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anneroth.bsky.social
"The commission’s response was not filled with references to the scientific literature. Instead, the Commission referred to the essays and books by tech CEOs."

Unglaublich. Wirklich unfassbar. Politik, die auf Lobby-Bullshit basiert, und dabei Grundrechte rasiert.
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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anneroth.bsky.social
"In the budget speech this year, commission president Ursula von der Leyen made a bold statement that AI is expected to approach human reasoning by next year."

Die Nächste, nach (bzw. vor) Wildberger.

"Surprised by this statement, I asked the commission to provide me with documents .."
Von der Leyen caught in AI hype trap while Tech bros cash in
Ursula von der Leyen and the EU Commission are fueling the AI hype, claiming AI could reach human-level reasoning next year. When asked for evidence, they cited tech CEOs’ essays, prompting scientists...
euobserver.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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starcrossed2018.bsky.social
Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
The cover of a book. Title reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE. The illustration shows black embroidery of flowers, fruit, animals and insects on a stained cream ground.
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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misswalsingham.bsky.social
So proud of my @leidenhumanities.bsky.social colleague Lotte Fikkers, whose Open Access Book, Early Modern Women’s Life Writing & English law is out w/ @edinburghup.bsky.social ! A stunning achievement from our @erc.europa.eu project #FEATHERS. Don’t miss it
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
Women in early modern courtrooms: 'A cross-section of society'
In early modern England, courts of law were working overtime. University lecturer Lotte Fikkers delved into the records of centuries-old court cases involving women. In Early Modern Women's Life-Writi...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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elokapina.bsky.social
Koralliriutat on jo menetetty, Atlantin merivirtauksen hiipuminen on lähempänä kuin koskaan. Uutiset ovat muuttuneet huolestuttavista katastrofaalisiksi.

Nyt jos koskaan meidän on taisteltava tulevaisuuden puolesta. Osta toimintaamme tukeva pääsylippu virtuaaligalleriaan: mesenaatti.me/4070
”Suuri yleisö ja poliitikot eivät näe vuosikymmenten päähän, mutta tiede näkee. On selvää, että olemme polulla, jolla emme halua olla” - ilmastotieteilijä James Hansen. Auta meitä taistelussa elämää uhkaavaa kriisiä vastaan. Osallistumalla Mesenaatti-kampanjaan saat pääsylipun virtuaaliseen kuvagalleriaan.
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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ctcallisen.bsky.social
#CfP: Material and Digital Surrogates in the Practice of History. Saint Louis University, 8-10 June 2026

Abstracts due 15 December 2025

#EarlyModern #skystorians #DigitalHistory
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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jmkorhonen.fi
More than that, countries broadly following the (Nordic) Social Democratic model are at or very near the top of practically every measurement of societal achievement _ever devised_.

All measurements have issues and any one statistic could be flawed.

But when they all point to the same direction…
witwarrior.bsky.social Dr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution. @witwarrior.bsky.social · 4h
Finland tops the global happiness index, which suggests that other countries should use it as a model.
November 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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jmkorhonen.fi
This, 100%. No one disparages, downplays, viscerally loathes and undermines nearly every achievement of Finns like the Finnish far right.

And it seems to be the same elsewhere. The self-proclaimed “patriots” do little else than complain how rotten their country is, and how stupid its people.
valoisdubins.bsky.social 猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 5h
I think there is an element of every far right movement that genuinely loathes its own country. That it is in Finnish hands promoting Finnish culture is something that revolts them because they are digusted by what Finland is compared to whatever nightmare of perpetual violence and misery they wish.
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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deemclachlan.bsky.social
There’s a lovely article here about them. Just if you’re interested. I bet goats have fallen on cars. Probably out of sheer belligerence.

www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
England's mysterious sunken roads
A new mapping project by Natural England will help unearth the deep history and mystery of this ancient network of subterranean tracks.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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tapiomaatta.bsky.social
Oho, nyt tuli tilasto, josta olen erityisen ylpeä ja iloinen: Itä-Suomen yliopisto sai kaikista yliopistoista eniten Suomen Akatemian tutkimuksen kaupallistamis- ja vaikuttavuusrahoitusta.

Fiksu rahoitusinstrumentti!

UEF sai 1,7 milj. e jaetusta 9,7 milj. e kokonaisrahoituksesta.
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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courtneymilan.com
As an example: the last time I caucused for a candidate, there were three people there for my district. We were electing five representatives. Me showing up, by myself, got two reps for the candidate I was caucusing for.
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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jasonhickel.bsky.social
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.

We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
samklai.bsky.social
Left pic: note the exhaust fumes and is that insecticide they're spraying?
70sbachchan.bsky.social Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · Jul 14
Workers tend to herbs grown beneath solar panels in a photovoltaic plantation in Lihua, Lianyungang, Jiangsu.

An aerial view shows residential buildings with roof-mounted photovoltaic-solar panels in Yinchuan,

Great photos of China's record smashing solar boom
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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pdkmitchell.bsky.social
Any journalists interesting in covering/following can DM here or contact me at pdkmitchell at gmail dot com. The most recent BBC and ITV coverage is here (CW: violence, femicide, suicide):

www.bbc.com/news/article...

www.itv.com/news/tyne-te...
www.itv.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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cait.bsky.social
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
r/ExpectationVsReality u/Additional-Simple858 • 3d Join Al 'doctor' said my back pain is depression, not a slipped disc. Now physical therapy won't get approved. Al Expectation We are reviewing claim #& submitted on 09/28/2025. Our records indicate the claim was filed under diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while the corresponding prescription and referral history list treatment for lumbar disc herniation (back pain). Re: Incorrect Diagnosis in Record Hi Thank you for reaching out. We have reviewed your visit documentation and can confirm that the notes in question were generated using our Al scribe system. It appears the Al tool assigned diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while your visit notes and treatment plan reference lumbar disc herniation (back pain). Per compliance policy, certain Al-generated fields cannot be manually updated by clinic staff and require vendor correction. We have escalated this to our vendor support team and opened ticket # . We'll notify you once we receive confirmation or correction from the vendor.
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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tamarajatkin.bsky.social
Is there anyone here that can help me turn a spreadsheet (prices and sellers codes of two batches of books) into something approaching a legible table/visualization?
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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casella.bsky.social
CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.
November 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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thegozfather.bsky.social
These catalogue updates allow me, a serious historian, to search for "fart" and find the case where the accused allegedly said he "cared not a fart for the Lord Mayor of London." What will you find? discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_a...
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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aselrod.bsky.social
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.

And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.

What does OpenAI offer the world?
histoftech.bsky.social Gales of November ReMar-mbered @histoftech.bsky.social · 5d
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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gordondarroch.bsky.social
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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brittanytrang.com
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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thedailyshow.com
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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gretchenmcc.bsky.social
One of these pitch ideas might be of interest to linguists who are looking to write for a general audience!
Surprising ethno-linguistic enclaves around the world. There are German-speaking Mennonites in Kyrgyzstan, a village in the Venezuelan jungle whose inhabitants speak an old fashioned German dialect, Greek-speakers in Southern Italy, and quite a lot of Thai people in Svalbard. We’re interested in pieces about groups like these – how they got there, what life is like for them, and so on – especially if you have photographs and have visited them yourself.
November 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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pdkmitchell.bsky.social
Seen that video of a hundred-year-old veteran weeping over his lost country and being comforted by the 'D-Day Darlings' in a poppy-bedecked morning TV studio? Assailed by a profound sense of unease? Of distaste? Of dread, even? Allow me to make it worse: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/afte...
After Captain Tom
The cultural memory of the Second World War has long been used to serve the interests of British conservatism. But now that the long post-war compact is over, has its meaning evaporated completely?
tribunemag.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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lhaasis.bsky.social
Have you heard of the 1690 Siege of Limerick? Join us for a roundtable with the authors of a new book on this significant event in Irish history: Monday, 3pm CET, 2pm UK, 9am EST! @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social joins authors Tom Truxes and John Shovlin to discuss the book! #IrishHistory #EarlyModern 🗃️
Cover of the book (in green and with a historical map of Limerick) with event description: This roundtable coincides with the publication of a new book on a significant event in Irish history: the 1690 Siege of Limerick, the only major Catholic victory in the Williamite War (1689–1691). To celebrate the publication of The Amity Papers, 1690: The Siege of Limerick and Franco-Irish Mercantile Networks by the British Academy and Oxford University Press, the leading authority on late 17th-century Ireland, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History (1762) at Trinity College Dublin, will join the authors, Professor Tom Truxes of Glucksman Ireland House and Professor John Shovlin of NYU’s History Department, in a discussion of the book’s significance as a window into Irish society at a turning point in the nation’s history.
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM