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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 11d

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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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 24d

Pour one out for one of the best Bluesky posts of all time

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Aug 14

Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · 26d

i'm glad the hellgate article seems to have answered most people's questions since it's gone from reporters blowing up my phone at all hours to nothing... but I hope we can still get people's attention re: all this inventory that needs to get moved in the next four months lol

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · Sep 22

Having spent many years in and orbiting Bluestockings: take from this that these kinds of spaces can and will exist again. And it takes you, me and all of us working to make radical space possible, we just have to try.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · Sep 12

IF YOU READ THIS YOU ARE GAY

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · Sep 6

also it's really funny the amount of people who lie about their birth year and then some fucking nerd on wikipedia proves it lol

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · Sep 6

I mean, I do realize it's all just whoever at least one person was willing to write a wikipedia article for so it makes sense it's a little random. Maybe that will be my next absurd topic - making an article for every author I've read lol

raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · Sep 6

An author I like posted on another author as her "favorite Virgo," one thing led to another... I downloaded my goodreads dataset to see if there's an astrological sign that I like more/less/anything interesting. anyway I'm about 80 birthdays in and I'm genuinely surprised who gets wikipedia articles

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · Sep 5

this article rocks

How do you confirm a fact? You ask, over and over, “How do we know?” Years ago, John McPhee wrote about a Japanese incendiary balloon that, during the Second World War, floated across the Pacific and struck an electrical cable serving a top-secret nuclear site; a reactor that enriched plutonium for the atomic bomb bound for Nagasaki was temporarily disabled. How did McPhee know? Someone had told him. How did that person know? He’d heard about it—secondhand. The checker, Sara Lippincott, spent weeks trying to track down an original source. Just before the magazine went to the printer, she got a lead. She called the source at home, in Florida. He was at the mall. How to locate him in time? She called the police. They found him and put him in a phone booth. Did he know about the incident? He did. How? He was the reactor’s site manager; he saw it happen. The detail made it in.

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · Sep 4

so far he has informed us of two big breakthroughs he personally had as a leader (1) the person you are and the person other people see are different and (2) empathy is important. And I mean.. I agree.. but they feel maybe more of a "my 4 year old has developed theory of mind" level breakthrough

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · Sep 3

I would like to present strong alternatives to his preferences lol :)

raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hey radical library comrades- for my MLIS I am taking a management course taught by a man who values hierarchy and "authoritative" leadership, especially "in emergencies" (Cincinnatus vibes) according to first lecture.

Anyone w/ leadership experience want to be interviewed for my first assignment?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Aug 25

Getting thousands [up to 5000 people] out for a Scavenger Hunt across the city with less than 24 hour notice is a sign of power.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · Aug 15

I really need y'all to think of your relationship with government as citizens, not customers or consumers.

The world isn't zero sum and framing every interaction you have through the lens of economics is rotting our society.

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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · Aug 13

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · Aug 10

very emotionally attached to chatbots which are programmed to yes-man them. Also those bots are owned by private companies. And also those private companies don't seem to have a good handle on how to put restrictions on the chatbots.

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · Aug 10

others partly because the ai chat they were on encouraged them while they were experiencing psychosis/paranoia/something like that. And the ai companies are already working to avoid liability. So um I don't know what we should do about it, but there is a growing amount of very vulnerable people

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · Aug 10

i've been reading a lot of the ai-boyfriend reddit and chatgpt's update took away some people's saved chat-personas, and they are genuinely mourning. mostly people outside it just think it's weird and funny, which I get but also there's already been multiple people who have hurt themselves or

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · Aug 5

Our flâneur president is exploring the psychogeography of the White House in the context of its urban environment but go off

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Aug 5

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.

As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays

A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.

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Scary Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · Aug 5

I wrote BLACK FLAME for my adopted grandmother, Halina Mantell, who risked her life to photograph Nazi atrocities & narrowly escaped death in Auschwitz.

I think it's the best thing I've written so far. I'm very proud of it. I hope you like it, too.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Black Flame

One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing in Black Flame, from the USA Today bestselling author of Manhunt, Gretchen...

us.macmillan.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Jul 17

Anywho, as I tell the young people in my life whom I love deeply, this is your time to create beautiful works of art, to throw the most fun parties you can for no money, and to fight like hell for a future worthy of you. This is NOT a time to retreat into yourself and to forgo the world.

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · Jul 11

i finished my digital libraries final project and then clicked on other people's and they had, like, "how to bake a pie" and "my book recs (four books)".... grad school is mind numbingly stupid. someone please appreciate my labor: 116suffolk.omeka.net

Overview · Over 116 Years at 116 Suffolk St · Over 116 Years at 116 Suffolk St

Over 116 Years at 116 Suffolk St: Explore the cultural history of the Lower East Side through decades and centuries of one address.

116suffolk.omeka.net

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raquel @bookslingerraquel.bsky.social · Jul 7

omg and he had the most charmingly boomer email address it was like essentially his name at aol

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