Happy holidays @elisabethbik.bsky.social

"Hello from the children of planet Earth." It is a good time to contemplate our nativity diagram in image 52, which we sent to space on the Voyager Golden Record: The gazelle top-middle is a prey animal, ganged up on by two male hunters in images 60 & 61. Woman bystander says hi. goldenrecord.org

The German CEOs of @hateaid.org are sanctioned and denied entry into the United States. Their motto: "Because human rights also apply digitally. We are committed to supporting victims of online hate and promoting democracy online."

Knödelbrotification of French Baguette completed. Bavarian pork roast countdown start. T-10hrs

Search "CECOT" and watch the 60 minutes report. It is a concentration camp. You can see it with your own eyes. You should also learn what a "Vernichtungslager" is. They at least give captives the impression it is. What a disgrace. To Americans & VISA holders trying to rationalize: It is a disgrace!

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

I remember when we did this for Twitter and everyone has a giggle about how the Russia cluster was right up beside the US Politics cluster. This was the summer of 2016.

Bat-signalling @yyahn.bsky.social & @sebastianahnert.bsky.social

Once upon the time in #Texas, a fundamentalist cleric/student asked me: "Can you help us to use 'special effects' to further our missionary cause?" I asked: "Do you know #CounterReformation & #Baroque splendor aimed to counter the rationality of #Reformation & the #Enlightenment? This is #Kayfabe!

"PAULUS V BURGHESIUS ROMANUS" #CounterReformation

Please behold this classic logo of the Biomolecular Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. PS: They sequenced the full genome of the species earlier this year.

Abstract submitted to #NetSci2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social on 2025-12-19 at 23:57 Baker Island time UTC-12 aka "Anywhere on Earth". 👀 🌎🌍🌏 Best abstracts are always submitted last minute, in the open ocean swell of individually ending the last workday, and at shore break at the actual deadline. 🌊🕳️🐇⌛😉

In the series: "Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to #genocide." cf. "Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas" www.yahoo.com/news/where-j... Called this 9 months ago: bsky.app/profile/schi...

"The Chancellor [of Germany 🇩🇪] expresses their condolences for #Sidney on 'X' and condemns antisemitism. On X. Anyone who is serious about fighting antisemitism wouldn't even consider maintaining an account on Elon's Nazi pub (where the boss himself wants to destroy the EU)."

Join us Monday, Dec 14 at @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lab encounter with #MonikaKackovic et al. at @uva.nl on art & AI, endurance in fashion, Bollywood, and being ranked. 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+2 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍 22 hours from this post. Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-... Web: www.cix-lab.org

They'll burn down the Hirschfeld library all over again, rape Venezuela, and over half the Democrats just provided the matches. The #misogyny & #transphobia serves to split humanity in two, #racism & #xenophobia serves to split us in parts, all to satisfy their #bullshit, #nepotism and #greed.

US Dept of State "returns" to Times New Roman, because Calibri is "woke". 😂🎃😱 I once had a 85 year old colleague teaching typography, who told their students: Yes, policy says you must use Times New Roman, but if you hand in your final thesis using it, you have learned nothing in my course.

"watching" :)

Reading this thread and the cited thread are highly worthwhile!

Today, like every day, is a good day to think about, what we did, why we do what we do, and what we should do. I often think about Candide, who literally broke his back, gave up on competition, and five years later did this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Ad... #dream-every-day #blueski #freedom&rigor

RIP Dedo Weigert. I 1st worked with #dedolight in 1998. 2016, I spotted a video light in continuous mode on a museum ceiling. "field test/use at own risk" they told me. Since then, I work under 2700-6700K 40W DLED4-BI controlled light. Still mind-blowing. Every day! www.cined.com/dedo-weigert...

A few years ago, in a 4 hour "30 minute chat", former Estonian president @ilvestoomas.bsky.social agreed: The biggest danger would be the center-right siding with the far-right. Et voilà: "center-right EU lawmakers side with the far right to water down environmental standards." #VerlustDerMitte

This is beautiful and enlightening!

There is supposedly not a single female top US media influencer, except for Megyn Kelly, whose Trump vote was "primarily driven by issues like transgender issues", "to protect traditional values [and] fundamental freedom". WTF All the US left has left is Trevor Noah, who is a South African citizen.

Corinna Coupette @dataspider.bsky.social @cudanlab.bsky.social "Computational Perspectives on Legal Systems." www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCW5...

Oleg Sobchuk @sobchuk.bsky.social @cudanlab.bsky.social "Evolution of Literature and the Arts." www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnZ...

Laura K Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social @cudanlab.bsky.social "Why Variance Matters." www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-DM...

Christian Bentz @cudanlab.bsky.social "Statistical properties of a 40,000 year old sign system." www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmwU...

Andrew Piper @andrewpiper.bsky.social @cudanlab.bsky.social "Computationally Modeling Collective Narratives." www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTg1...

Melvin Wevers @melvinwevers.bsky.social @cudanlab.bsky.social "The Architecture of Information." www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4ve...

Meeyoung Cha @cudanlab.bsky.social "AI, Society, and Computing" www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PZJ...

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lecture and discussion with Corinna Coupette of @aalto.fi in person @dataspider.bsky.social 💽🕷️ on Computational Perspectives on Legal Systems 🤖🔭⚖️ 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+2 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍 5.5 hours from this post. Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...

Still amazing: radio.garden cf. radio.garden/visit/trevig... 🇮🇹 🎶 radio.garden/listen/kera-... 🇺🇸 🦋 🗣️ radio.garden/listen/radio... 🇦🇹 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🎶 radio.garden/listen/pidgi... 🇳🇬 🎶 radio.garden/listen/coule... 🇨🇭 🇫🇷 🎶 #Radio #MediaWithoutBorders #UnitedWeStand 🦉 🌎🌍🌎 🌊 🌈 🏄 🎶 🦤 pls reply with your favorites 🧵

#prehistory "Fifa's Sepp Blatter should be awarded Nobel Peace Prize, says Vladimir Putin" – The Guardian 2015-12-17 www.theguardian.com/football/201...

If Musk would earn 100.000 Euro a year, this "fine" by the European Commission would cost him around 120 Euros, which is less than 3 parking tickets in Tallinn.

"The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on [Dec] 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members [...] if they have worked in [...] misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety [...]"

"Cloud Dancer" holiday gifts? "The White Company" has you covered "Putting people first [...] working towards a more human-centred 
and equitable future for all [...] Respecting human rights and labour standards 
for everyone." Guess who picks their cotton. www.thewhitecompany.com/row/our-worl...

If you're not German, you may have missed this: 1934: Nazi "archaeologists" prepping for a rally find a skeleton, declare it to be the uber-male ur-arian; 2019: Archaeologists revisit finds; evidence implies she was a powerful female shaman of color. 🙃😊😂 www.deutschlandfunk.de/schamanin-ba...

Every institute director who thinks they can digitise away their photo library, please take notice! #TheFutureIsAnalog

Alright, artists inaugurate monument for Walter Lübcke, center-right CDU politician, assassinated by an extreme right neo-Nazi, right in front of CDU party HQ in Berlin, the formerly center-right party of Merkel. CDU-er says monument is divisive. Divisive of what? center|right or center-right|nazi

A lone German retiree is doing the work our institutions protecting the constitution should do, documenting the rise of latent Fascism, which is well organized, well funded, and threatening free society, all the way since World War 2. Well worth translating & reading the whole thread!

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

Dear @science.org, please tell me this sloppy cosmic barber pole is not "AI" generated? A point symmetric black hole? And perfect pattern duplication? @elisabethbik.bsky.social & @callingbullshit.bsky.social would be "delighted".

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lecture and discussion feat. Oleg Sobchuk @sobchuk.bsky.social, of @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social on "Evolution of Literature and the Arts" 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time (UTC+2) i.e. 60 minutes from this post. Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...

The #science is out: "Macaques spontaneously synchronize to beat in the absence of a target interval." #synthsky #dillatime #macaques !!! 🐒 🎶 🎉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS8o...

Seattle aims to emulate the social housing model of Vienna, i.e. the city on top of The Global Livability Index of The Economist.

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Cardi B alluding to Diana Ross: "If there is a cure for this, I don't want it!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9-7... Authoritarianism is no cure for Freedom! 🎉

What do Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Mortal Kombat have to teach us about #cultural #evolution? As a social-technological phenomenon, #arcade game genres evolved like cultural species—some diversified, while others became "living fossils." 🕹️🧪 👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....