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AI, data, Wikipedia, co-maintainer of @wikiresearch.bsky.social

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So "isometric" was in distribution? πŸ˜‰ bsky.app/profile/nsap...

05.03.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Relatedly, global warming denial entirely vanished after a few years once ppl had more datapoints and could estimate the rate of global temperature increases themselves.

05.03.2026 15:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
From https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/is-pre-nuclear-steel-behind-wwii-ship-targeting/

From https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/is-pre-nuclear-steel-behind-wwii-ship-targeting/

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

An apt simile, as an overhyped concern that was only ever relevant for some very exotic use cases and has become irrelevant now ("special low-background steel [is] no longer necessary for most radiation-sensitive uses, as new steel now has a low enough radioactive signature")

05.03.2026 08:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Another Stanford tech bro falling for The AI Con. Fortunately we still have the real experts from the UW linguistics department helping us to see through this flimflam

04.03.2026 05:43 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm curious about the impact of OpenAI's free ChatGPT Go offer in India (I understand this includes Codex CLI) www.ndtv.com/india-news/c...

04.03.2026 04:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Corporate Structure for Ethical AI - Daniela Amodei (Anthropic)
Corporate Structure for Ethical AI - Daniela Amodei (Anthropic) YouTube video by Stanford eCorner

Isn't that exactly why Anthropic was set up as a PBC? www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMF1...

25.02.2026 12:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Starcloud to launch AWS Outposts hardware in space, aims to deploy fleet of 88,000 satellites Data centers in space startup rockets ahead with plans

Very interesting to see a "City on Mars" coauthor make such easily falsifiable claims.

Whatever one thinks about Elon and China, Nvidia-backed Starcloud already launched a test satellite in November (and just filed an FCC proposal for 88,000 more): www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/star...

25.02.2026 06:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thales Alenia Space reveals results of ASCEND feasibility study on space data centers | Thales Alenia Space Thales Alenia Space announces the promising results of the ASCEND (Advanced Space Cloud for European Net zero emission and Data sovereignty) feasibility study.

Or, this European feasibility study explicitly highlighted this as a potential application of "robotic technologies" www.thalesaleniaspace.com/en/press-rel... (Unlike Starcloud, this hasn't resulted in any launches yet, but it's another counterexample to the idea that "The Idea" drives such ideas)

25.02.2026 06:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

All fair regarding the lack of business cases for people in space.
But who exactly is claiming that datacenters in space require crewed missions? E.g. the Starcloud whitepaper (starcloudinc.github.io/wp.pdf ) doesn't mention them.

25.02.2026 06:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

What does "Show less like this" do concretely in the current Discover feed, and what would be its equivalent in a future PinnerSage-based implementation?

24.02.2026 14:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, even Robespierre ended under the guillotine too, despite his impeccable credentials as a fervent @jacobinmag.bsky.social activist

22.02.2026 04:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Jestermaxxing
Jestermaxxing YouTube video by Gossip Goblin

m.youtube.com/shorts/-q8kF...

22.02.2026 00:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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PlainSite :: NEIMA BENAVIDES, Personal Representative of the Estate of NAIBEL BENAVIDES LEON, deceased v. Tesla, Inc, Florida Southern District Court Case No. 1:21-cv-21940-BB Document 612: Order on Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law

Here is the new ruling btw - it was mostly about upholding the earlier jury verdict on procedural grounds (but yes, it seems that "admission of statements made by Elon Musk" may have influenced that verdict considerably): www.plainsite.org/courts/flori...

21.02.2026 04:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
"a 1937 bus schedule to Jones Beach" (https:__www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/10/robert-moses-saga-racist-parkway-bridges/ )

"a 1937 bus schedule to Jones Beach" (https:__www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/10/robert-moses-saga-racist-parkway-bridges/ )

"a state promotional photo showing buses parked in front of the famed water tower" at Jones Beach (https:__www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/10/robert-moses-saga-racist-parkway-bridges/ )

"a state promotional photo showing buses parked in front of the famed water tower" at Jones Beach (https:__www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/10/robert-moses-saga-racist-parkway-bridges/ )

Appreciate the reply, but I'm surprised to see the WaPo fact-checker's analysis (based on conversations with multiple experts) dismissed as "first Google result".
Happy to read further if you have tips; in the meantime, via WaPo, a 1937 bus schedule for what Caro calls "Moses’s beloved Jones Beach":

20.02.2026 00:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Analysis | Robert Moses and the saga of the racist parkway bridges Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg referred to a famous anecdote in Robert Caro's biography of the master builder but historians increasingly question whether it is correct.

This looks interesting and concerning, but your reliance on that largely debunked bridges story (www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... ) doesn't quite inspire confidence in the evidentiary standards guiding this research.

19.02.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Women make global gains as researchers, but gaps persist A large-scale global study found that while the number of women in academic research is growing, STEM fields remain dominated by men.

By that hypothesis, the gender trust gap should have shrunk over the last few decades, as the gender ratio among active scientists improved markedly during that time. Is that consistent with your data?
www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

11.02.2026 02:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

PS: wrong profile link, was meant to be @natmed.nature.com

09.02.2026 00:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Über das Marionettentheater – Wikisource

Direct link for those who prefer to access that Kleist article in the German original: de.wikisource.org/wiki/%C3%9Cb...

09.02.2026 00:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Indeed, leaving this up seems pretty irresponsible at this point, also because the (appreciated) correction of that blatantly wrong allegation about violations of @naturemedicine.bsky.social's disclosure policy is likely to be overlooked by most bsky.app/profile/emil...

08.02.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wasn't your objection to the word "trial" instead? It's still entirely unclear why that should be regarded as "misleading" here. (As @brendannyhan.bsky.social indicated, the term "randomized controlled trial" has long been used for experiments that don't involve patient "care" in any sense.)

08.02.2026 21:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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If Congress Repeals Section 230, What Will that Mean for Wikipedia? This is the first installment in our three-part series about Section 230.

(and besides its direct impact on the platform itself, a section 230 repeal would have lots of indirect effects too, per this detailed post by @wikimediapolicy.bsky.social :
medium.com/wikimedia-po... )

08.02.2026 15:56 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Section 230 Success Case: Wikipedia Wikipedia is a perfect example of a site that relies on the immunities afforded by Section 230. The websiteβ€”the seventh most popular site in the worldβ€”is a completely user-generated online encyclopedi...

Thanks for drawing attention to this.
BTW, when doing that brief recap of section 230's importance by listing examples of platforms it protects (2:15), please consider mentioning Wikipedia too next time
www.eff.org/issues/cda23...

08.02.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
https://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/view/marx_kapital01_1867/?p=439

https://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/view/marx_kapital01_1867/?p=439

The German original calls them "PΓΆbelexzesse" ("mob excesses").

"Es bedarf Zeit und Erfahrung, bevor der Arbeiter die Maschinerie von ihrer kapitalistischen Anwendung unterscheiden und daher seine Angriffe [...] auf [deren] gesellschaftliche Ausbeutungsform ΓΌbertragen lernt."

08.02.2026 15:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

cf. bsky.app/profile/emol...

05.02.2026 07:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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CommunityTheaterAI on X: "Lord of the Rings as a community theater production. https://t.co/wEdMus9vHm" / X Lord of the Rings as a community theater production. https://t.co/wEdMus9vHm

Glitchy and technically outdated by now, but still a fan of all the Veo 3 community theater productions like x.com/CommTheater/...

05.02.2026 07:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Good to question whether such laws actually yield the desired effects.

But the paper seems oblivious to the fact that the act’s notice-and-takedown requirement isn't in force yet ("Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, a covered platform shall establish a process ...")

04.02.2026 22:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

See also bsky.app/profile/pekk...

04.02.2026 21:37 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Another example has similar problems: bsky.app/profile/conn...

04.02.2026 21:36 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Rate limit reached" 🫠

04.02.2026 00:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The White House’s website deleted the whole archive of its daily newsletters American citizens can get daily updates on the government directly from the White House’s β€œ1600 Daily” newsletter, which was launched in March 2017. The newsletter shares daily updates from the White ...

Great post, but unfortunately the link under "Examples include removed editions of presidential newsletters" is 404 πŸ˜‰ (this version still works: qz.com/1388315/the-... )

04.02.2026 00:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0