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Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Well, well, well. In 2025, Brendan Carr’s wife “joined billionaire Peter Thiel’s data analytics firm, Palantir Technologies, as its head of global policy.” 4/28/25 … 1/ www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

New in PN: Disney runs out of patience with Brendan Carr’s bullsh*t "For over a year, ABC tried to appease the Trump administration. That era is now over. On Tuesday, ABC, its parent company Disney, and eight ABC-owned stations sued Carr and the FCC for grossly violating the First Amendment."

Disney runs out of patience with Brendan Carr’s bullsh*t

Mickey Mouse hits back after a year of fascist harassment.

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Phillips O'Brien: Midweek Update #24: The USA Is Not A Serious Country phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-up...

Midweek Update #24: The USA Is Not A Serious Country

In Strategy And Planning The USA Is A Self-Destructive Mess: Here Is A Short-Term Way To Stop The Bleeding

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Bits, Pbits, and Qbits

If a black hole eventually evaporates through Hawking radiation, what happens to the information about everything that fell in? There are several serious ideas, but no universally accepted answer yet.

Hunting for a Hidden Side of the Higgs. A new CMS result searches for unexpected Higgs connections in events with four bottom quarks, probing possible links between ordinary matter and dark matter. Read more in the CMS Briefing: cms.cern/news/hunting...

Metassuperfícies ganham píxeis e inauguram fotônica interativa. Isso viabiliza versões práticas e interativas de telas, comunicações, sensores e tudo mais com a tecnologia emergente. www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/not... #ciencia #tecnologia #informatica #optica #fotonica #metamateriais

Metassuperfícies ganham píxeis e inauguram fotônica interativa

Dando vida � �ptica plana, metamateriais e metassuperf�cies agora ganharam programabilidade, com p�xeis endere��veis independentemente.

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Têmpera por luz muda metais alterando seus elétrons. A descoberta será útil em áreas como eletrônica ultrarrápida, física de altas energias e tecnologias avançadas de fabricação. www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/not... #ciencia #tecnologia #engenharia #mecanica #metais #metalurgia

Têmpera por luz muda metais alterando seus elétrons

A descoberta ser� �til em �reas como eletr�nica ultrarr�pida, f�sica de altas energias e tecnologias avan�adas de fabrica��o.

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I needed something spectacular, and here it is: a view of the August 12 solar eclipse as seen from South Korea's Danuri satellite, in orbit around the Moon. You can see the lunar shadow sweeping across Greenland. 🔭🧪 www.mt.co.kr/amp/tech/202...

Cristal do tempo fotônico molda a luz em ultravelocidade. As aplicações incluem computação óptica, telecomunicações ultrarrápidas e novos tipos de lasers. www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/not... #ciencia #tecnologia #informatica #fisica #fotonica #cristais #optica

Cristal do tempo fotônico molda a luz em ultravelocidade

Este feito experimental aponta para m�ltiplas aplica��es, incluindo computa��o �ptica, telecomunica��es ultrarr�pidas e novos tipos de lasers.

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Sensor mecanocrômico funde visão e tato em um único sentido. Humanos têm o tato e a visão como dois sentidos separados, mas este novo sensor mistura as duas coisas. www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/not... #ciencia #tecnologia #robotica #robos #sensores

Sensor mecanocrômico funde visão e tato em um único sentido

Humanos t�m o tato e a vis�o como dois sentidos separados, mas este novo sensor mecanocr�mico mistura as duas coisas.

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Microscópio computacional captura 25 bilhões de píxeis por segundo. É um avanço que vence a tradicional competição entre velocidade, resolução e campo de visão dos microscópios tradicionais. www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/not... #ciencia #tecnologia #nanotecnologia #microscopios

Microscópio computacional captura 25 bilhões de píxeis por segundo

� um salto qualitativo que vence a tradicional competi��o entre velocidade, resolu��o e campo de vis�o dos microsc�pios tradicionais.

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The LHC as a lepton collider! 🎇 CMS reports the first observation of scattering between two leptons (electron–electron or muon–muon pairs) emitted from protons, using data collected from 2016 to 2026. 👉 Read more in the CMS breifing: cms.cern/news/lepton-...

Spacewalk complete. ✅ After 6 hours and 23 minutes outside the International Space Station, Sophie Adenot is safely back inside. With today's EVA, Sophie becomes the first French woman to perform a spacewalk. 🇫🇷 @exploration.esa.int

Most decision-making research focuses on discrete choices, but real life is continuous. @nature.com recently published a study showing that the brain manages such behavior by dynamically mixing goal-based control policies (with distinct roles for hippocampus ACC & OFC) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neural basis of compositional control - Nature

Behaviour of human participants in a prey-pursuit task reflects dynamic blending of goal-specific control policies, with hippocampus estimating latent states, anterior cingulate cortex orchestrating p...

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O ódio vende mais que o amor... “O algoritmo do X aprende o que você odeia e lhe mostra mais disso, segundo um novo estudo recém-publicado na *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences*”👇

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · yesterday

“X’s algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” www.404media.co/xs-algorithm...

There's no such thing as rogue AI, whenever you see this term the subject is actually rogue AI developers www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...

How AI Models From OpenAI and Anthropic Went Rogue

Watch to learn how an AI agent escaped “sandboxed” environments and hacked a separate company—leading to calls for regulation.

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Peter Thiel was supposed to come back to Argentina to speak at a “Winds of Change” event, but apparently just dropped out. Meanwhile, protestors dressed as Gandalf from Lord of the Rings protested Thiel & Palantir outside Thiel’s mansion in Argentina. 1/

As drone use proliferates, responses to the threat they pose in and beyond the battlefield continue apace.

How drones are taken down – from nets and metal cages to jammers

As drone use proliferates, responses to the threat they pose in and beyond the battlefield continue apace.

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Yufei Cai, Jun Li: r2py: A Framework for AI-Assisted Conversion of R Statistical Packages to Python https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16911 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16911 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.16911

Zipei Nie, Guanyang Wang, Peng Zhang: The Snake Algorithm: A Rejection-Free Sampler for Binary Matrices with Fixed Margins https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.17531 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.17531 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.17531

🌱Guaritá 🌎Astronium graveolens Conservação: Pouco preocupante (IUCN Red List) O guaritá (nome científico: Astronium graveolens) é uma espécie da família das anacardiáceas. 📷 Ing. Forestal Carmen Angeles López e mais 2

The 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival is at full throttle right now! Check out our full coverage here, with 47 exclusive reviews (thus far): dmovies.org/tag/32nd-sar...

Kevin Lala has written about the origins of cultural evolution here www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... And his book with Gillian Brown is the best introduction to distinctions between ev psych, cultural evolution and other branches of the ev behavioural sciences global.oup.com/ukhe/product...

Genes, culture, and scientific racism | PNAS

Quantitative studies of cultural evolution and gene-culture coevolution (henceforth “CE” and “GCC”) emerged in the 1970s, in the aftermath of the “...

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Scientific racists like to claim that eminent geneticist David Reich agrees with them about genetically-determined racial differences in IQ (and even, hilariously, that he plagiarised them). He does not. Here's a handy explainer.

Eric Turkheimer@ent3c.bsky.social · yesterday

Blog post. Richard Hanania on Race and Intelligence: In which he explains David Reich to David Reich.

It doesn't have sharp teeth or claws, but the mosquito kills more people than any other animal on earth. As the climate warms, mosquito season is lasting longer, giving them more time to spread dangerous diseases. https://to.pbs.org/4ihm3ks

Scientists explore new ways to target mosquitos as warming climate expands threat

It doesn't have sharp teeth or claws, but the mosquito kills more people than any other animal on earth. As the climate warms, mosquito season is lasting longer, giving them more time to spread danger...

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I taught in China in 1983, with a very bad blackboard and some very good students. This is centuries ahead of where China was then.

Just my thoughts 🇨🇦@bc60.bsky.social · yesterday

US spends unlimited money on wars; next-generation blackboards in China🇨🇳. Different choices define different futures USA: no $ for that; we spent $ on shock gloves to torture children in concentration camps..China’s doing this for their kids, and we’re putting the Ten Commandments in public schools

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New Review COPD and Aspergillus—a complex interaction of global health importance www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

COPD and Aspergillus—a complex interaction of global health importance

Aspergillus spp are common airborne fungi, and the commonest fungal pathogen of human lungs. In patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the usual defences against disease are impai...

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New Comment Lessons from another negative tuberculosis vaccine trial www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Lessons from another negative tuberculosis vaccine trial

Tuberculosis is the most common global cause of death from a single infectious agent, Mycobacterium tuberculosis.1 When administered neonatally, the only licensed vaccine—live attenuated Mycobacterium...

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