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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 6h

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Zuckerberg already tried, multiple times, to pivot the plagiarism machine what amplifies your delusions while being wrong, into a sexbot.

And each time, it turned into a pedophile.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Aug 15

Facebook literally made a chatbot months ago that sexted with children while pretending to be John Cena, and *then* made a chatbot with actually-written out specific policies on how to sext with children.

Meanwhile, the US and UK are going wild destroying the internet in terror of trans people.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Aug 15

Facebook literally made a chatbot months ago that sexted with children while pretending to be John Cena, and *then* made a chatbot with actually-written out specific policies on how to sext with children.

Meanwhile, the US and UK are going wild destroying the internet in terror of trans people.

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taz @taz.de · 15h

Die AfD Sachsen-Anhalt fragt gezielt nach Listen postkolonialer Seminare und Lehrstühle. Wie die Universitäten beginnen, sich gegen die Angriffe zu wappnen.

AfD hetzt gegen Hochschulen: Angriff auf die Freiheit der Wissenschaft

Die AfD Sachsen-Anhalt fragt gezielt nach Listen postkolonialer Seminare und Lehrstühle. Wie die Universitäten beginnen, sich gegen die Angriffe zu wappnen.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 7h

basic research on wacky things like Gila monster venom are what gave us GLP-1 drugs that are treating diabetes, obesity, & addiction in new ways

this piece from @whyy.org is great

an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive

whyy.org/segments/oze...

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 13h

Yay this paper is now published in Empirical Software Engineering!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 19h

Wie kann das nicht die Dystopie sein? Menschen müssen für ihre grundlegenden Bedürfnisse Menschen im Internet um Hilfe bitte. Für Windeln und Lebensmittel.
So müssen wir doch gar nicht leben. So muss unsere Gesellschaft doch gar nicht sein.

Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 1d

GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan notes a surge in grocery fundraisers as inflation and high costs strain Americans. With shrinking budgets and rising prices, more families—especially young and low-income—turn to crowdfunding to afford basic needs.
news.yahoo.com/news/finance...

GoFundMe CEO says the economy is so bad that more of his customers are crowdfunding just to pay for their groceries

GoFundMe’s CEO says more Americans are crowdfunding everyday essentials like groceries as high costs and strained household finances persist.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

There needs to be more coverage of this in the news. I have read so many stories bout this on Facebook, first hand stories of the terror of that storm, and very little coverage n media.
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Screenshot of a Facebook post. Photo is an elderly woman holding a child on her ap on a couch with flood water around them. Both are wearing jackets inside. Text says: This was after our 1st drift.. staying put for awhile. Our 3rd and final drift was terrifying. House moving fast then we started spinning in circles. While we were spinning in circles my oldest daughter was just staring at me while I held onto my younger two. Kipnuk doesn't look like kipnuk anymore, like more than 3/4 of the homes displaced, power poles fallen. It smells like stove oil outside. Contaminated

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 21h

Verily, may they reap harder.

But a shame Bezos succeeded in burning it to the ground.

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 21h

You heard about TDD, now prepare for SDD-

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n me zoey 🏳️‍⚧️ @zoedsoupe.zeetech.io · 1d

after being frozen for months, exlings is back. v0.2.0 just shipped with a complete CLI for learning Elixir
through hands-on exercises. Inspired by rustlings and ziglings.

perfect for beginners or devs coming from other languages! would like to ask for feedback+
#ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus

GitHub - zoedsoupe/exlings: rustlings but for elixir this time

rustlings but for elixir this time. Contribute to zoedsoupe/exlings development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

What an offensive statement from so-called historians. There have been others who have been chased out of the country. Mohamed Abdou was deported for his teaching about Gaza…and he was a prof AT COLUMBIA! But he was queer, Muslim, brown & untenured. Do only white straight tenured profs get sympathy?

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

I am seeing a lot of people reposting Lakota Man today bc it's Indigenous Peoples Day. A reminder that he is not well liked amongst many (most?) Natives on social media. Many of us blocked him a long time ago. Some of the reasons why are in this article.

www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...

Who is LakotaMan, the user behind one of the most popular Native American accounts on X?

John Martin is adored by white X users—but infamous among Native and Indigenous communities.

www.dailydot.com

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 2d

“Your job is not to turn in completed assignments; it's to learn how to think.”

Ted Chiang‘s succinct summary of the issue with using AI in education.

I’m not a sports guy but the athlete metaphor he uses in this interview is pretty spot on.

The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang

cdh.princeton.edu

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Trotim @trotim.bsky.social · 2d

an email I got about please stopping paper statements ended with an ad asking why I haven't used their crypto service yet

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 3d

I don't think this is "the most solid indicator." We can do better than studies with 16 participants who were directly told the study was about AI speedup

I wrote about this study & why I don't think it's particularly strong evidence for this effect:

www.fightforthehuman.com/are-develope...

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 2d

When the academics start saying the answer is we should never trust preprints but you're an interdisciplinary applied scholar so all your papers get rejected because they're with real world populations or get wildly biased reviews from hostile applied reviewers who don't know methods

a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat

Alt: a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat. Text reads chuckles, I'm in danger

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Isaac Hannaford @isaachannaford.com · 2d

latest on the WIP #conceptart #blender #scifiart #aircraftart #vehicledesign #scifi

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 2d

Absolutely heartbreaking visit to NZ's temperate glaciers on Te Tai Poutini West Coast.

Here's Kā Roimata-o-Hinehukatere Franz Joseph Glacier & Waiau (Waiho) River in Kā Tiritiri-o-te-moana the Southern Alps.

NZ's glaciers are in fast retreat due to Climate Change (see 2009 position drawn in).

View up a glacial valley towards mountains, with a flat valley floor & snow capped mountains. Lush rainforest frames the valley

This image shows how far the glacier has retreated just in 16 years - absolutely heartbreaking. The place where I took the photo was the terminal of the glacier in 1905

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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 2d

Anything that becomes wildly popular is milked to excess because it produces 'safeties' of capital. And the demand for more safety invites mediocrity, because that's the surest way to return an investment — mitigating your risks.

Producers and fans alike must recognize when a story is complete.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2d

This.

One of the weirdest claims about tech, is that if people only studied humanities, they would be more inclusive and kind.

No.

That's not the important dimension. Studying art or philosophy or history does not magically make you an ethical person.

Hitler was a painter. Wagner was a composer.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 2d

And a pulse laser would make a loud snap or crack at the impact point, so it would sound pretty similar-ish to any conventional rifle or supersonic coilgun, too.

So it's all just one big mush of auditory insults, in the end.

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 2d

I think there's also a kind of weird "okay but these guns would sound differently".

Whereas if this is in any way realistic, anything that has some kind of a "projectile" would probably have a supersonic bang like any contemporary projectile weapon, *especially* "plasma" weapons.

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