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Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social · 18h

“Restructuring” because the Whitehouse and their allies choose destruction of all the good parts of the United States federal government because it won’t make them a personal profit. Also, they hate science, people who do good things for everyone instead of for them only, and actual reality.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 20h

NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the Caltech.

cnb.cx

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 2d

If you're horrified by this, complete the survey.
cc @niais.bsky.social
Thanks @dotsandlines.bsky.social for the HT
🧪 🔭

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

This lady has pancreatic cancer and is about to be evicted unless she can raise a few hundred more :(

gofund.me/f2ccaebad

Donate to Shawn's Urgent Need for Housing Stability, organized by Shawn Kellum

Hi, my name is Shawn. First, please let me apologize for needing to create a n… Shawn Kellum needs your support for Shawn's Urgent Need for Housing Stability

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 3d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · 3d

This one fully woke me up as I was dozily browsing this morning. The level of stupidity and callousness is off the charts.

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 4d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · 7d

Whenever a businessperson says they want to “revolutionise” an industry what they mean is they want to reduce their labour costs. They don’t give a shit about quality or art or the consumer.

Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 8d

Elon Musk announces xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before end of 2026.

Powered by Grok, the studio aims to revolutionize gaming with dynamic, photo-realistic experiences.

#xAI #Grok #AIGaming

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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · 8d

Some democrats only display their humanity when it is politically convenient. For Newsom, the targets of ICE raids are (deservedly) people to fight for, but the homeless are not people they are animals whose meagre possessions are to be discarded like trash. Vile man.

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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · 8d

Just utterly vile. What a terrible human being. Homeless people deserve our compassion and help not our derision and brutality. I hope decent people in LA see this and punish Newsom at the polls next election. Any society with one homeless person is a failed society.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 9d

Oh, we know

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 9d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 9d

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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · 12d

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · 12d

Why would Elon “turn things around” when the site is exactly the cesspool of stupidity, lies and hate he wants?

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 13d

Imagine three years later thinking that Elon wants to "turn things around." Imagine staying on the platform that you admit is full of hatred. Why?

You don't have to stay there. You can go somewhere that gives you more power and control, rather than begging for Elon to fix things.

Paul Graham quote tweeting a tweet from Adnan Hussain.

Hussain's tweet: Yesterday I became a father. I shared a photo of my newborn daughter, and many of you sent beautiful messages. Thank you. But I’ve had to delete it. The vile racism and hate directed at an innocent soul less than a day old was beyond depraved.

Graham's quote tweet: There is something deeply wrong with Twitter. It has always been rough here, but in the past year it has become an even worse kind of nasty. Do you think maybe it's time to try to turn things around, Elon?

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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · 13d

Sounds fascinating. Keep in touch and maybe we could have someone present something at the space lunch seminars I run?

liu.se/en/research/...

Linköping Space Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences

The Research Node LSSH are doing multidisciplinary investigations of futurescapes on all aspects of space exploration and the space industry.

liu.se

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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · 14d

Teaching all morning, Lego Serious Play, on the urban planning masters program at @liu.se

Fun times!

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16d

Literally an elderly man who watches too much Fox News and has lost his grip on reality. There are many people like him, but only one controls the most powerful military on earth.

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 16d

Just Security is a reputable and measured source of natsec legal analysis

if this FAQ weren't written by a military lawyer who teaches at Yale Law and published on JS I would write it off as the most paranoid possible take on next week's meeting but here we are

www.justsecurity.org/121421/hegse...

FAQ for Senior Military Officers at Hegseth's Quantico Meeting

Military justice expert Eugene Fidell answers crucial questions ahead of next week's senior military meeting with Secretary Hegseth.

www.justsecurity.org

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Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 17d

They keep saying this even though it is has never has been true. The academy has spent most of its history and power creating and promoting and teaching conservative views. When diversity entered the picture, in the smallest way, the right-wing backlash started.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Screenshot from the article: "Those programs share some of the blame for their own demise. They grew so opaque and politicized that they seemed irrelevant, if not hostile, to the larger society. Some things are true even though the Trump administration says they’re true—the academy has become inhospitable to conservative views. When more than half of your classmates are afraid to say what they think, there’s too much orthodoxy and not enough free expression."

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 18d

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · 19d

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Tesla

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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 19d

We've had an incredibly anxious night with wobbly baby Squiggle, but she's still with us & tentatively a bit better -- vet described her as "one hell of a fighter."

Please help us keep her fighting ❤️

gofund.me/662b94d7e

Donate to Giving little Squiggle the very best chance, organized by Holly Brockwell

In August, a tiny, fluffy powerhouse arrived at our rescue. Found in a fie… Holly Brockwell needs your support for Giving little Squiggle the very best chance

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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · 23d

Lovely 😆

Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 23d

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 23d

Don’t try to save the fascist women who prop it up, either. They made their bed.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 23d

An important read. The oppression of women goes hand in hand with fascist removal of safety nets.

Men who don’t support the freedom and equality of women should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

Claire Beauchamp MD 🇨🇦 @clairebeauchampmd.bsky.social · 23d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
@donbraid.bsky.social @calgaryherald.com

From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why fascist strongmen rely on women at home

Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies

www.theguardian.com

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Anthony Albanese @albomp.bsky.social · 23d

My statement formally recognising the State of Palestine.

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Fuzzy Mike @fuzzymike.bsky.social · 23d

we're in a national crisis because everyone hates conservatives so much nobody will date them and their families refuse to talk to them; but also we're in a national crisis because our institutions are liberals who don't realize how out of touch they are with the overwhelmingly conservative public

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 23d

Conservative men are apparently pretending to be liberal and then "coming out" to their progressive girlfriends after dating for months

Conservative Men keep LYING because no one will date them...

YouTube video by Happy Pancake

www.youtube.com

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