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Loreno Heer
@lorenoheer.bsky.social
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Scientist: PhD in mathematics. Working in hyperbolic geometry, analysis in metric spaces and mathematical physics (gravitational waves and general relativity), broad range of other scientific interests.
Here mostly to connect with researchers.
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bladeofthes.bsky.social
The UK had the best healthcare in the world in 2013.

Cut out privatisation, build hospitals and hire Doctors and Nurses and it will do again.

But nobody in power wants that.
January 29, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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geneljumalon.bsky.social
Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images.

This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.
January 29, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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outonthemoors.bsky.social
Single-panel cartoon by Gary Larson. Older guy in a white coat, scrutinising a complex equation on a blackboard. The formula ends "= $". Caption: "Einstein discovers that time is actually money"
January 28, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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princess-vimentin.bsky.social
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"You know, it's just the cost of doing business..."

said the CDC's principal deputy director Ralph Abraham, regarding the rise in measles cases, as he shrugs w/ indifference. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

2025 saw 2253 measles cases. As of YESTERDAY, we're already at 478. The steep line for 2026 is a harbinger.
Cumulative US measles cases As of January 27, there have been more cases than there were by the same week last year. Fairly horizontal lines for 2023 and 2024, a steep diagonal line for 2025, and a vertical line for ytd 2026. 2026 478 cases 2025 2253 cases 2024 283 cases 2023 63 cases Note: Data updated on January 27, 2026, at 3 p.m. ET. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Johns Hopkins University, Center for Outbreak Response Innovatio Graphic: Alex Leeds Matthews and Matt Stiles, CNN Shared by Eileen Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
We had eradicated this disease.

And now because of targeted disinformation, children, immunocompromised people, elderly folks, and so many others become victims in this proxy war and we have a new avoidable pandemic.
eileen4ever.bsky.social Eileen Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 1d
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
January 28, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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thelasttheorist.bsky.social
@acollierastro.bsky.social says it better than I did. "Everyone can have maximum output while accomplishing nothing." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pqF...
January 24, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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reydibujante.bsky.social
Peter de Wit gana el premio anual a la mejor viñeta política de los Países Bajos.
January 24, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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brucedlittle.bsky.social
Time to dump ChatGPT!

The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform.
Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal
Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:25 AM
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zacksbrother.bsky.social
MINISTERS blocked the publication of an intelligence report warning that #ClimateChange could cause “global competition for food” by the 2030s and trigger #NuclearWar in Asia

The study reportedly held back by Number 10 last autumn for being too negative

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mini...
Ministers blocked publication of report warning that climate change could cause 'global competition for food' and trigger nuclear war in Asia
MINISTERS blocked the publication of an intelligence report warning that climate change could cause “global competition for food” by the 2030s and trigger nuclear war in Asia.The study, reportedly hel...
morningstaronline.co.uk
January 24, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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pomarede.bsky.social
Maria Mylova receives the 2025 Buchalter Cosmology Prize

@mmylova.bsky.social has been recognized for her paper, “A Minimal Axio-dilaton Dark Sector”, a study that extends Einstein’s theory of gravity to predict the existence of very light scalar fields.

www.ipmu.jp/en/20260115-... #Cosmology 🧪
Maria Mylova receives the 2025 Buchalter Cosmology Prize
January 15, 2026 Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI)
www.ipmu.jp
January 15, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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edzitron.com
Yet the biggest loser, I believe, will be Oracle - a company saddled with debt and hundreds of billions of dollars of long-term obligations due to its participation in the AI bubble, and a software business that’s rancid and decaying.
www.wheresyoured.at/premium-timebomb/
I cannot express how stupid Oracle is. It signed a $300 billion deal with OpenAI back in September of last year that requires 4.5GW of capacity that Oracle does not have, and has taken on $248 billion in lease obligations on top of it. Oracle does not have the cash to support these operations. It had negative $13 billion in cash flow last quarter, raised $18 billion in bonds, that $38 billion debt package for Stargate Shackelford and Wisconsin has yet to close, and Blue Owl — the loosest legs in data center funding — pulled out of Stargate Michigan in December, with nobody else stepping up to the plate as of writing this sentence. Here’s the thing: for any of this to work, OpenAI has to become profitable within the space of two years, and do so at a scale where it is able to afford $30 billion or more a quarter in compute costs. To give you some context, Microsoft Azure makes around $75 billion annually, and AWS $115 billion. OpenAI, in its best-case scenario, made around $13 billion this year, and Oracle will be charging it at least $25 billion in the next year if any of this compute is actually made available. There is literally nobody else to step in if OpenAI dies. Nobody. Nobody is spending this much on compute. Not a single company is coming close. Anthropic apparently spent $6.8 billion on compute in 2025 (I think it’s more personally), and even in its wild “never possible to afford” dreams of $30 billion to Azure and tens of billions to Google Cloud isn’t going to spend $300 billion in five fucking years. Every quarter, Oracle’s debt expands. It paid $1.057 billion in interest in its last quarter, up from $933 million in the one before, and $892 million the quarter before that.
January 23, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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snopes.com
Google's AI can use emails and chats at different levels if users let it. But it's easy to opt out. Here's how: www.snopes.com/news/2025/11...
Google AI can access some content from Gmail and chats. Here's how to opt out
Google's AI can use emails and chats at different levels if users let it. But it's easy to opt out.
www.snopes.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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jamellebouie.net
very good piece which confirms that weiss is both exceptionally arrogant and totally out of her depth. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS News
The network’s new editor-in-chief has championed a press free from élite bias, while aligning herself with a billionaire class more willing than ever to indulge Donald Trump.
www.newyorker.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
You think you’re watching TV but it’s watching you, and selling your data.
Here’s how to get your privacy back
January 18, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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eric-reinhart.com
Out this week, Joelle and I write for The Lancet on "Health, Human Rights, and the Palestine Exception" in the wake of Harvard President Alan Garber's firing of public health legend Dr. Mary Bassett for refusing to ignore the health and human rights of Palestinians.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
January 17, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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whoa-magic.lol
Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make #tech good again | Cory Doctorow

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow
The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory D...
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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katerqburns.bsky.social
“The Oglala Sioux Tribe is seeking answers after four enrolled members were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis.”

www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
ICE detains and holds four Native Americans, tribal leader says
Oglala Sioux Tribe demands action after ICE detains four members in Minneapolis. Tribal attorneys work to confirm identities and secure release.
www.newsweek.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:39 AM
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mondoweiss.net
Leqaa Kordia has been held by ICE since her arrest in March 2025. Her attorneys say the White House is targeting the last remaining Columbia University protester in custody for her activism, using racism and procedural tricks to prevent her release.
mondoweiss.net/2026/01/the-...
The last Columbia protester in ICE detention: Leqaa Kordia on her 9 months in captivity
Leqaa Kordia has been held by ICE since her arrest in March 2025. Her attorneys say the White House is targeting the last remaining Columbia University protester in custody for her activism, using…
mondoweiss.net
January 10, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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lorenzofb.bsky.social
Iran has now been in a near complete internet blackout for more than 24 hours and counting. There was a small and partial restoration but it appears that's gone too.

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January 9, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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humanitymustwin.bsky.social
Attacks on Venezuela, Nigeria and Iran, genocide in Gaza, threats to Colombia, Canada, Mexico and Greenland. When will the world act? The US and Israel need to be sanctioned, boycotted and forced into compliance with international law.
humanitymustwin.bsky.social Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · Jan 9
It feels like they have tried to do an inverse of the 1920s/30s. This time around start with the Business Plot and provoke a World War, instead of Great Depression and New Deal. It won't work as nobody is going to be willing to fight in their crooked war.
humanitymustwin.bsky.social Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · Jan 5
Everything that is happening today is very similar to 1920s/30s and 1850s/60s.
January 4, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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craigbrittain.com
Kaitlan Collins: "Karoline Leavitt said the ICE agent followed his training. Is that what you saw in the video?"

Zohran Mamdani: "That ICE agent murdered Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis."
January 9, 2026 at 3:06 AM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
NEW from Important Context:

Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.

www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...
Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans
Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.
www.importantcontext.news
January 5, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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polgreen.bsky.social
This is incredibly well done, and totally damning. Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:27 PM