Jonas Vils
@vils.bsky.social
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UK’s first rapid-charging battery train ready for boarding this weekend
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK’s first rapid-charging battery train ready for boarding this weekend
Great Western Railway service recharges in three and a half minutes between trips on west London line
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:28 AM
UK’s first rapid-charging battery train ready for boarding this weekend
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Beth Hapworth, 32, expressed relief at having her suspicions confirmed that everyone else was in possession of clandestine instructions on how to live their lives.
Autistic woman conquers world after discovering allistics’ secret life handbook
An autistic woman has finally been given the keys to the kingdom after unearthing the elusive How to Person handbook the neurotypicals have been hiding from us, it has been announced. Beth Hapworth,…
thedailytism.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Beth Hapworth, 32, expressed relief at having her suspicions confirmed that everyone else was in possession of clandestine instructions on how to live their lives.
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Google Translate got better and better overtime and had a short window of being brilliant, before getting, one assumes, AI slopified, and coming up with stuff like this -
(the word I'd googled was "muchacho")
(the word I'd googled was "muchacho")
January 30, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Google Translate got better and better overtime and had a short window of being brilliant, before getting, one assumes, AI slopified, and coming up with stuff like this -
(the word I'd googled was "muchacho")
(the word I'd googled was "muchacho")
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“If they showed [the Melania documentary] on a plane, people would still walk out."
- Variety
- Variety
January 30, 2026 at 8:20 AM
“If they showed [the Melania documentary] on a plane, people would still walk out."
- Variety
- Variety
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🚨🚨French diplomats are taking on #MAGA — one meme at a time: #Paris is rolling out a great confrontational online strategy to counter #disinformation from the #US and beyond. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
French diplomats are taking on MAGA — one meme at a time
Paris is rolling out a confrontational online strategy to counter disinformation from the United States and beyond.
www.politico.eu
January 30, 2026 at 9:46 AM
🚨🚨French diplomats are taking on #MAGA — one meme at a time: #Paris is rolling out a great confrontational online strategy to counter #disinformation from the #US and beyond. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
I use to call this the AI-Kessler event. Here Gary Marcus refers it as a system collapse. youtu.be/yex6Ti2VPr0?...
How an AI feedback loop threatens to break ChatGPT | Gary Marcus
YouTube video by The Tech Report
youtu.be
January 30, 2026 at 10:10 AM
I use to call this the AI-Kessler event. Here Gary Marcus refers it as a system collapse. youtu.be/yex6Ti2VPr0?...
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Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
www.pressherald.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
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Some people are questioning whether this is AI. One way to be certain is to geolocate the video, as AI still struggles to accurately recreate really world locations with enough fidelity to be successfully geolocated. The first question is what's the best information about where this was filmed?
News Movement posted this video of Alex Pretti on Jan 13, showing him spitting at ICE agents and kicking their taillight.
Now conservatives are suggesting this changes things.
That would mean they are suggesting he deserved to be target of an extrajudicial execution.
The video changes nothing.
Now conservatives are suggesting this changes things.
That would mean they are suggesting he deserved to be target of an extrajudicial execution.
The video changes nothing.
January 29, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Some people are questioning whether this is AI. One way to be certain is to geolocate the video, as AI still struggles to accurately recreate really world locations with enough fidelity to be successfully geolocated. The first question is what's the best information about where this was filmed?
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Neolithic entrance and passageway at Skara Brae on Orkney. Occupied from around 3100 to 2500 BC, the prehistoric settlement is one of the best preserved in the British Isles. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #SkaraBrae #Archaeology #Orkney
January 29, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Neolithic entrance and passageway at Skara Brae on Orkney. Occupied from around 3100 to 2500 BC, the prehistoric settlement is one of the best preserved in the British Isles. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #SkaraBrae #Archaeology #Orkney
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Nice catch, and a lucky escape for someone: A Russian Lancet loitering munition caught in anti-drone netting over a road in a frontline region of Ukraine. As the Lancet has a lidar and an air-burst function, it seems to have have malfunctioned, causing it to fail to detonate.
January 29, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Nice catch, and a lucky escape for someone: A Russian Lancet loitering munition caught in anti-drone netting over a road in a frontline region of Ukraine. As the Lancet has a lidar and an air-burst function, it seems to have have malfunctioned, causing it to fail to detonate.
Why (some) teens need social media. www.independent.co.uk/voices/adult...
Why those calling for a teen social media ban need to check their privilege
While social media can be a toxic, lawless place, for many teenagers it has also become a valuable and much-needed resource. As the issue is debated in the House of Lords today, the adults calling for...
www.independent.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Why (some) teens need social media. www.independent.co.uk/voices/adult...
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1/ NEW: @propublica.org has obtained a search warrant that the FBI is executing for records related to the contested 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., which has not yet been widely shared. It’s an extraordinary document.
Link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
1-28-26 Fulton Warrant
www.documentcloud.org
January 28, 2026 at 10:56 PM
1/ NEW: @propublica.org has obtained a search warrant that the FBI is executing for records related to the contested 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., which has not yet been widely shared. It’s an extraordinary document.
Link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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This is why frontline towns and cities in Ukraine cover roads with nets.
This is a russian lancet drone struck one of those nets. It very likely saved someone’s life.
This is a russian lancet drone struck one of those nets. It very likely saved someone’s life.
January 29, 2026 at 3:00 AM
This is why frontline towns and cities in Ukraine cover roads with nets.
This is a russian lancet drone struck one of those nets. It very likely saved someone’s life.
This is a russian lancet drone struck one of those nets. It very likely saved someone’s life.
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It looks possible that small spaceships may soon reverse the example of their maritime namesakes by rejecting manmade materials for their hulls and reverting to wood
Satellites encased in wood are in the works
Timber is cheaper and better than alloys, and may be less polluting
econ.st
January 29, 2026 at 6:00 AM
It looks possible that small spaceships may soon reverse the example of their maritime namesakes by rejecting manmade materials for their hulls and reverting to wood
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Some might say smartphones have caused more harm than good. Here’s why putting a powerful computer into every pocket was a good idea.
Smartphones (yes, really): Best ideas of the century
www.newscientist.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:46 AM
Some might say smartphones have caused more harm than good. Here’s why putting a powerful computer into every pocket was a good idea.
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It’s amazing how changing the display of an antiquity in a museum affects how you see it. The lighting - natural or artificial - and the ability to see an item in the round or restricted to a frontal view. La Dama Fonseca, below, in two different settings. 🏺
January 29, 2026 at 2:45 AM
It’s amazing how changing the display of an antiquity in a museum affects how you see it. The lighting - natural or artificial - and the ability to see an item in the round or restricted to a frontal view. La Dama Fonseca, below, in two different settings. 🏺
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I felt obliged to write up an overview of all of the Fulton County fraud claims that have already been made — and dismissed. Let me know if I forgot any. www.pbump.net/o/some-thing...
Some things you should know about Fulton County, Georgia
The county has already seen numerous claims about election fraud — all debunked. There's no reason to think that Kash Patel's FBI will find something new.
www.pbump.net
January 29, 2026 at 3:59 AM
I felt obliged to write up an overview of all of the Fulton County fraud claims that have already been made — and dismissed. Let me know if I forgot any. www.pbump.net/o/some-thing...
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Space expert here. I've seen this claim since late 2020 and dont think I've ever seen any description spell out how "Italian military satellites" would be able to communicate directly with vote tabulating machines in Fulton Co., GA. I am not aware of any plausible way they could do so.
January 29, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Space expert here. I've seen this claim since late 2020 and dont think I've ever seen any description spell out how "Italian military satellites" would be able to communicate directly with vote tabulating machines in Fulton Co., GA. I am not aware of any plausible way they could do so.
”Look by county and the disparities are even starker, with life expectancy over a decade shorter in large swaths of Appalachia than in the upper Midwest. That’s about the same as the life expectancy gap between Liechtenstein and Bangladesh.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...
Opinion | The Real Reason MAHA Hates Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:51 AM
”Look by county and the disparities are even starker, with life expectancy over a decade shorter in large swaths of Appalachia than in the upper Midwest. That’s about the same as the life expectancy gap between Liechtenstein and Bangladesh.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...
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As usual the real Trump is subbed out of coverage and replaced with an imaginary trump who is reportedly, according to sources, secretly doing rational things, because reporting on the actual actions words and beliefs of the man would harm him rather than help him bsky.app/profile/dani...
Lol the media said Trump called his advisers “callous“ for doing what he just retweeted. I don’t think Trump even knows the word callous, let alone would criticize somebody for being it.
January 29, 2026 at 3:54 AM
As usual the real Trump is subbed out of coverage and replaced with an imaginary trump who is reportedly, according to sources, secretly doing rational things, because reporting on the actual actions words and beliefs of the man would harm him rather than help him bsky.app/profile/dani...
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Putin just attacked and murdered civilians on a train.
Yet Trump is mad Ukraine hit military planes
Yet Trump is mad Ukraine hit military planes
January 29, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Putin just attacked and murdered civilians on a train.
Yet Trump is mad Ukraine hit military planes
Yet Trump is mad Ukraine hit military planes
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Next new pseudoscientific medical grift: cesspool healing spas
January 29, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Next new pseudoscientific medical grift: cesspool healing spas
If anybody doubted www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
Why the Paris Climate Agreement Matters in 5 Graphics
One of President Trump’s first executive orders withdraws the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement. These graphics show why the pact is crucial to curbing the worst effects of global warming
www.scientificamerican.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:28 AM
If anybody doubted www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
A quite disturbing development www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
Why Is the Trump Administration Demanding Minnesota’s Voter Rolls?
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:00 PM
A quite disturbing development www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...