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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

"Will we have software agents... or software double agents? [...] Integrity is the new vulnerability, the way that confidentiality has been for the last few decades." youtube.com/watch?v=eEBv0STiYhI #defcon #ai

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Thinking meat, conscious meat, loving meat, dreaming meat... the meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture? #TerryBisson #TheyreMadeOutOfMeat #atheism

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

🧪 The placebo-controlled trial wasn't invented by doctors. It was invented by medieval witch hunters. In 1423, Jean Gerson proposed testing religious claims with consecrated vs unconsecrated objects that looked identical - the same logic behind modern placebo controls. His method ended up in […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

It's national #algae day! In honor of Sir's perfect #cognitive toolkit and terrific judgment. Nobody knows construction like Sir #TrumpVirus Why, he's a virtual "reflective pond" of wisdom and accurate self-appraisal. So, how did our beautiful national […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Meme:
A color sample/swath showing "PANTONE - COLOR OF THE YEAR - 2026"

The larger background image is a textured closeup of a light olive-green paint, with a color swath (smooth, non-textured) showing the official designation of the color as "PANTONE® #658a2a - "American Flag Blue"

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

My wife has an advanced degree in a non-STEM subject. It was not immediately obvious to her that, left in a closed room, a nice cooling fan will *heat it up* while you're out. I whipped out my phone and asked Claude to diagram. It did a bang-up job and she […] [Original post on mstdn.science]

Block diagram showing electrical motor losses as heat from bearing friction, winding resistance, etc

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

ADD YOUR COMMENTS -- SAVE #SCIENCE IN AMERICA! Russ Vought, the #Epstein-entangled, #Trump-Appointmented Office of Management and Budget, wants political appointees instead of scientists to decide what science to fund -- and to intentionally put roadblocks in front of promising young scientists […]

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

Late to the party, I just read up on #paperclip #ai and played with it a bit. Very impressive. We're going to see an explosion of 1-2 person companies that each do tens of millions of dollars' worth of business. You still need to think about how your company will work -- and more importantly […]

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

> In a typical WiFi scenario, clients send Beamforming Feedback Information (BFI) back to the access point [...] > We show that individuals can be recognized with very high accuracy (99.5% ± 0.38) with our BFI-based attack dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3719027.3765… #privacy #panopticon

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Our desire for a #God comes partly from our desire to be loved a little more than we really deserve. (paraphrasing #ChristopherHitchens) #atheism

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

PSA: You need to go *RIGHT NOW* and eat a Cosmic Crisp apple. OMFG these are more delicious than the earliest childhood memory of apples. I want to go back in time and show people how good (certain aspects of) life are infinitely better thanks to the progress of agriculture […]

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

> Thompson: If you go back to the 1960s and 1970s, it was common for public intellectuals to predict the global population would rise and rise [...] > Fernández-Villaverde: The wording of your question already tells you a lot about the answer, because you used the word “public intellectual.” […]

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

What if every atom is unique? Yeah, I know they're all *supposed* to be identical... but, until now, nobody's actually *checked* > From a theoretical perspective, there is no symmetry or law that requires atoms to have the same nuclear magnetic moment [...] > In the absence of any symmetry or […]

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

I am a knowledge worker. Just had a "strategic decision" meeting with The Management. Going forward, my team's primary focus will be on 1. Writing documents that tell AI agents how to do the work, and 2. Watching the AI agents do that work, and using the results to tweak the documents I make […]

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

I had to code this one myself to convince myself it was real. The yellow and blue "busses" are moving smoothly at exactly the same speed. from www.futilitycloset.com/2026/04/28/t…

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

Atlas Shrugged but it's the academics who form Galt's Gulch. You have to successfully defend a novel and useful thesis in order to gain entry.

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

I work in Big Tech. This news hurts my pocketbook today. But I am so, **so** grateful for this ruling. I am surprised and relieved that average people sitting on juries understand that allowing corporate algorithms to shape growing minds is insanely dangerous. Especially in the middle of a […]

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026

"'Sentience' is knowing how screwed you are." -Dr. Vincent Racaniello, PhD, #TWiV 1305

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Marc Abrahams @marcabrahams.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

"THE COURT: How did the screw up happen? Was it your office, the U.S. Attorneys Office, the FBI, or both? How did you execute a plea agreement without knowing all the evidence on the device only later to find out, Oh, my God. There's babies and prepubescent children and bestiality. It's so […]

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

QUICK REVIEW 1. Iran had been a monarchy since antiquity en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monar… 2. And then the last Shah of Iran was at minimum deeply divisive : secret police, repression, unpopular economic & social changes rapid-fired from the top (sound familiar)? […]

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

5 years ago, I was subscribing to and closely following This Week in Virology. I recently subscribed to This Week in Shipping for similar reasons (smh) youtube.com/watch?v=0SELRtaciaI #iran #hormuz

Graph of shipping traffic thru Hormuz last few months. Precipitous decline at start of hostilities

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026

My kids are Atheists. Hopefully soon this will make them ineligible for service in the US military

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026

Harlan Ellison, author of _I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream_ (and a Jew) on the Middle East I feel like he would have been a good antidote to MAGA m.youtube.com/watch?v=P6gtHQGbXmM

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

There are now just three days until the special election in Georgia to fill the seat vacated by Marjorie Taylor Greene. 20 Republicans are running. One Democrat is running. I'm that Democrat. This is how we win. This is how we take back the House and put a check on Trump's rampage against our […]

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

#Mathematics in the age of #ai Will #deepmind #alphaevolve do for mathematics, what #alphafold did for proteomics? Are LLMs driving Automated Theorem Provers the future of math? youtube.com/watch?v=mS9Lr43cIB4 #fieldsmedal #lecture

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

DATE: Dec 5, 1938 HEADLINE: Nazis Take Drivers’ Permits from Jews > A police decree withdrawing all automobile drivers’ permits issued to German Jews was published yesterday. Signed by Heinrich Himmler, chief of all German police, the decree was intended as further punishment of the Jews, who […]

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

Before you sent a hysterical email to the entire management that my software totally broke your processes, you should really have LOOKED AT THE LOGS which clearly indicate that my program exited with success and your own software then hung and eventually barfed so bad it wasn't captured in your […]

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026

#MCP server #codereview comments: "Congratulations. You just gave a hardcoded #password to the #clankers. #Skynet takes control 0.67 seconds after this gets pushed to production." #programming #MLDevSecOps

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

RE: mathstodon.xyz/@graveolensa/1160553… This is the coolest paper I have seen in a long time. It has lots of really cool visual illusions evoking Escher. And it has real equations, the mathematics of cohomology groups & torsors.

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

RIP Bud Cort aka Harlod aka God (incapacitated) There's a million ways to be... You know that there are!

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

I can't get over how cool this is. `ssh terminal.shop` It's a site for #coffee delivery subscriptions. That you access via #ssh, not #https.

80x24 terminal screen with ASCII menuing system

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

Ya knew it was a timeout from the get-go, and maybe a routing issue. Checking the sendmail.cf and seeing the 0 seems like it would trigger looking up the local docs to check that parameter's definition

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

Where does #dehumanization get started? How does it become institutionalized? Look to an organization that was old 821 years ago and weilds increasing #political power in the USA. BUT IT'S OKAY! #Pope John Paul II apologized for it 25 years ago, so no harm […] [Original post on mstdn.science]

Jews not to hold public offices

It would be too absurd for a blasphemer of Christ to exercise power over Christians. We therefore renew in this canon, on account of the boldness of the offenders, what the council of Toledo providently decreed in this matter : we forbid Jews to be appointed to public offices, since under cover of them they are very hostile to Christians. If, however, anyone does commit such an office to them let him, after an admonition, be curbed by the provincial council, which we order to be held annually, by means of an appropriate sanction. Any official so appointed shall be denied commerce with Christians in business and in other matters until he has converted to the use of poor Christians, in accordance with the directions of the diocesan bishop, whatever he has obtained from Christians by reason of his office so acquired, and he shall surrender with shame the office which he irreverently assumed. We extend the same thing to pagans.

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

The definition of #faith is “#belief without #evidence” People who elevate this as a virtue will be unable to have a shared reality. It will always be centered on whatever narrative is popular with their in-group. Faith is **not** a virtue *It is the destroyer of civilization.* #religion

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2026

"#Atheism is what happens when you read the #Bible. #Christianity is what happens when somebody else reads it for you." -Bertrand Russel

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

#politicalscience in the 21st century is Real Science, and relevant to our daily lives. This paper introduces the concept of "salami tactics": gradual destruction of liberal democracy by taking over opposition parties, independent media, and civil society incrementally. Autocrats often begin by […]

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

I don't manage data centers, but I work with people who do. Data centers in space seemed idiotic to me so I asked them. Now I know there are petabytes of imaging data. Beaming it down is the problem. Now it seems even **more** idiotic. Turns out there are *multiple* companies **already doing […]

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

RE: todon.eu/@autonomysolidarity/115962… People like me Host nodes running this So everybody everywhere Can communicate *privately* and *without fear* For free ... as in beer

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