European politicians, 2026.

I'm not saying a lot of published research in my field is like this... but it just may be a little bit.

On this day in 1951, Iran nationalises the oil industry in the country, which was, up to this time, under British control. Two years later, the government would be overthrown by a military coup d'état orchestrated by the CIA. The rest is, as they say, history.

Facebook's "smart glasses" are the inverse of the glasses in Carpenter's "They Live".

Reading "... protein ... diffusion ... benchmark ..." paper number 6.

Hat Europa in den letzten 35 Jahren etwas (strategisch, aus seiner Sicht) richtig gemacht?

Things to do to make sure as many people as possible use LLMs to review papers: (1) Make them review 6 papers in 3 weeks or so...

Cool paper: "Humans 40,000 y ago developed a system of conventional signs" (It may or may not be writing, I guess) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

That Americans name one of their weapons "Tomahawk" says a lot, doesn't it?

I'm pretty sure that it isn't just me. It is interesting that the fun part is drawing or coming up with answers, not writing a prompt. I'd argue that creating something and coming up with answers is what humans like to do, we should not alienate ourselves from this.

Do the Americans spend more on sinking Cuba or on keeping Argentina afloat?

They call them "return hubs" this time...

Brilliant work!

"On average, more than 10 children have been killed every day across Lebanon over the past week" www.unicef.org/lebanon/pres...

This bank-approved economist is onto something big... 😁 I swear, contemporary Keynesians are like the sloths in Zootopia, next they'll discover that crises can't be avoided through demand management.

I had a very weird reviewer comments on our last review paper. They asked for more data for one experiment… but it’s a review paper, we didn’t do any new experimental work….

The news increasingly read like Kipling's poetry. A better poet, Césaire, wrote: "[It isn't] a philanthropic enterprise, nor a desire to push back [tyranny], nor an attempt to extend the rule of law", "that the decisive actors here are [...] the pirate, the wholesale grocer [...] and the merchant"

Might be the first catastrophe Switzerland can't turn into profit.

There are people going back to Twitter, arguing that they can effect change. What a mix of hubris and inability to learn from history.

"LOTUS Wikidata Explorer" https://adafede.github.io/marimo/apps/lotus_wikidata_explorer.html (by @adafede) With @wikidata, QLever, IDSM, the @cdk, and more #openscience #cheminformatics

Another article where the abstract looked sus and according to checking tools it's 100% "AI" generated. I honestly don't want to read this shit.

I like it 😊👍🏻

This is important

This is so ridiculously stupid. "Anthropic calls its chatbot ‘a new kind of entity’ that might be conscious"

Kallas and Rutte were somehow born 150 years too late... That moral certainty and European exceptionalism just isn't what it used to be... At least la grande nation had the most phallic of messaging since the installation of the obelisk on the place de la concorde

Grünliberal gibt Gas. "Dieser hatte angeregt, den Bären künftig ohne Geschlechtsteil darzustellen, damit sich die gesamte Bevölkerung besser vertreten fühle [...] Als Symbol für Fortschritt könnte sich der Bär zudem künftig von unten links nach oben rechts bewegen. Heute laufe er ja rückwärts."

Account deleted, uninstalled, and moved to LanguageTool. "The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission."

Thanks to this video by @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social I understand my chicken phobia a bit better. ... not that chicken phobia is irrational. They're definitely dangerous and have weird feet. You've seen in Jurassic Park what dinosaurs are capable of...

The so-called poverty draft does not seem to be a thing *anymore* in the US, those joining now have a higher-than-median family income [1,2]. [1] www.ifn.se/media/4fdbrr... [2] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

in case you ever wondered why bsky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank bsky.app/profile/why....

We examined how well AI-based antibody-antigen structure prediction pipelines perform at the practical discovery-critical task of differentiating true binders from plausible but incorrect ones. Short answer: not very well. Read the paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Manifest destiny By any other name It all turns out the same

#medievalsky Sources of the day: SSRQ GR B II/2, Nr. 624-626 A long-running, but peaceful, pasture dispute between two villages in Grisons suddenly turned violent in 1487 and after a day 13 people were dead. The baffled authorities, attempting to stop a cycle of violence, decided to.../1

I hate to say it (well, no I don't), but if your work gets so much better with "AI", you might not be very good at what you do...

Go Spain!

The notion that such things happen due to specific leaders, while a convenient absolution for many, is a big part of why they keep happening. It's a consequence of the (political, social, cultural, ...) superstructure in certain countries that most of us here are part of and profit from.

If "how can I make this about me" were a discipline at the Winter Olympics, someone would have gotten 13 gold medals.

The country that has been at war for ~93% of its existence did what?! * Currently, they're involved in 5 * More than 40 were part of the North American genocide * The most recent one is #30 in the 21. century alone * Switzerland was involved in 3: Twice as US opponents (including 1x as mercenaries)

The country who has the face of a guy who wrote "[Native Americans] oblige us now to pursue them to extermination" on the two dollar bill did what!?

Der dreht auch komplett durch...

Time for this one again

Die Mentalgymnastik in linksliberalen Kreisen ist mal wieder Medaillenwürdig.

More inevitable primitive accumulation, even more thinly veiled by hypocracy than e.g. the Opium Wars.

TIL about the animated film "The Battle of Kerzhenets" by Yuri Norstein that uses stop motion and 14th–16th century frescoes. Pretty cool.

Heute mal wieder ein grosser block und unfollow Tag, da Masken fallen.

Just a random reminder that during the so-called war on terror, 4.5–4.6 million people were directly or indirectly murdered.

Schöne Piste habt ihr da in Bayern 😉 @andyrage.bsky.social

There's few things that I dislike more than hypocrisy and there will be a lot of it in the coming weeks...

They're doing what!?