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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 12h

After 35 years, I finally made it to this screen. The controls still suck.

Screenshot of the 4th or 5th screen of prince of persia.

Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Das jährliche Demütigungsritual für die Kollaborateure: Die SP (bzw. P), Bundesrätin darf Prämienerhöhungen verteidigen.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nice quote by Joan Robinson from the early 80s: "[...] social programs are slashed while defense budgets must rise to keep pace with the level of rhetoric. [...] What we have are programs that aggravate the economic crisis while the means of destruction are multiplied."

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unilaterale Wirtschaftssanktionen sind jährlich für 564,258 Todesfälle verantwortlich. Dass US Sanktionen verantwortlich sind, ist bestätigt, für EU Sanktionen (noch) nicht. Ich möchte damit selbstverständlich nichts zu tun haben, viele andere anscheinend schon 🤷

thelancet.com

Effects of international sanctions on age-specific mortality: a cross-national panel data analysis

Sanctions have substantial adverse effects on public health, with a death toll similar to that of wars. Our findings underscore the need to rethink sanctions as a foreign-policy tool, highlighting the...

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Okay, I just heard a rumour that there's a cat/alpaca/capybara park in Guangzhou...

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Mathieu M.J.E. Rebeaud @chercheurjuteux.com · 24/09/2026

Une analyse sortie aujourd'hui dans Current Biology analyse les communautés bactériennes dans la Raclette du Valais en analysant une meule vieille de 142 ans. Microbial community dynamics in a traditional Swiss mountain cheese over 142 years of cheesemaking www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Microbial community dynamics in a traditional Swiss mountain cheese over 142 years of cheesemaking

How did modernizing cheesemaking change the microbes inside the cheese? By sequencing preserved traditional Alpine cheese wheels spanning 142 years from a single Alpine dairy, Somerville et al. trace ...

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Got my flu/covid shots two days ago, and I'm still in bed. Still, a breeze compared to the shingles vaccine, though. Well, I ...

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Cat's Hilarious Faucet Drink

Alt: Cat's Hilarious Faucet Drink. Saying STAY HYDRATED

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bleibt zu hoffen, dass er, wie der Fischer, nie mehr in der Nationalmannschaft auftaucht.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Willst wetten was in Berlin passieren wird, @andyrage.bsky.social? 😉

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think this is relevant again. I'm not sure why/what he has done now, but it was always very obvious that he's a reactionary.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So. I just watched Project Hail Mary (luckily while doing chores, so the time wasn't completely wasted). Sure, it's better than Marvel slop, but did anyone who reads a lot of science fiction actually like it? Anyway. Enjoy the Sunday (evening) everyone :-)

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

2011: "Workers making Converse in Indonesia say supervisors throw shoes at them, slap them in the face" 2016: "Workers collapsing unconscious at their work stations, then being forced to return to work minutes after waking up" Stop buying them NOW? Good, but also American exceptionalism.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There's this classic coaching phrase in hockey: "Play the man, not the puck". The machines aren't the problem, it's about who owns them.

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Mathieu M.J.E. Rebeaud @chercheurjuteux.com · 18/09/2026

Hier a été une bonne journée juste parce que: Une nouvelle espèce de félin sauvage a été identifiée pour la première fois depuis 100 ans. CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I can see a great future for Ed Sheeran in European politics.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Die ETH freut sich – F-35 sei Dank. Die Hochschule bekommt einen Quantencomputer [...] geschenkt, wie Mitte September bekannt wurde. IBM liefert die Hardware, der Kampfjet-Hersteller Lockheed Martin zahlt." Wenn man keinerlei Skrupel hat, kann man sich da schon freuen, ja.

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Offset-Geschäft: Warum der F-35 der ETH einen Quantencomputer beschert

Der F-35-Kauf geht weit über Kampfjets hinaus. Nun verhilft die Beschaffung der ETH zu einem Quantencomputer von IBM.

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Jennie Martin @jennieemartin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Looking forward to some great outreach starting tomorrow. I've made a crystal building arcade game! as part of the Future Chemistry Hub at British Science festival. Alongside a cool 2D CSP simulator & an 'unlock crystals' activity from @stochasticchemist.bsky.social! #compchemsky #chemsky

Our reach stand with two laptops (showing 2d crystal structures) and 2 mini arcade machines ready to play. Second photo of the arcade machines with gameplay showing 2d crystals made of shapes

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Muss man jetzt auf die US Botschaft um ein Visum für die Einreise nach Österreich zu erhalten?

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Watched the trailer and GTA 2 will remain the best GTA, just like Fallout 2 is the best Fallout game, and a Link to the Past is the best Zelda game.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Might also be interesting to see where the money for the Millennium Prize comes from. Well, from a nepo-baby and investment guy named Landon T. Clay, who also dabbled in mining companies. So yeah...

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Monkey Puppet Side Eye Look

Alt: Monkey Puppet Side Eye Look

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A good place to start understanding what's going on in Germany is this: By the end of the 50s almost all Germans convicted of war and other crimes were pardoned. However, the judgments of the German courts between 33 and 45 were only fully rescinded in the late 90s.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The main perpetrators got together to take a photo today.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The way the dangers of "AI" are discussed is, in my opinion quite deliberately, going into a ridiculous science *fiction* direction. "AI" is not, and will not be, loose in the world. It's owned, deployed, and steered by specific firms and states in pursuit of profit, competition, and control.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So-called AI won't destroy the world or whatever, but it is really good at moving public money into private pockets via science funding spent on Nvidia gpus and claude subscriptions.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Also, this. There are of course many, many more examples.

A screenshot of an article header from The Atlantic under the Politics section, featuring the headline "Go Ahead, Admit It: George W. Bush Is a Good Man," the subheadline "In the rush to mythologize and demonize our presidents, we forget they're human," and the byline "By Ron Fournier and National Journal."

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The section "Opposition in the United States" of the Wikipedia Page "Criticism of the war on terror" counts 116 words. The illegal wars of aggression that fall under the so called war on terror led to the death of more than 4.5 million people and the displacement of 38 million people.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Some need to remember this. Military Keynesianism trades immediate stabilisation for long-term instability.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Gun powder was likely invented by Chinese alchemists searching for an elixir for eternal life. So interestingly, the Chinese word for gun powder is 火药 (fire medicine).

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Und schon sind die Idealisten und Apologeten in Medien und auf Social Media unterwegs...

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Wähler*innen sind nicht das Problem. Das Problem sind der Kollaps der industriellen Basis in den frühen 90ern, die Schaffung eines grossen Prekariats durch Hartz-IV, die Austerität nach 2008, und natürlich der Überbau, der die Basis via nationalistischer Ideologie schützt. Gute Nacht.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Capping the desktop CPU to half the wattage for a ~10% performance loss is a good trade. Also keeps the system quiet.

CPU metrics showing all cores in use at 63 °C and 125W.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

BeOS was the first non DOS/Windows OS I used in the 90s. Great to see it living on as open source

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R1/beta6 – Release Notes

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Let's see what social democrats are up to these days... trying hard to prove Zinoviev right in the 21st century?!

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"Researchers studied the emergent behavior of crowds at mosh pits by analyzing online videos, finding similarities with models of 2-D gases in equilibrium."

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