This contradicts the previous thread I posted. Russia's Ministry of Agriculture is asking farmers to switch to diesel fuel with 0,3-0,9% sulfur content or even heating fuel suggesting refining and diesel production isn't at all fine.

Midgar Studio (Edge of Eternity) has now officially shut down. www.linkedin.com/posts/sandst...

A first in France : the City of Rouen abandons AI-generated posters thanks to a collective of artists ✊ www.paris-normandie.fr/id733394/art...

OMG

What I think is really good about Beauty and the Beast is that he seems like a comical side character for much of the film until his vanity and misogyny drive him to become main antagonist. How traits which seem ridiculous become hugely destructive when they are indulged as much as he is.

to make an analogy, even if you have an unloaded weapon, if you wave it around and say "we could use this on you": it is not exactly a surprise when people react negatively

The fact that Trump just does shit is why stupid people think Joe Biden is to blame for executing the Congressionally-mandated arms transfers to Israel. Yes, maybe he would have done it even if he had a choice, but he didn’t, and idiots think he did because Trump gets away with ignoring Congress.

Here’s what I’m observing in AI papers: Title and abstract: these set the scene in academic jargon overdrive. You’ve never seen so much over-use of the word “epistemic”. AI-enhanced papers start jargon-heavy and keep at it, exhaustingly, all the way to just within the journal word limit. 2/

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras

One thing I'm noticing from a lot of people here, and the media reports surrounding the arrest of the Tates, is how many are using the term "child pornography" Children cannot consent and therefore it is not pornography It is Child Sexual Abuse Material or CSAM and it's vital to call it that

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

Zohran Me 🤝 Being Big Tent Democrats

Aliens is 40. Art by James Cameron:

A few years before I got to my cav troop, a Bradley tried to cross a (high) stream and got swept downstream. The vehicle wasn't loaded according to load plan and the dismount panicked and opened the back door. The driver drowned b/c the way out was backed with gear. 1/

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

🇺🇦 Fedorov: Changes will definitely come. There is a dialogue. I believe that everything will work out. ‼️ Zelensky: I hear what people are saying. I spoke for a long time today with Fedorov and with Syrsky. Decisions regarding the army will be worked out. 6/7

Russia economy: metaphor

Puisque le quai d’Orsay ne semble pas publier sur BS, faisons le à sa place. « L’essoufflement du modèle de guerre russe ».

"Yoda was a big test case. It was really interesting to watch the dailies after the first day of filming. It was just too broad, too bouncy, too Muppety. Yoda didn't look real. Frank [Oz] insisted that he be allowed to go back and do it over again, and we did. We learned a lot from that."

Dre Marthe Gautier, découvreuse de la Trisomie 21 @franceculture.fr L'Effet Matilda, c'est ce phénomène qui veut que les femmes de science ne bénéficient que très peu des retombées de leurs découvertes, et ce au profit des hommes. 🎧 www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Trump / Miller are now limiting student visas to 4 years. PhD programs typically run 5-6 years in many disciplines.

Tous les jours, nous lisons des événements culturels supprimés par arrêt des subventions ou annulation des pouvoirs publics. On nous montre bien ce que sera 2027 à échelle nationale et générale si les bottes sont élus dans le silence des pantoufles.

When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

If you can't get enough of The Odyssey this weekend, you could always pay a visit to the Underworld of Hades!⛵️ Do say hello to everyone if you stop by.

Archaeologists uncovered 🧛‍♂️"vampire graves" in post-medieval Poland: iron sickles across throats, heavy stones pinning bodies and clever soil chemistry to stop the dead from rising. Not Hollywood myth - real folk engineering.

As with so many things, it is critical to realize this is not bumbling or ineptitude or not thinking through policy implications. On the contrary: making it impossible for foreign students to do the doctorate here is THE WHOLE POINT. It’s about starving higher ed under the guise of America first.

....oddly, I find the American Eagle one the most particularly damning.

Has Europe become more democratic since 1980? The short answer: yes, dramatically. But the trend has turned.

Depuis que je suis petit, il y a dans ma famille des expressions automatiques. Genre si quelqu'un se lève pour partir, t'as le classique "En route, mauvaise troupe !" (je crois que ça vient de Verlaine). Mais il y en avait une très mystérieuse qui venait de ma mère. Si tu disais "Allez, courage."…

C'est vrai qu'on débat sans cesse des aides aux entreprises, mais sans jamais définir de quoi on parle exactement. A partir de là, le concept ne devient plus qu'un outils déployé dans le cadre d'un discours politique. En soit ca fait du bien, mais ce n'est pas très utile pour le suivi.

🎯 Comment définir précisément les aides aux entreprises ? Quelles définitions au niveau international ? Comment évoluent ces aides et comment les évaluer ?

#AlguesVertes en Bretagne : après une évaluation de la politique de lutte contre la prolifération des algues vertes réalisée en 2021, la Cour publie une première enquête de suivi afin de mesurer les suites données à ses recommandations. 💡 Lire le rapport ➡️ www.ccomptes.fr/fr/publicati...

💡Les charges de personnel d’EDF SA ont progressé de 16,7% entre 2021 et 2024. ❗️ Si la sécurisation des compétences est devenue une priorité, la Cour estime que la modernisation du cadre social est essentielle pour renforcer la compétitivité d'EDF. 🔗 www.ccomptes.fr/fr/publicati...

Arrestation d'un opérateur du prompteur de Trump qui connaissait en avance ses discours, annonce d'une version premium payante de Truth social qui permet d'avoir la primeur de ses posts... La "polymarketisation" de l'administration américaine conduit à une généralisation de la corruption.

a few good Jessica’s

Put even more simply:

I guess this is what the FBI does now that they've stopped investigating white-collar crime? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...

Le secrétaire d'État américain Marco Rubio a annoncé vouloir démanteler la Cour Pénale Internationale, "brique par brique". Pourquoi ? Parce que la CPI - et le droit international - sont les derniers remparts face aux auteurs des crimes. Y compris les plus puissants.

Hacking. Hell, everything vaguely related to a computer. Also "quantum science".

‘Honesty is a core value in the Dutch Code of Conduct for Scientific Integrity. Using generative AI to supposedly make a text more authentic – which is what the course aims to do – clearly conflicts with that value.’ -- @irisvanrooij.bsky.social

done this before but now can't find it, so... posting this so i can find it again from an old remedy talk. max payne level design scale. his house before and after they realised you can't just build shit at real-life scale and expect it to work as a level. i am always pulling this out for folks

are young people today aware that there was an active effort 20-25 years ago to stop depicting smoking as cool and glamorous because people got tired of watching their loved ones die of cancer and heart disease from something preventable? seems like classic history repeating itself stuff

I'm happy to announce that @misfitsattic.bsky.social has been funded to make Duskers 2.0, a Duskers sequel, thanks to Max McGuire's project fund Stray Signal coming out of EGG's Demo Day.

Mayo Clinic is being sued by its former AI compliance lead, who is alleging the hospital network tried to hide its AI tool’s 67% error rate at patients’ expense. /1 futurism.com/health-medic...

Vertex Studio is live! My #godot plugin for editing, managing and painting vertex colors and vertex normals of 3D meshes inside Godot. It has a FREE version with all the basic and essential tools and a PRO, paid version with all features. 50% off until the end of the month. #godotengine #gamedev

“.. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. “.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX... Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n

Loving this post 😍

Californians are pumping the AC to stay cool this summer, but we haven’t had a Flex Alert to conserve power since 2022. Why? Because California invested in battery storage to make sure we meet our growing energy needs while taking care of the planet. ⚡🌎