Suhail Manzoor
@suhails.bsky.social
Struggling coder, serial midlife crisis actor, culture war refugee, star gazer, an autopoet.
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This #HumanRightsDay I am proud to be supporting Amnesty International’s efforts to support asylum seekers, immigrants, and refugees, as well as stopping the spread of dangerous authoritarian practices. Join me! amnestyusa.org/act
December 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This #HumanRightsDay I am proud to be supporting Amnesty International’s efforts to support asylum seekers, immigrants, and refugees, as well as stopping the spread of dangerous authoritarian practices. Join me! amnestyusa.org/act
Analogue algorithms are just as inequitable as the digital ones. Why is that?
🇨🇦Quebec's Bill 2 didn't just anger doctors. It left hundreds of millions in health-care funding in limbo.
“Fundamentally, there's inequity in Quebec. Some regions have specialized services, while others don't,” Jomphe said in an interview.
#Cdnpoli🍁
#CanadaSky🇨🇦
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
“Fundamentally, there's inequity in Quebec. Some regions have specialized services, while others don't,” Jomphe said in an interview.
#Cdnpoli🍁
#CanadaSky🇨🇦
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Quebec's health reform didn't just anger doctors. It left hundreds of millions in funding in limbo | CBC News
Hundreds of millions of dollars meant to be invested in Quebec’s beleaguered health-care network remains in limbo more than a month after the Legault government abolished the institute overseeing the ...
www.cbc.ca
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Analogue algorithms are just as inequitable as the digital ones. Why is that?
They are exactly the same.
💔 A European Parliament interpreter could not hold back tears during the speech of 11-year-old Roman Oleksiv from Lviv.
The boy survived a missile strike on Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022, which killed his mother - it was the last time he saw her alive.
The boy survived a missile strike on Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022, which killed his mother - it was the last time he saw her alive.
December 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
They are exactly the same.
“potential” is carrying a whole load of hurt in this world. Despite what Theresa May said about nowhere citizens, we Europeans will not forget this betrayal.
Denmark has labeled the United States as a potential security concern for the first time in an annual report released by one of its intelligence agencies, offering more evidence of the increasingly fraught transatlantic alliance between Europe and the US.
Denmark sees US as potential security concern | CNN
Denmark has labeled the United States as a potential security concern for the first time in an annual report released by one of its intelligence agencies, offering more evidence of the increasingly fraught transatlantic alliance between Europe and the US.
cnn.it
December 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
“potential” is carrying a whole load of hurt in this world. Despite what Theresa May said about nowhere citizens, we Europeans will not forget this betrayal.
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instead, one way to understand the antivax movement is as a red herring to distract from the financial inconveniences of environmental causes.
There is an alternate universe in which RFK Jr. is at least somewhat serious about his beliefs, and so redirects some health research spending to things like this.
Sadly, however …
Sadly, however …
Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water
New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.
www.wired.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
instead, one way to understand the antivax movement is as a red herring to distract from the financial inconveniences of environmental causes.
Let’s be polite with our inner space.
Second poster in our series: "Space Safety - in action!"
Mission: RISE
Objective: Extend the lifetime of a satellite in geostationary orbit
Unique feature: After initial demo, D-Orbit will continue to operate RISE as a commercial service
Launch: 2029
Download at: esa.int/space-safety/in-action
Mission: RISE
Objective: Extend the lifetime of a satellite in geostationary orbit
Unique feature: After initial demo, D-Orbit will continue to operate RISE as a commercial service
Launch: 2029
Download at: esa.int/space-safety/in-action
December 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Let’s be polite with our inner space.
Is it Friday yet?!
December 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Is it Friday yet?!
Never thought the Americans would stoop to being just a bunch of filthy pirates.
If the US can seize a Venezuelan tanker carrying sanctioned oil, then can other tankers in other places, say the Baltic or the Black Sea, also be seized?
December 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Never thought the Americans would stoop to being just a bunch of filthy pirates.
I sometimes feel as if I am a memory remembering itself.
December 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I sometimes feel as if I am a memory remembering itself.
DEI in my back yard.
December 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
DEI in my back yard.
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interested in standardization of AT at the IETF?
there are ongoing discussions happening on the mailing list, and there will be a video call this Wednesday to discuss the scope of work, especially around DIDs and identity.
more details in this email thread: mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/atp...
there are ongoing discussions happening on the mailing list, and there will be a video call this Wednesday to discuss the scope of work, especially around DIDs and identity.
more details in this email thread: mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/atp...
December 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
interested in standardization of AT at the IETF?
there are ongoing discussions happening on the mailing list, and there will be a video call this Wednesday to discuss the scope of work, especially around DIDs and identity.
more details in this email thread: mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/atp...
there are ongoing discussions happening on the mailing list, and there will be a video call this Wednesday to discuss the scope of work, especially around DIDs and identity.
more details in this email thread: mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/atp...
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New from @empirepoduk.bsky.social
The final part Part 3 of our trilogy on arguably the most imperial of imperial writers, Rudyard Kipling:
KIPLING LAUREATE OF EMPIRE
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
The final part Part 3 of our trilogy on arguably the most imperial of imperial writers, Rudyard Kipling:
KIPLING LAUREATE OF EMPIRE
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
December 9, 2025 at 4:18 AM
New from @empirepoduk.bsky.social
The final part Part 3 of our trilogy on arguably the most imperial of imperial writers, Rudyard Kipling:
KIPLING LAUREATE OF EMPIRE
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
The final part Part 3 of our trilogy on arguably the most imperial of imperial writers, Rudyard Kipling:
KIPLING LAUREATE OF EMPIRE
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
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🇺🇦 Zelensky awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to a combat medic who spent 471 days at a position
Combat medic of the 30th Motor Rifle Brigade, Sergei Tishchenko, spent 471 days at positions in the Bahmut district without rotation, saving wounded comrades under constant shelling.
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Combat medic of the 30th Motor Rifle Brigade, Sergei Tishchenko, spent 471 days at positions in the Bahmut district without rotation, saving wounded comrades under constant shelling.
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December 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM
🇺🇦 Zelensky awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to a combat medic who spent 471 days at a position
Combat medic of the 30th Motor Rifle Brigade, Sergei Tishchenko, spent 471 days at positions in the Bahmut district without rotation, saving wounded comrades under constant shelling.
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Combat medic of the 30th Motor Rifle Brigade, Sergei Tishchenko, spent 471 days at positions in the Bahmut district without rotation, saving wounded comrades under constant shelling.
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Bob Kagan: "I think we’re at a moment of a real break and a real discontinuity. We sort of take for granted the degree of peace that we’ve enjoyed over the past eight decades...The norm is actually a lot more like what the world looked like before 1945."
youtu.be/VkhhjWAoi60?...
youtu.be/VkhhjWAoi60?...
Bob Kagan on whether we are entering into a new period of history
YouTube video by Conversations with Bill Kristol
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Bob Kagan: "I think we’re at a moment of a real break and a real discontinuity. We sort of take for granted the degree of peace that we’ve enjoyed over the past eight decades...The norm is actually a lot more like what the world looked like before 1945."
youtu.be/VkhhjWAoi60?...
youtu.be/VkhhjWAoi60?...
Climate Culling sends a chill down my spine.
Epstein didn’t just prey on children. He helped bankroll and embed a worldview of race science, climate “culling” and eugenics inside Silicon Valley’s elite AI networks.
How Epstein Channelled Race Science and 'Climate Culling' Into Silicon Valley’s AI Elite
The Epstein files expose how racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling circulated inside Big Tech circles
bylinetimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Climate Culling sends a chill down my spine.
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Layoff announcements top 1.1 million this year, the most since 2020 pandemic, per CNBC
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Layoff announcements top 1.1 million this year, the most since 2020 pandemic, per CNBC
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Translating the CJEU judgment in Amazon vs EC on art.40 DSA: (1) giving vetted researchers data isn’t a disproportionate privacy intrusion; (2) compliance may be costly but you can bear it; (3) if you have a better way to study systemic risks, we haven’t heard it. curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
November 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Translating the CJEU judgment in Amazon vs EC on art.40 DSA: (1) giving vetted researchers data isn’t a disproportionate privacy intrusion; (2) compliance may be costly but you can bear it; (3) if you have a better way to study systemic risks, we haven’t heard it. curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
My kid made this photo. He said the fog is actually one giant filter which lets you do magic with your camera and the sun. Its been exceptionally foggy this morning here and I am now convinced I have an astronomer living in the house.
December 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
My kid made this photo. He said the fog is actually one giant filter which lets you do magic with your camera and the sun. Its been exceptionally foggy this morning here and I am now convinced I have an astronomer living in the house.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Who remembers Nokia with fondness? I know I do. You’d be amazed by the number of Europeans who are salient to the ai industry.
EU Commission and European Investment Bank join forces on AI gigafactories
EU Commission and European Investment Bank join forces on AI gigafactories
In a new agreement with the EU Commission, the European Investment Bank will provide technical and financial support to parties interested in build AI gigafactories on the continent. But the EU's own statistics show that only 13 percent of businesses currently use AI systems in their operation
euobserver.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Who remembers Nokia with fondness? I know I do. You’d be amazed by the number of Europeans who are salient to the ai industry.
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In a keynote at NeurIPS 2025, Melanie Mitchell argues that developmental and comparative psychologists have a lot to teach AI researchers about studying cognitive capabilities. https://spectrum.ieee.org/melanie-mitchell?share_id=9075652
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
In a keynote at NeurIPS 2025, Melanie Mitchell argues that developmental and comparative psychologists have a lot to teach AI researchers about studying cognitive capabilities. https://spectrum.ieee.org/melanie-mitchell?share_id=9075652
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Incomplete book list:
Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics
Stern, Eugenic Nation
Kline, Building a Better Race
Pernick, The Black Stork
But most importantly, for OP...
Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics
Stern, Eugenic Nation
Kline, Building a Better Race
Pernick, The Black Stork
But most importantly, for OP...
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Incomplete book list:
Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics
Stern, Eugenic Nation
Kline, Building a Better Race
Pernick, The Black Stork
But most importantly, for OP...
Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics
Stern, Eugenic Nation
Kline, Building a Better Race
Pernick, The Black Stork
But most importantly, for OP...
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