@drdth.bsky.social
Sorry bros, the universe is not a simulation: phys.org/news/2025-10...
Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation
It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced civilization's supercomputer. But new research from UBC Okanagan has mathematically pr...
phys.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Sorry bros, the universe is not a simulation: phys.org/news/2025-10...
Estimate of the global biomass of the class Mammalia since 1850.
Ref: Nature Communications vol 16, Article 8338 (2025)
Ref: Nature Communications vol 16, Article 8338 (2025)
October 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Estimate of the global biomass of the class Mammalia since 1850.
Ref: Nature Communications vol 16, Article 8338 (2025)
Ref: Nature Communications vol 16, Article 8338 (2025)
“It is difficult to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack of what is found there.” - William Carlos Williams
October 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“It is difficult to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack of what is found there.” - William Carlos Williams
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Never give up HOP.🐸
October 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Never give up HOP.🐸
Brilliant essay on what an AI "actress" will never be able to deliver.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Dear Tilly Norwood: Some Blunt Advice, Actress to “Actress,” From Betty Gilpin
The Emmy-nominated actor and author pens an open letter to the AI avatar that's got Hollywood in a tizzy.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Brilliant essay on what an AI "actress" will never be able to deliver.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Me: comic-book villains are not very believable
*2024 happens*
Me: okay, fine. But no one believes that a hero will dress up as an animal like a bat or a spider or a, I dunno, a frog, and face down the bad guys.
*2025 happens*
*2024 happens*
Me: okay, fine. But no one believes that a hero will dress up as an animal like a bat or a spider or a, I dunno, a frog, and face down the bad guys.
*2025 happens*
October 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Me: comic-book villains are not very believable
*2024 happens*
Me: okay, fine. But no one believes that a hero will dress up as an animal like a bat or a spider or a, I dunno, a frog, and face down the bad guys.
*2025 happens*
*2024 happens*
Me: okay, fine. But no one believes that a hero will dress up as an animal like a bat or a spider or a, I dunno, a frog, and face down the bad guys.
*2025 happens*
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The Dude has spoken:
"ICE? Let's get ICE off our streets and into our beverages. This aggression will not stand. Let's just abide together"
"ICE? Let's get ICE off our streets and into our beverages. This aggression will not stand. Let's just abide together"
October 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The Dude has spoken:
"ICE? Let's get ICE off our streets and into our beverages. This aggression will not stand. Let's just abide together"
"ICE? Let's get ICE off our streets and into our beverages. This aggression will not stand. Let's just abide together"
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Portland Frog updates about getting pepper sprayed in his fan intake 🐸🫡
October 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Portland Frog updates about getting pepper sprayed in his fan intake 🐸🫡
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Losing my mind at the toy soldier socks, what a rich text
September 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Losing my mind at the toy soldier socks, what a rich text
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Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire
www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
Ketanji Brown Jackson Stops Just Short of Saying the Supreme Court Is Breathtakingly Full of Shit
“Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”
www.ballsandstrikes.org
August 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire
www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
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Alaska spoke for most of us. We Support Ukraine.
The Trump meeting with Putin was a massive failure for two of the most untrustworthy imperialistic presidents on the planet.
Americans, at heart, are humanitarians.
Our leadership should reflect us.
The Trump meeting with Putin was a massive failure for two of the most untrustworthy imperialistic presidents on the planet.
Americans, at heart, are humanitarians.
Our leadership should reflect us.
August 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Alaska spoke for most of us. We Support Ukraine.
The Trump meeting with Putin was a massive failure for two of the most untrustworthy imperialistic presidents on the planet.
Americans, at heart, are humanitarians.
Our leadership should reflect us.
The Trump meeting with Putin was a massive failure for two of the most untrustworthy imperialistic presidents on the planet.
Americans, at heart, are humanitarians.
Our leadership should reflect us.
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I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING!!!
“Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
“Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research
Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.
www.statnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
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Republicans drew that map
August 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Republicans drew that map
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As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
August 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
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@willbunch.bsky.social on Alligator Auschwitz and other tRUmpian concentration camps (gift link):
share.inquirer.com/RqxqFO
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This column on U.S. concentration camps is the one I hoped I’d never write | Will Bunch
Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps. I talked to her about how they came to America.
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July 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
@willbunch.bsky.social on Alligator Auschwitz and other tRUmpian concentration camps (gift link):
share.inquirer.com/RqxqFO
share.inquirer.com/RqxqFO
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Stephen Colbert doesn’t need CBS anyway. Wherever he ends up, people are going to watch him even harder now. All CBS did was solidify the fact that they’ll be know until the end of time as just another spineless corporation that couldn’t do the right thing.
July 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Stephen Colbert doesn’t need CBS anyway. Wherever he ends up, people are going to watch him even harder now. All CBS did was solidify the fact that they’ll be know until the end of time as just another spineless corporation that couldn’t do the right thing.
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A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41.
Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.
Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.
Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent abuse survivors, dies by suicide
Other Epstein victims credited Giuffre with giving them the courage to speak out.
www.nbcnews.com
July 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41.
Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.
Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.