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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 3h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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The Dreaded Abighoul @popeguilty.bsky.social · 16h

"Look, how about we let you fuck it?" pleaded Altman. "Normally they don't even let me fuck the AI but like, what if we let you fuck the AI? Would you pay monthly for it then?"

Axios @axios.com · 17h

Sam Altman says OpenAI will allow erotica for adult users

In a post on X, Altman also said ChatGPT will engage more personally.

www.axios.com

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Edd Edmondson @eddedmondson.bsky.social · 12h

No one will pay for it. This will burst the bubble sooner.

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Dr Dan @dpdormouse.bsky.social · 12h

The job of the ECHR is to comment on concerns about domestic policies of member states, she just doesn’t like trans people

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 17h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 18h

Immigrants Make Up More Than 30 Percent of Nobel Science Winners Since 2000 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

www.nature.com

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 19h

"Whoever thought of vanilla with meat? Nasty." YOU DID, NANCY! THAT WAS YOU! YOU THOUGHT OF THAT!

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 1d

nancy no!!!!

(recipe: Hamburger Steak with Onions and Gravy)

recipe review

Nancy Wood
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Do NOT use vanilla in place of sherry! I just made this exactly as written and used vanilla since I didn't have sherry. It is now down the disposal. The smell alone was a huge indicator of what it would taste like. Whoever thought of vanilla with meat? Nasty.

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Derek @derekdesanges.bsky.social · Aug 15

with your help we can change this

the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · Aug 14

People are always rightly pointing out that Warhammer contributes more to the British economy than the fishing industry, but the problem is that there just aren't very many folk songs about Warhammer

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Edd Edmondson @eddedmondson.bsky.social · 1d

Frankly, I think your opinion is idiotic.

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Edd Edmondson @eddedmondson.bsky.social · 1d

And in healthcare, with critical outcomes... I don't get it

Edd Edmondson @eddedmondson.bsky.social · 1d

The academic literature is against you. LLMs help the perception of productivity but not actual productivity at coding.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 1d

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Edd Edmondson @eddedmondson.bsky.social · 1d

No. No it is absolutely not.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine this is your past experience with LLMs, but you still go ahead and outsource your literature review in a health science to it anyways

John Henderson @jphendo.bsky.social • 2h
Shouldn't "never invent data" be established in the most basic training of Al?
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.b... • 2h
You'd have thought so. I once asked it for campsites in Tasmania and it invented a few.
Good job I cross-checked.
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Edd Edmondson @eddedmondson.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a terrible idea. The only thing these can do is invent, and while they may often reinvent there is never any guarantee.

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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 1d

If you continue to hold on to your X account..
If you continue to drive a Tesla...
If you continue using Starlink...

Remember who and what you’re supporting.
Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson’s legal costs.

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Robinson allegedly failed to comply with officers who ‘became concerned’ by his behaviour at Channel Tunnel

buff.ly

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder for the nationalists out there

BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 1d

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Edd Edmondson @eddedmondson.bsky.social · 1d

Want to set up a new Apple watch, but it won't let me copy over the old one till it's fully patched and it's taking *aaaaages*

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 1d

🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan

Image of a flashing red siren. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban This is an emergency. Tell your MP to say no to segregation. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

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Edd Edmondson @eddedmondson.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. Ridiculous system.

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Edd Edmondson @eddedmondson.bsky.social · 1d

Technically, not all. It's 26 of 42? But your point stands.

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Edd Edmondson @eddedmondson.bsky.social · 2d

Delightful @lateralcast.com live, in for a treat when it's released.

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Trans Moleman, Street Estrogen Junkie @transmoleman.bsky.social · 3d

Fuck yeah look at 'em go

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 4d

A little something to take the edge off as you head into the weekend @erinbiba.bsky.social

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 3d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 4d

Timeline cleanse, watch whole thing

Bulldogs: dense and heavy

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 5d

sherman, for the love of god!

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