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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 1h

I dusted off my old dinosaur book when the kids were old enough to maybe have an interest in it and that book literally just said that it was a mystery why they died out, ”perhaps an asterioid strike”

SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 4h

As a fun reminder, the paper to come out with the first hard evidence that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs didn't come until 1980 *and* the Chicxulub crater wasn't officially identified as the source until 1990 (despite its discovery in 1978).

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 2h

Tässä talossa uskomme:
Ninja-asiat riitelee, ei ihmiset

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 5h

Tässä esimerkki! Aurinkopaneelifarmit toimii elinympäristönä kuoriaisille ja hämähäkeille.

resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Solar parks provide heterogeneous habitats for winter‐active ground‐dwelling predatory arthropods

Forest provides stable temperature and high humidity, harbouring mainly forest-associated winter-active ground-dwelling predatory arthropods. Grassland and abandoned farmland experience extreme temp...

resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 5h

Ja luontoargumentti, no, jos vanha pelto peitetään paneeleilla, niin vissiin alapuolella voi olla ihan kelpo niittymäinen elinympäristö eri lajeille. Ei varmasti yksipuolisempi, tähän voisi myls vaikuttaa sääntelyllä!

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 5h

Niin kauan kuin rakentaminen jonnekin muualle on halvempaa ja helpompaa, niin tätä tuskin tehdään. Huolto on myös hankalaa vrt. hallin katolla tai maan tasolla oleviin paneeleihin. Helpompi varmasti peittää esim. parkkikentät kuin tiet paneeleilla.

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 5h

Moose are also the perfect height to fall through the windshield of your vehicle if you hit it (with a normal car). Fairly many of these accidents here in Finland.

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 5h

Okei mut billebeino-tyyliin bebab-buusto-bakkaravurgeri

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Reposted by Jonatan Hildén

Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 6h

The Nobel Prize, widely considered the ultimate indicator of important science, has often gone off in weird directions due to politics & personalities.

Like that year when an obsolete form of color photography beat out quantum physics for the physics Nobel. 🧪

physicsworld.com/a/nobel-priz...

A still life taken by Lippmann using his method between 1890 and 1910. By the latter part of this period, the method had fallen out of favour, superseded by the simpler Autochrome process. (Photo in public domain)

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 7h

There was a short-lived ”miniature” pig-as-pet fad like 20 years ago. My aunt had a petting zoo where two of the inhabitants were former miniature house pigs, decidedly not very ”miniature”. Wonder if there were some gruesome incidents…

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 7h

quora is amazing

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 7h

Not an expert, but it would appear to me that cat jaw anatomy and size would make it somewhat challenging for them to eat something the size of a human.

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 7h

The cat thing was indeed the main point breaking the suspension of disbelief in Taxidermia (2006 film by György Pálfi)

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 8h

This is the stuff I just a few weeks ago told students is something you really shouldn't use LLMs for.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 8h

Wild list of errors - significant but subtle enough that someone not paying attention would let is pass - generated by Microsoft's generative software INSIDE Excel formulas

We are so SO MUCH TROUBLE

office-watch.com/2025/facts-a...

ust one more example of Copilot getting facts wrong
We asked Copilot() for a list of UN countries and immediately noticed something was wrong. There are 193 countries in the United Nations not 194 so where is the other country? The answer is complicated.

=COPILOT(“list of UN countries, include headings”,”show short name, full name,date of UN entry and continent”)

Copilot has added Vatican City which isn’t a member, only an “Observer” but at least there’s a note.

Even more curious is Palestine which is also an Observer member only but is listed by Copilot as a full member which joined on 29 Nov. 2012.

That means Copilot has two non-members listed and there must be one member country not listed.

If that wasn’t enough, all the Central American and Caribbean countries are lumped into the “North America” continent which isn’t what most people would expect.

Different results on the same page!
For no explained reason, “Gold Coast Airport” appears in this Copilot() result (B17 result and below) even though it’s not shown in another result on the same page (Cell B3 and the spilled cells). All it took was small and irrelevant changes in the prompt.

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 10h

Haha muistan kun törmäsin johonkin ”objektivisteihin” nettifoorumissa 2002 ja opin, että nämä Randilaiset ovat tietynsorttisia libertaareja. Tämä on värittänyt käsitystä kaikista libertaareista siitä asti.

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