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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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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

@sundogplanets Oh Ionow that list. Worse, my house sits unrepaired while I endlessly tinker with hobby websites and selfhosting

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

@sundogplanets If you have a basement, it can be a nice cool place to sleep in summer

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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

@brianvastag ah, ok, it's actually sending individual SMSes, but keeping track for you. Cool feature & nice workaround

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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

Good news: For now, an attacker needs your gait data to identify you. More good news! For now, your gait data is *probably* not being recorded by municipal CCTVs, IoT cams, Ring-style cameras. Bad news: I see no technical reason why both those won't change in the 2-5 year horizon. If so […]

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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 · 16/05/2026

@abesamma LibreWolf also got the benefit, but unlike FF, LW doesn't spy on you

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

> continuous variables that are produced in composite systems of many interacting particles such as the magnetic moment of the nucleus So the notion is that since the nuclear magnetic moment is the result of a bunch of bags of quarks & gluons -- that's an awful lot of moving parts to always […]

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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 · 05/04/2026

@futurebird Astronauts would be using the Near Space Network. AFAICT, it's basically a private Internet with its own routing, and AFAICT a bridge to the public Internet. The Network uses NASA ASN 297 blocks and the DSN block 192.243.16.0/22 So... it would probably be from there, being in that […]

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

@jgrg "Can I make a suggestion that doesn't involve violence? Or is this the wrong crowd?"

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

@QNFO Hence Mr Tortoise's record collection in _Gödel, Escher, Bach_. which includes a recording of Bach himself playing "The Well-Tempered Clavier"

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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 · 22/03/2026

@futurebird Souls live in the same building as luminiferous aether, caloric fluid, Santa Claus, and Jesus

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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 · 09/03/2026

@bruces Iran does not have the ability to literally close the Strait -- to do that, they would have needed to start laying mines a few weeks ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rgVaTofGQU

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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 · 06/03/2026

@dailysms wasted many hours of youth on this memorable gane

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

@Mastokarl yes One of my favorite comebacks to "it just predicts the next word!" Is "...and what do you think *you* are?!"

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Nymnympseudonym @nymnympseudonymm.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

@Mastokarl LLMs do not predict the next *word* They predict the next *concept* There is a very very big difference

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