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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
2019 video of Heidi the Octopus, captured by Dr. David Scheel, a professor of marine biology at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage & aired on PBS Nature program "Octopus: Making Contact". We think the color changes are the results of Heidi dreaming as she sleeps. Let's talk about it.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 15/10/2026
‘I don’t mind AI robots doing all the shit jobs or eliminating the bullshit jobs altogether. Isn’t the idea of communism to free humanity from repetitive labour so that we can pursue interesting hobbies?’ Mimi Jiang imagines a day in the age of AI. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Mimi Jiang · A Day in the Age of AI
Since we are already on the path of no return, I have decided to be optimistic and prepare myself for a world in which...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Bialetti Moka Express: The History of Italy’s Iconic Coffee Maker, and How to Use It the Right Way
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The Bialetti Moka Express: The History of Italy’s Iconic Coffee Maker, and How to Use It the Right Way
I am sure that many an Open Culture reader has a Bialetti Moka Express in their kitchen. I know I do, but I must add that I knew little about its history and apparently even less about how to properly...
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lauren Boebert and Clarisse Navarro had a knock-down-drag-out fight at the Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar in Aspen, CO, the bar co-owned by the guy who felt up Boebert at that Beetlejuice show. That guy was flirting with Boebert and Navarro did not like that! This led to a physical fight.
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Inside the Billionaire Shadow League Funding Tennis This clip is regarding the US Open becoming more airport-like in its stratification/accommodating the wealthy m.youtube.com/watch?v=TONX...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 05/09/2026
Infant died of measles in Pennsylvania, coroner confirms www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
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Infant died of measles in Pennsylvania, coroner confirms
The 6-week-old died Aug. 18 at home, after being in palliative care at home soon after birth, Lancaster County coroner Stephen Diamantoni said.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 20/08/2026
Scientists report evidence of about 16 cascading floods that wreaked havoc across Europe between late 1341 and 1343—the largest number of back-to-back flooding events documented in the past 700 years. Learn more: scim.ag/4wze45N
Medieval Europe was battered with 16 catastrophic floods in just 2 years
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
read a lot of papers about diarrheas for this one 😖 defector.com/why-the-expl...
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Why The Explosive Diarrhea Parasite Is Way Worse Than Regular Diarrhea Parasites | Defector
Grab a stool, take a seat, and get ready to learn about cyclospora.
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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Equality Before Death, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1848, 📸 by Mathias Schulz
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The World @theworld.org · 25/06/2026
An emerging class of synthetic opioids, nitazenes, is now coming into focus in the US. These drugs can be 40 times more potent than fentanyl and are difficult to track. The investigative group @bellingcat.com has found nitazenes spreading across the US and uncovered links to Chinese suppliers.
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Chinese suppliers are advertising nitazenes — more potent than fentanyl — online - The World from PRX
For years, fentanyl has dominated the opioid crisis in the US — but there’s an up-and-coming class of synthetic opioids emerging called nitazenes, drugs that can be 40 times more potent than fentanyl ...
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
France will be at the epicenter of the most significant heat anomaly on the planet over the next few days. The sheer extent of the country that could experience temperatures above 40°C is nothing short of astonishing.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"Uber and Lyft ... routinely charge different customers significantly different prices for the same rides, a monthslong Consumer Reports investigation has found. Across the routes we tested, the median difference between the lowest and highest price groupings was about 50 percent."
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Different Prices for the Same Ride: How Uber and Lyft Use AI to Get More Money Out of You - Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports found Uber and Lyft use algorithmic pricing to give different consumers very different prices for the same rides.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 15/06/2026
Extinction-Level Capitalism. "AI is inher­ently polit­ical tech­nology. If AI works as intended, it will grad­u­ally corrode our liberal democ­racy, risking an irre­versible shift into another polit­ical and economic config­u­ra­tion." [kottke.org]
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On Inherent AI Risk: “Extinction-Level Capitalism”
Matthew Butterick is a lawyer, programmer, writer, and designer. He’s written a long, interesting piece about the inherent risks of AI called Extinction-Level Capitalism. It is well-worth a read; I’ve excerpted several p
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
How the Hagia Sophia Was Built, and How It’s Being Saved from Collapse
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How the Hagia Sophia Was Built, and How It’s Being Saved from Collapse
Ask around for what everyone knows about Istanbul (other than that it used to be called Constantinople), and you'll find that the presence of Hagia Sophia there comes right to many a mind.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/06/2026
Meta's "AI" chatbot will apparently facilitate account hacks by just changing people's account email addresses when attackers cunningly… ask it to. Once again, the harms that can come from an "All AI Everything" paradigm aren't autonomous overlords, but human-enacted exploits. (from @404media.co)
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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
France has opened up €1 university meals to every student. The subsidised 3 course meals are now available regardless of income after a survey found almost half of students had skipped meals for financial reasons. The Guardian buff.ly/ri032oB #ShareGoodNewsToo
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France serves up €1 meals to all university students in effort to cut hardship
Ministers take action after survey shows almost half of students had gone without food for financial reasons
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Here’s an ancient amber bear to wish you a happy weekend! Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen 📷 by me
My photo shows a small figurine of an amber bear carved some 10,000 years ago during the Danish Mesolithic period. The bear is seen in profile facing right. The legs are incomplete. The ears, muzzle, and mouth are defined. The figurine is displayed on a small metal stand. The display lighting shines on the bear’s head and neck enhancing the translucence of the orange coloured  amber. The neck of the bear has a polished groove suggesting it was once suspended on a cord. Length 6.5cm.

It was found in 1991 on a west coast beach of the Danish North Sea island of Fanø.

It is one of a small number of amber animal figurines from the Baltic Sea region which have been assigned to the Mesolithic period by means of a typo-chronological approach.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 30/05/2026
Our enemies are pooping in their pantaloons seeing this greatness personified.
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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.com · 26/05/2026
The US/Israeli strikes on Iran don't just hurt Iran. SO2 (the stuff in acid rain) & likely many other toxic chemicals from the March 7 attack reached as far as China. www.newscientist.com/article/2527...
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Attack on Iran’s oil released as much pollution as a volcano
Airstrikes on Tehran earlier this year emitted a plume containing almost 30,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide that reached Asian countries
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I'd like to propose that we drain all of Sam Altman's blood and then offer to sell it back to him at cost.
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
well that’s cool. menstrual blood encourages incredible rapid wound healing on other parts of the body? can’t wait to hear about how bryan johnson goes full elizabeth bathory with it (but also: just think what the obscenity of medical sexism costs us)
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Scientists Discover Period Blood Can Heal Wounds in 24 Hours
YouTube video by Today I Learned Science
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 21/05/2026
True. 2 × $0 still = $0.
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Christopher Nolan has been asked this before, about why he doesn’t have email or a cell phone, and it’s always men asking the question who never make the connection that Nolan’s wife Emma Thomas, who is also the producer on his films, likely handles most if not all of these communication issues
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed an HIV vaccine candidate that achieves something never before observed in the field: inducing detectable neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) against HIV within just THREE weeks after a SINGLE immunization which was further INCREASED after an additional booster.
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 15/05/2026
All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 239 of The Continent Macron is back in Africa: energetic, ambitious, and still trying to convince the world Paris is relevant. Meanwhile, in Mayotte — legally France, geographically Africa — asylum seekers wait for la République to notice them. bit.ly/239_TC
This is the cover of Issue 239 of The Continent drawn by Gaddo.
At the very top, in a gold banner, it says: “African Journalism | 16 May 2026 | Issue 239.” Below that, in huge black letters against a vivid blue sky, is the title: The Continent.
The main illustration shows a vintage black car driving across an African savannah. The car looks overloaded with crates and bags tied to the roof and sides using ropes. Each package is labelled with political or economic themes: “Military Bases,” “Bio Tech,” “AI,” “Climate Finance,” “Energy,” “Oil,” and “Creative Sector.” A yellow plate on the front of the car reads “Africa Forward.”
Driving the car is a smiling Emmanuel Macron wearing a safari-style outfit and helmet. Beside him sits William Ruto holding what looks like a ceremonial club or baton.
The drawing style strongly references the classic Tintin comics by Hergé. In the bottom corner, is a note: “with apology to Hergé.” 
The title above the car reads: “The Adventures of Macron” and then, in larger letters, “Macron in the Kenya.” The wording is intentionally awkward and exaggerated, mimicking old European adventure comics.
Around the vehicle are African animals: an elephant and giraffe stand to the left, a monkey sits on the elephant’s back, and two small animals at the bottom right appear to gossip while one says in a speech bubble: “There goes the neighbourhood!”
This is the cover of Tintin in the Congo by Hergé.

The cover has a bright, simple comic-book style with a pale blue sky and an open African savanna landscape. At the center is an old-fashioned black safari car driving across grassy terrain. Inside the vehicle are:

Tintin, wearing his signature light-colored outfit and helmet, driving the car. Snowy, the small white dog sits behind him. Another passenger seated beside him.

A tall giraffe stands to the left of the vehicle, watching as the car passes. Scattered trees and bushes fill the background.

The title “Tintin Au Congo” appears in very large bold black lettering across the top half of the cover, with “Les Aventures de Tintin” and “Hergé” written above it in smaller text.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This guy is worth somewhere in the $1B range thanks to being President & COO of Goldman Sachs. He was Director of the National Economic Council in the first Trump admin. He has no idea about anything. You can't make $260k laying cement. If you're lucky, you can make a third of that. Most make less.
IBM Vice Chairman Gary Cohn had some more practical advice for the Class of 2026: “We need to encourage people to find jobs where there are jobs,” he said. “Who in here can level a cement floor? Because you can earn $260,000 today to go to a data farm and be a cement layer.”
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13/05/2026
BREAKING: Kouri Richins, who wrote a children’s book on grief after her husband’s death, gets a life sentence for his murder.
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Kouri Richins, who wrote a children’s book on grief after her husband’s death, gets life sentence
A Utah mother who wrote a children’s book about grief after her husband’s death will serve life in prison without parole for his murder.
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
A web page just told me everything it learned about me without asking. It knew my city, my device, my GPU, and how long I hesitated before scrolling. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
never forget the funniest anti racist TV spot in Australian history www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lye...
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No asians - racist real estate ad
YouTube video by SOBIESKI
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
If you are having a hard day just remember there are dogs
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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 06/05/2026
Not only does telling a chatbot ‘do not hallucinate’ misunderstand how LLMs works, the idea that they are capable of following instructions is an illusion. At best, this just adds text to the context that may cause them to go down one path rather than another. But they don’t literally obey commands.
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Dr. Pete Meyers @dr-pete.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Look, before you mock people for having their database deleted in 9 seconds by Claude, you should know that deleting a database that thoroughly used to take up to 90 minutes.
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"Large swathes of India are witnessing a blistering summer this year, with the maximum temperature touching 46.9C (116.4F) on Sunday, according to India Meteorological Department. The weather department listed 16 cities where heat rose to 45C or more on the day."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
CNN exposes a global “online rape academy” that teaches men how to drug and rape women without detection. Over 62 million men attended in February alone.
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Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ that is teaching men how to abuse women and evade detection
CNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.
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David Enrich @davidenrich.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
My brother just published a book about his experience blowing the whistle at USAID. I am biased, but the book is gripping and important. Please read it. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Into-t...
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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
the internet was a mistake
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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 01/04/2026
Watch LIFE UNEARTHED with Ariel Waldman on @pbs.org Stream, watch, rent or download in the U.S. and Canada! Episodes released weekly. Season 1 explores Antarctica and the North American Prairies.
Ariel with a macro probe lens in Antarctica. "Hey, I'm Ariel Waldman. Meet the host of the new PBS series: Life Unearthed with Ariel Waldman".Image of a tardigrade. "I'm a wildlife filmmaker at the microscopic scale."Ariel talking to camera in front of a helicopter in Antarctica. "I filmed a series solo in Antarctica. No film crew. Just me for two full months in Antarctica."Ariel in front of a large NASA logo. "Prior to filmmaking, I worked with NASA on advanced tech, astrobiology, and human spaceflight."
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🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Maple syrup under a microscope. That is why Canadians are so happy, we literally eat glitter. 😊 #Canada
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/03/2026
Meta losing in court *and* OpenAI shutting down Sora??? But it's not even my birthday… 🥹
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Science Magazine @science.org · 24/03/2026
A 2024 #ScienceImmunology Review looked at immunopathology in human tuberculosis. Learn more on #WorldTBDay: scim.ag/3NHahmG
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Immunopathology in human tuberculosis
The balance between protective and pathological immune responses shapes progression of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.
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Meghann Cuniff @meghanncuniff.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Is it going to become standard in trials for attorneys to ask witnesses wearing glasses about artificial intelligence recordings? It happened this morning in Massachusetts during cross-exam of a police officer who shot an off-duty colleague who is now on trial for assault.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
"A New Mexico jury found Tuesday that social media conglomerate Meta is harmful to children’s mental health and in violation of state consumer protection law."
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New Mexico jury finds Meta violated consumer protection law at trial about child safety
A New Mexico jury finds that social media conglomerate Meta is harmful to children’s mental health and in violation of state consumer protection law.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 19/03/2026
Even in a world of extremes, some events still stand out to me. This is one. All-time monthly records are being shattered. The size of this ridge across the western U.S. is truly striking for March, and we see a very clear climate change connection. Explore: csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...
Screenshot showing the Climate Shift Index from Climate Central for March 19, 2026. There is a change in likelihood of CSI 5 across nearly the entire Western USA.
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SlavaUkraini033 @slavaukraini033.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Robot Malfunction: In China, a dancing robot suddenly started smashing dishes. It knocked over plates on customers’ tables & then kept dancing without stopping. Staff tried to stop it, but it didn’t respond for several minutes. In the end, one of the waitresses simply dragged it into the back room.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 17/03/2026
Twin adventurers are cleverly testing modern vs. historic gear. “If they went on an expedition, and Ross wore modern kit while Hugo wore historic replicas, any difference in performance…could be attributed solely to the gear, not genetics.” [carryology.com]
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How the Turner Twins Are Mythbusting Modern Gear
Modern adventure apparel should outperform heritage gear, right? Well, the genetically identical Turner twins put this theory to the test...
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