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Moises Jafet

@moisesjafet.com
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Toolmaker, physicists, technologists, software engineer & parallel entrepreneur. Founder of @adswire.io, @PollZapper.com and @yotober.com. 🇨🇦

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
FROM THE ARCHIVE (2015) by 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics winner Francis Halzen. Dozens of particles from halfway across the universe have landed in the IceCube experiment. These messengers could help answer some long-standing cosmic conundrums.
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South Pole Experiment Traps Neutrinos from Beyond the Galaxy
Dozens of particles from halfway across the universe have landed in the IceCube experiment. These messengers could help answer some long-standing cosmic conundrums
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BREAKING: The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Georg Nagel and Peter Hegemann for their discovery of rhodopsin and optogenetics, the ability to control cells using light and genetics
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2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to scientists behind optogenetics
Karl Deisseroth, George Nagel and Peter Hegemann developed optogenetics, which uses light and genetics to control individual cells
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tim Packer (Canadian Artist, born 1961) "Northern Marsh", 2023. Giclee on Canvas
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Huge news "Canada and the European Union plan to link next-generation payment systems to enable faster cross-border transactions" "This will help remove obstacles to business and investment between the two jurisdictions" www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Canada, EU plan to link next-gen payment systems, easing transactions
Move would allow faster cross-border transfers and lessen reliance on U.S. infrastructure
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026
This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
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Chess.com @chess.com · 28/09/2026
Congratulations Bodhana!! 👏
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A 12 years old, Cai Thomas has a treble voice so pure and clear that the moment he begins singing Laudate Dominum, the whole atmosphere seems to become more serene.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Woman using her hands to remove trash from the mouth of a whale. [📹 globetrottingboes] Repost of @BeyondIntrst: Original post
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Chess.com @chess.com · 21/09/2026
emotional damage...
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Moises Jafet @moisesjafet.com · 17/09/2026
"Consumers are tired of tech that defeats the whole purpose of going out to shop and eat in person. Many miss the fleeting interactions with baristas and other human beings." edition.cnn.com/2026/09/17/b...
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The humans are rejecting the machines that were supposed to help them | CNN Business
Touchscreens and self-checkout machines were designed to help customers. But restaurants and retailers are ditching them to humanize stores and attract workers.
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 14/09/2026
More octopus fun. They may be one of the most intelligent animals on earth.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The first-ever Canada Investment Summit kicks off today in Toronto.  Some of the largest investors in the world are here for a reason: they see our strength, they share our ambition, and they want to build big with us.
Prime Minister Carney speaks at the Canada Investment Summit in Toronto, Ontario.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The 13yo just came home from his paper-round with this! I think I might have finally impressed him 👌 Vogue next? 🤣 👩‍🔬
Photo of the Scotsman newspaper.  On the front cover of the magazine section it says "A star is born, make space for Astronomer Royal Catherine Heymans", and Catherine is vaguely smiling infront of a massive supercomputer of wires!
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Duncan Crombie @the-art-of-web.com · 10/09/2026
`White-sand beach` #synthart #AIイラスト
vivid watercolour pigment blooms fading into textured paper, layered washes, granulation, pooling, feathered edges, irregular boundaries, loose painted detail, simplified forms, depicting a Thai woman wearing colourful attire, walking along a white-sand beach, backed by karst cliffs and headland, dappled turquoise waters, distant purple clouds on a flat horizon, tenebrism, naif, negative space --ar 5:7 --sd --stylize 50 --v 8.2
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Starship Celtica ☀️ @starshipceltica.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
HERE'S PROOF THAT AUTUMN IS APPROACHING: Last night in Iceland, the sky exploded with auroras. "The lights were so beautiful," says Jónína Óskarsdóttir, who sends this photo from Fáskrúðsfjörður spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload... spaceweather.com
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/09/2026
The Australian parliament will consider legislation that would allow social media users to opt out of algorithms on platforms like TikTok, Instagram and Facebook under new laws proposed by the government on Tuesday to boost online safety.
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Australian Social Media Users Could Get Power to Switch Off Algorithms
Technology companies have been “running real-time, unregulated product testing on Australians” for too long, communications minister says.
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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Moises Jafet @moisesjafet.com · 05/09/2026
"Astra will help with defensive work like secure code review and patch validation, but it refuses to create proof-of-concept exploits until OpenAI expands access through its Daybreak program." www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2026/09....
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GPT-6 Astra: What's Actually New in OpenAI's New Frontier Model
Explore GPT-6 Astra, ts key features, benchmarks, computer-use capabilities, pricing, safety, and how it compares with Claude.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The world is on track to exceed the Paris Agreement’s threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming above preindustrial temperatures within the next few years, the United Nations admitted in a new report.
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U.N. admits exceeding 1.5-degree-Celsius global warming target is ‘unavoidable’
The world is set to blow past the Paris Agreement’s longtime threshold “within the next few years,” according to a new report
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Water droplets become electrified as they move across smooth surfaces. This could help explain why rain corrodes metals even if they have protective coatings.
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Electrified raindrops can eat through Teflon and metal
New research shows that water becomes electrified as it slides down smooth surfaces, leading to corrosion
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Chess.com @chess.com · 21/08/2026
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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
All the way up. Then all the way down — at 30x speed! 🚀 LandSpace’s Zhuque-3 just achieved China’s first-ever private recovery of a first stage using landing legs, completing a successful flight and landing.
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Starship Celtica ☀️ @starshipceltica.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Webb Opens Treasure Chest www.nasa.gov/image-articl... NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured this Aug. 6, 2026, infrared image of part of the Carina Nebula, a star-forming region also home to the Cosmic Cliffs.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
On Earth, life may have emerged not once, but twice. A new study pinpoints ancient genetic differences between our planet’s earliest organisms, bacteria and archaea, which hint at a common origin from a single, deep-sea source that was itself not yet truly alive.
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Life’s ‘last universal common ancestor’ may predate life itself
A groundbreaking study hints at a hazy boundary between “life” and “non-life,” as well as two distinct origins of biology on Earth
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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Our Solar System’s beautiful future~ When our Sun expands into a Red Giant, sheds its outer layers, then collapses into a White Dwarf, our elements will illuminate the cosmos … transforming the death of one cosmological stage into the seeds of galactic evolution anew. ~•~ Messier 27 aka NGC 6853
A bluish planetary nebula that is sorta shaped like a lemon against a star field. 

Seestar s50 probably about an hour
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16/08/2026
"The thing that will work is actually curing cancer,"
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the way for AI to win over the public is to 'actually' cure cancer
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei acknowledged over the weekend that the public doesn't trust AI. He said AI companies have overpromised and undersold.
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Center for Space Environmentalism @space-environment.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"From launchpads to low Earth orbit and beyond, #space companies and their affiliates are deploying a familiar marketing tactic – with a new twist. ... Welcome to the age of starwashing." theconversation.com/starwashing-... #SpaceEnvironment
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‘Starwashing’: How space companies use the greenwashing playbook while engaging in environmentally damaging practices
Orbital data centers, space habitats, mining the Moon – despite taking place in space, the practices many companies are imagining will still affect the Earth.
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Social Media Today @socialmediatoday.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Amid rising backlash about unauthorized recordings, Meta’s looking to showcase the utility of its AI glasses
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Meta gives 15,000 pairs of AI glasses to vision impaired users
The initiative is run through not-for-profit charitable organization Vision Ireland and may help assuage some negative sentiment about the devices.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Do cats speak A. The language of where they are from B. The same language (cat) Or C. the cat language of where they are from (There are no wrong answers)
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“El Niño will act like a climate time machine, temporarily pushing global temperatures to levels that might not otherwise be reached for another decade or so.” www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
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Lance Smith 🎨🪶 @lancesmithart.com · 14/08/2026
Introduction: My name is Lance, I’m a Cherokee artist in South Dakota. I will share my spiritual paintings and works on this account, likes/reposts & follows are much appreciated. 🙏🏼 #art #indigenousart #artistintroduction #native #nativepride #indigenous #native #nativeamerican #painting #acrylic
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Moises Jafet @moisesjafet.com · 14/08/2026
In exchange of access to plentiful energy, 10 months/yr of free cooling and land: "Any data centre investment will need to invest significantly in local communities and pay more for electricity so no energy costs are passed on to hardworking families." kitchener.citynews.ca/2026/08/13/d....
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Doug Ford releases AI data centre plan in Guelph
Doug Ford and other Ontario ministers met in Guelph to announce the framework built for Ontario's Data Centre Playbook.
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Put my dude right here in the Patriot Games, wockaflockas!
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Moises Jafet @moisesjafet.com · 13/08/2026
"In a simplified watermarking system, a secret key and the preceding tokens are used to generate a hash, which divides the candidate tokens into two groups, often described as green and red... then slightly increases probability of selecting one of the green tokens." thenewstack.io/anthropic-cl....
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Anthropic's watermark survives copy-paste, but not the real dev workflow
Anthropic will embed invisible watermarks in Claude's text output, but experts warn the marks won't survive paraphrasing, code formatting, or application pipelines.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The teenage grunge fan from the 90s in me absolutely adores this young one's immense talent on the piano.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 12/08/2026
Italian teenager Sara Curtis breaks Kaylee McKeown 50m backstroke world record
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Teenager breaks Kaylee McKeown's backstroke world record
Italian teenager Sara Curtis has set a new world record in the women's 50m backstroke, beating the mark previously held by Australian great Kaylee McKeown.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Japan is using piezoelectric floor tiles in busy areas like Shibuya and Tokyo Stations to convert footsteps into clean electricity. Original post
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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
1/2 In a first, Chinese astronomers have found that the Milky Way is not simply a smoothly warped disk. Analysis of more than 30,000 molecular clouds reveals widespread “wrinkle-like” structures, resembling ripples on water — offering new clues to our galaxy’s 3D structure.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 25-year-old Argentinian biologist Pilar Ferrer has developed an injectable gel that helps repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack
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DJ "Jo" NoneYa 🟧 @djnoneya.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I could just watch this all day ....
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Watch Serena Williams destroy five men who tried to win a SINGLE point against her
According to a YouGov poll, one in eight men believe they could take a point against tennis legend Serena Williams. She proved men wrong with this display
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Footballer (Georges Mikautadze) protects the ears of a young girl disturbed by the loud stadium sounds: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 12/08/2026
A total solar eclipse will be visible from mainland Western Europe on August 12 for the first time since 1999. Where to see the total solar eclipse and when to catch the next one: reut.rs/4z8fwyx
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
On Wednesday a total solar eclipse will pass over Iceland and other parts of Europe. And while many scientists will be trying to answer new questions, one will aim to recreate one of history’s most famous eclipse studies: the Eddington experiment www.scientificamerican.com/article/107-...
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107 years ago, Scientific American covered one of the most ambitious total eclipse experiments ever
The Eddington experiment used a solar eclipse to prove Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The costs of this summer's extreme weather are expected to wipe out the EU's economic growth for all of 2026. "The biggest drag is expected to come from people struggling to work in extreme heat." Agricultural output could fall by between 3 and 7 percent. #ClimateChange
And the summer is not over. France and Britain are bracing for their fifth heat wave of the season this week, with temperatures nearing 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in southeastern France and 36 C (97 F) forecast in
the U.K.
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NASA Webb Telescope @nasawebb.extwitter.link · 10/08/2026
It's the circle of life… Webb's look at the Lion Nebula, the remains of a dying lower-mass star, is in both the mid and near-infrared. Though massive stars undergo supernova explosions at the end of their lives, lower-mass stars shed their outer layers.
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Ruri @elizabeth-h63.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
While on my way back to the Northeast from Fuji City, my hometown. #Mt.Fuji
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