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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 1d

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"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"

Are the advocates for net zero losing the fight?

The cost of misunderstanding: How public perception shapes the net zero debate

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 2d

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting

I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2d

Good bit of analysis here.

'Putting lay-offs down to AI sounds better than saying “we need to keep margins high so we’re sacking some low performers” and politically safer than saying “unpredictable Trump tariff policy means we are hiring less young people.”'

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

Lay-offs and AI on.ft.com/4qG3Pec | opinion

Lay-offs and AI

Bad news, OK data

on.ft.com

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Matthew Chalmers @matthewchalmers.bsky.social · 2d

This quote is set to be on the intro slide of an undergraduate lecture, soon.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 3d

AI "is a thieving, hallucinating, biased, data-scraping, ecо-destroying, surveillance bot that will never be able to reconcile the receipts of its unethical origins."
—A Psalm for the Analog @melaniedusseau.bsky.social

LOOMING: drive.proton.me/urls/JE8JPJR...

www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 4d

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog

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Anna Spysz @annaspies.dev · 7d

Apropos of nothing, this piece by @anildash.com is very, very good (and accurately reflects my views and those of many of my colleagues)

www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t...

People worry that not being seen as mindless, uncritical AI cheerleaders will be a career-limiting move in the current environment of enforced conformity within tech, especially as tech leaders are collaborating with the current regime to punish free speech, fire anyone who dissents, and embolden the wealthy tycoons at the top to make ever-more-extreme statements, often at the direct expense of some of their own workers.

This is all exacerbated by the awareness that hundreds of thousands of technical staff like engineers have been laid off in recent times, often in an ongoing drip of never-ending layoffs, and very frequently in an unnecessarily dehumanizing and brutal process intended to instill fear in those who remain at the companies afterward.
In that kind of context, it's understandable that people might fear telling the truth. But it's important to remember that there are a lot more of us.

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Col @colken.bsky.social · 5d

On this Halloween, a reminder that a sculptor included a Xenomorph gargoyle during the 1990s restoration of Paisley Abbey

A gargoyle on Paisley Abbey that looks suspiciously like a Xenomorph

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Matthew Chalmers @matthewchalmers.bsky.social · 5d

Wow. I’m not sure if this acid review will increase or decrease visitor numbers…

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Artes Mundi 11 review – smug, stagey, up-itself nonsense for art world wazzocks

Six international artists vie for the prize – and none of them seem interested in engaging visitors. I had more fun on the Llandudno pier’s ghost train

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 5d

What is happening with this outfit?

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5d

“We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qualitative approaches…”
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

<span>We reject the use of generative artificial intelligence for reflexive qualitative research</span>

We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qu

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Esther Mondragón @emp1.bsky.social · 5d

"Big Tech is facing increasing pressure to show returns on the massive AI investments they're making, against a backdrop of soaring valuations and limited evidence of productivity gains."

news.sky.com/story/micros...

a man in armor is standing in the dark with his arms outstretched in the air .

ALT: a man in armor is standing in the dark with his arms outstretched in the air .

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 5d

“To leave our students to their own devices — which is to say, to the devices of A.I. companies — is to deprive them of indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o... #AI #reading #writing #philsky

Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students

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Rogue Five @lusankya.bsky.social · 6d

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Henrik Larsen @henriklarsen.bsky.social · 6d

This is for Trump.
A recent study reveals that energy costs in Britain has been reduced by 104 billon pounds the last 15 years because of wind power.
The Biden administration knew this and introduced the IRA which Trump rolled back to make Americans pay more.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds

Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

www.theguardian.com

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Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 8d

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning

Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 8d

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d

“The state of our surveillance dystopia is such that a major glasses retailer is advertising anti-facial recognition features as a selling point as if it was normal.”

Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age

These anti-facial recognition glasses technically work, but won’t save you from our surveillance dystopia.

www.404media.co

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Prof Maz Hardey @mariannhardey.com · 8d

Part of this story is expertise & intent. ChatGPT is being used by many as “therapy” unable to afford a therapist.

The gap between a tool's intent and use is a public health crisis.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

More than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT, OpenAI estimates

Finding is one of most direct statements from the tech company on how AI can exacerbate mental health issues

www.theguardian.com

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Matthew Chalmers @matthewchalmers.bsky.social · 9d

I didn’t know he went to U. Glasgow …
www.gla.ac.uk/explore/aven...

Me by Dave MacLeod

Renowned climber Dave MacLeod shares tales from an epic life

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404 Media @404media.co · 9d

NEW: we tested Zenni's anti-facial recognition glasses coating. "ID Guard" adds a pink sheen to the surface of the glasses that reflects the infrared light used by some facial recognition cameras.

www.404media.co/zennis-anti-...

Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age

These anti-facial recognition glasses technically work, but won’t save you from our surveillance dystopia.

www.404media.co

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Matthew Chalmers @matthewchalmers.bsky.social · 9d

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows

Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities

www.theguardian.com

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Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social · 9d

Autumn in Rothiemurchus #Scotland #Rothiemurchus #Kinrara #Aviemore www.damianshields.com

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Generic white guy SysAdmin @westbynoreaster.bsky.social · 10d

Am curious if IT departments would be keen just to ban these services from Uni compute resources. Y’all can run it on your personal rig but will not be wasting our shared compute on this slop.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 10d

Everything in this story is infuriating apart from (a) the quotes from students who analogize AI efforts to sitting through a timeshare presentation, or Black Mirror episode, and (b) recognizing resistance efforts by @olivia.science & @irisvanrooij.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...

Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground

www.nytimes.com

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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 11d

If only everyone could have predicted this

www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

EA's AI Game Development Tools Are Apparently So Bad That It's Costing More Money To Fix Their Mistakes

A new report suggests that EA's pivot to AI is just causing costly mistakes, and the developers hate it.

www.thegamer.com

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