Reposted by Dr B MikusAnise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 12hWhy parents make great scientists: Because they recognize that "Lauren errors" happen all the time. 620979
Reposted by Dr B MikusGrady Booch @booch.com · 13hMs Hamilton coined the term “software engineering”. 7632200
Reposted by Dr B MikusThe Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 14hAccording to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison. 1427561057
Reposted by Dr B Mikus🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I hope the Nobel Prize committee will be awarded for the discovery of the existence of women this year. 122
Reposted by Dr B Mikusmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun. 168187934715
Reposted by Dr B MikusLisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yes. I keep thinking about the phrase "rights stripping," which Judith Butler used in a talk at the New School in May, to capture a key element of the techno-fascist political project. 014439
Reposted by Dr B MikusTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026They aren’t just stealing everything that is left they are making sure only men can hoard it. I don’t know what else to tell you. 259997
Reposted by Dr B MikusTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years. 2640125
Reposted by Dr B MikusTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026And by citizen he means who can accrue and control property and wealth. 344933
Reposted by Dr B MikusTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026He isn’t old. He isn’t out of touch. He isn’t confused. He is choosing who will rule. Men — even those who love men — are citizens and everyone else isn’t. Thats it. 6780106
Reposted by Dr B MikusJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Stop normalizing sexual assault. Fucking shun people who have done it. Start acting like the victims fucking MATTERED. 392298
Reposted by Dr B MikusJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It is fucking absurd how much y’all want boys to have an unobstructed successful future and treat girls like fucking cannon fodder every last high school girl out there is more valuable to the world than a boy or man who has committed sexual assault 11245146
Reposted by Dr B MikusM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Naomi Klein Is Spot On....... 15787743404
Reposted by Dr B MikusHeather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 03/10/2026EVERY UK MP needs to read this You are all part of a government that is creating a situation so hostile and unsafe that people are leaving the country This is not an isolated case. You have the power to do something about this. 63608230
Reposted by Dr B MikusRoger @arbejdsmyren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In Denmark a scientist plotted data and research findings into Claude, only to see Anthropic publish the findings as something the LLM had conjured up on its own. The theft of one scientist’s data and work translates into false claims about the model’s ability to generate research #ai #eupol 6237124
Reposted by Dr B MikusErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I still remember an afternoon on Twitter when every woman was posting in a blind rage about the Kavanaugh hearings, just *seething* over what was happening, and all of a sudden the game started and instantly all of those voices were swamped by every guy on the site excitedly talking about football. 311922
Reposted by Dr B Mikus👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026LOUDER FOR THE BACK ROW 032146
Reposted by Dr B MikusIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Sounds alarmist and absurd to suggest that the Tories would follow, but they are currently just a couple years behind the far-right parties on these issues. Badenoch is radicalising the party at speed. 1532737
Reposted by Dr B MikusIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The chipping away at citizenship, which started with Shamima Begum, is utterly poisonous. Anytime now, Restore will support the removal of citizenship on the basis of race or religion. 351037282
Reposted by Dr B MikusJames Barišić 🇭🇷 @james.barisic.fr · 27/09/2026This is why no British dual citizen should tell the British state about any other citizenship they hold. The goalposts keep changing and they're coming for you next. 12415
Reposted by Dr B MikusJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 17092933069
Reposted by Dr B MikusB.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And yet I was only allowed to access a 1955 B.Litt. thesis, the only lengthy study on Robert Braybrooke, in person and take notes (no photos). I had to sign a register of those who had ever accessed the thesis. 4315126
Reposted by Dr B MikusSusanne Wosnitzka @donauschwalbe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Was KI auch noch alles kaputt macht: Freundinnen, die für Online-Lexika schreiben oder solche betreiben wie FemBio, ersahen via VG-Wort-Meldungen wesentlich weniger Klickzahlen für ihre Seiten, weil die Leute nur mehr die KI-Zusammenfassung nutzen & daher nicht mehr auf die Webseiten selbst gehen 😔 1023176
Reposted by Dr B MikusAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026You know that saying about how the way they treat asylum seekers is the way they’d treat everyone else if they thought they could get away with it? Well, 25378181
Reposted by Dr B MikusGood Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 26/09/2026This is a role for someone who knows that great campaigns don’t just inform people, they move them. Is this you? Apply to be our new Campaigns and Communications manager👇 hr.moorepay.co.uk/hr/recruitment/ro…hr.moorepay.co.ukGood Law ProjectAbout the Role This is a role for someone who knows that great campaigns don’t just inform people, they move them. Someone who can see the bigger picture, move quickly when an opportunity emerges, 13624
Reposted by Dr B MikusLiverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026📣 Oxford University Voltaire continues to grow. Launched earlier this year with Voltaire's complete works and correspondence, OV's first major update has arrived, bringing Voltaire's marginalia and more than a dozen new items of correspondence to the resource. Read more on the blog: bit.ly/4dHYBK3 174
Reposted by Dr B MikusHeadsoccer @headsoccer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Merz: "Es gibt in Deutschland keine Enteignungen von privatem Eigentum" Es sei denn, du willst Kohle abbauen, dann werden ganze Dörfer enteignet und abgebaggert. 39854240
Reposted by Dr B MikusRuth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026See also: Reform UK Restore UK 142
Reposted by Dr B MikusChris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 21/09/2026there is no sensible reason why a 5 year spouse visa cost us a little over fourteen grand. none whatsoever. and that's before you break it down to the addition of renewals every 30 months, the health surcharge, the endless price hikes, the final kick in the teeth for ILR (three grand! to settle!) 318091
Reposted by Dr B MikusCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation. 2742241002
Reposted by Dr B MikusSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026when ai leaves u behind 75262249835
Reposted by Dr B MikusAdmirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026N.K. Jemisin is the first author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 3 consecutive yrs for her Broken Earth series & first to win for all 3 novels in a trilogy. Recipient MacArthur Genius Grant, 2020. She was born #OTD in 1972. Happy Birthday @nkjemisin.bsky.social 🎈 #SciFi #Fantasy #BookSky 472146511
Reposted by Dr B MikusM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Oh I see you think this has nothing to do with you 7646169
Reposted by Dr B MikusJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1 4253902351
Reposted by Dr B MikusA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on 8585392214
Reposted by Dr B Mikusjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026wikileaks revealed the existence of the NSA, horrific US war crimes and illegal surveillance- and under control of russia, the "guccifer 2.0" leaks which were the "hillary's emails!!!" thing. We learned later that the hacker also submitted leaks against republicans, which they chose not to publish 115817
Reposted by Dr B Mikusjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026reminder: assange used to control wikileaks, which published leaked documents from snowden, manning, winner etc He gave control of it to Russia in exchange for asylum from his rape charges, which they betrayed him on. He waited out the statue of limitations in the Ecuadorian embassy in London 224267
Reposted by Dr B MikusAurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media 3739021177
Reposted by Dr B MikusRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Noting the gap between the infected and the well, the Gates Foundation pledges at least $1 billion to help the uninfected join this exciting development in which Microsoft is so precariously invested." 1631360
Reposted by Dr B MikusAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026reporters werent “barred” from recording, the powerful people they are covering asked them not to record and they immediately complied and hid whats happening from their audience 14765771367
Reposted by Dr B MikusJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 15/09/2026For those unaware, the current GC discourse is whether it's acceptable to harass a trans woman sat on a bench in public (nowhere near any sort of women's space, or service, or sports) solely for the crime of wearing a dress in public. Just reasonable concerns. 756596
Reposted by Dr B MikusDuncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It is in the AfD’s own security interests to make Germany dependent on Russia. 917144
Reposted by Dr B MikusDr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own 10065501391
Reposted by Dr B MikusJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It would be more helpful for him to acknowledge and explain the role that his austerity policies played in encouraging people to vote for what he correctly critiques here. 932081447
Reposted by Dr B MikusHassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059812392
Reposted by Dr B MikusMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“The contraction of used book stock & the inflation of used book prices is happening simultaneous with the reduction of library collections, the defunding of physical archives, & the enshittification of digital archives, & all are at least partially caused by pressures from frontier developers.”open.substack.comGuillotining Books Is Not Quite Guillotining Humanities Scholars. Not Quite.Booksellers are benefitting from AI developers destructively scanning print books, but the activity is not victimless. 38942
Reposted by Dr B MikusNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026First excerpt from End Times Fascism! So happy The Guardian went for the part of the book about the wonder of THIS world, and the people doing everything to commit to it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...theguardian.comThe end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clearAn unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them 13524183
Reposted by Dr B MikusKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 13/09/2026"The super-rich have apocalypse fantasies of their own, built not on faith or ideology but on a calm and rational evaluation of how best to maintain their position; they would genuinely rather reign in hell than share in heaven."theguardian.comNaomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui... 5335113