@70sbachchan.bsky.social on Bluesky

This obviously should be a coordinated global effort to find unpaid taxes from the global super rich. Can someone give China a copy of the Panama papers? Lots of names and addresses in that one that Western govts have been prevented from going after.... [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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@mixedlinguist.bsky.social on Bluesky

This is the part that breaks my heart. "Generative AI has broken the sacred contract between professors & students: that the professors are there to teach and the students are there to learn. The understanding has been broken...That’s a very deep part of the grief” https://www.chronicle.com/article/these-professors-are-retiring-early-ai-was-the-last-straw?fbclid=IwY2xjawTgeD1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFNbEpxNENCekZMUEY5SkhUc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHoBRgd82x8XKLj4MZ4WL6sVPZOCbTJX_Ls9emJSiGZV0uro6fDRkSAG6BWIu_aem_J3MuYy7iU9uFLedGcdbj-g

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@drdrtsai.bsky.social on Bluesky

Banger of a funding acknowledgment 😂 https://academic.oup.com/ajeadvances/article/2/1/uuag007/8494217

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@physicsworld.bsky.social on Bluesky

Three successful women physicists in India – Kaveri Hukku, Asima Pradhan and Urbasi Sinha – talk to Shobha Shukla and Matin Durrani about their triumphs, the challenges they’ve faced and their attempts to build a more equitable future. 🧪⚛️ https://physicsworld.com/a/how-women-physicists-in-india-are-breaking-down-barriers-and-shaping-the-future/

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@70sbachchan.bsky.social on Bluesky

FT: UAE's imperial push into Africa UAE is now a bigger investor in Africa than China,UK,France,US! UAE's dark king MBZ is supporting/extracting from african actors (particularly in north africa) with investments in logistics, gold, copper, arms, farming https://www.ft.com/content/a4c6e5da-dc9f-43b0-a794-c3f6bb9bca7d?shareType=nongift

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@aemonten.bsky.social on Bluesky

"I advise students to keep tabs on AI, to be aware. It takes discipline to resist seductive tools that promise ease and efficiency, and to ask instead what we risk losing when creating gets easy. To me, that is the real question: how to remain intentional". https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-02230-z/index.html

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@indrapramitdas.bsky.social on Bluesky

While the regime cracks down on protesters for 'abuse', sanghis are going on their annual rampage--the Kanwar Yatra pilgrimage--and terrorising everyone on the way, setting fire to vehicles, robbing trucks, & even attacking a school van filled with children. Full impunity, of course. https://x.com/Benarasiyaa/status/2084181631745872221

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@kirstenhan.com on Bluesky

This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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‘It is incredible’: How AI is transforming mathematics | Nature

Thanks to some surprising advances, mathematicians are starting to realize that artificial intelligence could radically alter their profession.

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@indrapramitdas.bsky.social on Bluesky

“Neighbours tell me that people are still coming to our house in black vehicles. The UP Police are also still visiting our house. My daughter and I have shifted to another location. She studies in Class 10, and I used to teach students. I don’t know what our future holds now.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social on Bluesky

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. https://theonion.com/translator-of-original-minions-epic-poem-slams-sexless-bloodless-film-adaptation/

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@dbellingradt.bsky.social on Bluesky

The discourse widens, and it seems that the next step is clear: archives and libraries. This has already started, by the way. https://bsky.app/profile/eicathomefinn.bsky.social/post/3ms3fslkres2c [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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@lauraphillips.bsky.social on Bluesky

Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency https://www.vox.com/2019/4/12/18306566/david-attenborough-our-planet-netflix-advocacy?utm_campaign=vox

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@anodynesix.bsky.social on Bluesky

"[D]ockworkers unions ... are calling an international day of action ​'against war and militarization' on October 30. They are demanding an end to ​'the genocide of the Palestinian people' and the ​'US-Israeli wars of aggression in the Middle East and against Iran.'" [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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@kakape.bsky.social on Bluesky

Ebola may have been spreading for months in the DRC before anyone recognized it. A new reconstruction suggests the outbreak was already widespread in the gold-mining town of Mongbwalu by January. It wasn’t officially declared until 15 May. Why did no-one raise the alarm? My story for @science.org 🧪 https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-congo-s-ebola-epidemic-started-least-4-months-it-was-detected

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@lauriewinkless.bsky.social on Bluesky

This is despicable. As I saw @patrickgaley.bsky.social say on LinkedIn: "The burnings of the Library of Alexandria destroyed an estimated 400,000 written texts. Anthropic has destroyed 2 million books this year alone." https://novaramedia.com/2026/07/29/ai-firms-are-buying-up-old-books-then-scanning-and-destroying-them/

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@nataliajagielska.bsky.social on Bluesky

The backlash to Emily Wilson and Zanny Minton Beddoes, just shows how patriarchal society developed an immediate knee-jerk reaction to women appearing just slightly critical, opinionated and outspoken in presence of a man. A woman, not being passive and submissive, how dare she.

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@drdragases.bsky.social on Bluesky

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already. https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/internet/ai-labs-buy-scan-shred-millions-of-rare-books/news-story/0c3b45a67093ab462a587a0348538ce9

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@artologica.net on Bluesky

Hey 🧪! I was just reminiscing with a friend about the time a very senior academic called a mid-career guy's work "completely meaningless" at a meeting and now I want to hear your best (public, academic) disses

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@volts.wtf on Bluesky

Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-brad-parscale-ai-chatbots-gaza?publication_id=2510348&post_id=208838504&isFreemail=true&r=deoq&triedRedirect=true

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@jeffgroh.bsky.social on Bluesky

Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2606876123

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