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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 8h
In 2017, transformers supercharged language modeling while trying to tackle translation. It unleashed staggering power. Read the latest Qualia column: www.quantamagazine.org/is-attention…
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Is ‘Attention’ the Essence of Intelligence? | Quanta Magazine
A mathematical mechanism enables AI models to process language at scale, undergirding the current AI revolution. Our columnist asks: Why is attention the key?
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 14h
You have to throw the full weight of the Hague after these colonizers and war criminals.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 15/10/2026
ICE is refusing to return personal items to people who've been released, including driver's licenses and passports, proof of immigration status, employment authorization documents, cell phones, wedding rings, cash, and more. This is illegal. The ACLU of DC and ACLU of Illinois are suing.
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ACLU sues ICE over refusal to return personal items to detainees after release
One of the seven named plaintiffs, an immigrant from Russia, had his work authorization documents and his wedding band seized by ICE and has been unable to retrieve them after five months.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18h
RIP Sanjulián (Manuel Pérez Clemente), 1941–2026. The Barcelona illustrator used to tell his son, “In every original I paint there is an adventure. I enjoy them and I live them while I make them, so I have had a life full of emotions.” humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/8306143...
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mandrake21.bsky.social @mandrake21.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Thama bravo are absolute savants. They give up huge concessions to get the proofpoint refi done and then OTPHJ the creditor committee with a Varonis drunken zombie bride. Masters
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mandrake21.bsky.social @mandrake21.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“absichtlicher Fehler”
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Dr. Marrone: + Left Monsanto in 1990 to build practical, eco-friendly applications + Founded or co-founded 4 major biological control companies + One of only 32 women to ever found a company & take it public on a major stock exchange + Holds >500 global patents #WomenInSTEM #Entomology #AgTech
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Julia Coronado @jc-econ.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Scott doesn’t really participate in philanthropy for the recognition, and maybe that’s the point” Imagine a world… fortune.com/article/mack...
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MacKenzie Scott alone accounted for one-third of America's $19.2 billion in megagifts last year | Fortune
MacKenzie Scott donated $7 billion in 2025—a third of all U.S. megagifts—bringing her five-year total to $26.2 billion, even as she stays out of the spotlight.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Embers Nicki Ault 2022
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Ghostcards @ghostcards.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.
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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is attempted murder.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Talarico: I've heard credible reports that Ken Paxton has a serious medical condition that causes clinical levels of cowardice. People are concerned. He has asked for proof of life from me. I'm asking for proof of spine from him.
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mandrake21.bsky.social @mandrake21.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
That’s a good clip
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American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Siegfried Shalom Sebba (Germany/Israel, 1897–1975), Self-Portrait with Beer Glass, 1928.
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VHS Vault @vhsvault.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
[Vintage VHS] The Columbia River Gorge: A Chasm of Majesty : 454s
Screenshot from VHS tape, video frame at 454 seconds.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.
Map of tanker’s route
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mandrake21.bsky.social @mandrake21.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Merseyside sense
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/10/2026
"Papa, don't die." That's what a 5-year-old cried after an ICE agent fired seven shots into the car carrying him and his father in New York City, striking his dad in the neck. @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social reacts to the agent's history of alleged excessive force and unlawful arrests.
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mandrake21.bsky.social @mandrake21.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Margery Kempe was a deeply flawed person
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump voters are looking my way because I'm not bought off. I want money out of politics, money in your pocket, and Medicare for All.
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Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think Republicans all failed to debate prep
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VHS Vault @vhsvault.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Cars live 1984 : 3142s
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Her private girls' school refused to offer chemistry courses because it wasn't a proper field for women.🙄 Undeterred, she went on to study at UPenn. Denied an official bachelor's degree in 1892 because of her gender, she persevered and completed her Ph.D. in #Chemistry there by 1895. #WomenInSTEM
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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s really heartening that despite having created the world’s first “low-float index-inclusion trillionaire” we still have inclusive opportunities for corruption and grift close to the centers of federal power at the $100K level.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Abolish ICE.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
The ICE Air Operations official handbook allows minors as young as 13 to be shackled on ICE flights. We don’t know this girl/young woman’s age, but if she is over 18, it probably isn’t by much. I don’t know how those flight “guards” sleep at night.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 06/10/2026
Armed Israeli settlers on Tuesday beat an AFP photographer, leaving him requiring hospital treatment, as he covered ongoing violence by settlers against West Bank olive farmers. u.afp.com/S9Fe
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“.. There aren’t any more inventories to drain in the West,” Russell Hardy, chief executive officer of Vitol Group, said at the Energy Intelligence Forum in London on Tuesday. “We drained the available inventory.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"A Bolsonaro win — aided by Trump and Big Tech billionaires — will be the likely end of the Amazon, the lungs of the earth. If you have young kids, you are watching them get locked into an extremely dangerous future. You’re not mad enough at the fascists and their collaborators." -@AaronRegunberg
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This book had me sleeping with the lights on when i was six bsky.app/profile/slee...
The cover of Scary Stories to tell in the dark
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Historic Cricket Pictures @picturesporting.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
One to bring back memories of those of a certain age ... the walkway under the old Grandstand at Lord's which was demolished in 1996, pictured in the 1980s. A complete jam on match days it had many quirky features and also included two bars and the printing office
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Queen of Clubs, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, Art Nouveau pioneer and Glasgow School Artist #WomensArt
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mandrake21.bsky.social @mandrake21.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Anybody checked in with Nick Denton in the Buda hills?
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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Because the American dream is to be a member of the Mattelstand.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 03/10/2026
We spoke with Chantz Rivera, who is walking from the Bronx to San Francisco, and expects to see the Golden Gate Bridge by the end of October.
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He's Walking from the Bronx to San Francisco, and He's Almost There
Chantz Rivera expects to see the Golden Gate Bridge by the end of October.
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American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Two qvevri unearthed at Mtskheta, Georgia's ancient capital, in June 1907. Clay jars like these were buried up to the neck so the wine could ferment and age at a steady cool temperature. Wine has been made in what is now Georgia for about 8,000 years.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/10/2026
Students have a right to a comprehensive education of our nation's history, and Indigenous children deserve to have their culture reflected at school.
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Montanans are demanding better Indian education, setting an example for other Western states - High Country News
Experts say good education is about relationships – and a constitutional amendment doesn’t hurt.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good news: Wilber Garces Perez finally had surgery to remove the bullet that was in his back for 11 days. It took far too long, and it's more proof of ICE cruelty. But we kept up the pressure, and Wilber got the care he needed. Speaking up for our neighbors works.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ICE’s new tactic, witnessed repeatedly at the federal building in MN: when a detained immigrant makes a successful habeas petition, release the immigrant for a few steps outside the building… then tackle and re-arrest them, and claim the habeas petition has been honored and nullified
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Straight up: As a woman in football, this sucks to listen to. This week in particular.
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mandrake21.bsky.social @mandrake21.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Remember when Benedict Evans was like I study and write about what’s next? And then he didn’t mention LLMs or transformers for from 2016-2022
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
".. Groceries are just like kind of out of control," said Bethany Lnenicka, 41, who operates a small farm in Fairfax, Iowa. "It's just one thing and the next week it's another thing. It's just insane. And of course your income doesn't go up." @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...
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Most Americans blame Trump for high prices as midterms approach, a new AP-NORC poll finds
A new AP-NORC poll finds that most Americans blame President Donald Trump for persistently high prices, while only about 2 in 10 approve of his handling of the cost of living.
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Haydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is so unimaginably fucked up too. You’re now forcing people to resuscitate a condemned woman, only to… what? I can’t imagine getting called a god damned execution chamber to intubate a patient. What a nightmare.
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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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