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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 2h

"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 · 4h

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 · 4h

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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 · 7h

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 · 8h

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 · 8h

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.

telescoper.blog

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 8h

👴🏻"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 · 17h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

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 · 19h

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 · 21h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

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

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 22h

You are both so cute!!!

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 22h

Not sure what will happen the day you win a Fields medal but the next day you will get a phone call from the hospital saying "this woman drank herself almost to death yelling your name + we were mutuals" do you know who she might be?

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 1d

Context: Kipnuk, a Yup'ik village near Bering Sea in SW Alaska, was hit with a massive storm and flooding last August, too. Last spring, it won a $20M grant for erosion control.

The GOP's Bugly Bill killed the grant program, which allocated 2.8B to communities hardest hit by climate change.

ᒪᑰᓯ Mark Springer @markspringer.bsky.social · 1d

FB reports of major flood damage in Kipnuk - homes and store floating, people swimming.
Very high water in Quinhagak as well.

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 22h

I have never seen more than one report in my life. I have heard from crying editors I am sorry it's been six months and I still cannot find one referee.

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 23h

I shouldn't post after mezzo litro di birra

A grey table. On top an arabet 4 indicating 876 CO2 level and a Bitburger half a liter bett can

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 23h

Current situation: sitting next to a closed window, CO2 827, took off mask, had a salad and drank a beer, mask now on again.

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 23h

You should follow @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1d

"I think of Gaza as a hostage situation."

"When you compare what happened to me to what Israel does in terms of their policies towards Palestinians, you tell me who's the real aggressor, who's the real hostage taker."
#Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide #EthnicCleansing

She was taken hostage by Palestinians 55 years ago. Now she’s an anti-Zionist activist.

Catherine Hodes was taken hostage by the PFLP at age 13 while traveling from Israel to the U.S. The experience sparked a lifelong commitment to Palestinian liberation.

mondoweiss.net

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