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Jon Pye

@jdpye.bsky.social
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was j_pye on the Bad Site. Computer Scientist (Ocean Science) Habs fan. Opinions mine. Also at @j_pye@mastodon.social

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 23h
Jack from 30 Rock saying “that’s Republican, we count those”
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 06/10/2026
“You are infringing on the time and brainpower of people by pushing "your" content that little/no of your brainpower went into” is such a banger
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former
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Gavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
📝 My paper on generalized additive models (GAMs) in animal science is out! Learn nonlinear relationships from data, estimate growth rates and compare treatments, with cows, pigs and quail + reproducible #RStats code. Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.an... #mgcv #AnimalScience #Statistics 🧪
Eight panels show body mass over 78 days for 57 Japanese quail. Columns represent control, T4, T3 and combined T3–T4 hormone treatments; rows separate females and males. Coloured points are measurements, lines are individual growth curves fitted by a hierarchical generalized additive model, and shading shows 95% credible intervals. Growth slows towards a plateau, with females generally reaching higher body masses than males.Eighteen panels show individual pig growth curves. Black points mark daily average weight estimates from a depth camera; blue lines show curves fitted by a hierarchical generalized additive model, with shaded 95% credible intervals. Weights generally increase over time, with differences in growth and measurement variability among pigs. Uncertainty widens where measurements are sparse or absent.Four-panel comparison of models fitted to a cow’s average daily milk fat production. Observations rise to a peak around weeks 8–10, then decline. The first panel shows fitted curves and uncertainty bands for Wood’s model, a Tweedie GLM and a Tweedie GAM. Residual plots show curved patterns for Wood’s model and the GLM, but little remaining pattern for the GAM.
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
major democracies electing far-right populist governments
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Mike Sphar @mikesphar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Nathalie Steins @nathaliesteins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Job alert! We are looking for a #marine ecologist specialised in #Delta ecosystems. Great team, challenging research projects, and the @w-u-r.bsky.social lab with the best #sea view! #science #vacancy #ecology #Zeeland #Netherlands www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/m...
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Marine Ecologist
As a Marine Ecologist specialized in the Delta ecosystems at Wageningen Marine Research (WMR) in Yerseke, you will play an active role in restoring and enhancing the unique natural environment of the ...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our oceans have shaped the Canada we know today — and how we treat them will shape our future.
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Keith Edwards @kedwards.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's cool and awesome that every century or so we have to relearn the hard lessons about why we invented government because some dumb motherfuckers forget that the cornerstone of Civilization is a thousand boring little bureaucrats doing their job, not Great Men Being Violent.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI
Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...
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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
View COGs or tile servers in any projection - with dynamic reprojection on pan if you template the centre - WebGL triangles with barycentric interpolation (or rust wasm engine toggle) mdsumner.github.io/ortho-cog-vi...
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Jon Pye @jdpye.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our scientific director's ( @oceantracking.bsky.social ) attending, as are the leaders of CIOOS, ONC, and MEOPAR. Looking forward to hearing all about it!
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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The road to Spilhaus in open source PROJ: mdsumner.github.io/spilhaus-tra...
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Jon Pye @jdpye.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Your off game is my high water mark! Eked out a 905 today. I only scored high on the Moz round because of our partners down there :)
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Tim Clancy @viewfromarchstreet.com · 18/09/2026
We are living in the future I'll tell you how I know I read it in the paper Fifteen years ago We're all driving rocket ships And talking with our minds And wearing turquoise jewelry And standing in soup lines We are standing in soup lines -- John Prine
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The very first line is a lie, and we all know it. *None* of this was ever designed to help us, which is why it hurts us and we hate it. It really is that simple, but the media simply cannot bring themselves to say it.
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The humans are rejecting the machines that were supposed to help them | CNN Business
Touchscreens and self-checkout machines were designed to help customers. But restaurants and retailers are ditching them to humanize stores and attract workers.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"The president is a stupid asshole" quickly became a trite observation but that's still the analysis that most accurately and succinctly explains almost everything that happens
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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.
A small machine, the front resembles a smiling face, and its back reflected in the mirror behind it resembles a horrified face.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
AI advocates have two settings - youth pastor and Sephiroth
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 09/09/2026
INSIDE YOU THERE ARE TWO OUTLOOKS
NEITHER ARE WORKING
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Guy who just lost 5 large on the Browns tells his buddies he’s got a feeling about Jacksonville if they could spot him.
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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Jon Pye @jdpye.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Louis Riel is a great pickup from there!
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Jon Pye @jdpye.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This ratio restored my faith in humanity.
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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
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some-rss-feeds.bsky.social @some-rss-feeds.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
[some-subscribed-rss] New Post: Pluralistic: Preparing for a post-Trump internet (03 Sep 2026), by Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2026/09/03/broken-a…
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What if post-Trump America is even worse? Cory Doctorow argues that Trump isn't the cause of American fascism—he’s just the ringleader of a coalition of corrupt, reckless true believers who hate each other but love power. When Trump inevitably exits, the infighting could unleash chaos far beyond anything we’ve seen. Big Tech has already fused with Trumpism, turning American digital infrastructure into a weapon that can brick entire countries. The only escape? A rapid, global push for a post-American internet built on open, sovereign digital public goods. But powerful people keep asking: “What if this makes Trump mad?” Doctorow’s answer is urgent and unsettling. Read on to understand why waiting is not an option.

teaser for https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/03/broken-arrows/
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Cat 🐈 @mrsbadcrumble1975.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This post is ten years old and still accurate. #climatechange
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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
i think you can do it by making trump's crimes into true crime. no joke
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
When are establishment Democrats going to answer for their concerning and alienating ties to Neera Tanden
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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Every once in a while a normal human being sneaks into a position of power, and not only is it refreshing, it is downright revolutionary.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
yea, being a dick
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Adam @adam35.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 29/08/2026
In 2021, WHOI postdoc Laura McDonnell and her team, dubbed “The Pit Crew,” had just five minutes to attach satellite tags to the dorsal fin of each shark that they could find along the coast of Cape Cod, MA. What did they learn? Find out from @sierramagazine.bsky.social: go.whoi.edu/shark-tag
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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Carolyn 🇨🇦 @carolynp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Meme from Lord of the Rings. Gimli: never thought I’d die fighting side by side with Doug Ford. Legolas: I’m gonna rip out all the bike lanes. Gimli: Christ alive you’re the worst.
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Both the Economist and others suggest this study demonstrates that AI can help students. So I contacted the lead researcher to figure out how many. Answer: Out of ~26,000 kids, a total of 20. And five months after starting to use AI, only four continued to spend 65 minutes on homework. Four.
Graph of student exam scores correlated to homework completion time for to groups, students using AI and those that did not. There is a slight spike for studens using AI who also maintained extensive homework completion time. As described in post, the number of students falling into this bucket was 20 out of 26,000.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
They have a real strict firewall set up so it’s basically none of my concern. flaminghydra.com/weve-all-got...
We’ve all got work to do 

Well sure I work at the consent factory but in a different department than where they actually manufacture the consent. I’m on a whole other floor. They have a real strict firewall set up so it’s basically none of my concern. Same cafeteria yes but who’s really going to quibble with that. How many cafeterias do you expect a building to have? We’re all people and we gotta eat haha. Nevertheless every morning from the moment I walk through the revolving doors to when I scan my ID at the security desk I do a whole petulant teenager in the backseat on the way to church routine so anyone who might be watching knows that I don’t want to be there. That I don’t approve of what I do for a living. What they do I mean. Unless one of the guys from the prestige department is around then I straighten right up like daddy just got home. They’re in the same building too. Then I sit at my desk waving my hand in front of my face all day like someone farted while I’m busy at my work. Which is trying to change things from the inside by the way.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We do not build the reservoirs needed to store the rain that falls here. We do not build strategic food reserves needed to maintain provision in hard times. We failed to build effective stores of PPE, to protect us in pandemics. This country has long been governed by people who do not prepare.
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Canada’s economic future should not be shaped through an invite-only gathering of the ultra-wealthy. It should be determined democratically, with the public good and long-term sustainability taking precedence over private profit, writes Bianca Mugyenyi.
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Carney’s CEO summit could put public assets on the table
This September, a who’s who of global finance will descend on a luxury hotel in downtown Toronto for an invitation-only event, the first-ever Canada Investment Summit. As Bianca Mugyenyi writes, the s...
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