Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21hThis by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words... 10826312
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialInstitute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026SPECIAL REPORT: Ukrainian forces have defeated the 2026 Russian campaign to seize Donetsk Oblast. 🧵(1/6) Read more: isw.pub/UkraineDisru... 7865242
immitb.bsky.social @immitb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Who are the other freaks there with him. The woman in red looks like she is trying to stop herself gagging. 000
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialDavid Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“One paradox of our time is that whilst the educational attainment of the population has increased, there has been a decline in public intellectual standards” 616335
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialGreen Collective @greencollective.io · 01/10/2026The Irish grid in September: 🔹 43.0% renewables: 36.8% wind 💨, 4.8% solar ☀️, 1.1% biomass 🪵, 0.3% hydro 💧 🔹 39.1% fossil fuels: 37.5% gas 🏭️, 1.6% waste-to-energy 🔥 🔹 1.3% storage: 0.8% pumped hydro ⛰️, 0.5% batteries 🔋 🔌 16.5% imports All this and much more in the latest "Irish Grid Monthly"! 1179
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple. 7413161
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialJohn Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I am so glad I purchased a Kurt Vonnegut book when I was 16 years old. 13112
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered. 238102093244
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialFelix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026Electric cars just had their best month ever in the UK (28%, near 100,000 EVs sold)... and Spain (18%) and Taiwan (19%) and Switzerland (35%) and Belgium (50%) and Denmark (88%) (!) and Norway (98%) and France (41%) and Portugal (48%) and probably more to follow when numbers arrive :D ⚡️ 45313
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Well one thing I think about a lot is that there’s some research that says exposure to the outgroup reduces bigotries over time. The one thing that’s resistant is misogyny. There’s no one on earth who’s never met a woman. 610012
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11571802059
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“A mother described to me that she had prepared her child’s snack and placed it in her backpack, kissed her face, and sent her to school. What was returned to her was her child’s backpack with an uneaten sandwich.” 12212
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Pentagon has weaponized cringe, sir. We didn't think it was possible 2767
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴 52072342592
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialAnthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For this #MosaicMonday we look up into the spectacular presbytery vault of San Vitale in #Ravenna. To me, the Ravenna #mosaics are an astonishing collection, the last magnificent product of late antiquity. But whose empire does this shimmering C6 CE ceiling actually represent? #AncientBluesky 🏺 313733
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialAlan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Letter of the day (in the Times) 12263842470
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialPhilip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I always found it ironic that much of unionism has nothing to offer but division. 2234
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialBrendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism. 18637255
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map. 9653093276
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess 512073531
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5843451194
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Wow I’ve never seen this photo before. The two figures from American Gothic (who turn out to be the family dentist and the artist’s sister!) www.ft.com/content/6015... 823670
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialTW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026this is fantastic and I learned something new 563212436
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103664409
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialDavid Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 20/09/2026There’s this Right wing meme going around about the rise of Mississippi 4th grade reading scores being so triumphantly high. In 2024, they’re like 2nd or 3rd highest. I wonder if this is believable… curios if education experts like @mpolikoff.bsky.social have views. 442
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialPaul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Keep politics out of music, like in the old days when Tchaikovsky wrote the 1812 Overture about how nice the weather was that year, or Beethoven composed his “Emperor” concerto in honour of his favourite kitten, and Dylan sang A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, all about the fun of splashing in puddles. 2635268
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026also. the thing people hate is not ‘the technology’ it is the tech industry. they hate move fast and break things. they hate having everything they say tracked and processed while companies do whatever they want. they hate every single ideological value that animates silicon valley 153695754
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialHolger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026How is this news? billionaire oil person says uk needs to drill more and tax less, though, of course, he‘s actually in Monaco. And he would do more in the uk if the state subsidised him more. Dear BBC, that‘s like me saying the uk‘s problem is underpaid law profs. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comBillionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UKIneos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea. 64891241
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The only thing I would disagree with here is that the UK is not helpless - it is a choice not to fight back against Musk. It is the wrong choice. 1119451
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270... 6428121171
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026So Trump caves after creating a crisis that was massively costly to key US alliances, and will declare victory for, and lie about the scope of, a “deal” that enshrines the status quo ante but leaves what were good faith relations laden with distrust & resentments. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...nytimes.comU.S. and Denmark Reach Security Deal on Greenland, Trump SaysThe full contours of the deal were unclear, but Denmark and Greenland both indicated they expected an agreement to be signed soon. 18503144
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialJaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 19/09/2026The tightrope challenge for carmakers, not just German ones, is that the market wants electric cars now. However, this does not align with the slow transition towards 2035+ that carmakers had planned, which would have involved ongoing high returns on past investments in combustion engine models. 49335
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 19/09/2026static.klipy.comSecurity Guard ConfrontationALT: Security Guard Confrontation 523741
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The Anthropic, Meta, and Google "breaking containment" incidents all resulted from setup errors (or a stunt) by the same company: Irregular. Irregular created a sandbox that wasn't really a sandbox because it had a live internet connection, and gave instructions that were then carried out online. 61835497
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.sociallukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is 130133082146
immitb.bsky.social @immitb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s letter calling for an industry “pause” is best read as an effort to socialise, rather than accept, accountability for product safety at his company. ” www.ft.com/content/f532...ft.comThe Apple trust premium in the age of AIMarkets were signalling discomfort even before the latest wave of worries about existential risk 020
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialPaul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?bbc.co.ukThe Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract showsThe Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows. 21893052833
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Episode 2 is up! Beforecast, my new podcast about history and our present, starting with a deep dive into Machiavelli. Beforecast.fm has links to all the podcast sites, and the YouTube link is below.beforecast.fmBeforecast — Now LiveHistorian Ada Palmer on the real Machiavelli. Episode 1 is out now. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube and more. 1319
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026In their wildest dreams Hamas couldn't do as much damage to Israel as Netanyahu and his government has. 752250
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Trump shuts down the Kennedy Center, by law a living memorial to President Kennedy, because he has been denied the right to put his name on the building. Disgusting. 50849242
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect. 7972061139
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialThijs Reuten @thijsreuten.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Trumps assault at the International Criminal Court, its judges and staff, must stop immediately. We ask the Commission to take action and use the mandate based on the declaration by EU member states. @chloe-ridel.fr @coalitionfortheicc.org @barryandrewsmep.bsky.social @catarina-europe.bsky.social 0168
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialUna Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour. 10497161989
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialSimon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Pilots and flight attendants have the highest cancer risk of any occupation. They spend decades at cruising altitude, above much of the atmosphere that normally protects us from cosmic radiation. Source: buff.ly/Ma437wv 13410
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"but but Danny, even the open-weight LLMs which we can't regulate are now so complicated and cool that every disaffected kid in the world could write a loop calling one that wouldn't be safe or controllable". I don't believe that either, but if true, we need to divert your budget to cybersecurity. 5375
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"but but Danny, the LLMs are so complicated and cool now that *nobody* can write executable software which uses them and be sure that it's safe". Well why did you build something like that? Sounds like you wasted your money if that's really true, which I very much doubt it is. 1374
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"but but Danny, the LLMs are so complicated and cool now that it's *impossible* for me to write a program like that and be confident I can control or predict its behaviour". Well you're not allowed to do the thing then!!! This is how we regulate poison and explosives. Leave it to someone who can 14314
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026it's just not the case that LLMs can destroy humanity. An LLM cannot (technical sense) do shit. The thing which can damage important systems would be "an executable program, which calls an LLM to determine its behaviour". So, don't write one of those unless you are confident you can control it. 75119
Reposted by @immitb.bsky.socialLeonhard Gandhi @energy-charts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Die Solaranlagen in Deutschland haben im laufenden Jahr 2026 schon mehr Solarstrom erzeugt als im kompletten Jahr 2025. www.energy-charts.info/charts/energ... 14514136
