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Typo Marx @victorleblanc59.bsky.social · 29m

Democrats took an oath to protect the constitution from all enemies foreign or domestic terrorist, seditious insurrectionist, theocratic fascist, extremist enemies of America.

Jan 6 collaborative kkkaucus in office belongs in prison and by not upholding your OATH, aren't you culpable?

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beornblack.bsky.social @beornblack.bsky.social · 1m

her constituents? what about the rest of us? the sworn in reps and sens do nothing but post on social media, go on tv shows, and fundraise (for what? they have a salary and we pay taxes).

beornblack.bsky.social @beornblack.bsky.social · 8m

who is paying for? who funded it?

beornblack.bsky.social @beornblack.bsky.social · 44m

beornblack.bsky.social @beornblack.bsky.social · 47m

ocrampal.com/too-narrow-t...

Too Narrow to Be Wise: The Tunnel Vision Trap of Modern Expertise.

this article and the below post have nothing to do with each other except for the role of the demon/expert. the drawing illustrates the concepts and complexity really beautifully.

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 6h

Amazed by chatGPT 🤯
It has just recommended me to read this paper:

Perra, N. & De Domenico, M. (2023). Multilayer Network Epidemiology. Nature Reviews Physics, 5, 736–753.

Facts:

* I'd love to have a paper with @netscience.bsky.social but I haven't
* There is no Multilayer Network Epidemiology

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Marco Palombi @ocrampal.bsky.social · 6h

We live in a Kafkaesque paradox: the very people we turn to for wisdom about life’s biggest questions are systematically selected for their inability to think about such things.

ocrampal.com/too-narrow-t...

#philosophy #science #philsci #psychology #AI #physics #biology #society #politics

Too Narrow to Be Wise: The Tunnel Vision Trap of Modern Expertise

We live in a Kafkaesque paradox: the very people we turn to for wisdom about life’s biggest questions—meaning, society, the future of humanity—are systematically selected for their inability to think ...

ocrampal.com

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Angela Levine @angelahlevine.bsky.social · 20h

Per @tarahaelle.bsky.social - brilliant words

“Very little of what’s happened since Jan. 20 has surprised me — I expected nearly all of it — but Congress standing by as Trump literally tears down the White House without permission? That was not on my bingo card.

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beornblack.bsky.social @beornblack.bsky.social · 6h

argentina is now our 51st state.

beornblack.bsky.social @beornblack.bsky.social · 6h

lol

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Afra Kroon 🇳🇱 @afrakroon.bsky.social · 6h

@johnbuss.bsky.social

By John Buss.

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beornblack.bsky.social @beornblack.bsky.social · 6h

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

MAKS⬇️😀

beornblack.bsky.social @beornblack.bsky.social · 6h

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Putin Has a New Tool to Monitor Russians.

Russia is pushing a “super app” for citizens. What could possibly go wrong?

beornblack.bsky.social @beornblack.bsky.social · 6h

so basically someone outside ohio gave jaydee money and a lot of them sold their own interests for this arrangement- venture capitalists decides what is best for ohio depending on how it fits into their financial schemes.

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Nov 18

Why #ComplexitySci is fascinating?

#ComplexSystems are ubiquitous!🧬🦠🧫🔬🐠🦜🧠🌪️🧪
And provide an analytical framework to study the behavior of phys, bio, eco, human & artificial systems #AcademicSky

Curious? I write about them 👉 #ComplexityThoughts: manlius.substack.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Sv...

Complexity Thoughts

YouTube video by Manlio De Domenico

www.youtube.com

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beornblack.bsky.social @beornblack.bsky.social · 6h

we need martians to come here and take our pedo king and elmo back to mars or just fling them towards sagittarius A*.

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, this 💯

In a world with AI, we should reduce paperwork and delegate to machines most of the tasks that could be automated within universities.

Indeed, we should invest on what's the added value of professors: the time they can spend with students, as humans (both sides).

Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 1d

The most important thing universities should do in a world with AI is to greatly increase the number of professors, so that classes can be smaller and more class time can be spent directly interacting with students as people.

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d

go, student newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary

"employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class."
www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...

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Petter Holme @pholme.bsky.social · 1d

arXiv alert! 📄🚨
A review paper about the physics of news, rumors, and opinions
arxiv.org/abs/2510.15053
w @manlius.bsky.social @sarawalk.bsky.social Guido Cadarelli et al.

The Physics of News, Rumors, and Opinions

The boundaries between physical and social networks have narrowed with the advent of the Internet and its pervasive platforms. This has given rise to a complex adaptive information ecosystem where ind...

arxiv.org

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 2d

Recent estimates suggest there could be ~10²¹ planets out there: that’s a billion trillion.
Or a 1 followed by 21 zeroes 🤯

And maybe ~10²⁰ of them (10%) could have conditions not too different from our 🌎

Let’s try to get a sense of what that means, since our brain isn't good at grasping this.

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 2d

Even if life appeared on only one planet in a billion (note we have seen "just" 6,000 around), that would still be ~10¹² living worlds:
a trillion places where chemistry might have transitioned to biology.

With numbers like these, believing we’re the only ones feels… just statistically unwise.

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 2d

Curious? Intrigued?

Follow or subscribe (for free) at #ComplexityThoughts

👉 manlius.substack.com

to read the full post and more threads like this.
Or listen to our podcast on Spotify and Apple 🎧

Thanks for reading up to here 🙏

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 5d

There are 15,000+ stars identified with 99% confidence in this picture.

It is mind-blowing to think that they host an average of 15,000 exoplanets.

@scrutacieli.bsky.social

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 10d

Once more. It's pervasive: medicine, Astronomy, biology, physics, social sciences.

manlius.substack.com/p/competing-...

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beornblack.bsky.social @beornblack.bsky.social · 7h

his most direct ancestors: saccorhytus coronarius.

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Cindy Phyillaier @cphyilla.bsky.social · 10h

J D Crowe

A METAPHOR FOR THE MAN

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