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The Scamperbeasts @scamperbeasts.bsky.social · 2d

NEWS FLASH: We have achieved the rare and coveted Cat Tree Triple Decker

Smudge is laying at the top of the cat tree, Spice is in the middle, and Saja is there at the bottom. It's all coming together now!

Keith Soltys @ksoltys.bsky.social · 4d

This week's Featured Links post links to articles about a catalog of dark patterns used to screw over users, a chip to restore some vision to people with macular degeneration, using NotebookLM as a personal journal, and more.

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#AI #Science #Vision #Politics

Featured Links - October 14, 2025

Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about. A grey Lake Ontario Toronto vs Chicago: Transit Moving Mas...

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 20d

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 20d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Mike Holloway @mikeholloway.bsky.social · 21d

🧪 #resistrfk #defendresearch #standupforscience #RFKJr #Vaccines #HHS #CDC #antivax

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 21d

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 23d

Well that’s not a good development…

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Keith Soltys @ksoltys.bsky.social · 23d

Today's post is a collection of links that support my feeling that the human race (or at least our technological civilization) is doomed. It's part of a continuing series.

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#ClimateChange, #COVID19, #Environment,#Politics, #Religion, #Science,

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This post is a collection of links that support my increasingly strong feeling that the human race (or at least our technological civilizati...

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Keith Soltys @ksoltys.bsky.social · 24d

This is at least the third article I've seen recently about the Trump regime's plans to invoke the Insurrection Act. They need an excuse and they are trying to provoke something. The upcoming No Kings protects on October 18th might do it.

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Insurrectile Dysfunction

The White House is determined to achieve an insurrection, even if it has to red pill itself into one.

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Keith Soltys @ksoltys.bsky.social · 27d

This week's Featured Links post has links to 13 articles about the ICE raid in Chicago, China's clean energy revolution, a science fair project that may change lives, and more.

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#ClimateChange, #Environment, #Medical, #Politics, #Science, #Society, #Technology

Featured Links - October 6, 2025

Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about. I didn't post last week, so here's a baker's dozen for you...

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Keith Soltys @ksoltys.bsky.social · Oct 4

Alastair Reynolds has blown my mind. once again. "Belladonna Nights" is a powerful, beautiful, elegiac and terribly, terribly, sad rumination on the far future of humanity. It's easily the best story I've read in several years.

Keith Soltys @ksoltys.bsky.social · Oct 4

For some time, I've been reading mostly novels, so I'm trying to catch up on short fiction. The anthology I'm reading now is Jonathan Strahan's THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR, Volume 12, which contains stories from 2017 (When I said 'catch up', I wasn't kidding).

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Keith Soltys @ksoltys.bsky.social · Oct 3

This reads like inverse of Project 2025. In an ideal world it would happen, but I'm not holding my breath. But it is something to work towards.

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America's Post Trump Blueprint: Day One AFTER Trump

A lawful, relentless plan to bury authoritarianism, rebuild our alliances, and harden American democracy so it can’t be broken again.

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Keith Soltys @ksoltys.bsky.social · Sep 26

Toronto does the same thing with cold water from Lake Ontario.

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · Sep 21

LLMs should never be used in any application where it is important that they be accurate.

They are only appropriate for situations where it doesn't matter whether the task fails.

Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · Sep 21

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · Sep 19

Representative Jason Crow (D-CO) on this moment. Not just the transcript but the video of a floor speech yesterday. A rallying cry:

Transcript: Congressman Crow's Floor Speech on the Concerning State of US Politics & the Path Forward to Unite Our Country

WASHINGTON — A transcript of Congressman Jason Crow's (D-CO-06) full speech from the House floor.

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Keith Soltys @ksoltys.bsky.social · Sep 19

I hope Pope Leo defrocks him.

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · Sep 19

Christian nationalism under a different red hat.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 19

Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Fox & Friends on Charlie Kirk: "This guy is a modern day St Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when he said 'the truth will set you free.'"

Keith Soltys @ksoltys.bsky.social · Sep 17

In Canada, there is little room for the rugged individualist. Mr. Marlboro Man wouldn't last long here; he wouldn't be able to push his vehicle out of the snowbank without asking someone for help."

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The Spirit of the Jack Pine

"The one thing that Canadians had in common was a vast landscape and a northern geography… What made Canadians unique was their engagement with this hostile and unforgiving land that dictated the term...

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Keith Soltys @ksoltys.bsky.social · Sep 17

From Charlie Angus:

"Canada may be the only nation in the world whose original myth stories came from a palette and a paintbrush.

But we are, at our core, still children of the wild north. The reality of life in such a land is so that we could never survive without our trust in each other.

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Keith Soltys @ksoltys.bsky.social · Sep 16

This week's Featured Links post has links to articles about how COVID can mess up our immune system for years, understanding how octopuses use their appendages, how Apple trains its AI to respond to Trump, and more.

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#AI, #COVID-9, #Politics, #Science, #SFF