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Donald Trump wants you to forget that January 6 happened—but for one police officer who protected the Capitol, and another man who attacked it and was pardoned, there’s no forgetting, Jamie Thompson reports: theatln.tc/o2OQTnKk
January 6, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
A good use of AI would be video call software that recognizes you're about to roll your eyes at something and turns your video off just in time
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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lukaszolejnik.bsky.social
And here’s a startup offering influencing/propaganda services. Called it ;) www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
October 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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eryk.bsky.social
Many of the presenters at the Public AI Summit are sharing keynotes or special materials. This is mine: a just-over-ten-minute layperson’s introduction to the technical process behind AI models producing images: “Making Pictures With Noise.” Hope you dig it! publicaisummit.com/workshop/a-c...
Public AI Summit
A dynamic, two-day virtual AI Summit for the general public to hear from leading experts about the latest AI developments, gain a clearer understanding of what these changes mean, and learn how we can...
publicaisummit.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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adamcsharp.bsky.social Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Oct 3
And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...
Batman’s aff his nut Have you seen the way he cuts aboot Dressed up as a mad fuckin bat Batterin guys I was lit at: “Mate, I’m worried aboot ye I know your ma and da died But everybody’s ma and da dies And we’re no aw runnin aboot Hookin muggers and Kickin psychopaths in the baws.” And that was when Batman went “Aye, but do ye ever feel like it? Do you ever look at the world and feel like it? Like having a big mad base under your hoose? Do you ever feel like drivin a big mad motor that turns intae a tank? And leatherin fuck oot of guys aw night? Scarin the fuckin shite oot of them?” And that’s when I was lit at: “Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae.” And that’s the Secret Origin of Robin And everyone else.
September 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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pbump.com
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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matthewhughes.bsky.social
Google AI overviews nearly sent me driving to the wrong airport terminal (and nearly caused me to pay twice for parking).

Honestly fuck everything about this.
September 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
the modern information environment
Google search "do apples contain lycopene?" The AI overview says "No, apples do not contain lycopene" whereas the highlighted search result begins "Apples contain lycopene"
May 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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everydoctor.org.uk
We are about to add more information to our map, showing the donations that MPs are receiving from people and companies linked to the private healthcare sector. And... we are going to make a lot of noise about what individual politicians are doing. Please could you share this, and follow us? 🚨💙
May 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Wow - french Ministry of Culture releases a big dataset of their Compare:IA french llm arena tests aimed at getting good french LLMs huggingface.co/datasets/min...
ministere-culture/comparia-conversations · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
May 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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marthashearer.bsky.social
"the best move may be to completely avoid relying on AI chatbots to provide factual information" lmao
May 16, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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mnufc.com
49 years and counting
May 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Pink Phony Club
May 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin

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May 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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lostsubways.com
i made a map of every active major league #baseball team's relocation history. check it out!
March 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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adrianaguatame.bsky.social Adriana Guatame-García @adrianaguatame.bsky.social · Mar 6
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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leftbobgolfer.bsky.social
What did the Eagles do after winning the Superbowl???

They played the 2nd half!

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February 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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seamas.bsky.social
Often, when paying my rent or swishing some water in a bottle of fairy liquid so it goes a little further, I am reminded of this Charles Moore spectator column from 2015, and the fact that financial hardship knows many forms.
Passage from a 2015 Spectator column by Charles Moore: In the same column, I also mentioned how boarding-school pupils out expensive items on their parents' bill (and sometimes buy them their Christmas presents this way). I hear of an extreme recent example, suffered by a friend. Haha son went to southern Africa on a school trip, and there shot an impala and a wildebeest. Without warning, the extras in the bill at the end of term included the cost of taxidermy and delivering the heads - in the region of £600.
January 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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lizszabo.bsky.social
The life expectancy gap in the United States between those who live the longest and those who live the shortest lives has widened to 20 from 12 years in the past two decades, according to an analysis published Thursday in the Lancet.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Ten Americas: a systematic analysis of life expectancy disparities in the USA
Our analysis confirms the continued existence of different Americas within the USA. One's life expectancy varies dramatically depending on where one lives, the economic conditions in that location, an...
www.thelancet.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:48 PM