CharlyFromOuterSpace
@cosmicodocus.bsky.social
Dr. of Astrophysics in Gotham City. Spirit of the night, not to be summoned in the morning! Curator of many pickled universes... and custodian of a live, fresh one ! Science is for everyone, let's break the walls!
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this is fantastic, a thorough and compellingly argued theory of modern cinematic sludge
Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
YouTube video by Like Stories of Old
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
this is fantastic, a thorough and compellingly argued theory of modern cinematic sludge
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Je n'en peux plus de voir de l'IA générative partout 😐
Regardez-moi ces "dessins".
Il est devenu impossible d'effectuer une recherche web sans tomber sur ce genre de truc approximatif, bancal, qui déforme le réel et détruit les métiers de l'illustration.
#IA
Regardez-moi ces "dessins".
Il est devenu impossible d'effectuer une recherche web sans tomber sur ce genre de truc approximatif, bancal, qui déforme le réel et détruit les métiers de l'illustration.
#IA
October 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Je n'en peux plus de voir de l'IA générative partout 😐
Regardez-moi ces "dessins".
Il est devenu impossible d'effectuer une recherche web sans tomber sur ce genre de truc approximatif, bancal, qui déforme le réel et détruit les métiers de l'illustration.
#IA
Regardez-moi ces "dessins".
Il est devenu impossible d'effectuer une recherche web sans tomber sur ce genre de truc approximatif, bancal, qui déforme le réel et détruit les métiers de l'illustration.
#IA
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I truly don’t think even the most well-meaning, informed men understand how many of the women in their lives have been sexually assaulted or abused, often by multiple men, and often by men they know. The stories women share with each other privately would shock them to their core.
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I truly don’t think even the most well-meaning, informed men understand how many of the women in their lives have been sexually assaulted or abused, often by multiple men, and often by men they know. The stories women share with each other privately would shock them to their core.
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re: generative AI
I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.
And now, you can use it, too.
I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.
And now, you can use it, too.
July 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
re: generative AI
I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.
And now, you can use it, too.
I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.
And now, you can use it, too.
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If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal.
If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.
Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.
Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
July 31, 2025 at 9:52 AM
If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal.
If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.
Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.
Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
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Happy birthday to #astronomer Vera Rubin (neé Cooper, ‘28-‘16) & her discovery that angular motion of galaxies deviates from predictions, 1st evidence for dark matter, now known as 5x as common as matter & the stuff which dictates dynamics of galaxies & evolution of our universe! 🐡🧪👩🏼🔬🎢🔭 #histsci 🧵
July 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Happy birthday to #astronomer Vera Rubin (neé Cooper, ‘28-‘16) & her discovery that angular motion of galaxies deviates from predictions, 1st evidence for dark matter, now known as 5x as common as matter & the stuff which dictates dynamics of galaxies & evolution of our universe! 🐡🧪👩🏼🔬🎢🔭 #histsci 🧵
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Maxime Tessier, avocat de Joël Le Scouarnec, est mort à 34 ans
Récit de @hlemonier.bsky.social et @mathildemmediapart.bsky.social
Récit de @hlemonier.bsky.social et @mathildemmediapart.bsky.social
Maxime Tessier, avocat de Joël Le Scouarnec, est mort à 34 ans
Le pénaliste est décédé dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi. Il avait mis toute son âme dans la défense de l’ex-chirurgien pédocriminel, condamné en mai à vingt ans de réclusion. « Tout laisse à penser à un suicide », a indiqué le procureur de Rennes.
l.mediapart.fr
July 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Maxime Tessier, avocat de Joël Le Scouarnec, est mort à 34 ans
Récit de @hlemonier.bsky.social et @mathildemmediapart.bsky.social
Récit de @hlemonier.bsky.social et @mathildemmediapart.bsky.social
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In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
www.forbes.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
This take is strikingly silent on the possibility (necessity) to regulate not what can be consumed but what can be produced (and how) when it comes to s*x content.... as if there is no third way between "total ban" and "unregulated free market" otherwise an excellent review!
In a move of strategic genius, I am dropping my Take on the Sex Wars in the middle of a much bigger story so that no-one will pay attention to it. No paywall, though! jude-doyle.ghost.io/this-is-how-...
This Is How You Lose the Sex Wars
Trying to pick a pathway through forty years of the ugliest conflict in feminism.
jude-doyle.ghost.io
June 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This take is strikingly silent on the possibility (necessity) to regulate not what can be consumed but what can be produced (and how) when it comes to s*x content.... as if there is no third way between "total ban" and "unregulated free market" otherwise an excellent review!
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New controversy in the country wide exams of France, the 14/15yo had a French exam on a text of Simone de Beauvoir and many thought she was a student and not the prof 🫠
June 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
New controversy in the country wide exams of France, the 14/15yo had a French exam on a text of Simone de Beauvoir and many thought she was a student and not the prof 🫠
10/10, no notes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AljN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AljN...
BREF 2 : une vraie REMISE EN QUESTION des MECS TOXIQUES ?
YouTube video by Gregoire Simpson
www.youtube.com
June 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
10/10, no notes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AljN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AljN...
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Today we had our annual Pride Lecture in Oxford Physics (@oxfordphysics.bsky.social). The lecture was given by Prof Jan Eldridge (@astro-jje.bsky.social) and it was phenomenal! It was wonderful to learn how she has exploded binaries in both astrophysics and gender 🔭 🏳️⚧️
June 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Today we had our annual Pride Lecture in Oxford Physics (@oxfordphysics.bsky.social). The lecture was given by Prof Jan Eldridge (@astro-jje.bsky.social) and it was phenomenal! It was wonderful to learn how she has exploded binaries in both astrophysics and gender 🔭 🏳️⚧️
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From Kaz Gary: For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Joy Bhattacharya, a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/13/j...
astrobites.org/2025/06/13/j...
Transgender in Astronomy: Interview with Joy Bhattacharya
For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Joy Bhattacharya, a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University!
astrobites.org
June 15, 2025 at 2:40 AM
From Kaz Gary: For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Joy Bhattacharya, a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/13/j...
astrobites.org/2025/06/13/j...
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Good post with great suggestions! For me tracking my period is how I learned python - it was a win-win project. no personal data was shared with sketchy companies, and I could adapt the code exactly to my own needs.
My other, petty, gripe with menstrual tracker apps (as well as privacy and biopower) is that they have *so* much funding to create online sex ed content that competes with mine (and is not as good).
www.bishuk.com/bodies/track...
www.bishuk.com/bodies/track...
Track Your Own Menstrual Cycle
A lot of you tell me that you use apps to track your menstrual cycles (periods, ovulation, and when you are most fertile). Great, but did you know they’re actually not that accurate? Especially the ap...
www.bishuk.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Good post with great suggestions! For me tracking my period is how I learned python - it was a win-win project. no personal data was shared with sketchy companies, and I could adapt the code exactly to my own needs.
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Happy Pride month, all! Way back in 2018 I made these galaxy pride flags. They were shared many thousands of times, featured on Vice, and even made their way onto book covers and into video games.
Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙
Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙
June 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Happy Pride month, all! Way back in 2018 I made these galaxy pride flags. They were shared many thousands of times, featured on Vice, and even made their way onto book covers and into video games.
Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙
Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙
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Let it be known that I too will accept $2 billion in funding on the promise that I will not release anything until I have created God.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/i...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/i...
Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’
Ex-OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever’s new startup Safe Superintelligence just closed another funding round. For $2 billion, Sutskever promises not to release any product at all until SSI has develop…
pivot-to-ai.com
March 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Let it be known that I too will accept $2 billion in funding on the promise that I will not release anything until I have created God.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/i...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/i...
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The president's budget request for NSF FY26 is also out. It zeroes out the NSF astronomy & astrophysics and NSF MPS ASCEND postdoc fellowships. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov
May 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The president's budget request for NSF FY26 is also out. It zeroes out the NSF astronomy & astrophysics and NSF MPS ASCEND postdoc fellowships. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
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been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys
How do famous right-wing influencers actually poll with young men in 2025?
Rogan: 27% favorable, 35% unfavorable, 45% don't know/never heard of
Theo Von: 21% fav, 16% unfav, 55% dk
Andrew Tate: 12% fav, 47% unfav, 36% dk
Source: iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/5...
Rogan: 27% favorable, 35% unfavorable, 45% don't know/never heard of
Theo Von: 21% fav, 16% unfav, 55% dk
Andrew Tate: 12% fav, 47% unfav, 36% dk
Source: iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/5...
50th Edition - Spring 2025
A new national poll from the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School reveals a generation navigating financial hardship, frayed social bond
iop.harvard.edu
May 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys
Good news still exist!
Italy's high court rules both same-sex mothers can be named on birth certificates
Italy's highest court ruled Thursday that women in same-sex couples who become mothers through IVF both have the right to be recognised on the birth certificate. Previously, some cities recognised onl...
www.france24.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Good news still exist!
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My perio/dentist and I just had the best email exchange about this @newscientist.com piece because we are both total nerds 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
The first teeth were sensory organs on the skin of ancient fish
Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds of millions of years ago
www.newscientist.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
My perio/dentist and I just had the best email exchange about this @newscientist.com piece because we are both total nerds 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
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NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%
Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%
Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.
#GiftLink ⚛️🔭
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...