The Erinaceous Advent Stargazer 🌟
@erinaceousphd.bsky.social
Grumpy Black crone who likes to think and explore (and seek mindfulness, within reason). In pfp: a hedgehog with a kente kufi on its head, and red laser eyes. Not chill.
Currently rearing an aging, unsociable 🦔 rescue.
Currently rearing an aging, unsociable 🦔 rescue.
Pinned
Quick intro:
- mid-30s, Fenty 450, Niger Deltan descent 👋🏿
- known elsewhere for locked account where I vented about bad grad school XP
- older now; venting isn’t good for my blood pressure
- non-professional account: expect cooking, plants, mourning pets, deconstruction of fundie upbringing (1/)
- mid-30s, Fenty 450, Niger Deltan descent 👋🏿
- known elsewhere for locked account where I vented about bad grad school XP
- older now; venting isn’t good for my blood pressure
- non-professional account: expect cooking, plants, mourning pets, deconstruction of fundie upbringing (1/)
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
My abs are sore post-massage (???), but I also want to run tonight before it gets too cold, so let me take this nap. 💤
November 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
My abs are sore post-massage (???), but I also want to run tonight before it gets too cold, so let me take this nap. 💤
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In recent days, oddly similar AI-generated videos depicting nonexistent Black people accompanied by captions such as “dear white people” and “hit follow if you want peace” have proliferated on TikTok. Here's a look at the spam network posting the videos.
www.conspirator0.com/p/one-ai-gen...
www.conspirator0.com/p/one-ai-gen...
One AI-generated human race
None of these people exist, but that hasn’t stopped them from posting profusely on TikTok
www.conspirator0.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
In recent days, oddly similar AI-generated videos depicting nonexistent Black people accompanied by captions such as “dear white people” and “hit follow if you want peace” have proliferated on TikTok. Here's a look at the spam network posting the videos.
www.conspirator0.com/p/one-ai-gen...
www.conspirator0.com/p/one-ai-gen...
Evergreen.
Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
November 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Evergreen.
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A kitten is following her dream of opening a flower shop and is already receiving her first customers.
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A kitten is following her dream of opening a flower shop and is already receiving her first customers.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I ran into a hotel booking bot on the phone. It quoted me $260 for a room. I asked what it's fave color was and it disintegrated into botspeak, so I hung up.
When I got there, however, the nice lady at the hotel desk said yes, they have a room and it costs about $170.
#truth
#DontTrustAI
When I got there, however, the nice lady at the hotel desk said yes, they have a room and it costs about $170.
#truth
#DontTrustAI
What Is Agentic A.I., and Would You Trust It to Book a Flight?
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I ran into a hotel booking bot on the phone. It quoted me $260 for a room. I asked what it's fave color was and it disintegrated into botspeak, so I hung up.
When I got there, however, the nice lady at the hotel desk said yes, they have a room and it costs about $170.
#truth
#DontTrustAI
When I got there, however, the nice lady at the hotel desk said yes, they have a room and it costs about $170.
#truth
#DontTrustAI
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Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. helped Sofi secure an H-2A visa, promising a job on a Georgia blueberry farm.
When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others.
She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others.
She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
A Farmworkers Visa Promised Her a Better Life. It Was a Trap.
Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life. She ended up a victim of an operation that is alleged to have exploited the H-2A visa program — and the workers it ...
projects.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. helped Sofi secure an H-2A visa, promising a job on a Georgia blueberry farm.
When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others.
She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others.
She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
Read and dissect the study (like I always do), shrug and move on.
Question for my people: if a study dropped tomorrow saying seasoning makes you gain weight… what’s your next move? Because I’m not eating unseasoned chicken. Be serious.
November 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Read and dissect the study (like I always do), shrug and move on.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Everyone on my skyline is older than ICE. We lived a life without them and nothing has improved with their existence: housing is not cheaper, healthcare is not more accessible, and we are not more secure. Abolish ICE and it is your moral duty to oppose them kidnapping and trafficking people.
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Everyone on my skyline is older than ICE. We lived a life without them and nothing has improved with their existence: housing is not cheaper, healthcare is not more accessible, and we are not more secure. Abolish ICE and it is your moral duty to oppose them kidnapping and trafficking people.
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My friend Jake (that’s Dr. Beck to you!) on the crisis in Texas universities.
www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
Professor: Texas used to have universities
Former Texas Tech professor takes issue with the actions of Texas universities to restrict what topics can be discussed. Doing so makes them something other...
www.dallasnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
My friend Jake (that’s Dr. Beck to you!) on the crisis in Texas universities.
www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
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Going to try to start a rumour that the original themes of the Advent candles were Death, Judgement, Heaven, and Hell.
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Going to try to start a rumour that the original themes of the Advent candles were Death, Judgement, Heaven, and Hell.
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Remembering Chadwick Boseman on his birthday (November 29, 1976– August 28, 2020)💙🕊️
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Remembering Chadwick Boseman on his birthday (November 29, 1976– August 28, 2020)💙🕊️
Y’all: “Why are you stressed?”
Me: “I argue with a partially bald hedgehog when it’s his medication time, every night.”
His face still makes me smile, though. 😩
Me: “I argue with a partially bald hedgehog when it’s his medication time, every night.”
His face still makes me smile, though. 😩
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Y’all: “Why are you stressed?”
Me: “I argue with a partially bald hedgehog when it’s his medication time, every night.”
His face still makes me smile, though. 😩
Me: “I argue with a partially bald hedgehog when it’s his medication time, every night.”
His face still makes me smile, though. 😩
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I have every conceivable variation of "cute", "aww", "haha", "fyp", "funny", "dank memes", "relatable", and "doggos" blacklisted because using the internet feels like this.
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I have every conceivable variation of "cute", "aww", "haha", "fyp", "funny", "dank memes", "relatable", and "doggos" blacklisted because using the internet feels like this.
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And now AI slop is taking a serious bite out of SocArXiv.
Thread:
Thread:
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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November 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
And now AI slop is taking a serious bite out of SocArXiv.
Thread:
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If you're wondering ‘What do you mean it reads back to front as well as front to back?’
Well, I'll try to quickly explain what “THE SPECTACULAR SPACE LOOP” is ⬇️
Well, I'll try to quickly explain what “THE SPECTACULAR SPACE LOOP” is ⬇️
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If you're wondering ‘What do you mean it reads back to front as well as front to back?’
Well, I'll try to quickly explain what “THE SPECTACULAR SPACE LOOP” is ⬇️
Well, I'll try to quickly explain what “THE SPECTACULAR SPACE LOOP” is ⬇️
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When this video would play on TRL, I’d ALWAYS be late to first period. FUCK English! I’m trying to roll it all around, poke it out, and make my back go popt-popt-pop!
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
When this video would play on TRL, I’d ALWAYS be late to first period. FUCK English! I’m trying to roll it all around, poke it out, and make my back go popt-popt-pop!
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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This kind of BS is so insulting to those of us who put deliberate care and thought into crafting scientific figures. The images are supposed to SHOW SOMETHING and to CLARIFY information. What is the point of having an image full of nonsense?? #fuckAI
Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This kind of BS is so insulting to those of us who put deliberate care and thought into crafting scientific figures. The images are supposed to SHOW SOMETHING and to CLARIFY information. What is the point of having an image full of nonsense?? #fuckAI
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If I open an article and the splash banner is AI slop, I close the tab. If you don't have the bare minimum of discernment to not do that, what else do you consider "good enough" to publish?
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If I open an article and the splash banner is AI slop, I close the tab. If you don't have the bare minimum of discernment to not do that, what else do you consider "good enough" to publish?
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The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
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Hello moths,
The harvest has arrived: anisota.net/harvest
It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for Bluesky and the ATmosphere. 🌾
See your most-used words, discover who you interact with most, explore your posting patterns, and find all sorts of fun insights.
The harvest has arrived: anisota.net/harvest
It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for Bluesky and the ATmosphere. 🌾
See your most-used words, discover who you interact with most, explore your posting patterns, and find all sorts of fun insights.
Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest 2025
A recap of your year on Bluesky. Discover patterns, connections, and insights from your journey in the ATmosphere.
anisota.net
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Hello moths,
The harvest has arrived: anisota.net/harvest
It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for Bluesky and the ATmosphere. 🌾
See your most-used words, discover who you interact with most, explore your posting patterns, and find all sorts of fun insights.
The harvest has arrived: anisota.net/harvest
It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for Bluesky and the ATmosphere. 🌾
See your most-used words, discover who you interact with most, explore your posting patterns, and find all sorts of fun insights.