this is morally equivalent to something like: if Google were reading the gmail account of a famous mathematician, realized he was about to publish a breakthrough paper, and then attempted to scoop him on his breakthroughs (with a side of blackmail)

Trevor A. Branch@trevorabranch.bsky.social · 2d ago

Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...

I though Georgia Meloni was off enough (as in, how come did a woman rise up to lead Berlusconi's orphans?) but Alice Weidel is some higher order shit; can somebody explain how does she even exist?

FFS, @github.com , what year is it?

fucking incredible that the moment the regulatory bodies in the USA were dismantled, the CEO of every corporation seemed to start personally shitting in the product just for the hell of it

I must register strong disagreement. A lot of people are replying with stuff that verges on "noble savage" tropes about premodern societies, but I must note: they are closer to the truth than this thread is Because the State is not human nature, and this isn't even how premodern peoples did States

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fascism is not new, in a sense, it is old: fascism is the emergence of our old, pre-liberal, pre-enlightenment emotional gestures, bubbling through the cracks of modern society: suspicion of outsiders, the desire for uniformity, for a strong leader, for conquest of the out-group.

JK Rowling has said, more than once, publicly that people consuming Harry Potter means they support her. And her transphobia. She uses her vast wealth to do very real world harms to trans people, and in particular...trans women. There is no ethical consumption. None. It's that easy.

me: hey do you have this movie I want to watch? Disney: no Netflix: not anymore Apple: ew no CBC Gem: yes and it’s free Prime: maybe I do, maybe I don’t. Maybe it costs $5 for no reason, even though you already pay for this. Maybe you should fuck off into the sun.

I am going to be spending the rest of my day and possibly my week thinking about "Werner the Herzog" and quite frankly it's the last thing I needed

MaksonLima@maksonlima.bsky.social · last mo.

Juro que tem dias que eu acordo pensando nisso aqui:

ALL HAIL HAROLD THE GREATLY PAINFUL

Mike Knell@blat.at · last mo.

Hide the Pain Harold for president of Hungary! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

"This idea of a human merger with machines has been a motif in Musk’s intellectual life, which has remained in many ways (and with many terrible results) that of an arrogant and cloistered adolescent boy." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Space Oddity | Mark O’Connell

Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism examines how Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, by selling a vision of the future that very few people would want to inhabit.

nybooks.com

I mean

EU's enforcement of USB-C for almost all portable consumer electronics is good. However, blind spot of this is that A LOT of those devices would be better with much simpler, lighter and possibly smaller interface of two exposed metal surfaces and magnetic springed pin charging (sample image):

I'd put some machinery on the window to get perfect alignment on more days, when special people visit, have it spell out messages and other nice to haves. Also, I'd have an enormous digital sundial just to show off. 3dprint.com/103289/open-...

An Open Source 3D Printed Sundial That Reads Digital Time - 3DPrint.com | Additive Manufacturing Business

Do you remember the first time you grasped the concept of a sundial, the idea that we can tell general time from observing the shadow cast by the sun via...

3dprint.com

The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Forbes@forbes.com · 3mo ago

Scientists have reached a consensus that human behavior is a big driver of climate change—but Americans aren't buying it.

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera@pantibliss.bsky.social · last yr.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

#apod 2026-05-21 A Collision of Galaxy Clusters Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260521.html

The Wikipedia graphic version of the Columbian Exchange is somehow hilarious. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbi...

microsoft developers using SteamOS running Windows-native games through compatibility layers AS A BENCHMARK for their new Windows K2 optimizations is one of the funniest fucking things to happen thus far in this current iteration of the OS war

What you can see here is Trump posing himself as Jesus from typical modern iconography, with some very interesting headless winged figure with spikes above him, seemingly healing a bedridden person who looks suspiciously like Jeffrey Epstein. And jet fighters behind look like flappy birds.

Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H.@drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Donnie Dissing Pope Leo. "Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left.. It's hurting him very badly and it's hurting the Catholic Church!" (Link in comments) While posting this humble image.

"If you're doing nothing wrong, what is there to fear ? - I'm fearing your definition of wrong. " #StarWars #Andor #Senate #OperationLikeTheWind #Meme ...

Again - BlueSky was originally Jack Dorsey’s pet project to make a Web3 social media / NFT trading post until a bunch of trans furries got ahold of invite codes and started mass-proliferating them to other trans furries and then suddenly BlueSky was 90% queers and annoying leftists and Jack fled.

Baturday Bat World Sanctuary

This is just complete gibberish lmao

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 8mo ago

Microsoft Tells Piggies To Stop Calling It AI Slop:

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

🔭 🧪 ⚛️ #sciart This breathtaking photo by Brent Mckean features a few atmospheric optics phenomena due to refraction, reflection and diffraction of moonlight from millions of falling ice crystals. Image source➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20022...

every big AI pitch is like “what if we took away your means of survival and devalued all your skills to make stonks go up temporarily? You’d like that wouldn’t you?”