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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who doesn’t understand that multiethnic, polyglot New York is the _real_ New York, the only New York that exists, in reality, today, is living in the past and is unfit to be mayor, Andrew Cuomo whoops that last bit just slipped out

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

He just like me fr fr

Mamdani patting a cat in a store and asking in Arabic “How are you chief?”

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 1d

Okay well FIRST OF ALL it was an imaginary WOLF and second of all, who wouldn't have an imaginary wolf? Next best thing to an actual wolf and it doesn't chew the couch cushions.

The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 1d

Clinicians will be able to identify female autism in mere seconds by posing one simple question: “Do you have, or have you ever had, an imaginary horse?”

New autism assessment criteria for girls to just ask about imaginary horse

Researchers have developed a new assessment tool designed to detect autism in girls and women, correcting decades of gender imbalance in the diagnostic process, it has been announced. Clinicians…

thedailytism.com

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 2d

Should read The AI Con sooner rather than later to make sure I'm a fully informed hater

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 2d

"How do you address concerns from students or colleagues who are skeptical or fearful of AI?"

I tell them that they're right and should keep on being haters?

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 2d

I love being asked to be on a panel about AI, and say yes, and realize that... I bring a sort of "it's bad, actually" vibe to the conversation that the people in charge don't really like.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 2d

Delightful Hallowe'en Catfishing today!
catfishing.net
#495 - 7/10
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catfishing - the Wikipedia guessing game

Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories. 10 interesting people, places, and things to guess every day.

catfishing.net

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 4d

I think we should still teach students writing, not AI-assisted document production. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Writing Classes Are About Writing, Not AI-Aided Production

If we want students to learn to write, AI tools shouldn’t have much of a role. If we don’t think students need to learn to write anymore, I’m not sure what we’re doing here.

www.insidehighered.com

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 5d

This is a Gene Wolfe novel

Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 5d

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’

Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley

www.theguardian.com

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 5d

"That was a crazy pull," a student told me when I pulled the right book off the shelf immediately after they'd told me the call number.

I am at the peak of my library career: old enough to have honed my shelf-reading skills to the highest level, young enough to still have visual acuity.

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B. Pladek @bpladek.bsky.social · 18d

MKE, if you're seeing the Marcus Center's Les Misérables this fall, I'm doing a Q&A on the novel before the Tues, Oct 28 show.

Come on out to learn about Hugo's 1300-page treatise on prison abolition, police brutality, & the necessity of perpetual revolution!
www.marcuscenter.org/event/les-mi...

Les Misérables

Set against the backdrop of 19th century France, Les Misérables tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption – a timeless testament to the surviva...

www.marcuscenter.org

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 6d

Is "appeal to nonsense evo psych" a recognized logical fallacy yet?

pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 6d

I can't decide whether publishing AI work under big authors' names will be more or less damaging to the world than having unleashed Rowling on it

Impressive work from this guy, making everything worse for everyone twice

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 7d

Unexpected upside AND downside to health sciences librarianship: getting better at researching things that might be wrong with me.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 7d

Getting a good grade in rolling up yōkai, a thing that is normal to want and possible to achieve.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 7d

Biked to the coffee shop to see if I could,
And I could,
But I did yell out "excuse me, I have the right of way here actually," so I may not do that again.
(No bikes or Emilys were harmed - just a closer call than I would have preferred)

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 7d

Same.

The jobs that paid a fine, modest salary in the 90s are now paying "you're broke" on the high end and "you're broke, IF you can manage to find a job" on the low end.

they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 8d

People did warn me when I was younger to pursue high-paying fields, and I always shrugged them off. I thought, “I’m not a materialistic person, I don’t want to live in luxury—I’ll be fine making a modest salary. Money’s not important to me.”

Turns out you need a shitload of money just to be broke.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 8d

However, the controls for the banquet level are so unhinged I may never pass it

Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 8d

It takes a while for the new Katamari Damacy game to really get rolling, but it finally did, and I'm having a ball.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 8d

100% annoying / exasperating. Like. I get why people do it. But every time it's like "yup, I sure do look like a dude when I'm wearing a beanie and a winter coat," and ... we would not have to do this if being confused about someone's gender did not make some people Very Anxious.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 9d

Sexy xenogenic collagen matrix (yes, really)
(I presume I know at least one writer who could make it work)

TheGrimRecapper @thegrimrecapper.bsky.social · 9d

Sexy self care

Merc with a 🫦 full of blood🩸 @mercuryal.bsky.social · 9d

sexy cube

Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 9d

Still got my Brooklyn Nonchalance (tm) when I need to tell somebody I'm neither a sweetheart nor a baby

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 9d

I DID spend all week working on my presentation to a class on banned books, so that was fun!

Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 9d

Kind of nice to have a week where I'm too busy to think "what if I'm terrible at my job, what if everyone secretly hates me," but also exhausting.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 9d

Learning more than I ever wanted to know about deproteinized bovine bone mineral and xenogenic collagen matrix.

(Not learning much, mind you. But more than I ever wanted to know.)

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 11d

Another day in the graphic photos of oral surgery mines.
Whee!