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Sam @skau.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

extremely accurate physics

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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thank you to whoever anonymously donated $60 million to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the largest single donation in its history, so it can expand access. One of my favorite places in NYC! www.nypl.org/blog/2026/09...

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just to be clear, this is the German far-right party whose victory Trump and Musk are both celebrating:

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Tom Slee 🇨🇦 @tomslee.net · 20/08/2026

Agreed. I heard that the head (?) of a top medical school here in Canada said "if you threw away all the admitted students and took the next set instead, it would make no difference to the quality of doctors who graduate" and that has stuck with me ever since.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Let me be exceptionally clear: the reason why minorities are consistently better served, across the world, by central and anonymous exams is because they are better served by a fair assessment process, and not one in which they are the victim of either witting or unwitting bias.

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Sam @skau.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The problem is that once you get together and realize everybody poops, you might feel the urge to unionize

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Sam @skau.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I wonder if this is how bands like Three Doors Down feel.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Term that helps immeasurably in understanding what AI is and does: repertoire

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 02/06/2026

🧵 Some publishers & news organizations are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving journalism, stifling access to the public record. 📣 If you rely on the Wayback Machine to preserve news & history, tell them not to block web archiving. ✏️ Sign the open letter👇 www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders

Black graphic from Fight for the Future urging New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep journalist archives in the Wayback Machine, with the text "The news isn't getting preserved in the Wayback Machine anymore because major media outlets are blocking it. This petition is a demand for them to stop."

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/05/2026

People are weird sometimes if you don't have kids, they're like what about having a legacy, and I just point to my box of various wires and power cables

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

A few days after the incident in which Amalia lost consciousness, Marcano brought her back to the clinic at Dilley. A staffer measured Amalia’s blood-oxygen saturation—which, in a healthy individual, is between ninety-five and a hundred per cent—and found that it was in the low fifties. “Such a low amount of oxygen going to the brain can, if it’s long enough, kill off parts of the brain—it’s really, really high-stakes,” Prantik Saha, a pediatrician who reviewed Amalia’s medical records, told me. “It’s shocking that this level of callousness and omission of care could occur.” Amalia was taken to a local hospital, where it became clear that she needed care beyond what the facility could provide. She was transferred to a larger hospital in San Antonio, where she was given five diagnoses: Covid-19, RSV, bronchitis, pneumonia, and an ear infection. She received supplemental oxygen and intensive care.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

Zooming in on the photo of Earth taken by astronauts on Artemis II on their way to the Moon, you can clearly see the Aurora Borealis and thin layer of atmosphere wrapping around the planet.

Zooming in on the photo of Earth taken by astronauts on Artemis II, you can clearly see the thin layer of atmosphere wrapping around the entire planet.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Play is the work of children. It’s how they process the world around them and practice adult skills. In the photo below, children in Gaza are reenacting a funeral procession in play. (The photo is a screenshot I took from an even more heartbreaking video via AlJazeera.)

Four toddlers lifting a dust-covered stuffed doll on a stretcher above their heads

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 29/03/2026

Apropos of a largely unrelated discussion…you know how there’s always someone saying they’re gonna reinvent a genre? Can anybody think of an example of a genre *actually* being reinvented? I’ve got Tolkien, Star Wars, and, if I’m being super generous, Lovecraft.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Simultaneously, they mock & degrade women athletes for not being athletic enough, and then when a few of us are that athletic, they say we must not be real women. The end state of this reasoning is a world where “real” women don’t — and then can’t — play sports. Policing gender hurts women athletes.

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Sam @skau.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I was taught in school (w.r.t. user interface design) that you want to intentionally give napkin-cartoon sketches to stakeholders specifically to avoid this problem. Do not color. Definitely don't have straight lines

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/03/2026

Holy shit. Thank you to @lioneltrolling.bsky.social for drawing my attention to one of the most exquisite expressions of Murc's Law I've ever encountered. Ladies & gentlemen, I give you Sohrab Ahmari: unherd.com/2026/03/trum...

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 19/03/2026

Tennessee republicans voted unanimously to advance an anti-trans bill to create a public list of trans people located in the state. House Bill 754 would force medical providers to provide information to the state and identify them. (transitics.substack.com/p/tennessee-...)

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

the time for posting has ended the time of making games is upon me

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Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend" "Beers on me"

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I started worrying about this exact thing last March when I heard reports of different anti-Asian policies and I hate that my hunch was right

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Hannah Weinberger @trailanderror.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

In a safe transportation system, mode shift and separation mean Grandma will NEVER get run over by a reindeer. In this essay

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

So many things to add to this, but I’ll just give the example of the Mark Twain Project, which has been digitizing for nearly three decades, fairly well-resourced, with a sizable full-time staff. And they are, optimistically, maybe half done.

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Sam @skau.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

we’re all with you, Judith

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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 30/10/2025

If you're a wealthy individual looking for a legacy, one of the craziest bargains to be had right now is saving an entire generation of American nuclear policy expertise by tossing some change at the nonprofits. The field is trying to hold together ~500 jobs max, and it can't last as things stand

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

If you’re looking to do a PhD in the US, it’s a mess out there. Words by me ⬇️

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bat ghoulson 🎃 @mathewolson.com · 09/10/2025

damning thread on how the IDF's propaganda arm is scraping 3D assets intended for things like games, films, or architectural purposes and kitbashing together supposed hamas bunkers and iranian nuclear sites. a genocide campaign propped up in part by someone's nephew who got too into blender.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/09/2025

The University of Washington Women's Volleyball team is here at the gate about to board a plane I have never felt more Hobbit-sized in my life

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...

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Trust in elections rises after ‘inoculations’ meant to preempt false fraud claims

New U.S.-Brazil study points to ways of countering election misinformation, political scientists say

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Sam @skau.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Are you angling to have Anson Mount play you in the inevitable biopic?

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/08/2025

Breaking News: The Trump administration ordered construction to stop on a $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that has already mostly been built.

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Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built

The order to stop construction on Revolution Wind off the coast of Rhode Island is part of a campaign against renewable energy.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

And they say nothing inspiring is happening in America anymore

Seattles hot rat summer mosaic is here to stay

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Hannah Weinberger @trailanderror.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

If a tsunami siren went off near you, do you know how you would get to safety? Many people might feel an urge to drive to higher ground or a designated safe site — but tsunamis are often precededed by earthquakes, which can damage roads or make them tough to navigate. 1/n

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Get your National Climate Assessment from archive -dot- org: web.archive.org/web/20250629...

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Janessa Goldbeck @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Exxon Mobil is the largest private oil company in the world and it produces less than 4% of the world’s oil. It is quite hard for me to remember that most of the world’s oil is drilled, not by companies, but by countries.

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 12/06/2025

it's insane how good LLMs are given how bad they are

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David Pfau @davidpfau.com · 27/05/2025

For what it's worth, NEJM, JAMA and the Lancet are basically the medical equivalent of, like, Science, Nature and Cell.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This is an excellent piece and thread. This point is really important— I don't think most people outside of academia realize that separate from normal processing fees in high-impact journals, we actually have to pay to make our own papers open access. This is only sometimes covered by institutions.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 16/05/2025

Short write-up about how I got xAI to briefly add "white genocide" stuff back into Grok's system prompt. smol.news/p/the-utter-...

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The Utter Flimsiness of xAI’s Processes

xAI's was happy to put "white genocide" stuff back into Grok's system prompt without second thought.

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 07/05/2025

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

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KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 06/05/2025

Long before there was a coffee shop seemingly on every Seattle street corner, there was Café Allegro. On Saturday, the U-District coffeehouse turns 50, making it the oldest one in the city.

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This hidden coffee shop that launched Seattle's coffee culture turns 50

Long before there was a coffee shop seemingly on every Seattle street corner, there was Café Allegro. On Saturday, the U-District coffeehouse turns 50, making it the oldest one in the city.

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

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