Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉
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Science, sailing, sea and scattering (X-ray flavor). Against genocide in any form. Opinions are mine. I run a blog at https://lookingatnothing.com/
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loved her work but this is really disappointing. i
hope she can clear this up
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To confirm, this “100% AI generated” passage is the
opening of chapter 5 from Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein
Your Text is AI/GPT Generated
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It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that
almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of
being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered
dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-
extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hnpt7ns2lecdujegbi6qkqqm/bafkreieghmvj7f4exbd7ff54vytavzczleoxj5uwxhld6vf5owzuamruqq)
China doing renewables and dominating EV markets and we're just watching our leaders double down on oil and gas
Politicians voting on judges ruling about science says something about the sad state of our current society. 🧪
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 3mo agoSome 141 UN member states voted in support of the ICJ's finding climate change is an 'existential threat' https://aje.news/3zfb0j
This isn't the actual story, I lived in Miami then. They violated Cuban airspace, to drop Anti Castro flyers. They were not helping any rafters. Invade a country's sovereign air space. Expect stupid prizes.
It's often pointed out how almost all the characters I write are biracial: Kim is half Korean, Xiaoling is Chinese and Central American, Elith is black and Scandinavian, Hayakawa is French and Japanese, etc. and then any vanilla white people (Melchior) are insane. LISTEN, I write what I know.
In this image there are 2 very serious scientific images localizing a GNSS jammer. And 2 by me Today I came across a scientific article validating my radio horizon method for localizing jammers with ADS-b data. Published a month before I started my work. I honestly had no idea.
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social · 3mo agoI find this unsettling: A new study in #Lancet shows that the number of faux citations in scientific articles is on the rise, and #AI is likely to blame. @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...
Rethinking assessment isn’t easy, especially in contexts shaped by global inequalities. In Uruguay, a growing movement is challenging metric‑driven systems and opening space for more inclusive and socially relevant research assessment. New blogpost by Natalia Gras & Judith Sutz 👉 bit.ly/RRA-Uruguay
My “Islam Today” platform published its 100th piece today. A milestone moment in the fight against anti-Muslim & Islamophobia. We have subscribers from all 50 states and 97 countries globally. Read the full update & subscribe. No paywall. Regular dad jokes:) islamtoday.substack.com/p/a-mileston...
A Milestone Day for Islam Today — 100 Articles Published
100 Articles. 97 Countries. One Mission. And We're Just Getting Started
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Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2.5 million papers published as a letter to The Lancet today.
One in 277 PubMed-indexed papers in 2026 shows fabricated references, says analysis
Figure from correspondence to The Lancet by Maxim Topaz and colleagues. Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2.5 mi…
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NEW: I’ve written a call to arms. Journalists are being murdered in unprecedented numbers by a Western ally that operates with total impunity. Enough. Publishers & editors have failed us. But if we can’t speak up about this, what is journalism even for? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Journalists of the world, unite!
You have nothing to lose but the cowardice/apathy of your corporate overlords. Something has to change.
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TIL the infamous "inkblot test" always uses the same 10 inkblots
🆕 EU Longest Train Journey 🆕 Kemijärvi 🇫🇮 - Lagos 🇵🇹 🦅 Geodesic: 4088.33km 🛤️ Route-km: 6251.5km ⏱️Trip time: 87 hours 29 minutes 🚆Trains: 16 💶 Cost: around €400, with Interrail All mapped and explained here 👇 eulongesttrainjourney.jonworth.eu
Almost 100% of new cars sold in Norway last year were electric. Not just because of oil wealth. Because of carbon taxes, EV incentives, and thirty years of consistent policy. New newsletter: Norway: The World's Most Instructive Energy Paradox janrosenow.substack.com/p/norway-the...
Norway: The World’s Most Instructive Energy Paradox
The electrification playbook the world needs - and its inconvenient footnote
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Caught the last day of the James Nachtwey exhibition in Berlin. It’s… impactful. He has seen things. And was still active in Ukraine in 2023 at (back then) 75 years old. #war #photography
I think the trick to depicting the horrors of capitalism in a farcical way without being dreary is to keep at least half of the horrors off-screen.
I see fellow sailors, even professional ones, wrapping line around their hand to get more purchase. This seems intuitive but is super risky, you can damage or crush your hand when the line gets out of control and you can’t let go. Invest in sailing gloves, and unlearn this habit. #segeln #sailing
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Humpback whale 'Timmy' has been released in North Sea after being stranded in shallow waters off Germany since March, witnesses said.
Humpback whale 'Timmy' released in the North Sea after weeks stranded off Germany
A rescue team has released from a barge in the North Sea a humpback whale that had been stranded in shallow waters near Germany since March, witnesses said.
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Walked around the ruins of TU Berlin yesterday. It was very pretty. Too bad it's in such a dilapidated state..
Suddenly Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumber just can’t stop making big bucks off shrewd investments in companies making a fortune off connections to the government. They are experts in every industry now.
BREAKING: Global Sumud Flotilla reports that last night Israeli naval forces intercepted, boarded, and disabled and destroyed various boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla in a violent raid in international waters. 1/2
“That Charles courted Trump while failing to meet Epstein’s victims could hardly be a clearer message of who counts and who doesn’t, of which horrors are punished and which are excused.” My col. in tomorrow’s paper on the royal White House visit and complicity. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
King Charles’s White House visit was an exercise in full-throttle distraction and denial | Frances Ryan
A few days of joviality will hardly change American foreign policy or guarantee Trump’s ever-erratic affections for long, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Testing relative humidity meters and getting thoroughly disappointed.
Though we live on the ground floor, our balcony feels like it receives quite a bit of sunlight in the summer. So I’ve set up a solar panel, a Victron MPPT charger and an AGM battery to try and harvest some eco energy. Let’s see what we can get.