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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It is odd to see how many people are realizing they are neurodivergent at the same time there is an explosion in digital processes which drain executive function: Slack messages; 2FA requests; marketing, promotion, and AI-written emails; as well as online forms for medical care and job applications.
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hugolxln.bsky.social @hugolxln.bsky.social · 18h
Did you need to run the interview past the Kremlin?
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
FT exclusive: The US has proposed that European countries unfreeze some Russian sovereign assets immobilised after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and transfer them to a vehicle overseen by Washington in an attempt to revive peace talks www.ft.com/content/5435...
ft.com
US floats unfreezing some Russian assets to restart Ukraine peace talks
European officials balked at proposal made by Donald Trump’s negotiators during meeting in Miami
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 22h
Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter model with 42B active parameters that can run locally on two Mac Studios. We’re reaching the point where increasingly capable AI models can run on hardware you own instead of requiring access to a cloud provider. That’s a big deal for AI economics.
research.meta.ai
Introducing Muse Spark Open, The Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Date
Muse Spark Open is the most capable US open-weight model to date, and brings leading agentic capabilities to your desktop on Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios.
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Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen @andbjn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Our large-scale study of phone bans just came out in Science. We randomized phone-free classrooms for 16,000+ students across 10 institutions in Odisha, India. Students deposited phones in a box at the start of each class, for a full semester.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/10/2026
If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
No amount of support for Russia can end the war, because Russia is the criminal aggressor. A modicum of support for Ukraine could, however, end the war, by making it impossible for Russia to continue. This should not be a hard choice.
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Francisco Beirão @fbeirao.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Four-hour battery storage now beats gas peaking on cost globally
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Wood Mackenzie: four-hour battery storage now beats gas peaking on cost globally
Wood Mackenzie’s latest global report on levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) shows that advancing technologies and market dynamics continue to drive divergent prices, with four-hour battery storage n...
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hugolxln.bsky.social @hugolxln.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The guy was literally married to his Russian handler.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
🚨“Our experiments suggest that small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial IoT devices, like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes. A replicator like this would be challenging to shut down, since there’s no centralized point to shut off”🚨
anthropic.com
AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
Small AI models may be only months away from being able to self-replicate across cheap IoT devices like Android TV boxes, with no datacenter needed.
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hugolxln.bsky.social @hugolxln.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A quick google says that the European private price is below €2000 (but free for public sector patients).
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hugolxln.bsky.social @hugolxln.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
You don’t need a dating app to go on dates.
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Zelenskyy warns about the Black Sea blockade: "Everybody is talking about diesel, but they all forget about grain. Believe me, in 2 to 3 months, everybody will be talking about a crisis in agriculture because there will be food shortages for countries on the African continent."
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hugolxln.bsky.social @hugolxln.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Why is Meloni in this picture?
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Two most important facts: 1) since Trump became President, attacks on Ukraine have grown substantially in volume and scale. 2) Since Trump became President the US has committed zero (yes, zero) new dollars to support Ukraine.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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hugolxln.bsky.social @hugolxln.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If they are telling the ladies to cancel their event they are clearly taking sides.
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hugolxln.bsky.social @hugolxln.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You call it risk aversion, I call it complicity.
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hugolxln.bsky.social @hugolxln.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Or.. there was an order that wasn’t followed.
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hugolxln.bsky.social @hugolxln.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My point is the police do what their bosses decide. If we don’t understand the incentives we don’t understand the decisions.
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hugolxln.bsky.social @hugolxln.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In Bristol’s case to be fair it’s Labour in charge.
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hugolxln.bsky.social @hugolxln.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Uk does not have much riot policy and what it has is controlled by local authorities which might not support the government politically.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Buoyed by the embrace of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin has supercharged his assassinations bureau and tasked it with murdering Europe's defense chiefs. www.ft.com/content/5da2...
ft.com
Russia steps up bid to kill European defence chiefs, spy agencies warn
Companies increase personal security for top executives as Kremlin orders expansion of sabotage and ‘hybrid’ operations
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Peter Thiel is about to turn 59 and a half this year, so he’ll be able to withdraw his more than $5 billion in capital gains tax free because he legally gamed the Roth IRA system. Superrich just have different rules. Propublica’s 2021 report: www.propublica.org/article/lord...
propublica.org
Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank
Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes.
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hugolxln.bsky.social @hugolxln.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Boris, the voice of reason. A miracle on earth.
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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
13. Europeans shouldn't feel guilty about using electricity for airconditioning (or reversible heatpumps), it already mostly comes from the sun, especially if you pre-cool. This is good news for hot countries as well. Heat is deadly.
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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
12. Sometimes the story is the dog that doesn’t bark in the nighttime. European grids would once have struggled in a 2026-level heatwave, but they had only a few problems and high evening prices. CAISO and Ercot, which also have lots of batteries, had good reliability years despite record loads.
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hugolxln.bsky.social @hugolxln.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
No cards!
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Burton’s Sleepy Hollow is a great rated R horror movie for kids @jdvdub.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think lots of people don’t realize that the things they liked as children were things done by their parents and that as adults now they must in turn do those things rather than waiting for a parent of some sort to take care of it.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.
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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is how the U.S. is choosing to treat vulnerable children
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Harvard researchers studied 718 companies and found AI coding agents increased lines of code by 30%, but no major increase in completed tasks or projects. Meanwhile, review time rose 49%. Generating code faster hasn’t translated into completing more work. The bottleneck has moved to code reviews.
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Bob Burgess @bobburgess.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Why aren't gas prices dropping if oil is flowing through the Strait? The answer: "For a sign of just how extraordinary oil shipping costs have become, consider this: It’s now more expensive to hire a tanker from the US to China than to launch a rocket into space." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Hiring US-to-China Oil Tanker Costs More Than Launching a Space Rocket
For a sign of just how extraordinary oil shipping costs have become, consider this: It’s now more expensive to hire a tanker from the US to China than to launch a rocket into space.
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hugolxln.bsky.social @hugolxln.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
More like afraid of what would happen to him if caught stealing it. Police puts you in jail, criminals kill you.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 08/10/2026
And so it begins: the very first proposal of the new regional parliament in which the AfD is the strongest faction is about an immediate end to sanctions against Russia and the normalisation of relations. (Which, of course, they cannot decide at the regional level.) www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
spiegel.de
Sachsen-Anhalt: BSW will mit AfD Ukraine-Antrag verabschieden
Das BSW und die AfD wollen im Landtag in Sachsen-Anhalt den ersten gemeinsamen inhaltlichen Antrag beschließen: Ukrainehilfen sollen eingestellt, Russlandsanktionen aufgehoben werden.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Kerbal's Panic Flight in KSP Cockpit
ALT: Kerbal's Panic Flight in KSP Cockpit
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hugolxln.bsky.social @hugolxln.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Priests are not supposed to sin.
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hugolxln.bsky.social @hugolxln.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Because communism is a religion.
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 07/10/2026
Serious fiscal state capacity is when it’s shock and awe among offshore wealth holders. (“They” are the Communist Party.)
FT: One Chinese tech investor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, says he and friends of similar high net worth were shocked by the precision with which the tax reforms target key offshore holdings and historic income, and the tight deadline set to pay.

“They have the system, they know your investments overseas . . . they can actually break open those trusts,” he says. “I think they’ve been thinking about this for a long time.”
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hugolxln.bsky.social @hugolxln.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Lisbon downtown pre housing boom.
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hugolxln.bsky.social @hugolxln.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I really hope you are right! It’s time for the adults and the experts to be in charge again.
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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I genuinely think we are past the high tide moment of “trade backlash.” bsky.app/profile/raja...
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Balkans this week: Kosovo 🇽🇰 elected first Catholic President Serbia 🇷🇸 got first Lesbian President Bosnia 🇧🇦 elected 3 Presidents (2 female) Albanian 🇦🇱 capital Tirana's mayor will run the city as an Al avatar from prison
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hugolxln.bsky.social @hugolxln.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Because in Latam everyone knows right wingers are corrupt (but they get stuff done!) but left wingers are supposed to be pure.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“.. The announcement comes as the US is grappling with one of the worst measles outbreaks in decades.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 06/10/2026
Feels kind of under-remarked upon that Elon Musk bought X and took advantage of its grandfathered status in the app stores to gain a monopoly on algorithmic vertical video porn. Is that not something the FTC should be looking into?
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Free weekend update is out. Russia has a strategy for this winter--massive war crimes to make Ukraine unlivable. We need to speak the truth on that. One reason they need to do this is that they are struggling in other parts of the war--see Vivaldi. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...
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Weekend Update #205: Russia’s Strategy In Two Words: “War Crimes”
Operation Vivaldi, Even More Robots; The Trump-Putin Quid Pro Quo
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AfD Youth is posting about unification of German people. Belive them, when they say who they are. Not far right, not nazi like but actually exactly like nazis. P.S And yes, they are Putins favorite party in Germany
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hugolxln.bsky.social @hugolxln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With most of the debt domestically owned, I think, that decision can be a vote winner.
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