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Martin Bauer @martinmbauer.bsky.social · 8h

Short explanation of the physics Nobel Prize 2025

In classical mechanics you can know where a particle is and its momentum at the same time. In Quantum mechanics you can't. All information is in the wavefunction. Even if a particle is trapped, part of the wavefunction..

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Luis Saiz @lsaiz.bsky.social · 8h

El problema era que sala era diáfana en vez de estar reforzada como el resto del barco

Uno de los diseños que se hacen ahora es que por la forma del casco (más redondeadas) las presiones laterales no solo sean soportadas sino que impulsen hacia arriba al propio barco aliviando la presión

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Reuters @reuters.com · 10h

Spain's grid operator warns of new tension swings, urges measures to avoid blackout reut.rs/48TmQ6o

Spain's grid operator warns of new tension swings, urges measures to avoid blackout

Spain's grid operator Red Electrica has detected steep voltage swings in the system over the past two weeks that are capable of affecting power supply in the country that suffered a massive blackout in April, it warned in a document sent to market regulator CNMC.

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Luis Saiz @lsaiz.bsky.social · 9h

A ver si recuerdo algo de Electrotecnia … lo mío eran los bits y como mucho los milivoltios y los microamperios 😅

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Luis Saiz @lsaiz.bsky.social · 11h

Curioso, ¿cómo se hace?

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Luis Saiz @lsaiz.bsky.social · 12h

Leveraging central geographical positioning (they do the same with Spain and I can guess Italy)

Reuters @reuters.com · 12h

France blocks maritime concession for France-UK power interconnector project reut.rs/3J1IDyj

France blocks maritime concession for France-UK power interconnector project

French authorities on Wednesday denied an important maritime concession for the Aquind electricity interconnector project, effectively halting progress on the planned high-voltage link between France and the United Kingdom.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: Germany opposes mass scanning of private messages.

"must be taboo in a constitutional state"

"even the worst crimes don't justify giving up basic civil rights"

Well said Minister Stefanie Hubig!

Leadership we need from Europe's democracies.
www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Z...

Dr. Stefanie Hubig, Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection, on the occasion of political discussions about privacy in the digital space and about a proposal for an EU regulation to prevent and combat sexual abuse

„Unreasonable chat control must be taboo in a constitutional state. Private communication must never be under general suspicion.“

08. October 2025

„Unreasonable chat control must be taboo in a constitutional state. Private communication must never be under general suspicion. The state must also not force messengers to scan messages en masse for suspicious content before sending them. Germany will not agree to such proposals at EU level. We must also make progress in the fight against child pornography at EU level. That's what I'm committed to. But even the worst crimes do not justify giving up basic civil rights. The federal government's votes have insisted on this for months. And it will stay that way.“

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Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com · 16h

It is long, LONG past time that OFAC just designate all ransomware gangs. It must be illegal to pay these assholes, and it is the only way the problem will be solved is to stop the profit motive.

BrianKrebs @briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16h

New, by me: A cybercriminal group that used voice phishing attacks to siphon more than a billion records from Salesforce customers earlier this year has launched a website that threatens to publish data stolen from dozens of Fortune 500 firms if they refuse […]

[Original post on infosec.exchange]

A screenshot of a scan of the trojan at virustotal.com shows 11 of the 72 security tools detected it as malicious. The malicious indicators are marked in red.

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Luis Saiz @lsaiz.bsky.social · 1d

Me pasó ya hace unos años, había pedido un presupuesto para un diésel de renting con idea de que madurasen los eléctricos mientras (quería 7 plazas). Por X cambiaron motorización y se retrasó, cuando volví a pedir presupuesto había subido 30-40%

Habían hecho las cuentas del valor final …

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Brokoslaw Laschowski @drlaschowski.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine a brain decoding algorithm that could generalize across different subjects and tasks. Today, we’re one step closer to achieving that vision.

Introducing the flagship paper of our brain decoding program: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca

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Luis Saiz @lsaiz.bsky.social · 1d

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Luis Saiz @lsaiz.bsky.social · 1d

Follow the money (interest)

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 1d

"It's the weirdest job market in my 15 years in tech" -- from a Big Tech recruiter. But why is the job market so weird?

Talking to 30+ hiring managers and recruiters, it doesn't seem like AI. It seems more like.. interest rates.

My longer analysis: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-t...

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

it takes a windmill 27.7 hours to generate one transgender athlete

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Luis Saiz @lsaiz.bsky.social · 1d

No vale usar Bayes

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Luis Saiz @lsaiz.bsky.social · 1d

¿Tú nunca has hecho un threat analysis con atribución incluida de una captura de pantalla de pastebin?

Parguela!

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Luis Saiz @lsaiz.bsky.social · 1d

Y a partir de las fotos han hecho un modelo en HyperMesh y han pasado la simulación de carga en 30 segundos

La carga se la ha chivado el del bar de enfrente que tiene una furgo y está acostumbrado a saber lo que pesan 50 cajas de cerveza

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

A fascinating update on this: thanks to radar data from NASA's Surface Water Ocean Topography satellite, we can now actually *see* these massive Earth-shaking tsunamis sloshing back and forth! www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-06... (The redder the dot, the higher the water level.)

Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite image of the Dickson Fjord in East Greenland with the observed sea-surface height measurements from the SWOT satellite of the Earth-shaking wave on 11 October 2023 overlaid, when a seiche (standing wave) formed that made the Earth ring like a bell for 9 days.

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 6d

"Spain’s rapid renewables build-out means its power prices were set by fossil generation just 19% of the time, down from 75% in 2019. As a result, wholesale electricity was almost a third cheaper than the EU average"

Imagine having cheaper power

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Spain’s Renewable-Energy Boom Loosens Gas’s Grip on Power Prices

Soaring renewables output in Spain is weakening gas’s grip on electricity prices, setting the country apart from much of Europe where fossil fuels still dictate the cost of power.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Noah @ncallaway.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is half the goal of AI for those seeking a post-truth order. Yes, they can produce fake evidence against people they don’t like, but probably more importantly they can dismiss actual evidence against them as being fake.

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Luis Saiz @lsaiz.bsky.social · 2d

Can’t believe there are 97M senator’s advisors

The Register @theregister.com · 2d

Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT

Bernie Sanders calls for a robot tax and a 32-hour work week in response ai-pocalypse A US Senate committee led by Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has produced a report claiming that about 97 million US jobs could be lost to AI and automation over the next decade. There's just one problem: it got those figures from ChatGPT.…

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Luis Saiz @lsaiz.bsky.social · 2d

Cybersecurity is woke

DefenseScoop @defensescoop.bsky.social · 5d

The changes are to be “implemented expeditiously,” per Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s directive. defensescoop.com/2025/10/03/d...

DOD to cut back on mandatory cybersecurity training

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a new edict this week to relax the mandatory frequency for cybersecurity training at DOD.

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Alex Barron @alexrbarron.bsky.social · 3d

"Spain’s wind and solar growth has reduced the influence of expensive fossil generators on the electricity price by 75% since 2019.... As a result, Spain’s wholesale electricity price was 32% lower than the EU average in the first half of 2025." 🔌💡
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Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using renewables | Ember

Spain has some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe, largely owing to the country’s strong solar and wind growth which reduced the influence of expensive coal and gas power on the elec...

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Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 19d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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