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* intelligence, both artificial and natural
* science(-fiction)
* nature
* liberal/progressive politics
* getting Russia out of Ukraine
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delbertgseasons.bsky.social
Mike Bernie Sanders should be forced to give away 90% of his birthday cake. #HappyBirthdayBernie 10:45 AM - 9/8/19 • Twitter for Android 75 Retweets 233 Likes Mayor Im Replying to @ This is how birthday cakes work when you have friends. 24 L
May 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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tomerullman.bsky.social
thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion"

(more examples below)
December 1, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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amann.bsky.social
Check out the latest find from the Young Worlds Lab, led by UNC Graduate Student Madyson Barber (madysonb.github.io).

Newborn planet found in a warped system www.nature.com/articles/d41...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧪🔭🪐⚛️🌌⭐
Newborn planet found in a warped system
The discovery of a young, Jupiter-sized planet with a short orbital period provides useful data for studying planet formation.
www.nature.com
November 20, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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martinlaineolen.bsky.social
In 2021, Elon Musk joined a Kremlin propaganda event tied to reviving the infamous Soviet "pioneer movement" for kids. Invited by Sergei Kiriyenko, Putin's personal propaganda czar.

WSJ later reported they stayed in contact ever since.

The implications are concerning—I'll show you why.
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The Bell 24 May 2021 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share via Email Copy link This week, Sergei Kiriyenko, Kremlin eminence grise and deputy head of the presidential administration, announced that Elon Musk would speak at a state-sponsored education forum. At first, it looked like a weird PR stunt. But, against all expectations, Musk actually gave a speech via a video link and spent 40 minutes answering questions from students. Struggling with an unstable connection, Musk often dissolved into pixels as he outlined his vision. “Cars will be totally self-driving and all transport on earth, from ships to airplanes, will be electric,” he told his audience. He also waded into geopolitics, stating that “there should be more communication between Russia and the USA.” He expounded on U.S.-Russia relations in answer to a question about why he had agreed to appear at the forum. He said it was a personal invitation from President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov. All this was a clear Kremlin propaganda win (the event that included Musk attracted 20 million views, according to Kiriyenko). It’s also a triumph for the Znaniye Society that organized it. This society was ‘revived’ by Putin in 2015 as part of a push to create a number of groups for schoolchildren to replicate the Soviet-era pioneer movement. This did not meet with much success until Znaniye began making waves. Znaniye was set-up by Stalin after the Second World War to retrain adult workers and foster patriotism. Members of the society gave lectures and published scientific magazines. The decree that established the group stated its goal was “the dissemination of political and scientific knowledge”. Putin’s version of Znaniye has similar aims: it was created, first and foremost, for the “development of civil society and the spiritual and moral education of citizens”. In addition to Musk’s speech, there was a flurry of reports in Russian media about the prospect that Tesla plants might open in Russia and neighboring Kazakhstan. This got several Russian governors over-excited. “Welcome to Udmurtia!”, wrote regional head Alexander Brechalov on his social media. Half an hour he added that Musk could count on tax breaks if he chose this region. Governor Andrei Vorobyov waxed lyrical about Moscow Region’s logistics, but Alexander Klychov from Oryol Region went further than everyone, punning on the Russian word for eagle to compare T…
November 19, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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djlockup.bsky.social
forgetting your headphones at home is the modern equivalent of leaving your sword behind in medieval times
November 18, 2024 at 4:58 AM
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gcorso.bsky.social
Thrilled to announce Boltz-1, the first open-source and commercially available model to achieve AlphaFold3-level accuracy on biomolecular structure prediction! An exciting collaboration with Jeremy, Saro, and an amazing team at MIT and Genesis Therapeutics. A thread!
November 17, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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hannahhillam.bsky.social
Figured this was a good first post, seeing as it will probably be on my tombstone someday
November 17, 2024 at 5:19 AM
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vatniksoup.bsky.social
Biden allows the use of ATACMS in the Kursk region.

Sullivan must be FUMING right now.
November 17, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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mnateshyamalan.bsky.social
one thing i do miss about twitter is how i would see a post i’m interested in and then it immediately disappeared like im a raccoon washing his cotton candy
November 17, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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coreyspowell.bsky.social
Astronomers have just discovered the first known "Einstein zigzag."

Due to a lucky cosmic alignment, the combined gravity of two galaxies bent light like spaghetti & split a distant quasar into six different images. 🧪🔭

www.science.org/content/arti...
Visualization of the optical paths of the lensed images. The two zig-zag paths, D and F, are marked in pink and blue respectively. The deflectors cause two sets of sharp turns, while the smooth curvature seen in all paths is due to the expansion of space.
November 17, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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thisisadax.bsky.social
(1) Vision language models can explain complex charts & decode memes, but struggle with simple tasks young kids find easy - like counting objects or finding items in cluttered scenes! Our 🆒🆕 #NeurIPS2024 paper shows why: they face the same 'binding problem' that constrains human vision! 🧵👇
November 15, 2024 at 3:09 AM
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georebekah.bsky.social
Word of the day:

kleptocracy,

a society or system ruled by people who use their power to steal their country's resources.
November 14, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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riotgrlerin.bsky.social
i’ve seen the lord of the rings trilogy and i’ve played battleship a couple times so appoint me as secretary of defense.
November 13, 2024 at 2:24 AM