I got a new handle, and I'm about to launch the migration to @eurosky.social Hope everything goes fine. See you, space cowboys!

More generally, the alternative to current power structures (including re resource distribution) is not unconstrained agency, but alternative power structures. If you insist your thing does not have power structures, it just means its power structures are unlegible and thus unaccountable.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 18h ago

The reason you want an actual humanitarian aid system and *don’t* want to force everybody to rely on online mutual aid is because online mutual aid *forces people experiencing horrific trauma* to perform on the Internet for survival.

The reason you want an actual humanitarian aid system and *don’t* want to force everybody to rely on online mutual aid is because online mutual aid *forces people experiencing horrific trauma* to perform on the Internet for survival.

While the Burmese Junta claimed to have demolished KK Park, a major scam centre in Myawaddy, numerous Starlink Terminals are still visible on the roofs of still-standing buildings in recent satellite imagery. Entirely new scam compounds are under construction nearby.

Difficile de nier le fait que cela approche; cette fameuse soutenance d'HDR, c'est lundi 14h à la @mshlyon.bsky.social espace Marc Bloch Avec un magnifique jury... qui promet des discussions épiques! 😱 😊 🥰 www.centre-max-weber.fr/Soutenance-d...

Anthony Pecqueux@pecqueuxanthony.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ayé, c'est rendu 😅 🤓 🥱 🤗 (maintenant c'est entre les mains et les yeux de qui de droit - & d'ici un mois j'espère pouvoir vous montrer l'intégralité de cette couverture)

Les différentes générations de MAGA sont en train de s’entre-dévorer, c’est bon signe, ça augure du rétrécissement du gâteau à partager : Milo Yinannopoulos, MAGA du premier mandat, a été dénoncée par Laura Loomer, MAGA du second mandat 🍰🍽️🐍

Kunta van den Kinté@kuntavandenkinte.bsky.social · 19h ago

La pourriture anglaise d’extrême droite Milo Yiannopoulos, fervent partisan de Trump et de la répression des immigrés, qui se moquait même de leur souffrance, vient à son tour d’être arrêté par l’immigration américaine et placé en détention par l’ICE. Karma is a bitch ! 😍🍿

⛵ Slow boat to Amsterdam ships Caribbean cargo using sail power Gliding into the port of Amsterdam under full sail, a twin-masted sailboat delivers 40 tonnes of Caribbean rum, coffee and cocoa to the Netherlands, on a mission to raise awareness about emissions from shipping.

Même en étant de droite c'est lamentable. La colonisation EST factuellement un crime. Ou plutôt un ensemble de crimes de différents natures. Cela est clairement établi par l'histoire. Il n'y a pas de débat là-dessus. C'est du négationnisme pur et simple.

Libération@liberation.fr · 7h ago

Récemment sur place, le candidat à la présidentielle avait, comme en 2025, refusé de qualifier la colonisation de «crime». La gauche locale dénonce «un profond aveuglement historique». ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/jrM

Are brains and artificial neural networks converging onto universal representations? There is a seductive idea making the rounds in NeuroAI / machine learning: train systems well enough, and they all converge on the same representation of reality (i.e. a unique world model). We have thoughts™ 1/n

The Umwelt Representation Hypothesis: rethinking Universality

Recent studies reveal striking representational alignment between artificial neural networks (ANNs) and biological brains, leading to proposals that all sufficiently capable systems converge on univer...

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Proposition 1: a polycule is a bunch of people in a relationship with each other Proposition 2: not all people in the polycule are actively interacting at ant given time Lemma 1: for polycules to exist, you need relationships remains defined for a cooldown period t since last interaction

Another lesser known impact is that many proposed data centers are built on top of wetlands These impacts are way worse than they would have been even a few years ago because in 2023 the Supreme Court rolled back federal wetland protections

The ‘time-consuming’ permits dozens of data centers are skipping

A court ruling shrinking the scope of the Clean Water Act has allowed new data centers to speed through the federal permitting process. Communities are feeling the effects.

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"Principal investigators need cheap grad and postdoc labor to boost their own research profiles. Treating them like workers by allowing them to unionize disrupts the feudal lord-serf relationship that exists in most labs." There I fixed it for you

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 2d ago

Opinion | Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science. By Evan D. Morris: https://bit.ly/3Sus7fa #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

🚨New paper out after several years in the making! "Background-matching patterns are attractive: support for a processing bias" with @tamramendelson.bsky.social, @julien-renoult.bsky.social, Innes Cuthill (CamoLab alumni), Michel Raymond (@isemevol.bsky.social) ▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.an... 📷 Ed Nisley

Our Family Support service is here for parents or carers of children with diagnosed or suspected ME. We support families to access education & work with professionals, such as their child’s GP. For more info👇 www.actionforme.org.uk/supporting-y...

My forthcoming book When Death Comes is now listed at Amazon and other book stores. Please consider placing an advance order at your preferred bookseller. Advance sales make a big difference to the life of a book. www.amazon.com/When-Death-C...

When Death Comes: Our Ultimate Transformation

Amazon.com: When Death Comes: Our Ultimate Transformation: 9780231202541: Thompson, Evan: Books

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I wonder if an expression like "Total Clanker Death" and the broader imagery developed here maybe has some historical precedent?

Total Clanker Death ♪

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d ago

I have my disagreements with Stancil but he seems clearly right about this one for whatever that's worth

Trump administration issues pause on visa appointments for applicants worldwide reut.rs/45NtKHO

Trump administration issues pause on visa appointments for applicants worldwide

President Donald Trump's administration has ​issued a pause on visa appointments for applicants around the world during ‌an ongoing immigration crackdown by the U.S. government in the Republican leader's second term in the White House.

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where is the academic freedom letter, i would like to sign it

Stars and Stripes@starsandstripes.bsky.social · 3d ago

A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.

Cofnas has publicly expressed hope for a violent revolution that would remove blacks and wokes from academia to allow him to research eugenics. Academic freedom require people like him to go. The senseless inversion by which his dismissal is construed as an attack on acedemic freedom cannot stand.

Pieter T. L. Beck@ptrbck.bsky.social · 4d ago

We have written a statement in support of Ghent Uni's decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. We resist attempts to frame this as a punishment for "whistleblowing" or censorship of "controversial research". We invite all academics who share our views to sign our letter. forms.gle/qwN8xzEM5C7Q...

We have written a statement in support of Ghent Uni's decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. We resist attempts to frame this as a punishment for "whistleblowing" or censorship of "controversial research". We invite all academics who share our views to sign our letter. forms.gle/qwN8xzEM5C7Q...

Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University

We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. With th...

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Adapting to climate change without ending the fossil fuel industry.

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

Things that were not in my bingo for 2026: History Guy having a public crashout where he steadfastly insist fascism is an eternal fact of human nature, which he explains with Cultural Group Selection and Evo Psy ™

Me competing with the real runners

to put this spin on @jamellebouie.net's post directly: it's *often* worth trying to find neutral terms to describe views for the sake of making sure we are in a conversational position to accept or reject them on their merits. but, here, that is precisely the outcome euphemisms militate *against*

Girls Literally Only Want One Thing And It's Fucking Disgusting

#AI just translated Linear A

ansmuh@ansmuh.bsky.social · 3d ago

Google did it for ”free”

Do I know any folks who can connect me to academics or researchers who are more fluent in the history of rhetoric used to attack the Roma people? I am far from an expert and want to be thoughtful in how how I’m articulating the danger of DHH’s hateful screeds.

People shouldn't be mean to the computer for the same reason they shouldn't spend hours shouting slurs at a mannequin: what we practice becomes easier to do. The effect on the object isn't the issue. The effect on you is that you get more used to shouting slurs.