Bjørn B (No ALT? No RT)
@sarcasticsmall.bsky.social
Eppur si muove! -and yet it moves. Something Galileo probably never said, but what a beautiful retort in defiance of religious oppression it would have been.
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Businesses have tried to replace workers with AI, and failed.
The technology isn't there (yet).
The technology isn't there (yet).
November 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Businesses have tried to replace workers with AI, and failed.
The technology isn't there (yet).
The technology isn't there (yet).
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I think that the fact that AI generates grammatically correct phrases is impressive. It took thirty or forty years to get there.
This doesn't mean that AI understands anything (yet)
This doesn't mean that AI understands anything (yet)
November 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I think that the fact that AI generates grammatically correct phrases is impressive. It took thirty or forty years to get there.
This doesn't mean that AI understands anything (yet)
This doesn't mean that AI understands anything (yet)
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If a Psych prof assigns students an essay response paper with explicit guidelines and then flunks a student for turning in a paper that ignores those guidelines but instead makes vague gestures to "the Bible" then THAT IS NOT A VIOLATION OF THE STUDENT'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
If a Psych prof assigns students an essay response paper with explicit guidelines and then flunks a student for turning in a paper that ignores those guidelines but instead makes vague gestures to "the Bible" then THAT IS NOT A VIOLATION OF THE STUDENT'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
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The batch of coffee ganache chocolates is complete. The scent is still hanging in the air.
November 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The batch of coffee ganache chocolates is complete. The scent is still hanging in the air.
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Hot and wicked smart. Beware. 🫣
November 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Hot and wicked smart. Beware. 🫣
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For some of us, they never left.
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
AI is accelerating a tech backlash in American classrooms
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
econ.st
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
For some of us, they never left.
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
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Er så lei "du vil ha jointen din i fred"-greiene. Jeg har den allerede i fred, det er ingen som stopper meg i verken å kjøpe eller nyte den. Jeg vil ha jointen min regulert. Jeg vil betale skatt og avgift på den. Jeg vil at fyren jeg kjøpte den av får pensjonspoeng og har en trygg hverdag.
November 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Er så lei "du vil ha jointen din i fred"-greiene. Jeg har den allerede i fred, det er ingen som stopper meg i verken å kjøpe eller nyte den. Jeg vil ha jointen min regulert. Jeg vil betale skatt og avgift på den. Jeg vil at fyren jeg kjøpte den av får pensjonspoeng og har en trygg hverdag.
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The uncommon southern California Borb Jay. 🪶
November 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The uncommon southern California Borb Jay. 🪶
Good thread from Baldur, pointing that LLMs have very little actual economic value, but all the downsides covered by me and others - and more.
The economic risk for societies can be enormous.
The economic risk for societies can be enormous.
“AI sceptics” who work on policy and education continue to overestimate the utility of LLMs—portraying it as a potential revolution even as they warn against overhype—simply because they can’t see that generating seemingly coherent text has very little economic value, all evidence to the contrary
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Good thread from Baldur, pointing that LLMs have very little actual economic value, but all the downsides covered by me and others - and more.
The economic risk for societies can be enormous.
The economic risk for societies can be enormous.
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"Thousands of people gathered from all over Italy in Genoa to demand an end to the suffering in Gaza."(via Palestine Online) #Italy #Gaza #Palestine
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"Thousands of people gathered from all over Italy in Genoa to demand an end to the suffering in Gaza."(via Palestine Online) #Italy #Gaza #Palestine
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Israel is using existing ceasefire agreements to establish new realities on the ground, projecting itself as the regional hegemon by launching attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank.
November 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Israel is using existing ceasefire agreements to establish new realities on the ground, projecting itself as the regional hegemon by launching attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank.
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Bodily autonomy & civil rights are not a fucking OPINION, however. That is not up for debate or to be negotiated. We know exactly who you are targeting here.
Which candidate yet has had the spine to tell right wing & even centrist DEMS that their bigoted OPINIONS do not dictate the laws or science?
Which candidate yet has had the spine to tell right wing & even centrist DEMS that their bigoted OPINIONS do not dictate the laws or science?
There is an extraordinary sense of entitlement behind the belief that there ought to be political party that aligns 100% with your own opinions.
November 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Bodily autonomy & civil rights are not a fucking OPINION, however. That is not up for debate or to be negotiated. We know exactly who you are targeting here.
Which candidate yet has had the spine to tell right wing & even centrist DEMS that their bigoted OPINIONS do not dictate the laws or science?
Which candidate yet has had the spine to tell right wing & even centrist DEMS that their bigoted OPINIONS do not dictate the laws or science?
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Donald Trump hates me, and the feeling is mutual.
I believe he is a criminal and an authoritarian who is trying to destroy our democracy and the rule of law. I spend a considerable amount of my time fighting against him and his enablers in court and in public discourse.
I believe he is a criminal and an authoritarian who is trying to destroy our democracy and the rule of law. I spend a considerable amount of my time fighting against him and his enablers in court and in public discourse.
Trump Sued Me. I Fought and Won.
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Donald Trump hates me, and the feeling is mutual.
I believe he is a criminal and an authoritarian who is trying to destroy our democracy and the rule of law. I spend a considerable amount of my time fighting against him and his enablers in court and in public discourse.
I believe he is a criminal and an authoritarian who is trying to destroy our democracy and the rule of law. I spend a considerable amount of my time fighting against him and his enablers in court and in public discourse.
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Oh, it shook the world alright. Can’t believe they’re actually selling replicas to the cultists.
November 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Oh, it shook the world alright. Can’t believe they’re actually selling replicas to the cultists.
May it fall enough to waste the industry.
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
May it fall enough to waste the industry.
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The fact that TPUSA posted the entirely reasonable comments from the instructor here as coming from the “TRANS PROFESSOR” gives away the game.
They’re not defending students, they’re targeting faculty — as always
They’re not defending students, they’re targeting faculty — as always
idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The fact that TPUSA posted the entirely reasonable comments from the instructor here as coming from the “TRANS PROFESSOR” gives away the game.
They’re not defending students, they’re targeting faculty — as always
They’re not defending students, they’re targeting faculty — as always
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Just had a good laugh at someone I completely forgot existed coming back here and blocking me straight away. Do people keep a list of previous blocks, or am I just such a horrible person they will remember me forever?
a little girl wearing a leopard print shirt is making a face
Alt: a little girl wearing a leopard print shirt is making a face grinning
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Just had a good laugh at someone I completely forgot existed coming back here and blocking me straight away. Do people keep a list of previous blocks, or am I just such a horrible person they will remember me forever?
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Jeg innrømmer det. Jeg skravler på BSky.
a man walking on a dirt road with the words i 'm sorry written below him
Alt: a sad man walking on a dirt road with the words i 'm sorry written below him.
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Jeg innrømmer det. Jeg skravler på BSky.
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www.404media.co/ancient-poem... 724 ancient poems reference the Yangtze finless porpoise over the past 1,400 years, since the Tang Dynasty
Ancient Poems Record the Decline of a Special Porpoise
The Yangtze finless porpoise is near extinction in the wild, but glimpses of its heyday can be found in centuries of Chinese poetry.
www.404media.co
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
www.404media.co/ancient-poem... 724 ancient poems reference the Yangtze finless porpoise over the past 1,400 years, since the Tang Dynasty