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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 8h

Ever seen a car smile at you? That's apophenia.

From faces on Mars to Jesus on toast, these curiosities likely stem from mistaken identification and our brains’ overinterpretation of what our eyes see.

Learn more about our brains' desire to make connections and identify patterns ➡️ w.wiki/4wUF

Article of the Week: Apophenia. If your eyes tell you that this is a face, you are experiencing apophenia. It is your brain’s way of connecting dots and detecting patterns between two unrelated items. Image depicts the “Face on Mars”, one of the most striking and remarkable images taken during the Viking missions to the red planet.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 8h

I hope everyone goes to see “Nuremberg,” not because it’s a good movie (it isn’t) but because it’s a pretty good idea going forward.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 19h

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 8h

A film by the mom of our new mayor is now playing on Criterion 24/7!

[UNOFFICIAL] Now Playing on Criterion 24/7 @upnextcriterion.bsky.social · 8h

Now playing (05:20 AM PST):
"So Far from India" (1983)
By Mira Nair
Runtime: 49 min.

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 8h

Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI

Meta goosed its revenue by targeting users likely to click on scam ads, docs show.

arstechnica.com

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 20h

Several winners of Cycling UK 100 Women in Cycling prize decline award due to exclusion of trans women 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

road.cc/content/news...

Several winners of Cycling UK 100 Women in Cycling prize decline award due to exclusion of trans women

Cycling UK say the decision was made following legal advice but that the rule change "doesn't alter our commitment to transgender and non-binary people"

road.cc

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10h

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social shows us how to fight back - without throwing ANY minority under the bus.

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WIRED @wired.com · 10h

Despite 83,000 public cameras, crime in Mexico City remains high—and widespread surveillance raises myriad ethical issues. www.wired.com/story/mexico...

Mexico City Is the Most Video-Surveilled Metropolis in the Americas

Despite 83,000 public cameras, crime in Mexico City remains high—and widespread surveillance raises myriad ethical issues.

www.wired.com

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nordacious @nordacious.bsky.social · 15h

“I’ve never said I’m immortal. I do believe in correct language. I’m eternal.” Gough Whitlam - visionary, reformer and the man who shaped modern Australia.

Illustrated to mark 50 years since the Dismissal, and to celebrate his enduring legacy | Prints/tees: tinyurl.com/hzz69d7z

Pop art portrait of former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, smiling and looking upward within the shape of Australia. His suit and background are filled with symbolic imagery: a red cross for Medibank, a graduation cap for education reform, hands exchanging earth for First Nations land rights, and Australian native flora. The text reads: “I’ve never said I’m immortal. I do believe in correct language. I’m eternal.”

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 1d

RISING (2007)
Acrylic on Watercolor board - 36” X 24”

This image came to me while I was working on THE RIVER in 1996. 1/3

Rough stone steps wind around the side of a hill defining the cliff's edge in their slow ascent. As the path turns sharply, the eroded ground beneath forms an overhang. The sky beyond is suffused with golden radiance layered with grey-blue clouds. The trees at the edge of the cliff, already in the transition to autumn, are lit by the warm glow of sunset creating a contrast of light and shadow up thick textured trunks. Out over the edge, hovering in the open air, a woman in a long dress holds her hands out as if presenting a clear spherical vessel containing a solitary flame. Bathed in the light of sunset, she stares off panel into the far distance while a pair of doves flies low, sweeping over the curving steps.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10h

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics

The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising

www.economist.com

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

the polling on data centers is just atrocious for the AI industry:

• the younger people are, the more likely they are to dislike them
• arguments against data centers consistently poll as more convincing than arguments for them
• the dislike is also bipartisan, spans across all other demos

The Data Center Backlash Is Swallowing American Politics

Activists on both the left and the right are pushing back against AI development.

heatmap.news

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 14h

I'm a 1970s kid, so I remember the Pet Rock fad. They were just as stupid as NFT's. But there was a big difference: they only cost $3.99.

Vivian Magadori 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ⚢ @listentocrass.lesbian.cat · 3d

"My kids know me as this ape"

A twitter user named vydamo saying "it is with a heart I announce the sale of my long term ape, Salazar. Most of my early followers know me as this ape. My kids know me as this ape. I met my wife when I WAS this ape and had my first kid when I was still proudly wore this ape. By extension, it is part of me."

"I travelled around the world with this ape in my pocket. We went to the most luxurious hotels, the craziest night clubs and the most serene beaches. We had it all. Unfortunately, what blur is doing to apes is frankly unacceptable. Since the creation of Blur, the ape floor price has tumbled from 85e down to 12e."

"I hope one day we meet on the other side, until then, goodbye."

Attached is an image of a high bored ape cosplaying as judge dredd

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity

Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

electrek.co

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 23h

And here's a YouTube link. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0P...

"Rovina's Choice" Shows How The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

YouTube video by The New Yorker

www.youtube.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 21h

It is *obscene* that that beast wearing the skin of a man called Elon Musk was just awarded a trillion dollar pay-package after he personally signed the death warrant of hundreds of thousands of innocents earlier this year.

Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 23h

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

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Michael Mirasol @flipcritic.bsky.social · 17h

He’s become a one-trick pony for me.

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 17h

Fedora-wearing bicyclist who scrawled swastikas at NYC yeshiva caught on video

By Reuven Fenton, Jorge Fitz-Gibbon and Vaughn Golden
Published Nov. 5, 2025, 4:19 p.m. ET

Aerial view of a man in black in a wide rimmed black hat on a bike riding away.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 18h

My interview on the BBC was immediately preceded by:

1) A UN expert characterizing atrocities in El Fasher, Sudan as crimes against humanity.

2) A former prosecutor for the International Criminal Court characterizing U.S. maritime strikes as a crime against humanity.

What a time.

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d

Thankful for the opportunity to share my thoughts with the BBC today on the legal implications of the lethal US maritime strikes and their role in the Secretary of State's Venezuela regime change project.

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Michael Avolio @michaelavolio.bsky.social · 21h

Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social introducing the silent film Saxophone Suzy at AFI Silver — opening night of their 2025 Classic Film Weekend!

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 23h

Clippy says, It looks like you're trying to reinvent phrenology because fascism is currently ascendant. Would you like me to help you stop being a piece of shit?

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 1d

The US spent decades promising people all over the world that they could find peace and freedom in America. So the people came. And now they're being terrorized, tortured, kidnapped, disappeared, enslaved, and murdered by a Fascist State.

May the monsters who chose this never, ever be forgiven.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”

A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

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natalie feliks 🐿 @nataliesqrl.bsky.social · 19h

I dove for @crikey.com.au into everything that's wrong for trans advocacy rn, and what we need to do to ensure we don't go the same path as US and UK

We need to be building community strength right now before it's too late, we can't wait for others to do it for us
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/07/q...

QLD's puberty blocker ban saga shows how not-for-profits fail the trans community

Trans advocacy not-for-profits tend to focus more on their own image than on assisting the most vulnerable members of our community.

www.crikey.com.au

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