@incognitosum.bsky.social
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Policymakers must recognize the open source AI ecosystem is where influence is being negotiated: not just which models exist, but which are used; not just who can train a trillion-parameter network, but who can make it deployable, modifiable, and relevant, say Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and Shayne Longpre.
Policymakers Overlook How Open Source AI Is Reshaping Global Power | TechPolicy.Press
To understand and shape the distribution of power in AI, look to the open source ecosystem, say Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and Shayne Longpre.
buff.ly
December 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Policymakers must recognize the open source AI ecosystem is where influence is being negotiated: not just which models exist, but which are used; not just who can train a trillion-parameter network, but who can make it deployable, modifiable, and relevant, say Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and Shayne Longpre.
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"South Fork Wind, the first commercial-scale offshore wind farm in the US, is exceeding expectations for power generation and co-existing with the marine environment."
Offshore Wind, Despite Facing Stiff Federal Headwinds, is Working
South Fork Wind, the first commercial-scale offshore wind farm in the US, is exceeding expectations for power generation and co-existing with the marine environment.
www.oneearthnow.org
December 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
"South Fork Wind, the first commercial-scale offshore wind farm in the US, is exceeding expectations for power generation and co-existing with the marine environment."
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Remember, when someone says they blame “porn” for something, what they mean by that is they blame the WOMEN doing the porn. It’s somehow women’s FAULT that men are behave badly.
Scott Galloway is a raging misogynist and gender essentialist, he’s Jordan Peterson without the benzo addiction
Scott Galloway is a raging misogynist and gender essentialist, he’s Jordan Peterson without the benzo addiction
The link between sexual repression and militarism is becoming clearer by the day.
Galloway blames OnlyFans for loneliness, depression, small business closures, extremism, tyranny and *checks notes* impending societal extinction.
His solution? Mandatory national service.
Galloway blames OnlyFans for loneliness, depression, small business closures, extremism, tyranny and *checks notes* impending societal extinction.
His solution? Mandatory national service.
Scott Galloway: OnlyFans is the billion-dollar symptom of a loneliness pandemic
The most unstable, violent societies have one thing in common: lonely young men. We are producing millions of them, writes Scott Galloway
www.standard.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Remember, when someone says they blame “porn” for something, what they mean by that is they blame the WOMEN doing the porn. It’s somehow women’s FAULT that men are behave badly.
Scott Galloway is a raging misogynist and gender essentialist, he’s Jordan Peterson without the benzo addiction
Scott Galloway is a raging misogynist and gender essentialist, he’s Jordan Peterson without the benzo addiction
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Honestly I love how shitposting to LLMs is a legitimate research area now
December 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Honestly I love how shitposting to LLMs is a legitimate research area now
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Science just found rare, medicinal compounds in cannabis.
Most cannabis growers discard the plant’s leaves after harvest but new research suggests they might be throwing away chemical gold that might hold powerful therapeutic potential.
www.cannabissciencetech.com/view/phenoli...
Science just found rare, medicinal compounds in cannabis.
Most cannabis growers discard the plant’s leaves after harvest but new research suggests they might be throwing away chemical gold that might hold powerful therapeutic potential.
www.cannabissciencetech.com/view/phenoli...
Phenolic Analysis of Cannabis Reveals Rare Flavoalkaloids in Leaves | Cannabis Science and Technology - Cannabis Industry News, Insights
Using an optimized analytical method for this research, the phenolics of cannabis were tested resulting in new findings.
www.cannabissciencetech.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🔬⚗️👩🔬
Science just found rare, medicinal compounds in cannabis.
Most cannabis growers discard the plant’s leaves after harvest but new research suggests they might be throwing away chemical gold that might hold powerful therapeutic potential.
www.cannabissciencetech.com/view/phenoli...
Science just found rare, medicinal compounds in cannabis.
Most cannabis growers discard the plant’s leaves after harvest but new research suggests they might be throwing away chemical gold that might hold powerful therapeutic potential.
www.cannabissciencetech.com/view/phenoli...
Global methane emissions have been rising since 2006 but fossil fuel emissions have plateaued. Isotopic analysis suggests the culprit is likely microbes thriving in a thawing Arctic, warming tropical wetlands, farms, and waste dumps... @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Microbial driver of 2006–2023 CH4 growth indicated by trends in atmospheric δD–CH4 and δ13C–CH4 | PNAS
Methane (CH4) is the second most important greenhouse gas and has been rising following
a brief period of stabilization from 1999 to 2006. Determin...
www.pnas.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Global methane emissions have been rising since 2006 but fossil fuel emissions have plateaued. Isotopic analysis suggests the culprit is likely microbes thriving in a thawing Arctic, warming tropical wetlands, farms, and waste dumps... @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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U.S. risks being overtaken by China in magic bean race, magic bean experts warn
December 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
U.S. risks being overtaken by China in magic bean race, magic bean experts warn
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Can we grasp this sense of ourselves as existing in time, part of the beautiful continuum of life? Can we become inspired by the prospect of contributing to the future?
Questions asked by Long Now cofounder Brian Eno in the essay "The Big Here and Long Now" -> longnow.org/ideas/the-bi...
Questions asked by Long Now cofounder Brian Eno in the essay "The Big Here and Long Now" -> longnow.org/ideas/the-bi...
December 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Can we grasp this sense of ourselves as existing in time, part of the beautiful continuum of life? Can we become inspired by the prospect of contributing to the future?
Questions asked by Long Now cofounder Brian Eno in the essay "The Big Here and Long Now" -> longnow.org/ideas/the-bi...
Questions asked by Long Now cofounder Brian Eno in the essay "The Big Here and Long Now" -> longnow.org/ideas/the-bi...
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A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”
Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023 - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023
www.nature.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”
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listening to latest @techwontsave.us, thinking about this @bruces.bsky.social sermon from 12 years ago
youtu.be/M7KErICTSHU?...
youtu.be/M7KErICTSHU?...
Bruce Sterling - Fantasy prototypes and real disruption
YouTube video by NEXT Conference
youtu.be
December 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
listening to latest @techwontsave.us, thinking about this @bruces.bsky.social sermon from 12 years ago
youtu.be/M7KErICTSHU?...
youtu.be/M7KErICTSHU?...
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Europe is talking a lot about digital sovereignty. But the recent attempt to take over Nexperia shows the US is still calling the shots.
This week @benwray1989.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss European subservience on tech and the gig economy.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/306_...
This week @benwray1989.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss European subservience on tech and the gig economy.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/306_...
December 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Europe is talking a lot about digital sovereignty. But the recent attempt to take over Nexperia shows the US is still calling the shots.
This week @benwray1989.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss European subservience on tech and the gig economy.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/306_...
This week @benwray1989.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss European subservience on tech and the gig economy.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/306_...
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The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website.
No US government website can be trusted for science information.
No US government website can be trusted for science information.
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website.
No US government website can be trusted for science information.
No US government website can be trusted for science information.
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This is the point, not the by-product.
Starmer and hardline governments risk creating ‘hierarchy of people’ by constraining human rights
Human rights official says politicians are playing into the hands of the populist right as they seek to tackle migration
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This is the point, not the by-product.
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"Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' itself is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas ... It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research and in our engagement with society."
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
December 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' itself is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas ... It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research and in our engagement with society."
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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New Woody Allen sci-fi film looks ridiculous.
aMeta lready sells VR headsets and Ray-Ban smart glasses, but these new glasses sound a bit different. Their format factor would reportedly be similar to the Apple Vision Pro, with a puck-like power source.
Meta reportedly delays mixed reality glasses until 2027 | TechCrunch
aMeta lready sells VR headsets and Ray-Ban smart glasses, but these new glasses sound a bit different. Their format factor would reportedly be similar to the Apple Vision Pro, with a puck-like power source.
techcrunch.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
New Woody Allen sci-fi film looks ridiculous.
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A timeline of Earth’s average temperature since the last ice age. Spoiler alert: It’s definitely getting warmer. And it’s happening increasingly, scarily fast. xkcd.com/1732/
Earth Temperature Timeline
xkcd.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A timeline of Earth’s average temperature since the last ice age. Spoiler alert: It’s definitely getting warmer. And it’s happening increasingly, scarily fast. xkcd.com/1732/
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Tarantino is clearly a sick misogynist who gets off on hurting women.
There's numerous stories of him stepping in to perform violent acts on women in his films whenever he can (face won't be seen)
These moments in Kill Bill, Diane Kruger in Inglorious Bastards
slate.com/culture/2025...
There's numerous stories of him stepping in to perform violent acts on women in his films whenever he can (face won't be seen)
These moments in Kill Bill, Diane Kruger in Inglorious Bastards
slate.com/culture/2025...
Kill Bill Is Back in Theaters in a New Version. It’ll Never Play the Same.
The Whole Bloody Affair changed the way I saw Tarantino’s epic revenge film—and so did the reporting about its making.
slate.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Tarantino is clearly a sick misogynist who gets off on hurting women.
There's numerous stories of him stepping in to perform violent acts on women in his films whenever he can (face won't be seen)
These moments in Kill Bill, Diane Kruger in Inglorious Bastards
slate.com/culture/2025...
There's numerous stories of him stepping in to perform violent acts on women in his films whenever he can (face won't be seen)
These moments in Kill Bill, Diane Kruger in Inglorious Bastards
slate.com/culture/2025...
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Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
resonantcomputing.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
