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Ernest Post

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full-stack physicist doing things with stuff | wave optics | e-textiles | triboelectricity | kernel hacking | AR

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Maarten Schenk @mschenk.bsky.social · 3h
An example of FIMI (Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference) in action at the @disinfo.eu conference? Apparently someone in the U.S. did not agree with the topic of a session named "USA as a FIMI threat: acknowledge, adapt, push back" and applied pressure on the sponsors...
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1h
this is real, USG censorship, ironically in the context of a conference about disinformation
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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 13h
Quant data funding without Qual contextual inquiry leaves a lot of data undiscovered. Unfortunately, the consequences of these decisions will impact us—and not in ways they expected. Quant data can only count what is visible. Qual discovers the invisible so it can be counted.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 11h
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 11h
Not a fan of this tendency of San Francisco venture capitalists to use LLMs to confirm their priors that BART has really inefficient service per rider or operating hour and then using that confirmation bias output to justify their opposition to RTM.
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
imagine if she was on set all the time lol like I 100% believe this story and the key part is its a captive audience type situation
I've heard straight men talk about trans women as though they're fallen
men to whom sympathy ought to be automatically extended, but there's
deeper stuff going on, too.
I asked a lefty straight man I know (this is irl) whether he was aware how
many penised "lesbians' are involved in the push to access female
spaces. The subject made him incredibly uncomfortable. He simply
didn't want to hear it. I then asked him whether he knew what his
straight male friends wanted from women in the bedroom, kink/sex wise.
Horrified look: "no, of course I bloody don't:
I said to him that if you put 100 straight and bi women of our age and
average sexual experience in a room together, they could write an
authoritative compendium on straight male kink in an afternoon, from
their own direct experience or that of women they know. I said I
presumed he knew that a cross-dressing fetish is one of the most
common paraphilias in heterosexual men and that this has been in the
psychological literature since Freud.
I cannot overstate how little he wanted to talk about this, let alone
acknowledge that any of it was real and happening. I don't know
whether it was the idea that women actually talk about what they meet
in the bedroom that touched a nerve, or whether he found the whole
subject ick, or didn't like the suggestion that he was naive or poorly
informed, but the impression given was that I was depraved to say such
things aloud, and that he'd much prefer a seemly silence.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18h
one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/10/2026
California leaders condemned President Trump on Monday night after he appeared to suggest that Iran could “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego if it develops a nuclear weapon.
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Fury in California After Trump Suggests Iran Could ‘Take Out’ L.A. or San Diego
Gov. Gavin Newsom called the president “dangerous and deranged” after his remarks at a political rally, where Mr. Trump said the Iran war was necessary to “keep the world safe.”
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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 06/10/2026
fwiw arstechnica.com/apple/2026/1...
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Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
every republican president destroys the economy and starts a war in the middle east
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 05/10/2026
The announcement follows reports that Meta’s new general-purpose AI agent has been snooping on users' iMessages, calendars, and emails without permission: arstechnica.visitlink.me/5s02-A
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Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 05/10/2026
Yeah, this is a big time impeachment abuse of power.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The NY Times uses words like “fierce,” “steely,” “nimble” and “homegrown star of the Trump White House” to describe Karoline Leavitt, who just got a Fox News gig. Not a single mention of her relentless lying to the American public. Reporter Michael M. Grynbaum and his editors suck.
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Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News (Gift Article)
A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.
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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Rosalind Franklin had already noted the helical structure of DNA in photograph 49!
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Another Susan Collins bribery scandal has hit the airwaves theintercept.com/2026/10/05/s...
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Susan Collins’s Committee Bought Trucks the Army Didn’t Want. Then Campaign Donations Poured In.
Appropriations committee members saw an influx of campaign contributions after steering $345 million to a military contractor.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The January 6 insurrection was the culmination of a multi-month, multi-level scheme to nullify the results of a democratic election. It was engineered and orchestrated by the president of the United States. And in the moment, it failed.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I wrote about the threat as well as the limits of authoritarian escalation. Trump’s schemes to subvert the midterms have so far failed. What happens next? What do authoritarians do when they are about to lose an election? My new piece:
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What Do Authoritarians Do When They Are About to Lose an Election?
Trump’s schemes to subvert the midterms have so far failed. What happens next? A reflection on the threat as well as the limits of authoritarian escalation
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026
Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ohandanotherthing: Sam Altman is such a perfect example of techno-optimism as it is actually practiced. It's the ideology of incurious plutocrats (and their hangers-on). "Well gee, sure, the effects of my product could be terrible! But we should all just trust that it'll be more good than bad."
"I think people will do tremendously more good stuff than bad stuff." -Sam Altman, being a lazy techno-optimist because that's where the money is.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If Aaron Swartz was still alive, I'm pretty sure he would have made it his life mission to personally demolish Sam Altman and all that he represents. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI
The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is just kidnapping children
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026
“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 05/10/2026
securing amnesty for papa jair bolsonaro is now the full-time family business… jair’s wife and son: now elected senators jair’s other son and brother: now elected federal deputies and, of course, flavio (son): won first-round of presidential elections, v likely to be brazil’s next president…
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 05/10/2026
They cut down the "grandmother" tree.
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acabylon 👻👻 BOO 👻👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
if you were wondering how he only served 13 months in prison after raping multiple minors, it's because he served zero jail time for raping multiple minors. the only jail time he served was for financial crimes covering up sexually abusing children. he kept his congressional pension up to now
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One month was about enough time with the fam.
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Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News
A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You're not making pragmatic calculations, you're not bargaining or impeding fascism in any way, shape, or form, you are a gullible mark at best, or hate your fellow human beings so much you're engaging in willful collusion with fascism as long as it hurts them no matter how many others are harmed.
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Heritage Foundation now targeting women's sports after SCOTUS' anti-trans sports ruling - LGBTQ Nation
Project 2025's architects say that Title IX and women's sports harm men's sports and "feminine graces."
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Múmer @mumermao.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
Counter-proposal to Sam Altman: Go fuck yourself www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.
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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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kat claws @kat.meangirls.online · 05/10/2026
100% & it really can't be said clearly enough that the deaths from AV development caused by tesla & uber were fully preventable w the right regulations & oversight bodies & the same will be true w gen AI. the issue in both cases is deployment on the general public with no accountability, not R&D.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 05/10/2026
“The painful reality is that any semblance of a responsible GOP is dead and buried, and Democrats cannot succeed if they focus on rehabilitating this cadaver. MAGA, or some form of nationalist-populist politics, is driven by deep structural forces, and so MAGA is going to define the GOP for decades”
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You Can't Build a Better Politics on Bad History
Sarah Longwell's "How to Eat an Elephant" offers useful advice for Democratic politics. Yet it is also based on a false history of the GOP.
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eggnog slut @deus01.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's over for the talarico campaign
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Metro North Capital @metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What?
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It never fails. The men who talk about a manly Jesus, high T counts, whatever -- they always look like this. They feel that they cannot compete through ordinary means so they establish elaborate fantasies to compensate for what they lack.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Angie Nixon wants to know which eyeliner Vice President J.D. Vance uses: “His eyes look so beautiful. They pop.”
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I love when White House reporters assure us that Karoline Leavitt was an entirely different person off the record as if that's not key to the whole Trump regime's press manipulation strategy.
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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“When you hear Sen. Wicker and other people express frustration — we’re his stakeholders. We control his purse strings, and he’s almost treating us like we’re some line workers down in the manufacturing facility that he doesn’t want to spend time with.” So close to getting it, but not really.
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GOP senators, blindsided by Hegseth, demand notice, transparency
Key Republican senators say they were blindsided by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s announced 20 percent reduction of the U.S. military’s general and admirals, and they’re voicing concerns a…
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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The NY Times framing every fascist as tough strong & brilliant, and not a dumb racist liar, is one of many ways the NY Times tells Democrats that they are Not On Our Side, and Dems mostly choose not to listen
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Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News
A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/10/2026
Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history, has died at 84. Hastert admitted in federal court to sexually abusing boys he coached as a high school wrestling coach. A federal judge called him a "serial child molester." He was a registered sex offender.
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Explosion Robinson @explosionrobinson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My man looks like a button-eyed sock doll with far less muscle tone.
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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is absolutely going to happen because voters know nothing but "throw the bums out"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The most Republican thing ever is to claim you suddenly care about affordability by giving a speech at a yacht club.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't want to minimize concern about Iran's nuclear bomb-building program, but Iran does not currently possess an ICBM capable of delivering one to the United States. The immediate concern would be Israel or Saudi Arabia, not the US, which he implies.
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not yet dead: every last one of the people who enabled him and the machine supporting it all
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