DarkSapiens

DarkSapiens

@darksapiens.bsky.social

Astrophysics, science communication, sci-fi, nerdery (he/him) Astronomer at @cefca-oaj.bsky.social https://linksta.cc/@darksapiens

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Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

Lewis Wade 🗃️@wadehistory.bsky.social

It's very, very telling, I think, that the markets are so concerned about the pro-democracy incumbent winning

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I felt I really needed to write about Rowling's essay, not because it's new, but because it's so poisonous and ugly that it felt like sanitizing her not to acknowledge it on my trans news site.

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org

There's no pretense left. J. K. Rowling made her hate for trans women clear in a slur-filled screed slurring them a dozen times and describing them as deceitful and dangerous. So writes @evanurquhart.bsky.social this morning on Assigned Media. *WARNING: Article quotes Rowling's hateful language.*

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si eres hombre y te quedas sin amigOs si empiezas a llamarles la atención por su comportamiento machista y reaccionario pues adiós muy buenas. por qué querríais estar ahí si no pensáis igual. si los tíos os rechazan buscad amigas. dejad de buscar aprobación masculina

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🌍🚀 Who builds the European Service Module? 100+ suppliers across 13 @esa.int Member States have contributed to the module's development before its assembly by Airbus in Bremen, 🇩🇪. One spacecraft built by many nations 🤝🌕

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Eat the rich no es ideologia, es pura supervivencia

EFE Noticias@efe.com

Un estudio de Oxfam Intermón alerta de que el 0,1 % más rico de la población mundial -unos 8 millones de personas- genera más emisiones de carbono que las 3.500 millones de personas más pobres del planeta juntas.

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Está muy bien bombardear a las madres sobre los beneficios de la lactancia materna. Sabéis que estaría mejor? Disponer de permisos suficientes y no de culpa a raudales

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De ser cierta, la historia es mucho más rocambolesca de lo que parecía, pero el girito de estos dos párrafos no te lo esperas.

EL PAÍS@elpais.com

El cierre de la librería Pérgamo no es lo que parece. Los inquilinos buscan una nueva sede y llevarse la marca tras registrar el nombre, sin conocimiento de las dueñas que, en cuatro años, nunca subieron el alquiler, ni siquiera con arreglo a la subida del IPC

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The Force Unleashed II is far from being my favorite Star Wars game, but this scene is lovingly crazy. Hardspace: Shipbreakers with bare hands, followed by a massive ship maneuver that even Amilyn Holdo would be jealous of. 💪

LucasArts Memory@lucasartsmemory.bsky.social

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (LucasArts) was released 16 years ago today.

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A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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This article does not discuss one major reason why chocolate in the West got worse - Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two African countries that are the biggest suppliers of cacao globally, got organised and started demanding fair prices for it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

ghanacitizenship.comGhana-Ivory Coast Cocoa Alliance: Mahama and Ouattara Sign Joint DeclarationGhana and Ivory Coast signed a Joint Declaration to strengthen their cocoa alliance, aligning producer prices and expanding local processing.
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I am by no means a smart man, but “Running for president to avoid imprisonment” should really be removed as a viable plan.

Mike Elk@mikeelk.bsky.social

Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

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Mother Jones@motherjones.com

NEW: Anthropic’s filing appears to partly walk back the co-founders’ pledge to commit 80% of their personal equity holdings in the AI startup to philanthropic causes. Those acts, the filing suggests, are “voluntary, revocable expressions” that “do not constitute binding obligations.”

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I think the lesson from Lula is not never talk about the opposition; it's articulate a positive vision that's basically, We Can Just Do Things. That's why Mamdani-ism is so popular - voters have an intrinsic sense that their electeds have agency they're not using

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A very fun headline today: supreme court justice Alexandre de Moraes has ordered Flávio Bolsonaro to hand in his passports and not leave the country while he's being investigated in a money laundering probe.

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The internet can be pretty gullible about tech products, but congrats to everyone who called exactly what this was going to be used for from the first moment they saw it.

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El Mundo cuenta que la policía detuvo a un agresor en Sol. Omite que fue la acampada quien lo sacó. La policía vino, habló con la víctima delante de él y se fue sin llevárselo. Volvió y agredió a más gente. Solo tras sacarlo otra vez lo detuvieron. #AcampadaSol

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Gente sin alma: voy a usar la IA para que me haga un chusco al que pueda llamar "dibujo" Mi padre, 67 años, funcionario recién jubilado: voy a aprender a dibujar porque es lo que siempre he querido. PAPÁ TE QUIERO 🧡

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In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

404media.coChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support ProblemsBecause big tech doesn't do customer service, we are being inundated with AI-generated emails begging us for help.