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Jodrell Bank Observatory has been the focal point of many critical discoveries & educational advancements. Its closure would represent a significant loss for science, education, & our collective understanding of the cosmos. c.org/PX9LXrGb6w
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Fund the Jodrell Bank Observatory's largest telescope
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Chinese poster for the new Spider-Man film makes me want to start buying film posters again.
Washington Post under Trump: "151,000 jobs is solid" Washington Post under Biden: "194,000 jobs is another weak month"
Russia hitting the hotel filled with foreign volunteers immediately after Trump cut intelligence to Ukraine is probably not a coincidence.
Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · last yr.Someone, no idea who, may be leaking information to Russia on weapons shipments to Ukraine.
"[D]rones now kill more soldiers and destroy more armored vehicles in Ukraine than all traditional weapons of war combined, including sniper rifles, tanks, howitzers and mortars, Ukrainian commanders and officials say."
French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
Polish PM Donald Tusk: “I will repeat once again what seems incredible but is true: 500 million Europeans are begging 300 million Americans to protect us from 180 million Russians who have not been able to cope with 40 million Ukrainians for three years.”
🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates
It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates
theguardian.com
Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer
Telegraph (Fraser Nelson) "Our immigrant population has almost doubled while our crime rate has halved....we seem to have attracted immigrants who, by and large, are prone to integrate and strengthen the social fabric." archive.ph/ryMuH
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Want to impress family or friends? Ask them for a photo featuring a shadow and follow the steps GeoGuessr pro @georainbolt.bsky.social does here. Using Bellingcat's Shadow Finder tool, you can narrow down the likely location the photo was taken in. youtu.be/pQIjDPFgdJA?...
how to find a location using only the shadow
YouTube video by RAINBOLT
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This festive season I’m sharing a video every day for the next 24 days showing useful OSINT tools & techniques. Creating this OSINT Advent Series has been a lot of fun and I hope it’s helpful for the ever-growing OSINT community! 🎄👇
I don't think we've confronted the fact that the perceived excesses of the "woke" agenda are coded feminine, and the actual excesses of the Trumpist agenda are coded masculine. Given how deeply misogyny is embedded in US society (and not just), it's obvious why the latter won that contest.
‘Woke’ didn’t lose the US election: the patrician class who hijacked identity politics did | Nesrine Malik
Why is this simple explanation being so widely embraced? Because it does not require a commitment to real, structural change, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
theguardian.com
Early days, but another exciting application of vaccine technology. And a tough one for antivaxx crowd. Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....
Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer | WashU Medicine
Clinical trial targeted recurrence of hard-to-treat triple-negative breast cancer
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Day 5 (2019): Today's #patcadvent is Moomin looking a little nonplussed at being served soup by invisible shrew mice, from Tove Jansson's Moominland Midwinter. Moomins, as you may know, normally hibernate all winter with a tummy full of pine needles, but one year, Moomin wakes up by accident... 💙📚
I don't think that's a good sign for Gabbard
Former officials urge closed-door Senate hearings on Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's pick for intel chief
Nearly 100 former senior U.S. diplomats and intelligence and national security officials have asked Senate leaders to schedule closed-door hearings to allow for a full review of the government’s files...
abcnews.go.com
European Union regulators ordered TikTok to retain any information related to Romania’s presidential election, after the country’s top defense body released declassified intelligence alleging that Moscow arranged an online campaign to support the surprise front-runner. apnews.com/article/roma...
European Union orders TikTok to preserve data related to Romanian election
European Union regulators have ordered TikTok to retain any information related to Romania’s presidential election.
apnews.com
I just found out that around 20% of the neanderthal genome still exists today in living people!! No individual person has more than 3 or 4% but we don't all have the same bits. If you add up all the bits we've found, about a fifth of the Neanderthal genome is still present on earth today.
A scene from the 1933 film Thunder Over Mexico by Sergei Eisenstein.
Right, but astonishingly… that appears to be a decent retrieval mechanism for information that was present in the training set. It’s like the structure of language turns out to be a very good carrier signal for encoding things that can be expressed linguistically.
I've just finished a task that I've been putting off & resenting having to do for several weeks. It took me probably 1hr maximum. I will inevitably not learn from this.
It's very important that I show you all this NASA photo of a frog being extremely inconvenienced by a rocket launch. science.nasa.gov/resource/lad...
I came onto Bluesky an hour ago, and the first two things I saw were posts providing useful context for understanding the imposition of martial law in South Korea—the exact kind of thing that Twitter used to be so useful for in a developing crisis.
ChatGPT’s refusal to acknowledge ‘David Mayer’ down to glitch, says OpenAI
ChatGPT’s refusal to acknowledge ‘David Mayer’ down to glitch, says OpenAI
Name was mistakenly flagged and prevented from appearing in responses, says OpenAI Last weekend the name was all over the internet – just not on ChatGPT. David Mayer became famous for a moment on social media because the popular chatbot appeared to want…
theguardian.com
www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/news/2...
Scientists discover higher levels of CO2 increase survival of viruses in the air and transmission risk
A new study has revealed for the first time the vital role carbon dioxide (CO2) plays in determining the lifespan of airborne viruses – namely SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
bristol.ac.uk
The worst things get, the more utopian thought flourishes. (No I don't have a graph to illustrate, it's a speculation not a research finding.) But if so, expect some spectacular writing on political utopias in the coming years.
