My Saturday morning run to the supermarket was full of elderly people struggling in the heat 🫤 these heatwaves are awful, especially in a city not built for them
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Emily Hunt
Профиль VivelyPostdoc @univie.ac.at working on star clusters & machine learning Passionate about a better future for science communication via @astrosky.eco 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ (she/her), Ⓥ Website: https://emily.space GitHub: https://github.com/emilyhunt
The latest Anthropic announcement reads like a big advert for new military contracts for AI-powered hacking. The only other entity in the US with the kind of money that AI companies need to keep going is the US military, and I wonder if they'll try and get big contracts to make AI hacking weapons
Anthropic's Claude AI escapes tests to hack three organisationsIt comes just days after rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had breached other firms' networks.www.bbc.comI think that calling out AT Protocol projects that you don't like is catty and divisive, but the fact that W Social is my one exception to that rule should tell you everything
Emily HuntPSA: please do not touch W Social. It's closed source, for-profit, and has already had numerous critical security vulnerabilities that sometimes took >1 week to patch. More context:
PSA: please do not touch W Social. It's closed source, for-profit, and has already had numerous critical security vulnerabilities that sometimes took >1 week to patch. More context:
The Untold Story About W Social: Unconventional Beginnings, Strategic Pitches and Conflicting SignalsA deep dive into the origin story of W Social, an analysis of the strategic arguments they have been using to appeal to government officials, media companies and advertisers... and the discussion of c...blog.elenarossini.com☄️🔭
Sloan Digital Sky SurveysBig day for us today at the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: it's Data Release Day! Our twentieth(!!!) data release will go out later today, with lots of spectra and catalogs of stars, galaxies and quasars, and some new webtools! Our DR20 paper has all the details: arxiv.org/abs/2607.26149 #DR20
... rescue mission for the rescue mission, anyone? 😅 🔭☄️
Fabian SchusslerThe Swift rescue mission has some difficulties 😱 ☄️🔭 arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...
One of my favourite little Python packages now has an associated paper! The IMF library is absurdly useful for any and all mass-function work 🔭☄️
The IMF package: a toolkit implementing mass functions and statistical tools to analyze themMass functions are used in all areas of astrophysics. The stellar initial mass function (IMF), in particular, plays a central role in modeling stellar populations in galaxies. However, few dedicated t...arxiv.orgtech CEOs are misogynistic creeps and the current mainstream of AI is absolutely awful for women I cannot IMAGINE what it would be like to be a teenage girl right now and have to deal with deepfake porn of you being created by your classmates. It's already a problem and will only get worse
MPR NewsElon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is suing Minnesota over a first-in-the-nation law banning technology that allows users to create and post deepfake videos or images of people naked without their consent.
the account activity labeller continues to be such an incredibly good tool - signals like "no break greater than 4 hours yesterday" or "made 50+ replies yesterday" are such good signals that an account is inauthentic
bsky.appI tried to look up some pics of the fires near Bordeaux, and this is an absolutely chilling image
Prof. Stefan RahmstorfHoliday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.