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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 4h

The 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2026/2027 are here. The new report distills the latest climate research into ten critical insights for science, policy, and society ahead of COP31. Explore the insights and read the report: 🔗 10insightsclimate.science

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 16h

this reads like doj is saying the guy did a really great fraud

North Carolina Man Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Super Intelligence-Assisted Music Streaming Fraud

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 19h

OpenAI just blooped hundreds of proofs and counterexamples to open problems: github.com/openai/math/... Boggling.

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math/preprints at main · openai/math

Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 17h

Hey how about 722 advanced math papers dumped on everyone’s head. Don’t worry, there’s a forty page catalog summarizing all the claimed results. github.com/openai/math

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GitHub - openai/math

Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Tim Donaghy @timdonaghy.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah, I saw that thread as well, thanks. Really hard not to see this as a poison pill blocking future climate action. I appreciate that this bill has some good parts, but it feels like there is a TON of downside risk.

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Tim Donaghy @timdonaghy.bsky.social · 22h

(quickly googles "how much does the CMB weigh?")

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Tim Donaghy @timdonaghy.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks for a very useful article! Per the last section, would a "tacit freeze" on fossil fuel permits also become challenge-able? Because that seems like a very very bad outcome for climate policy.

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Tim Donaghy @timdonaghy.bsky.social · 22h

I'm glad someone appreciated my attempt at neutrino humor

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22h

Nocturne with Architecture by Antonio Basoli, 1810. starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/8297532...

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 05/10/2026

I thought this might be an exaggeration, but no! Despite all the talk of technology neutrality, it appears the permitting reform proposal would weaponize claims for federal damages — but in practice, only for fossil fuels.

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Tim Donaghy @timdonaghy.bsky.social · 23h

pound for pound, the most Nobels, as it were

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23h

The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger

The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition

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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Super El Niño is breaking charts as well as records, including Climate Reanalyzer's, which previously went to 30 degrees C but had to be updated today. SSTs in this part of the Pacific are in unprecedented territory - and rising - roughly two months before the typical El Niño peak.

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Tim Donaghy @timdonaghy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

religious studies gets the climate denier treatment. everything is epistemic collapse, part 3,442.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”

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Tim Donaghy @timdonaghy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is the wrong way to think about it "Building big things" is not, in itself, good! We should make it easier to build good things (renewables, affordable housing) and actually harder to build bad things (fossil infra, ill-advised data centers, the Ballroom)!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Chevron donated $150,000 to the Bay Area Council, which led a campaign against electrification rules requiring homeowners to replace gas water heaters with electric heat pumps. The Council hired a software company to send thousands of opposition emails, some without the consent of the signers.

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Chevron Gave $150K to Bay Area Group Accused of Using AI to Fight Heat Pump Rule

The group claimed victory after regulators recommended delaying landmark rules that would eventually phase out gas water heaters in 2.8 million homes.

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Tim Donaghy @timdonaghy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

1. a feminist historical piece about Emmy Noether 2. Death of a Salesman except it's about Hugh Everett

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Such a good Nobel Prize! Francis Halzen is a great person, and “let’s turn the Antarctic ice sheet into a neutrino detector” is the kind of idea that deserves a Prize if you can pull it off.

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026

A fun fact about neutrinos is that they come in three “flavors” (types) and also in three masses and you would think that this means each flavor has its own mass and you would be absolutely wrong about that.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s in the penumbras and emanations.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 05/10/2026

They cut down the "grandmother" tree.

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Tim Donaghy @timdonaghy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Respect for whoever at @heatmap.news came up with the "Exxon Deference" headline for today's SCOTUS arguments. I LOL'd.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Where in the law does it say that Constitutionality depends on whether a Supreme Court Justice feels an established right has or has not “engendered reliance interests” in other people?

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Revealed: the #methane mega-leaks from UN climate summit host Turkey - Exclusive: #Cop31 host calling for global curbs on climate-heating gas has landfills producing some of world’s worst plumes #climatecrisis Story by me, @ruthmichaelson.com and Ayça Aldatmaz www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Revealed: the methane mega-leaks from UN climate summit host Turkey

Exclusive: Cop31 leader calling for global curbs on climate-heating gas has landfills producing some of world’s worst plumes

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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026

The creators of a powerful way to control brain cells with light, which has clarified nerve circuits in healthy and diseased brains, have been honored with this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Learn more: scim.ag/4dlInGs

Method for controlling brain cells with light wins Nobel
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel honored for developing optogenetics

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Tim Donaghy @timdonaghy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

it's pronounced Space-etsy now

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Surging flows through Hormuz via high risk ship-to-ship transfers are adding a 30-40 bucks / bbl surcharge to every incremental barrel, driving volume to the market but coming at quite the cost.” bobeunlimited.substack.com/p/expensive-...

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Expensive Supply

Surging flows through Hormuz via high risk ship-to-ship transfers are adding a 30-40 bucks / bbl surcharge to every incremental barrel, driving volume to the market but coming at quite the cost.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As climate scientists, it sucks to be defunded. But it adds insult to injury to be defunded by this moron who has access to the best climate science and data in the world and still says asinine things like this.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 02/10/2026

Making a list of missed Nobel Prizes may be foolhardy, but as Nobel laureate Albert Einstein once wrote: “Everybody has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.” Learn more: scim.ag/3TDjoYy

Five physics breakthroughs that should have won a Nobel Prize—but didn’t
How politics, bad timing, and skepticism left foundation stones of modern physics unrecognized

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 03/10/2026

Trump corrupted America's most innovative institution, the National Science Foundation, by stealing $1.4B mandated by Congress for research. 🧪 🧵

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A perfect pretext for impeachment does not exis—

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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 02/10/2026

The Senate permitting bill would be a gift to data centers and their massive gas buildout. It would weaken accountability + give developers more power at communities’ expense. Congress should reject the bill. Read more: oilchange.org/blogs/senate...

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Senate permitting bill would be a gift to data centers and their massive gas buildout - Oil Change International

In short:

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/10/2026

skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette (1886) by Vincent van Gogh mckitterick.tumblr.com/post/829377728796049408

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today Permitting Reform advocates are all pivoting to the message that this bill will make tech companies bear the costs for data-center power use. But here's a fact: the lobbying group for Big Tech loves the bill and wants it to pass. Weird contradiction, no?

ITI: Permitting Reform is Essential to Maintain America's Technology Leadership
• September 30, 2026 WASHINGTON - Following release of the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026, global
tech trade association ITI President and CEO Jason Oxman issued the following statement: "Comprehensive permitting reform is essential to America's ability to build, compete, and lead - especially in the Al era. Greater certainty, lower costs, and faster deployment of critical infrastructure will help power
the next era of American growth while maintaining important environmental safeguards. "The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act is an encouraging step forward and offers a strong foundation to shorten environmental review timelines, streamline transmission permitting and planning, enable deployment of advanced transmission technologies, and leverage Al to address interconnection
delays. "Congress should act to deliver lasting permitting reform that allows America to build at the speed and
scale our economic security demands."

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Adobe
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amazon APPLIED
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Canon
Canva
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cognizant
Core Weave
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Technologies
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

America.gov says Trump is lying. (As, of course, do every single climate scientist on the planet )

Asked America.gov if the planet is getting cooler. "No."

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Emine Yücel @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My latest: Following Wednesday's failed bid by Senate Dems to block Trump's pocket rescission, Trump WH, once again, trampled over Congress’ power of the purse. Several experts point out their use of the “pocket rescissions” loophole is more an admission of guilt than a clever trick.

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Tim Donaghy @timdonaghy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Would Trump's rollback of fuel economy rules save you money at the pump? No. Would supposedly cheaper cars make up for it? Also no. Would domestic oil companies "capture" the "financial burden" placed on consumers? Why yes, yes they would. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

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POLITICO Pro: Trump’s ‘affordability’ car rule makes drivers pay more at the pump

Trump trumpeted the fuel economy revision as helping consumers. But its own documents suggest otherwise.

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Tim Donaghy @timdonaghy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Great piece. Reform supporters are right that there are good things here, but as @billmckibben.bsky.social points out, the track record on these sorts of compromises is not great. Fear is the fossil fuel industry pockets their gains, while Trump does everything he can to harm renewables.

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