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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:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 3h

More time to perfect your abstract on space, place, and community (anywhere) for queer bib. These lively, friendly, sustaining conferences are entirely worth the time + energy. **Hybrid**, so you don't even need to leave house. Althrough the organisers are working hard to make it worth the travel.

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 4h

Impressive for Reeves to get her application in at every bank at once, so early. Good for her!

Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 5h

I've been known to get a little carried away buying Pellegrino in Costco, so quite relatable, really.

Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social · 5h

"At one point, the police said at a news conference, they observed the men buying almost 1.5 miles’ worth of foil in Costco."

Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 5h

Phone snatching in London has been running rampant, angering residents and making tourists afraid

After years of failing to investigate most thefts, the police have launched multiple operations that are piecing together an international criminal ecosystem
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/w...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 23h

A lawyer was explaining to court why he used AI when he was then caught using AI in that explanation of why he was using AI (earlier)

www.404media.co/lawyer-using...

Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI

The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion fo...

www.404media.co

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 1d

Okay really good news and I must look at mine now...

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 1d

I hope you are okay!

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 1d

I am still getting my head around the fact he was in NY for the North American première of DG, flogging libretti, as I only learned this when I read his memoirs not so long ago.

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 1d

I thought of Dürer's Rhino - had any of them been to a five-star hotel? It has seen better days, but staff working v. hard to make it special. Full of people having a seaside holiday of an Edwardian type, and I could feel myself being seduced like Castorp. Going in January is probably dead cheap...

Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 1d

I stayed there – in a much more modest room – for a Glyndebourne visit this summer. Apparently, the first five-star star seaside hotel, it has an offbeat, charming, slightly fawlty-towers vibe. One of the best room service breakfasts I've ever had and definitely the most beautifully presented.

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 1d

Morten Høi Jensen (@mortenhoijensen.bsky.social), The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of "The Magic Mountain" (@yalepress.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

The Master of Contradictions

The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos Like many writers of his generation, ...

yalebooks.yale.edu

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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50 Jenna Ipcar Fans Can’t Be Wrong! @ipcar.bsky.social · Nov 26

At the bank I was told "pick your four digit pincode but it can't be a year." "Aren't they all years?" I asked. We sat in silence for a bit.

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 3d

Do note this is hybrid!

J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 3d

Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j...

Athens GA and online

Poster reads: March 12–14, 2026; Queer Bibliography in the South: Space, Place, Community; University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 3d

Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j...

Athens GA and online

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 4d

Please write this paper!

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 4d

Letter from the advertising department at The Lady magazine, 1977

Our Ref: Sit/QC
22nd March 1977
Mrs A. Miconi,
Flat 17, Lyncourt, The Orchard,
Blackheath,
London SE3
Dear Madam,
We thank you for your letter and payment of £3.80, received on 21st March.
Before proceeding, we must whether you would agree to a slight wording amenament of the wording in order that the advertising conforms to our normal style. The words "Socialist feninist" we would prefer to read "Friendly, motherly," thereby allowing the wording to conform.
We now look forward to your further instructions, whilst advising you that our next issue is 7th April for which we close for press upon receipt of the first post Tuesday 29th March.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 5d

CONFERENCE: Always Here (SUNY Binghamton):

memorients.com/events/cfp-a...

CONFERENCE: Always Here | MEMOs

Binghamton University's Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies brings together those studying premodern non-binary gender, trans identities, & queerness

memorients.com

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CFRC-Folklore @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social · 5d

CFP! Journal of Festive Studies is inviting abstracts for an issue on TINY/giant: Playing with Scale. Themes include giant puppets, toy theatres, effigies for celebration or excoriation, miniature collectibles... Deadline 15 Nov, more info here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Journal of Festive Studies Issue Nine Call for Papers: TINY/giant: Playing with Scale | H-Net

TINY/giant: Playing with Scale Guest Editors: Dawn Tracey Brandes & Martha Radice, Dalhousie University Deadline for abstracts and short bios: November 15, 2025In addition to our guest-edited section ...

networks.h-net.org

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 5d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life

Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows

www.theguardian.com

Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks so much! I obviously will need a physical copy.

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American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 6d

"No more than a liter of wine a day" - In the early 1950s, when French wine consumption was 140+ liters/capita, France launched the campaign "Santé Sobriété" to limit alcohol consumption. In 1954, Philippe Foré became the chief designer. #WineHistory`

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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 6d

Why don't all libraries have this?

Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 6d

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

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Patricia Stoop @dr-patriciastoop.bsky.social · 6d

Great news!! My special issue on Writing for Third Parties: Commercial Manuscript Production in the Late Middle Ages (Queeste, @amsterdamupress.bsky.social) is now available in open access.

Looking much forward to your reactions!

www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

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