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@yardcg.bsky.social
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Australian student, writer, modder. (He/him) Acronym = Yet Another Roguelike Dev (and) CinemaGoer. Not posting on holidays.

Fan of world cinema with a badly incomplete LB.

https://boxd.it/ciP1z

Has ascended NetHack.

Knowing history changes lives.
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YARDCG @yardcg.bsky.social · Nov 24
More context about me beyond the bio (1/2):

*The environment is what I study, and the bulk of my replies/reposts will likely be devoted to it

* Another major interest is (military) history: I first joined here to follow @bretdevereaux.bsky.social

* Whenever I review something, I'll post about it
yardcg.bsky.social
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Excerpt from an April Ars Technica article. "It’s important to note here that our understanding of Kennedy’s disbelief in germ theory isn’t based on speculation or deduction; it’s based on Kennedy’s own words. He wrote an entire section on it in his 2021 book vilifying Fauci, titled The Real Anthony Fauci. The section is titled “Miasma vs. Germ Theory,” in the chapter “The White Man’s Burden.”" The Atlantic's cover with a photo of RFK Jr. holding a rosary and subtitled "The Most Powerful Man in Science".
December 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
If this is what The Atlantic does to RFK Jr., why is it so hard to imagine they would go further with someone they plucked off the street? (2nd image from the link, not from The Atlantic.)

arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
The Atlantic's cover with a photo of RFK Jr. holding a rosary and subtitled "The Most Powerful Man in Science". Excerpt from an April Ars Technica article. "It’s important to note here that our understanding of Kennedy’s disbelief in germ theory isn’t based on speculation or deduction; it’s based on Kennedy’s own words. He wrote an entire section on it in his 2021 book vilifying Fauci, titled The Real Anthony Fauci. The section is titled “Miasma vs. Germ Theory,” in the chapter “The White Man’s Burden.”"
December 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
Please see this thread! I wish I could think of a personal infrastructure book recommendation on the spot to add to this: since I cannot, I'll guess share a report instead.

americanedgeproject.org/wp-content/u...
Spending on data-center construction in the U.S. jumped nearly 70 percent from May 2023 to May 2024, more than triple the growth rate of any other property type. (Manufacturing was the 2nd-largest at 20%, power (including oil and gas) at 11%, and everything else was either single-digit growth or, for commercial (warehouse, retail, farm) and office infrastructure, there were 13% and 18% declines.
December 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
This appears to be the source. It also singles out Reuters - but at least Reuters didn't (seem to) debase itself like this recently. Please remember that like anything else to do with LLMs, AI summaries/overviews are NEVER to be trusted on their own.

www.desmog.com/2023/12/05/r...
December 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
Others missed it, but I think it's worth emphasizing - even in THIS group, which includes these opinions on Jews and Hitler (as well as young women saying feminism failed, seemingly everyone not caring about aiding Ukraine, etc.), 35% (7 out of 20) are AGAINST deporting all undocumented immigrants.
"Moderator: Do you agree or disagree that all illegal immigrants should be deported? 13 of the 20 said they agreed. 7 did not. Brice: I personally need someone to explain immigration problems to me. I’ve never had a problem with immigration, period. I think most of Europe can fit in Texas, so I don’t understand why it’s such a big issue that people are here. Sophie: Well, the issue is that some people are coming over here, and they are truly seeking refuge, and they’re doing the best thing that they can at the time. Other people, they’re coming over to traffic, whether it be humans, drugs. They’re coming over to infiltrate..to inflict harm. Dawson: I think Trump has done well on curbing illegal immigration. However, I think isolated—well, not isolated, but relatively out-of-the-norm incidents with ICE profiling people, which is . . . I kind of get it, but also the way that they’ve treated some people is a little bit discouraging, but I think as a whole, I think that you have to do some hard things to solve a difficult problem, and I think that he’s done pretty well with that. Grant: I personally would like to not have any illegal immigration. I mean, I know there’s probably no way to curb it completely, but I think it should be really a big deal and something that we are actively working to take care of. And I know, like, the perception of ICE in some situations can be kind of bad, but at this point, it’s become such a mess of so many people illegally here and trying to find them and get them out is such a difficult process that it obviously is happening right in front of all of us. Nate: I feel kind of let down. So we stopped illegal immigration. Yes, at the border, it’s mostly down. But there’s 10 million that came in over the last four years. That’s too many. That’s going to drown the economy. We know why we can’t buy a house: there’s 10 million extra people here. If it’s against the law, you don’t have a right to be here. I’d like to see them deported."
December 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
Between this and that Manhattan Institute vox populi, we've got a combo here.

archive.md/F8qk6
"Moderator: What do the women here think about feminism? Lauren: Hate it, and it shouldn’t be here. Sophie: I think true feminism could work. Ally: Should women be able to vote? Yes. But should we be demoralizing ourselves as women and our true values? I used to work, and now I’m a stay-at-home mom, and there was a time where that was really frowned upon, and I think that that’s sad. I think that family culture and values have been diminished in our country."
December 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
Indeed. I would only add that the USSR was criminally negligent when it watched the destruction of strategic bombing throughout WWII (i.e. next door in Japan), yet made few preparations to protect Korea. This could shoot down B-29s, but nowhere near enough were provided.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KS-19
December 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
Mantus stays prophetic:

Dem eigenen Volk hast du nie vertraut
Schützt Tradition und schlägst deine Frau
Am Ende suchst du Absolution
In Religion

You never trusted your own people
Protecting tradition and beating your wife
In the end you seek absolution
In Religion

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELz...
December 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
@annemiekstegehuis.bsky.social

Hi! Welcome to BlueSky!

Australian environmental science student here. Sadly, I don't have a good mangrove question at hand.

What I would like to ask instead: since you are at a French institution, have you perhaps seen this?

www.jean-jaures.org/publication/...
La France : patrie de la collapsologie ? - Fondation Jean-Jaurès
S'appuyant sur une étude internationale menée en France, au Royaume-uni, en Allemagne, en Italie et aux États-unis, Jean-Laurent Cassely et Jérôme Fourquet montrent pourquoi et comment la collapsologi...
www.jean-jaures.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
@danvisioni.bsky.social

I that the OP is a "Climate Science Writer & Advocate" so that final takeaway about 2100 warming is almost certainly BS, but I would still be interested in your opinion on the paper's implications as an expert in aerosols.

acp.copernicus.org/articles/25/...
Screenshot of a thread about the paper I linked. The OP (apparently not a climate scientist) claims that paper "proves" over 3C warming by 2100, which is certainly not stated in its text!
November 29, 2025 at 4:15 AM
yardcg.bsky.social
@whstancil.bsky.social Remarkable how you remain positive on AI in spite of it precisely fitting your theories of social degradation, and you experiencing more of its..."cultural power" firsthand than almost any other individual.
ayoub.bsky.social elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · Nov 28
Interesting that people are using AI to romanticise the period before the internet huh. It's like they feel stuck in a very unsatisfying and draining present

or something

www.404media.co/80s-nostalgi...
80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed
AI makes it easier than ever to slip into the comforting glow of nostalgia.
www.404media.co
November 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
yardcg.bsky.social
#filmsky 😬
"Personal life Besson has been married four times; first, in 1986, to actress Anne Parillaud. They had a daughter, Juliette, born in 1987. Parillaud starred in Besson's La Femme Nikita (1990). They divorced in 1991.[39] Besson's second wife was actress and director Maïwenn Le Besco, whom he started dating when he was 32 and she was 15 after having met three years earlier.[40] They married in late 1992 when Le Besco, 16, was pregnant with their daughter Shanna, who was born on 3 January 1993.[41][deprecated source] Le Besco later claimed that their relationship inspired Besson's film Léon (1994), where the plot involved the emotional relationship between an adult man and a 12-year-old girl (played by then 12-year-old Natalie Portman).[40] Their union led to aggressive criticism, which deeply hurt Maïwenn.[42] Their marriage ended in 1997, when Besson became involved with actress Milla Jovovich, then 19, during the production of The Fifth Element (1997).[43][44][45] "We sensed the special chemistry between us immediately at the auditions and it just intensified during the filming of the movie," said Jovovich.[45] He married Jovovich on December 14, 1997, when he was 38 and she was 21. They divorced in 1999.[46][45] On August 28, 2004, at age 45, Besson married film producer Virginie Silla, 32. They have three children,[47] including the actress Thalia Besson."
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
yardcg.bsky.social
More context about me beyond the bio (1/2):

*The environment is what I study, and the bulk of my replies/reposts will likely be devoted to it

* Another major interest is (military) history: I first joined here to follow @bretdevereaux.bsky.social

* Whenever I review something, I'll post about it
November 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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euthyphro.bsky.social
I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate.

Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were

X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
ldh.fr LDH France @ldh.fr · Nov 19
La #LDH porte plainte contre la publication de #Grok, l’intelligence artificielle du réseau social X, pour contestation de crimes contre l’humanité.
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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victorygin.bsky.social
Between this lady and Stuart Seldowitz, who went viral for racially abusing a food truck worker, what a terrible look for Obama staffers.
Ex-Obama adviser Stuart Seldowitz arrested after Islamophobic rant
The former State Department official was filmed harassing a Muslim street vendor in New York over the Israel-Gaza war.
www.aljazeera.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
Alright #filmsky , let's do this! Might as well start sharing my multi-paragraph LB reviews here as I write them, and see if that changes anything at all.

First up, #bugonia . Hopefully, this is sufficiently spoiler-free for those who have not seen it.

letterboxd.com/yardcg/film/...
A ★ review of Bugonia (2025)
For a supposedly prestige film, there's surprisingly little to discuss about Bugonia as it actually exists, as it effectively has all its messages written on its sleeve - and they were all said in bet...
letterboxd.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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mm-hacker-news.bsky.social
Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit
https://djnn.sh/posts/anthropic-s-paper-smells-like-bullshit/
November 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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kibblesmith.com
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
👇👇
November 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
Indeed.

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/05/a...
November 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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publicpowerny.bsky.social
Kathy Hochul could bring down bills and protect our future by building 15 gigawatts of public renewables.

Instead, she's raising bills to build Trump's fracked gas pipeline and a crypto mine.

Is this why?

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
Hochul Approved Permits That Could Help Clients of Her Husband’s Firm Opponents of a natural gas pipeline approved by Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York noted that the project would benefit a client of the prominent law firm where her husband works.
November 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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usapolling.bsky.social
Those who say they're very enthusiastic to vote in 2026:

Democrats: 44%
Republicans: 26%

Ipsos / Nov 12, 2025
November 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
yardcg.bsky.social
Goes well with this (derogatory).

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
"As Meta tells it, though seemingly dismal, these documents came amid vast improvements in its fraud protections. Stone told Reuters that “over the past 18 months, we have reduced user reports of scam ads globally by 58 percent and, so far in 2025, we’ve removed more than 134 million pieces of scam ad content,” Stone said. According to Reuters, the problem may be the pace Meta sets in combating scammers. In 2023, Meta laid off “everyone who worked on the team handling advertiser concerns about brand-rights issues,” then ordered safety staffers to limit use of computing resources to devote more resources to virtual reality and AI. A 2024 document showed Meta recommended a “moderate” approach to enforcement, plotting to reduce revenue “attributable to scams, illegal gambling and prohibited goods” by 1–3 percentage points each year since 2024, supposedly slashing it in half by 2027. More recently, a 2025 document showed Meta continues to weigh how “abrupt reductions of scam advertising revenue could affect its business projections.” Eventually, Meta “substantially expanded” its teams that track scam ads, Stone told Reuters. But Meta also took steps to ensure they didn’t take too hard a hit while needing vast resources—$72 billion—to invest in AI, Reuters reported. For example, in February, Meta told “the team responsible for vetting questionable advertisers” that they weren’t “allowed to take actions that could cost Meta more than 0.15 percent of the company’s total revenue,” Reuters reported. That’s any scam account worth about $135 million, Reuters noted. Stone pushed back, saying that the team was never given “a hard limit” on what the manager described as “specific revenue guardrails.” “Let’s be cautious,” the team’s manager wrote, warning that Meta didn’t want to lose revenue by blocking “benign” ads mistakenly swept up in enforcement."
November 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
yardcg.bsky.social
tribune.com.pk/story/103371...
The strike, ordered by Obama on the third day of his presidency, reportedly did not hit the Taliban but caused the hidden civilian damage of a counter-terrorism tactic employed by the US. Following the incident, Qureshi spent 40 days in several hospitals. Shrapnel had punctured his stomach and lacerations covered much of his upper body. Doctors operated on the entire left side of his body, which had sustained burns, and used laser surgery to repair his right eye. They could not save his left. More bad news awaited the boy as he recuperated. Two of Qureshi’s uncles, Mohammed Khalil and Mansoor Rehman, were dead. So was his 21-year-old cousin Aizazur Rehman Qureshi, who was preparing to leave for work in the UAE. Fourteen of Qureshi’s cousins were left fatherless. The teenager, a good student who wanted to pursue a career in Chemistry, was suddenly tasked with providing for his family – mother, brothers and sisters. The family never had the money to repair the guest lounge. Why Pakistan's first drone strike should worry Obama Seven years have gone by since the strike, but Qureshi and his family have yet to receive even an admission from the US that the strike ever happened. Although Obama expressed “profound regret” for a 2015 drone strike on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border that killed two western hostages, the White House would not comment on "specific cases".
November 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
yardcg.bsky.social
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
November 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM