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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 11h

*I wonder if planetary rich guys want to replace the US govt or if they're content just to not have one at all

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Why the stock market is up even as the economy weakens

Gold is soaring, Bitcoin is back, and the dollar is sliding — even as jobs vanish and the government shuts down. What gives?

qz.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social · 1d

Ask not for whom the monkey shrieks

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 1d

years ago heard an interview w/ a biologist who worked on interspecies comm and identified the ways birds and monkeys share info, including the way they announced the presence of a jaguar. one day in the jungle he heard the jaguar call, wondered who was getting hunted, and realized "oh, it's me."

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 20h

Which journal would publish such a fragmented mess?
www.cell.com/current-biol...

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 4d

And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20h

Portlandia is a central document of the American anti-fascist movement.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12d

I spoke with analyst Gil Luria at D.A. Davidson, asking if the capital existed to build OpenAI's promised 17GW of data centers.

He said "of course there isn't enough capital for all of this," but "enough capital to do this for a at least a little while longer."

www.wheresyoured.at/openai-onetr...

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 19h

WOW! The European Parliament just voted to BAN the words 'burger' and 'sausage' when used in sustainable plant-based alternatives. HUGE win for the meat and dairy lobby in the EU, and lots more confusion for consumers if this goes through. Insane!
www.euroveg.eu/european-par...

European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’ - European Vegetarian Union

Brussels, 8 October 2025 European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’: coalition calls decision misguided and counterproductive This Wednesday the Members of the E...

www.euroveg.eu

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 2d

The decision between “ask the coked-out robot to draw the building you’re literally sitting in” vs “send an intern with an iphone downstairs” is sure indicative of some things

Darwin BondGraham @darwinbondgraham.bsky.social · 2d

Contest!

How many inaccuracies can you spot in the AI-generated image of Oakland City Hall that was sent to media in a press release from the mayor's office today?

Send us your list and you could win some Oaklandside merch.

oaklandside.org/2025/10/06/o...

An AI image of Oakland City Hall is missing some stuff…can you spot it?

A press release announcing Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee’s State of the City speech included a curious picture of a civic landmark.

oaklandside.org

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Guilherme Freitas @guilhermefreitas.bsky.social · 1d

há somente o aparelho para captar o áudio da gravação - também conhecido como microfone

Artur Guedes, o Matusa @matusart.bsky.social · 1d

Moça do G1... Sem microfone é foda

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2d

Got a tip recently about how Trump's tariffs are preventing libraries from sharing books, and causing their loaned books to get stuck or lost in other countries: www.404media.co/libraries-ca...

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs

Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

www.404media.co

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Diogo Melo @damelo.net · 2d

Acho que estrelinha era quantos fãs vc tinha?

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Diogo Melo @damelo.net · 2d

🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 3d

One thing that's palpable in this entire exchange is that the judge is extremely annoyed, because he didn't think anybody would actually try to put a dog in the basketball game, all the while DOJ keeps insisting there's no rule that a dog can't play basketball

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

Oregon: Feels like we're playing a game of whack-a-mole. Your honor said there was no basis in conditions in Oregon for federalizing troops. That caused govt to send in CA NG, we filed motion to enjoin, and then we heard about mobilizing TX NG under same design. So we need to broaden relief.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

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Szymek Drobniak @szymekdr.bsky.social · 3d

Our recent paper looks at location-scale interfaces in comparative data. But predicting variance in variance extends much further - if you still have not have a look here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (another recent paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social). We show how extending the idea

Location‐Scale Meta‐Analysis and Meta‐Regression as a Tool to Capture Large‐Scale Changes in Biological and Methodological Heterogeneity: A Spotlight on Heteroscedasticity

Meta-analyses are widely used to understand how species and ecosystems respond to global change, but most assume that variability among studies is constant. This assumption can hide important biologi....

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely INSANE use of passive voice in this CNN piece

just incredible

@katmabu.bsky.social “landed on the ground” during the protest???

At least one other person, who identified herself on social media as Kat Abughazaleh, a former journalist also running for Congress, landed on the ground during that same protest after she was pushed by a federal law enforcement agent in a camouflage uniform wearing a full face covering, sunglasses and a helmet, video by CNN affiliate WBBM showed.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 5d

This a fantastic @callingbullshit.bsky.social example.

What proportion of US citizens has ever used ChatGPT? 35%

Now you'd need basically 100% of people who have ever even briefly used ChatGPT to have had a prolonged romantic relationship with it.

Bullshit!

The Independent @the-independent.com · 6d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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Inimigo do Rei @cyrusafa.bsky.social · 5d

Partido Novo

23h58: FUNDO ELEITORAL É ROUBOOO11!

23h59: Partido Novo decide mudar estatuto para aceitar receber fundo eleitoral

00h00: Partido Novo é acusado de desvios no fundo eleitoral no RJ

Jornal Estado de Minas @estadodemg.bsky.social · 5d

Partido de Zema tem suspeitas de desvios do fundo eleitoral no Rio
www.em.com.br/politica/202...

Partido de Zema tem suspeitas de desvios do fundo eleitoral no Rio

Legenda é suspeita de desviar recursos destinados para o cumprimento das cotas para candidaturas de mulheres e pessoas negras

www.em.com.br

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Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 6d

Master's degree position at Towson University with Daniel Caetano on macroevolutionary and phylogenetic comparative methods! Daniel is an awesome human and a great mentor, share with your students!
caetanods.weebly.com/join-the-lab...

Join the lab

The Caetano lab at Towson University (Maryland, USA) is seeking a Master's degree student to start in Fall 2026. A Research Assistant (RA) position is available to the student during part (or all) of....

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 6d

YES THE OLD MAGIC

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Diogo Melo @damelo.net · 7d

I have so much trouble getting biology graduate students to believe that collinearity isn't a problem... Deeply ingrained myth in stats teaching for biologists!

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 8d

Was asked about collinearity again, so here's Vahove's 2019 post on why it isn't a problem that needs a solution. Design the model(s) to answer a formal question and free your mind janhove.github.io/posts/2019-0...

tl;dr

Collinearity is a form of lack of information that is appropriately reflected in the output of your statistical model.
When collinearity is associated with interpretational difficulties, these difficulties aren’t caused by the collinearity itself. Rather, they reveal that the model was poorly specified (in that it answers a question different to the one of interest), that the analyst overly focuses on significance rather than estimates and the uncertainty about them or that the analyst took a mental shortcut in interpreting the model that could’ve also led them astray in the absence of collinearity.
If you do decide to “deal with” collinearity, make sure you can still answer the question of interest.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 8d

Was asked about collinearity again, so here's Vahove's 2019 post on why it isn't a problem that needs a solution. Design the model(s) to answer a formal question and free your mind janhove.github.io/posts/2019-0...

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