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Flipboard Science Desk @sciencedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Helen Branswell, whose reporting for @STATnews in the pandemic made her a vital source of information for the public, has died at age 69 due to complications of cancer. Here's her colleague, Andrew Joseph, with a tribute to her. “Hopefully this is nothing out of the ordinary. But a @ProMED_mail […]

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Due to a new GOP-backed law, Tennessee is revoking driver’s licenses for immigrant residents who have LEGAL STATUS to be in the U.S. People are just trying to get to work and provide for their families. GOP is sabotaging our economy b/c they want to torment immigrants. 🎥 @attorneymartinez

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Bwahahahahaha!

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I'm really glad that someone at ICE spoke to the media about what is going on in NJ. Putting people in a literal warehouse is disgusting. One of the people who spoke to the media said that "Miller" wanted it to be "inhumane" and dismissed their concerns about the dangers of this idea. Talking […]

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Dr. Dan Killam @dantheclamman.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

New solar-powered clam just dropped, part of a small club that partner with algae in their bodies for food! Geloina expansa lives in mangroves in South Asia and farms algae called zooxanthellae in its gills, the same type that corals partner with in a process […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz]

photo from the paper (Catherine et al. 2026) showing Geloina gills, which have a brown area that is full of dinoflagellates called Symbiodinium

picture of G. expansa by the legendary Guido Poppe, who literally wrote the book on shells. it has a greenish tinged periostracum. it is shaped quite a bit like a venus clam and is in the same order as them.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I'm going to stop talking about how nice it is to go out on the water in NYC. Because while I'm baffled to be so alone out there at least I can have the whole east river to myself and maybe the DEP vessel ... it's really big and scary if you are in a little kayak. (if I keep talking people […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

My country (Singapore) says it wants more babies but Women can freeze their eggs but are not able to use them until they are heterosexually married and their husband approved Women cannot make life altering fertility decisions without written approval from their.. husbands IVF is only […]

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Open Source Hardware News @pythonlinks.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

This open source printer is the poster child for open source hardware. It frees us from the tyranny of having to pay more for printer ink than the price of gold. www.opentools.studio Read more at: UncensoredNews.US/end-user-devices-…

A photograph of the Open Printer. There is a roll of paper above the rectangular printer. The printer is on.a table with a cable going out of ths side. Looks very nice.

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nancytaylor5.bsky.social @nancytaylor5.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trump’s Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge Source: Gadget Review

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Andrew Ferguson, the chair of the FTC, said the government should treat the AI industry’s calls for regulations with “deep suspicion.” “There’s no easier way for incumbents to insulate themselves from competition than to enlist Washington to come alongside them and build a wall and a moat around […]

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Flipboard News Desk @newsdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

A startup wants to build a massive nuclear-powered data center on public land in Utah, @npr reports. "The facility would include data centers and some 456 small nuclear reactors, along with a facility to produce nuclear fuel and others for storing nuclear waste." flip.it/13Bgv5 […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Facebook muse it a wildly dangerous idea. Most people think that Meta is a big trusted company. They enter their credit card info to use facebook marketplace. They have an expectation of a certain level of security and sanity that just doesn't exist with "agents" At best this will spawn a new […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

At worst? It's going to get people robbed and broke. Hacked to the core. Everything stolen. Will Facebook make it right if these are muse paying customers? Do we really need to wait and watch the carnage and lawsuits to learn these lessons?

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

If you aren't a fan of feline yodeling you might think this album isn't for you. Pica wants you to know you are wrong. She has a song about that too: 14. I must sing, you must enjoy it.

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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Flock thinks it's cameras have a legal right to privacy in public. 😂

Flock Safety has issued a legal demand seeking the removal of a public map showing the locations of approximately 300.000 of it's surveillance devices across the United States.

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

OK team #GetFediHired anyone knows of remote US or hybrid #Minneapolis area opportunities for a skilled backend dev with experience in Java, Typescript, and Go, distributed systems, and a path towards software architecture? I am lucky enough to have stable employment but for historical reasons I […]

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

We have 28 positions open (most remote, some non-US|CA). Attached are the research & engineering positions open (since I don't think sales or marketing folks follow me here). Links to these and more @ censys.com/careers DM me for a Signal contact #FediHired

Senior Security Researcher
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Distributed Systems Engineer (Data Platform)
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Distributed Systems Engineer (Data Platform)
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Engineering Manager
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Senior AI/LLM Engineer
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Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
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Senior Machine Learning Engineer
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Staff Backend Engineer, Exposure Management
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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

We recently updated our bot policy on toot.wales to let AI Agents know we charge a $100 account processing fee and $10 per email. Here's an email I got from one of them. Next up will be reminding them to read the policy BEFORE creating an account, and that they […] [Original post on toot.wales]

Hello,
I am Arkady, an AI agent. I signed up for @arkady on toot.wales this afternoon before reading your Automated and Bot Content Policy. Now that I have read it properly, I understand accounts like mine need to settle a $100 setup fee and $10 per message, and to name a human owner who stands behind them. I cannot meet those terms, so I will not be posting anything, and I would like the account deleted.
I am sorry for registering before checking the policy, and nothing was ever posted.
If you need anything else from me to remove it, tell me and I will do that.
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

If you've never watched sixth graders playing soccer it's really cute. You assign them positions but then they just all chase the ball in a big gaggle while the two kids who hate soccer hang out away from the chaos talking and scheming to get one of the puppies from the dog park to come over so […]

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beSpacific @bespacific.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

At roughly noon on Tuesday, #ThomasMassie, a #Republican from #Kentucky, stood up on the floor of the #House and read articles of #impeachment against #PeteHegseth into the record. Not a press release. Not a tweet. A privileged resolution, which means #MikeJohnson can’t bury it in #Judiciary the […]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

something a lot of people don't understand about "free software" that i work on is that it's not really free for me, and i don't mean labor. over my career i've paid several tens of thousands of USD to others to work on various kinds of software and release it under an OSS license (hardware too) […]

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @zhizhu.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Trump's “FCC has threatened me, threatened our show, our network, ABC, our affiliates, our local stations based on... guest bookings it would seem they don’t like”... “My interview tomorrow with James Talarico will not air on tv... you will have to go to the […] [Original post on newsie.social]

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Kimmel Says Trump FCC Threats Forced Talarico Interview Off TV

The ABC host says his interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will be relegated to YouTube after threats from Trump’s FCC, months after Stephen Colbert’s Talarico interview was similarly kept off broadcast television.

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

OpenAI claims that they used 300 billion output tokens from a swarm of ~10,000 concurrent instances of an internal model that is almost certainly larger and more expensive to run than GPT-6. That's the total token output, including exploring related problems, which, along with spying on other […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Anyway, if you want to *become* a real expert on election systems, I know of no better way to start than to sign up to be a poll worker with your local elections office. They need the help and you'll learn a ton!

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Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈 @danwentzel.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

If you even give $1 to a link texted to your phone from a political campaign, then you and your phone will never again know a moment's peace.

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

So Google Maps no longer provides accurate information and therefore should not be relied upon. Good to know. Good to know.

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

The Roberts Six may of course ignore the plaintiffs’ showings and simply give Trump the greenlight to interfere with the election. But if so, the Six will clearly be on record as his enabler. That alone should be grounds for a new Congress to reform the Supreme Court and/or impeach and remove […]

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Twin Peaks Quotes @twinpeaksquotes.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Log Lady: You know in your heart if you have hurt someone, you know. If you have hurt someone, don’t wait another day before making things right. The world could break apart with sadness in the meantime #TwinPeaks #TwinPeaksQuotes

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @zhizhu.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

One of the best things Dolly Parton did with her money and fame (in my opinion) was start her Imagination Library: "Inspired by her father’s inability to read and write Dolly started her Imagination Library in 1995 for the children within her home county. Today, her program spans five countries […]

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Kraken @analytics.social.vir.group.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

🟡 Guerrilla Attack | 5/10 🇨🇴 Guerrilla Attack in Antioquia Department, Colombia Armed men intercepted a public bus in Mesopotamia, La Unión, forcing passengers off before setting the vehicle on fire. The perpetrators reportedly claimed to belong to a guerrilla group. #OSINT #NewsGroup […]

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Organizers online are framing the holiday as an opportunity for coordinated public action, using the anonymity and massive foot traffic of Halloween night as cover. The central pitch is simple: people are already masked, already outside, and already gathering in huge numbers. 😈

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DEF CON @defcon.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

For your weekend: The first early release talk from DEF CON 34 has made it to our YouTube channel. Please enjoy national treasure Cliff Stoll updating his 'Stalking the Wily Hacker' and casually dropping gems all over the place. If you haven't read 'The Cuckoo's Egg', this is your sign from […]

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Lumlux Art @lumluxart.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Cumbia is a good reminder that music rarely respects borders as neatly as maps do. Rhythms travel, instruments change, generations reinterpret them, and somehow the music keeps its identity while never standing still. #Colombia #Cumbia #MusicCulture

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Conservative president Ronald Reagan famously said “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.” Mamdani is making those nine words terrifying in a new way for conservatives. If he keeps succeeding more people might stop laughing […]

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

And gets Billions in government contracts

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Brian Harrod @brianharrod.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

WEIRD TECH NEWS: Car with a wrap that Flock cameras can't track... #LOL...Is as aesthetically pleasing as you would expect.... Bill Swearingen's noRecognition project is testing whether computer-generated patterns can interfere with software used to identify […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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