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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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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026

Leonora Carrington starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/8296819...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 04/10/2026

#WorldSpaceWeek2026 starts today! 🚀⚡ Explore space with Pokémon through exhibitions in Science museums across Europe, meet the Astronaut Pikachu that spent 67 days with ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot aboard the International Space Station. #PokemonxESA Credit: ESA/NASA S. Adenot

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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GitHub @github.com · 20/07/2026

57 years ago today, humans first landed on the Moon. The source code that helped get them there? It’s on GitHub. Margaret Hamilton led the MIT team responsible for Apollo’s onboard flight software. (Image credit: Draper Laboratory; restoration by Adam Cuerden, via Wikimedia Commons.)

Black-and-white photo of Margaret Hamilton standing beside a nearly person-height stack of software listings produced by her and her MIT team for the Apollo program.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

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Maike @lontorel.eurosky.social · 10/07/2026

Maarika Hallang, Aino Stamm, Hilja Kari. Nemad kudusid Põldroosi nyyd lõpuks päästmisele pääsenud Linnahalli suurteose. Nad kudusid neli aastat! Nad jätsid sinna oma tervise, millest ei taastunudki. Nähtamatud kangelased, kelle nimed on kustutatud. Kirjutan, et te ka teaksite. Nad tegid võimatut.

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Soomre @mksoomre.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Might have found the topic for my comparative epistemology essay 😸

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Soomre @mksoomre.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Max, I’m so glad you came to me! #brianoblivion

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SFIGATTO @sfigatto.it · 29/03/2026

ONORATE LA DIVINITÀ FELINA SCESA DAL CIELO PER PORTARVI LA LEGGE E LA BELLEZZA

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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

thinking about the medieval cat door in Exeter cathedral again

an old wooden cathedral door with a hole in the bottom through which a cat pokes its head

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

the endless warm drizzle of spring—the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible for melting it.

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Soomre @mksoomre.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Alt+0151-ing / m-dashin’ since 2000. (Aitäh, praktika Sirbis ja Aili Künstler!)

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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 18/02/2026

G302.4.5 Feet of demons.

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Soomre @mksoomre.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

My 5 classes from the past millenium: -Sculpture and Space in the 20th century -History of Ancient Middle Eastern Religions -Reprography, Narrative and Visual Criticism -Art and Philosophy at the end of 18th Century -Architecture of Merivälja

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Soomre @mksoomre.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

So very urgently relatable in, oh, so many levels 🍄🦉🕹️

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice

That black cat named Moon at Stonehenge surrounded by its adoring crowd during this year's winter solstice

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

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Soomre @mksoomre.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

A night in the lonesome November

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Rob Horning @robhorning.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

seeing LLMs as "ideology that can pretend to be a person" helps make it clear what "talking to chatbots" accomplishes: Althusserian "interpellation"

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

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Soomre @mksoomre.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

typosin just sõnause: tehisintellekst

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Soomre @mksoomre.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Kuidagi lohutav teadmine.

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Pokémon Gems @pokemongems.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

he’s doing his best to read

Screenshot of captain pikachu from the Pokémon horizons anime sitting on a table trying to read a book

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

All classic ghost story writers have bios that are like “His father taught at Oxbridge, then founded a society for seances & spiritualist research, then became Archbishop of Canterbury; his mother was a famous political genius & medium.” That specifically is E. F. Benson but they’re all like that

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 23/07/2025

‘Richard de Bury, an English bibliophile who knew the Sorbonne collection well, warned librarians to keep students away from their books, since they ate cheese while they read and dribbled fragments onto the page.’ Anthony Grafton on early modern libraries: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Anthony Grafton · No Cheese Please: The First Bibliophiles

The library made possible a new kind of intellectual life. Machiavelli, when he’d been exiled from Florence, described...

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Well this is quite exciting: Michel Foucault’s personal library has been catalogued and will be searchable online from this September eman-archives.org/Foucault-fic... 🗃

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Bibliothèque · Foucault fiches de lecture

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Soomre @mksoomre.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The total enshittification of politics.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

If we don't equip people to verify information themselves, we leave them at the mercy of those who weaponise doubt. This is the new civic skill set. Critical thinking isn’t an academic ideal anymore. It’s the new infrastructure of democracy

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Soomre @mksoomre.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The Te Hiku team see data as the final frontier for colonisation: “They suppressed our languages and physically beat it out of our grandparents and now they want to sell our language back to us as a service.” www.wired.com/story/maori-... #indigenousai #aiethics #aihistory #artsummitkorea

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Māori are trying to save their language from Big Tech

Te Hiku Media gathered huge swathes of Māori language data. Corporates are now trying to get the rights to it

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Never leave home without it.

Photograph taken in an airplane (with plane windows and propeller in the background) of my hand holding a large, bright yellow folder labeled in blue sharpie: “Names of Odin Quick Reference List.”

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Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Today I learned that Peter Weller - the guy that played Robocop - was so humiliated by Dario Argento's Director of Photography, while talking about art, that he subsequently went and got a PhD in Art History, and now just published a book on Alberti with Cambridge University Press.

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Soomre @mksoomre.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

A different kind of AI enthusiasm by @karlschroeder.bsky.social - “… when what we really need is a universal assistant to augment the collective decision-making capacity of diverse groups of people?” (and pay the authors).

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AI for a New Democracy

Current Large Language Models are being trained to aid programmers. I propose we train one to aid collective decision-making

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