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WIRED @wired.com · 4h

Protesting this weekend? Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy.

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

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Dave Petley @davepetley.bsky.social · 5h

Satellite images of the parts of #Mexico affected by heavy rainfall in recent days are being captured by @planet.com. This is the area around Conquextla, for example. There are many shallow landslides, some of which have combined to create channelised debris flows. This pattern is repeated widely.

Planet image of the area around Conquextla in Mexico, showing multiple shallow landslides.

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 3h

What happens if individuals have a mindset that prioritises ingroup symbolic strength over facts and evidence ...

@jagolinzer.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social @eliothiggins.bsky.social

Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 3h

Key!👇

Winning with #misinformation: people endorse easily disproven claims to prioritize symbolic strength theconversation.com/winning-with...

"...some people consider it a 'win' to lean in to known falsehoods."

"...mindset was also strongly associated with authoritarian attitudes."

Winning with misinformation: New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength

Conversations around misinformation that assume everyone cares about literal truth may be missing the point.

theconversation.com

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 3h

Finally, as recent research suggets, for some people meaning and mindsets may be more symbolic, and not based literal facts.
bsky.app/profile/caul...

The outgroup will first and foremost listen to their own experts, they won't listen and won't be swayed by anyone else.

Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 3h

Key!👇

Winning with #misinformation: people endorse easily disproven claims to prioritize symbolic strength theconversation.com/winning-with...

"...some people consider it a 'win' to lean in to known falsehoods."

"...mindset was also strongly associated with authoritarian attitudes."

Winning with misinformation: New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength

Conversations around misinformation that assume everyone cares about literal truth may be missing the point.

theconversation.com

Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 4h

Another issue is that facts and evidence alone won't change beliefs. Just ask @davidmcraney.bsky.social.

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 4h

This man [Farage] "told us all that Brexit was a great idea. Now we are all poorer. Do you really want to trust him again?"

Nigel Farage & Reform UK said they would cut waste at Kent Council. Wrong again.

Don't be fooled.

There are not simple solutions to complex problems.

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Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 5h

🔥🔥🔥 A tiny Oregon grass fire was spotted from space – by the first FireSat satellite. Soon, 50 satellites could track wildfires anywhere on Earth in real time.

Satellite program aims to track every wildfire on Earth » Yale Climate Connections

A nonprofit coalition is building a fleet of satellites to help firefighters and communities respond when disaster strikes.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18h

Must-watch piece from @karenhao.bsky.social about the mental health risks of chatbots --- especially as Altman is going around having claimed to have "mitigated" them.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkGk...

He Lost His Mind Using ChatGPT. Then It Told Him to Contact Me

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 6h

Image via @oceandatalab.bsky.social's new OVL portal

Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 6h

Both NASA/CNES #SWOT and #Copernicus #Sentinel1 captured the impact of ex-Typhoon Halong on Alaska. The storm surge caused a lot of devastation 😬

Why did US forecasts not get trajectory right ?

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@fabriceardhuin.bsky.social @sentinelonline.bsky.social @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

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Nature @nature.com · 8h

The US government shutdown, about to enter its third week, is starting to take a toll on US science

go.nature.com/4n1v5Rn

Scientists lose jobs and grants as US government shutdown takes a toll

Hundreds of people at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have received layoff notices, and work at many federal laboratories has been suspended.

go.nature.com

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 9h

No doubt Farage/Reform UK will suggest simple solutions to wicked problems.

Don't be fooled.

If costs for national debt, NHS, prisons, police ... are all going up then Govt have to raise more revenue to cover.

Markets don't like borrowing for day-day spending so more tax rises needed ? Be bold.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 11h

🚨🚨Chancellor Rachel Reeves acknowledges she is looking at potential tax rises and spending cuts to fill a black hole in her Budget which she said was partly due to the lingering impact of #Brexit. 🧵
www.independent.co.uk/money/rachel...

Reeves eyes tax hikes as economy suffers ‘severe and long-lasting’ Brexit impact

Rachel Reeves said ‘austerity, Brexit, and the ongoing impact of Liz Truss’s mini-budget’ had weighed heavily on the UK economy.

www.independent.co.uk

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 9h

Cost of servicing national debt has gone up since Truss' mini-budget of 2022. This via @niesrorg.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/nies...

A big bold move is needed to help bring these down to more sustainable levels.

Thou high gilt yld levels are good for those wanting an annuity from a pension plan.

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World Meteorological Organization @wmo-global.bsky.social · 1d

Five facts about the WMO’s 2024 State of Global Water Resources Report:

This is the #StateOfWater.

Read the full report 🔗 https://bit.ly/469OBWU

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 1d

Cuts to US federal budgets having real world consequences for weather forecasting ?

Data from weather balloons is typically used to improve forecasts. Reducing the number of balloon launches, or not having them, means some changes atmosphere are not seen.

@indyfromspace.bsky.social @zacklabe.com

Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 1d

Disastrous storm surge struck western AK Sunday. All 6 NWS upper air sites in the area have chronic issues (see alt-text). In addition to no releases from 2 sites, 2 sites are releasing only 1x per day instead of 2x. 2 have intermittent issues, 1 of these (Nome) had no releases 10/9 or 10/10 (1/2)

Map of National Weather Service upper air sites in Alaska. Red circles indicate sites not currently releasing balloons, orange circles sites on releasing routinely once per day instead of twice, and purple sites with intermittent issues with releases.

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Fabrice Ardhuin @fabriceardhuin.bsky.social · 1d

The visualization tool for wave heights is just in time for my classes on waves starting in November!
odl.bzh/CACKkfxO. thanks to @oceandatalab.bsky.social

fingers of higer waves are caused by refraction of swell over currents.The first time we saw this kind of feature was on Envisat ASAR.

7-day composite of wave heights from Scotland to France (dark red is 8 m) from SWOT KaRIN instrument (22 to 28 August 2025), showing land shadows and effects of currents on wave heights. In particular "fingers" of higher waves are pointing in the wave propagation direction and are caused by a focusing of waves in currents located "upwave" of the measurement.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

"a quarter of the typical energy bill in 2024 was profit. That is equivalent to every household paying £416 a year so other people can grow rich."

Excellent piece by Mathew Lawrence of the @Cmmonwealth thinktank

How the government keeps you poorer

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence

A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank

www.theguardian.com

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 1d

On required inside walls put up thermal wallpaper, say Wallrock from GoWallpaper, w/ fire retardent liner over the top. The liner can even be painted over. 😉

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 1d

There’s not much to say about the solid wall insulation failures that hasn’t already been said. A diabolical policy failure that wasted money and harmed people.

But one thing I will add is: I think it highlights the need for more state delivery capacity on warm homes, not just regulation
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Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds

Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp

www.theguardian.com

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting Resolution Foundation event from 2nd Sept

"Hot topics, hard choices: Addressing the policy landscape for 2025-26" www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgLu...

Is there still a fiscal credibility gap after Truss' 2022 mini-budget ?

Yes, there are strategies published, but are they all too timid ?

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CNES @cnes.fr · 1d

Imaginez les Avengers… mais version spatiale 🛰️
Quand une catastrophe naturelle frappe, une alliance mondiale d’agences spatiales s’active pour aider les secours depuis l’espace.
C’est la Charte “Espace et Catastrophes Majeures” 🌍💥 (ou "Disaster charter" en anglais) cnes.fr/projets/char... #CNES

Charte Internationale « Espace et Catastrophes Majeures » | CNES

La technologie spatiale en support aux catastrophes

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

This is the inevitable outcome of relentless anti-immigration political rhetoric and a media environment which disproportionately amplifies the voices of racists, giving the indication that they are the "voice of the public" rather than the minority they are.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Brexit is Farage and his fellow Brexiters' shitstorm to own. He/they can't be allowed to just pivot from heckle to heckle and bad idea to worse - while blaming everyone else - without consequences.

So the suggestion that Labour are going to amplify that truth is to be welcomed.

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 1d

Correct link doi.org/10.17613/m0r... ?

Taking "Prodrome" Seriously: A Decade of Rethinking Black Death Narratives in the Age of Evolutionary Genetics

This is the abstract and bibliography of works cited in a talk to be presented on 14 October 2025 at the Colloquium Les Hommes et la peste: 50 ans plus tard, que sait-on? Hommage à Jean-Noël Biraben [...

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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