Marc Garrett
@mgarrett.bsky.social
Researcher in post-digital culture, academic, artist, writer, curator, activist, techie, PhD co-founder @furtherfield.bsky.social :-)
Cassie Thornton with the heat: "Is there some sector of society that always necessarily believes that the most dangerous thing is necessarily the most important? Is that the definition of patriarchy?" www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/public-hands...
Public hands
A dispatch from the rationalists’ compound in Berkeley, where they're a little touchy about the possibility of AI killing them.
oaklandreviewofbooks.org
The promising candidate contains roughly 2 billion times the sun’s mass in hydrogen, yet appears to have no stars. Studying it could help answer questions that have vexed astronomers for years.
Scientists May Have Discovered a Massive Starless Galaxy
The promising candidate contains roughly 2 billion times the sun’s mass in hydrogen, yet appears to have no stars. Studying it could help answer questions that have vexed astronomers for years.
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130 civil society organisations signed on to an open letter calling for the suspension of the first Article 6.4 carbon credits. The credits are generated from a cookstove programme in war torn Myanmar. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/open-lette...
Open Letter calls for suspension of first Article 6.4 carbon credits from a cookstove project in war-torn Myanmar
The the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body is meeting this week in Bonn, Germany.
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Good piece by @reporterrwright.ft.com on how taking a public health approach to knife crime has helped to halve its incidence. Policy can be about supporting local voluntary sector initiatives rather than a single centralised ‘solution’ which may not reach those it should www.ft.com/content/d286...
How London has tackled its knife-crime epidemic
The capital’s Violence Reduction Unit has sought to make targeted interventions while guiding young people in a positive direction
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"The next phase of Europe's transition will increasingly depend on accelerating emission reductions in transport, buildings, agriculture and industry, where progress has generally been slower than in the power sector." #EU27 #ClimateAction #COP31 www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/...
Trends and projections: EU on track for 2030 emissions targets, but progress must accelerate
The EU is still on track to achieve its 2030 climate targets, according to the latest annual progress review published today by the European Environment Agency (EEA). The ‘Trends and Projections in Eu...
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Europe is a powder keg right now. "Protest ‘We are suffocating’: protests spread to Lisbon and Milan as housing and living cost tensions intensify" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
‘We are suffocating’: protests spread to Lisbon and Milan as housing and living cost tensions intensify
Hundreds at Lisbon tent camp demand action, as Giorgia Meloni says march in Italy was exploited by ‘hooligans’
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Attention is a mathematical operation built into AI systems that allow them to link words and build context. What can this mechanism teach us about our own linguistic ability? https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-attention-the-essence-of-intelligence-20261012/
Is ‘Attention’ the Essence of Intelligence? | Quanta Magazine
A mathematical mechanism enables AI models to process language at scale, undergirding the current AI revolution. Our columnist asks: Why is attention the key?
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Same dynamic as TikTok taking down ads for Musk documentary. A web of silence bought by money and/or power. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/m...
She Was Offered $40 Million for Silence on Elon Musk. She Spoke Out Instead. (Gift Article)
In the documentary “Musk,” Ashley St. Clair, a former right-wing influencer and mother of one of Musk’s children, speaks about her relationship with him.
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"We have guns too" isn't a bad campaign slogan to run against MAGA, gotta be honest
Hunter Dunn@hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 4w agoTrust me: whatever you’re doing right now is less important than watching this candidate interview. No spoilers, just trust:
Global medieval trade alert 🚨 “Archaeologists digging in the medieval city of Great Zimbabwe have discovered pieces of jade-green Chinese pottery, suggesting that the enigmatic empire had long-distance connections with East Asia more than 1,000 years ago.” Fab article by Dr. @killgrove.bsky.social
Chinese pottery discovered in Great Zimbabwe reveals medieval African empire's vast connections spanning thousands of miles
Archaeologists excavating a medieval African kingdom have discovered pottery from eastern China, revealing connections across continents.
livescience.com
Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs
Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back
Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work
theguardian.com
Was that a footstep or a falling branch? Are those eyes in the distance?? Why did it suddenly get so quiet??? @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social recommends 5 underrated books about monsters in the woods:
Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Books With Monsters in the Woods - Reactor
You’re in the woods and the branches are closing in and a twig snaps behind you...
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ITV’s second Reform exposé may be more serious than the first. An undercover reporter got inside Reform HQ and recorded officials saying they have to “defend the indefensible”, describing one candidate as “clearly a racist”, and directly accusing Nigel Farage of “protecting him”.
I grew up here. First party. First smoke. First drink. First kiss. This peninsula boardwalk was basically our backyard. So tragic to see it demolished.
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The only way to watch Star Trek in the 60s.
The Handsome Hobo🇨🇦@thehobo.bsky.social · 4w agoThe Telstar Predicta Chalet 1958
In the circle of life, nothing merely disappears — especially not something as massive as an elephant. 🧪 🌍
When an elephant dies, its body marks the landscape for a decade
The massive bodies contain so many nutrients that their effects linger long after a carcass seems to disappear.
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📰Published📰When early life changes the brain, behaviour does not always follow🧠 buff.ly/KdPtAzY 🧪🌍️
When early life changes the brain, behaviour does not always follow
Pablo Recio, Dalton C. Leibold, Ondi L. Crino, Christopher R. Friesen, Daniel W.A. Noble This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Animals n…
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Palantir didn't have to evade the UK's controls on lobbyists to get astonishing, unminuted access to government ministers and officials, or even to hire them to lobby their colleagues. Why not? Because there aren't any. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Palantir is worming its way into the British state – it’s time to curb this controversial US company’s influence | George Monbiot
Tom Watson has said ‘mob rule’ must not decide public contracts. Perhaps he should take a look at his new employer, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Translating the Early #GermanGayRightsMovement. Urania Manuscripts. eBook, Paperback Hardcover editions. Magnus Hirschfeld, Ferdinand Karsch-Haack, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs #MagnusHirschfeld #LGBTQhistory #TransgenderStudies #Intersex 🌈🏳️⚧️Ο www.amazon.com/dp/B0D58LK84J
The Same-Sex Life of Indigenous Peoples
Amazon.com: The Same-Sex Life of Indigenous Peoples eBook : Karsch-Haack, Ferdinand, Lombardi-Nash, Michael: Kindle Store
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Bushfires will only become fiercer and more frequent in the face of climate change.
Australia urgently needs a national bushfire database. Here’s what it could look like
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NEW: The US theft of Venezuelan oil resources appears to bring the Pentagon its own source of money — something that should be understood as another milestone in the collapse of constitutional government.
The Dawn Of The Self-Funding Pentagon
It's not like the military is cash-starved from Congress. But it looks a lot like it's going to make money off Venezuelan oil
forever-wars.com
Five hundred people on hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE concentration camp in Georgia.
Approximately 500 participate in hunger strike at Folkston immigration detention center - The Current
Approximately 500 detainees at a private ICE facility in Folkston, Georgia, launched a hunger strike to protest poor living conditions and alleged asylum protocol violations while awaiting judicial he...
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