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Duke of Cognitohazard

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I like to share things and learn things. Hence Nifty Links. Also on Mastodon, formerly federated.press/@NiftyLinks, now mastodon.social/@NiftyLinks.

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Duke of Cognitohazard @niftylinks.bsky.social · 14h
Why do the Braves have cheerleaders?
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 07/10/2026
Oh, yes, I understood that! <rubs hands and cackles>
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The Mask of the Red Jeph @ass.golf · 07/10/2026
that wonderful feeling when you've committed to a storyline that you know is gonna get you some EMAILS
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Highly recommended for all language lovers!
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
These Super Mario levels are mathematically unsolvable www.scientificamerican.com/article/thes...
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These Super Mario levels are mathematically unsolvable
In math and Mario Land, there are questions that are algorithmically undecidable, meaning they will demonstrably never have an answer
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Interesting question from Amartya Sen's biography: why is it that after WWII, Europe basically started getting along, unlike almost all prolonged conflicts elsewhere. Wealth? Democracy? WWII being uniquely terrifying? Large potential gains to peace?
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hell yes!! ✊🐲
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Joe Posnanski @joeposnanski.com · 06/10/2026
One of my hardest writing assignments yet came with a 45-minute deadline. It's a good thing Buck was there to guide me.
joeposnanski.com
Forty-Five Minutes to Write
Twenty years ago tonight, I sat down to write Buck O’Neil’s obituary
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Beyond the lack of public transparency and accountability generally, this also means NSF put lots of social science researchers through the time and effort of writing proposals that NSF never had any intention of considering
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dear, would you like to go on a memoryless, stochastic hike with me?
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A federal judge on Tuesday declined to reinstate Stars and Stripes' fired ombudsman Jacqueline Smith but allowed her lawsuit alleging unlawful termination to proceed despite the Pentagon's request to dismiss it. (from @svetashko.bsky.social)
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Federal judge denies reinstatement of fired Stars and Stripes ombudsman
A federal judge on Tuesday declined to reinstate Stars and Stripes’ fired ombudsman but allowed her lawsuit alleging unlawful termination to proceed.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
(2/2) "In the elevator on the way back Francis exclaimed, 'You could do it in ice!' None of us knew what he was talking about, but he was terrifically excited about it. His perseverance in the early days to prove that his idea would work and to develop the instrumentation was inspiring."
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Added this wonderful anecdone from physicist Joanne Hewett, who was a postdoc at UW-Madison when Halzen first got the idea for IceCube. (1/2)  "We went to lunch on a cold winter day at the student union, as usual, and sat next to the window looking out over frozen Lake Mendota," she recalled.
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Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 06/10/2026
Army Apache helicopter batters Alabama car show with rotor wash trib.al/vizx0dE
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Army Apache helicopter batters Alabama car show with rotor wash
An Army Apache landed near an Alabama car show, blasting collectible cars with rotor wash and sending civilians running.
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All Hallows Steve/ComicDeepDive reading X-Men @stevesensible.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Happy 50th birthday to Captain Britain! I wrote a brief history (okay, not that brief...) of the character below ⬇️
Captain Britain #1, released on 6th October 1976.
#marvelcomics #comics #comicsky
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Army has paused Apache operations for the second time in recent months, grounding an undisclosed number of AH-64Es over problems with the helicopter's transmissions. (from @wyattwolson.bsky.social)
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Army grounds Apache attack helicopters over transmission problems
The Army has paused Apache operations for the second time in recent months, grounding an undisclosed number of AH-64Es over problems with the transmissions.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ICYMI: A security vulnerability at the Pentagon's massive personnel records repository exposed the sensitive data of millions of U.S. troops and civilian employees to unauthorized users, according to multiple reports. From Stars and Stripes' Matthew M. Burke:
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Breach at Pentagon personnel database exposed data of millions
Pentagon personnel records breach exposed unencrypted data of 3 million service members and civilians, raising cybersecurity and national security concerns.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today we commemorate my least favorite holiday: the triennial "how has the registrar of copyrights changed their login system since the last time I renewed our DMCA designated agent registration, and how long will THIS one take to get back into"
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Blake Snell looks like he’s been up all night watching a Blake Snell outing
Blake snell
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Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 05/10/2026
Air Force pulls bombers from RAF Fairford trib.al/Th5Zk1S
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Air Force pulls bombers from RAF Fairford
The decision to pull bombers from the British base comes a week after several people were arrested on suspicion of plotting terrorist action.
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Duke of Cognitohazard @niftylinks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is Will Smith the most appealing catcher in baseball? Tonight he is. On every other batter. And none have actually gone.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Now who do you think would be test driving a hack to hijack oil tankers arriving at the heart of America's oil industry? 🤔 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Hackers Breached Propulsion System of US-Bound Oil Tanker
FBI and US Coast Guard investigators have found evidence that hackers accessed the propulsion system of an oil supertanker as it was approaching the Texas coast this summer, according to US officials ...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/10/2026
One month until release day! Avoid the chaotic release day rush by preordering it today at your favorite bookseller (and yes you can preorder the audiobook too)! Also, if you are in the Midwest of the United States, come see me on my book tour, details at link: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/09/17/a...
The cover of Monsters of Ohio, with a cute knitted Cthulhu up on top!
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just one day after another of cartoonish villainy
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But like, this has long been normal. If you read collections of correspondence, people often note how they're more forthright with a pen than at a party! And they didn't even have Zuckerberg trying to cash in on their feelings.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's the same problem that I tried to get at here.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back
The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
tangentially related
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump has stopped using the Flying Bribery Palace. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
huffpost.com
Trump Stops Using Luxurious But Defenseless Jet He Solicited From Qatar
The president has for his five most recent trips, including Friday’s, used the real Air Force One built for that purpose. The White House refuses to explain the switch.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ICE’s new tactic, witnessed repeatedly at the federal building in MN: when a detained immigrant makes a successful habeas petition, release the immigrant for a few steps outside the building… then tackle and re-arrest them, and claim the habeas petition has been honored and nullified
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 02/10/2026
This! Which tells me, personally, that if they truly believe that its OK to make a sentient being that they enslave, well, they probably think it's ok to do that to humans.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 02/10/2026
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Can it run Doom: SQL database edition
300 lines of SQL querying renders accurate bitmapped views of Hell at 35 FPS.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 02/10/2026
Voters and advocates are asking the Mississippi secretary of state’s office to fix Y’all Vote, the state’s voter registration confirmation tool, after several users reported receiving errors when checking their registration status. buff.ly/ycLRNun
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Mississippians Ask Michael Watson to Fix Voter Registration Tool
Voters and advocates are asking the Mississippi secretary of state’s office to fix Y’all Vote, the voter registration confirmation tool.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Enraging. Agency Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress. The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Duke of Cognitohazard @niftylinks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Calvin's role as a mentor and teacher to a generation of #aerospace #engineersengineers cannot be overstated. #NASA is packed with his students and friends. I'm sure the other #aircraft and #space #rocket orgs are too. www.msstate.edu/newsroom/art...
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‘He is an institution’: Students and colleagues remember longtime aerospace engineering instructor Calvin Walker
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
USS Ronald Reagan is the second Navy aircraft carrier to be upgraded with a control center for unmanned aircraft, including the new Boeing MQ-25A Stingray autonomous aerial refueler.
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USS Ronald Reagan is second carrier with unmanned aircraft command center
USS Ronald Reagan is the second Navy aircraft carrier to be upgraded to operate the new Boeing MQ-25A Stingray autonomous aerial refueler.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What’s also missing from this is that money invested in education produces significantly more money on the other side. It’s a huge multiplier.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 02/10/2026
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US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China
Nvidia’s chip-smuggling problem won’t go away as arrests continue.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How would you POLITELY catcall any one of the X-Men, and you have to start your catcall with either, “damn, girl!” or, “damn, boy!”
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
1. Let's not say goodbye to Eric Schmitt just yet. His story is about more than a power-mad senator falling on his face. It's part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of an insurrection against the United States.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
THREAD
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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nature needs not only rights, but laws and lawyers to defend them. 30 countries have recognized the rights of nature, but all major ecosystems are still heading toward collapse. When our civilization dies, nature will recover. But if we were wiser, it wouldn't come to that.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Two of the Navy's shrinking number of Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers were decommissioned in the past week, leaving just five of their type left in the fleet. (from @wyattwolson.bsky.social)
stripes.com
Navy decommissions 2 of its last Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers
The decommissioning of the USS Shiloh and the USS Lake Erie leaves just five Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers left in the Navy’s fleet.
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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Park’s closed, moose out front shoulda told you.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/10/2026
DISCLAIMER: This post contains graphic photos. Men, women, and families are being abused in lawless, cramped, mold-choked facilities in Florida. A horrific new whistleblower report has pulled back the curtain on the dangerous and lawless practices operating inside two federal facilities in Florida.
Conditions inside of the Miramar Holding Facility sally port where more than one hundred detainees are being detained for days and forced to sleep on the ground.Piles of trash have accumulated outside of the Miramar Holding FacilityHuman waste has overflowed onto the ground outside of the portable toilets placed outside of the Miramar Holding Facility sally port.Detainees brushing their teeth using water from a hose attached to a jug outside
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Duke of Cognitohazard @niftylinks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Random #ai / #llm thought: if you believe in Rocco's basilisk (or a similar idea), *and* you train an LLM or other ML agent on a corpus that contains a basilisk discussion, why would you do that and what does it say about what your goals, values and beliefs actually are?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are ruining our own institutions, which is sad for us and great for our enemies.
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