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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know what's funny? Seeing the Philadelphia skyline in a tv show with the building i can only refer to as the big flash drive in the sky. Such a fixture now, but easy to remember when it wasn't there. -- This many years later, I'm still unnerved that the twin towers are gone from the NYC skyline

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

U.S. Scientists Losing Their Funding: The NSF Data 🧪 “The National Scinece Foundation is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

What, and I cannot express this strongly enough, the fuck variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Quite from Andy Serkis on his new LOTR movie:
“Tolkien himself was influenced a lot by Norse mythology, there’s a lot of that feeling,” Serkis explained about the lack of the diversity. “The Shire feels very, very much like a very, a very white, you know… They’re not very concerned about what goes on beyond the borders of The Shire, but they know they don’t want people coming in.”

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

New: The National Science Foundation is preparing to claw back some $500 million in funds from some of its core science programs in physics, math, computer science, and engineering in order to fund a project from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative

A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency’s budget is already squeezed and it struggling to clear a backlog of grant applications.

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The numbers in this report are astounding. The conclusion seems blindingly obvious. "If 'AI infrastructure buildout is currently accelerating faster than the grid is decarbonising' then Google shouldn’t be building AI infrastructure."

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Not gonna lie. I read this as Wine Commander and got kind of excited for a moment

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

ICE out of Washington DC.

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

On Om Malik runtimewire.com/article/om-m...

A screenshot of text from an article that reads:
The early biography matters because Malik did not enter technology as a cheerleader. He came through telecom, broadband and infrastructure, the unglamorous substrate under the consumer internet. His 2003 book, Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist, examined the excesses and fraud around the telecom bubble. That made his later enthusiasm for networks more useful. He understood that every platform story had a bill attached, and usually a creditor somewhere in the frame.

Source: RuntimeWire — https://runtimewire.com/article/om-malik-taught-silicon-valley-to-read-itself

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This is terrible news. And I know it's been many years, but I will never stop missing GigaOm.

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Really interesting thread. In part because of the fact that the speaker didn't offer up that he had used AI, but also because of how the speaker hadn't thought through the questions the audience posed. He appears to have offloaded all the thinking to AI and missed critical points of debate.

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It's about 5-10 years later (more?) than promised, but I think we're getting close to the era of private cellular networks.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This is happening about a mile from my house in DC. Tempted to walk/bike down there, but afraid I'd miss the crucial moments. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm...

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LIVE: See Donald Trump’s name come off the Kennedy Center as it happens

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

My daughter's flight home is delayed because of air show activity in DC and I am not okay with it.

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Given the cost of the war on Iran, it's probably time to start wondering what budgets are going to be moved around to keep funding it. If you've got government money and don't want to lose it, you might consider spending it as quickly as possible.

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Watching high quality (high'ish-res, not grainy) dance performances on YouTube on the big TV screen in my living room. Not to sound old or anything, but damn it's downright magical

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

He will always be Giles to me. RIP :(

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

As the product of a liberal arts and theatre education, I never thought I'd be so worried about the government attacking funding for science

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

A spokesman for NSF said the decision “aligns with N.S.F.’s wider strategy to have a nimbler approach to prioritizing support for evolving scientific priorities and emerging technologies as well as a deliberate approach to smart life cycle management within its portfolio of research infrastructure.”

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Agency Heads Can Exempt Grant Competitions from Public Notice

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"Senior political appointees, rather than career scientists or program officers, would now be required to conduct a “pre-issuance review” of every discretionary grant before it is awarded. These appointees are explicitly forbidden from deferring to peer reviewers..."

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"[New] rule prohibits the use of any federal funds...with 'covered foreign countries'... This provision is sweeping enough to severely disrupt international partnerships that have been foundational to U.S. leadership in fields from climate science and astrophysics to genomics and epidemiology."

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

But luckily we have CMMC 2.0 cybersecurity policies in place. Highest digital security strategery.

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Can't in good conscience go to the MJ movie and support the sanitizing of his life or the denial of his victims. But I can't help enjoying the dance videos it's inspired. Reel after reel of incredible artists dancing to incredible songs

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Never forget that YOU are a data center. Drink some water ffs.

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Remarkable to see a pope articulate the issues of quantification, software brain, determinism. "We must, then, avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' ... the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance."

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Sean Hecker @sean-hecker.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The hope of Artemis II against the backdrop of devastation and derangement here at home.

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Hannah Lynn 💙 @hannah-lynn.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Had it not been for Cayden Boozer stepping up when Caleb and Pat were injured, we may not even have been in this position to begin with. All my love goes out to him and the rest of the team, so so proud of these way they all played all season 💙

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Danny Crichton @dannycrichton.com · 03/03/2026

No discussion of tech media can get past this basic traffic fact: in the AI world, Google and social no longer refer traffic, which means that the vast majority of readers just never find you in the first place. Analysis: growtika.com/blog/tech-m...

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The disorienting, dystopian feeling of attending a keynote at MWC where the head of GSMA says our thoughts are with the people impacted by all of the conflicts in the world this weekend... is hard to describe.

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 12/02/2026

Ahead of trade meetings with China, the US has suspended its bans on China Telecom's US operations, domestic sales of routers made by TP-Link, the US internet business of China Unicom and China Mobile, and the sales of Chinese electric trucks and buses in the US. www.reuters.com/business/med...

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Exclusive: US-China trade detente fuels mothballing of key China tech curbs

The Trump administration has shelved a number of key tech security measures aimed at Beijing ahead of an April meeting between the two countries' presidents. The measures include a ban on China Teleco...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 09/02/2026

I finally have a newsletter! It's called The Fine Print* and I'll be writing about tech, media, politics, consumer rights (and whatever else I damn-well please). It's free, but if you have disposable income, you can support independent reporting for just $50/year or $4/month.

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The Fine Print*

A newsletter by Karl Bode covering tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 07/02/2026

Just hire all the laid off reporters. Call it the Washington Citizen or something. Doesn’t seem that hard.

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Can't believe this guy is still teaching. I worked on something with him back in 2003, and it was well known then what he thought women were most useful for: serving men

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I know there are many more important things to be sad about, but assuming this is true, it breaks my heart.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

CNN in Minneapolis: We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This this crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 28/01/2026

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

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AI Skills Boost - AI Skills Hub

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Not to be a broken record, but this is the "easy" part of the spectrum pipeline

A Comm Daily headline reads: Future of Radio Altimeters Emerges as Major Issue in Upper C-Band Comments

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Mari Silbey @msilbey.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I recognize this is small potatoes, but today I learned that "smart" TVs time out on their licensing agreements with streaming services. So after a certain number of years, your Netflix app can suddenly disappear from the tv without warning or explanation. Ask me how I learned this.

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