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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 1h
Interesting to note that Russia bombed Ukrainian data center in Sept, and no one heard about it, because Ukrainian data centers dont affect the rest of the world. www.reuters.com/business/aer...
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Russia hits Ukraine's largest mobile provider, strikes data centres
Russia hit the headquarters of Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile service provider on ​Sunday, the company told local media, ‌as Moscow continued a bombardment of Ukrainian data centres and communicat...
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 1h
You may not like it, but may be what democracy looks like.
Giant plumes of black smoke and fire from a Yandex data center bombed by Ukraine
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 2h
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 2h
I just say “No.”
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 5h
Elon: i’m going to send a data center to space! Zelenskyy, packing a repurposed Cessna full of composition 4: me too
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 2h
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Alysa Liu shot from above, smiling mid-spin on the ice during her gold medal winning skate.
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 2h
The sheer vibes potential yall!!
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Thinking abt this bsky.app/profile/jenk...
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 2h
October Surprise!
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 7h
In the future countries will be liberated by bombing other countries’ data centers.
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 7h
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Yes, destroying Russian bot farms def has to cut into the business at the Nazi porn bar.
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The destruction of the bot farm servers presents a massive opportunity ahead of the midterms.
Any organization with significant...
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 8h
Science is doing essential reporting on the decimation of NSF social science funding. We need public accounting. If you’ve benefited from an NSF grant from SBE, add to this 🧵. Tell the world what was funded that will not be funded from NSF anymore. I’ll start… www.science.org/content/arti...
Graph showing the number of NSF grants over 7 years—moving to zero in 2026.
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 23h
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 23h
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 23h
Weird to not be able to have even kept the construction of your own childhood intact.
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 23h
Aside from being very sick and having to live in a hospital for some portion of my childhood, the rest of it was living in the countryside with a garden with fruits and vegetables. Hedgehogs under the porch. Picking mushrooms in the forest to pickle and berries to make into jam.
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 23h
Russians are making soviet Millennial childhood nostalgia slop and I am falling for it because unfortunately my first 6 years on the dacha were completely idyllic. I only later knew i was supposed to feel very unsettled by the place i grew up after it became the villain who had forced us to leave it
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The look that flashes on his face when the reporter said “healthcare”…..
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Hot take of the day: a worrying number of leftists are actually just Evangelical Christians with the serial numbers filed off
The world is sinfuta capitalist hellscape but we just have to wait until the Second Coming the Revolution happens when everything will be magically fixed. Any attempt to make actual progress makes you a lukewarm Christian liberal anything less than the Apocalypse the Revolution (which we are forever waiting for btw) is completely useless. Also consuming certain media or makin certain lifestyle choices is sinful and unchristian bad praxis.
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
How was the movie?
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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 10/10/2026
no idea who made this but I think of that random person with gratitude every time I heat up any sort of wraplike food object in the microwave
two scenes from an X-Men animated program: in the first, scott summers and jean gray are making out; he is labeled "microwave heat" and she is labeled "plate." in the second, we are more distant from the couple, and wolverine is standing in the foreground, labeled "my burrito."
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There is no one else in the theater?
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
tern: "Ten ways COVID denialists use exactly the same playbook as climate change denialists to justify doing nothing:"
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@1goodtern: Ten ways covid denialists use exactly the same playbook as climate change denialists to justify doing nothing:
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Customers who hate these things, also hate..." etc.
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In case you're wondering what the connection is here, it's hate confluence.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
All forms of conspiracism go through a process of convergent evolution akin to carcinization, except instead of turning into crabs they end up as, well, you know
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
gotta say I really don’t love the use of the Israeli flag here especially when some of the largest foreign institutional investors in data centers are not even Israeli (primarily the gulf states) Sunrise has truly lost the plot ngl
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 09/10/2026
I think a lot about what a different world we'd have if the algorithms rewarded heartwarming stories instead of rage bait. As I recall, they DID find people respond to happy/inspiring content ("I saved this dog!") very strongly. Rage bait just performed a *fraction* better. And they made a choice
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Thoreau Away @thoreauaway.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Who up hybriding their regime rn
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Again, you (& I) live in a country where there are concentration camps & people are being disappeared. We can argue about what exactly to call this particular form of partially autocratic political regime, but it’s not a full democracy.
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“We let the infants listen to all three languages and it turned out they were selective in what they learned,” Leong said...“They’re not just passive sponges. They heard all three languages, but only learned the one, which was when they could see the speaker’s eyes.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Adult-to-infant unidirectional neural coupling mediates selective social learning in infants from the United Kingdom and Singapore - Nature Communications
Infants are sensitive to social cues like eye gaze as a signal for learning. Here, the authors show, in cohorts from Singapore and the United Kingdom, coupling of adult and infant brain activity media...
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Eye contact may act as a learning “switch” for babies’ brains www.psypost.org/eye-contact-...
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Eye contact may act as a learning "switch" for babies' brains
Do babies soak up everything they hear? Not quite. A study of infants in the U.K. and Singapore suggests eye contact helps them decide which words are worth learning, possibly by syncing their brain a...
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Being exposed to the idea that you are using a substance that improves skin elasticity and hydration is enough to improve skin elasticity and hydration so consider what being exposed to visuals of brutalization does. (Also probably nothing good for your skin). bsky.app/profile/jenk...
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I had never considered the placebo effect would work for skincare but of COURSE it would! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Collagen Peptides: Should You Take Them?
Podcast Episode · Science Vs · October 8 · 35m
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And they're not even the good guys bsky.app/profile/bwre...
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.ipd.uw.edu/2026/02/gbp5...
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First vaccine targeting SARS virus family enters human trials – Institute for Protein Design
The computer-designed vaccine aims to protect against coronaviruses that haven't yet emerged, including pandemic threats
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dystopia is an intensely conservative hypnotic tool www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/p...
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Pete Hegseth vows to make first firing squad execution in decades ‘public’ | CNN Politics
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed in an interview this week that the execution of the man who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood in 2009 would be “public.”
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Not even two years into the authoritarian regime and he has already debased the country with displays of crudest barbarism: from the farce of the cage match on the White House lawn, to the tragedy of execution-as-entertainment. MAGA: Bloodthirsty savages all.
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Pete Hegseth vows to make first firing squad execution in decades ‘public’ | CNN Politics
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed in an interview this week that the execution of the man who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood in 2009 would be “public.”
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is related. bsky.app/profile/fayt...
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I just appreciate that being thwarted in this outlet for extruding cruelty is only going to amplify it inside of them. Unfortunately, it will find somewhere else to go.
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
AI cant feel anything so it doesn't matter how you treat it. But humans ARE affected by the internal physiology of their own responses. You could get angry at a door for stubbing your toe. The door doesn't feel anything, but being chronically enraged eats away YOUR cardiovascular / endocrine system.
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A lot of people are angry and want to inflict pain because they get off on it, etc. Its unsurprising that this compulsion would manifest itself in interactions with AI, and I actually feel a shiver of delight at the idea of them experiencing even MORE frustration and rage corroding their insides.
Addressing abusive behavior toward our models
We've added a prohibition on sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models. The policy update is meant to apply only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose. It does not apply to common versions of user frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or model testing and research.
This addition aligns with a step we've already taken, allowing Claude models to end rare conversations with persistently abusive users on Claude.ai and Claude Code. Such abuse is the main focus of this update; Claude's ability to end these interactions will remain the primary enforcement mechanism.
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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm sorry WHAT? Moments like this make me really glad my parents aren't here to see what's become of us. They were patriotic in a way that I could never be, and this would break them.
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026
And so, in the context of financial capitalism and its profit pressures, it can seem to men like this that their time is better spent building a device to replace the care work that women are asking of them, than committing long term to doing more of that work themselves.
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My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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