Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich 44607835
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachChet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 24/07/2026I'm not mad that Neill Blomkamp tried to do something with AI, he has always been about pushing tech... but more that he thinks it's good... it's so bad in so many ways... the script?? To quote this brilliant script "I'm getting too old for this bullshit" www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wbt...youtube.comNIGHTBORNE — A Neill Blomkamp Sci-Fi Film. Fully AI (4K)YouTube video by Barley Studios 10321
Reposted by Yan-Jie Schnellbacheshpur @eshpur.bsky.social · 18/07/2026✣ Medieval Jimothy ✣ 58115092966
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026'The career ladder in academia is of particular interest as it is a “greedy” occupation due to its lack of substitutability among workers, long hours with increasing returns to productivity, and the importance of establishing and maintaining personal contacts.' Academia is a "greedy" occupation.blogs.lse.ac.ukThe lack of women at the top of the academic ladder is driven by unequal childcare responsibilities - LSE ImpactMotherhood, and the unequal childcare responsibilities that follow, explain a large share of the observed gender gap in academic employment. Sofie Cairo, Ria Ivandic, Anne Sophie Lassen and Valentina ... 26734
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachCNTR | Arms Control Research @cntrarmscontrol.org · 18/05/2026Eine eigene deutsche Atomwaffe bleibt vertraglich, politisch & technisch nahezu ausgeschlossen. Es bleibt die Frage: Wer garantiert Europas Sicherheit, wenn nicht die USA? @yjschnellbach.bsky.social ordnet die Diskussion im Interview ein ⬇️ www.merkur.de/politik/us-s...merkur.deWie wahrscheinlich wäre eine deutsche Atombombe? Experte: „Außerordentlich kompliziert auf vielen Ebenen“Benötigt Deutschland Atomwaffen? Die politischen Rahmenbedingungen im Hintergrund verändern sich rasant. Doch: Wie wahrscheinlich wäre das überhaupt? 012
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachJason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 07/04/2026Reminder: All the amazing high quality video you’re seeing from the Artemis II mission is being transmitted back to Earth using a laser communications system first tested with a video of a cat named Taters youtu.be/GvJtVOmFs5Q?...youtu.beThe Video NASA’s Laser Communications Experiment Streamed From Deep SpaceYouTube video by JPLraw 131090398
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachKeith @minguseyes.bsky.social · 24/02/2026"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner 5248181700
Reposted by Yan-Jie Schnellbachかみとすみ | Sumi @sumipigeon.bsky.social · 08/01/2026my nice borb #illustration #art #pigeon #鳩 #bird 2458178
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Allow me to connect some dots for you: Too much of the world currently relies for its basic functions on resources which must be continuously extracted. You burn that oil one time and oops, now you need more. Geopolitical horrors are, in fact, one of the reasons we need to move to renewables ASAP. 434490874
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachJesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Sir Anthony Weldon, A Cat May Look Upon a King (printed for William Roybould, at the Unicorn in Pauls Church-yard, 1652) 313827
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachAlex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 14/11/2025For this week's DOOMSDAY MACHINES, I wrote a little bit about Martin Amis' essay "Thinkability," which I think is just one of the sharpest pieces of writing on nuclear war that I am aware of... doomsdaymachines.net/p/nuclear-we...doomsdaymachines.net"Nuclear weapons repel all thought, perhaps because they can end all thought"Martin Amis on the difficulties of writing about nuclear war 0256
Reposted by Yan-Jie Schnellbach404 Media @404media.co · 14/11/2025Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.404media.coPower Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power PlantsTech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants. 1510326
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachGeoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Hanford's waste vitrification plant has vitrified (turned to glass) its first nuclear waste today. It's taken a LONG time to get to this point and its a huge milestone. It also comes as I hear rumors that workers on the site are being furloughed because of the govt shutdown.... 69525
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...doi.orgScientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to BlueskySynopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For 8537801174
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/08/2025Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity. 539179726696
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 28/07/2025The fallacye that "higher ed degree must leade to a job wyth same name" ys deeplye harmful to present-daye societye. A philosophye major kan do businesse just as well as a businesse major. Yn some wayes perhaps even bettir. Thys fallacye ys useful onlye to those who seeke to kill higher ed. 9462100
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Graph of British Rivers 852955651
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachArs Technica @arstechnica.com · 13/06/2025The results seem to strengthen the case that these systems rely on elaborate pattern-matching rather than the kind of systematic reasoning their marketing might suggest.arstechnica.comNew Apple study challenges whether AI models truly “reason” through problemsPuzzle-based experiments reveal limitations of simulated reasoning, but others dispute findings. 1220371
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachLora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 26/05/2025“When the system forces you to code with a hallucinating clown, eventually you stop resisting. You let him type. You let him be "productive." You check out. You surrender your brain to the noise and just float.” deplet.ing/the-copilot-...deplet.ingThe Copilot DelusionDisclaimer: This post was written May 2025, and the arguments apply to AI code capabilities at this time. The arguments around lack of competence are certainly likely to become less prevalent-while th... 1114042
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachSluggy 🐌 | Team Tragedy 💧 @lildisgustinart.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Pigeon Party 🕊 #illustration #pigeons #animalart #artsky 114132263040
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 15/05/2025do you remember before social media when the web was an infinite mysterious forest of things people had created, for free, for other people like you'd just stumble on this guy's Geocities page where he'd posted the sketches he'd done of every vegetable in his garden the web made me love humanity 472542730
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachCERN @cern.bsky.social · 01/04/2025📣 CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep 🐑 Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon where two particles’ states are tied to each other, no matter how far apart the particles are. These findings could now help to explain the species’ fascinating flocking behaviour. 116319
Reposted by Yan-Jie Schnellbachsecondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 01/04/2025Draw for the Namesake chat for #TransDayofVisibility yesterday. Support trans rights and trans artists 🎨 ⭐️🩵🩷🤍🤍🩷🩵⭐️ 51942521
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachChris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 13/02/2025I skipped that "advice from the over 30s" QT that was going around a couple of weeks ago, but I have one now. If there is a little sandwich place that does a sandwich that is perfect and you love it, get that sandwich whenever you feel like it, because any day that shop might shut without warning. 371165126
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachGergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 21/01/2025The slow, then sudden decline of Stack Overflow. Full article: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/are-llms-mak... 3728346
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachPhil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Hoo boy, I bet you could use a distraction today! So how about an intense JWST image of a pair of colossal stars whizzing past each other and blasting out wave after wave of dusty shells, expanding away at a soul-freezing NINE MILLION KPH?! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/two-coloss... 🧪🔭badastronomy.beehiiv.comTwo colossal stars send out waves of dust in an amazing JWST imageWR 140 is a terrifying star system, but it sure is beautiful. Also, announcing a new rate for the newsletter. 1169127893
Reposted by Yan-Jie Schnellbachdoctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 16/12/2024new article. it's about what cozy and wholesome games are, why shitty people like them, and why I really liked I Was A Teenage Exocolonist. docseuss.medium.com/i-was-a-teen...docseuss.medium.comi was a teenage exocolonist (and so can you)I’ve realized that I’m much better at discussing broad ranging theory than individual games, just because it’s easier to find ten games… 1192326887
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 30/11/2024The John Le Carré Advent Calendar - My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books. (with apologies to @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social and @harkaway.bsky.social) 472352641
Yan-Jie Schnellbach @yjschnellbach.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Spaceship names! - Solar Serendipity - The Falling Knife - Point of Light 010
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachDr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 17/10/2024A different perspective on the Civil War damage of 1645 to Chester’s (in origin, Roman) city walls. These devices for imagining past events are extremely cool, and also not always accessible or long-lasting. 📸 Chester Roman Gardens, Oct’ 2023 27913
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachAnn Leckie @annleckie.com · 06/08/2024Haha just saw a screenshot of the "Harris could have shown she was a moderate, but now she looks like an extremist, what a mistake" like, all my life Democrats have been treating things like "I think kids shouldn't starve" as damagingly extreme left positions and it made me want to chew my arm off. 241477263
Reposted by Yan-Jie Schnellbachthank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 06/07/2024I love potatoes. If you ignore other vegetables they become gross mush. If you ignore a potato it becomes a Creature. This is an approach I deeply respect 524159
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachRosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 04/03/2024What city pigeons talk about, part 1. 201372448
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachPyramid Chad @pyrameadhead.wifeguy.online · 01/03/2024You can put googly eyes on anything. No one can stop you. 8757201618
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachNPR @npr.org · 23/02/2024BREAKING NEWS: The Houston-based company has pulled off the first successful commercial landing on the lunar surface. It's America's first soft landing in decades.npr.orgPrivate lunar lander returns U.S. to the moon 50 years later. Here's what to knowThe Houston-based company has pulled off the first successful commercial landing on the lunar surface. It's America's first soft landing in decades. 15527135
Reposted by Yan-Jie Schnellbachtarquined.bsky.social @tarquined.bsky.social · 19/01/2024on.ft.com/3HoUeTH I didn't know I needed tribunal judges to state that "Nominative determinism is not a characteristic of snack foods" or a pie chart of % potato in poppadoms 011
Yan-Jie Schnellbach @yjschnellbach.bsky.social · 12/01/2024After many moons, finally published a paper on our work done a while back: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... - review took time, but it was 100% worth it in this case, we ended up expanding it with an entirely new section!iopscience.iop.orgSupernova model discrimination with a kilotonne-scale Gd-H2O Cherenkov detector - IOPscience 030
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/12/2023A thing that's always surprising to me is how many techbros think they can nuance their way through Nazis. Pro trip: You can't nuance your way through Nazis. There's no nuance in Nazis. What's more, you're (probably) not the fucking US government. You don't *have* to nuance the Nazis. So just don't. 39952213
Reposted by Yan-Jie Schnellbachtarquined.bsky.social @tarquined.bsky.social · 08/12/2023absence makes the heart grow fonder? 071
Reposted by Yan-Jie SchnellbachRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/11/2023Decay Modes xkcd.com/2860 241357224