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Scientist. Weirdly set at the intersection of economics, material science, engineering. Fighting climate change. [bridged from mastodon.online/@iinavpov on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good." 

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues  "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
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More silence

"Professor?"
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Glyph @glyph.im · 19h
this is the perfect metaphor to understand the distinction between AI doomer concerns versus AI skeptic concerns
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 23h
Anyone know of any student-led anti-GenAI campaigns in UK schools? My daughter hates the amount it gets used *by the school itself* and wants to do something…
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Edinburgh Festival of Cycling @edfoc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Historical patterns and sustainability implications of worldwide bicycle ownership and use www.nature.com/articles/s43... Bicycles make the world a better place to live, they are a solution the #ClimateCrisis
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Historical patterns and sustainability implications of worldwide bicycle ownership and use - Communications Earth & Environment
High bicycle ownership does not necessarily correlate with high bicycle use, with substantial health and environmental gains possible by worldwide pro-bicycle policy implementation, suggests a global ...
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CelloMom On Cars @cellomomoncars.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
"South Korea's government on Wednesday unveiled a 1,000 trillion won ($747 billion) energy transition and decarbonisation strategy through 2035." The government is targeting: – 100 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity by 2030; – support for industries including green steel, batteries, solar […]
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Glory to Ukraine
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Luigi Rosa :StarWars: @lrosa.mastodon.uno.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
The quiet ones are the ones that change the universe... The loud ones only take the credit. (Londo Mollari, "In The Beginning") sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th…
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The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
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CelloMom On Cars @cellomomoncars.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
"The decision was expected to take minutes. But after nearly three years of debate, members of the [ipcc] still can’t agree on a timeline to publish its next review of the latest science on the warming planet. The dispute reflects deep rifts between wealthy industrialized nations, major […]
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Charlie McHenry @charliemchenry.connectop.us.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
If you needed even more evidence of presidential #corruption, here ya go…#Trump purchased up to $5 million of SpaceX bonds days before major space order - #Grifters #Grifter #GrifterInChief #USPol #USPolitics www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/investing/tr…
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Rach "pumpkin spice butt girl" @ykantrachelread.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
[cali pol, uspol] 🖼
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oh, so trans women were right about him? so
we were right? trans women were right about
gavin newsom? trans women were correct?
trans women fucking told you so?

Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social 16h
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week:
-A ban on secretly recording people with
smart glasses
-A ban on ICE agents working for the state
government
-A ban on websites selling your data
-A bill giving native tribes more say over water
rights
-A bill protecting transgender healthcare
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Nemo @iinavpov.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21h
C'est complètement débile: les Russes ont pas de diesel à exporter, ils sont en situation de pénurie!
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Nemo @iinavpov.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22h
I read the study, and it's got really solid statistical evidence. It's also quite moderate in terms of what the results imply. But to lay it out myself: reviewing is a more skilled activity than writing, is also more annoying and tiring. Writing is also how we (humans) get more skilled. So the […]
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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
today i set out to finally have a day off, and then i ended up wanted to look at a PDF, and spent 5 hours in hyperfocus to get papers and evince working on my qcs8550 system. this required fixing a bug in mesa that caused a SIGILL because of disabled SVE on this Cortex-x3, and then another hour […]
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Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
From a major Canadian bank. We are well and truly fucked. Microsoft is busy embedding this shit in the o/s. Your own bank is probably slurping it up like a kid with a drippy ice cream on a hot Sunday. We're putting chimps in charge of humanity, folks, and […] [Original post on mastodon.online]
me to Simplii AI agent:  you just told me this:  To move money from your Simplii account to your own account at another Canadian financial institution, you can use either: Flinks Funds Transfer, if the other institution supports it. 

Now you are telling me the opposite; how can believe anything you say?

AI: You're right to question that. | gave you contradictory information, and my earlier statement that Flinks Funds Transfer could send money from Simplii Financial to another bank was incorrect.

The correct information is that Flinks is used to move money from an eligible
external Canadian financial institution into an eligible Simplii Financial
account. It does not provide a confirmed method for sending money out of Simplii Financial to another bank. 

I'm sorry for the confusion. I should have... blah, blah, blah...
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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Blogged: Web Review, Week 2026-41 ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/10/09/w…
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
I'm really glad that someone at ICE spoke to the media about what is going on in NJ. Putting people in a literal warehouse is disgusting. One of the people who spoke to the media said that "Miller" wanted it to be "inhumane" and dismissed their concerns about the dangers of this idea. Talking […]
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 08/10/2026
"What this amounts to is a purported defender of free speech at the state department using the enormous power of the US government to try to pressure Americans from criticizing their government” said Nina Jankowicz. This is the specific panel the 🇺🇸state department wanted to silence.
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Nemo @iinavpov.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
La France a une société conservatrice. Même sa gauche est conservatrice. Et surtout elle est incapable d'accepter que si les resources sont limitées - elles le sont - trancher en faveur des vieux contre les jeunes, en faveur des chômeurs contre la recherche, en faveur des aides contre les […]
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Marvin the Martian 🇺🇦 @marvinthemartian.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
#UkraineSupportTracker Of the 100 billion euros that the German federal government reports as “bilateral aid to Ukraine,” only about 41.7 billion euros can be classified as actual bilateral aid to Ukraine […]
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 08/10/2026
As the far-right AfD is preparing a joint motion in the Saxony-Anhalt council together with the far-left BSW calling for an end to military support for Ukraine, one may want to recall this piece from 2023. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0…
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Hey academics: 'By consuming AI products (which is optional, nobody – nobody – is forcing you to do it as an intellectually–independent academic, which you are, aren’t you), you are fueling these crises and are therefore actively sabotaging and annihilating the hard efforts and work of many of […]
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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
"The people holding up the internet" A good-looking but somewhat depressing exposé about the people holding up current digital infrastructure as a hobby. sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th…
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The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
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Nemo @iinavpov.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
La France a une société conservatrice. Même sa gauche est conservatrice. Et surtout elle est incapable d'accepter que si les resources sont limitées - elles le sont - trancher en faveur des vieux contre les jeunes, en faveur des chômeurs contre la recherche, en faveur des aides contre les […]
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Nemo @iinavpov.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Crucially, Macron was right on retirement, and that killed him, and it's thus wholly on *both* extremes (enabled by the centre left) that the extreme right will have a stab at power. Only the extreme right will benefit, all will blame the centre which they killed, and we all suffer.
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-Boulet- @bouletcorp2.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
J'avais fini tous les dessins de contreparties pour Bolchoi Arena et je pensais pouvoir faire un break. Et boum, quelqu'un se réveille et m'envoie son thème. Bon. Je le fais maintenant, pour la peine ! www.twitch.tv/bouletcorp
Un vieux dessin d'Inktober sur le thème Pokemon. On voit les trois formes évolutives d'un pokemon (non officiel). Cornichou (un petit mouton avec des cornes enflammées en spirales), Corviflamme (un cheval se tenant debout, avec toujours les mêmes bois enflammés, et Belzebouc, une créature bipède géante, qui ressemble à un gorille à tête de chèvre avec de longues cornes enflammées en spirales étirées.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 07/10/2026
Good job US gov't getting those “foreign information manipulation and interference” discussions quieted down by [checks notes] engaging in information manipulation and interference... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
I'm currently paying people to test my README. Using my #NLnet grant money, I'm giving people a €25 voucher if they'll let me watch them try to follow my documentation and install my software. It is *painful* but brilliant. I've found so many issues that I'd never thought of before. Only by […]
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
"please don't give root to the text generator" shouldn't need to be on the rules list... but here we are.
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
@leahmcelrath.bsky.social I made ten copies of the key to my house, wrote the address and when I'd be out on and envelope and left them in Penn Station with a note saying "please be nice and clean my kitchen, don't steal anything! Welp there is some strange dude in my bath tub and all of my […]
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Nemo @iinavpov.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
I'm willing to donate to a fund so someone goes to prison following a trial. I'm certain I'm not alone.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why independent media is so needed, in one post👇🏽 Framing matters
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Michael K Johnson @mcdanlj.social.makerforums.info.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
If you want to make sure that your site can be manipulated agentically by Meta's Muse, do not block traffic from ASN AS32934, because if you did that, it might make it impossible for the Muse agents to reach your site. 🤡
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Microsoft using wetlands and native gardens to 'camouflage' 20-plus data center sites by blending them into nature — critics blast the 'biomimicry' effort as 'lipstick on a pig' amid a 20-year gas power deal […]
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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission @collectifission.greennuclear.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Huge news over at the Green Party of England & Wales, which just adopted a pro-nuclear policy! 🥳
Tweet by Joe Hudson-Small: “Long weekend nearing an end.

Beyond proud that we have ended our opposition to new nuclear power, which I first helped pass at Young Greens convention.

Disappointed we just barely didn’t get to D04 – my and Lucy’s motion to declare we are a democratic, eco-socialist party. 

Maybe next time!”
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 04/10/2026
This really sounds like the right people have drawn the right lessons
European governments also want to be sure they can quickly produce drones in large numbers. Unlike conventional munitions, governments do not want to build large stockpiles of drones given the Ukraine war has shown the need for frequent upgrades to software and technology to avoid becoming obsolete.

Family-owned Schaeffler Germany, which makes bearings and other components for carmakers, signed a deal with French army supplier and drone maker Delair in June to help it with a “very quick and rapid ramp-up” of its manufacturing capabilities, said Rémy Triouleyre, the head of Schaeffler’s European business.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If that's all they wanted to say, they would simply say it. But they don't. They want to say something else. And that's why it's worded in the way it is.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It is also perfectly possible to make the case that Zionism inevitably leads to the kind of behaviour from the Israeli government which we see today. Those positions are valid and respectable.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The thing that gets me about these lurid anti-Zionist statements, like the one the Greens just passed, is that it is *so fucking easy* to criticise the Israeli government without engaging in that type of language.
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-Boulet- @bouletcorp2.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Nouveau Rogaton, un peu de poésie pour se changer les idées en ces temps difficiles. 04/10/2026 - "Gastronomie" À lire sur le blog: bouletcorp.com/rogatons/2026/10/04
Natalie et Boulet se promènent souriants au jardin des plantes. Boulet pousse la poussette de Jean-Chad.
Natalie dit: "les températures sont enfin meilleurs, on peut à nouveau se balader au parc ! C'est si beau, Paris !"
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Reginald @raganwald.social.bau-ha.us.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Fuse, n., business jargon: A person who is accountable for the outcome but has no authority over the process. Their purpose is to be fired and replaced with another fuse when something goes wrong, protecting managers who have authority over the process from being held accountable for its […]
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
[Top tip for injured hairy men] If your plaster/bandaid is the sort that's more clothy/fabricy than plasticky/rubbery then rubbing/isopropyl alcohol will wick right through the fabric to the adhesive underneath and dissolve it damn near instantly. Put a dab on your fingers and rub the cloth and […]
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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dusoft @dusoft.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Ah, this is cool in #KDE #plasma
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Janne Moren @jannem.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
@futurebird Not a fan of HTML email. But, I think we dodged a bullet by adopting it. At work, many people *really* want to format their text nicely. And MS was well on its way to get Word adopted as the de-facto standard for corporate email. That lost its momentum when html became adopted instead.
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
I’m still kind of mad about HTML email tbh. That was the beginning of the end.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In short: Fuck that, and fuck them. iandunt.substack.com/p/some-dispa...
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-Boulet- @bouletcorp2.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Nouvelle Newsletter ! On y parle du projet de @cepcam et de vieux projets inachevés ! bouletcorp.kessel.media/posts/pst_5…
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02 Octobre 2026 - Quand de vieux tiroirs s'ouvrent en grinçant
Où quelqu'un a eu une bonne idée, et qu'on veut aider les gens qui ont de bonnes idées.
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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
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