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admirablewomen.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 9h

#OTD in 2009, Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. She won "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons." #WomenInSTEM

nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 8h

So this started as kids trying to show that their parents are reactionary hypocrites, and nudge them to think about the homeless? And then, as always, anything that could go wrong did? Seems to me this bay have been an ill fated attempt to use AI for good.

Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 8h

This "use case" is just deeply demoralizing. These tools are ripe for usage that undermines human-to-human trust. Putting them into an app widely like TikTok used by children and teenagers -- and I'm sure the Sora app will get there very quickly, too -- is irresponsible. #aiethics

Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank

The AI #homelessmanprank has gone viral, causing headaches for law enforcement.

www.theverge.com

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Chris @multiplicityct.bsky.social · 8h

This "use case" is just deeply demoralizing. These tools are ripe for usage that undermines human-to-human trust. Putting them into an app widely like TikTok used by children and teenagers -- and I'm sure the Sora app will get there very quickly, too -- is irresponsible. #aiethics

Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank

The AI #homelessmanprank has gone viral, causing headaches for law enforcement.

www.theverge.com

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 9h

Clearly.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 9h

environment of evolutionary adaptedness

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 12h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 10h

AI usage accounted for less than 1% of online activity and “the most consistent predictors of AI use across studies were…Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy,” i.e., dark triad personality traits. Nice. www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Use and Its Psychological Correlates via Months of Web-Browsing Data | Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

Despite widespread discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on society, little work has objectively measured how often people use this technology in the wild. The present article ...

www.liebertpub.com

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 12h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 11h

I‘m always on the lookout for early career researchers for the starter pack. go.bsky.app/H61xswq

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 12h

One strategic thing about making this an appealing scientific community is to overshare and boost work from graduate students here

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 12h

But dates, geez…. Like we have a cultish pm in Netanyah but I don’t think even he could get away with something like this.

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 12h

There is a new dean.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 21h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 12h

The anti reductionist consensus

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 21h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 12h

“Logic of Scientific Discovery”

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 21h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 12h

The Free Energy Principle

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 21h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 12h

Still strange…

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 13h

You‘ll never convince me that this is not strange.

Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 16h

This senile liar who currently occupies the White House does not remember that he was President on January 6th.

If you voted for this senile liar, and if you enable him today, you clearly are ok with breaking America. The ruins of our once great nation are because of you.

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 13h

Almost a half century after the invention of the word processor, we are living at the tool's nadir.

Gdocs has improved while Word has become worse, but both are horrific tools that actively frustrated the practice writing.

The few alternatives are Wes Anderson or `make` parodies, like Scrivener.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 15h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Dan Sperber @dansperber.bsky.social · 17h

osf.io/preprints/ps...
Preprint: Jan Pfänder and Hugo Mercier "The rational impression account of trust in science"

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Ben Tappin @benmtappin.bsky.social · 17h

Insightful long-read:
"With AGI [artificial general intelligence], powerful actors will lose their incentive to invest in regular people–just as resource-rich states today neglect their citizens because their wealth comes from natural resources rather than taxing human labor."
intelligence-curse.ai

The Intelligence Curse

This series examines the incoming crisis of human irrelevance and provides a map towards a future where people remain the masters of their destiny.

intelligence-curse.ai

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 18h

Listen, I excel at snark but this story about people resorting to Love Language Models to help with dating mostly makes me sad. People are so lonely and lack self-confidence. (Though some interviewees are creeps.) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 21h

I wonder if some enterprising politician or activist should sponsor and organize red state tourism in blue cities.

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 1d

genuine question: does anyone in America actually believe this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 21h

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · Sep 1

They’ll be especially bad for non-native speakers with rich vocabularies.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Aug 31

Kid has an English assignment, where school has kids first submit essay to an "AI checker." Kid did not use AI. AI checker says the use of the word "devoid" magically turned essay into 18% AI written. Changing "devoid" makes it drop to 0%. We're spending time "un-AI-ing" an essay that has no AI.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 1d

Another is the rapid rollout of AI writing detection tech that is biased against non-English native writers - which was well documented as a problem with Turnitin years ago hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-dete...

AI-Detectors Biased Against Non-Native English Writers | Stanford HAI

Don’t put faith in detectors that are “unreliable and easily gamed,” says scholar.

hai.stanford.edu

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