Brock Edwards
brockedwards.bsky.social
Brock Edwards
@brockedwards.bsky.social
Environmental science instructor at the University of Manitoba, working on mercury (Hg), volcanoes, and air quality
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Bin men woke me up clattering about at 6.30 am. Thank you bin men.
Full moon still up in the bright western sky. A thin wispy dawn mist hanging over the valley. A beautiful September morning.
Thank you bin men.
September 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Don't trust "AI" and also realize that the push to have "AI" in everything happened because some tech people wanted to get rich and other tech people didn't want others to get rich without them, and now they've all spent too much money on a bad product and are trying to scramble out of the hole.
Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.

Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
arstechnica.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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December 17, 2024 at 2:46 PM
This article on effusive and explosive volcanism has zero chill; “highlights that the geoneutrino teams did not recognize their mistakes, more than these losers do not nominate the author on the Nobel Prize for discovery of the role of 40K”; doi.org/10.4236/ijg....
December 12, 2024 at 9:29 PM
I really do like this place.
November 18, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.
November 16, 2024 at 4:43 PM