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AJ 🦋 @andjamwar.uk · 15/10/2026
Exquisite
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 02/10/2026
Breaking News! y-Axis Alert! With yesterday's preliminary Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature spiking to a new record at 29.975°C, the y-axis was raised to 30.5°C. Meanwhile, the Niño 3.4 anomaly now sits at 3.33°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. Until tomorrow ...
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's a shame no chemist ever came up with the idea to say "I'm working on something that might kill all of humanity, so please give me several billion dollars so I can stop myself" That feels like something that should've been right up our alley
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
this is so fucking crazy. huge huge huge scoop www.404media.co/inside-proje...
In a dashboard available to the workers, human reviewers are able to select which “task” they want to take on. Once they click that, they are presented with the real ChatGPT user’s prompt. 404 Media has seen multiple real prompts but is not quoting any of them for source protection reasons. Some of the prompts indicate the ChatGPT user does not expect that a human may end up reading their conversation, because they ask ChatGPT to keep the content to themselves.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Easy to donate: rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 24/08/2026
Over the weekend, a storm in the Baltic states caused significant disruption to power supplies and at least 2 deaths. An experimental reanalysis-based attribution approach suggests that ~20% more rain fell than if the same weather pattern had occurred in a world that was 1°C cooler.
A Baltic storm caused significant damage on 22nd August 2026, but more rain fell than would have done had the world been cooler.
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Rob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Progress in cancer treatment is incredible. Here's a new pancreatic cancer treatment that is *tripling* survival rates after a year compared to chemotherapy.
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Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️ @arif.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
dawg the brazilians are calling it asfaltos unidos in the QTs we're getting cooked
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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 16/07/2026
The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?
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Jeva Lange 🫎 @jeva.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This is incredible and one of those things that reminds me a better world is possible. But I also need you to know that the dek reads, “The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.”
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Brian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The HPV vaccine outcome epi just keeps getting better and better. From England, a 100% mortality reduction in the most recent female adult cohort (20-24yo) that had proper high coverage at ~12yo. Still one of the greatest ID AND oncology successes ever observed. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Cervical cancer mortality trends following HPV vaccination in England, 2001–24: an analysis of population-based mortality data
Our findings provide the first robust national-level evidence, albeit observational, that high HPV vaccination coverage is associated with a substantial reduction in cervical cancer deaths. This is sh...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12/06/2026
David Hockney, one of the most popular and influential artists of the past century, has died aged 88. ft.trib.al/hgdDXAf
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
“The moment I first sold pictures, I felt rich. .. I didn’t have much money but I did what I wanted. .. You are a rich man if you do the things you want to do.” #RIP www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/a...
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Jon Moses @jon-moses.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
'We have a simple message for the Environmental Agency... come and do your job or we WILL do it for you' 😆 Peak EA that, having abandoned this river, it's prosecuting those taking action to recover it. Yet hasn't prosecuted any illegal sewage dumping 🤔 All the power; none of the responsibility.
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Why these litter pickers are breaking the law to clean up a London river
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 02/06/2026
Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework
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Alexis @alexispace.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
50s test pilots: not very woke, as a rule
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...
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How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?
We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Large quasi monopolies you cannot avoid using linear algebra to make all management decisions with questionable underlying data, finally the Soviet Union is able to be reborn.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
“by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated.” This has always been the case and this shouldn’t even need to be stated. Yet here we are.
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
Twitter thread from Thomas Dietterich, reading "Attention 
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 authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/
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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I do think it sums up “the weird way the Internet shapes politics unnoticed” that “some chants that people should knock off but are mostly an ignorable part of an in-person march” are given more explanatory power than “the website that is full of antisemitism of every stripe that MPs hang out on”.
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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Very interesting new study finding that *even in large European cities*, in most places it is easier to access opportunities by car than by public transport arxiv.org/pdf/2604.01019 The exceptions are Paris, Zurich and the innermost parts of Milan and Barcelona
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Nell Gwyn @ne11gwyn.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
A photo showing an electric road sign having suffered a Windows error, solid blue with a white ":(" off-center, as part of a zoomed-in Windows error screen. Above the pole with the sign on it is a flat gray sky due to it being overcast.

Tumblr user jellyfishdirigible has captioned this photo:
The sky above the television tuned to a dead channel was the color of a different, much older television tuned to a dead channel
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Absolutely inarguable that we are in a new historical epoch of the relationship between objective metrics and sentiment metrics
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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
My scorching hot take on this (at least in the uk) is that a bunch of more public-sector-ish jobs: teaching, universities, media, civil servant had been relatively downwards mobile in this time and it’s actually falling inequality that is making people mad.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
this whole mamdani thing is an ongoing masterclass in galaxy-brain political communications
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Corporate profits: all-time high. Consumer sentiment: all-time low. This is one reason why both can be true: (via MetLife)
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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Ryan Dunlavey @ryandunlavey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.
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Chris Curtis MP @chriscurtis94.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Why do our second-tier cities underperform? Why do we have fewer trams in the UK? I try my best to give an answer to these two interconnected questions. chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/to-grow-th...
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To grow the economy we need more trams, and fewer kebabs
Britain’s second-tier cities are being held back by a simple problem, too many people still cannot get across them quickly enough to reach the jobs, customers and opportunities that drive growth.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 05/04/2026
This thread is shocking in the best possible way.
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
People come up with complicated reasons why art/music scenes are less vibrant now but it is like 90% just this
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Last Will and Testament Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I feel like the surrender of the global electric vehicle market to China is one of those things that will, with a couple of decades of hindsight, be vastly consequential. Scaling benefits, technology development, supply chains... A lot of incumbents that depend on export markets will be screwed.
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This whole concept in LOTR is one of my favourite parts of the whole book. “Evil fucks up because evil people fundamentally cannot imagine that others are not motivated by the same things as them” is another theme that feels relevant right now
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This is insane.
By Maxine Joselow
Reporting by Washington Post
Article linked below
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
“Employees in Kenya doing AI "annotation" told the journalists that they've seen people nude, using the toilet and engaging in sexual activity, along with credit card numbers and other sensitive information.”
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
For all such takes, "now what?" should instead be "so what?" Students could already cheat / half-ass their education. Each of us had to make the choice to do the work. Many in the current cohort are making the same choice that we did, and refusing to cheat. But that story gets fewer ad impressions.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/02/2026
at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology
Retrophrenology:
It works like this. Phrenology, as everyone knows, is a way of reading someone's character, aptitude and abilities by examining the bumps and hollows on their head. Therefore - according to the kind of logical thinking that characterizes the Ankh-Morpork mind - it should be possible to mould someone's character by giving them carefully graded bumps in all the right places. You can go into a shop and order an artistic temperament with a tendency to introspection and a side order of hysteria. What you actually get is hit on the head with a selection of different size mallets, but it creates employment and keeps the money in circulation, and that's the main thing.
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
It's kind of funny how Hayek's (mostly correct) argument against central planning because concentrating that much economic power in one place inevitably lead to totalitarian behavior is also a pretty strong argument against like, extreme concentrations of wealth and market power
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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
There’s a house on our block with a camera that actually talks at you, every time you pass by, to remind you that you’re being recorded, and that family is sitting on the world’s largest archive of my wife’s middle finger, in case anyone is looking for an art project
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