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Zeke Zypt

@zekezypt.bsky.social
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Barely sentient being. Librarian - always Books, now Computers as well. LFC. Harley-D. Irony Lives Here, Satire Welcome. Yes - that's Schrodinger's cat...

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Rest easy, Margaret Hamilton. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Banned Books Week @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
LET BOOKS BE ACCESSIBLE! Attempts to limit access for the intended audience are acts of censorship. Let's take a look at the harmful myths and misinformation censors use to justify their actions. And find ways to push back! #BannedBooksWeek #LetBooksBe
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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.
A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me
My photo shows detail from an ancient Greek red-figure kylix (drinking cup) of a young man shown in profile seated on a stool facing right. He wears a knee length cloak (himation) over his left shoulder, which is shown in folds around his waist and upper legs. His right shoulder, chest, and arms are bare. His dark hair is short, and he wears a band around his head. He is looking down at an open rectangular wax writing tablet which he is supporting in his left hand above his lap. In his right hand he holds a metal stylus pen poised over the writing tablet. The wooden writing tablet is hinged like a book and, from this angle, resembles a modern laptop. The figure is part of a scene depicting school lessons in ancient Athens, painted by Douris around 480 BC. On display at the Altes Museum in Berlin.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This one is doing the rounds
A picture of Elon Musk, via the London Economic. The quote says “If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.“ – Nathalie Robin Justice. 
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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Keep politics out of music, like in the old days when Tchaikovsky wrote the 1812 Overture about how nice the weather was that year, or Beethoven composed his “Emperor” concerto in honour of his favourite kitten, and Dylan sang A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, all about the fun of splashing in puddles.
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ok, here's a compromise: Print out the unredacted Epstein Files and tape them to the Kennedy Center. Boom! His name will be all over the place.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I cannot tell you what absolute fiction this is. AI is heading for a crash and this cackhanded Terminator narrative is being engineered to save them. The fact that the unsubstantiated testimony of a former employee has been the top story on BBC News all day is absurd and irresponsible.
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 13/09/2026
I love how a week ago, the rogue AI agents were like whatever and now suddenly we're scrambling back from the brink of human extinction. The Very Special Tech Boys either didn't care a week ago, or they didn't realise what they'd done, or the whole thing is bollocks.
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Barber CEO: You Risk Falling Behind If You Don't Get A Haircut "Right Now" Industry Experts Foresee Future In Which Everyone Receives Multiple Haircuts Every Day Today Your Hair, Tomorrow The World: Barbers Say They Are On Track To Build A Pair Of Scissors So Big, It Could End Life As We Know It
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)
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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 13/09/2026
Once again - The Guardian has a partnership with Open AI, nothing it publishes about AI can be trusted
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is a good example of how you need quite a lot of detail of how these systems *actually* work to understand what the risks are, and how over-indexing on sci-fi can lead you a bit astray on what the future looks like
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
LOL these pictures.
Trump looks unhappy and abashed while the Irish President looks on with a smile
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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Glaciers collapse, disasters ensue. And then we’re expected to ignore all that because we can make fun AI images and google can badly summarise Wikipedia. Seriously. AI - Fuck off.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For years - decades - we’ve been imploring people to save trees by using less paper, to conserve water by flushing less for urine than faeces, to save energy by switching off lightbulbs. This year, Europe roasted in unbelievably high temperatures.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 11/09/2026
omg. (it wasn't me) www.famouscampaigns.com/2026/09/meta...
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Meta smart glasses mocked by fake notices on London Underground
London’s backlash against camera-equipped smart glasses has reached the Tube, with spoof stickers styled as official TfL safety notices appearing inside Underground carriages and warning wearers that ...
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Valerie A. Traina @v3ndettaval.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
YOU MUST READ THIS by journalist and author Sarah Kendzior‼️🤬😱👇
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twist @pvdork.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 60th anniversary to the brilliant universe of Star Trek, and all who made it possible. Live long and prosper. 🖖
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Burnham will be the first national leader since Labour’s James Callaghan in the 1970s to not co-operate with the Sun newspaper, and its former managing editor David Dinsmore is leaving Government observer.co.uk/news/politic...
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Hurt over Hillsborough prompts Burnham to block out the Sun
The PM would become the first national leader since Labour’s James Callaghan in the 1970s to not co-operate with the paper
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
PHOTO OF THE DAY: The 2 people used in American Gothic by Grant Wood stand next to the iconic painting. They were Wood’s sister, Nan Graham, and his dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby (1942). 📷 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Archives
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Bob Shields @robbo03.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
‘If you optimize a model to find exploits, you should expect it to find them — and prepare for that. OpenAI did not. They built a model, took the safeguards off, gave it the ExploitGym task, let it run, and didn't even monitor it. That's human decision-making.’ By @eryk.bsky.social
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Models Don't Go Rogue
Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o...
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 02/09/2026
Billionaires have become radicalized against democracy. It's not just Trump. It's a regime—a regime funded and supported and strengthened by the oligarchs of Silicon Valley. We must realize how much power we have, and stop being tuned out from the threat we face. ⤵️ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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'Silicon Valley fascism' is waging war on democracy
The author of The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy, has a warning.
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 01/09/2026
READ THIS: Had the European Convention on Human Rights not been part of British law, there would STILL be no justice for the 97 Hillsborough victims and their families, writes Oxford University's Murray Hunt👇 🔗 www.modernslaverypec.org/latest/hills... Human rights law is on the side of the people
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I would object to LLMs even if they weren't planet destroying plagiarism-based bullshit engines because students need to learn core skills and how to do the work themselves. Also, they are planet destroying plagiarism-based bullshit engines that give answer-shaped nonsense.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It’s not up to this fool to decide. The rules of when to call a referendum on a United Ireland are in the Good Friday Agreement. It’s a peace treaty. So respect it. Or is that impossible for an English Prime Minister?
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It’s the 39th anniversary of this splendid Far Side cartoon. Why, though, has it been signed by Jane Goodall...? 🧵
Far Side cartoon, two chimpanzees grooming. One says to the other: “Well, well - another blond hair.... Conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”
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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️
Sheep grazing in fields, the one in the foreground with white smoke apparently coming out of its bottom
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 25/08/2026
I spoke at length with @keithpcooper.bsky.social for @space.com about what we should call Pluto on the 20th anniversary of its "demotion". It might seem like semantics, but the fact that we keep coming back to it means this issue still matters to people! (a short 🧵) www.space.com/astronomy/pl...
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It's been 20 years since Pluto lost planet status. Will it ever get its title back?
The debate as to whether Pluto is a dwarf planet, or a fully fledged planet, continues to rage.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
UChicago law school also put new limitations on AI in the 1st year curriculum - banning electronic devices in classrooms, having in-class written exams, and instituting an oral component of research papers. chicagomaroon.com/53131/news/t...
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“The Template for Law Schools Around the World”: UChicago Law School Announces New AI Strategy
The Law School will prohibit electronic devices in most 1L courses next academic year, according to a broad strategy statement outlining its new approach to legal education amid increasing use of AI a...
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This whole thread, but especially this part. "We're going to steal the intellectual property of your faculty, then demand those faculty find use cases for our lying theft machine."
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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
THE DOCTOR WHO - LABOUR LEADER CORRELATION. 1. WILLIAM HARTNELL - HAROLD WILSON's 1st term 1964-1966 Hugely popular as the public are dazzled by the white heat of technology.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
#NovaScotia author of Heated Rivalry — Rachel Reid has donated $300,000.00 to Nova Scotia Libraries This is amazing, Rachel is an incredible human being /1 thread www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...
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‘Heated Rivalry’ author donates $300,000 to Nova Scotia libraries
Several Nova Scotia libraries that faced possible closures this summer are getting a major cash boost from one of the province’s most famous authors.
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Joe Banks @joebankswriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This will never stop being one of the greatest things on the internet... And what an absolutely banging version! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwnF...
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Cindy und Bert – Der Hund von Baskerville (Black Sabbath - Paranoid cover)
YouTube video by Bob Witlox
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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Total Eclipse of the Heart in Klingon is the song of the summer. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Djf...
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Total Eclipse of the Heart in the Original Klingon - Star Trek Strange New Worlds 4x03
YouTube video by Major Grin
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Ok, some thoughts, as an olde tyme academic, on the Arday tragedy. First, allegations about causes. We don't know what was in his mind, but many people are keen to blame him, or woke lefties/academia, or the media. Some people are absolutely certain that the media are faultless. 1/
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
That time Sylwester Wardęga bought a giant spider costume for his dog and let him loose. Original post
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スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It is so *stupid* for Trump & Friends to axe funding for New Horizons. It’s functioning wonderfully and doing critical science. It’s out there already. It’s delivering. The money Trump is spending on turning bronze statues into gold and fucking up the White House with concrete would fund this.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
#ResistanceRoots Mareta Nelle West was born on this day in 1915 in Elk City, Okla. She was the first female astrogeologist, known for choosing the landing site for Apollo 11. She transformed a workaround she developed to overcome gender bias into a unique ability to map the surface of the Moon. /1
Mareta Nelle West. She navigated the gender bias of her era not with outward anger or subversion, but with emotional stoicism, professional warmth and a positive outlook on life. Those who knew her often noted her bright demeanor. To preserve her happiness, West became a master of compartmentalizing her professional struggles away from her passion for science. By keeping her eyes fixed on the grand, timeless scale of the Earth and the Moon, the temporary social biases of mid-century America seemed small and manageable. She maintained a joyful demeanor because she felt lucky to spend her brief “instant” in time charting the solar system.
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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
1969, when Star Trek replaced Doctor Who on the BBC. "The creators claim there is nothing in the series which is technically impossible. Everything is based on what is almost certain to happen, providing the current rate of scientific advancement is maintained."
BBC's NEW SPACE THRILLER
Mr Spock and Co from 2069 will replace Dr Who on Saturdays
ZOOMS IN FOR THE VIEWERS
A NEW science-fiction jaunt is coming to Britain's viewers.
It is called "Star Trek" and is set in the year 2069.
The TV series, which the BBC bought from America, features a colossal Spaceship with
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430 men and women from Earth aboard.
It will replace "Dr. Who" as the Saturday tea-time thriller, begin-ning on July 12,
"Star Trek" will run to the end of the year. The series has had a
tremendous impact on American TV audiences.
Scientists from the Rand Corporation acted an technical advisers.
And the Smithsonian Institution has secured a print of the original pilot programme for its Space museum.
Early episodes will be screened in black and white. Others will be seen in colour as BBC-1 switches over in November.
"Star Trek" was highly praised for its imagination. technical accuracy and attention to detail, a BBC spokesman said yesterday.
"Despite a staggering collection of computers, weapons, communication systems and navigating devices, the creators claim there is nothing in the series which is technically impossible," he added.
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"Everything is based on what is almost certain to happen, providing the current rate of scientific advancement is main-tained."
"Star Trek" has brought overnight stardom to Leonard Nimoy, who plays a half-human, half-Val-canian second officer of the Space ship.
America knows him as Mr. Spock. He has large pointed ears.
Last year actor Nimoy was guest of honour at the National Space Club din-ner. Many of America's top Space scientists were there.
One of them told Nimoy: When Star Trek is on the air the Kennedy Space Centre practically shuts down."
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 10/08/2026
There's a solar eclipse coming up this week. Here's a photo of a solar eclipse from last year. Taken from the surface of the Moon. Yep, that black circle is Earth.
A diamond ring of fire in the black.
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