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All-purpose nerd. Jack of all disciplines, mistress of none.

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WIRED @wired.com · 17h
A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causing errors, burnout, and frustration. www.wired.com/story/health...
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Health Care Workers Are Tired of Cleaning Up Palantir’s Mess
A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causing errors, burnout, and frustration.
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Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 17h
As historically massive as this El Niño promises to be, it’s only a preview of what will be routine before too long
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The Godzilla El Niño Is a Rehearsal for the Rest of Our Lives
The longer you have to prepare for a disaster, the likelier you are to walk away from it mostly intact. Tornadoes can spin up in minutes, barely giving you time to hustle to a cellar or bathtub. Hurricanes might give a few days’ notice, letting you at least get to higher ground.
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TweetingTechno @tweetingtechno.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Even ignoring the political point (which we shouldn't), this is a joy to watch. I remember my grandfather doing stuff like this. He was a carpenter, born in 1892, who gave up work when he was 90. I thought skills like his were pretty much lost, and I'm thrilled to see that I was wrong.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They literally think they're fighting a holy war, and this should terrify anyone with a functioning brain.
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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 30/09/2026
Meanjin’s 10-week Reading Trails feature wraps up today. Your chance to enjoy a bunch of stuff from the archives before it goes back behind the paywall ahead of a new edition in December. meanjin.com.au/reading-trails/ Disclosure: Meanjin is a client.
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Jennifer 🦋🐶☕️🦋 @jenelliot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#NOMORE
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TweetingTechno @tweetingtechno.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Marina Hyde nails it again. '(Anyone voting for Farage) must have a subconscious wish for their answer to the question “where do you see yourself in five years’ time?” to be “living in Britain’s catacombs and distilling drinking water from my own urine”.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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To the people voting for Nigel Farage: is this really the finger you want on the red button? | Marina Hyde
The Reform leader’s reaction to the RAF Fairford affair is again revealing. If what’s needed is a steady hand and cool head, he’s not the guy, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It never stops being important that, no matter what the subject, politicians like Farage, Trump & Rubio are entirely untethered from the most basic requirements of honest discourse. They might turn out to be telling the truth sometimes but only ever in the spirit of stopped clocks.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A stark overview of how the US 'alliance' is not just an abrogation of Australia's sovereignty, but deeply immoral. #EndAUKUS #auspol
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our crackpot Health Secretary.
"Children who are circumcised at a young age are twice as likely to develop autism..."
- RFK Jr.

No, they don't 
And has there ever been another administration so obsessed with other people's junk?

Pic of RFK Jr.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No cat could resist a kind granny, and the packet of treats in her hand. 😸😹😻💖👏 This cat was stuck in a tree for days in the Netherlands. Even the Dutch fire brigade (de brandweer) failed to rescue it. And then this sweet woman came and unleashed her ingenuity 🥰 (Cr @jordyblaauwgeers) #cat #rescue
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TweetingTechno @tweetingtechno.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Read the quote from The Abominable Orange Man, and tell me the point at which you parted company with your breakfast.
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TweetingTechno @tweetingtechno.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
'Largest tax cuts in American history' - for billionaires.
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Shape @cals.art · 23/09/2026
If you see any of my work for sale on marketplace please let me know, I've had all my old paintings stolen as well as the damaged new work
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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Friends, we need to talk. Measles - a completely preventable disease - has now been found in 6 WI counties with almost 170 individual cases. If you haven’t yet, I urge you to vaccinate your children, vaccinate yourself, and help protect your community.
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TweetingTechno @tweetingtechno.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
WHAT THE FUCKETTY FUCK?
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hospital cancels education event fearing pro-Palestine bias Kim Wingerei reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/hospital-cancels…
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
From Andy Borowitz: “Court orders Kennedy name removed from RFK Jr.”
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Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yeah this is roomba with cerebrovascular disease characteristics alright. Absolutely incredible stuff here. Totally fucking insane.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nobody is going to want to hear this, but a real risk we face, no matter who is president next, is that they will see no need to restore the rights lost or the executive power stolen in the last 10 years.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪
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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just so y'all know - this happens occasionally. Horror story they told us in vet school was about a horse with rabies they thought had choke. I don't remember how many vet students (small hands) they had reach down its throat to try to remove the obstacle before diagnosis
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NICU babies are the most vulnerable a human can be, and it seems almost quaint to say it now, but we are supposed to build societies where the most vulnerable can count on others to not let this happen
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TweetingTechno @tweetingtechno.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Y'know, I bet they wouldn't say a study of the impact of being white, with all white participants, on melanoma was 'DEI'. God, these people are despicable. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Clear retribution’: dismay as key Alzheimer’s study cancelled amid Trump attacks on science
Participants in Pittsburgh may never learn the results of their cognitive tests – and funding cuts that target ‘DEI’ have the potential to delay vital diagnoses
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
“Once you understand that the broligarchs are eugenicists who care more about hypothetical, future AI-enhanced lives than about today’s population…a lot of things start making sense.”
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What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI
Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?
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TweetingTechno @tweetingtechno.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Chef's kiss.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
JFC The VERY first thing Dems should do if they win the midterms is impeach this impossibly dangerous crackpot.
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TweetingTechno @tweetingtechno.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Finally found an antidepressant that works. Unfortunately the vertigo I'm getting as a side effect is so debilitating that I can't function. It'll fade as the depression returns. It was a good two weeks while it lasted. FML.
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Lizzy Schofield @musictplove.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Absolute compulsory reading. Make no mistake ON & every LNP member attending CPAC have no problem with Christian Nationalist ideology.
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Loony Left Media 🚨#TaxTheGas + KillAUKUS @loonyleftmedia.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
None of these dumb F Hansonites have obviously thought about how our essential services would run This video is sheer brilliance
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
UNSW and the University of Sydney are signing huge deals with chat GPT. Students can't afford a haircut but they're stuck with a lifetime of debt. Meanwhile vice chancellors are handing our universities to AI vampires on a million bucks a year.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm old enough to remember when the Christian right fear-mongered that marriage equality would lead to bestiality and now it qualifies you to be an FBI agent.
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Michael Irving @mikeirvo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's looking increasingly likely that my time at ScienceAlert is coming to an end. So I guess I have to join the chorus of people asking if anybody knows of any outlet that might be in need of an experienced writer, editor and/or fact checker, in science, tech, games or pop culture.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026
The truth is none of y’all hate Robert Kraft enough. Get on my level. (From February) gillianbrockell.com/the-truth-ab...
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The truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)
The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It is 2026. The number of measles cases is reaching a point where we are seeing deaths from measles complications. An unvaccinated 18 yo died from acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. That is a complication of measles. You get what you vote for.🧪
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Fourth measles-associated death reported in Pennsylvania
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As if they weren't bad enough, AI data centers — which Trump strongly supports — could drive a surge in "forever chemical" production. And that's after Trump's EPA already approved new forever chemical pesticides and rolled back limits on them in our drinking water. "Make America Healthy Again."
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Research Warns of Surge in Cancer-Causing Forever Chemicals From AI Data Center Build-Out | Common Dreams
Experts warn of a global surge in PFAS production driven by AI and data centers.
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TweetingTechno @tweetingtechno.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good science communication is hard, but it's bloody important. And holy shit, this is absolute elite explaining. Brilliant work by all involved. interactive.carbonbrief.org/el-nino-expl...
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Explainer: How the ‘super El Niño’ will reshape the world’s weather
The world is currently experiencing what is expected to become the strongest El Niño on record – dubbed a “super El Niño” by many.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026
Free newsletter: The idea that we're nearing the creation of AI systems that we can't control and that pose an existential threat to humanity is a lie and a distraction from the tangible harms and problems caused by LLMs and AI labs' near-unlimited resources. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...
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https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-already-in-dangerous-hands/
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026
The AI industry wants to seem like it's responsible, and so, it's now talking about a "slowdown," because it distracts from the fact that LLMs are inherently flawed and the people running model labs are not people who should be trusted. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...
The way that LLMs have been trained is harmful in effectively every way. It is trained on theft, powered by expensive and power-intensive infrastructure and is both unprofitable and unsustainable. LLMs are not the tool for any kind of beautiful, automated future — they are inefficient, volatile and mathematically certain to make mistakes. “Slowing down” is not sufficient. In my opinion, there is no further reason to invest in this industry, nor has there been for the vast majority of its existence. 

Every success that LLMs have had is a direct result of throwing at least half a trillion dollars in infrastructure and compute spend at problems that had vast amounts of data that could be trained against. Half a trillion dollars should have bought us a lot more than this. While I will not dispute that they can do more than a year ago, I am unimpressed, because this is more than ten times what Amazon’s entire capex between 2003 and 2015, the years between AWS’ creation and when it hit profitability. 

This is a terrible deal, its results suck, and the amount of attention it’s gotten is a direct result of the media’s inability to speak truth to power or do anything other than repeat what they say and a financial bubble driven by LLMs’ unbelievable infrastructural cost.If — and this is not a foregone conclusion — there is ever an AI that we, as a society, should fund and build infrastructure for in pursuit of some civic good, it is not the one peddled by Elon Musk, Sam Altman or Dario Amodei. 

This is not the right path, and every further step down it makes the bubble’s collapse worse, as well as multiplying the dangerous and reckless experiments these companies are capable of doing thanks to their near-unlimited access to compute.
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Svenning @svenning1321.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Brain dead.....
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fucking. Assholes. You stupendously dumbass fuck heads.
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’ll just leave this here … <wink>
A cover of a TinTin comic entitled “TinTin Opens the Strait of Hormuz,” showing TinTin with a clipboard and spyglass and Snowy, overlooking the crowded Strait from a high vantage point.
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Ukraine Support 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @blue24world.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🇨🇦 Canada eyes ‘associate member’ status with 🇪🇺 EU amid US tensions, WSJ reports Carney reportedly seeks ‘associate’ EU membership as Ottawa-Washington ties hit fresh low. He will address the European Parliament next week #Canada #EU www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
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Canada eyes ‘associate member’ status with EU amid US tensions
Carney reportedly seeks ‘associate’ EU membership as Ottawa-Washington ties hit fresh low. He will address the European Parliament next week. #EuropeNews
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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sounds good to me? Thanks for being picky eaters Arctic seafloor microbes 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Limited remineralization of Arctic permafrost-derived organic carbon in nearshore marine sediments - Nature Geoscience
Only 10% of organic carbon from thawing Pleistocene permafrost in the Arctic that is buried in marine sediments ends up re-entering the active carbon cycle, according to a carbon isotope analysis of s...
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TweetingTechno @tweetingtechno.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Low even for her. So it's subterranean, I guess. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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‘Way out of her league’: Emotional PM defends late mother from Hanson’s attack
Anthony Albanese made his comments after Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie said Hanson was out of line when she attacked Maryanne Albanese.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Look at this loathsome repulsive creature yelling at a reporter. In addition to the fact that he’s the worst president in US history, he’s one of the worst human beings on planet earth. His supporters have a very serious defect in their character.
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