Yashar Valakjie
@yaschar.bsky.social
•Sound Artist: Geo/Biophony, Data Sonification, Field Recording
•Researcher: Sound Studies & Cultural Management Science
•Cultural Operator: International Cultural Affairs
•Researcher: Sound Studies & Cultural Management Science
•Cultural Operator: International Cultural Affairs
AI blackmailing and planing a homicide.
Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats
New research on simulated blackmail, industrial espionage, and other misaligned behaviors in LLMs
www.anthropic.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
AI blackmailing and planing a homicide.
This LASER Nomad Podcast episode explores the legacy of producer Adrian Sherwood. Through conversations at the intersection of music and environmental studies,the episode highlights how sonic experimentation can expand our ways of listening to—and caring for—the world around us.
tinyurl.com/yf5e5nfz
tinyurl.com/yf5e5nfz
Adrian Sherwood’s Legacy:Innovations in Dub and Environmental Studies
Adrian Sherwood / Interview by Luca Forcucci – April 2025 / Praia – Cape Verde During an afternoon on the Island of Santiago in the city of Praia in Cape Verde, Adrian Sherwood, the legendary…
ubqtlab.org
October 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This LASER Nomad Podcast episode explores the legacy of producer Adrian Sherwood. Through conversations at the intersection of music and environmental studies,the episode highlights how sonic experimentation can expand our ways of listening to—and caring for—the world around us.
tinyurl.com/yf5e5nfz
tinyurl.com/yf5e5nfz
TLDR: Stick to Qobuz, Tidal or Apple Music.
Spotify Lossless has a problem
YouTube video by The Headphone Show
www.youtube.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
TLDR: Stick to Qobuz, Tidal or Apple Music.
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The country’s most powerful bank became a critical cog in Epstein’s massive sex trafficking operation.
JPM processed more than $1 billion in transactions for the sex offender.
Here’s our investigation. @davidenrich.bsky.social @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...
JPM processed more than $1 billion in transactions for the sex offender.
Here’s our investigation. @davidenrich.bsky.social @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...
How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The country’s most powerful bank became a critical cog in Epstein’s massive sex trafficking operation.
JPM processed more than $1 billion in transactions for the sex offender.
Here’s our investigation. @davidenrich.bsky.social @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...
JPM processed more than $1 billion in transactions for the sex offender.
Here’s our investigation. @davidenrich.bsky.social @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...
Join me and call on PM Christopher Luxon to leave the freshwater protections in place greenpeace.nz/pu2aon
PETITION: Hands off freshwater protections
Call on Luxon to keep his hands off freshwater protections
greenpeace.nz
September 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Join me and call on PM Christopher Luxon to leave the freshwater protections in place greenpeace.nz/pu2aon
Europeans are the reason why Khomeini succeeded in derailing the revolution in Iran into an "Islamic Republic", and still today the #EU is doing its best to keep the Islamic Republic in power through "negotiations". This is a betrayal of both the #Iranian people and the security of the Europeans.
August 31, 2025 at 10:07 AM
#Meta must be stopped.
Meta AI crawlers dominate 52% of web bot traffic, report reveals
Fastly report reveals Meta, Google, and OpenAI accounted for 95% of AI crawler requests between April and July
www.sdxcentral.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
#Meta must be stopped.
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Happy V'Ger Day, space nerds! Today in 2012, Voyager 1 entered interstellar space, becoming the first human-made object to do so, entering interstellar space at about 122 AU, or about 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the Sun. We celebrate by watching #StarTrek The Motion Picture. 🛰️🔭🦛
Interstellar Mission - NASA Science
The Voyager interstellar mission extends the exploration of the solar system beyond the neighborhood of the outer planets to the outer limits of the Sun's sphere of influence, and possibly beyond.
science.nasa.gov
August 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Happy V'Ger Day, space nerds! Today in 2012, Voyager 1 entered interstellar space, becoming the first human-made object to do so, entering interstellar space at about 122 AU, or about 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the Sun. We celebrate by watching #StarTrek The Motion Picture. 🛰️🔭🦛
I’m a Persian, to me #Middle-East is around where is India. Far East would be China or Japan. #Decolonize our words.
August 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I’m a Persian, to me #Middle-East is around where is India. Far East would be China or Japan. #Decolonize our words.
Bottom trawling is highly destructive. I've signed the petition to stop bottom trawling on seamounts - join me in speaking up to protect the oceans here: greenpeace.nz/p1cize
PETITION: Ban Bottom Trawling
Join the campaign to protect the oceans from destructive fishing. No more bottom trawling on seamounts!
greenpeace.nz
August 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Bottom trawling is highly destructive. I've signed the petition to stop bottom trawling on seamounts - join me in speaking up to protect the oceans here: greenpeace.nz/p1cize
Save Her! URGENT!
Urgent Action | Amnesty International
Soutenez les personnes gravement menacées – signez l'Action urgente maintenant
action.amnesty.ch
August 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Save Her! URGENT!
Save her life! The IR has condemned #SharifehMohammadi to death penalty for no reason. She's a humanitarian activist fighting for the rights of workers in Iran! #Saveher #SharifehMohammadi #SharifeMohammadi #NotoDeathPenalty #EUParliament #KajaKallas #EUHumanRights #EUCommission #ICC @amnesty.org
August 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Save her life! The IR has condemned #SharifehMohammadi to death penalty for no reason. She's a humanitarian activist fighting for the rights of workers in Iran! #Saveher #SharifehMohammadi #SharifeMohammadi #NotoDeathPenalty #EUParliament #KajaKallas #EUHumanRights #EUCommission #ICC @amnesty.org
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Gazans plead for rescue from Hamas rule
YouTube video by i24NEWS English
www.youtube.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Gazans plead for rescue from Hamas rule.
Iranians from IR
Israelis from BiBi
Americans from T.
Russians from Vlad
Turks from Erdogan
N. Koreans from Kim
Chinese people from Xi
Salvadorans from Bukele...
We need a global movement against corrupt leaders.
#Gaza #Iran #America #Putin #Turkey #China
Iranians from IR
Israelis from BiBi
Americans from T.
Russians from Vlad
Turks from Erdogan
N. Koreans from Kim
Chinese people from Xi
Salvadorans from Bukele...
We need a global movement against corrupt leaders.
#Gaza #Iran #America #Putin #Turkey #China
August 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Wife called me a nerd this weekend and I feel like my Youtube algorithm is recommending me things to prove her right.
I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
youtu.be
July 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Wife called me a nerd this weekend and I feel like my Youtube algorithm is recommending me things to prove her right.
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July 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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A classic coordination failure: everyone makes excuses for why they go along with authoritarianism rather than resisting. And democracy and the rule of law crumble. We thought our institutions and culture were stronger, but we are following Hungary's path.
Former US ambassador to Hungary: "After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence." (h/t @bnovak.bsky.social)
Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A classic coordination failure: everyone makes excuses for why they go along with authoritarianism rather than resisting. And democracy and the rule of law crumble. We thought our institutions and culture were stronger, but we are following Hungary's path.
July 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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More than 100 aid agencies and rights groups, including Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders, warned on Wednesday that “mass starvation” was spreading across Gaza, adding to growing calls for Israel to lift restrictions on humanitarian aid to the enclave.
Aid Agencies and Rights Groups Warn of ‘Mass Starvation’ in Gaza
More than 100 organizations blamed Israel’s siege of the territory, adding to growing calls for aid restrictions to be eased and the war to end.
trib.al
July 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
More than 100 aid agencies and rights groups, including Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders, warned on Wednesday that “mass starvation” was spreading across Gaza, adding to growing calls for Israel to lift restrictions on humanitarian aid to the enclave.
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"We are not weak - but the war has broken our bones, and the siege has hollowed out our stomachs"
Read this moving account from an Amnesty fieldworker in Gaza:
Read this moving account from an Amnesty fieldworker in Gaza:
Gaza fieldworker: “We are torn apart watching our children suffer from hunger”
In this moving account, Amnesty International's fieldworker bravely shares how their hopes of a ceasefire have been torn apart. The reality of their lives is now truly unbearable. Their home has been destroyed, they are facing displacement once again and the little food that is available just isn’t enough. They’re hungry, worried and afraid of what’s next.
amn.st
July 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
"We are not weak - but the war has broken our bones, and the siege has hollowed out our stomachs"
Read this moving account from an Amnesty fieldworker in Gaza:
Read this moving account from an Amnesty fieldworker in Gaza: