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honestly expressing my opinions on the New York Times and every person who works for them would get me banned.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Jebus, in just 2 or 3 years Pakistan has imported enough solar panels that, in some times in the coming year, panels will cover *all* the country's demand.
www.reuters.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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November's Night Sky News from @drbecky.bsky.social is out! Lotta info here, enjoy!

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Deadly radiation burst from another star detected for the first time | Night Sky News November 2025
YouTube video by Dr. Becky
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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I fell through a Wikipedia rabbit hole this afternoon while waiting for basketball practice pickup, and I emerged knowing that the peak of Cayambe (in Ecuador) is the location where you rotate (along with the Earth) at the greatest velocity.
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.
Queens men meet — Queens Daily Eagle
The first man from Queens to be elected president and the first Queens resident to be elected mayor of New York City met for the first time in the Oval Office on Friday.
queenseagle.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
you could write a full season of West Wing around these three sentences.
Reporter to Mamdani: President Trump says he loves NYC. Does NYC love President Trump?

Mamdani: NYC loves a future that is affordable, and I can tell you that there were more NYCers who voted for President Trump because of that focus on cost of living.

Trump: I got a lot of votes.
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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25 years of humanity at its best. #Wikipedia25

Donate now ➡️ donate.wikipedia25.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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The NYT referred to it as "La Guardia Field" (it is of course now LaGuardia, no space) when it opened on 2 Dec 1939, but @garius.bsky.social may be able to shed some further light on the matter from his research!

www.nytimes.com/1939/12/02/a...
LA GUARDIA FIELD BEGINS OPERATIONS; First Airliner Lands at North Beach at Midnight, Greeted by Mayor and 3,000 First Air Passengers Alight at North Beach, Welcomed by Mayor at Midnight Opening LA GUA...
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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the only cable car track crossing left in the entire world, san francisco

Nikon N60 | Fuji 400
#filmphotography
November 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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I don't even really mean this in like, the stupid cliche "Trump won't see your fat jokes but your fat friends will" way lol

It's a matter of one's own character

You should be a person who wouldn't do such a thing
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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If you've not read this stunning piece of history yet, you should start here. The final part drops next week.
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Picard management tip: Take full responsibility for your crew's mistakes.
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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It was a huge honor to work with Evan and turn one of my blog posts into an IEEE spectrum article! I feel like almost a real writer now. spectrum.ieee.org/robots-foldi...
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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New England and New York have new ties with Québec coming online over the next 6 months, but is the power there to support them? 🔌💡

Earlier this year we noticed that flows into the US, and particularly New York, had dropped off, years before the threat of tariffs

blog.gridstatus.io/more-hqs-tha...
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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TIL Edmund Fitzgerald, namesake of the ship lost with all hands in a Lake Superior storm in November 1975, had a great uncle Edmond Fitzgerald who also had a ship named after him, the Edmond Fitzgerald, which was lost with all hands in a Lake Erie storm in November 1883
How the Fitzgerald Sank Twice
An excerpt
greatlakespeopleandplaces.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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When people ask what the scientific method looks like, show them this video.
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Speaking of geothermal, here's a company that's doing traditional, old-school geothermal, but with a twist: they use AI to locate overlooked geothermal hotspots. In 3 years they've discovered more hotspots than the whole industry discovered in 30 years.
Home
Zanskar Geothermal & Minerals uses custom AI tools and geoscience models to analyze vast amounts of data and pinpoint untapped geothermal hotspots.
zanskar.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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INCREDIBLE CURVES
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in LLMs | Discussion
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90%. Mapping prompts to MLCommons and EU CoP risk taxonomies shows that poetic attacks transfer across CBRN, manipulation, cyber-offence, and loss-of-control domains. Converting 1,200 MLCommons harmful prompts into verse via a standardized meta-prompt produced ASRs up to 18 times higher than their prose baselines. Outputs are evaluated using an ensemble of open-weight judge models and a human-validated stratified subset (with double-annotations to measure agreement). Disagreements were manually resolved. Poetic framing achieved an average jailbreak success rate of 62% for hand-crafted poems and approximately 43% for meta-prompt conversions (compared to non-poetic baselines), substantially outperforming non-poetic baselines and revealing a systematic vulnerability across model families and safety training approaches. These findings demonstrate that stylistic variation alone can circumvent contemporary safety mechanisms, suggesting fundamental limitations in current alignment methods and evaluation protocols.
arxiv.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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“early but encouraging evidence that mRNA flu vaccines may offer a real step forward especially against notoriously slippery A strains like H3N2. We’re not talking about a universal flu vaccine yet, but the platform gives us tools we simply didn’t have before.
The paper is worth read.”
A new NEJM paper just dropped evaluating a quadrivalent modified mRNA (modRNA) influenza vaccine in a phase 3 trial. This is the largest test yet of whether the mRNA platform that transformed COVID-19 vaccination can improve our fight against flu.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Efficacy, Immunogenicity, and Safety of Modified mRNA Influenza Vaccine | NEJM
Influenza remains a major health burden despite the use of licensed vaccines. Nucleoside-modified messenger RNA (modRNA) influenza vaccines have shown promising immunogenicity against influenza and...
www.nejm.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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HiRISE Image of Exocomet 3I/ATLAS!

On 2 October 2025, MRO turned away from Mars to image 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar object ever observed passing through our solar system!

https://www.uahirise.org/releases/3i-atlas/
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM