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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla
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factual scientist at berkeley lab
marin dad born at 342ppm
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phillewis.bsky.social
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
thezebra.org
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
antonymous.bsky.social
Show a television show that raised you
January 18, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives. Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil. It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago. It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”. It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing. The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States. Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all. As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.
January 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM
antonymous.bsky.social
Spending the holidays on the island of St Martin where I grew up— I see trillions of dollars through the window, ready to partake on New Year’s Eve
#taxtherich
Picture of St Barts from St Martin’s Orient Bay on Dec 31, 2025 Map of vessels in st barts on Dec 31, 2025
December 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
antonymous.bsky.social
I’m so glad northern california has so many great choices for gins. #botanicalifornia
December 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025
jjvincent.bsky.social James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 24d
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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libby20202.bsky.social
If you're in Berkeley, you can find free physical copies around campus. You can read this and all issues of @berkeleyscirev.bsky.social online at berkeleysciencereview.com
Berkeley Science Review
A student-run publication on all things science.
berkeleysciencereview.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
antonymous.bsky.social
Petering out the dream
@alexis-madrigal.bsky.social

www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...
December 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
antonymous.bsky.social
My reward for listening to Gainsbourg
December 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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asborlaff.bsky.social
You can access the article for free here:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(Sorry for the previous link which is broken!)
Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy - Nature
Rapidly growing satellite constellations pose a substantial threat to astronomical observations, with projections indicating that future space telescopes will have more than 96% of their exposures aff...
www.nature.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
antonymous.bsky.social
Good vibes only

www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
UC Berkeley leaps ahead in decoding whale talk with AI
The research shows overlap between whale calls and human language.
www.sfgate.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
antonymous.bsky.social
anti-pitch-bot
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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physgal.bsky.social
Dear Physicists and Physics fans,

I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th.

Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩‍🔬
WOMEN IN PHYSICS DAY! In honor of the pioneering women in physics who broke down barriers to do what they love, we celebrate Women in Physics Day on November 7th, the birthdate of both Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. Marie Skrodowska-Curie (1867-1934) Radioactivity pioneer, two-time Nobel laureate A giant of science, Marie Sktodowska-Curie conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, a term she coined. She discovered two elements, founded two medical research centres, won two Nobels, and invented mobile X-ray units (dubbed petites Curies), saving countless lives in World War Lise Meitner (1878-1968) Nuclear physicist When Lise Meitner was a teen, Austria restricted female higher education. She pursued physics anyway, and 25 years later became the first woman in Germany to hold a professorship in physics. She helped discover nuclear fission, but was contentiously not awarded the 1944 Nobel alongside collaborator Otto Hahn. NOVEMBER 7TH
November 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
Well reported story on the PBS News Hour about science cuts and the ongoing and potential brain drain.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...

Thanks to Terrance Tao and other scientists at various career stages for having the courage to speak out.

Watch and share!

1/7
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
antonymous.bsky.social
For Halloween, Zoom is even more cursed
Screenshot of the Zoom software update for the 6.6.6 version, a few days before October 31st, 2025
October 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
antonymous.bsky.social
As seen in San Rafael—
Photo of a message above a pedestrian highway overpass: vote on prop 50 — mess with Texas
October 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
antonymous.bsky.social
Stumbled on that ad in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow.

It seems to be dark humor, but it’s nasty
Replacement.ai
Ad on a wall in San Francisco with the writing: Our Al can automate all your work. No more Mondays, bosses, or paychecks! Hope you've got savings
October 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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keithwdickinson.bsky.social
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
antonymous.bsky.social
the moon
Rise of the full moon over the East bay seen from under the Golden Gate Bridge in October 2025.
October 8, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
My dearest wife,

It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.
Letter from the Portland War Front (humor about something deadly serious)
My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
antonymous.bsky.social
it seems that the pacific is 3 degC hotter than normal.
sounds like a big deal, because the pacific is very big

www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...
September 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
antonymous.bsky.social
Bye bayrou
September 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
antonymous.bsky.social
Fascinating article about Wikipedia in @theverge.com

As an occasional contributor, I’ve been frustrated the moderation process, but it makes sense and it works given that @wikipedia.org could easily go berserk because of the anonymity of its contributors.

www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive
The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.
www.theverge.com
September 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
antonymous.bsky.social
Drive

Smack, crack, boom shack-a-lacka
sophianyx.bsky.social Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · Sep 1
Without saying Losing My Religion, fav R.E.M. Song?
michael stipe in a black suit blue shirt bald five o clock shadow leaning into the side of a brown building with a zig zag design. hot. "We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago."
September 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
antonymous.bsky.social
Another proof elmo is not a real engineer: the opposite of microsoft is megahard. only economists think of macro

oh hey unrelated here’s a flower for you
picuture of a pincushion flower in the sunset light
August 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM