RIP Margaret Hamilton, software engineer extraordinaire. "We had to find a way and we did. Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world; there was no choice but to be pioneers." news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

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María del Carmen Abascal, symbol of Spain’s housing protests, dies aged 87

María del Carmen Abascal, symbol of Spain’s housing protests, dies aged 87

Maricarmen’s eviction from Madrid apartment after over seven decades set off wave of protests against housing crisis * ‘Now is the moment’: housing activists at Madrid encampment pin wary hopes on Spain’s early election María del Carmen Abascal, the 87-year-old whose eviction set off a nationwide wave of protests against Spain’s housing crisis, has died. News of her death came two weeks after Maricarmen, as she had come to be known across Spain, was evicted from the Madrid apartment where she had lived for more than seven decades. Continue reading...

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Pitiful how little is being reported on this platform with regards to the French and Spanish protests.. absolutely pitiful.

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

I’m sure I’m not the only one that saw the video of this man putting himself between French national police and student protestors circulating yesterday.

Ordinary Notes@hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 10h ago

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✨Scathing critique of America’s global position and what a changing world order could mean for ordinary families across the West www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgr2... @profwolff.bsky.social #geopolitics #iranwar #currentevents #navigatingchaos #US #EU #complexity #synthesis #perspectives

They’re Not Telling You What’s Coming Next | Richard Wolff

YouTube video by DURUD

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GREAT ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE NEWS!!! (Not a typo!) The Indonesian government has cancelled its insane Food and Energy Estates project, which would have deforested a land mass the size of Maryland. Amazing work by @mightyearth.org. A massive victory for the planet. mightyearth.org/article/indo...

Indonesia Announces End to “World’s Largest Deforestation Project” - Mighty Earth

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“Because methane has such a big impact on the climate in a short amount of time, the more we can reduce methane, it is like pulling the emergency brake on climate change,” @enviroem.bsky.social Read more from #APNews and Alexa St. John: https://bit.ly/470AUsY #compost

👇 we need a different digital timeline folks. its not a drill. bad stuff happens to societies that don't pay attention.

Robin Berjon@robin.berjon.com · 5d ago

Friends: take a moment to sign european.social. There's strength in numbers and we can bring some game. This can become more than a letter.

@kevinclimate.bsky.social on techno-optimism and fellow scientists "who have swallowed the blue pill" and "maintain the comforting fiction that they are deeply concerned about the world their children will inherit while continuing to live lives that contribute disproportionately to the problem."

Scientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action

‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed

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🎧🖤✨

Jeff Koftinoff@statusbar.com · 8h ago

hainbach.bandcamp.com/album/buchla... #Hainbach #Buchla #ElectronicMusic

From NASA 📍Gale Crater, Aug. 11, 2026, 8:30 a.m. local Mars time. The Curiosity rover captures the Sun rising on crags known as yardangs, a scene that scientists have long been waiting to see up close.

🎧💜✨

Armen Nalbandian@armennalbandian.com · 4w ago

ISHI is now available in digital via bandcamp and in a lovely limited edition of 500 glass-mastered CDs in a 4-panel digipak designed with brilliance and care by @metahaven.bsky.social . Screen-printed on the CD is a story by @jingyiteo.bsky.social armennalbandian.bandcamp.com/album/ishi

Clara

Amen to this. #AI #Tech #Opensource #FOSS #complexity

Anil Dash@anildash.com · 2d ago

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

There is mounting evidence to show that a crypto firm in which Howard Lutnick and his sons (and also the Trump sons) are invested is making a mint helping the Iranians dodge sanctions. This is a major form of war profiteering, and more obviously criminal than most.

Blumenthal Releases PSI Report Detailing how Lutnick-Linked Crypto Firm Tether Props Up Iran's Shadow Banking System | U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), today...

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Looks like dramatic results in #Brazil 🇧🇷. The far right is ahead in Presidency, Senate, and House. The right-wing turn in Latin America is beyond the breaking point. The only question now is: how far right will it go?

Don't bomb Iran, you're welcome.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d ago

*TRUMP TO ASK TREASURY FOR WAYS TO CUT DIESEL PRICES: POLITICO

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called a snap election.

Spanish election: Pedro Sanchez calls snap election for 29 November after housing protests

Pedro Sanchez's announcement comes after his series of measures to tackle the housing crisis was defeated in parliament on Friday.

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Yemen’s Houthis have hit Saudi Arabia’s Rabigh oil refinery.

Yemen launches push to retake territory captured by Houthis ft.trib.al/ds8t4QO

Yemen launches push to retake territory captured by Houthis

Saudi Arabia sends 100 fighter jets to support Yemeni push to recapture Sana’a and the Bab el-Mandab Strait

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British banker who exposed Howard Lutnick's ties to Epstein has died, allegedly from suicide.

How US commerce secretary's Epstein links were uncovered by British whistleblower

Simon Andriesz made the discovery about Howard Lutnick in publicly released Epstein files.

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Day 277.

Deepak Karra (deepak_karra on IG) captured this shot of a pink robin, native to the forests of South Australia & Tasmania. In technical terms, this is a bird shaped like an orb, or 'BORB'. 🐦🟣 Reminder that this little guy is a direct descendant of theropod dinosaurs like T. rex. (📷: Deepak Karra)

Only little people pay taxes. "Meta reduced its tax bill by claiming artificial intelligence data centers are experimental "pilot models" to qualify for research tax credits." finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...

Meta reportedly calls its AI data centers ‘pilot models’ — its research tax credits jumped from $700M to $3.9B

The company appears to have netted the most from that credit among all publicly traded companies.

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I came across this Common Garter Snake sunning itself on the trail yesterday. #snake #nature #wildlife #PhotographersUnited

I could watch these all day.. www.youtube.com/shorts/sJl1K... #AI #criticalthinking #complexity

World domination is next update

YouTube video by Husk IRL

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Morgan is a national treasure and if you don’t follow her whisper videos you should. She is like the narrator in my head.

Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨@efairhurst.bsky.social · 4d ago

Yes…exactly

Very pretty group of #fungi in the woods. Possibly Mycena haematopus?

Video from Maura Hennelly captures her sunbeam snake named 'Vespira' in all her glory. Sunbeam snakes (genus Xenopeltis) are non-venomous snakes from SE Asia that kill small prey (frogs, rodents) by constricting. They burrow through soft dirt or leaf litter in humid jungles. (📷:@maurahennelly IG)