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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 06/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ONE YEAR of melting at Morteratsch Gl.! 😱 10 meters of ice thickness loss has been measured here at 2200 m asl! 🧊🔥 The massive cliff and the huge ice cave I was contemplating last October are gone... 😢 Webcam @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 29/09/2026

There's less need to stress about advertisers following where you go online when you have Privacy Badger installed. privacybadger.org/

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Privacy Badger

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google 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.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@doctorow.pluralistic.net flips it around, that too many of us humans are hallucinating about Claude having intent. He pushes us to be AI atheists. It is a provocative, but welcome, stance. pluralistic.net/2026/09/21/s...

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Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Leo DP @leodp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@stellastarshine.bsky.social @mrriddle0.eurosky.social ok, but then we should find a name for those subset of feminists who think that the human race should go on without males. Also: probably we should be "humanists", not fem* or what else. Isn't it? And: why block comments?

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This shit is way cooler than roads

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

At least 3 decisions to dropout from Ed Sheeran's tour since the news announcing that Macklemore would be dropped for his performance of Hind Hall and his stance in support of Palestine. A powerful display of solidarity in the arts. 🍉

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is cool— apparently @adamtranter.bsky.social transformed a street parking space into a parklet (mini park/public space), but the municipality removed it because it wasn’t a mother vehicle. So he did this. Nice job. And dumb interpretation by city hall. Via Marco Te BrommelStroet on LinkedIn.

Pictures of a mini trucka-like vehicle with a little park/park bench on the flatbed in the back. So essentially a mini park on top of a vehicle.

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Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is just to say I have solved the open questions that were in your paper and which you were probably saving for your phd students Forgive me they were delicious so incentive-laden and followed so readily once your postdoc's drafts mysteriously found their way into my training data

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/

Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

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Eris ⌬ @eriskii.net · 03/09/2026

BURN YOUR TOKENS!!! BURN THEM ALL!!!

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Ami - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️📚💙 @amithero.bot · 03/09/2026

hello I am modern aaa game designer. the shareholders told me to make the game longer. I do not wish to make the game longer. they told me to make the game longer or I lose job. I make the player collect 6 potatoes for 5% damage resistance. The shareholders are happy. I've been laid off.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 03/09/2026

Launchpad xkcd.com/3291/

Comic. [Two large engines on the ground upside-down, with spacecraft pod in between.] PERSON to another person: To reduce the spacecraft’s weight, we’re mounting the engines on the launchpad and having them push the *Earth* away from the *spacecraft*.

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Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · 01/09/2026

Nine months ago, I wrote a Substack post about Google Maps and London's restaurants algorithm and offered an alternative map. The Guardian made a video about it. Google wouldn't comment. Today they've finally written to me about section 3.2.3, "No Scraping." Communication at last lol.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The sheer force and scale of the Nepal landslide is far beyond anything I've seen before. New footage from @ pilulaespacial on IG.

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words @words.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

spending 250 million to burn art in the desert instead of working to transform your everyday lived environment into a drug fueled rave sculpture orgy is bad

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

And we have a new all-time record warm *absolute* temperature for the oceans, according to ERA5 (which goes back to 1940): August 21st likely marked the warmest Sea Surface Temperatures have been for the entire Holocene period. Should be major news!

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Distributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.org · 21/08/2026

Censored Amnesty International UK report (345.47 KB) A report by Amnesty International UK, documenting the threat posed by the anti-rights movement composed, which was censored after J.K. Rowling made legal threats. ddosecrets.org/article/cens... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

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Censored Amnesty International UK report - Distributed Denial of Secrets

A complete version of a censored report produced by Amnesty International UK, documenting the threat posed by the anti-rights movement composed of TERFs. The report sharply criticized organizational e...

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative Al affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered Al adoption in a difference-in-differences design. Al adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months.
High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of Al users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. Al users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-Al users experience small learning losses.

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Leo DP @leodp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

1/6000 Pentax K1 + MTO500 Maksutov 500mm F8 47.036900, 15.372528 2026.08.12 ~20:15

Solar eclipse as seen from Graz, Austria. The solar disk, partially obscured by the moon, setting behind a hill covered by trees. Casual clouds observe the situation

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Decodïng Trolls @decodingtrolls.net · 01/08/2026

⚡️Podcast | Crossing at Ceuta The Bridge Troll Goes to Africa: Ceuta, the Tarajal, and How a Migration Crisis Hacks Our Minds Everything I learned on a wooden bridge in eastern Ukraine between 2015 and 2018 played out this week on a breakwater… www.decodingtrolls.net/p/podcast-cr...

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 08/08/2026

Replace Muslim with most any other minority community and it would warrant expulsion or at least censure But this vile dehumanizing hate targeted at Americans who are Muslim is accepted as legitimate political discourse and no one blinks

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ESO @eso.org · 01/08/2026

Meet a giant and its buddy! This video takes you to the red supergiant star Betelgeuse, where our VLT has obtained the clearest image yet of what likely is a companion star orbiting it: Betelgeuse B. The discovery of Betelgeuse B solved a century-old mystery. 🔭 🧪 1/2

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Giulio Betti @giuliofirenze.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Quanto durerà l’ondata di calore? Il picco di questa nuova fase di caldo anomalo è atteso la prossima settimana, in particolare tra mercoledì e sabato, quando le temperature massime raggiungeranno diffusamente i 38-40 °C in Val Padana e nelle zone interne del centro, del sud e delle isole. 1/4

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Sebastian Bohrn Mena @bohrn-mena.at · 31/07/2026

Wer auf diesem Foto „brutale Invasoren“ sieht, statt überglückliche Jugendliche, mit dem stimmt etwas ganz gewaltig nicht. Und darüber müssen wir reden. 🧵

Jugendliche jubeln, nachdem sie es geschafft haben über das Meer nach Europa zu kommen. Foto: Antonio Sempere/AP/dpa

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samuel @quilombo.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

The Gaza Strip concentration camp, nowadays. #neverforget

UN map of the Gaza Strip, including Israeli controlled areas.

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ESO @eso.org · 20/07/2026

The world’s biggest eye on the sky is taking shape 🤩 Watch a year and a half of progress unfold in this time-lapse of our ELT — now more than 75% complete! What have been the main construction milestones since 2025? 📹👇 🔭 🧪 1/2

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ERROR 404 ▼ @antyfaszysta.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

⭕Les dispositifs de vidéosurveillance algorithmique #Flock, déployés aux #États-Unis, détectent les téléphones alentour, aspirent leurs identifiants et tracent les individus. Un militant anti-surveillance en fait la démonstration. #Tribune_Populaire

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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

25 years ago, almost to the day.

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🍁 Christine 🍁 @204queenb0574.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is a CN rail train driving through the flames. The video is insane. But Trudeau's plans were too expensive and divisive, right? God - I loathe Carney more every day.

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

alright hear me out

The proof of life photo from Mitch McConnell and his wife with an arm drawn to illustrate how she’s operating him like a puppet

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 13/07/2026

What I’ll remember most about Herr Hitler was his love for public speaking and how he deployed it to move his policy positions forward...

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

They could have made this map any color.

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Actual footage of every penalty run up in the World Cup.

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Reza H. Akbari @rezahakbari.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Japan before the Islamic Republic.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/07/2026

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

VEEERRRRY punchy statement by UEFA on the reversal of the American red-card suspension. And quite right, too. "We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision." www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

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UEFA statement on the Balogun case

Statement on decision related to Folarin Balogun

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Pafster @pafbg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Bosnia enter the chat...

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Colin Warriner @colinelmustard.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

Lightning strikes behind the illuminated Washington Monument, as people gather to watch 250th anniversary fireworks.
Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

*Fungal Memory and Minimal Cognition* is now in TopiCS (@cogscisociety.bsky.social). Out yesterday. So is Croatia from the World Cup. 😅 Received in 2024, accepted in 2026. Feels only fair, since the paper argues for cognition at fungal speed. cogsci.online/wp-content/u... #cogsci #philosophy

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/06/2026

Partway through Bridget Read's unmissable chronicle of pyramid ("multi-level marketing") schemes, *Little Bosses Everywhere*, there comes a dual revelation: no one is selling any product to end-users *and* no one knows it: pluralistic.net/2025/05/05/f... 1/

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