Mensen denken dat Rusland “zwak” is omdat het Oekraïne niet kon innemen. Dat is een gevaarlijke misvatting. De komende 2–3 jaar zijn juist het gevaarlijkste voor Europa. Ruslands window of opportunity is nu. Niet over 5 jaar. hiddebouwmeester.nl/ruslands-win...

I first met @abdulelsayed.bsky.social through our dear friend Ady Barkan, who died of ALS while courageously crusading for Medicare for All, and there is no one who will work harder than Abdul to win that fight. (1/4)

*I was youtubing what seemed to be a schlocky Hollywood ancient-historical movie and a Minoan woman showed up *Then it occurred to me that I had never before seen a Minoan woman in any movie, ever *And there's no fuss made about it. She just glides through a dance scene while being Minoan

The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.

the 'what did the Romans ever do for us' discussion has a direct Talmudic parallel, and it's not out of the realm of possibility that the very well read Python team knew that (www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.33b....)

I have a colleague visiting me from the UK this week and the timing didn’t work to take the day off so I spent my Canada Day in a conference room with him and a student collaborator and a whole wall of chalkboards covered in equations but we found a pretty cool result so I’m happy

See, people always want to make this just about "sports," but the real upshot here is that, 6-3, trans women can't make a claim under the Equal Protection Clause. And if they can't do that, it's hard to see how they have constitutional rights.

On Birthright Citizenship: “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” -Justice Ketanji Brown 💅💕

All-time high temperatures for June yesterday in Denmark, Czech Republic and Germany where they recorded 41.5C. Water cannon were provided to cool people at the Brandenburg Gate.

“I think it’s important for readers to have things to wonder about.” YA author Lois Lowry, having written nearly 50 books for children and young adults, led the audience through a heartfelt and humorous retrospective of four of her books. #ALAAC26 Read more. https://bit.ly/4xONmIt

bsky.app/profile/rend... This thread consists entirely of conversations between a madlib-bot and a conversational agent. The madlib-bot produces nonsense which the agent parrots and "rationalizes". The future of slop?

Yup. Gonna hang out with the coolest people on earth: librarians!

Just Enough Research: www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-...

Transgender youth deserve to be themselves, free from fear or hatred.

@greatdismal.bsky.social Hubertus Bigend-coded 🤮 www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

the mandate was "find a way that you can't get the empirical distribution by sampling from it" which is just like a mandate to find a square circle

New Orleans man becomes first in Louisiana functionally cured of sickle cell disease: https://www.wafb.com/2026/06/23/new-orleans-man-becomes-first-louisiana-functionally-cured-sickle-cell-disease/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_

How does algorithmic manipulation of social relations transform the implicit fabric of institutions?

The use case I see for realcharacterlanguage.world is to create context-sensitive expressions which can be used to recommend lexemes (words) for the concept layer of @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social using Wikifunctions where the stated concept does not have any lexical sense linking to it

Looks, not unpleasantly, like a set-piece from a German expressionist film

Wikidata has functionally solved the question of a "Linked Data Browser" from previous decades. Wikidata is it. It is the browser. You can use it without thinking in triples

Great cover for: Where are they being transferred to, exactly?

Everything I read by Thomas Pynchon felt far too relevant to the mathematical anxieties of our era

Hungarian lawmakers today passed a constitutional amendment that would ban Viktor Orbán from returning to power.

Russia is knowingly and intentionally targeting the elderly with weaponized drones in Ukraine - a pattern that’s leapt out at me in the course of the last two weeks of data validation for my database of drone attacks on civilians. Read more here:

The most psychopathic rulers of human history, those who reduced cities to ashes, herded captive populations to execution sites and littered lands they occupied with mass graves and corpses, have returned with a vengeance, opening up a vast moral abyss.

The need for tech druids has never been stronger

Thank you to everyone who joined us on May 21st for "Translating Knowledge Across Disciplines & Policy Contexts". Great to see such a diverse group of researchers come together to share insights & spark thoughtful, cross-disciplinary conversations. #westernu #research #knowledgetranslation

Last point: I worked for two years at @oieahc.bsky.social. What a crash course in scholarly publishing! If you want your work thoroughly vetted as a scholar, they’re #1. They—me, for two years!—check every citation! A real person does this! (Many people are involved!) Quality and standards are real!

Diagram showing what various lunar eclipses would look like with differently shaped Earths. Johannes Buno, ca. 1711.⠀ ⠀ Featured in the German theologian and educator's Universal Geography. Buy a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/four-diagrams-of-solar-eclipses/

We don't actually all need to come together and agree on what a semantics of a follow graph are, or what a type of post is supposed to look like, or what the culture around a kind of post should be. If a group disagrees, they can go do their own lexicon!

Happy 250th everyone. The Founders’ faith is now disqualifying.

politicians are cowards for failing to appeal to winemoms interested in ʙᴀᴄᴋ-ᴇɴᴅ ꜱʜɪᴘᴘɪɴɢ ᴛʀᴀᴄᴋɪɴɢ

If you know a Masters student who would like to go on to the PhD and knows Dutch, there's a Phd position open in Alisa van de Haar's exciting "Leveraging Language, Proclaiming Power: Linguistic Politics in Early Colonial North America" project at Leiden: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Leiden-P...

Every time data centers are brought up, I'm reminded of a recent meeting I had with a person working in that sector who mentioned how important power demand modeling was, because they projected if the grid were to go down in Phoenix during peak summer, 30,000 people would die in the first 24 hours

🧵1/3 🎮 What if cultural history disappears because no one is allowed to preserve it? Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia, reflects on the fragility of games, media, and cultural memory in his essay in VANISHING CULTURE, from the #InternetArchive. Read it here: archive.org/details/vani...

Installing Wikibase is trivially easy, but installing your own Wikidata Query Service is throwing up some major roadblocks for me

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrargy... At high serendipity in German language Chemistry, many minerals emerge