Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 1h

reality leapfrogging AI 2027 lol

instead of AI manipulating humans to engineer viruses, AI can now develop viruses on their own

dw AI 2027 is still largely marketing fanfiction imo

Experts Alarmed That AI Is Now Producing Functional Viruses

After scientists showed that AI can design a working virus, it's time to address the obvious: what if it's also used to make bioweapons?

futurism.com

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 1d

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social does a great job as interviewer

msm interviewers are so horrible & never get to anything substantive

1

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 1d

amazing interview with @omarfatehmn.com!

he describes very detailed plans about his mayorship

he's gotten flack for lacking policy comprehension but I think this vid proves that very wrong youtu.be/M3vIwuKzewI

Minneapolis’s Mamdani? Meet the Socialist Muslim Mayoral Candidate Omar Fateh

YouTube video by Zeteo

youtu.be

1 1 3

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 2d

is it 'homegrown' if Sam Altman at the helm? 👀

1

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 5d

who doesn't love an opinionated cat

3

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 5d

bibi & trump should get the nobel peace prize... might as well make it painfully clear that the liberal order has gone full fash

1

Reposted by shadow of the void

Amber 🦁 @sndlstudio.bsky.social · 7d

please talk to me like you talk to your cat

8 8 41

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 12d

can we talk about how A24 is producing gay bdsm fanfiction about alex skarsgard & dudley dursley www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC9x...

Pillion | Official Teaser HD | A24

YouTube video by A24

www.youtube.com

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 12d

kinda wild that over-air TV in the US is still stuck in 720p / 1080i

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 13d

yeah, you should probably buy a GR Corolla Morizo Edition, or a Golf R if you're feeling bougie 😜

1 1

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 13d

real Marxists read Financial Times

FT probably has the most clear-eyed reporting among MSM

capitalist elites need proper reporting so they can better drape the wool over the eyes of the masses

1

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 13d

gonna start a genetic epidemiology lab where we pump out AI slop viruses into the wild & see what happens www.nature.com/articles/d41...

World's first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life

Scientists used AI to write coherent viral genomes, using them to synthesize bacteriophages capable of killing resistant strains of bacteria.

www.nature.com

2

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 13d

the thought of getting psychosis from genomic language models www.nature.com/articles/d41...

World's first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life

Scientists used AI to write coherent viral genomes, using them to synthesize bacteriophages capable of killing resistant strains of bacteria.

www.nature.com

1 1

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 14d

why are 95% of alien earth characters wildly incompetent

middle school science labs have better safety protocols than alien earth's multi-trillion dollar lab 😭

seems like lazy writing but somehow I really enjoyed the season lmao

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 17d

drone incursions at european airports are like flies swarming around the carcass of liberal democracy

1

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 19d

Minnesotans too

1

Reposted by shadow of the void

children of the corncob @bisk.sureis.sexy · 21d

jason bourne was allowed to have like 12 passports.

i think we *all* deserve at least 2 to balance this out.

1 8

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 22d

the currently circulating ones are called nimbus & stratus

@tryangregory.bsky.social names them & the media follows

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 25d

Dolby says Dolby Vision HDR can't be encoded using AV1 codec, and yet...

the high seas are always light years ahead when it comes to codecs lol

1

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 25d

man I love sailing the high seas

1

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 27d

D for sure... east, southeast & south asia, middle east, mediterranean, even greece & southern italy

1

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 27d

1 1

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 27d

gonna get the boys to try sperm racing together

shadow of the void @thots.bsky.social · 27d

interesting that similar indigenous traditions are found around the world

2

Reposted by shadow of the void

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 29d

Fun fact: Nancy Mace is trying to censure me over comments I never said.

Her res does not contain a single quote from me because she couldn’t find any.

Unlike her, I have routinely condemned political violence, no matter the political ideology.

710 3.9K 16K