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lebassett.bsky.social
February 15, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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marcolangbroek.bsky.social
Lava streaming from the Krasheninnikov volcano in Kamchatka, Russia, in the early hours of 15 Feb 2026, in a Sentinel 2C satellite image.
Combination of visual channels + SWIR.
February 15, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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404media.co
A story about an AI-generated article contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes.
Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article
A story about an AI-generated article contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes.
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February 15, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Elon's racist little post made me mad enough to write about it at CAMPAIGN TRAILS.
Diversity Is Our Strength
This morning, Elon Musk – the world's richest man and a key ally to the president of the United States – posted the content below to the white nationalist chat room and CSAM emporium he owns There's ...
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February 15, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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ddavisspaceart.bsky.social
The Vandenberg launch of February 14th, 2026 was optimally timed for illumination of the initial as well as the lingering plume. Tonight this plume underwent intriguing looping and stretching as Earths shadow passed across it with reds, golds and blues dominating the last lighting here and there.
The colors of the last sunlight paint the loops and bands of the plume from the Vandenberg launch of the evening of February 14, 2026. Golds and blues dominate the color of the lighting in different parts of the plume depending on their altitude and proximity to the Earth shadow edge. This edge is lined with a spectral gradations of filtered sunlight going from white to yellow to orange and deep red. In places a bright blue glow dominates, perhaps from the colors most efficiently 'forward scattered' from the full spectrum sunlight upon the highest portions. This photograph is from a tripod mounted Canon SLR with an exposure of 3.2 seconds at ISO 1000 at F5.6. This is thus brighter and more colorful than the eye saw it but the detail and color are real. Think of it as a form of wide angle Astrophotraphy.
February 15, 2026 at 6:02 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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mvugt.bsky.social
"Contrary to popular belief, human intuition is one of science’s most valuable tools. It has been a spark behind some of our greatest scientific breakthroughs." www.noemamag.com/why-human-in...
Why Human Intuition Is Still Science’s Greatest Tool In The Age Of AI | NOEMA
Our sense for aesthetics, meaning and embodiment give us a vital advantage over our technological creations.
www.noemamag.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
A Valentine’s Day homage to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon": Ang Lee’s gorgeous 2000 masterpiece is a wuxia fairy tale with stunning cinematography, awe-inspiring martial arts stunts, and a tragic love story for the ages. arstechnica.com/culture/2026...
A Valentine's Day homage to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ang Lee's gorgeous 2000 masterpiece has awe-inspiring martial arts stunts and a tragic love story for the ages.
arstechnica.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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coreyspowell.bsky.social
Radio is beyond red

Gamma rays, beyond blue

There are 80 octaves of the electromagnetic spectrum

But only one we can view 🧪
Multiwavelength Whirlpool Galaxy: Each image shows a narrow band of wavelengths of light and invisible radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. The wavelength and energy of a photon relates to how fast electrons are accelerated. Low energy radiation comes from cool regions of molecular gas, and high energy radiation comes from hot spots where atoms are fully ionized. The combined images provide insight into the structure, temperature, and chemical composition of the Whirlpool Galaxy. The stars in the infrared image represent most of the mass of the galaxy, excluding dark matter, which can't be seen. The optical image represents a slightly smaller amount of mass and the other three images represent only traces of mass in molecules (radio image) massive hot stars, (ultraviolet image) and hot plasma (x-ray image).
February 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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arstechnica.com
NASA chief vows to solve SLS rocket fueling issues before Artemis III
We observed materially lower leak rates compared to prior observations during WDR-1."
arstechnica.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
White House Withholds Funding for NASA Science Missions Despite Recent Budget Bill gizmodo.com/white-house-...
White House Withholds Funding for NASA Science Missions Despite Recent Budget Bill
NASA has been forced to pause funds for Chandra X-Ray Observatory and other missions until further notice.
gizmodo.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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samstroozas.bsky.social
hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.
Meet Minnesota Bathrobe Lady Sam Stroozas of MPR News | Minnesota Public Radio
Earlier this week, an unexpected and fast-moving incident unfolded in St. Paul, Minnesota involving both federal and local law enforcement. As crowds gathered and questions mounted, one of our MPR New...
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February 14, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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davidheniguk.bsky.social
"Ministers must, he said, “level with the public and build consent for the decisions we will have to take to keep us all safe” - Keir Starmer quoted in the Guardian.

Britain in stand-off with France over funding for cross-Channel cables - FT story...

Anyway...

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Britain in stand-off with France over funding for cross-Channel cables
Ofgem says French argument that British consumers should bear more of the costs is ‘unacceptable’
www.ft.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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cnn.com
A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU
February 14, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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mikeyearworth.bsky.social
“If the issue is not addressed, “trust in scientific research, particularly within computer science, faces a substantial risk of erosion””

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science
Preprint repositories and conference organizers are having to counter a tide of ‘AI slop’ submissions.
www.nature.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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chrislintott.bsky.social
For those unfamiliar with the celestial object currently visible in UK skies, here's a primer. (Short version: This is the Sun. It is massive. And hot.) www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/to...
Touching the Sun
Despite its familiarity, the Sun is a very different presence from the friendly yellow circle in children's paintings. Our star is a broiling mass of plasma, with its powerful magnetic fields, twisted...
www.gresham.ac.uk
February 14, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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afreedma.bsky.social
New: Trump admin moves to pull supercomputing center out of top weather and climate research center (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. Part of its effort to "break up" the lab. www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/w...
Trump admin is pulling supercomputers out of key weather research center | CNN
A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released Thursday by the National Science Foundation.
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February 13, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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edhawkins.org
Updated climate indicators graphics, now including 2025

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Graphic showing changes in CO₂, global temperatures and global sea levels over the last 2025 years. Steep increases are visible after the industrial revolution.
February 13, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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physgal.bsky.social
Good 👩‍🔬🧪
Professors in the Epstein Files Begin to Face Consequences
Several faculty members who spoke regularly with Epstein have been stripped of their titles or teaching duties.
www.insidehighered.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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mbkplus.bsky.social
David Hogg has written a white paper on doing astrophysics in the age of LLMs. It looks to be thought-provoking. My initial reaction is that either LLMs will destroy the field or they will force a reckoning with and re-imagining of the current system that often prioritizes output over quality. 🧪
Why do we do astrophysics?
At time of writing, large language models (LLMs) are beginning to obtain the ability to design, execute, write up, and referee scientific projects on the data-science side of astrophysics. What implic...
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February 12, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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astrokatie.com
This article that was going around the other day wasn't claiming that AI tools don't make workers more "productive" in some sense (they do self-report that they are getting more done!) but does suggest people end up working more while being less engaged & more stressed. hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...
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February 11, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
the moon's origin story is also the trippiest screensaver you'll ever watch

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlh...
New Supercomputer Simulation Sheds Light on Moon’s Origin
YouTube video by NASA's Ames Research Center
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February 11, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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carbonplan.org
Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...
February 10, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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markmarley.bsky.social
This was a result of a conversation back on the other site about this: www.planetary.org/articles/not...
Not a Heart of Ice
Mark Marley explains what planetary scientists mean when they say the word
www.planetary.org
February 11, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM