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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 10h

Air to Ground Message: PRINTER BACAME POSSESSED AND WOULD NOT STOP PRINTING THE NECROMONICON POWER RESET/TRACKING Area: Killeen, TX, USA Type: Airbus A220-300 A: #aa816c0b876 F: #f2c4f4503c4

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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The new kid on the block! 🐘 Last week, our Ithumba Keepers and the dependent orphans gathered to welcome Comet – a newborn, and the 95th known calf born to an orphan elephant we rescued, raised and rewilded. Read the full story: www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/news/updates...

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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hearing people talk about negative corporate spreads makes me feel a bit like the joker muttering “how do you think the debt settles” to myself

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/10/2026

One of the most upsetting things for people trained in formal computational theory, who are not AI boosters, to witness is how claims about the outputs of systems with no formal specification are taken as if they are indicative of formally linked capacities, such as the ability to add; see thread:

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American Century of BOO-miliation @johnperich.com · 07/10/2026

Deeply technical but satisfying thread on the specifics of computation and why an LLM that *frequently* arrives at the right number is not the same thing as a program that *calculates* the right number. Expect LLM boosters to pivot to "well, what even is 'addition' anyway?" shortly.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The world’s smallest CT scanner now fits in one hand. China’s Institute of High Energy Physics built the 6 kilogram Xtomo-Cube, more than 3x lighter than the previous record holder, it runs on battery power & skips the heavy radiation shielding regular scanners need buff.ly/CL4bXK3 #ShareGoodNewsToo

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World's smallest CT scanner fits in the palm of your hand

Picture a CT scanner and you probably imagine a donut-shaped machine the size of a small car, standing about 6.6 ft (2 m) tall and weighing several tons. Chinese researchers just built one small…

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This level of stupidity doesn’t just happen. You have to work to achieve it.

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Mark Schofield @markschofield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mike Tomlin is currently giving a tour of his boutique hotel in Minecraft, which has a multipurpose conference room and an appropriate number of public restroom and I’m losing MY MIND

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Ruinizer @ruinizer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Perfectly intuitive, a working camera can only record an action, it cannot prevent it from happening any more than a dummy camera can…. A working camera can also show the viewer things that may look nefarious without context and increase the suspicion of others.

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Ruinizer @ruinizer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Love the idea of Row Row Row Your Boat as some sort of existential commentary

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.’ This is a CEO openly confessing to a level of acquired mental indolence that, were he not coddled 24/7 by an army of paid underlings, would make him incapable of living independently and feeding himself. He’s fine with it. Your kids won’t be.

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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 25/09/2026

you can't spell "crisis" without misspelling "cry" www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

T-Rex: Ah yes, the perfect activity for a lazy afternoon: take the demographic data for people born when and where I was...

T-Rex: ...and use it to calculate my life expectancy!

Narrator: BUT THEN:
T-Rex: Wait wait wait. It says here... I'm more than HALFWAY through my life ALREADY?
Dromiceiomimus: I mean, in all likelihood - yes, absolutely. T-Rex, we're all not gonna be around FOREVER.
T-Rex: But - but - I DIDN'T KNOW! Nobody told me there was more behind than ahead now!!

Utahraptor: What would you have done if you'd known?
T-Rex: I dunno, have a party? Have a CRISIS? BOTH??

T-Rex: Man, I had SUCH PLANS for my midlife crisis too. I was gonna buy a motorcycle, then marry the motorcycle, and then try to convince my ex-spouse from before the motorcycle to be in a poly relationship with the motorcycle.
Utahraptor: It's never too late!

T-Rex: It IS: I missed the middle of my life, so now any crisis I have must be a POST-MIDLIFE crisis!
Off panel: I've never heard of those.
T-Rex: NOBODY HAS, because they're not a thing!!
T-Rex: I MISSED OUT ON MY ONE CHANCE TO HAVE A SOCIALLY-ACCEPTABLE CRISIS!!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/09/2026

Y’all have seen the viral short clip. Here’s the full original. The energy we need when somebody tries to push disinformation down our throats.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026

I think if you make a statement like a piece of automated software "wanted" something, you should be able to fully explain the mechanics of how that can actually occur

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“The human race is at war. Our biggest enemy, pure and simple, is ignorance.” John W. Young, born on this day in 1930

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西村ツチカ @tsuchika.com · 24/09/2026

エフェクター

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Egon Schiele - Trieste Harbor, 1907

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justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

they're saying the AI can do math and science again, so it's time to reread Thurston's On Proof and Progress in Mathematics, a lovely articulation of the social work of assembling understanding, i.e., the best reason to tackle hard problems. www.ams.org/journals/bul...

When I started as a graduate student at Berkeley, I had trouble imagining
how I could "prove" a new and interesting mathematical theorem. I didn't
really understand what a "proof was.
By going to seminars, reading papers, and talking to other graduate students,
I gradually began to catch on. Within any field, there are certain theorems and
certain techniques that are generally known and generally accepted. When you
write a paper, you refer to these without proof. You look at other papers in the
field, and you see what facts they quote without proof, and what they cite in
their bibliography. You learn from other people some idea of the proofs. Then
you're free to quote the same theorem and cite the same citations. You don't
necessarily have to read the full papers or books that are in your bibliography.
Many of the things that are generally known are things for which there may be
no known written source. As long as people in the field are comfortable that
the idea works, it doesn't need to have a formal written source.

At first I was highly suspicious of this process. I would doubt whether a certain idea was really established. But I found that I could ask people, and they
could produce explanations and proofs, or else refer me to other people or to
written sources that would give explanations and proofs. There were published
theorems that were generally known to be false, or where the proofs were generally known to be incomplete. Mathematical knowledge and understanding were
embedded in the minds and in the social fabric of the community of people
thinking about a particular topic. This knowledge was supported by written
documents, but the written documents were not really primary.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Steve Rattner: The labor share of economic output hit its lowest point on record in Q2 2026.

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.

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西村ツチカ @tsuchika.com · 01/07/2026

雨あがり

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026

Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."

This is precisely why Nick Beckstead, a noted EA, argued in 2013 that, given the "overwhelming" moral importance of the far future - "millions, billions, and trillions" of years from now - we should prioritize saving the lives of people in rich countries over those in poor countries, other things being equal. The reason is that people in rich countries are better positioned to influence the far future.

To take another example, saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects

than saving and improving lives in rich countries. Why? Richer countries have substantially more

innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive. By ordinary standards at

least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards saving and improving lives in rich countries

is about equally as important as saving and improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are

improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life

in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things
being equal.
Screenshot from Beckstead's 2013 PhD dissertation, regarded as one of the founding documents of longtermism, one of the main cause areas of EA.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 17/09/2026

It’s important to remember that Hasan Piker isn’t in the business of getting people elected, or in the business of politics in general, he’s in the Hasan Piker business and that stock goes up whenever he does something that makes people talk about Hasan Piker

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 16/09/2026

It seems like this is a good time to tell you all why LLMs are never, and can never be, conscious.

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Ruinizer @ruinizer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

An interesting point to be made here is that Capital goods inflation can be driven by rate expectations. If a business expects interest rates to increase they may pull forward CapEx; leading to an increase in demand for Capital goods; leading to an increase in the price of Capital goods.

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Duncan Lamont @duncanlamont2.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You should expect credit spreads to be tighter when government borrowing is higher. It's related to supply/demand in the Treasury market. Here’s the mechanism

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mike Johnson never has had any moral center. He has no love for any part of the Bible that doesn't include stoning. And Herrera is the R trying to replace the guy who cheated on his wife with a staffer he drove to suicide. This is who the GOP is.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10/09/2026

"To establish that AI did not write your book, we will upload it to an AI detector. The detector will retain your words, learn from your distinct syntax and semicolon placement, and use them to improve the technology that will eventually produce more books resembling yours." buff.ly/FYVr6Zx

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A Note from Your Editor Regarding the Entirely Routine Authentication of Your Humanity

“To establish that AI did not write your book, we will upload it to an AI detector. The detector will retain your words, learn from your distinct syntax and ...

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Graph shows far right support higher where the number of foreign nationals is lowest

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Ruinizer @ruinizer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

At a certain point I would expect people to understand what is being said…. Vance et al are saying what THEY are doing and what the goal is…. Vance et al benefit upon the destruction of the very things that created the prosperity of America.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just to reiterate: the dirtbags won’t save us

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Gift link: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

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Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NEW: A data leak is exposing 12 terabytes of information from Andrew Tate's online empire, including 76 paid course videos from his online "War Room" network, the unique Telegram IDs of his staff, and archives of raw, unedited and unreleased videos from private events. san.com/cc/manospher...

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‘Manosphere’ influencer Andrew Tate faces sexual misconduct charges. A data leak is exposing his secrets

A leak of sensitive information from “manosphere” influencer Andrew Tate’s online empire reveals new information about his online empire.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Economic of the Zohranmarket" LOL at this banger opening by @dsquareddigest.bsky.social backofmind.substack.com/p/rent-alway...

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/08/2026

Breaking News: Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist whose work caused a stir in the 1960s, while her “Infinity Room” installations drew crowds in recent decades, has died at 97.

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Yayoi Kusama, Pop Artist Who Expanded and Endured, Dies at 97

The Japanese artist’s polka-dot covered paintings, phallic sculptures and public performances caused a stir in New York City and Europe in the 1960s.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The end result of dirtbagism is to make everyone involved a worse person www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags...

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The Dirtbags Won’t Save Us

There is no path out of our present crisis offered by the exaltation of callousness.

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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Trump greenlighting the slaughter and export of wild American mustangs to foreign meat plants the same week he says foreign "beef" imports get a 25% discount isn't suspicious at all.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

met a very curious baby Arctic fox the other day

A baby Arctic fox with grey-black fur sits in front of an old wooden pallet

A baby Arctic fox with grey-black fur stands on a piece of wood; in the background are buildings and a snow-topped mountain

A baby Arctic fox with grey-black fur sits on the tundra

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/08/2026

Baffled that none of the spreadsheet people discourse has mentioned this incredible piece of news: windowsreport.com/microsoft-is...

Microsoft Is Retiring Excel’s COPILOT() Function After Just One Year
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Microsoft is retiring the COPILOT() function in Excel, ending roughly a year of testing. According to Message Center MC1454373, the function will become unavailable after September 14, 2026.

COPILOT() allowed users to describe tasks in natural language and receive AI-generated results directly inside spreadsheet cells. Microsoft offered the experimental function to Frontier and Insider customers.

COPILOT() handled text and web-based tasks
The function worked particularly well for tasks involving text summarization, classification, content generation, and web-based information lookup.

Users could enter natural-language instructions directly as part of a spreadsheet formula instead of opening a separate Copilot interface.

However, Microsoft did not recommend COPILOT() for numerical calculations. The company also advised against using it to retrieve information already stored inside a workbook or for content subject to legal and compliance requirements.

The feature required an active internet connection and a Microsoft 365 Premium subscription.

Microsoft says the formula is redundant
Microsoft is removing COPILOT() because Excel already provides other ways to access the same AI capabilities.

Users can continue working with Copilot through the Copilot side pane and the Dynamic Action Button (DAB). Microsoft is not removing the underlying AI features from Excel, only the dedicated spreadsheet function.

The retirement comes as Microsoft continues expanding Copilot elsewhere in Excel. The company is adding multi-agent web search to Copilot in Excel, giving the assistant more advanced capabilities for finding information online.

Microsoft is also unifying Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot into a si…

Microsoft is retiring the COPILOT() function in Excel, ending roughly a year of testing. According to Message Center MC1454373, the function will become unavailable after September 14, 2026.

COPILOT() allowed users to describe tasks in natural language and receive AI-generated results directly inside spreadsheet cells. Microsoft offered the experimental function to Frontier and Insider customers.

COPILOT() handled text and web-based tasks
The function worked particularly well for tasks involving text summarization, classification, content generation, and web-based information lookup.

Users could enter natural-language instructions directly as part of a spreadsheet formula instead of opening a separate Copilot interface.

However, Microsoft did not recommend COPILOT() for numerical calculations. The company also advised against using it to retrieve information already stored inside a workbook or for content subject to legal and compliance requirements.

The feature required an active internet connection and a Microsoft 365 Premium subscription.

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Ruinizer @ruinizer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Aside from the more readily apparent causes… Lower taxation can simultaneously erode incentives for reinvestment in the business, and reduce the funding available for regulatory enforcement.

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