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Just a passenger on a 3-hour tour of the hellscape.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I want to continue a bit on this subject, which (so far) I see very little concern about. There are vast stores of private data that we’ve built up in various places, including messaging apps. A real “killer app” for Gen AI is to ingest them and turn that data into revenue.
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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Astronomers/physicists: is the postdoc job market this year ultra difficult? I know seven people with no job offers right now, and I feel like they would have had many offers in previous years. In my career, I have never seen this lack of jobs at the postdoc level before. 🔭
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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 01/07/2024
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”
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Dun @dunproofin.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
House nation is live on www.twitch.tv/dunproofin
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Dun @dunproofin.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Club Class is live now on www.twitch.tv/dunproofin - edits and remixes galore - come join me !
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Twitch is the world
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
What’s your favorite food fact that is true but sounds totally made up? I’ll start: about half of the mushrooms produced across the United States of America each year (more than 300 million pounds of mushrooms in recent years) are produced in *one county* in Pennsylvania.
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Dun @dunproofin.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
House Nation is live on www.twitch.tv/dunproofin - come join me !
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Dun @dunproofin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Www.twitch.tv/dunproofin if you like yer techno - right now !
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Nobody Listens To Techno
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Dun @dunproofin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Fancy some good tunes for a few hours ? Come join me on www.twitch.tv/dunproofin
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Friday Night Tunes
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Dun @dunproofin.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Techno right now over on twitch.tv/dunproofin - come join me!
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Twitch is the world
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Nature @nature.com · 13/04/2025
Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted. But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway go.nature.com/4jNRukb
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Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust
Nature - Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted. But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
#physics #science #cosmology ⚛️
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Dun @dunproofin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Come join me on www.twitch.tv/dunproofin right now for House Nation - house music all night long
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Dun @dunproofin.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Everyone it's time for Club Class - come join me over at www.twitch.tv/dunproofin right now for the next few hours !
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club class - all the hits but different
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Dun @dunproofin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Join me on www.twitch.tv/dunproofin right now for edits, edits and more edits
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Dun @dunproofin.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It’s Rotation on Friday - these are the breaks right now over on www.twitch.tv/dunproofin - come join me
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Rotation On Friday - these are the breaks !
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Dun @dunproofin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Join me over on www.twitch.tv/dunproofin for club class - classics just not how you might know them
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Twitch
Twitch is an interactive livestreaming service for content spanning gaming, entertainment, sports, music, and more. There’s something for everyone on Twitch.
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Dun @dunproofin.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
If you like drum & bass come join me over on www.twitch.tv/dunproofin for the next 3 hours for the jump up showdown!
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Dun & Bass: Let's goooo
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Dun @dunproofin.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It's time for House Nation over on www.twitch.tv/dunproofin - come join me for some 4 to the floor thumpers to get you over the midweek hump
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House Nation: House Thumpers for your midweek humps
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Caroline Cummings @carolinecummings.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Hi! I'm new to blue sky, and I have a new preprint out! 🥳🥳 This work is the first chapter of my dissertation: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... The study was completed with the @viralemergence.org with support from @danjbecker.bsky.social, @colincarlson.bsky.social, and Amanda Vicente-Santos ☺️🦇⚕️🦠👩‍🔬 (1/5)
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 13/01/2025
Exciting to see new, independent projects spin up to decentralize the atproto ecosystem! Building alternative infrastructure is a big step towards giving users more choice and making the network billionaire-proof.
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Nick @xinternic.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
So this is what Meta means by Free Speech?
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a man says " you keep using that word i do not think it means what you think it means " to another bald man
Alt: Inigo from the Princess Bride saying, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" to Vizzini.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 12/01/2025
Ajit Pai was a captured corporatist hack but he at least adhered to some semblance of "conservative values" (term used loosely) preventing him from leveraging FCC power to threaten broadcasters not suitably deferential to king dingus. Carr by contrast is pure sniveling MAGA ambition in a suit
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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 11/01/2025
me when any program's AI assistant asks me if I want help writing:
Gandalf the White saying, "Be silent. Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth"
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Here’s what we know, and what we don’t, about the awful Palisades wildfire arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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Here’s what we know, and what we don’t, about the awful Palisades wildfire
“I think we’ve got more questions than answers at this point.”…
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Morgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
“About thirty minutes before the town hall was due to start, a [Trump] senior aide started getting text messages from a person on the inside at Fox…images of all the questions Trump would be asked and the planned follow-ups, down to the exact wording. Jackpot.” www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/m...
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Trump camp was fed questions for Fox News town hall in advance from person inside network, new book says | CNN Business
President-elect Donald Trump’s team was given the questions asked by Fox News anchors at an Iowa town hall last January in advance by someone inside the network, according to a forthcoming book, in wh...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/01/2025
"Did you consider the people who don't like chili? The people who are vegetarians? The people without tastebuds? The people who don't know how to turn on stoves? What about all those folks?"
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Did You Even Consider Every Possible Lived Experience Before Recklessly Posting Your Chili Recipe on Social Media?
Look, I get it. You thought what you posted was innocuous. Still, did you stop to think about everyone who has ever lived and how it could make the...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
New from 404 Media: Facebook is deleting internal employee criticism of its new board hire UFC president and CEO Dana White. Facebook also deleting internal employee posts asking why the first ones deleted www.404media.co/facebook-del...
“Kind of disheartening to see people in the comments celebrating a man who is on video assaulting his wife and another who was recently convicted of rape,” one employee commented, referring to White and McGregor. “I can kind of excuse individuals for being unaware, but Meta surely did their due diligence on White and concluded that what he did is fine. I feel like I’m on another planet,” another employee commented. “We have completely lost the plot,” a third said.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Zuckerberg holds a majority of voting power in his company. That he should see it as “out of touch” isn’t a criticism of woke Dems. It’s a criticism of the way he himself capitulates and blows with the political winds. He's at war with himself. Has been for years. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This
Mark Zuckerberg is at war with himself.
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Michele/Meidas Fan @michelemanziano.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
4 years ago today.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/03/2024
Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...
Across all industries, organizations are rapidly embracing generative AI. Among them, makers of home appliances like fridges and ovens. Generative AI in your oven? Why not? Ater all, AI has been creeping into our homes for years (think smart lightbulbs and Alexa) – but thanks to generative AI, these interactions will become even more human and more personal.
Imagine, for example, asking your washing machine whether it’s safe to wash a beloved item of clothing on a certain setting – literally, asking it out loud or via an app. Or you could say to your fridge, “Hey, when am I going to run out of milk?” and it’ll tell you. Integrating generative AI into everyday products could lead to a new era of smart appliances that are not only more adaptive to our needs but also more interactive and engaging.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Personally, I think using some weird LLM to rewrite manuscripts without informing the authors is a bad idea.
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Elsevier rewrites academic papers with AI — without telling editors or authors
The Journal of Human Evolution is published by Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers. All but one of the JHE editorial board resigned last week in the wake of Elsevier rewriting papers w…
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/01/2025
Seems like the kinda thing that maybe the media should have covered 2 or 3 months ago?
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Seriously. I sue drug companies, you don't have to tell me they suck, nor explain to me the risks of pharmaceuticals. But vaccines are different, they're like stealing fire from the Gods and burning plagues with it. Their benefit/risk ratio is downright magical.
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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
Hi I am Physgal and I will be adding physicists to the Science feed. Please respond below with evidence that you are a physicist to be added to the feed. teammates: @physgal.bsky.social / @quarkcharme.bsky.social
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Kristen Jeanveau @kjeanveau.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Honestly, these two memes are the best summary of DS9 anyone would ever need.
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The Register @theregister.com · 03/01/2025
Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks
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Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks
Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking Apple last year deployed a mechanism for identifying landmarks and places of interest in images stored in the Photos application on its…
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes announces she's quit the paper because her editors wouldn't print a cartoon going after Big Tech and media oligarchs paying tribute to to Trump A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Do you not know with how little wisdom the world is governed? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/never-unde...
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Never Underestimate the Ignorance of the Powerful
When you’re a star, people let you think you're smart
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 02/01/2025
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?
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Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Meanwhile, @politico.com sees Trump demonize immigrants and lie that crime is at an all-time high (in fact, it’s falling) and translates that into a headline that “Trump talks tough on crime after attack.” Shameful normalization of fascist disinformation.
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The fact that Trump and Republicans jumped on the name and face of the New Orleans attacker and declared he was an "illegal immigrant" despite his being born and raised in America is a pretty good sign of how the mass deportations are going to go.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The obvious strategy for democrats is to acknowledge that anti-vaxx is still an unpopular stance and partner with pro-vaccine republicans to scuttle the RFK Jr. nomination Democrats should be talking nonstop about how RFK Jr. fueled a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed dozens of kids!
Decline in Republican support for MMR vaccination requirement in public schools since before pandemic % of U.S. adults who say the following about childhood vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR)| U.S. adults
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Note: Respondents who did not give an answer are not shown.
Source: Survey conducted March 13-19, 2023.
"Americans" Largely Positive Views of Childhood Vaccines Hold Steady'
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Kelly Weinersmith @weinersmith.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
According to the UN 1967 Outer Space Treaty, ratified by >100 nations (including the US), people who go to space remain the responsibility of some nation. Starting a new nation on Mars would violate long-standing international law. We have a few chapters in A City on Mars on this topic.
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Kristina @literatedesign.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
This - whenever we talk about kids being "digital natives" we should note that their technology is often mainly made for consuming technogy, not making or remaking technology. Via @axbom.com
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