Shock: Arthur's Seat on fire www.bbc.com/news/article... #edinburgh

Fire crews battle blaze on Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh

A huge plume of smoke could be seen from as far away as Fife on Sunday evening.

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We are presenting at the *Digital Day Berlin* today (1400-1500) on disinformation and how to use AI to fight it - with BiasScanner (biasscanner.org). eveeno.com/digitaltag-w... #disinformation #BiasScanner #Berlin #DigitalTagBerlin #democracy

Over 400 000 people contributed to the Apollo mission. But nobody would have landed without the programmer Margaret Hamilton (MIT), shown next to her code printout.

Latest epigenetics research for dads-to-be

Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 4mo ago

What a father eats, drinks, inhales, is stressed by or otherwise experiences in the weeks and months before he conceives a child might be encoded in molecules, packaged into his sperm cells and transmitted to his future kid.

You gotta love these kids' wisdom. (All true, "mas o minos" as the Spanish say...)

Arr Ghoulish David@arrdavid.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Asking children aged 9 what they think they'll be like when they're 40.

Do me a favour: if you get rich, don't fly around in small planes - it will kill you www.reuters.com/world/ubisof... (Also don't build your own plane from a DIY store kit - it didn't go well for John Denver.)

Ubisoft's co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash

Guillemot, 69, died in a plane crash in La Baule on France's Atlantic ​coast that was scheduled to host an ​air show this weekend.

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Students, don't forget those noble quotes! www.science.org/content/arti...

French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation

University punishes Étienne Klein after investigation shows he plagiarized part of his Ph.D. thesis

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(The simple maths of) How to earn a Billion dollars paulgraham.com/earn.html #startups #entrepreneurship #growth

Everyone who brings books to people is my brother

Bert’s Books@bertsbooks.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

German rapper DorFuchs "raps mathematics" - here's his song about the Sterling formula that approximates n!: youtube.com/watch?v=laJJ... (hat tip to Christian Eckert) #mathematics #music

Stirling-Formel (Mathe-Song)

YouTube video by DorFuchs

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Check your news with BiasScanner! Check out biasscanner.org. Now available: Firefox and Chrom plug-ins from the respective plug-in marketplaces. #news #propaganda #newsbias #media

🖌 Myandra sez: 🖍 Impeach the MF'er soon. We're waiting.@myandra.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Say hey...👊

Germany's decline of school kid performance in #mathematics and #reading 2012-2022. #education #Germany

#AI models are not transparent. That's a first in #technology #history, says the Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

We don't know enough about the #brain and #consciousness, yet the medical system has been indoctrinated to treat some patients as "vegetables". In cases where we don't know conservative reasoning might the way to go. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/m...

Vegetative Patients May Be More Aware Than We Knew

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Christ has risen. Happy Easter, all.

meaning arguments in court #law #language #linguistics §

Cambridge University Press - Linguistics@cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 7mo ago

Read the first three chapters for free for the next month: The English Language on Trial by John A. Hawkins Drawing on the author's expert witness experience, this book analyzes disputed English meanings that led to US lawsuits. 📚 https://cup.org/3PHwktY

Chat GPT, asked about what the Bible says about protecting children and those that cause harm. (if you want to read the cut off part in your language: biblehub.com/matthew/18-6...) #censorship #children

In a videp, German news magazin Der Spiegel @spiegel.de wrongly named Sarah Mullany as the new head of the Anglican church ["erstes weibliches Oberhaupt der anglikanischen Kirche".]

Anglikanische Kirche wird erstmals von Frau geführt

Vor ihr hatten 105 Männer den Titel inne. Nun leitet mit der früheren Krankenpflegerin Sarah Mullally erstmals eine Frau als geistliches Oberhaupt die Anglikanische Kirche.

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Israeli military detains CNN journalist crew edition.cnn.com/2026/03/27/w... #journalism #warcrime

After latest Israeli settler attack, IDF soldiers detain CNN crew | CNN

Amid the war with Iran, Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank is surging again. In one village, a Palestinian family says settlers beat a 75-year-old man inside his home. When reporting f...

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R.I.P. Chuck Norris AKA "Walker" www.instagram.com/p/DWG8c5BAKP...

Chuck Norris on Instagram: "It is with heavy hearts that our family shares the sudden passing of our beloved Chuck Norris yesterday morning. While we would like to keep the circumstances private, plea...

2M likes, 99K comments - chucknorris on March 20, 2026: "It is with heavy hearts that our family shares the sudden passing of our beloved Chuck Norris yesterday morning. While we would like to keep th...

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R.I.P. Professor emeritus Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026), one of Germany's philosophers, who called out, inter alia, "eine unsäglich merkelfromme Medienlandschaft" and "Merkels clever-böses Spiel der Dethematisierung" (2013).

fs.blog/the-antilibr... #books

The Antilibrary: The Hidden Value of Unread Books -

The antidote to overconfidence is our relationship with knowledge. The antilibrary is the solution according to Nassim Taleb.

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The Online Library of Short Stories www.libraryofshortstories.com #literature #shortstories

Library of Short Stories

Journey through classic short stories filled with adventure, horror, tragedy and fantasy. Read For Free, Anywhere, Anytime. H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Anton Chekhov, Beatrix Potter...

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Did you know... ...that from next Monday, you can read EACL'26 abstracts & plan your conference attenance! ...EACL Rabat was co-organized smoothly and peacefully across dozens of national, religious and linguistic groups! #peace (1 of 2) #EACL2026 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social

About Rabat

Official website for the 2026 Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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On #death (Source: LA Mag. at lamag.com/news/the-end/) #mortality

The End: What Really Happens After You Die? - LAmag

Death in L.A. can be an odd undertaking

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Republic of Ireland versus TikTok (GDPR violation) www.tiktok.com/legal/page/g...

The 2025 Bloomberg/BCS Karen Spärck Jones Award will be presented in three weeks at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. (The award alternates between EACL and ECIR.) #awards #NLP #IR #research @nlproc @eaclmeeting.bsky.social

Remember August 1989? That's when the German radio station SDR3 ("Radio for the Wild South") ran the Top-1000X (music chart world record); the last bits: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvut... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx1c... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Z0... (1 of 2) #music

Top 1000X - Teil 1

YouTube video by uhini

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“Every branch of science needs a hero,” Ferreirós said. “Chemistry has Lavoisier, mechanics has Newton, relativity has Einstein. There’s always this one, only one. But that’s always a lie.” www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-...

The Man Who Stole Infinity | Quanta Magazine

In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism.

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In the eternal fight between good against evil, evil will outperform good often in the short run. Truly being good means to accept those recurrent defeats and not succumb to evil (as exemplified by the Book of Job).

Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon | CNN Business

Anthropic, a company founded by OpenAI exiles worried about the dangers of AI, is loosening its core safety principle in response to competition.

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