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Ragnar {Groot Koerkamp} @curiouscoding.nl · 07/10/2026
They can also approximate edit distance in near-linear time! github.com/openai/math/... @jnalanko.bsky.social
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math/preprints/An-Almost-Linear-Approximation-Scheme-for-Edit-Distance-September-24-2026/paper.pdf at main · openai/math
Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Like it or not this what Maine Guys actually sound like. Might sound like shit to you, but this is a Meryl Streep-level performance for guys from Maine with this voice and personality.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/10/2026
At The Mountains of Madness, Tim Kirk starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/8298188...
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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So... AI stole Photoshop and now it's open source? Is that how this works? github.com/storytold/ph...
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GitHub - storytold/photocraft: An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust
An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust - storytold/photocraft
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Beautiful Women Updates @aoife.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the clipper humboldt park, chicago (2023)
the clipper on a snowy february day
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Our built infrastructure robs kids of their freedom of independent mobility. Streets are dominated by oversized vehicles, piloted by aggressive and distracted drivers where one mistake can turn lethal. We sacrificed child development to subsidize the auto industry.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026
He is so good at messaging. It's really kind of unreal.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hello from our nation's capital.
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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A significant portion of microplastics in our water come from automobile tire wear Picture totally unrelated
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the most notable Chicago homes of the last 40 years is for sale for the first time ever. In 1993, Edwin and Yoko Miller enlisted Kevin Lee Sarring, best known today for his highly awarded later work on US embassies, to create this Japan-inspired private residence on a double lot in Uptown.
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915 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60640 - 5 beds/3.5 baths
(MRED as Distributed by MLS Grid) For Sale: 5 beds, 3.5 baths ∙ 2950 sq. ft. ∙ 915 W Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60640 ∙ $1,250,000 ∙ MLS# 12761851 ∙ One of Chicago's most distinctive architectural resi...
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh so they’re coming for everything huh
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/09/2026
Well, *fuck*. California AG Rob Bonta just surrendered to the Trump-aligned billionaires who want to take over and destroy Warners, merging it with the chudded-out husk of Paramount, leaving these two corrupt assholes to control Warners, Paramount *and* Tiktok: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

The Warner Brothers tower. It has been tinted orange and is leaning at a 30-40' angle. It is surmounted by Trump's hair. The tower is wavering. The background is ominous, red-tinged clouds, through which peek a marching army of banner-waving demons.

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Todd Dwyer (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warner_Bros_Water_Tower_-_panoramio.jpg

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A typical morning at the Anthropic head office
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026
ALMOST EVERY PEER REVIEWED PAPER HAS A SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS RIGHT BELOW ITS TITLE
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Angine de Poitrine fucking rules.
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#Hyundai warns the US may be next in line for a wave of cheaper Chinese #EVs. They are already 30% to 40% cheaper than comparable auto brands in some markets, like Italy, Spain, and France. #ElectricVehicles are more affordable than petrol cars electrek.co/2026/09/18/h... #ActOnClimate #Electriccars
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Hyundai warns the US may be next in line for a wave of cheaper Chinese EVs
Chinese automakers like BYD are quickly taking over global markets with low-cost electric vehicles, and Hyundai Motor’s CEO Jose Munoz...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/09/2026
what do I know really though, I just want to live on a peaceful, habitable planet, on which all people are treated with dignity
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026
the other thing is that there is just an extreme enthusiasm gap this year. every living person who has ever cast a ballot for a democrat is probably going to try to get to the polls this november, and a bunch of trump voters are going to sit out.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Really happy to see so many of @katmabu.bsky.social's campaign ideas getting picked up by some folks nationwide.
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Talarico plans Texas food drive to counterprogram Trump's GOP convention
The Democratic Senate candidate says the effort will highlight grocery costs and his campaign's focus on affordability.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My latest for @newscientist.com
Two scientists walk past numerous enormous shelves, each divided into sections containing a huge array of weird items. One says:
“We still don't know what any of this is, where it came from, or what it does, but you have to admit we've shelved it all beautifully.”
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Woah. This is good news. People may not realize it when they demand this feature, but what they're saying is "I will not buy a car which requires an ongoing subscription to remain fully functional" and it is a good sign GM may be responding to that. carbuzz.com/gm-not-compl...
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GM May Not Completely Kill Apple CarPlay And Android Auto After All
Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are available for the 2027 Cadillac Lyriq despite GM saying it's not going to include them anymore.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Central planning doesn't work because a few bureaucrats can't allocate resources efficiently for a massive country. That's why we love the free market, where a few billionaires do that
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/09/2026
this sounds less like a plan to help stay-at-home parents and more like a one to punish working ones www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...
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Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
There are so few deaths *because* of the MMR vaccine. It means it's working, not that we should stop vaccinating. This is like saying "car accident deaths have dropped in the last 40 years, so it's ok to stop using seatbelts"
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
They say only dumb people never change their mind. But it takes a very special form of stupidity to consistently change to something even dumber
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 21/08/2026
End of an era. One of the most iconic locations for US birders is a small picnic table in Patagonia, Arizona, the namesake for one of my favorite birding terms, the Patagonia Picnic Table Effect (see this excerpt from my birding dictionary). I went there last week and found the table had collapsed.
Patagonia Picnic Table Effect
/ˌpa-tə-ˈgō-nyə ˈpik-(ˌ)nik ˈtā-bəl i-ˈfekt/ noun: A phenomenon that occurs when someone spots a rare bird and birders flock to the area, leading
to more sightings of rare species there. It is named after a picnic table at a rest stop south of Patagonia, Arizona. Researchers have failed to find empirical support for the effect. Nobody is in doubt, however, that the effect has led to greater awareness of Patagonia, Arizona.A fallen-down picnic table at a rest stop in AZ next to some lush green trees and a grassy green lawn.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/08/2026
Baffled that none of the spreadsheet people discourse has mentioned this incredible piece of news: windowsreport.com/microsoft-is...
Microsoft Is Retiring Excel’s COPILOT() Function After Just One Year
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Microsoft is retiring the COPILOT() function in Excel, ending roughly a year of testing. According to Message Center MC1454373, the function will become unavailable after September 14, 2026.

COPILOT() allowed users to describe tasks in natural language and receive AI-generated results directly inside spreadsheet cells. Microsoft offered the experimental function to Frontier and Insider customers.

COPILOT() handled text and web-based tasks
The function worked particularly well for tasks involving text summarization, classification, content generation, and web-based information lookup.

Users could enter natural-language instructions directly as part of a spreadsheet formula instead of opening a separate Copilot interface.

However, Microsoft did not recommend COPILOT() for numerical calculations. The company also advised against using it to retrieve information already stored inside a workbook or for content subject to legal and compliance requirements.

The feature required an active internet connection and a Microsoft 365 Premium subscription.

Microsoft says the formula is redundant
Microsoft is removing COPILOT() because Excel already provides other ways to access the same AI capabilities.

Users can continue working with Copilot through the Copilot side pane and the Dynamic Action Button (DAB). Microsoft is not removing the underlying AI features from Excel, only the dedicated spreadsheet function.

The retirement comes as Microsoft continues expanding Copilot elsewhere in Excel. The company is adding multi-agent web search to Copilot in Excel, giving the assistant more advanced capabilities for finding information online.

Microsoft is also unifying Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot into a si…Microsoft is retiring the COPILOT() function in Excel, ending roughly a year of testing. According to Message Center MC1454373, the function will become unavailable after September 14, 2026.

COPILOT() allowed users to describe tasks in natural language and receive AI-generated results directly inside spreadsheet cells. Microsoft offered the experimental function to Frontier and Insider customers.

COPILOT() handled text and web-based tasks
The function worked particularly well for tasks involving text summarization, classification, content generation, and web-based information lookup.

Users could enter natural-language instructions directly as part of a spreadsheet formula instead of opening a separate Copilot interface.

However, Microsoft did not recommend COPILOT() for numerical calculations. The company also advised against using it to retrieve information already stored inside a workbook or for content subject to legal and compliance requirements.

The feature required an active internet connection and a Microsoft 365 Premium subscription.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/08/2026
Woah.
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Ragnar {Groot Koerkamp} @curiouscoding.nl · 18/08/2026
Trying to read a fully Ai-generated article with lots of interesting metrics that I *do* care about, but man it's a struggle. Not each of 100 metrics can be a key insight...
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Like the piece mentions its opt-in and you can technically do this with a lot of routers, it’s not a hardware feature. That said you should not be using the router you get from your ISP period, that’s a chump move for a lot of reasons even outside of the surveillance state smart home angle.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/08/2026
Yuuuuuuup. "Don't Engage, Just Block" was a terrific ethos to have instilled early on, and when the main feed doesn't have an algorithm to promote shitty engagement, so much the better. Also why people here are unbothered by being smaller than X - most everyone here is actually real, and not a dick.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 18/08/2026
I’m using my executive authority to ban nonferrous mining in the Boundary Waters.    As far as my administration is concerned, the fight for the future of the Boundary Waters is over. The verdict is in. The decision is made. We will protect this place.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I'm keen on AI having a transformational impact on human health. But these cure projections are wildly off-base and impossible.
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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 15/08/2026
If you want your files to live on your machine that you own and not in Microsoft's cloud that you don't: - OneDrive folder: select all -> right-click -> Always keep on this device. Wait for the sync. - OneDrive Settings -> Account -> Unlink this PC. - Settings -> Apps -> OneDrive- > Uninstall.
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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Cuttlefish 3 is on bioconda! 🦑 A parallel, external-memory algorithm for building colored compacted de Bruijn graphs at collection scale — a RECOMB 2026 paper, and as of today a production release: v3.0.0. A thread on the algorithm, the numbers, and why the released tool is a Rust rewrite. 🧵 1/10
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I've been thinking about why I have such a negative reaction to AI-written text. Will probably write a full post at some point, but it boils down to this: If the writer did not spend time writing the text, I can't bring myself to spend time reading it
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: two raccoons are sitting at a table with a bunch of podcast recording equipment. Raccoon one says into the microphone, “you gotta cut the negativity out of your life.” Panel 2: raccoon replies, “facts” Panel 3: raccoon 1 continues with his hands clasped together to capture the sincerity of his monologue, “that way you have more time to eat garbage.” Raccoon 2 contributes, “that’s facts”
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"All of this is already happening. We’re seeing the leading edge of AI-native students who have produced a ton of papers but, when challenged intellectually at the interview, falter and ultimately don’t get hired" eytanadar.medium.com/ai-native-ph...
eytanadar.medium.com
AI-Native PhD Students
If you’re a student and just want the tl;dr, feel free to jump to the end.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026
Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Digital sewer socialism; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/08/08/f... #Pluralistic 1/
The giant head of the Statue of Liberty. Around it are many medieval machines, tended by little medieval rude mechanicals. In the background is a crosshatched architectural drawing of some classical arches and such.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
BAM! Research “published today in the journal Science, finds that swapping even a two-year-old gas car for an EV leads to a lifetime emissions savings of roughly 50 percent.” @aaas.org @scifri.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social @consumerreports.org
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Your gas car works fine. Consider an EV anyway, scientists say.
New research suggest that swapping your internal combustion engine for an EV is almost always the greener choice.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
i find that burritos are cheaper in mexican communities, particularly ones with large immigrant populations. if you lower tariffs on the inputs — such as rice, tomatoes, and avocado — and allow mexican immigrants to own and run their own businesses here, seems like you can get pretty cheap burritos
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Adam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
For the past 30 years, “whole-genome sequencing” has been a misnomer. Today the T2T Consortium publishes a dozen papers heralding a future of truly complete genomes for humans and nearly any vertebrate 👨‍🔬🐒🐦🐀🦒🐎🫏🐹🐟 (sorry, no salamanders): www.cell.com/consortium/t... 🧵[1/15]
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
One of most heartbreaking things about Hank Green turning to LLMs is that he gets to do science communication full-time to a massive audience and is well-resourced. He doesn't need to cut corners or outsource his thinking. Meanwhile, there are so many people doing amazing work with zero resources.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In a country with a president who is such a destructive sore loser, politicians who are both helpful and gracious in defeat is a greatly appreciated novelty.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Pretty sure when you win the election it's a big election night. Pretty sure when your party's leadership all endorses the loser, it means the leadership is out of touch with the electorate.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/08/2026
The day that Ray Bradbury died I was on book tour and that night I read "There Will Come Soft Rains" to my audience instead of the usual reading.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026
For the record I think the architecture stuff is cool and also what eventually will flummox any attempt to make Bluesky more fascist-friendly, since if Bluesky runs that direction people can (theoretically) decamp to federated services (relatively) painlessly and keep going like nothing happened.
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