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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 1h

Awful.

Andrew Berkshire @berkshire.bsky.social · 2h

This seems really fucking bad

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 3d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 15h

Total banger!

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 15h

Excellent work on AI and education.

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 19h

I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.

I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet

Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...

docs.google.com

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Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 23h

Germans don’t believe the AI hype.

52% of German workers say they understand and can explain AI, yet only 5% have any worry whatsoever that it can replace them at work. The team that gave the survey is baffled, likely because they fell for the marketing. But actual professionals know better.

Germany news: Few workers fear AI job threat, survey shows – DW – 10/14/2025

Only about 5% of German workers fear losing their jobs to AI, with few seeing it as a near-term threat, a poll shows. Meanwhile, inflation has risen to 2.4% in September, a second straight monthly inc...

www.dw.com

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 23h

Amazing!

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 1d

My happiness levelled up a lot when I discovered you could lock a document when returning to the AU such that only tracked changes were allowed. (In Word)

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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t stop believing in Ukraine 🇺🇦
Don’t stop supporting those who stand between light and darkness.
Don’t stop believing in Victory — because they haven’t stopped standing for it.

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 2d

Holy smokes--that is a very illuminating transposition!

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Except I'm wrong - this view *just* catches the edge of the newly-discovered continent of ZEALANDIA: population 5.4 million, with only New Zealand, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island now above sea level - just 5% of the original 4.9m square km (making it 64% the size of Australia).

Bathymetric map of the sea floor around New Zealand showing the outline of the much-larger submerged landmass and proposed continent of Zealandia, around 64% the size of Australia.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing like this should happen anywhere

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 3d

At least 6 vehicles racing through a quiet suburban neighborhood; multiple agents, all of them armed and masked.

the excessive response plus the violence against this 15 year old girl is outrageous.

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 3d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 2d

They were basically the same restaurant with a slightly different font.

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 2d

When "8 oz sirloin" was still a selling point...

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 3d

I was working a teenager shift at Ponderosa when the Police came through on the Synchronicity tour. All the older teens had booked off, being in the know, and all...

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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 3d

💯

ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 3d

Whoever this author is, he/she is not wrong.

#uspoli #cdnpoli 👇

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 3d

Not ... yet.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 4d

I love this. It kicks ass. We're gonna be protesting for the rest of our lives, we've gotta find ways to make it fun sometimes

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 4d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Deirdre Assenza @deirdreassenza.bsky.social · 4d

The golden idol

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 5d

Nice work Jim Watson, nice work.

A photo from yesterday’s Trunp Cabinet meeting. Taken from a low position the decorations on the wall behind the orange felon make him look like he has devil’s horns.

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Elisha Dacey 🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @elishadacey.bsky.social · 6d

REPORTERS/RESEARCHERS/POLICY NERDS:

@nationalobserver.com has released a tool that automatically transcribes council meetings in 550 Canadian municipalities.

THIS Is how you use AI in the newsroom!

Check it out: civicsearchlight.nationalobserver.com

CivicSearchlight - by Canada's National Observer

Search transcripts of municipal meetings across Canada. Find discussions about topics that matter to your community with Canada's National Observer's search tool.

civicsearchlight.nationalobserver.com

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 5d

The Dune comparison here is really interesting

Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 5d

Fuck the AI cult

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 10d

This is Brighton Park, the neighborhood where a U.S. Border Patrol agent also shot a woman earlier today. It is a predominantly Latine community on the southwest side.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 10d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Aug 14

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 5d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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SciEditor—Adrienne Montgomerie @handle.invalid · 6d

Deloitte is refunding the final payment due to "substandard work," but still says the AI errors and fabrications "in no way impact or affect the substantive content, findings and recommendations in the report". An editor could have caught this for them! www.financialexpress.com/world-news/d...

Deloitte admits to using AI in $440k report, to repay Australian govt after multiple errors spotted

Deloitte will partially refund the Australian government after its AI-assisted welfare review report contained multiple errors.

www.financialexpress.com

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Chestnutfez 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 6d

It's the best.

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