Karl Burke
@karlburke.bsky.social
Artist. Painter. Interested in the military-industrial complex, mass surveillance and manipulation, climate change, geopolitics, history, human cognition, social behaviour. Dublin/Paris. http://www.karlburke.com
Mark Zuckerberg tells investors that his AI push is a huge success. But when it files its taxes, Meta tells the IRS its giant data centers are an experiment that might fail. Why? Because calling them an experiment lets Meta claim a tax credit meant for real research.
A while back I learned something mindblowing about the geological history of the Mediterranean Sea, and I just can't get it out of my head. Now I'm going to make it *your* problem too. Sorry. Hang onto your hat. This is wild. 1/
Here's a glittering green tanager from #ecuador 's cloud forest. Feel like he should fit the #green #bird theme.
Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷@crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 2w agoAlt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Green, photos with green in the background. Had to do a second for today because this Ms. Spotted Towhee is just too pretty, if a bit miffed I interrupted her berry snack! #birds #becurious 🪶
The only part of this that's remotely surprising is that the instructions were disclosed. I mean, OFC Meta is using it's AI surveillance tool to build a social graph of everyone who uses it. It's fucking Meta!
TJ McIntyre@tjmcintyre.com · 2w agoMuse has just dumped its entire filesystem, and the instructions include "keep a page for every person in the user's life" with "the nature of the user's relationship with this person: how close they are, what it is built on, how they act with each other, and what it seems to need right now."
Bon matin avec le cratère du Sirente,Abruzzes,Italie. Surnommé "l'œil de la Terre ",c'est ce petit plan d'eau saisonnier qui se trouve au cœur de la plaine karstique des Prati del Sirente, au pied du mont Sirente. photo:Valeria Castiello / 2026 Prix international du photographe aérien de l'année
Experiments have confirmed the two foundational postulates of Richard Feynman’s path-integral approach to quantum mechanics for the first time 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/CfMu50ZRkZQ
Single photon measurements confirm Richard Feynman's vision of quantum mechanics – Physics World
Foundational postulates of the path-integral formulation observed in the lab
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Notorious Hacking Group 'OpenAI' Claims Credit For Breaching Australia's Medicare System https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/09/24/notorious-hacking-group-openai-claims-credit-for-breaching-australias-medicare-system/
🇺🇸🇪🇸🇫🇷🇮🇹 CIA warns of Russia preparing drone attacks against Spain, France or Italy, — El Mundo. The relevant US intelligence has been passed on to European governments. Gerbera drones are planned to be launched from ships disguised as merchant vessels.
Houthi happens upon haram I believe we are looking at Houthi rebels pulling the pants down on Saudi army piety.
Martin Hansson@martinhansson.bsky.social · 3w agoSaudiska officerare har bra smak när det kommer till vodka, värdelös när det kommer till whisky.
New: OpenAI has thousands of contractors improving its AI, including reading ChatGPT users' prompts We've found many of those contractors have been fired for themselves using AI to train the AI. People using AI "all the time and people are let go for it all the time" www.404media.co/people-train...
People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.
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OTD in 1939 the German–Soviet victory parade took place in Polish town of Brest-Litovsk. As allies, we celebrated liberating Poland from the Poles
Sunrise song. You'll want the volume up for this one, but not too high. Every coyote within a half kilometre radius decided to make themselves known this morning while I was enjoying the sunrise from the kayak. A truly magical moment. #mammals 🌿
Van Gogh never stopped learning from his favourite artists ~ he painted his ‘Bridge in Rain’ (1887) as an acknowledged tribute to Hiroshige’s woodblock print ‘Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge’ (1857) www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collectio...
Combien de temps pourrons-nous encore regarder nos ciels sans avoir peur ?
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
Shel Silverstein somehow clocking AI all the way back in 1981
Israeli reservists have called for the military to expand its illegal operations deeper into Syrian territory, with a senior officer saying many troops would favour advancing as far as Damascus, according to Israeli media
The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · 4w agoRead more: www.newarab.com/news/israeli...
Le ministre de la culture, Miki Zohar, a réclamé que Yuval Abraham et Rachel Szor, les réalisateurs de "Naza", soient déchus de leur citoyenneté. Leur film décrit, témoignages de militaires à l’appui, comment des civils sont tués par l’armée israélienne dans l’enclave palestinienne.
En Israël, les réalisateurs de « Naza », le documentaire sur Gaza primé à la Mostra, accusés de « trahison »
Le ministre de la culture, Miki Zohar, a réclamé, dimanche soir, que Yuval Abraham et Rachel Szor soient déchus de leur citoyenneté. Leur film décrit, témoignages de militaires à l’appui, comment des ...
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La Turquie commence à rafler les LGBT+. Arrestations massives à leur domicile, raids des bars LGBT+, blocage des sites et des réseaux sociaux des associations et militant.e.s LGBT+... L'opération lancée par Erdogan est baptisée "Ma famille est en sécurité".
Vaste coup de filet en Turquie contre des bars et associations LGBT +
Ces arrestations en série ont eu lieu dans le cadre d’un plan stratégique proclamé par Recep Tayyip Erdogan, pour contrer la baisse de la natalité et protéger l’institution familiale.
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Two minutes of men in suits coming in to a dull office and sitting down with their papers before Alleline says "Right. We shall start". Who could tell what a gripping story was to follow? Who would be bold enough to do that now?
archivetvmusings@archivetvmusings.bsky.social · last mo.The first episode of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was originally broadcast on this day in 1979. This BBC2 screening was swiftly followed by a two part omnibus repeat on BBC1 during Christmas 1979.
Just a normal camera, if “normal” means: 🔭 A 3.2-billion-pixel sensor 🌌 A field of view that could fit ~45 full Moons ⏱️ A new 8-gigabyte image every ~40 seconds NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's LSST Camera is the largest ever built (thanks SLAC!). Ok, maybe that's not normal. 🔭🧪
Physicists in Japan have carried out an atomic-scale version of the double-slit experiment, using an ultraprecise electron beam channelled along two columns of atoms in a pure silicon crystal. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/researcher...
Researchers shrink double-slit experiment to atomic scale – Physics World
Using a crystal as an atomic-scale interferometer enables direct visualization of local atomic arrangements
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"Remember who you are." - Mufasa - Palestinian children watch Lion King in Gaza 🇵🇸 📸 Omar Ashtawy
Coiled in a terrifying S-curve of raw kinetic power, a crouching tiger rends its bloody prey in this explosive 1861 woodblock print (nishiki-e) by the iconoclastic master Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–1889).
Initial conditions: m1=10.0 m2=29.4 m3=7.7 (solar masses) v1x=-0.746 v1y=-3.672 v2x=-3.683 v2y=-4.819 v3x=-5.053 v3y=0.239 (km/s) x1=-3.0 y1=25.0 x2=18.0 y2=-29.0 x3=-30.0 y3=6.0 (AU from center) Music: Aurorae Chaos – Bourquenez
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
From a guide to art shipping I wrote in 2023: www.artnews.com/art-news/iss...
Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · last mo.Ouch. 8th Cir.: insurer trying to recover the cost of covering a $250,000 Swiss watch that was stolen after it was FedEx-ed is limited to $100 award bc insured didn't declare a value of the shipment. (Owner was avoiding sales tax with the mailing scheme.) ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/26/09...
![We see no error in the district court’s conclusion that Federal Express’s liability was limited to $100. The evidence established that the Club entered into a “Pricing Agreement” with Federal Express in 2009. The pricing agreement provides that the terms of the “FedEx Service Guide” are incorporated into the pricing agreement. The service guide contains a limited liability provision, which states that “[t]he declared value of any package represents our maximum liability in connection with a shipment of that package.” The guide further provides that “unless a higher value is declared and paid for, our liability . . . is limited to US$100.” At the last step of creating the shipping label, the Club clicked “Finalize.” Next to the “Finalize” option was a notice that stated, “By clicking ‘Finalize,’ I accept the Terms of Use of the FedEx website and the FedEx Service Guide.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/bafkreib7lakyqiuvv2uuhlrhel5jzopfwz3nbnhbblpgxfwukax4lwkeoq)
