Oliver Strimpel
@geologybites.bsky.social
🧪⚒️Animation showing the leading and trailing swarms of Trojan asteroids (green) on either side of Jupiter (yellow). The inner planets Mars (red), Earth (blue), Venus (white), and Mercury (brown) are also shown.
“…5 upstate appellate judges ruled against @newyorkstateag.bsky.social & determined that a 2019 NY human rights law prohibiting “source of income” discrimination against…Section8 vouchers violates the constitutional rights of property owners because the program requires building safety inspections.”
I'm SUPER SURPRISED after all these years to discover -NEW- (to me) Babylon 5 music by Chris Franke.
It's tracks from the unreleased Into The Fire combat sim - some new mixes of familiar tracks, and some new stuff.
YT Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Enjoy. I certainly am right now.
"The software detected 18 cases in the first 600 datasets that were serious enough to report...based on that limited sample, around 3% of papers contain these types of errors."
😭
NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company
A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
a map of openai's influence on other media companies
Amazing site here via @timnitgebru.bsky.social - a map of big tech influence on media and media companies.
imo this goes a decent way to explaining why coverage of AI specifically has been so shockingly bad recently. Very useful resource!!
nananwachukwu.github.io/media-captur...
people love to say "you should read conservative opinion pieces too" and every conservative opinion piece is like "corporations should have the right to vote but minorities shouldn't. source: I made it up"
this is my good friend’s fundraiser, we’ve been friends for over a decade and I am doing everything I can to help her get out of Kansas and to a better situation.
I am able to provide safe housing and locally coordinated supports and anything you can do, just sharing even, helps tremendously
PANEL 1: NARRATOR: "Cultivating the measured NPR cadence and placid deference to the military that characterizes the ideal neoliberal subject, Clark Kent returns to the editorial meeting..." A group of DAILY PLANET reporters are in a meeting, Clark Kent is responding to a question from his boss. CLARK: "Well, chief, the bombing campaign--" PANEL 2: Clark is talking and the other reporters and co-workers look unhappy. CLARK: "Obviously war in the region is not-ah-"ideal," but regime change could ultimately provide socioeconomic benefits that far outweigh the regrettable civilian casualties..." CLARK (thinking): "As Superman, last son of Krypton, these words of course sicken me; however, it's Clark Kent's job to manufacture consent!" PANEL 3: (inset in a larger panel) One reporter is whispering to another. REPORTER: "Kent is such an off-putting sociopath" REPORTER 2: "I hope he kills himself". An arrow points to this inset panel that reads "Thanks to super-hearing" from Clark's ear. Clark is smiling and thinking to himself. CLARK (thinking): "Looks like my secret identity as Clark Kent is safe...FOR NOW!"
the mild manners are job security, baby
www.noncanon.com/comics/2026-...
We're no more than a few hours away from the next phase of digital propaganda: unverified videos of "liberated people celebrating" will go viral. Many of these videos will later be revealed to have predated the illegal war, or be entirely unrelated to current events
Upshot: verify before amplifying
Wondering/hoping if there will be a noticeable creative pivot from the ultra glossy direction (mainstream) cinema was going, to something more… haptic, tangible and lo-fi (better adjectives are available) in response to the deluge of AI slop. Maybe, even permission to pass on perfection.
Lord of the rings: Merry looks into the glowing palantir orb… and screams
“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”
The promise of OpenAI and Grok being used in war is that no human can be held accountable for the war crimes it commits, all the way up to where it sits on the chain of command.
The total abdication of any kind of accountability, any kind of "am I following an unjust order" moral hesitation, etc.
The sole promise of using LLM's in war is to entirely remove a Stanislaw Petrov from the decision chain.
(Oh, remember how LLM's were found to advocate nuclear strikes in 95% of tested scenarios?)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
If you want an actually functioning democracy, it is actually in our interest to make working for fascists really uncomfortable.
I don't know what to tell you.
I'm not going to quote post because I don't want to dog pile.
But when people say, "don't heckle the staff," this isn't 2010.
We're not talking about normal people choosing normal govt staffing jobs.
This is 2026 where we're kidnapping foreign officials and building concentration camps.
Joe Dante and Hideo Kojima are close seconds but no director was more right about the future of war than Barry Levinson with the 1992 box office flop Toys.
#UkrainianView
INTEL DRIVEN TACTICAL VICTORY FOR UKRAINE
A group of hackers working with Ukrainian Military Intelligence successfully infiltrated a huge network of Russians trying to get their Starlink service reactivated. They were able gather the details of over 2,400 Starlink systems, their
Two NYT opinion headlines On the left - Jesse Singal: Medical Associations Trusted Belief Over Science on Youth Gender Care and on the right - Daniel Richman: The Epstein Files Should Never Have Been Released
the failing New York Times going all-in on platforming pedophiles
"Identity politics... you know, pronouns" serves the same dogwhistle if the fascist saying it wears red or blue.
Britain is never going to have a serious conversation about the fact that one of the queen's final acts in life was to knowingly spend millions protecting one of Jeffrey Epstein's top collaborators just because he was mummy's favourite special boy.
She was a cruel, out of touch piece of shit.
Tomorrow (24 February) at 17:00, I'll be presenting on "Orchard Quantum Recoverability", a proposal that will improve Zcash's ability to cope with potential future quantum attacks. Luma sign-up link here: luma.com/jhu74jn3 (you will also need Google Meet).
For two years Labour has been treating immigrants with violent contempt, removing the human rights of trans people and attacking the right to protest peacefully.
Anyone who thinks all this did not open the door to Reform’s Gestapo-style proposals for a British ICE is deluded in the extreme.
“Athens – Minnesota we fight together against the system that murders us,” chanted a crowd of 1,000 in Athens, Greece along with other chants such as “we live together, we work together with the migrants, fight the nazis,” in response to 15 migrants being killed in a boat crash with the Coast Guard.
“yeah bro just go ahead and segregate the transgenders dont worry if its legal we’ll sort it out 😉 “
-women and equalities minister Bridget Philipson
Rep. Jamie Raskin says he conducted an unannounced oversight visit to Baltimore's ICE facility and found conditions that were "disgraceful": 60 men crammed shoulder-to-shoulder in a room 24/7, with one toilet, no showers, and aluminum foil blankets for sleeping. Despite a $75B budget under Kristi Noem, he describes the treatment as inhumane. Raskin said he is demanding immediate answers and action.
Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin I just exercised my right as a Member of Congress to conduct an unannounced oversight visit of the ICE field facility in Baltimore. The staff I met with respected my right to visit, but what I saw was disgraceful. Kristi Noem has a budget of $75 billion she could use to ensure humane conditions, but we saw 60 men packed into a room shoulder-to-shoulder, 24-hours-a-day, with a single toilet in the room and no shower facilities. They sleep like sardines with aluminum foil blankets. Whether it’s for three days or seven days, nobody would want a member of their family warehoused there. The room set aside for dangerous criminals and violent offenders was empty. We’re demanding immediate answers and action.
Rep. Jamie Raskin says he conducted an unannounced oversight visit to Baltimore's ICE facility & found conditions that were "disgraceful": 60 men crammed shoulder-to-shoulder in a room 24/7, w/ one toilet, no showers, & aluminum foil blankets for sleeping. Despite a $75B budget under Kristi Noem...
Sympathy. Everyone around me was happy and singing "Lizzie's in a box" and I thought: "Yes. These are my people. I have made good choices in my friends and partners."
