Cam
@camster.bsky.social
Some fire stuff, some transport stuff, some climate stuff. Some other random science stuff. Probably too much of the one you’re not into.
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@camster.bsky.social
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Hello new followers!
Quick intro: currently working in (mostly) general science education, but prior to that focused more on fire, ecosystems & earth observation (all of which I remain interested in).
Also into sustainability, especially of transport, which inevitably leads to broader questions...
Quick intro: currently working in (mostly) general science education, but prior to that focused more on fire, ecosystems & earth observation (all of which I remain interested in).
Also into sustainability, especially of transport, which inevitably leads to broader questions...
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Who's at the epicenter of the Epstein files?
February 8, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Who's at the epicenter of the Epstein files?
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In case you were on the fence about buying something from Amazon…
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:30 AM
In case you were on the fence about buying something from Amazon…
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Acive duty military are being ordered to buy a ticket to Melania and watch it, whether they want to, or not. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...
Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will
A military group has evidence of troops being ordered into theater—the movie theater.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Acive duty military are being ordered to buy a ticket to Melania and watch it, whether they want to, or not. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...
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“OUR city isn’t [insert name of a much more livable & successful city here].”
Trust me, we know that. It’s abundantly obvious that you’re not that city.
That city made, and continues to make, much better choices with fewer excuses.
The real question is, do you want YOUR city to be better or not?
Trust me, we know that. It’s abundantly obvious that you’re not that city.
That city made, and continues to make, much better choices with fewer excuses.
The real question is, do you want YOUR city to be better or not?
February 8, 2026 at 1:12 AM
“OUR city isn’t [insert name of a much more livable & successful city here].”
Trust me, we know that. It’s abundantly obvious that you’re not that city.
That city made, and continues to make, much better choices with fewer excuses.
The real question is, do you want YOUR city to be better or not?
Trust me, we know that. It’s abundantly obvious that you’re not that city.
That city made, and continues to make, much better choices with fewer excuses.
The real question is, do you want YOUR city to be better or not?
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Are they going to call for cars to be taken away and crushed too?
February 7, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Are they going to call for cars to be taken away and crushed too?
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Across Australia: protest the visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog on Monday 9 February. We will not be complicit in genocide.
#Auspol #Gaza
#Auspol #Gaza
Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) | Australia Palestine Advocacy Network - APAN
The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) is a national coalition harnessing the community’s passion for Palestinian freedom, justice and self determination. More info on Palestine solidarity ev...
apan.org.au
February 6, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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The scientist who predicted AI psychosis has issued another dire warning
The scientist who predicted AI psychosis has issued another dire warning
Outsourcing your thinking to AI might be eroding your ability to reason. A new commentary warns that "cognitive debt" poses a critical threat to science, suggesting that bypassing mental struggle could stunt future human capabilities.
www.psypost.org
February 7, 2026 at 1:04 PM
The scientist who predicted AI psychosis has issued another dire warning
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"LLMs do not improve one’s writing ability much like taking a taxi does not improve one’s driving ability."
This is an academic paper against AI, so caveat emptor, but it lays out the reasons against adopting AI as inevitable or even desirable, and pulls no punches.
zenodo.org/records/1706...
This is an academic paper against AI, so caveat emptor, but it lays out the reasons against adopting AI as inevitable or even desirable, and pulls no punches.
zenodo.org/records/1706...
Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...
zenodo.org
February 6, 2026 at 7:45 PM
"LLMs do not improve one’s writing ability much like taking a taxi does not improve one’s driving ability."
This is an academic paper against AI, so caveat emptor, but it lays out the reasons against adopting AI as inevitable or even desirable, and pulls no punches.
zenodo.org/records/1706...
This is an academic paper against AI, so caveat emptor, but it lays out the reasons against adopting AI as inevitable or even desirable, and pulls no punches.
zenodo.org/records/1706...
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This story should be retitled. The US is actually funding pro-Putin think tanks, ones that want to end European democracy.
Lets be honest about this.
Lets be honest about this.
US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe ft.trib.al/rg4IDIC
US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe
State department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations
ft.trib.al
February 7, 2026 at 12:42 PM
This story should be retitled. The US is actually funding pro-Putin think tanks, ones that want to end European democracy.
Lets be honest about this.
Lets be honest about this.
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I really appreciate Mediate printing a verbatim transcript of Trump’s rant. It’s completely unhinged and barely comprehensible.
Trump Triggered By Reporter Throwing Racist Video ‘Staffer’ Excuse In His Face — Goes Off On Wild Rant
Trump Triggered By Reporter Throwing Racist Video ‘Staffer’ Excuse In His Face — Goes Off On Wild Rant
Trump became incensed when a reporter tried to compare his excuse that a "staffer" posted a racist video with his criticism of Biden.
The post Trump Triggered By Reporter Throwing Racist Video ‘Staffer’ Excuse In His Face — Goes Off On Wild Rant first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
February 7, 2026 at 3:12 PM
I really appreciate Mediate printing a verbatim transcript of Trump’s rant. It’s completely unhinged and barely comprehensible.
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Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.
Neat demonstration of how artificial so-called intelligence is taking us backwards.
"ChatGPT produced content most consistent with the 1960s and DALL-E 3 in the late 1980s and early '90s."
#AI - see @shannonvallor.bsky.social's work for important thinking on this
phys.org/news/2026-02...
"ChatGPT produced content most consistent with the 1960s and DALL-E 3 in the late 1980s and early '90s."
#AI - see @shannonvallor.bsky.social's work for important thinking on this
phys.org/news/2026-02...
New study uses Neanderthals to demonstrate gap between generative AI and scholarly knowledge
Technological advances over the past four decades have turned mobile devices and computers into the world's largest library, where information is just a tap away. Phones, laptops, tablets, smartwatche...
phys.org
February 7, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.
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To all those who say “but air pollution is within legal limits”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I inhaled traffic fumes to find out where air pollution goes in my body
BBC health correspondent James Gallagher gets his blood analysed to understand how air pollution is killing us.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 3:35 PM
To all those who say “but air pollution is within legal limits”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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That highly classified whistleblower report Tulsi Gabbard covering up?
Guardian reports it’s an NSA intercept of a call between a close Trump associate and “an individual associated with foreign intelligence.”
Sounds similar to Trump’s campaign chair meeting Russian intel and sharing data in 2016.
Guardian reports it’s an NSA intercept of a call between a close Trump associate and “an individual associated with foreign intelligence.”
Sounds similar to Trump’s campaign chair meeting Russian intel and sharing data in 2016.
NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:44 PM
That highly classified whistleblower report Tulsi Gabbard covering up?
Guardian reports it’s an NSA intercept of a call between a close Trump associate and “an individual associated with foreign intelligence.”
Sounds similar to Trump’s campaign chair meeting Russian intel and sharing data in 2016.
Guardian reports it’s an NSA intercept of a call between a close Trump associate and “an individual associated with foreign intelligence.”
Sounds similar to Trump’s campaign chair meeting Russian intel and sharing data in 2016.
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And formally provably so because to drive you need theory of mind. You can indeed show with maths the limits of maths since it's a formal engineered system with knowable limits, see Gödel etc. We created trains which ban humans from tracks so the system can be safely automated, not so for roads. 1/n
These companies are always lying about the extent of their automation because some things cannot be fully automated in principle
futurism.com/advanced-tra...
futurism.com/advanced-tra...
It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:30 AM
And formally provably so because to drive you need theory of mind. You can indeed show with maths the limits of maths since it's a formal engineered system with knowable limits, see Gödel etc. We created trains which ban humans from tracks so the system can be safely automated, not so for roads. 1/n
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This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
The wannabe linguist in me loves this
Blueskyese and Xian share an obvious common root as both being Twitteric languages, the difference is that after the split Xian became a hybrid Twitteric/Channer-linkedin tongue, while Blueskyese changed less overall but did pick up some tumbleric and redditor loanwords
yeah Bluesky is primarily a Tumblric language
February 7, 2026 at 4:10 AM
The wannabe linguist in me loves this
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Weekends are the busiest shopping days, but many bus routes run half as often, and some don't run at all. More buses = more options = more people out of the traffic.
February 7, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Weekends are the busiest shopping days, but many bus routes run half as often, and some don't run at all. More buses = more options = more people out of the traffic.
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Are you a community ecologist interested in fire ecology? Come join our group! Postdoc position for project FEVER, that aims to understand how fire affects biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and biogeochemical cycles in Mediterranean forests @umramap.bsky.social.
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - M/F Postdoctorat projet FEVER: Fire effects on vegetation productivity and nutrient fluxes in Mediterranean ecosystems
Assurez-vous que votre profil candidat soit correctement renseigné avant de postuler
emploi.cnrs.fr
February 6, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Are you a community ecologist interested in fire ecology? Come join our group! Postdoc position for project FEVER, that aims to understand how fire affects biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and biogeochemical cycles in Mediterranean forests @umramap.bsky.social.
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Isaac Herzog, special guest of the Australian government this week, is in the Epstein files.
It appears he went to the pedo rape torture island, alongside Ehud Barak, former Israeli PM, in 2014, long after Epstein’s conviction and outing as a predator.
It appears he went to the pedo rape torture island, alongside Ehud Barak, former Israeli PM, in 2014, long after Epstein’s conviction and outing as a predator.
February 6, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Isaac Herzog, special guest of the Australian government this week, is in the Epstein files.
It appears he went to the pedo rape torture island, alongside Ehud Barak, former Israeli PM, in 2014, long after Epstein’s conviction and outing as a predator.
It appears he went to the pedo rape torture island, alongside Ehud Barak, former Israeli PM, in 2014, long after Epstein’s conviction and outing as a predator.
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"why is a supermarket chain using technology designed for militarised data analysis?
...
They don’t recognise dignity, compassion, or burnout.They calculate your “maximum output per paid hour” then pursue it relentlessly.
...
Palantir calls it “operational intelligence.” Workers call it exhaustion."
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They don’t recognise dignity, compassion, or burnout.They calculate your “maximum output per paid hour” then pursue it relentlessly.
...
Palantir calls it “operational intelligence.” Workers call it exhaustion."
CAUGHT IN THE CRUNCH: The Surveillance State Comes to Your Local Supermarket
Walk into any Coles outlet today and you’re not just buying milk. You’re feeding a surveillance machine processing 10 billion rows of data through Peter Thiel’s Palantir Technolog…
urbanwronski.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:53 PM
"why is a supermarket chain using technology designed for militarised data analysis?
...
They don’t recognise dignity, compassion, or burnout.They calculate your “maximum output per paid hour” then pursue it relentlessly.
...
Palantir calls it “operational intelligence.” Workers call it exhaustion."
...
They don’t recognise dignity, compassion, or burnout.They calculate your “maximum output per paid hour” then pursue it relentlessly.
...
Palantir calls it “operational intelligence.” Workers call it exhaustion."
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good reporting on an interesting angle in the files
if you look at the timeline, Wyler's complaint that Elon basically ripped off his idea for Starlink completely adds up... wouldn't have been Elon's first time either
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
if you look at the timeline, Wyler's complaint that Elon basically ripped off his idea for Starlink completely adds up... wouldn't have been Elon's first time either
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Epstein Was Adviser Behind Funding of Starlink Rival OneWeb
Jeffrey Epstein was an adviser in the creation of OneWeb Ltd, a low-Earth orbit satellite network that is the world’s largest rival of Elon Musk’s Starlink, according to emails released by the US Depa...
www.bloomberg.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:52 PM
good reporting on an interesting angle in the files
if you look at the timeline, Wyler's complaint that Elon basically ripped off his idea for Starlink completely adds up... wouldn't have been Elon's first time either
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
if you look at the timeline, Wyler's complaint that Elon basically ripped off his idea for Starlink completely adds up... wouldn't have been Elon's first time either
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Today we are all Winter Olympics spectators
NEW: Huge cheers earlier for the Ukrainian athletes at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
Then huge BOOS as JD Vance comes on the big screen in the stadium.
Even the commentators can’t hide it…
Then huge BOOS as JD Vance comes on the big screen in the stadium.
Even the commentators can’t hide it…
February 6, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Today we are all Winter Olympics spectators
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Let’s go!
Hawthorn seems to be gearing up for a big independent campaign, challenging the embattled former opposition leader and incumbent Liberal MP.
www.voices4hawthorn.org/candidate_no...
Hawthorn seems to be gearing up for a big independent campaign, challenging the embattled former opposition leader and incumbent Liberal MP.
www.voices4hawthorn.org/candidate_no...
February 6, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Let’s go!
Hawthorn seems to be gearing up for a big independent campaign, challenging the embattled former opposition leader and incumbent Liberal MP.
www.voices4hawthorn.org/candidate_no...
Hawthorn seems to be gearing up for a big independent campaign, challenging the embattled former opposition leader and incumbent Liberal MP.
www.voices4hawthorn.org/candidate_no...
Why doesn't the Vicroads website work? Is this part of the efficiency from privatisation?
February 6, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Why doesn't the Vicroads website work? Is this part of the efficiency from privatisation?
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“…booing…clearly heard on [Canadian] CBC, not audible on [American] NBC.”
No fascist control of the media. No. Not all all. Never. Nope.
No fascist control of the media. No. Not all all. Never. Nope.
Olympics crowd booing when Vance shown on big screen clearly heard on the CBC, not audible on NBC
February 6, 2026 at 9:17 PM
“…booing…clearly heard on [Canadian] CBC, not audible on [American] NBC.”
No fascist control of the media. No. Not all all. Never. Nope.
No fascist control of the media. No. Not all all. Never. Nope.