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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης

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Michalis Sarigiannidis Ontological naturalist. Come for the pith, thtay for the profundity. Oh, and fuck Nazis.

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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 22/09/2026
youtube.com
Meta Is Using You To Build A Robot Empire
YouTube video by Proton
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 16/09/2026
They’re not hitting the brakes, the brakes are hitting them. This is a blatant attempt to establish regulatory capture at a time when they’ve ran out of steam. #ai
arstechnica.com
AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed
Safety is the watchword, but there could be ulterior benefits for the industry.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 04/09/2026
You can get your fascism on amazon. For a low price.
Searching "fascism" on duckduckgo, brought up an amazon ad: "fascism for a low price"
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 28/08/2026
Fines are meaningless. Meta must be dissolved. #dissolvemeta
theguardian.com
What could Meta’s US settlement mean around the world – and what now for other claims against firm?
Other governments could seek similar concessions, while separate legal action is pending in places ranging from Kenya to the Netherlands
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 27/08/2026
Father Dionysios Tabakis says his views are those of the Orthodox church ‘nothing more, nothing less’ … so he’s admitting he’s a bigot then, right?
theguardian.com
Greek Orthodox priest and cult musician clarifies views on homosexuality
Father Dionysios Tabakis says his views are those of the Orthodox church ‘nothing more, nothing less’
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 26/08/2026
Welcome!
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Annals of Unsurprising Results: Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds
Analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A perfect conceit for the 20s: the world's biggest bookstore has become a destroyer of books
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 17/08/2026
Thank you! Book recommendations by my favourite authors, that’s what I am here for.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 11/08/2026
This reminds of this story
bbc.com
The hum that helps to fight crime
How a hum emitted from the electrical mains is transforming the work of forensic audio scientists.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
how is this worse than I expected
Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It took nearly 7 decades, after invention of the silicon solar cell in 1954, for the world to install 1 terawatt of solar capacity, enough to power entire USA After passing that milestone in 2022, world added its second terawatt in 2024 and its third in 2026 e360.yale.edu/digest/three...
e360.yale.edu
The World Adds a Third Terawatt of Solar Power
In March, the world passed a major energy milestone, adding its third terawatt of solar power. Increasingly, poorer countries are leading the shift to solar, analysts say.
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Of course you should, because their idiotic "choices" affect and have the potential to ruin the health of other people's kids. How hard is this, exactly? Or even approximately?
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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Praise be! Take 35 minutes to enjoy the somebody taking incredible care about making something both very beautiful and utterly ridiculous.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/08/2026
I led a report about the environmental and resource parts of this! Companies intentionally conflate wildly different machine learning applications: using a sprinkling of good to justify a tsunami of bad ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...
A two panel info graphic showing energy consumption is mostly from generative

But climate benefit claims are mostly traditional AI
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The Fauci show trial is an amazing illustration of the fundamental immaturity and insecurity of the modern right. What really outrages them is that he dared to suggest that people make sacrifices for the common good. So much of X/techbro/manosphere thought is just insisting that should never happen.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 22/07/2026
No, I won’t have that, never you! In fact, I often wonder how you manage to keep your composure and good humour.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 22/07/2026
A number of popular philosophers are (a) rude and (b) speak, and write, in word-salad streams of consciousness, and the people who interview and publish them never question it. That is astonishing to me.
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Some of this I already knew. Some I didn’t. All of it sucks.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 17/07/2026
Of course. Thank you for the clarification.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 17/07/2026
What’s the significance of 1291-2019? Is that the range of your time-travelling machine?
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 17/07/2026
Banning bad, yes, but, come on, awareness of Eartha Kitt does encourage sexual activities.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 14/07/2026
“Verify your age” My favourite show when I was a kid was “Voyagers!”
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Or the claw of Godzilla, by order of the Islamic Republic of Japan!
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 10/07/2026
Measured and informed, as always
youtube.com
Did a group of Ukrainians blow up Nord Stream?
YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 07/07/2026
They called his bluff: he’s going to be running unopposed. Unless he does not run, the inquiry continues. He’s not much of a chess player.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 04/07/2026
Are they as a clueless as they appear? I really can’t tell.
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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 03/07/2026
My July article, long in the planning, discusses whether infamous Biblical baddies like Goliath shared a language with Homer and Plato. Happily, the piece runs contrary to Betteridge’s law of headlines ('any headline ending in a question mark can be answered with no'). dannybate.com/2026/07/03/d...
dannybate.com
Did the Philistines Speak Greek?
It’s often nice to spot familiar faces where you don’t expect them, like an unforeseen run-in with a friend while on holiday. Joy in unexpected encounters is possible in the intellectual realm too;…
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 02/07/2026
Aren't stripes what you get if you join the dots?
theguardian.com
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: still wearing stripes? It’s time to join the dots
Once dismissed as frivolous, spots are having the last laugh – popping up on celebs, catwalks and all over the algorithm
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Jo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026
Today! My first novel in six years! Everybody's Perfect! Delany once titled a story "A Tale of Plagues and Carnivals." But what if more plague and more carnivals? What if Venice but less substantial? And more magical? With immigration and friendship? It's a bit weird but I hope you like it anyway.
Everybody's Perfect, artfully arranged on an antique map of Italy with part of my toy Venetian bookshelf and a cool pen that was a gift from Novacon when I was GoH in 2013. Photo, concept, and artful arrangement by my daughter Alex Walton, and the map is hers too.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 27/06/2026
Bench
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I don't care how fully entrenched the brain worm is, I bet if RFK Jr. thinks *real* hard he can still think of examples of gun violence that date to his childhood.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 17/06/2026
Of course, and also, assault rifles were not available when he was a kid. They are Scalia’s bloody legacy: supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
supreme.justia.com
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008)
District of Columbia v. Heller: Private citizens have the right under the Second Amendment to possess an ordinary type of weapon and use it for lawful, historically established situations such as self...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/06/2026
Turns out, the Illuminati are fucking dweebs and losers
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
hankgreen.com/fourbythree
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 13/06/2026
I’m out for the day. I just can’t stand all the Musk news. I understand the outrage but I don’t want to see so many pictures of that horrible person.
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Philipp Steinkrüger @psteinkrueger.eurosky.social · 12/06/2026
Trillion Dollar Business
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 12/06/2026
Well, to be fair to real researchers, this is KPMG, not an actual research institution.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 12/06/2026
How big is your #vocabulary? take the test! I really hate that I I didn’t get a perfect score. vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app * I learned about this by watching "The Rest Is Science": youtu.be/9t-5lQ2mzuw?...
My vocab owl score: 76000 words
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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The US and Israel have destroyed Iran's largest water dams and backup water tanks, including EVERY backup water tank in ALL of Southern Iran. The people who die of thirst and hunger (Iran's agriculture relies on water tanks) as a result of these war crimes will never be mentioned in the death toll.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 11/06/2026
Far right dummies are better fodder than tourists here, and they are already being funded by FSB and MAGA. There’s lower-hanging fruit, like a perfectly deniable underwater detonation near a dam. That’s what worries me. Tourists are, almost by definition, not that desperate. But, who knows.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 11/06/2026
Swatting happens here too, in the Netherlands, but It’s not as devastating and lethal as in the US because the police don’t have to assume we’ve assault weapons and we don’t assume someone will die every time they show up. We value our lives and the lives of our neighbours. That’s how you stop it.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 11/06/2026
If you are at all interested in #Christian politics then you must read this article.
decorrespondent.nl
These Christians want to overthrow democracy around the world. Thanks to Donald Trump, they’re actually doing it
They stormed the Capitol in 2021 and helped deliver Donald Trump’s re-election. Now they are rolling out their extremist agenda at breakneck speed — in the US and abroad. Meet the greatest threat to W...
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 11/06/2026
Defend a Nazi, get blocked.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 07/06/2026
BASIC is the first programming language I learned as a kid in the 80’s. It taught me patience… and not to trust checksums published in magazines.
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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
As @gregpak.net pointed out, this man is one of the most destructive in this admin with worldwide & longterm ramifications. I also want people to stop acting like he's just "stupid" or doing things for no reason. His reason is eugenics & wellness grifts.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 05/06/2026
They keep saying crap like this because it’s the only way to keep an inherently boring subject in the media.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 04/06/2026
Book recommendations by my favourite authors, that’s what I’m here for. ⬇️
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 04/06/2026
They don’t have to print their music on old x-rays anymore, do they?
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