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Willard @climateball.net · Nov 27

Reply Guy Waiting for Main Character

Acrylic on canvas

Partial gift of Snottie Drippen to the Tate Museum in memory of Twitter, 2024.

SnottieDrippen @snottiedrippen.bsky.social · Nov 27

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Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social · 13h

Louise Glück, I love you
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Text:

Under Taurus

We were on the pier, you desiring
that I see the Pleiades. I could see
everything but what you wished.

Now I will follow. There is not a single cloud; the stars
appear, even the invisible sister. Show me where to look,
as though they will stay where they are.

Instruct me in the dark.

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Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 1h

>does this to you

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 49m

Victor Pasmore, Transformation 3, 1970
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1117659

date inscribed
Presented by Rose and Chris Prater through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 1h

”As debates focus on new military spending and the EU remains the fourth-largest buyer of Russian fossil fuels (…) it is more urgent than ever to reinforce and replicate the actions led at local level.”

Local #ClimateAction contributes to #Defence

euobserver.com/stakeholders...

For affordable and sustainable energy, go local

Energy Cities’ latest EU Tracker shows the persistent gap between the transformative potential of local heating and cooling plans — and the lack of national backing for local authorities.

euobserver.com

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 2h

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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P.A. Bat-stein @pabastien.bsky.social · 1h

Turn idaho into the world's largest potato battery

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 19h

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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ash @ashhull.bsky.social · 1h

Sitting in the dark playing hide and seek with my thoughts.

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 15h

This may just be the best CS paper I’ve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good:

dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

A screenshot of an academic paper. It reads:

Abstract
A "
'quine" is a deterministic program that prints itself. In this essay, I will show you a "gauguine": a probabilistic program that infers itself. A gauguine is repeatedly asked to guess its own source code. Initially, its chances of guessing correctly are of course minuscule. But as the gauguine observes more and more of its own previous guesses, it detects patterns of behavior and gains information about its inner workings.
This information allows it to bootstrap self-knowledge, and ultimately discover its own source code. We will discuss how-and why-we might write a gauguine, and what we stand to learn by constructing one.
CCS Concepts: • Computing methodologies → Philo-sophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelli-gence; Theory of mind.
Keywords: reflection, probabilistic programming
ACM Reference Format:
Kartik Chandra, Amanda Liu, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and Joshua B.
Tenenbaum. 2025. Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! '25), October 12-18, 2025, Singapore, Singa-pore. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/
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1 A Way of Knowing

From time to time, we all have crises of identity-moments of radical and overwhelming uncertainty about our selves.
I' don't know whether the doubts that seize us can really be externalized in language, but if I were to try, I would express them as questions, questions like: Who am I? What am I?
What kind of person? What kind of mind?

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 3h

chalk up another one for the jesuits

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 6h

Data centers are "shaping up to be the mother of all political issues...pretty much everyone pays electric rates, & under Trump they’re starting to skyrocket...he’s simultaneously accelerating demand w/ his support for data center buildout, & constricting supply by shutting down cheap solar & wind."

Hey Grok, What's a Waste of Energy?

AI amidst the climate emergency

billmckibben.substack.com

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 5h

FREE BOOK GOOD

Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 6h

In today's episode we look at the role the coal, transportation (rail & automotive), and utilities industries play in climate obstruction.
drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
Reminder that you can now download the book this season is based on FOR FREE! cssn.org/wp-content/u...

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 5h

Above the Great Lake
Terry Watkinson
2012

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WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social · 5h

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feldfrog 13h
My buddy lost his job to Al. It was his job to chug thousands of gallons of water at a
data center

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 9h

New study from Melbourne finds reducing residential speed limits from 50km/h to 30 km/h on local roads would protect cyclists from danger, make riding less stressful and get more people cycling while not causing traffic delays for cars.

Switching 50km/h speed limits to 30km/h would protect cyclists while barely affecting commutes, research finds

One expert says a cyclist hit by a car travelling 50km/h has about a one-in-ten chance of surviving, while at 30km/h it was a nine-in-ten chance

www.theguardian.com

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 8h

Wild Turkey
Isabel McLaughlin
1962

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 5h

may 2025 will smith spaghetti en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Sm...

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debbspook @debbshock.blue · 6h

dressing for the job I want

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Victoria @burrddoh.bsky.social · 6h

Too cute! I love these
#catsky
petapixel.com/2025/10/13/a...

Astrophotographer Adds His Adorable Cat to Far Out Space Photos

In space, nobody can hear you meow.

petapixel.com

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Oligarch Watch @muskwatch.bsky.social · 8h

Jeff Bezos is the fourth-wealthiest person on Earth, with a net worth of approximately $240 billion.

In 2022, Bezos said he would give away most of his wealth during his lifetime.

The process is not going well.

Jeff Bezos Can’t Give Away His Money

Maybe he should ask his ex-wife.

oligarchwatch.substack.com

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Willard @climateball.net · 5h

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dustinhuberty.bsky.social @dustinhuberty.bsky.social · 8h

Bottom right is so anti-woke even his lenses stopped transitioning.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 9h

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social · 8h

The plant-based protein powder I use virtually every morning has unsafe levels of lead in it. Cool cool cool cool cool

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Peter Sinclair @peterwsinclair.bsky.social · 9h

Trump's war on clean energy is a massive self own.
Is it fatal for the United States economy?
thinc.blog/2025/10/13/t...

Trump War on Clean Energy a Massive Self Own, but is it Fatal?

I’ve posted recently about the challenges, if not impending train wrecks, for LNG and SMRs. As we come up towards a the first full year of the most fossil fuel-centric administration in histo…

thinc.blog

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 9h

You probably cannot afford a car, and you almost certainly can't afford not to have one. This is the definition of a policy failure.

A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · Aug 5

AAA estimates the average cost of owning a car is $12,297 a year, and recommends drivers spend no more than 10 percent of their income on car costs. This means you should make 120K to afford the average cost. Median *household* income in the US is $77K. The math just doesn't work.

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