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jmijin.bsky.social
My colleague reviewed a paper for the journal Climate and discovered it has been written by AI (citations that didn’t exist). Not only did the journal keep the paper, they asked her to re-review it. We are so cooked.
December 10, 2025 at 4:23 AM
jdonners.bsky.social
This is an excellent concert and it's excellent that ARTE shows it.
www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...
The Who - Live at Kilburn 1977 - Programm in voller Länge | ARTE Concert
Die Aufnahme in Kilburn von 1977 zeigt eines der legendärsten Rockkonzerte in überarbeiteter Fassung: Die berühmte britische Band The Who befindet sich auf dem Höhepunkt ihrer Karriere in Originalbese...
www.arte.tv
December 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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radkolumne.de
📢 Das Fahrrad ist ein hocheffizientes Fortbewegungsmittel 🚲
December 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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theonion.com
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market. “We’re cal...
theonion.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Please do media outlets (particularly the ones that are doing AI-critical stuff) a solid and link to their work, this isn't X, folks

www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
November 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
jdonners.bsky.social
Have an entertaining evening!
www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...
Duran Duran - Baloise Session 2025 - Programm in voller Länge | ARTE Concert
Duran Duran sind Meister der Verwandlung. Von ihren Anfängen in Birmingham bis zu ihrer heutigen Rolle als weltweit verehrte Pop-Ikonen haben sie sich nie dem Retro verweigert – und dennoch konsequent...
www.arte.tv
November 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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fz-juelich.de
Unser #exa_JUPITER @fzj-jsc.bsky.social hat als erster Superrechner in Europa 1 ExaFLOP/s erreicht – das entspricht einer Trillion oder 𝟭 𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼 𝗦𝗲𝗸𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲. Zugleich ist er 𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝘁. 💻🚀
👉 www.fz-juelich.de/de/aktuelles...
Im Hintergrund ist ein schmaler, futuristisch beleuchteter Gang im Jülich Supercomputing Centre am Forschungszentrum Jülich zu sehen. Links und rechts stehen die Racks des Exascale-Supercomputers JUPITER, deren Seitenverkleidungen mit organisch wirkenden schwarzen Linienmustern gestaltet sind. Warmes orangefarbenes Licht beleuchtet den Korridor. Im Vordergrund steht in blauen Textfeldern die Aufschrift: „JUPITER: Europe’s first supercomputer reaches 1 Exaflop/s“. Oben rechts befindet sich das Logo des Forschungszentrums Jülich.
November 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
jdonners.bsky.social
Great concert!
www.arte.tv/en/videos/12...
Arcade Fire - Bilbao BBK Live Festival 2024 - Watch the full programme | ARTE Concert
Alternative icons Arcade Fire are known for their rousing performances, and this one, captured at the Bilbao BBK Live Festival, is no exception. A journey of pure poetic energy
www.arte.tv
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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tonaarts.bsky.social
Je deed wat de multinationals uitzendlobby je vroeg

Maar dat was om ~half miljoen arbeidsmigranten 'beter te beschermen'

"Hierdoor mogen werkgevers ook na 1 januari 2026 bij arbeidsmigranten een kwart van hun minimumloon blijven inhouden voor de kosten van huisvesting"

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Plots veegt de nieuwe minister plan voor arbeidsmigranten van tafel. Voorganger Van Hijum insinueert invloed lobby
Arbeidsmigranten: Een nauwkeurig voorbereid plan dat uitzendbureaus zou verbieden arbeidsmigranten onder het minimumloon te betalen in ruil voor woonruimte, werd plots van tafel geveegd.
www.nrc.nl
November 3, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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ingwarpero.bsky.social
Welche Produkte in 🇩🇪 mit 19% besteuert werden:

- Hafermilch
- Windeln
- Sojaschnitzel

Und Welche mit 7%:

- Kuhmilch
- Fleisch
- Froschschenkel

Und Welche überhaupt nicht:

- Flugkerosin
- Schiffsdiesel
- Int. Flugtickets

Unser Steuersystem ist völlig absurd und gehört reformiert!
November 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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icij.org
A recent study based on data from ICIJ’s Offshore Leaks Database found that elites around the world rely on specific secrecy tactics to obscure and shield their wealth.

Read our Q&A with the study's author Herbert Chang: buff.ly/ykpTcYE
Dartmouth researchers use ICIJ database to show how the ultrawealthy exploit the offshore world - ICIJ
ICIJ spoke to author Herbert Chang about the study, which found that elites in both democratic and authoritarian countries are well-versed in financial secrecy tactics.
www.icij.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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ericholthaus.com
Over the past 24 hours, the forecast for Jamaica has become even more ominous.

Hurricane Melissa is now expected to make landfall at Category 5 strength — with more than 1 meter of rainfall.

Melissa will be as bad as Hurricane Gilbert (1988). It could take years for the country to recover.
October 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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bstrunz.bsky.social
Our #RussianSecrets investigation is finally out. It shows that Russia is protecting its nuclear weapons in the Arctic with Western technology. To this end, an underwater listening system called Harmony has been created in recent years. THREAD
October 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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molly.wiki
Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Binance has been a major supporter of Trump's crypto projects, and Trump has already made millions after Binance accepted a $2 billion investment from an Emirati fund denominated in the Trump family's USD1 stablecoin.
WSJ headline: Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder
October 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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bicycledutch.bsky.social
Don’t know if it was handy, but it certainly was a car park!
Markt, ‘s-Hertogenbosch with parked cars. Markt, ‘s-Hertogenbosch with parked cars. Markt, ‘s-Hertogenbosch with parked cars. Markt, ‘s-Hertogenbosch with parked cars.
September 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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bmvisser.bsky.social
De productie van elektriciteit uit wind en zon was de eerste helft van 2025, ondanks weinig wind, 6x groter dan in 2019.
#grafiekvandedag
Reden is uiteraard het sterk gegroeide opgestelde vermogen.
August 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
Very cool that the broad techno-apologist effective altruist substack complex maintains that the energy consumption of AI is incredibly insignificant, while the tech overlords they're apologising for are casually dropping data centres on top of manhattan
zuck 1m We're actually building several multi-GW clusters. We're calling the first one Prometheus and it's coming online in '26. We're also building Hyperion, which will be able to scale up to 5GW over several years. We're building multiple more titan clusters as well. Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan. Hyperion Data Center over Manhattan 4 1
August 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
jdonners.bsky.social
Dat is onverwacht
Waarschuwing voor teveel glycerol in "toxic waste sour slushy"
August 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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rarohde.bsky.social
Trump's budget proposal for NASA zeros out the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2 & 3), which would mean an early end to tools that provide detailed information on carbon dioxide emissions and plant growth.

npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

Congress could still save these programs.
Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose
The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
npr.org
August 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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xwolf.de
Funfact Datenschutz: Wer Dokumente des Freistaast runterlädt oder bestellt, wird auch von Google und AWS getrackt.
Screenshot der Website bestellen.bayern.de mit aufegeklappten Netzwerkverbindungen. Man sieht auf einer Bestellseite, dass Daten auch an googleapis.com, jsdelivr.net und cloudflare.com gehen.
July 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
I get annoyed at the narrative that all the awareness and work on climate change hasn't done anything. Yes, global CO₂ emissions indeed continue to climb, but we don't know the counterfactual. When I was in grad school, we were on track for 5°C of warming. Now it's below 3°C. That's progress.
A line chart titled “Annual CO₂ emissions” shows the global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry from 1950 to 2023. The y-axis represents emissions in billions of tonnes (t), ranging from 0 to 40 billion t. The x-axis covers the years from 1950 to 2023. The chart presents a steady increase in emissions from approximately 5 billion tonnes in 1950 to over 36 billion tonnes in 2023. Key features include: A consistent upward trend from 1950 through the early 1970s. A brief plateau and dip around 1980–1983. A strong growth trend resuming in the late 1980s. A sharp increase during the 2000s. A slight drop around 2008–2009, likely due to the global financial crisis. A major dip in 2020, attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. A rapid rebound in emissions after 2020, continuing the upward trend to a new high in 2023. A blue line labeled “World” traces these changes over time. Below the chart, the data source is listed as the Global Carbon Budget (2024), and the graphic is credited to OurWorldInData.org with a Creative Commons license (CC BY). A footnote explains that the data includes emissions from coal, oil, gas, flaring, cement, and steel, but excludes land-use changes such as deforestation.
June 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
jdonners.bsky.social
It's a mess in the kitchen!
Kitchen with pancake and a snackbag with Messi on it.
June 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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ralphcrutzen.mastodon.education.ap.brid.gy
The Copilot Delusion

https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/
May 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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philipcball.bsky.social
This looks like a valuable, informative and careful study, showing significant correlations between some common genetic variants and what psychologists call the Big Five personality traits. It's no surprise such correlations exist, but good to pin them down. AND...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Robust inference and widespread genetic correlates from a large-scale genetic association study of human personality
Personality traits describe stable differences in how individuals think, feel, and behave and how they interact with and experience their social and physical environments. We assemble data from 46 coh...
www.biorxiv.org
May 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM