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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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Unofficial CTV News Mirror @ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social · 1d

Jane Goodall’s final wish: blast Trump, Musk and Putin to space

In a Netflix interview aired posthumously, Jane Goodall, who died last week at 91, said she’d gladly send Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Benjamin Netanyahu off the planet.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 4d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 6d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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Dr. Max Lempriere @thephdpeople.com · 5d

Breakthroughs rarely come from pushing harder. They come when you step back. Rest is part of the process.

#AcademicChatter #phdchat #academicsky #phdsky

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Jojo @jojowiththeflow.bsky.social · 4d

I've said it before but: I find it interesting that, while new brands and startups used to come up with unique names, the trend in recent years seems to be to pick common words as names, that get them buried in search engine results, harder to google. It's still Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)...

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J. Hrebinka (Shanahan) 🇺🇦🇯🇴 @enceladosaurus.bsky.social · 7d

Possibly found my first chanterelle mushroom? Am I a real Swede now? 😂

A yellow orange mushroom lying on a marble counter.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 8d

Is Life inside Enceladus? Cassini Uncovers Complex Organic Chemistry in Saturn’s Ocean Moon www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-l...

Is Life inside Enceladus? Saturn’s Ocean Moon Is Awash with Biology’s Raw Ingredients

A fresh analysis of old data has found rich organic chemistry within the hidden ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus

www.scientificamerican.com

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Ryan Casey @ryancasey.dev · 11d

Sharing this again because it's a good guide for finding useful tech tools, but it's becoming more important to cut ties from US tech

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Jul 18

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

Getting off US tech: a guide

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

www.disconnect.blog

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J. Hrebinka (Shanahan) 🇺🇦🇯🇴 @enceladosaurus.bsky.social · 13d

Booked 💪 SO EXCITED!!!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17d

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 17d

dudes rock

Tumblr post from every-lemon
Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

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every-lemon
Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 16d

Couldn’t understand why our local undertaker have an eel-shaped coffin in their window, but now I realise it acts as a memento moray.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16d

I hate to say I told you so but…

www.ynetnews.com/article/sjje...

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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 16d

Telling a bunch of foreign leaders you might kidnap and disappear their citizens AT THE U FUCKING N is wild

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

TRUMP: Our message is very simple. If you come illegally into the US, you're going to jail or you're going back to where you came from or perhaps even further than that. You know what that means.

UN: *uncomfortable murmuring*

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Twin Cities Innovation Alliance (TCIA) @tciamn.bsky.social · 16d

The author of this month's book club read is nnedi.bsky.social! Nnedi is an award-winning writer and describes her work as Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism. Learn more about Nnedi: nnedi.com 

Have you read Binti? Sign up to join our discussion this Sat, Sept 27th: app.youform.com/forms/ohwp8dkw

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 16d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Beyond X&Y @beyondxandy.bsky.social · 16d

It's the scientific community's duty to fight misinformation, bioessentialism, and eugenics

That's why we're launching Beyond X&Y, an educational campaign combating the rise of unscientific political propaganda used to attack trans and intersex people

Subscribe to our newsletter at beyondxandy.org

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18d

All the super straight, Christian, MAGA warriors broke down Grindr, the gay dating/sex app, yet again.

The last time it broke down...the RNC in Wisconsin.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 18d

A gender lens remains one of the best ways to understand far right authoritarian regimes. Male order is imposed through a family-like structure, with women subservient and children taught that fear is the price of belonging www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home

Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 18d

"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...

www.computerworld.com

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · Jun 6

They'll gas light u and swear up and down "it's just a joke" , etc. But humor does serve a function of reinforcing in group recognition dynamics.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 21d

Oh since we're talking about boycotts, way too many of y'all still eat at Chik fil A and shop at Hobby Lobby, two companies whose profits are literally dedicated to killing trans people

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22d

It is OK to call fascists fascists.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 22d

The Deputy AG is talking about prosecuting the people who protested Trump at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab under RICO. Which, tbc, is despot shit.

So no, I'm not going to sign up and give you my social security number before I go to your protest.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

DOJ says Trump protesters could face RICO charges for yelling at him during dinner

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche defends Trump’s threat to charge protesters for using ‘vile words and vile anger’

www.independent.co.uk

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J. Hrebinka (Shanahan) 🇺🇦🇯🇴 @enceladosaurus.bsky.social · 22d

It's almost like a bunch of grifter billionaires are trying to sell us tech snake oil...

Shacknews @shacknews.com · 22d

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

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