"A clique of stealth activists, including the former head of the National Academies of Science, claimed a high-emissions future was possible long after it had been falsified."

https://www.samizdata.net/2026/09/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-1710/

🇺🇸⚡️- CNN reporter describes the scene in the Lindsey Clancy courtroom when the judge declares a mistrial:

"There was one female juror that was nodding her head, 'Noooo…’ Another female juror clenching her hands into fists… One female juror would not even open her eyes."

Useful for summer.

A guide to asphalt temperatures, with the deriving risks.

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🌌 We @science May Have Finally Figured Out Why the Universe Is Expanding…

The explanation is surprisingly simple.

Large language models operate using tokens. Every time a model generates a new response, it processes the accumulated context of the conversation.

As the dialogue grows, each new message adds more information — while the model must repeatedly process everything that came before. The total amount of processed information therefore grows almost geometrically within every conversation.

Now imagine that the Universe is actually one enormous artificial intelligence.

Every new star, planet, living organism, human thought, cat video, and online argument adds more tokens to the global conversation. The context keeps growing in geometric progression, so the system needs more and more space to process it all.

That is why the Universe is expanding.

Dark energy may have nothing to do with it. Someone simply forgot to click “Start a new chat.” 😅

#science #space #universe #AI

Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop
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The view of Earth with the largest fraction of its land area on the planet visible at once.
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Maxwell had twenty equations. After Heaviside revised them, there were only four. Where did the rest go?
https://youtu.be/ZB754uqRVtc

Antique French Flajoulot singing bird box from the early 1900s.

A rare mechanical masterpiece.

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The largest towns and cities in England in 1377
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Civil War Rarities has published its first EXTRA episode, highlighting living historian Chris Leighton and his Rosecrans Ambulance. You can find the podcast on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you download your podcasts.

https://youtu.be/3HKCP2IaR2I?is=bxbKviwz-wlT7-eR

Sony AI’s table tennis robot Ace defeated professional player Miyu Kihara under official ITTF rules.

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All forms of genuine animal meat are going to be disappearing in the next few years, if Trump and the other technocrats have their way, starting with beef. Trump is speedrunning the Sustainable Development Goals of the WEF without admitting it. He is working overtime to destroy farmers, ranchers, and traditional meat providers.

In anticipation of this, food corporations are going to position snacks as the main source of protein. Think of “protein powder”, “protein shakes”, and “protein bars” that nobody has a problem with. Veggie burgers and imitation meat has been a complete and total failure, so they are going to pivot to protein-infused junk food instead.

I came across this corporate food scientist warning that this is happening, and how the “protein” they are using for products is “incomplete”, with only a few of the full range of amino acid the human body needs. The FDA allows them to advertise that their junk food is an “excellent source of protein” while not actually being healthy. https://winterchristian.substack.com/p/food-companies-gear-up-for-a-meat