CutyOwl
@cutyowl.bsky.social
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🎧 Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica ? Answer this quick 5-min survey: 👉 www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en Take a break and listen to the voice of the forest 💚 Please like & share on 🦋 to reach more participants 🙏 🌐🌍🦤🧪🍁🪴
"OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, recently said that its latest technologies hallucinated 51 percent to 79 percent of the time when asked general questions." (New York Times gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/w...
England’s High Court Warns Lawyers to Stop Citing Fake A.I.-Generated Cases
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ICE is now detaining high school students with no criminal records, who are here legally to seek asylum. But this isn’t just impacting immigrants. These officials show up hiding their identities, showing no IDs, offering no transparency, stealing ppl away. This is a safety issue for all of us.
A new analysis estimates the Trump/GOP budget's rollback of clean energy tax credits will eliminate nearly 830,000 jobs by 2030 and raise energy prices by 50% by 2035. Just another way the "big beautiful bill" will make the economy worse and your life more expensive.
Trump’s tax bill to cost 830,000 jobs and drive up bills and pollution emissions, experts warn
Bill will unleash millions more tonnes of planet-heating pollution and couldn’t come at a worse time, say experts
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OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪
The IDF are setting people they arrest on fire. Dear God. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gazan detainees tell BBC of torture by IDF and Israel Prison Service
Interviews with five men held in the months after the Hamas attacks reveal allegations of violence and abuse, adding to reports of misconduct by military and prison staff.
bbc.co.uk
They just torched $721 million in hurricane prep for Louisiana. Because saving lives is “waste, fraud & abuse,” right? Louisiana was counting on this. Right before hurricane season, too. And in the Speaker’s backyard. This is actually insane. www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...
Trump's FEMA ends grants that help prepare for hurricanes. Louisiana hoped to get $721M.
President Donald Trump's administration canceled a FEMA program that helped Louisiana prepare for hurricanes. The state had $721M in applications for money in the pipeline.
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"Pink", what a beautiful name, in these gloomy times.
Agence France-Presse@afp.com · 2y agoLe plus ancien visage connu dans l'Ouest de l'Europe est désormais celui d'un fossile vieux d'au moins 1,1 million d'années, surnommé "Pink", découvert dans un gouffre espagnol et présenté mercredi dans la revue Nature. ➡️ u.afp.com/SUAJ
Forty-seven scientific societies have signed a letter organized by the @ucsusa.bsky.social urging Congress to protect federally funded research and federal scientists: www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...
48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
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Israel and Türkiye may be heading for a collision. Israel has asked the US to pressure Türkiye not to set up three new military bases in Syria and establish a stronger intelligence presence. Hard to see Erdogan agreeing.
A WIRED investigation reveals that billion-dollar scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands are enslaved—are using Starlink, the satellite internet service from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to stay online and keep their operations running.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online
A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.
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The Vote distribution in Germany's snap election. Looks like the Cold War is back.
Get ready for a real impact on February 28th! We’re boycotting all corporate giants—If it’s not a small business, it’s off-limits! No gas, no fast food, no Amazon. If they can’t hear us, we’ll make them feel us. (PHASE 1)
I was scrolling through the comments on a debate about non-violence in politics. And I come across: "Gandhi was dealing with the British, not Israeli settlers." ... 👀 ... I laughed 😭😖
We may have left the EU in 2016 after lies, misinformation, and promises of prosperity that have not materialised Luckily for us, the EU isn't that far away, it's just next door Anyone else want the UK 🇬🇧 to rejoin the EU 🇪🇺 ?
Happy Valentine's Day! The old ones are best 🧪🐡🦠
1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work
The NSA's "Big Delete"
Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion." The "...
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Cela semble absurde, et j’ai été choqué la première fois que je l’ai compris, mais la France – il n'y a pas d'autre mot – est bien un paradis fiscal pour milliardaire Explications détaillées 🧵
A French public media outlet has discussed the feasibility of turning Gaza into the new Riviera... with a professional from the tourism industry. Or "how to discuss the acceptability of ethnic cleansing" 🤦
Pierre Bernat@pierrebernat.bsky.social · 2y ago«La bande de Gaza en Riviera, est-ce que ça a du sens pour le professionnel du tourisme que vous êtes ?» Bon, "accessoirement", la déportation généralisée ou systématique dirigée contre toute population, c'est un Crime contre l'Humanité. Les médias sont prêts. www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...
What do populist voters want from their government? In this research note, I found some interesting answers to this question. The TL;DR is that they want more democracy, not less democracy, but they are willing to achieve in paradoxically illiberal ways (or what seem illiberal to us scholars).
CEVIPOF - Sciences Po@cevipof.bsky.social · 2y ago🔎 What Do Populist Voters Really Want? A new research note by @vinarceneaux.bsky.social @cevipof.bsky.social sheds light on the political preferences of populist voters in France, Germany, and Italy during the 2024 European elections. #Democracy #Populism Read the note👇 tinyurl.com/2s3e5v4n
Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.
Kai Kupferschmidt@kakape.bsky.social · 2y ago“USAID-backed studies have been shuttered, data streams have dried up, researchers and technical staff have been fired or put on leave, a system to predict food crises has been muzzled, and a USAID-supported global health journal has stopped reviewing manuscripts.” From our @science.org news team 🧪
OpenAI struck a deal with the US National Laboratories to integrate its product for use with nuclear security. I wrote about what that immediately made me think of. ericwbailey.website/published/st...
Stanislav Petrov
We don’t live in a purely deterministic world of technology anymore.
ericwbailey.website
