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Alle sollten dieses Interview von @… mit Gert Pickel lesen.
https://www.zeit.de/politik/d…

Sachsen-Anhalt-Monitor: "Autoritär verhält sich die AfD ja nur gegenüber anderen"
Ein Drittel der Sachsen-Anhalter will laut einer Umfrage eine Revolution. Ein Gespräch mit dem Forschungsleiter über fragile Demokraten und rechte Umsturzfantasien.

Donald Trump Thursday refiled his $15B defamation suit against @nytimes.com, three of its staff members and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social.
A spokesperson for the newspaper dismissed the suit as a meritless PR stunt.
https://bsky.app/profile/pressfreedomtracker.us/p…

U.S. Press Freedom Tracker (@pressfreedomtracker.us)
Donald Trump Thursday refiled his $15B defamation suit against @nytimes.com, three of its staff members and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social. A spokesperson for the newspaper dismissed the suit as a meritless PR stunt. https://pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/media-in-the-courthouse/#Oct-16-2025-NYT

🦠 Genomes of 24,000 previously unknown microbes revealed by new tools
#microbes

Genomes of 24,000 previously unknown microbes revealed by new tools
QUT researchers have recovered the genomes of more than 24,000 previously unknown microbial species—some from entirely new branches of life that likely evolved before plants and animals. The microbes are detailed in two studies published in Nature Biotechnology and Nature Methods.

There's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr

Desconhecia esta história.
Desgraçado do homem...
https://pixelfed.social/p/caoimhin/883365408894480960

caoimhín scott (@caoimhin@pixelfed.social)
Born in 1916, Valentim de Barros was a Portuguese #balletdancer and considered the first from #portugal to build an international career. In 1939, he was deported from Germany. Once in Portuguese territory, he was handed over to the PVDE and held for 3 months and then committed to the Miguel Bombarda psychiatric hospital for homosexuality. In 1949, he was subjected to electroshock therapy and a lobotomy. He was discharged after the Revolution of April 25, 1974, but as he had no family to care …

Evaluating Large Language Models for IUCN Red List Species Information
Shinya Uryu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02830 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02830…

Evaluating Large Language Models for IUCN Red List Species Information
Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly being adopted in conservation to address the biodiversity crisis, yet their reliability for species evaluation is uncertain. This study systematically validates five leading models on 21,955 species across four core IUCN Red List assessment components: taxonomy, conservation status, distribution, and threats. A critical paradox was revealed: models excelled at taxonomic classification (94.9%) but consistently failed at conservation reasoning (27.2% for s…

One Science Dimension article really stuck with me through the years. It was was a an interview with someone they called, playfully, the Dean of Astronomy in Canada.
They asked if he was sad that Astronomy was not taught in high school. Not at all, he replied. In nearly every subject taught, most HS grads will avoid those subjects the rest of their lives!
On the other hand, you can only get into Astronomy if you love it, so you stay.
I was probably fortunate my HS had no credible music program, although they do have an enviable one today.

Veep creator Armando Iannucci says he is struggling to raise funding for a project based on Trump's speeches amid fears of MAGA retribution (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/veep-armando-iannucci-trump-fund-1236565968/

‘Veep’ Creator Armando Iannucci Struggling To Fund Trump Project Amid MAGA Retribution Fears
Armando Iannucci, the showrunner behind HBO's 'Veep' and 'Avenue 5,' has revealed that he has struggled to raise funding for a Donald Trump project.

🍆 A Hermetic, Transparent Soft Growing Vine Robot System for Pipe Inspection
#robots #machine

A Hermetic, Transparent Soft Growing Vine Robot System for Pipe Inspection
Rehabilitation of aging pipes requires accurate condition assessment and mapping far into the pipe interiors. Soft growing vine robot systems are particularly promising for navigating confined, sinuous paths such as in pipes, but are currently limited by complex subsystems and a lack of validation in real-world industrial settings. In this paper, we introduce the concept and implementation of a hermetic and transparent vine robot system for visual condition assessment and mapping within non-bra…