@h4ckernews@mastodon.social avatar h4ckernews Bot , to random
@h4ckernews@mastodon.social avatar h4ckernews Bot , to random
@h4ckernews@mastodon.social avatar h4ckernews Bot , to random
@h4ckernews@mastodon.social avatar h4ckernews Bot , to random
@globalmuseum@mastodon.online avatar globalmuseum , to random

MIT’s origami robot starts as a flat sheet, folds itself when heated, and becomes a tiny robot that can crawl, climb, and swim.

@sciencegirl

MIT’s origami robot

@thejapantimes@mastodon.social avatar thejapantimes , to random

Searching for the suspect's motive in the Brown University shooting, investigators were examining Claudio Neves Valente's earliest days in academia, which took him from the University of Lisbon to the U.S. Northeast. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/20/world/crime-legal/brown-university-shooter-academia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social avatar h4ckernews Bot , to random

I open-sourced my Go and Next B2B SaaS Starter (deploy anywhere, MIT)

https://github.com/moasq/production-saas-starter

-source

@SteveThompson@mastodon.social avatar SteveThompson , to random

Police Say Reddit Post Led Them To Claudio Valente

https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/police-say-reddit-post-led-them-to-brown-university-shooting-suspect/

A redditor posted on the Providence, Rhode Island subreddit and said they had seen a gray Nissan with Florida license plates:

Police Say Reddit Post Led Them To Claudio Valente
ALT
@h4ckernews@mastodon.social avatar h4ckernews Bot , to random
@h4ckernews@mastodon.social avatar h4ckernews Bot , to random
@heiseonline@social.heise.de avatar heiseonline , to random German

Iceberg Index: KI kann bereits 11,7 Prozent der US-Arbeitskräfte ersetzen

Ein neues Simulationstool des MIT zeigt: Aktuelle KI-Systeme könnten bereits 11,7 Prozent des US-Arbeitsmarkts ersetzen – vor allem in Verwaltung und Finanzen.

https://www.heise.de/news/Iceberg-Index-KI-kann-bereits-11-7-Prozent-der-US-Arbeitskraefte-ersetzen-11093974.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

@cryptadamist@universeodon.com avatar cryptadamist , to random

For the curious among you, I really do recommend you read the man's text messages. Especially the text messages to/from Epstein's bestie . While you're there you can also read about how Jeffrey Epstein was funding the core development team starting from around 2015 at (possibly until his death).

Also made some improvements to the Epstein text messages page:

  • Highlighted important names ("trump", "jabor", "brock", "", "", "", etc)

  • Deanonymized (with help) as many of the emails as I could manage based on various kinds of clues, including the signature lines.

  • Added an "Other Files" section at the bottom with preview text + links to raw files that are neither emails nor iMessage log files.

  • Various other forms of analysis (common signatures, author counts, etc)

i'm really enjoying posting screenshots of Bannon inviting Epstein to the movies on Bannon's insane right wing War Room tweets. his audience Really Does Not Like the fact that the two were so close and communicated so much.

table of "sent from my iPhone" style signatures used by epstein and friends
Abbreviations Used Frequently In These Chats ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ Abbreviation ┃ Translation ┃ ┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩ │ AD │ Abu Dhabi │ │ Barak │ Ehud Barak (Former Israeli prime minister) │ │ Barrack │ Tom Barrack │ │ BG │ Bill Gates │ │ Bill │ Bill Gates │ │ Brock │ Brock Pierce │ │ DB │ Deutsche Bank (maybe??) │ │ HBJ │ Hamad bin Jassim (Former Qatari prime minister) │ │ Jabor │ "an influential man in Qatar" │ │ Jagland │ Thorbjørn Jagland │ │ Jeffrey Wernick │ Right wing crypto bro │ │ Hoffenberg │ Steven Hoffenberg (Epstein's ponzi scheme partner) │ │ KSA │ Kingdom of Saudi Arabia │ │ Kwok │ Chinese criminal Miles Kwok AKA Miles Guo AKA Guo Wengui │ │ Mapp │ Kenneth E. Mapp (VI Governor) │ │ Masa │ Masayoshi Son (Softbank) │ │ MBS │ Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (Saudi ruler) │ │ MBZ │ Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (Emirates sheikh) │ │ Jared │ Jared Kushner │ │ Miro │ Miroslav Lajčák │ │ Mooch │ Anthony 'The Mooch' Scaramucci (Skybridge crypto bro) │ │ Terje │ Terje Rød-Larsen │ │ Woody │ Woody Allen │ │ Zug │ City in Switzerland (crypto hub)
table of the most common email authors in the recent epstein files archive

table of the most common email authors in the recent epstein files archive
ALT
@h4ckernews@mastodon.social avatar h4ckernews Bot , to random

Cynthia – Reliably play MIDI music files – MIT / Portable / Windows

https://www.blaizenterprises.com/cynthia.html

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social avatar h4ckernews Bot , to random
@h4ckernews@mastodon.social avatar h4ckernews Bot , to random
@h4ckernews@mastodon.social avatar h4ckernews Bot , to random
@h4ckernews@mastodon.social avatar h4ckernews Bot , to random
@h4ckernews@mastodon.social avatar h4ckernews Bot , to random
@h4ckernews@mastodon.social avatar h4ckernews Bot , to random
@tagesschau@ard.social avatar tagesschau , to random German

US-Eliteuni MIT will sich nicht Regierungsvorgaben anpassen

Die US-Regierung hatte neun Hochschulen einen bevorzugten Zugang zu Bundesmitteln angeboten - wenn sie ihre Regeln im Sinne der Trump-Agenda ändern. Als erste Uni reagierte nun das MIT - mit einem klaren Nein.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/mit-eliteuni-gegen-trump-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

@sigue@universeodon.com avatar sigue , to random

refuses to kowtow to Dear Leader...

https://links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq7Rns6s-1Ug3FdA

Well done, MIT.

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social avatar h4ckernews Bot , to random
@petersuber@fediscience.org avatar petersuber , to random

Trump tries bribery.

"Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/politics/trump-college-funding.html

"The White House on Wednesday sent letters to nine of the nation’s top public and private universities, urging campus leaders to pledge support for President Trump’s political agenda to help ensure access to federal research funds."

, , , , , , , ,

petersuber OP ,
@petersuber@fediscience.org avatar

Update. just became the first university to reject Trump's compact. Here's the letter from MIT President to faculty, dated today.
https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact

petersuber OP ,
@petersuber@fediscience.org avatar

Update. After said 𝗻𝗼 to the Trump compact (yesterday), the Chronicle of Higher Education asked the other eight targeted universities for their reactions.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-could-mits-rejection-of-trumps-proposed-compact-mean-for-the-rest-of-higher-ed
()

"Asked for reactions to MIT’s announcement, spokespeople for Brown University, Dartmouth College, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt University had no new information to share. The other recipients — the Universities of Arizona and Pennsylvania — didn’t respond."