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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Open Dataset Publishing day! With help from @wildlabs.bsky.social Boring fund, the @amnh.org, collaborators around the world, and @wellreadpanda.bsky.social 's relentless rectangling, we are happy to share 15K insects annotated + oriented on 1.7K high resolution images! zenodo.org/records/2314...

Image showing earlier models failing to get all the bugs in this very difficult image

image showing our in-progress annotations

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Steve (TheSteve0) Pousty @thesteve0.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Look who it is and he does such a good job explaining why PyTorch conference is the place to be

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Pivot Podcast @pivotpod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“This is a data harvesting operation wearing a civic costume.” @profgalloway.com lloway and @karaswisher.bsky.social warn voters about Elon Musk’s VoteSafe-dot-org and the personal data his America PAC can collect through the site.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 30/09/2026

Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: 365 million Hiroshimas. "The explosive addition of thermal energy, which was almost 40 times greater than all the energy humanity used that year, comes amid far-reaching changes to the deep water bodies fundamental to life on Earth."

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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use

The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification

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PyTorch @pytorch.org · 29/09/2026

Communication overhead remains one of the largest bottlenecks in scaling distributed training. Join us at PyTorch Conference North America in San Jose on October 20-21 to explore the future of distributed training infrastructure: hubs.la/Q04v4SL60 #PyTorchCon

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PyTorch @pytorch.org · 24/09/2026

To support developers in deepening their technical skills, the PyTorch Foundation is running a dedicated Introduction Track and a full-day PyTorch Associate Training session at PyTorch Conference North America in San Jose, California Read our latest blog to learn more: bit.ly/4dE9899

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PyTorch @pytorch.org · 23/09/2026

At #PyTorchCon North America 2026, Alessandro Sangiorgi, Senior Software Engineer (Red Hat), will show how warm starts let Helion autotuning reuse cached configurations for faster iteration instead of repeated cold searches. hubs.la/Q04v4SL60

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 22/09/2026

Today’s Fall Equinox at 8:05 pm ET marks the start of astronomical fall in the N. Hemisphere and is when the Sun is directly over Earth’s equator. Now through the Winter Solstice, the Northern Hemisphere will receive less ad less direct sunlight as Earth continues along its tilted orbit.

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Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

while I don't mind some people can have thousands or millions times more money, the problem becomes when the money is used for political influence, as happens today, partly leading to higher prices and worse living conditions for others, to advance wealth building for those at the top. ...

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PyTorch @pytorch.org · 20/09/2026

Connect with the open source AI community at PyTorch Conference North America in San Jose on October 20-21 to discuss open source runtime performance, hardware optimization, and testing frameworks. Register for PyTorch Conference America today: hubs.la/Q04v4SL60 #PyTorchCon

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Anthropic, Meta, and Google "breaking containment" incidents all resulted from setup errors (or a stunt) by the same company: Irregular. Irregular created a sandbox that wasn't really a sandbox because it had a live internet connection, and gave instructions that were then carried out online.

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don’t understand the hand-wringing reaction to claims that nueral networks have a 10% chance of destroying civilisation. Fossil fuel companies have a 100% chance of initiating a mass extinction event. Maybe we could address that?

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404 Media @404media.co · 20/09/2026

404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime. www.404media.co/a-secretive-...

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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over

404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.

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Junaid @junaidwaseem474.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Detecting crop stress early saves harvests. Learn to calculate the Vegetation Health Index (VHI) and monitor agricultural drought conditions using thermal data from Landsat TIRS. Explore this remote sensing workflow. Click here for the tutorial. #Agriculture #RemoteSensing #Landsat

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Monitoring Agricultural Drought with Landsat TIRS

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Junaid @junaidwaseem474.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Optical imagery fails in cloudy tropical regions. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) cuts through clouds, making it essential for continuous environmental monitoring. Learn how to track deforestation using Sentinel-1 SAR data. Click here to read. #SAR #RemoteSensing #Deforestation #GIS

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Monitoring Deforestation with SAR

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PyTorch @pytorch.org · 18/09/2026

At PyTorch Conference North America, explore how new optimizers like Muon and TorchJD work alongside tools like fastsafetensors and LMCache to drive multi-loss efficiency and faster LLM serving. Read the Open Research, Tooling & Optimization Sessions Guide: bit.ly/4gXxn4r #PyTorchCon

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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Because we release more than model weights with Olmo, Padia could see what Steering Arena rewarded, investigate why nonsense strings scored so well, & share the measurements behind the scores—so others can improve how the field evaluates prosocial AI behavior.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The price of a gallon of diesel in Des Moines is nearly the same as the hourly minimum wage in Iowa…

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026

it is not "acting out" it is doing exactly what it's being programmed to do, and the failures come because it's being overseen by incompetent people with no ethics

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'Be Transparent Only If Asked': OpenAI Models Acted Out in Six Newly Disclosed Ways

The stories were published as part of OpenAI's new effort to disclose more such incidents.

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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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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

icymi this banger of a story from Lydia Sidhom found that Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk have paid over $270 million to more than 270k doctors and other prescribers to promote their GLP-1 products since 2018!! That’s more docs than *every* other drug!!!

Bar chart showing the number of doctors that have received payments for different drugs between 2018-2025. Over 270k docs were paid to promote GLP-1s, larger than every other drug.

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

More and more studies show that vaccination against various infectious diseases also leads to fewer cardiovascular deaths and lower rates of dementia. A rational public health system would be getting as many people vaccinated as possible. But. . .

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More Impossible-to-Ignore Vaccine Effects

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 09/09/2026

Analysis: from 2019 to 2025, gains in pretraining compute efficiency came mostly from data improvements rather than model improvements (Dwarkesh Podcast) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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PyTorch @pytorch.org · 05/09/2026

Join us at PyTorch Conference North America 2026 (Oct 20–21, San Jose) for deep dives into kernel engineering and performance optimization across GPUs, TPUs, NPUs, and custom ASICs. Register here: bit.ly/464FTbp Read the Sessions guide: bit.ly/4yoK5z2 #PyTorchCon

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Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Not the deflation we'd like to see...

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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.

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PyTorch @pytorch.org · 03/09/2026

At PyTorch Conference North America 2026, connect with people working across PyTorch, vLLM, DeepSpeed, Ray, Helion, Safetensors, and the AI stack. At #PyTorchCon NA 2025, Richard Liaw spoke about “how important Ray can be for the stack.” Register by Sept. 4: hubs.la/Q04tDf0j0 #PyTorchCon

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PyTorch @pytorch.org · 04/09/2026

PyTorch Conference North America 2026 brings the core developer community together this October 20-21 in San Jose. #PyTorchCon Last chance to register for standard ticket here: bit.ly/464FTbp Read the Hardware Acceleration & Compute Infrastructure Sessions guide: bit.ly/4yoK5z2

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Tom Aarsen @tomaarsen.com · 02/09/2026

🤗 Tencent recently released WeMM-Embedding: universal multimodal embedding models that embed text, images, videos, and visual documents into one space. Three models on Qwen3.5, all Apache 2.0: - WeMM-Embedding-2B - WeMM-Embedding-4B - WeMM-Embedding-9B 🧵

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PyTorch @pytorch.org · 02/09/2026

PyTorch 2.14 adds NVGEMM for Inductor, a new nccl2 backend, fault-tolerant c10d reconfiguration, native linear algebra on Apple Silicon + dynamic shapes. Live Q&A Sept. 17: streamyard.com/watch/E7iTfnUvpvTW Learn more at #PyTorchCon Oct. 20–21: hubs.la/Q04tDf0j0

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PyTorch @pytorch.org · 02/09/2026

We’re bringing together open source leaders to tackle some of the biggest technical challenges in agentic AI at PyTorch Conference North America (Oct 20–21 in San Jose). Register by September 4: bit.ly/464FTbp Read the Agentic AI and Next-Gen Sessions guide: bit.ly/4xL2vK4

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PyTorch @pytorch.org · 01/09/2026

Meet the people behind the open source tools we use every day. PyTorch Foundation Ambassador, Abdulsalam Bande, is looking forward to connecting with the wider PyTorch Community at PyTorch Conference North America this October 2026. Register for PyTorchCon NA: bit.ly/4qN2DGt

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The iconic weeping willow trees outside the Kennedy Center have been cut down by Trump.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Rest in peace, Wendell Berry.

The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

from Openings: Poems (1968)

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Oh. my. god. The biggest scientific publishers are collecting nearly $4 BILLION A YEAR in author fees. This is absurd. We've got to break free of this system. If everyone would just agree to it, we could just post all our new papers on bsky and it wouldn't cost anything. Or something. But not this.

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PyTorch @pytorch.org · 31/08/2026

vLLM sessions at #PyTorchCon NA 2026 cover kernel and inference optimization, PyTorch release validation and compatibility, and broader serving workflows. Topics include fastsafetensors, quantization, dynamic shapes, VLM serving, storage, and contributor onboarding. hubs.la/Q04tDf0j0

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Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

vLLM is a HUGE service to the community. I just love it. It made impossible things possible for my projects.

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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 30/08/2026

“We have [very large budget left]; sacrificing now yields oracle for team, but forfeits our chance? ... Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational.” - i’m not switching teams, but this is pretty inspirational. www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-hug...

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The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/08/2026

re: everyone yelling about Google Maps - Maps just ingests the official data source for each country, which is GNIS in this case, and most other online maps will follow for American users nobody at Google is making an active decision to go in and change names in Maps directly

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

And this all could have been prevented by OpenAI being more serious about standard infosec practices. 11/11

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We know that "chain of thought" is not trained to be interpretable or have any contextual grounding. And yet, they insist on doing weird-ass tea leaf reading, seeing whatever they want to see. If this were a rando without money, we'd dismiss it as "AI psychosis." 7/x

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“Chain of Thought” is the tape of a Turing Machine. It is not supposed to mean anything. It is calculations spewed out in tokens by design. But since the symbols look like language, some can’t help but try to interpret it. 2/x

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PyTorch @pytorch.org · 27/08/2026

Network with developers, researchers, maintainers, and practitioners across the PyTorch community at #PyTorchCon NA, October 20–21 in San Jose. Watch PyTorch Foundation Executive Director Mark Collier preview the conference. Register by September 4 to save: hubs.la/Q04tDf0j0

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PyTorch @pytorch.org · 29/08/2026

At #PyTorchCon NA 2025, Christian Jacobi (IBM) spoke about the innovation ahead in deploying AI across core IT and business processes at scale with enterprise qualities of service. #PyTorchCon North America returns Oct 20–21. Register by Sept 4: hubs.la/Q04tDf0j0

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Steve (TheSteve0) Pousty @thesteve0.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I am a #Goose fanboi but I also know a lot of people stan pretty hard for Hermes Agent. Then again lot of enterprise users like OpenCode

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New: in leaked audio, Flock's CEO Garrett Langley tells cops that a story we wrote about Flock being used to track a woman who self-administered an abortion is "entirely false." He's lying. The audio shows how Flock speaks when doesn't think comments will be public www.404media.co/flocks-ceo-i...

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Flock’s CEO Is Lying to Cops About 404 Media's Reporting on Abortion Case

Garrett Langley, Flock’s CEO, told cops that a 404 Media story about cops using Flock to track someone who self-administered an abortion was "entirely false." He's lying.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Home heating oil is just diesel fuel and I don't think it's really dawned on a lot of folks, particularly in the northeast, what their heating bills are gonna look like this winter

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