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Physical Review Letters @physrevlett.aps.org · 09/10/2026

Researchers discovered ultrafast magnetoelectric coupling in rare-earth iron garnets — a finding that may enable sub-100-nm THz magneto-optical readout for faster magnetic data storage and information processing. Read the Letter: go.aps.org/4jdLtQy

A figure displaying two models of the atomic and magnetic structure of HoIG under scenarios of above TM (left) and below TM (right). The structures consist of lattices and fields of various molecules, including Ho3+ (purple spheres), Fe3+tet (pink spheres), Fe3+oct (yellow spheres), and O2- (red dots). The left model displays the molecules arranged within a black outline of a cube, and includes several pink, purple, and yellow tetrahedrons in the middle. The right model displays the same molecules in a more compressed rectangular sphere, with dark and light purple arrows indicating canting angles from the ⟨111⟩-axis.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This chud approach to everything makes me mad as a hornet. So much of our world is designed and built by people who care about what they're doing and what it means. Being sloppy and aloof makes things suck. You don't want that in your ejection seats. "Tough guys" are a liability.

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the true moral of this nasa story is this: if you present anything as a choice to management, be it testing or other safety critical work, they will see it as optional, and will default to saying no doing anything more than the minimum best practice means taking more responsibilities for delays

She asked the powers at NASA to let her add a safeguard to prevent that error in a real flight, and they laughed it off as too unlikely. But they let her make a note of it. When an astronaut did make that blooper during the Apollo 8 mission—the first manned flight orbiting the moon—it caused necessary navigational data to vanish, and they called Hamilton in to get it back. “I remember saying to a couple of guys there, ‘It’s the Lauren bug!’” she says, laughing.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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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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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just learned that Margaret Hamilton died. What an absolute legend.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm guessing it's not covered in the Paul Kelly song..

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I had temporarily forgotten what Peter Capaldi meant to me. Thanks for the reminder.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Excellent. Now do Lise Meitner. Nominated 30 times for the Nobel in Physics, and 19 in Chemistry. She had primacy of publishing on electron emission, it should bear her name at least. Amongst her many other successes.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

WSU is home to the Edward R. Murrow school of communication. I have an old friend that got their PhD there. This is just callous.

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josh @punchhappiness.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

occasionally people from other countries try to say there's no such thing as Australian food and to that I say,

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 03/10/2026

Busan has a new resident named Bukangi, a shark who started chilling in the canals near the train station a couple weeks ago. The city has been trying all sorts of schemes to gently lead her back to the ocean but she foils every attempt and swims back and forth being admired by crowds of fans.

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Amie Albrecht @nomadpenguin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s this time of year again …

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This goes incredibly hard. Congrats dude.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

More trains to more places. But this is somehow controversial in a town spending half a billion dollars to dig a tiny little tunnel.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You're going to need a huge Tupperware container to get that thing outside.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026

If you, btw, would like an example of a place where data centres are *actually* being restricted by legislation, go look at Denmark - where they are now last in the grid connection queue, prioritising socially valuable load growth (like electrification, heating, cooling, new homes) first

servola.de

Denmark Puts Data Centers Last in New Grid Law

Denmark's emergency grid law puts data centers last behind households and green-transition projects, formalizing rationing that began in February 2026.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You heard it everyone, Dr Mack is now a traceable primary standard. Adjust your research proposals accordingly 😜

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm not even a rockhound and I think that's sad.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don't worry mate, I'm almost certain it fits in a microwave.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is something that has seriously set back my pursuit of a more contemporary car. I'd love an EV, but I absolutely will not tolerate this, and I've got no time to go digging the RF modules out of whatever I get. I don't think this should be possible. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

abc.net.au

Australians love these cars. Experts have 'real security concerns'

To test the risks of surveillance and sabotage, Four Corners asked a hacker to show what China's top EV brand could see and do remotely.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My memory isn't what it used to be, so I have a whole folder full of images of book covers and screenshots of titles or comments that people post. My local independent bookstore has gotten some interesting requests from me, but I like to keep them busy. What Kate said! I've found so much from it

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 28/07/2025

GenX kids will know the pain of needing just the right kind of pencil to rewind.

A photo of a 3.5" computer cassette, in this case Install Cassette 5 for Macintosh System 7.5

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very cool that you are teaching The Big Sleep. Also, sounds like your class rules.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How odd, I'm not seeing @faineg.com 's fine contributions to our collective cultural milieu

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My Oregonian senses were tingling, I got here as quickly as I could. What's going on? Either someone has just released the most obnoxious craft beer in human history to date or..... I see. (MST3K alarms go off) We've got whale sign!

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So serious question: if these businesses go bust and you get stuck with an abandonware oven, would it then be permissible to pop the firmware or write a little web service that would put it back into service? Can you cause harm to the company if it doesn't exist?

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Sara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He imposed Shania Law

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel like Glacial Pavement would make a pretty good band name.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Took my cameras for a walk as the weather was cool and a bit drizzly. Thought I would head down and see if the Precambrian was still there. Pleased to report it is. For the #geology types, enjoy some folds and layers. I'm told they're good. They're certainly beautiful.

The gravel, my camera, my old blue north face jacket and my camera bag with tripod at the base of the formations

My jacket and camera bag at the base of the formations for scale. There are alternating thin and thick stripes where sediment was deposited over unbelievable time scales.

Standing along the axis of an eroded layer of rock formation, which leads the eye to the curved form of many differently colored layers. I don't know rock words. I'm new at this.

In case anyone wanted to know what color the rocks really are, here's a correction target to calibrate to. Pretty rock things in the background.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The fact that they think they have the right, or the ability, to evaluate people based on appropriating their language is insane. No other industry oversteps boundaries with such smug contempt. My master’s thesis was on this specifically, and it is scary and will be wrong.

OpenAl
September 23, 2026 Publication
Introducing
MentalHealthBench
An open benchmark developed with more than 80 licensed mental health experts to evaluate Al responses in realistic mental health conversations.
Read the paper

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's Stanislav Petrov day. Anyone who wants to cram LLM trash into systems with human consequences should be required to write a twelve page book report on Stanislav Petrov, and why he has a day. It should include why they happen to be alive to write it.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The people proposing this as a viable business strategy have clearly not looked in on Leaf Blower Discourse. These things buzzing around constantly would be annoying as hell.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fully funded PhD opportunity here!

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Handshake meme of Unions and Proper Stand Mixers with PTO in the middle.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some good news for a change. Support art and artists. Support writers. Support game makers. Support musicians. These are all crafts as old as our histories and older, and they deserve their due respects. And money, if you've got any. It's a rough world out there y'all.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've seen your spreadsheets. You first.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And NORgasms, NANDgasms, and XORgasms if you're nasty

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's a machine. It doesn't get happy, it doesn't get sad, it doesn't laugh at your jokes. It just runs programs!

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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MOJO Magazine @mojomagazine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Remembering John Coltrane, born on this day 100 ago. MOJO’s Michael Simmons pays tribute to a genius with a rundown of ‘Trane’s ten greatest albums...

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John Coltrane’s Best Albums Ranked

Chasing Trane: MOJO charts the genius of John Coltrane across his ten greatest releases.

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hausdorff frissance @physticuffs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I sure would love to come see you speak, but I defer to @sandyhorne.bsky.social and company for the birding. I sure do enjoy birds but that's some serious commitment you all have.

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