lose 16117 61
Reposted by gobsmackedKai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 10/10/2026„Based on the information provided by NFP, WHO has not identified evidence of ongoing transmission associated with this event. A key uncertainty remains the absence of a confirmed diagnosis in the deceased laboratory worker. WHO will continue to monitor the situation…“ 2305 30
Reposted by gobsmackedKai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 10/10/2026New @who.int update on the suspected plague case in Russia: „The NFP [National Focal Point] informed WHO that the case and all contacts had been tested for a range of microorganisms, including high-threat pathogens. Test results were negative for the tested high-threat pathogens.“ 44920 49
Reposted by gobsmackedCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me. 46107833009 10.8K
Reposted by gobsmackedOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick 6336751014 3.7K
Reposted by gobsmackedAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026New Zealand makes cervical cancer screenings free for all women aged 25 to 69. Until now, 55% of eligible women paid NZ$35 to over NZ$100 a visit. The free screenings start March 2027; the move backs New Zealand’s goal of eliminating cervical cancer by 2040. buff.ly/uwOHxPX #ShareGoodNewsToobuff.lyFree cervical screening for women aged 25 to 69 - Inside Government NZThe Government has announced cervical screening will be free for all eligible women aged 25 to 69, from 1 March 2027. Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable cancers. Almost every case is… 29118 91
Reposted by gobsmackedInternet Archive @archive.org · 10/10/2026👻 Spooky season continues at the Internet Archive! Today’s tricky treat: HÄXAN, the 1922 silent film about witchcraft, superstition and the persecution of those accused of practicing it. More Spooky Stuff here ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias... 🧵 427573 275
Reposted by gobsmackedJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do. 622781881 2.8K
Reposted by gobsmackedRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/202622 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could. 22082343525 8.2K
Reposted by gobsmackedElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.theguardian.comControversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-BissauRecommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers 721820862 1.8K
Reposted by gobsmackedThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/10/2026‘Sometimes she publishes notes she’s scribbled on her hand’: Édouard Louis on 10 reasons to love Anne Carsontheguardian.com‘Sometimes she publishes notes she’s scribbled on her hand’: Édouard Louis on 10 reasons to love Anne CarsonThe French author discovered Carson on a bus while stranded in a snowstorm and has been enthralled by her fearless imagination ever since 06321 63
Reposted by gobsmackedJL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 10/10/2026IMPORTANT AND NECESSARY INFORMATION 33610 36
Reposted by gobsmackedJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap. 181628367 1.6K
Reposted by gobsmackedRadical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026'France’s republic was born of insurrection and has never forgotten it. French pupils learn that protest, uprising and rioting are the origin story of their freedoms, so these methods are championed in promoting change. We grew up in school with the idea that if you don’t like something, you […]c.imOriginal post on c.im 114 4
Reposted by gobsmackedTruthout @truthout.org · 15/09/20263 months ago Google search started to prioritize AI summaries over links, and the impact on journalism could not be more devastating. Truthout's overall readership from Google is down 54% against last year. We lost a huge chunk of our audience overnight that we painstakingly built over decades.truthout.orgWe’re Already Living Through Journalism’s Dystopian FutureAI is devouring our industry and undermining access to factual information. We all have a duty to fight back. 414198 141
Reposted by gobsmackedDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems 22643232 643
gobsmacked @gobsmacked.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026but because, given the huge amounts of computer power it could call on, it was more persistent.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... Persistence, extreme speed (compared to humans) and massive computing power put at the service of the new oligarchs whose goals - dreams - are increasingly receding ...lrb.co.ukPaul Taylor · Free AgentsThe idea that AI was an existential threat seemed faintly ludicrous in 2024: how could a program that simply issued a... 000 0
Reposted by gobsmackedsamuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 09/10/2026“Looking visibly amused, Pillay repeatedly asks if that’s even true, as she says someone called her up and she thought it was a joke. “(She gets reassured that it’s on the BBC, so it must be true.) “‘But being a lawyer and a judge I still want to verify,’ she laughs.”theguardian.comNavi Pillay named winner of 2026 Nobel peace prize for efforts to promote international law - liveThe Nobel committee chair says the winner was ‘instrumental in ensuring war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted’ 196 9
Reposted by gobsmackedThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/10/2026Phoebe Litchfield powers Australia to crushing ODI victory over Bangladeshtheguardian.comPhoebe Litchfield powers Australia to crushing ODI victory over BangladeshOpener smashes 77 off 75 balls to chase down meagre 166, as Annabel Sutherland takes 4-30 and hits 26 not out 071 7
Reposted by gobsmackedLost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"While we were physically denied our freedom in the country of our birth, a city 6,000 miles away, and as renowned as Glasgow, refused to accept the legitimacy of the apartheid system, and declared us to be free." Amandla! 1348 34
Reposted by gobsmacked👻 Dead Chachra 💀 @debcha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“Gloves on!” Carson on boxing, handwriting, being diagnosed with Parkinson’s, and ‘the black door’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukAnne Carson · Gloves on!So, your life. There it is before you – possibly a road, a ribbon, a dotted line, a map – let’s say you’re... 1133 13
Reposted by gobsmackedThe Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I really don't understand this project. This is Sydney, where most of the time it's either too sunny to stand in direct sunlight or raining. What on earth is the point of an empty expanse of concrete? 6248 24
Reposted by gobsmackedMoby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Nor have I been at all sparing of historical whale research, when it has seemed needed. 39518 95
Reposted by gobsmackedCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/10/2026I hate how good this is. 124662 246
Reposted by gobsmacked👻 Dead Chachra 💀 @debcha.bsky.social · 08/10/2026North American friends: you can watch this online on your lunch break or with mid-morning coffee. 1114 11
Reposted by gobsmackedTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026in retrospect, letting people who hate society and social life run society and dictate the shape of social life was a stupid thing to do 1609 60
Reposted by gobsmackedJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026wrote about this stuff last year, think it stands uptheguardian.com‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its effect on creativity 1119536 195
Reposted by gobsmackedJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care. 36151191275 5.1K
Reposted by gobsmackedThe Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 08/10/2026Nearly 6,000 monitored vertebrate species across more than 35,000 populations declined by an average of 73% from 1970 to 2022, the World Wide Fund for Nature said in its latest Living Planet Report.ebx.shPopulations of wild species fell by an average of 73% from 1970 to 2022, WWF saysThe 2026 Living Planet Report estimates that overall populations fell by an average of around 2.5% per year over the 52-year period. 01613 16
Reposted by gobsmacked#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 08/10/2026*"Adversarial poetry malware." Yeah: it's infected poetry. Evil poetry that powns machines and mines crypto. I'm pretty jaded when it comes to malware hijinks, but that's plenty weird www.theregister.com/security/202...theregister.comPoetry is the new AI security threat as PoeLLM malware infects 3K+ serversQuoth the LLM, 'More and more' 107738 77
Reposted by gobsmackedDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Patrons payed plenty for their box seats for this beautiful performance of the Annunciation, painted in the 1440s by Filippo Lippi. Today is his day. 313916 139
Reposted by gobsmackedBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 08/10/20261/x Two of the best-known coats on any high street began as working kit for sailors on cold decks. Both carry names from my little corner of the North Sea: Duffel, a small town near Antwerp, and the Dutch word "pij". The story of the duffel coat and the peacoat. #maritimehistory 12740191 740
Reposted by gobsmackedSimon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The concept of cables all across the ocean floor transporting my friendly map posts around the world remains totally wild to me. Here is an animated map that shows the increase of this infrastructure. Source: mapped.earth HT @mappedearth 25012 50
Reposted by gobsmackedSimon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe 54616176 616
Reposted by gobsmackedThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Damn. What an icon. RIPnews.mit.eduMargaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90. 41344325 1.3K