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Raffi Khatchadourian
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Staff writer, The New Yorker
Fellow, The Safina Center
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Icebreaker, by @odpomery.bsky.social
December 3, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Does your phone feel like a vortex? It turns out that it might actually contain one. A new study from the University of Buffalo posits that "evidence of primordial black holes may be hiding in planets, or even everyday objects here on Earth."

www.buffalo.edu/news/release...
December 3, 2024 at 3:58 PM
I ordered a book from the 1930s about Antarctica. When it arrived, I opened it, and all of these small papers fell out. Someone back then was clipping ads for home objects. They wrote indecipherable words beside each photo, making the collection even more personal and mysterious.
November 26, 2024 at 8:00 PM
AI agents like ChatGPT are designed to communicate with human beings in our own languages. But how should they communicate with one another? Researchers propose an artificial language, called "Droidspeak," that can "accelerate inter-agent communication" by up to 2.78 times.

arxiv.org/pdf/2411.02820
November 25, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Hello, Bluesky...
November 23, 2024 at 11:27 PM