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Neuroscientist by day & Award Nominated Writer of both Comics & Novels by night. Queer heroines and badass characters with heart are my jam. 🐕🎶🎥🌴🌊 | she/her | No AI | Published wide/Kobo+ 🌐 mhcaliwrites.com 🌐 bio.site/MHCali

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M.H. Cali @mhcaliwrites.com · Jun 20

Feel like reading a story about badass yet soft lesbians who went through the apocalypse together? 💗✨

Missed the successful graphic novel campaign?

Good news; you can still pre-order your copy!

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Pre-order Back To Earth on BackerKit

A world that fell over the edge. A hostile wasteland cloaked in peculiarity. Yet, Sasha and Leora’s bond is stronger than extinction. Join us on this tale about the aftermath of a big collapse, and ho...

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AndreaaaHHhHHHHh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 1d

fuckin YIKES

Geoffrey A. Fowler @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social · 1d

ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.

@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.

My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC

Column | ChatGPT just came out with its own web browser. Use it with caution.

OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.

wapo.st

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 2d

I work in the tech industry, specifically human-AI interaction. The personal data they collect from you is worth more than your out-of-pocket expense for that "smart" mattress, home assistant, security camera, dishwasher, etc.

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2d

Quick question. Why does literally everything require you to have an account.

Everything.

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Jen Vaughn @thejenya.bsky.social · 1d

Futurama already did this.

Image of Futurama. The text says screaming, it shows a giant ray of light (which is coming off of a mirror in space) cutting through an amphitheater ceiling and wall, burning people it encounters like a kid with a magnifying glass

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Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 2d

There are lots of tools out there to help you migrate your play lists from Spotify to just about any other streaming service. The time to ditch Spotify is now.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4d

Cancel SPOTIFY.

They are running ICE ads.

F them.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...

Is Spotify running ICE recruitment ads? Here are the facts

The advertising "is part of a broad campaign the US government is running" across various platforms — not just Spotify, a spokesperson told Snopes.

www.snopes.com

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Darkest Timeline Chelsea @chelseariffic.bsky.social · 3d

A lot of people seem to think there will be a cure for them if they get Long COVID. There will not be. Mask up.

Truthout @truthout.org · 3d

RFK Jr. has shut down the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, gutted funding, and derailed trials and studies.

I Am One of 20 Million in US With Long COVID. RFK Pulled the Rug From Under Us.

RFK Jr. has shut down the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice, gutted funding, and derailed trials and studies.

truthout.org

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 4d

we are in a self-awareness crisis

Quote post from X by "OscarAI":
Never do this:

Passing off someone else’s work as your own.

This Grok Imagine effect with the day-to-night transition was created by me — and I’m pretty sure that person knows it.

To make things worse, their copy has more impressions than my original post.

Not cool 👎
Quoted post:
Prashant @Prashant_1722
Oct 15
Grok Imagine trick:

Add "day to night transition" to your prompt.

In shots like this, you’ll see a beautiful, harmonious effect as the day turns int...
(AI slop animation video)

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 4d

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 9d

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half

Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’

www.theguardian.com

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 4d

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 4d

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 9d

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 5d

Security risk:

SpiffySmallSound @doublecollusion.bsky.social · 5d

Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff

Block, move on.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 7d

Michigan has a similar bill, House Bill 4938, that is also seeking the same goals!

VPN usage at risk in Michigan under new proposed adult content law

The "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" would force internet service providers to monitor and block VPN connections

www.techradar.com

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Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app · 8d

COVID is still here.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 8d

weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

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WIRED @wired.com · 9d

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January. www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

www.wired.com

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 8d

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 10d

In case you aren’t aware, any video you see with the label “Sora” is A.I. generated. It’s fake.

Do NOT make or share #AI videos. It contributes to misinformation, and to a larger culture of disrespect for truth and disregard of reality.

Plus it enriches capitalist techbros raping the planet.

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 12d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 13d

important on LLMs for academics:

1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems

2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism

3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills

4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution

5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI

6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense

5 Ghostwriter in the Machine
A unique selling point of these systems is conversing and writing in a human-like way. This is imminently understandable, although wrong-headed, when one realises these are systems that
essentially function as lossy2
content-addressable memory: when
input is given, the output generated by the model is text that
stochastically matches the input text. The reason text at the output looks novel is because by design the AI product performs
an automated version of what is known as mosaic or patchwork
plagiarism (Baždarić, 2013) — due to the nature of input masking and next token prediction, the output essentially uses similar words in similar orders to what it has been exposed to. This
makes the automated flagging of plagiarism unlikely, which is
also true when students or colleagues perform this type of copypaste and then thesaurus trick, and true when so-called AI plagiarism detectors falsely claim to detect AI-produced text (Edwards, 2023a). This aspect of LLM-based AI products can be
seen as an automation of plagiarism and especially of the research paper mill (Guest, 2025; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025; van
Rooij, 2022): the “churn[ing] out [of] fake or poor-quality journal papers” (Sanderson, 2024; Committee on Publication Ethics,

Either way, even if
the courts decide in the favour of companies, we should not allow
these companies with vested interests to write our papers (Fisher
et al., 2025), or to filter what we include in our papers. Because
it is not the case that we only operate based on legal precedents,
but also on our own ethical values and scientific integrity codes
(ALLEA, 2023; KNAW et al., 2018), and we have a direct duty to
protect, as with previous crises and in general, the literature from
pollution. In other words, the same issues as in previous sections
play out here, where essentially now every paper produced using
chatbot output must declare a conflict of interest, since the output text can be biased in subtle or direct ways by the company
who owns the bot (see Table 2).
Seen in the right light — AI products understood as contentaddressable systems — we see that framing the user, the academic
in this case, as the creator of the bot’s output is misplaced. The
input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like
input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles
and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors
wrote those, not the search query!

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 12d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 15d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15d

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 16d

True story, during the Great Recession, Airbus said that to survive it needed to open some non-EU factories in places with cheap, compliant labor, no environmental restrictions, and no meaningful labor law and after a lengthy internal study the two sites they chose were Bangladesh and Alabama.

Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 16d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Abi Stevens: MCM N16 @abistevensart.bsky.social · 16d

My seconds sale includes several of my Pride lolly keychains, which I've discounted only for having very slightly wonky sticks. 👀❤️
abistevens.etsy.com?section_id=3...

#artShop #ace #superSecondsFestival

A photo of 7 different ice lolly keychain designs with different shapes and in the colours of different Pride flags: lesbian, trans, nonbinary, LGBTQIA+, pansexual, asexual, and bisexual.

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 17d

Effin' Birds mugs are $10 until October 21st.
eatf.art/mug

A ceramic mug featuring an illustration of a bird beside the text "motherfucker you do not want to hear my actual opinion"

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 16d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17d

Robin Williams daughter Zelda is pleading with people to stop creating AI videos of her Dad.

I’m pleading with you to stop using generative AI.

It’s destructive to the environment.

It’s destructive to artists.

It’s destructive to humanity.

It steals from us and churns out slop.

Just stop.

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