Sam
@sfsutcliffe.bsky.social
Questioning just about everything [by Design]
Safer Online Communications: https://activistchecklist.org/
Behind The Paywall 🔓: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-get-around-paywalls-on-major-websites
Safer Online Communications: https://activistchecklist.org/
Behind The Paywall 🔓: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-get-around-paywalls-on-major-websites
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The traveling salesperson problem is one of the most notorious, longstanding problems in theoretical computer science. 🧵
December 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The traveling salesperson problem is one of the most notorious, longstanding problems in theoretical computer science. 🧵
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How “intelligent” is a slime mold? When it solves mazes, it might not be thinking:it’s obeying physics. Our new paper with
@jordiplam.bsky.social shows how it follows a least action principle,letting physics do the job arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08531
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social @docteur-drey.bsky.social
@jordiplam.bsky.social shows how it follows a least action principle,letting physics do the job arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08531
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social @docteur-drey.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 AM
How “intelligent” is a slime mold? When it solves mazes, it might not be thinking:it’s obeying physics. Our new paper with
@jordiplam.bsky.social shows how it follows a least action principle,letting physics do the job arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08531
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social @docteur-drey.bsky.social
@jordiplam.bsky.social shows how it follows a least action principle,letting physics do the job arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08531
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social @docteur-drey.bsky.social
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NEW ESSAY: Read @rajpatel.org on the overlapping global crises of war, ecology and economy, and how frontline movements are confronting this moment.
transitionsecurity.org/polycrisis-a...
transitionsecurity.org/polycrisis-a...
Polycrisis: A Breviary
Today’s world is beset by several overlapping crises. Movements on the frontline are mapping out strategies for survival.
transitionsecurity.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
NEW ESSAY: Read @rajpatel.org on the overlapping global crises of war, ecology and economy, and how frontline movements are confronting this moment.
transitionsecurity.org/polycrisis-a...
transitionsecurity.org/polycrisis-a...
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Stephen Wilson Jr. - the devil (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by StephenWilsonJrVEVO
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December 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Video of my U Chicago lecture is now available.—
youtu.be/gVdv1tWqmaw?...
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John Ganz | What's Happening Here? Fascism as Past and Prologue
YouTube video by The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory
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December 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Video of my U Chicago lecture is now available.—
youtu.be/gVdv1tWqmaw?...
youtu.be/gVdv1tWqmaw?...
thoroughly enjoyable interview 🔥💗
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Stephen Wilson Jr - Grief & Music
YouTube video by Jim Hamilton
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December 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
thoroughly enjoyable interview 🔥💗
youtu.be/KjFioi-WbeU
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November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Small pockets of water catching some reflected light from the coastal bluffs.
November 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Small pockets of water catching some reflected light from the coastal bluffs.
I really need to rewire this thing to store my data properly.
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I really need to rewire this thing to store my data properly.
Patch Notes: Hélène Vogelsinger
YouTube video by 180 Fact
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November 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Baobob tree and moon at sunrise, South Luangwa National Park, Zambia
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Baobob tree and moon at sunrise, South Luangwa National Park, Zambia
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Some moss sporophytes have teeth. Some have two rows of teeth!
November 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Some moss sporophytes have teeth. Some have two rows of teeth!
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A new special issue of Philosophical Transactions B takes on one of science’s biggest questions: how life begins.
Rather than retracing Earth’s history, the authors look for the universal conditions that could make life possible anywhere, approaching the question from many fields and angles.
Rather than retracing Earth’s history, the authors look for the universal conditions that could make life possible anywhere, approaching the question from many fields and angles.
How life begins and where it might happen again
A recent special issue of Philosophical Transactions B takes on one of the biggest mysteries in science: how life first began. Instead of trying to replay Earth’s exact history, the issue’s authors lo...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A new special issue of Philosophical Transactions B takes on one of science’s biggest questions: how life begins.
Rather than retracing Earth’s history, the authors look for the universal conditions that could make life possible anywhere, approaching the question from many fields and angles.
Rather than retracing Earth’s history, the authors look for the universal conditions that could make life possible anywhere, approaching the question from many fields and angles.
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''There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.''
—Alan Moore
''There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.''
—Alan Moore
November 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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''There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.''
—Alan Moore
''There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.''
—Alan Moore
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And when whoosh she was gone
November 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
And when whoosh she was gone
Information overload, the weekend edition 😅
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Information overload, the weekend edition 😅
Ninajirachi - Infohazard
YouTube video by David Dean Burkhart
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November 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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“Building” is a powerful metaphor that structures how we think about progress and accomplishment. What might be the new metaphors, the new rubrics, for an epoch of repair?"
Field Notes: Repair
Scholars, designers, planners, activists, and artists share observations on practices of repair, reuse, preservation, maintenance, and care.
placesjournal.org
November 24, 2024 at 9:49 PM
“Building” is a powerful metaphor that structures how we think about progress and accomplishment. What might be the new metaphors, the new rubrics, for an epoch of repair?"
🎧🔥👁️ youtu.be/gs-KGzm8rZs
Ninajirachi - Fuck My Computer (Frost Children Remix)
YouTube video by Ninajirachi
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November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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