this is incredibly abnormal and scary. always a possibility this decade, extremely bizarre to experience in real time. we’ve got important stuff loaded in the car, not going anywhere at the moment because by all accounts traffic is already very bad www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Thousands evacuated in north Spokane as wildfire crosses river into city

A wildfire driven by high winds has jumped the Spokane River and is threatening neighborhoods near and within the city of Spokane.

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People, a P.O.S. guy is spamming news and personal posts about the fires in PNW tonight with video of fires. Please REPORT this ACCOUNT. Following post has some suggested language. ⤵️ If you have the energy, pls REPORT individual POSTS too. Profile link to report: bsky.app/profile/adea...

Gee, that would be so. horrible. *looks for handkerchief*

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo ago

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

Thread. It's not looking good.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

Wakanda Forever!

Asperas Bompar@asperasbompar.bsky.social · 6d ago

Wakanda tariffs going to get doubled now

Every word of this applies to the Broadway Plan. And now, all the housing density increase is redirected back to the Broadway Plan sacrifice zone.

Peter Waldkirch 華彼德@pwaldkirch.bsky.social · last wk.

Sim: "this is a plan that did not engage effectively with the public or respond to the serious concerns that were raised by these radical changes in their n'hoods. And we can't build more housing in this city while ignoring the residents who already make our nhoods the vibrant places that they are."

Excellent article, written by an expert. Everyone needs to read it, both Canadians and Americans.

News and Coffee@newsandcoffee.bsky.social · last wk.

Trump hates Chrystia Freeland because she walked him like a poodle.

The Venn diagram of the people who think that Emily Wilson is being mean and people who think that women in science should just grow thicker skin if they don't like criticism is likely a perfect circle.

Casey Stegman@caseystegman.com · last wk.

People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference

Today's wish of the day: I wish that tech companies would finally figure out that "do not ask me again" actually means do not fucking ask me again.

I cannot imagine any responsible way to use AI as a Black woman. Using it responsibly for work isn't predicated on how we use it but on how the evaluator considers the user reasonable. And well...we don't generally get that benefit of the doubt.

The scene 🔜 The shot. Slowly motoring in the fjord on a still morning. The majority of icebergs had congregated near the head of the fjord. All but one berg. Getting closer I could foresee the shot I wanted and finally with everything looking about right I shot the second image. One of my favs...

Can we please have this here?

Fietser@americanfietser.bsky.social · 2w ago

A motorist in Amsterdam was pulled over for being a public noise nuisance with his car. Noise measurement tests were done and the car was found to be in violation. The driver had to continue his journey on foot and the car is not allowed on public infrastructure until the exhaust is properly muffled

I've started doing this with refereeing requests. Not "I'm on vacation, I will do it later" but "I'm on vacation and will not do it."

Not actually a Treponema@generalparesis.bsky.social · 2w ago

UK - I know of more than one person who has some variation of "due to the volume of emails I receive, those emails received while I am on leave will not be read". Not even "I'll read them when I'm back" but "all into the bin, if it's important you can email me later".

"Scientists decry Trump’s ‘blame game’ after he claims Canada ‘poisoning’ US air" by @olliemilman.bsky.social for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Scientists decry Trump’s ‘blame game’ after he claims Canada ‘poisoning’ US air

Trump told Mark Carney ‘you got to stop these fires from coming in’ as experts say wildfires symptom of climate crisis

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Repost for the afternoon/evening crowd.

Izabella Laba 🇨🇦@ijlaba.bsky.social · 2w ago

Congratulations to Hong Wang on winning the Fields Medal! ilaba.wordpress.com/2026/07/23/c...

And, apparently, someone has read Never Let Me Go and decided to get inspired.

Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦@snarkysteff.bsky.social · 2w ago

Have we not made cloning humans illegal? Nothing good can come of this. Only evil and chaos. What a fucking chud.

Wow. How on earth.

Amanda Silberling@amanda.omg.lol · 2w ago

this broke me techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/m...

Congratulations to Hong Wang on winning the Fields Medal! ilaba.wordpress.com/2026/07/23/c...

Congratulations to Hong Wang!

Congratulations to Hong Wang on winning the Fields Medal!!Hong Wang received her PhD degree from MIT in 2019, was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study from 2019 to 2021, and an…

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Mr. Jamelle Bouie — YES, A THOUSAND TIMES YES. You Americans need to take Trump's threats of Canada WAY MORE SERIOUSLY. We are. We are not fucking around. We know exactly what's happening. Time for all y'all to wake the fuck up.

It is time to stop treating Donald Trump's anti-Canada rhetoric like a joke

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Very nice thread.

Gro-Tsen@gro-tsen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Let me expand upon this 🔽 and say something about AIs, mathematics, proofs, conjectures, problem-solving, goalposts, paperclips, genii and, more importantly, Campbell/Goodhart's law. 🧵⤵️ •1/38

Dunno, maybe you should not complain about "Canadian fires" when your administration is rolling back all the environmental regulations that might keep our shared planet from burning.

So, you see, smoke travels in both directions and every other direction What matters is that we help each other and tackle climate change as humankind www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Smoke from U.S. wildfires affecting air quality in B.C.

Wildfires south of the border are responsible for “much” of the smoke that has prompted an air quality warning in one region of B.C., according to officials.

ctvnews.ca

Tanith Lee is one of those past masters of the genre who is always in danger of being forgotten. She was influential, powerful, and an elegant stylist. Get these books if you like reading!

Shane M. Bailey@shanembailey.com · 4w ago

I own a quite a few Tanith Lee books but have only read one so far. I really enjoyed it, if you are interested you should give this a try.

Today's version of Zeno's Paradox: to write up a math paper, you have to write the first half of that paper. Can you even decide which half is first? Write the first section? Which one is first anyway? How do we even get through all the notation at the beginning!? Yeah, that's me today.

1. Congrats to Spain!!! 2. Siri, tell me what it's like to be unable to experience or understand joy and excitement.

Joe Noonan@joenoonan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 2w ago

NO WHAT THE FUCK

azcentral@azcentral.com · 2w ago

More efficient energy use among homes — through tiny tweaks in thermostat and battery use — could free up the grid for data centers to come online.

I’m WHEEZING

Listen I will just say to any American politicians who are just watchimg their colleagues issue veiled threats at Canada for having wildfires in one of the largest boreal forests in the world you better not issue any "please buy or wine and visit our casino" notices

Countries need to be weaning themselves off US tech products and infrastructures as quickly as possible, especially their essential services and government functions. As long as their dependence can be weaponized against them, sovereignty is illusory. disconnect.blog/global-depen...