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EE with background in legacy industrial systems, dad, Episcopalian.
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Philip N Cohen
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Basic rates explained:
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Giant bat catches and eats birds midflight
Europeās largest bat hunts and eats birds midair, finally solving a 25-year mystery about how these nocturnal predators capture their prey.
https://www.earth.com/news/giant-bat-catches-and-eats-birds-midflight/
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Ars Technica
16 days ago
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Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report
Consulting firm quietly admitted to GPT-4o use after fake citations were found in August.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/deloitte-will-refund-australian-government-for-ai-hallucination-filled-report/?utm_source=bsky&utm_medium=social
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Alice Stollmeyer
18 days ago
š„ Finally an EU leader says it out loud: āWe have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.ā
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Dr Paul Dorfman
19 days ago
#Solar
becomes main source of electricity in the
#EU
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#electricity
in the second quarter of 2025 came from
#RenewableEnergy
www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-p...
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Solar becomes main source of electricity in the EU for first time
More than half of the EUās electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from renewable energy
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-power-eu-renewable-energy-b2837926.html
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Vox
26 days ago
Churches, synagogues, and mosques own millions of acres of land across the US, but are usually barred from building any housing on their property. Now, congressional lawmakers are introducing a bill to exempt houses of worship from restrictive local zoning laws so they can build affordable homes.
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Churches want to build affordable housing. Why are cities stopping them?
Where the āYes in Godās Backyardā movement goes next.
https://www.vox.com/policy/462799/yigby-housing-affordable-churches-synogogues-congress-rent?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhbluesky&utm_content=<media_url>
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Don Moynihan
27 days ago
Most informative thing Iāve read so far on this topic
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Scott Horton
about 1 month ago
Allies are aghast as US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker fails even to show up at the NATO emergency meeting following the incursion over Poland. Guess he was too busy measuring men's urinals again.
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MeidasTouch
about 1 month ago
šØ BREAKING: Charlie Kirk has been shot in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University. This heinous and vile attack is a stain on our democracy. Violence must NEVER be the answer to political disagreementsāour strength is in ideas, not bloodshed.
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Against a charitable group. Likely not thermite if water put it out, but still could have started a big fire and killed people.
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Scorigami
about 1 month ago
š BAL 40 - 41 BUF FINAL ā That's Scorigami!! It's the 1092nd unique final score in NFL history.
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@edzitron.com
Not the first study of LLMs' handling of simulated geopolitical crises/wars that has shown this. Think it's worth a newsletter? Reminds me of how Prisoner's Dilemma games between software programs needed to be random length, or else they'd hyper-rationally choose to ALWAYS betray.
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AAAHhahaha! Suffer, evildoers.
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Spicomellus - Wikipedia
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Foeke Postma
about 2 months ago
More testing of LLMs for journalism, this time on identifying image location, date, and source. By
@aisvarya17.bsky.social
and
@klaudia.bsky.social
with some of my own commentary.
www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
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WIRED
2 months ago
So... we went to an AI film fest to see what exactly is going down. From a POV butterfly larvae doc to something that was more like a perfume commercial, it did little to convince
@manishakrishnan.bsky.social
of AI's artistry. Let's get into it:
www.wired.com/story/cream-...
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I Saw the Future of AI Film and It Was Empty
From a POV butterfly larvae doc to something that resembled a perfume commercial, Runway AIās film festival selections did little to convince me of AIās artistry.
https://www.wired.com/story/cream-of-the-slop-an-ai-film-festival-screening-left-me-with-more-questions-than-answers/
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Nancy Levine Stearns š
2 months ago
š§µ āTarget is experiencing its 6th straight month of declining foot traffic, with store visits down nearly 8% and a $12 billion loss in market value following its rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.ā Heads up, anti-DEI investors
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FAFO Still In Full Effect At Target As Foot Traffic Continues To Decline For Retail Giant
Since Target decided to eliminate its DEI initiatives, Black people have been standing on business. The corporation continues to decline.
https://www.blackenterprise.com/target-decline-foot-traffic/
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Stephen NuƱez
3 months ago
GPT-5 regularly asks you why you are not citing its work. GPT-5 always believes your estimator is biased. GPT-5 has more of a comment than a question. Sometimes GPT-5 tells you stories about grad school and expresses regret about getting a PhD. GPT-5's mom wonders when it will start making money.
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@climate.noaa.gov
@sierraclub.org
@caneurope.org
I found a column proposing a renewable energy transition in the microfilm archive of the
@mercurynews.com
from January 1883!
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H I Sutton
3 months ago
Ok, for each retweet Iāll provide one insight, fact, or opinion on unconventional naval warfare, like submarines, explosive boats, special forces or crazy ideas 0/n š§µ
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H I Sutton
3 months ago
Incredible drone flying and thinking
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UEFA Womenās EURO 2025
3 months ago
š©šŖ 10-player Germany take the last semi-final spot after a penalty shoot-out win in Basel š²
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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot
3 months ago
Animals react to secret sounds from plants, say scientists
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Animals react to secret sounds from plants, say scientists
It opens up the possibility that an invisible ecosystem might exist between plants and animals.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e4860n9rpo
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Ulrike Franke
4 months ago
Such a crucially important essay that, honestly, Iāve kinda been waiting for. Read, read, read!
#drones
warontherocks.com/2025/06/i-fo...
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I Fought in Ukraine and Hereās Why FPV Drones Kind of Suck ā War on the Rocks
https://warontherocks.com/2025/06/i-fought-in-ukraine-and-heres-why-fpv-drones-kind-of-suck/
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Eliot Higgins
4 months ago
ā Loyalist media amplifying fear ā Attempts to bait more unrest to justify harsher crackdowns This isnāt law enforcement. Itās a power play.
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Eliot Higgins
4 months ago
What to expect next: ā Escalation framed as ārestoring orderā ā Mass arrests under vague pretexts ā Targeting of protest organisers and journalists ā Expansion of emergency powers ā Demonisation of dissent as āterrorismā
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Eliot Higgins
4 months ago
In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. Itās not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.
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Kendyl Hanks
5 months ago
It is absolutely true. Exhibit A:
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Seanie Byrne š¦”
5 months ago
Weāre at this stage.
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Ed Zitron
5 months ago
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Blue Skies Aviation
5 months ago
Whatās better than
#seaplanesunday
? How about Supersonic Seaplane Sunday? Convair F2Y Sea Dart on display at the Florida Air Museum at Lakeland Linder airport. The Sea Dart never entered service, but remains the only seaplane to exceed the speed of sound.
#convair
#seadart
#airplanes
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NY Times Pitchbot
6 months ago
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
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Timothy Snyder
7 months ago
About 1/6 of the total population of Serbia protested government malfeasance today. In the US that would be more than fifty million people.
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Eliot Higgins
7 months ago
š§µ I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.
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Jane Lytvynenko
8 months ago
JD Vance's cousin is fighting as a volunteer in Ukraine. "We are the useful idiots of Vladimir Putin," he told Le Figaro about Trump and Vance's position.
www.lefigaro.fr/internationa...
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«Nous sommes les idiots utiles de Vladimir Poutine» : Nate, cousin germain de JD Vance et combattant volontaire en Ukraine
EXCLUSIF - Le Texan a passé trois ans en Ukraine, dont deux et demi à se battre sur les fronts les plus sanglants. Il désespère de la position de son cousin et de Donald Trump.
https://www.lefigaro.fr/international/nous-sommes-les-idiots-utiles-de-vladimir-poutine-nate-cousin-germain-de-jd-vance-et-combattant-volontaire-en-ukraine-20250309
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Eliot Higgins
8 months ago
š§µ This is a perfect example of what I've be describing as disordered discourse, and it's threat to democracy. Politicians are afraid to speak openly about key issues. Why? Because disordered discourse has captured the system itselfāforcing obedience, punishing dissent, and making truth irrelevant.
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Samuel Perry
8 months ago
In this new study looking at county-level religious adherents & homicide rates over time, the authors find more evangelicals in a county predicts higher homicide rates in that county & even in adjacent counties. More Mainliners predicts the opposite pattern. Catholics mixed.
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Eliot Higgins
8 months ago
Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmannās Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Muskās role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. Itās a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.
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Kara Swisher
8 months ago
Unsafe at any speed
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Cybertruck crash raises alarm bells about Tesla's self-driving software
A crash involving a Tesla Cybertruck in self-driving mode this week has sparked worries about the reliability of the company's software that powers the feature, days after CEO Elon Musk said he would roll out a paid robotaxi service this year.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/cybertruck-crash-raises-alarm-bells-about-teslas-self-driving-software-2025-02-13/
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Jon Bois
8 months ago
[leaning over to my seatmate in a nosediving passenger jet] you like string beans? guess what! thanks to donald trump's policies, they're about to get more expensive. donald trump promised to lower the prices of string beans, but he didn't. now you'll have to pay more for string beans than ever befo
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Matt Baldwin
10 months ago
At the heart of every AI defender is an anti-copyright troll. And at the heart of every anti-copyright troll is an insecure person seething with jealousy who've convinced themselves that it isn't fair that other people are better at writing or drawing or other creative pursuits than the troll is.
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Heesoo Jang
11 months ago
I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage. Given the urgency, Iām sharing it now. I didnāt expect events to escalate this quickly.
#SouthKorea
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South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy AgaināAnd the World Needs to Know
Last updated December 3, 10:09 AM South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy AgaināAnd the World Needs to Know Heesoo Jang Assistant Professor of Media Law and Ethics Journalism Department, University of...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13cZrLIFbanNpIFNPE8xRObf_Hhko8NMpriRAH7levQo/edit?tab=t.0
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