BlueSkyz
@hdave.bsky.social
Artist, cat and dog companion, reader of books. Astro follower.
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He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
January 9, 2026 at 11:25 PM
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
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Santa Fe is doing a walking vigil around the Roundhouse, Saturday from 2-4. 🚫👑💙🇺🇸
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
January 10, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Santa Fe is doing a walking vigil around the Roundhouse, Saturday from 2-4. 🚫👑💙🇺🇸
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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Security News This Week: ICE Can Now Spy on Every Phone in Your Neighborhood www.wired.com/story/securi...
ICE Can Now Spy on Every Phone in Your Neighborhood
Plus: Iran shuts down its internet amid sweeping protests, an alleged scam boss gets extradited to China, and more.
www.wired.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Security News This Week: ICE Can Now Spy on Every Phone in Your Neighborhood www.wired.com/story/securi...
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How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here
January 10, 2026 at 5:21 AM
How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here
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Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal:
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
January 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal:
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
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Again I say into the void: stop saying the ICE officer had no time to think. Time doesn’t start when the drama starts. They drove up. They walked up. They engaged. Stop saying there is only reflex, no thought. If so, stop arming ambulatory startle reflexes & calling them cops
January 10, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Again I say into the void: stop saying the ICE officer had no time to think. Time doesn’t start when the drama starts. They drove up. They walked up. They engaged. Stop saying there is only reflex, no thought. If so, stop arming ambulatory startle reflexes & calling them cops
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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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Embark on an evocative visual voyage of art inspired by black holes: Art and science converge in Lynn Gamwell’s book, "Conjuring the Void: The Art of Black Holes." arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Embark on a visual voyage of art inspired by black holes
Art and science converge in Lynn Gamwell's book, Conjuring the Void: The Art of Black Holes...
arstechnica.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Embark on an evocative visual voyage of art inspired by black holes: Art and science converge in Lynn Gamwell’s book, "Conjuring the Void: The Art of Black Holes." arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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✨✨Seasons Greetings!✨✨
Here’s a selection of my favourite ancient Egyptian blue hippos seen on my travels.
Now where’s William? 🦛❤️
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Here’s a selection of my favourite ancient Egyptian blue hippos seen on my travels.
Now where’s William? 🦛❤️
📷 by me
#Archaeology
December 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
✨✨Seasons Greetings!✨✨
Here’s a selection of my favourite ancient Egyptian blue hippos seen on my travels.
Now where’s William? 🦛❤️
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Here’s a selection of my favourite ancient Egyptian blue hippos seen on my travels.
Now where’s William? 🦛❤️
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Visited there a few years ago. Saw them from miles away on a low mountain top and then up close at the base of one the disks. Amazing.
Watching the #Pluribus finale?
Remember those huge dishes in the opening of Ep 1? 📡 That’s the NSF Very Large Array in New Mexico - the most versatile, widely-used radio telescope in the world - and yes, it’s open to visitors! VisitVLA.com
📸 Credit: Chris Smirnoff
#VisitVLA #AppleTV #Astronomy
Remember those huge dishes in the opening of Ep 1? 📡 That’s the NSF Very Large Array in New Mexico - the most versatile, widely-used radio telescope in the world - and yes, it’s open to visitors! VisitVLA.com
📸 Credit: Chris Smirnoff
#VisitVLA #AppleTV #Astronomy
December 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Visited there a few years ago. Saw them from miles away on a low mountain top and then up close at the base of one the disks. Amazing.
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tired: everything's computer
wired: fewer things will be computer
wired: fewer things will be computer
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
wrd.cm
December 28, 2025 at 2:42 AM
tired: everything's computer
wired: fewer things will be computer
wired: fewer things will be computer
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Watch: The Lives of Others, 2006, a film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. It won an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
December 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Watch: The Lives of Others, 2006, a film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. It won an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
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We’re in the busiest time of the year for food pantries — and the combination of federal funding cuts and rising prices is making it difficult for many pantries to meet rising needs. Please consider supporting your local food pantry this holiday season.
Find Your Local Food Bank and Holiday Food Boxes | Feeding America
Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and holiday food boxes in your community.
www.feedingamerica.org
December 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
We’re in the busiest time of the year for food pantries — and the combination of federal funding cuts and rising prices is making it difficult for many pantries to meet rising needs. Please consider supporting your local food pantry this holiday season.
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🎬 Filmmakers! The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Day Remix Contest is open!
🎥 Create a 2–3 minute short film using at least 1 piece of public domain material from 1930. 🎶🎭📚
📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
#publicdomain #contest
🎥 Create a 2–3 minute short film using at least 1 piece of public domain material from 1930. 🎶🎭📚
📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
#publicdomain #contest
December 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
🎬 Filmmakers! The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Day Remix Contest is open!
🎥 Create a 2–3 minute short film using at least 1 piece of public domain material from 1930. 🎶🎭📚
📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
#publicdomain #contest
🎥 Create a 2–3 minute short film using at least 1 piece of public domain material from 1930. 🎶🎭📚
📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
#publicdomain #contest
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Energy bills in US have increased 13% since Trump took office, new report says
Energy bills in US have increased 13% since Trump took office, new report finds
The amount of money Americans are paying toward their energy bills has increased since President Donald Trump took office earlier this year, according to a new report.
abcnews.go.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Energy bills in US have increased 13% since Trump took office, new report says
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In Google Scholar's defense it's not listing these fake journals/articles as real, but it does list them in the full text results so you can see which real articles are citing things from them
So real(?) things are picking up fake things so real people & LLMs take that as a signal that they're real
So real(?) things are picking up fake things so real people & LLMs take that as a signal that they're real
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
In Google Scholar's defense it's not listing these fake journals/articles as real, but it does list them in the full text results so you can see which real articles are citing things from them
So real(?) things are picking up fake things so real people & LLMs take that as a signal that they're real
So real(?) things are picking up fake things so real people & LLMs take that as a signal that they're real
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Krusti Noem Must Go......
December 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Krusti Noem Must Go......
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U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
December 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
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We're announcing a new partnership with StopNCII.org to prevent non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) from spreading on Bluesky. While NCII hasn't been frequent on our platform, these incidents are devastating for victims and preventing them is a top safety priority. 1/4
Stop Non-Consensual Intimate Image Abuse | StopNCII.org
StopNCII.org is operated by the Revenge Porn Helpline which is part of SWGfL, a charity that believes that all should benefit from technology, free from harm.
StopNCII.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
We're announcing a new partnership with StopNCII.org to prevent non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) from spreading on Bluesky. While NCII hasn't been frequent on our platform, these incidents are devastating for victims and preventing them is a top safety priority. 1/4
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If you ask an AI model the same thing twice, you won’t get the same response. This variation comes from a random number called the “seed.” Researchers recently showed that this feature can be manipulated to pass forbidden instructions on to the model.
Cryptographers Show That AI Protections Will Always Have Holes | Quanta Magazine
Large language models such as ChatGPT come with filters to keep certain info from getting out. A new mathematical argument shows that systems like this can never be completely safe.
www.quantamagazine.org
December 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
If you ask an AI model the same thing twice, you won’t get the same response. This variation comes from a random number called the “seed.” Researchers recently showed that this feature can be manipulated to pass forbidden instructions on to the model.
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Why do they give?
“If you’re a billionaire, you want to stay a billionaire,” John Catsimatidis told @bethreinhard.bsky.social. “I worry about America and the way of life we have.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
“If you’re a billionaire, you want to stay a billionaire,” John Catsimatidis told @bethreinhard.bsky.social. “I worry about America and the way of life we have.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
How billionaires took over American politics
The current concentration of wealth is unlike anything in history. So is billionaires’ involvement in politics.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Why do they give?
“If you’re a billionaire, you want to stay a billionaire,” John Catsimatidis told @bethreinhard.bsky.social. “I worry about America and the way of life we have.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
“If you’re a billionaire, you want to stay a billionaire,” John Catsimatidis told @bethreinhard.bsky.social. “I worry about America and the way of life we have.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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The Trump regime has announced a new escalation in its war on free speech and civil society.
Pam Bondi sent a memo to every federal prosecutor directing them to go on offense against all organizations connected to “ANTIFA” — a loose ideology rather than an actual organization or group.
Pam Bondi sent a memo to every federal prosecutor directing them to go on offense against all organizations connected to “ANTIFA” — a loose ideology rather than an actual organization or group.
Bondi orders US law enforcement to investigate 'extremist groups'
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday ordered federal law enforcement to step up investigations into the anti-fascist antifa movement and similar "extremist groups," and asked the FBI to compile...
www.reuters.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The Trump regime has announced a new escalation in its war on free speech and civil society.
Pam Bondi sent a memo to every federal prosecutor directing them to go on offense against all organizations connected to “ANTIFA” — a loose ideology rather than an actual organization or group.
Pam Bondi sent a memo to every federal prosecutor directing them to go on offense against all organizations connected to “ANTIFA” — a loose ideology rather than an actual organization or group.
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ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms www.wired.com/story/ice-bo...
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms www.wired.com/story/ice-bo...
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They’re essentially creating a mercenary force and unleashing it on US soil.
Among the many other problems with this, it incentivizes assaults and kidnappings.
Truly vile and dangerous.
Among the many other problems with this, it incentivizes assaults and kidnappings.
Truly vile and dangerous.
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
They’re essentially creating a mercenary force and unleashing it on US soil.
Among the many other problems with this, it incentivizes assaults and kidnappings.
Truly vile and dangerous.
Among the many other problems with this, it incentivizes assaults and kidnappings.
Truly vile and dangerous.
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This hit hard.
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
November 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This hit hard.