@brokenquasar.bsky.social
Well past eye rolling I assure you.
i feel like Americans don't get the level of eye-rolling this is getting from Europe
January 19, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Well past eye rolling I assure you.
Trump trying to pick off EU members with individual tariffs should get an immediate response. Well past time EU trade representatives show some teeth.
January 17, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Trump trying to pick off EU members with individual tariffs should get an immediate response. Well past time EU trade representatives show some teeth.
France, Germany, Sweden, Norway and UK sending troops to Greenland to protect it from a possible US invasion. What a time to be alive.
January 15, 2026 at 9:40 AM
France, Germany, Sweden, Norway and UK sending troops to Greenland to protect it from a possible US invasion. What a time to be alive.
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AI does math proofs. Very interesting thread from a top mathematician.
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1158558...
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1158558...
Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)
Recently, the application of AI tools to Erdos problems passed a milestone: an Erdos problem (#728 https://www.erdosproblems.com/728) was solved more or less autonomously by AI (after some feedback fr...
mathstodon.xyz
January 12, 2026 at 12:57 AM
AI does math proofs. Very interesting thread from a top mathematician.
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1158558...
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1158558...
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literally anybody whose *actual job* involves having to watch atrocity videos will tell you it's hugely psychologically self-destructive and not something you should voluntarily put yourself through on a daily basis.
Nobody is supposed to be able to "handle" witnessing atrocity and those who think they can are lying to themselves! You're fucking yourself up to feel holy! That's a hairshirt!
Then you aren’t someone I was talking to with my statement. Some people can handle it. Some people can’t. Neither is better than the other. It is up to each person to recognize their own limits. I choose to bear witness, I refuse to become numb to this stuff, I am taking action, & that is my choice.
January 7, 2026 at 7:20 PM
literally anybody whose *actual job* involves having to watch atrocity videos will tell you it's hugely psychologically self-destructive and not something you should voluntarily put yourself through on a daily basis.
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i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
Bluesky is about on par with what twitter used to be with respect to brigading, and IMO worse when it comes to literal threats of violence (Twitter safety team seemed to roll out bans much quicker). I suppose it’s better than “X”, but that’s not saying much.
Holy smokes the quotes here are deranged. He's pro-housing and pro-immigration but people on here are fantasizing about executing him because they can't read
Homelessness increased primarily because of immigration (lots of people came to the US without setting up housing).
December 22, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Bluesky is about on par with what twitter used to be with respect to brigading, and IMO worse when it comes to literal threats of violence (Twitter safety team seemed to roll out bans much quicker). I suppose it’s better than “X”, but that’s not saying much.
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Wow. This is an absolutely terrifying read. We now live in an age when a single company can, through what appears to be plain old bureaucracy, can more or less brick your entire digital life.
December 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Wow. This is an absolutely terrifying read. We now live in an age when a single company can, through what appears to be plain old bureaucracy, can more or less brick your entire digital life.
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Every interview with a right-wing politician is like: "Mr. Hitler is adamant: If we sacrifice enough children, Santa Claus will come back and deliver 5% GDP growth. But I have to ask him: Do you ever worry that your relentless advocacy for working folks offends the rootless cosmopolitan parasites?"
I don’t get how Jenrick can actually believe that we should shrink the population and then start making more of our own things from pots and pans to what iPhones? How does he think that happens?
December 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Every interview with a right-wing politician is like: "Mr. Hitler is adamant: If we sacrifice enough children, Santa Claus will come back and deliver 5% GDP growth. But I have to ask him: Do you ever worry that your relentless advocacy for working folks offends the rootless cosmopolitan parasites?"
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I mean this is straight up white supremacy:
December 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I mean this is straight up white supremacy:
Just another nail in the coffin for the transatlantic partnership, but boy does this make for chilling reading. How long until the CIA starts trying to give Vance’s friends in the far right a leg up?
NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY DROPPED
There is a LOT here, but omg NATO allies are going to seethe at this paragraph
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
There is a LOT here, but omg NATO allies are going to seethe at this paragraph
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Just another nail in the coffin for the transatlantic partnership, but boy does this make for chilling reading. How long until the CIA starts trying to give Vance’s friends in the far right a leg up?
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I have been periodically saying this for a while, but the movie is far more compatible with the worldview of the knuckle-draggers than most people think
Rewatching Sicario for the first time in 6 or 7 years.
I’m reminded of how easy it might be for some 22 y/o to watch this movie and join CBP thinking that if they play their cards right they’re going to be an operator fighting cartels rather than kidnapping construction workers off of the street.
I’m reminded of how easy it might be for some 22 y/o to watch this movie and join CBP thinking that if they play their cards right they’re going to be an operator fighting cartels rather than kidnapping construction workers off of the street.
November 28, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I have been periodically saying this for a while, but the movie is far more compatible with the worldview of the knuckle-draggers than most people think
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This kind of free-floating cynicism & lack of trust is deeply, deeply corrosive.
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This kind of free-floating cynicism & lack of trust is deeply, deeply corrosive.
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Alright! Let's actually talk about this waterfall thing. It is an amazing showcase of many things that I adore from late 90s/early 2000s graphics.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Alright! Let's actually talk about this waterfall thing. It is an amazing showcase of many things that I adore from late 90s/early 2000s graphics.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
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Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
Some nice background from Hannah Ritchie on what kind of assumptions go into the IEA fixed policy scenario www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/iea-curren...
Will oil and gas consumption keep rising through 2050?
Unpacking some of the assumptions behind the IEA's policy scenarios.
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Some nice background from Hannah Ritchie on what kind of assumptions go into the IEA fixed policy scenario www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/iea-curren...
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i’m proud to have studied and worked with many chinese public health scientists over the years. this red scare bullshit is unjust, bigoted, and utterly self-destructive
The only way we will win a better world is not only leftism for America, but internationalism. “Researchers who have anything to do with China should have their careers ended” is a bipartisan position, and it can’t be anymore. If we live in a fragmented world, it will burn in our lifetime
November 14, 2025 at 6:36 AM
i’m proud to have studied and worked with many chinese public health scientists over the years. this red scare bullshit is unjust, bigoted, and utterly self-destructive
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My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
A somewhat convincing case, I think, that Amazon layoffs are probably down to retail market weakness. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-...
The Pulse: Amazon layoffs – AI or economy to blame?
Amazon is doing more mass layoffs, claiming it wants to be more nimble. But are job losses really about US economic fears, and how Amazon’s retail business will be affected?
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
A somewhat convincing case, I think, that Amazon layoffs are probably down to retail market weakness. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-...
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Gates' subtle anti-renewables messaging, possibly related to his investments in small modular nuclear reactors, was well known, but this is next level: financially supporting a guy whose core business it is to argue for less climate action.
“Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg" by Rei Takver for @desmog.com:
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Gates' subtle anti-renewables messaging, possibly related to his investments in small modular nuclear reactors, was well known, but this is next level: financially supporting a guy whose core business it is to argue for less climate action.
Just the chilling effect of proposing to do this to people who believed they had permanent residency, who have built lives. Absolutely bonkers.
Lam believes her policy would deport all of the proportion in pink - keeping the thin group in black - of the post-2021 legal migrant arrivals. (The draft legislation proposes similar thresholds/rules for all past grants too). She says jar is 3.5m people: an astonishing scale of mass deportations
October 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Just the chilling effect of proposing to do this to people who believed they had permanent residency, who have built lives. Absolutely bonkers.
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Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival
www.avclub.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
To think we used to study US presidential speeches in class.
September 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
To think we used to study US presidential speeches in class.
So in the raid of that US Hyundai plant: workers had permits and thought they were there legally, nobody was charged, no wrongdoing was admitted, everybody was deported anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/b...
Georgia ICE Raid Netted Workers With Short-Term Business Visas
www.nytimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
So in the raid of that US Hyundai plant: workers had permits and thought they were there legally, nobody was charged, no wrongdoing was admitted, everybody was deported anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/b...