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"The Archive is Not a Toy: The Hidden Problems of a ‘Vintage’ AI" by Jacob Polay, Chloë Farr, and Jessica Jack for Active History. I'm so glad to see these critiques!
https://activehistory.ca/blog/2026/07/13/the-archive-is…

The Archive is Not a Toy: The Hidden Problems of a ‘Vintage’ AI
talkie’s poor representation of history is a side effect of a larger problem. The model was conceptually built as an experimental tool to see if language models can accurately predict the future, a…

Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/16/how-europe-most-powerful-farming-lobby-copa-cogeca-killed-eu-pesticide-law

America’s Mayor:
https://bsky.app/profile/mayor.nyc.gov/post/3mr722e77z22z

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@mayor.nyc.gov)
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Spinning Purple Rain Vinyl 🤩 and even better... this was kiddos latest purchase. The kids are alright! #mucke #vinyl #Prince

Isotopic Evidence for a Cold and Distant Origin of the Interstellar Object #3IATLAS: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06911 (some numbers have changed slightly) -> Webb finds clues to ancient origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_finds_clues_to_ancient_origin_of_Comet_3I_ATLAS and https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-finds-clues-to-ancient-distant-origin-of-comet-3i-atlas/ -> threads https://bsky.app/profile/science.esa.int/post/3mov6iwxqco2s and https://bsky.app/profile/nasawebb.extwitter.link/post/3mov7pflika2v

Concerning if true
-- Susan Collins
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vyddatz54lnkex3w7kamvb5n/post/3mraafbratc2n

Libra on Fire 🔥 ⚖️ (@libraonfire.bsky.social)
. Trump wired money to #Epstein 4,700 times. That’s once a day for 13 years. We are ruled by demons. .

Forgive the link to BlueSky. Baby armadillo!
https://bsky.app/profile/1steviekilner.bsky.social/post/3mr5hndsohk2e

Stevie Kilner (@1steviekilner.bsky.social)
If anyone would like to see a short video of a baby Armadillo having a drink of milk, this is your lucky day.

A chuckle-worthy thread over on BSky:
#AI #LLM

tef (@tef.bsky.social)
CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps! PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again

‘A new normal’: Miami faces worsening seaweed problem as piles of algae wash up on beaches https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/18/miami-sargassum-seaweed-problem-climate-crisis

Deep in the Atlantic, a vast circulation of water carries heat from the tropics towards Greenland.
This is the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or Amoc.
It does this work largely out of sight,
so doesn’t have the public profile of rainforests, polar ice caps or other huge climate-regulating systems.
Recent studies suggest it is weakening.
If it slows further, northern Europe could experience much colder winters even as the world warms,
while t…

One of the world’s most important climate threats has an image problem
A key current in the Atlantic may be slowing down. But changes deep below the waves don’t generate obvious visual narratives.