Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Bullying the Pope! Maffia practices by the Trump administration. Using God and the Bible as pretext for utter selfishnes and cruelty, there really is no limit.

Haemme viidelle ratkaisuyksiköllemme johtajia vahvistamaan tutkimuksen vaikuttavuutta ja edistämään kestävyysmurrosta. Tutustu tehtäviin Valtiolle.fi-palvelussa ja hae viimeistään 30.4.2026: valtiolle.fi/fi/tyonantaj...

Spannend (Erklärungen im verlinkten Text)

Gave this the soundtrack it deserves. Kubrick was onto something when he picked the Blue Danube as the Theme of Objects Floating In Space. Call me, Nutella

I mean, space pics that look like CGI theory remains extremely valid. You could basically rephrase it as being a result of our common sense heuristics for what makes a photograph appear real being utterly useless when confronted with current space pics.

Nonni, nyt tein muuton eurosky puolelle. Yllättävän kivuttomasti meni. Tili säilyi, palvelin vaihtui ja samalla tiedot euroopan puolelle. *Just migrated the account to eurosky. Was not hard at all. (Would recommend doing it on PC though.) www.eurosky.social *

You think it's bad here?

This planet — with all its troubles — is worth caring for. That should be our single purpose, as a species: To be stewards of this magnificent world, ensuring it thrives long into the future.

Math guys for justice! 👏

Notes from the much larger and more significant war: in March Russia gained no net territory in Ukraine, and lost more soldiers than it was able to replace.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Clauden vuodetut koodit antoivat kuvaa siihen, miten hyvin tämä painotus toimii. Tekoälytuotosta joudutaan promptaamaan useampi kerta sisäisesti, että ulos ei tule ihan silppua. ("Nyt teet hyvää, turvallista koodia, oikeesti teet. Oot haarukka."

Sitten muutama huomio vertailuista biologisiin hermostoihin (kuten ihmisen aivoihin). Piineuroneilla ei ole juuri tekemistä biologisten neuronien kanssa. Transformer-rakenteella ei ole mitään tekemistä minkään biologisen hermoston kanssa.

jonny over on masto doing god's work: > anthropic [is running] an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funniest self-own in the history of advertising because OH BOY IT SHOWS. neuromatch.social/@jonny/11632...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you design a system and 50% of its users are using it wrong, that is not user error. You cannot blame users for that, you built a terrible system.

holy smokes

Oh gosh. Remember the excitement about frontier models understanding medical images and acing tests? "In the most extreme case, our model achieved the top rank on a standard chest X-ray question-answering benchmark without access to any images." Fei-Fei Li is an author. arxiv.org/abs/2603.21687

"Failures are the curriculum." Well said.

Authors are not all using AI. Not even close. Anyone claiming otherwise is telling on themselves. The truth is, a lot of us authors have a central conceit to us. We believe in our heart of hearts that we have something unique to us to say to the world.

As someone who feels like I am moving at a snail's pace right now--compared to being able to write two books and a novella or two a year a decade ago--you might wonder, have I ever been tempted to even think about using AI to speed the process up? The answer is not even fucking slightly.

Eli ei tullut Q1llä prätkää. Eikä akun energiatiheyttä varmennettuna, eikä sitä onko solid state.

Two weeks before the next video. A generous reading is that the Verge motorcycle deliveries have slipped (deliveries were supposed to have started Q1), and this series is following that delivery progress to protect trade secrets as long as possible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE55...

Saimme THL:ssä rahoituksen kunnianhimoiseen projektiin: tavoite on rakentaa simulointimalli, jolla voitaisiin arvioida talouspoliitikan vaikutuksia väestön terveyteen. Nyt haemme hankkeeseen yhdeksi vuodeksi java-osaajaa, joka on kiinnostunut nostamaan politiikan arvioinnin seuraavalle tasolle.

The drones fell down on Primorsk On the Gulf of Finland shore Shadow Fleet was bottled up Ust-Luga couldn't take much more They kept hitting every day now Easter Week was drawing nigh Russian time was running out Putin's oil was burning high Smoke on the water Fire in the sky

Europe is the shield against imperialism. The US is gone.

Natural climate solutions can deliver a host of benefits for people + nature. So what’s holding them back? A new @science.nature.org-led global study analyzed >500 projects across 137 countries to identify 46 implementation barriers. Turns out, most aren’t scientific or ecological—they’re human!

Wonderful demonstration that AI are -mostly- bullshit machines. And dangerous when misused. @carlbergstrom.com ➡️ to be added to your course thebullshitmachines.com

Oh great. The US President is now back to publicly threatening to commit terrible war crimes because he started a war he did not understand. He should be in prison for this. Attacking desalinization plants could spiral into a regional catastrophe.

"More than 1/3 of globally traded fertilizer passes through the Strait of Hormuz... Traffic through the route has largely been halted since the war started..., disrupting shipments just as farmers across the Northern Hemisphere prepare fields for spring planting."

One reason why the East Wing resonates with people is that it will be incredibly difficulty, divisive and costly to undo this shit. And in that respect it serves as an apt metaphor for the Trump administration.

1/ The world is facing a 'ticking time bomb' from its supply of oil, according to a briefing note from JP Morgan. Physical scarcity of oil is about to unfold across the globe, spreading sequentially through April from east to west, causing major economic disruption worldwide. ⬇️

Canada has a strategic reserve of maple syrup in a warehouse in Quebec, in case of economic catastrophe. Somebody robbed it in 2012, in an event repeatedly referred to as The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.

The meme that "clams are insentient and you can literally be vegan and still eat them" is growing. If you want to be bivalvitarian, that can be a healthy and eco-friendly decision! But as someone who has grown clams and carnivorous plants, bivalves are NOT PLANTS dantheclamman.blog/2019/06/02/t...

This is like if Russia attacked Ukraine and then 4 weeks later gave them Gazprom

Netherlands records a second week of 0.01% Covid-19 prevalence (from their infection survey of ~30,000 residents), and another record-low covid wastewater concentration. 1/

Phang: But here’s what really did in Meta and Google: the disclosure of internal documents from these companies, which were presented as evidence during the trial. The jury heard the following—and when you hear this, you’ll understand.

Se on #pandemiaPerjantai ja uudet @thlfi.bsky.social #SARS-CoV2 #korona #jätevesi datat, päivitetyt kaaviot, olkaa hyvät! - virusmäärät jatkavat laskuaan - on päädytty epidemia-aaltojen väliseen, matalaan virusmäärään - yllättävän pieni tämä talvi 2025-2026 epidemia

What Trump giveth, Ukraine taketh away….

There are real American heroes all around us if we pay attention. techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/k...

Sad how the current US government is purposefully destroying science, because the results don’t align with their ideology or financial interests.

There are very good reasons why our strongest scientific norms prohibit deliberately* deceptive data fabrication. Such behavior is literally career-ending. How anyone can endorse working with a system that does this, let wish to add it as a co-author? *not truly volitational but act as if etc.

"The AI Grad Student": A Harvard professor describes working with Claude. Early on, he describes misconduct that would cause any student to be terminated: "It faked results, hoping I wouldn't notice." But he ends the essay with "Now I'm doing 100% of my research with LLMs". Am I losing my mind?

>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.

One reason soil erosion is so tough is that it occurs over long timescales. In these long term plots in Wooster, OH, you can see that reduced tillage and adding grasses in the rotation has prevented ~4” of topsoil loss in the past decades. This always reminds me of the Wendell Berry quote…

Wow. Looks like Trump just lost Amazon Web Services its contract with Finland for cloud-based management of election information. No price given. But would be interesting to know how soon European digital sovereignty might start to mean something to US hyperscalers' bottom lines.

Moronic

Here is what the journal Nature has to say about our paper on the increasing rate of #globalwarming: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

With spring arriving, it's tempting to begin working on our yards and gardens. But hold on! 🐝 Clearing debris & trimming plants too soon can actually harm bees, butterflies, & other important pollinators. We've curated a list of questions to tell when the time is right ⤵️