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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 9h

Murad "had been deported to Egypt."

Hearing "the news, the elderly mother broke into tears and random screams in her wheelchair."

"The mother moved her hand in an apparent refusal to hear, continuing to weep."
#Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #USA #Egypt #Iran #Incarceration #Genocide

Palestinians freed from Israeli prison denied reunion with families as Trump claims a ‘forever’ peace

Palestinian families eager to reunite with loved ones due to be freed learned that Israel had deported them instead. Amid the pain and the decimation of Gaza, U.S. President Donald Trump declared the…

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Micah @rincewind.run · 8h

it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 17h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 1d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 10h

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 11h

Einstein had wanted to hire Noether.

I am the first woman mathematics professor in my university (funded 1978), since 2002.

I was a student at Scuola Normale, Pisa, where there never ever was a woman maths professor; they do have one (1) woman mathematician with a permanent non professor role.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 12h

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in order to align llms with human values, we use llms to base our understanding of human values

reads: Given the financial and logistical challenges linked to human annotation, we choose to employ the feedback generated by the GPT-3.5-turbo API as a substitute for human feedback.

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 14h

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 14h

"My children are dead!"

A Palestinian prisoner released today was expecting to embrace his family, only to find out they had been killed weeks ago in Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 17h

They did this to my father in 1970.
He wasn't even allowed to say goodbye to his mother. 55 years later, same abuse and injustice.

Massimo @massimovl.bsky.social · 17h

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‘Inhumane’: 154 freed Palestinian prisoners forced into exile by Israel

Palestinian families awaiting return of imprisoned relatives are shocked to learn they will be deported.

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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 19h

So now that the Nobel Prizes have all been announced, let's do an eensie (inferred) demographic tally, shall we? 12/14 men, and 9/14 white men.

All Nobel Prizes 2025

The Nobel Prizes are awarded to those that have conferred the greated benefit to humankind. These are the 2025 laureates.

www.nobelprize.org

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 20h

It was absolutely impossible to make him understand the connection between the two sentences above.

I am left to ponder that he honestly didn’t get it, and what the implications of this are, because this guy is definitely not an outlier.

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 20h

A mathematician said over dinner he’s okay with using LLMs (despite the impact on people living near data centres and on a heating planet) so he can avoid “stupid secretarial tasks”.

I had mentioned minutes earlier how usually those who humanise AIs de-humanise some subset of humans. 🤦‍♀️

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El Espectro 👻 🎃 @telescoper.bsky.social · 1d

When will the AI Bubble burst?

I'm not a financial expert, but I have noticed a significant number of articles in the media suggesting that the Generative AI industry is a bubble waiting to burst. There are recent pieces here on the BBC website, here in the Financial Times (from which I stole the…

When will the AI Bubble burst?

I'm not a financial expert, but I have noticed a significant number of articles in the media suggesting that the Generative AI industry is a bubble waiting to burst. There are recent pieces here on the BBC website, here in the Financial Times (from which I stole the cartoon), and here in the Irish Times, to name but a few.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 21h

👴🏻"Yes, I know this person did horrific things to Black and brown people, but if you don't pretend to honor his memory, you are the bad guy here!"🤡

No. It doesn't work like that.

Not for Kirk. Not for Columbus.

There have been *millions* of great Italian Americans. Columbus is not one of them.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 1d

Your reminder—or maybe no one ever told you—that complications from a measles infection include immune amnesia (where you lose immunity to everything), vision and hearing loss, brain damage, and a fatal brain disease called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis that can show up years later.

Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 2d

Hundreds of children in multiple states are in quarantine and on remote learning due to measles outbreaks.

The decline in MMR vaccinations has resulted in the US experiencing an increase of measles cases with 1563 total cases & 3 deaths since January.

#Pinks

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 22h

A friend in my student days lost his hearing to measles as a tween. He also read lips. He remembered music.

NB Italy was late in introducing measles vaccination.

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 22h

Finally, back when I was young, if you wanted to learn algebraic stacks the only reference were photocopies of notes by Laumon, later expanded jointly with Moret-Bailly, and finally made into a book.

I am personally deeply thankful for Laumon's notes, and sad he passed away so soon.

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 22h

You can read a lot also about his PhD students. Everyone can be lucky, but when two of your students win Fields medals, and a third becomes the first woman maths professor at Harvard, you're doing something right. And those three are just the most famous students.

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 22h

I will not say much about his research, which is mostly beyond my understanding: suffices to say he proved something called the Fundamental Lemma (of geometric Langlands theory) and got a Clay Award.

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 22h

I learned last Saturday that Gérard Laumon had passed away the previous Saturday. I deeply admire many aspects of his work, which I want to mention briefly.
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Gérard Laumon — Wikipédia

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 1d

Took me a while to realise 11/10 was the date first thought it was the evaluation of your happy you look together.

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 1d

That skirt is really nice and also has amazing pockets. Looks like something my daughter (who's close to your age) would love to wear.

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 1d

ICE killed their father. Now they’re in foster care.

Silverio Villegas, a single father, was fatally shot by fed agents after he allegedly tried to flee a traffic stop in Franklin Park.

His family spoke to the Tribune of their grieve and their fight.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/s...

Family of Chicago-area man killed by ICE seeks to reunite with his children who are now in foster care in Idaho

The state of Idaho took custody of the children a few weeks after Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was killed by ICE agents in Franklin Park on Sept. 12.

www.chicagotribune.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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