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1. OMG. The main concern is not the ability to hack Signal; it’s that if a foreign government has penetrated the phone of a person who is using Signal, they can read all of the communications on that phone in real time.

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It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me.

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I had a delightful and wide-ranging conversation with Chiara Marletto, from quantum mechanics to complexity to curiosity-driven research, for the podcast Curiosity Entangled. You can catch it here and on other platforms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRtY...

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In this enchanted mood, thy spirit ebbs away to whence it came; becomes diffused through time and space; like Cranmer’s sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over.

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The magnolia outside the philosophy department

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Reframing the Free Will Debate: The Universe is Not Deterministic arxiv.org/abs/2503.19672 - very excited to have this article out! 😊 With Henry Potter and George Ellis.

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"The view of council is that making judgments on the acceptability of the views and actions of fellows, particularly those that might be regarded as political, could do more harm than good." This implies that Fellows can do anything and not face expulsion. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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This #eclipse is a part of Saros series 149, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 eclipses, 43 of which are umbral (17 total, 3 hybrid, 23 annular). The first eclipse in the series was on 21 Aug. 1664 and the last will be on 28 Sept. 2926. 🔭 🧪 www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/sola...

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Johan De Smedt and i have a paper "Cosmovision as cognitive technology: The case of Mesoamerican medicinal knowledge" now forthcoming in a special issue edited by @schrisomalis.bsky.social that examines the beautiful Nahua 16th c Cruz Badiano Ms with a cognitive and philosophical lens.

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How to think about the sublime An exquisite mix of fear and awe, pleasure and pain, the sublime stretches the imagination and reveals the limits of reason | by Nicole A Hall psyche.co/guides/how-t... #sublime #philosophy #philsky

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I just realized now that bluesky supports up to 3 minutes of video I can upload this entire sequence of supppeerrr baby black skimmers trying to eat a fish from their parent. I didn't know what music to use and it's ~2 mins 42 seconds long so I used front 242, so just mute if not your thing. 🪶 🐣

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Happy equinox & first day of astronomical spring (fall) in northern (southern) hemisphere!

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THE SHIRTS ARE BACK IN STOCK worldwithoutcaesars.com

submitted 9 days ago • 695 comments

Genuinely disturbing sunset on Monday.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

submitted 9 days ago • 94 comments

Exciting to see the first image to come from the SKA-Low telescope in Australia! Made from only 4 stations and 1024 antennas, eventually there will be 512 stations and 131072 antennas! www.skao.int/en/news/621/... 🔭🧪📡

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Well, this seems now to be official. Trust me, it is a beautiful thing. yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

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William James's take on psychophysics is incredible. Worth reading the whole quote. #psychSciSky #philsky #VisionScience "But psychology is passing into a less simple phase. Within a few years what one may call a microscopic psychology has arisen in Germany, carried on by experimental methods,

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So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me.

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Among the lost positives consigned to the dusty corners of the dictionary is ‘reck’, meaning ‘care’, ‘heed’, and ‘consideration’. Which means we can be reckful instead of reckless (and feckful, gormful, ruthful, ept, kempt, couth, consolate, and many more).

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“The generative search tools we tested had a common tendency to cite the wrong article... This means that news publishers’ content was most often being credited to the wrong source.” #edusky #academicsky #highered #ai www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I'm so unbearably sad about this. I also think, especially given the ongoing failures of the US media, that we should crowdfund a Radio Free USA and all listen in on ham radios.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I grew up with it. Every single household I knew in Saint Petersburg/Leningrad, Russia, had a shortwave receiver and people listened every evening to the VOA, Radio Liberty, Deutsche Welle or BBC coming through the noise of the Soviet jammers during the 70-80s.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

My colleagues and our broadcasts, devoted to telling America’s story to the world — honestly, fairly and with an unwavering commitment to the truth, are being silenced this weekend. open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/...

submitted 12 days ago • 67 comments

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

submitted 20 days ago • 85 comments

We're a global joke and a national disaster.

submitted 16 days ago • 1304 comments

"Wake up Babe!" Ils ont découvert 128 nouvelles petites lunes autour de Saturne ! Ça fait un total de 274 lunes 🤯 Soit plus que toutes les lunes des autres planètes cumulées. 🙇 Saturne n'est pas que le Seigneur des Anneaux, mais il est aussi l'Empereur des Lunes. 🤩 🔭🛰️ #planetaryscience 1/2

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Good night, from the desert.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Since Trump fired most of the National Park Service, the bears have to pick up the slack. “Alaskan bear corrects a fallen roadside cone” Credit @gunsnrosesgirl X @altnps.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 237 comments

Opening out to 2 metres wide, this 1730 collector’s cabinet has dozens of containers for an apothecary’s 'medicines', minerals, fossils, resins & seeds (some still with original ingredients!) Oak & pine, with olive wood, tortoiseshell, ivory ~ & secret shelves www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collectio...

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

As for his true brain, you can then see no indications of it, nor feel any.

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Excellent philosophy.

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Biological neurons in a commercially available computer. #consci corticallabs.com/cl1.html

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Path at Pourville 02, 1882

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he found himself hard by the very latitude and longitude where his tormenting wound had been inflicted

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in the #arXiv an Unusual Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy named "Disco Ball" by Donghyeon J. Khim and co-authors arxiv.org/abs/2502.19465 🧪🔭

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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

submitted 30 days ago • 477 comments

Seven planets to be visible in night sky for last time until 2040 🔭 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.94 (lookback time 7.70 billion years) with coordinates (150.22838, 1.93867). 34 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.🔭

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“In 1989, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we were talking about the end of history, the triumph of liberal democracy, whereas in 2025 we are confronting the end of America as we have known it since the end of World War II.” My column. www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

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A seven-planet parade visible late February 2025? Here's what the planets are really doing on that date. Sky at night magazine observing guide. 🔭 🧪 www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/seven-p...

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The great wheel of time Olive Tree of Vouves; Crete. Tree has a trunk 15ft in diameter, likely 2900 years old, based on graveyard found nearby. This tree likely lived through writing of Iliad, golden age of Athens, rise of Roman Empire and birth of Christ. It still produces olives.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 36 days ago • 2097 comments

I have run out of patience with the apparent silence of most US science institutions (and not just US) in the face of Trump & Musk's rampage. There are of so many facets of that, but in this column for @chemistryworld.com I talk about the assaults on inclusion. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

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BirdNET embeddings can identify new sound classes beyond its training set, aiding invasive species monitoring, biodiversity surveys, and detecting threatened species across vertebrate groups while requiring minimal call examples and manual validation. Find out more: doi.org/10.3389/fevo... 🔈🪶🦊🐸🦎🧪🌎

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