Katie Stitzer
@cuckooduck.bsky.social
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By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
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Because I think we need to ask the important questions, regardless of potential controversy, here is one for you: If you had lived at the time, and in the circumstances, in which it would have been relevant, would you have been a Dapper Dan man?
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Because I think we need to ask the important questions, regardless of potential controversy, here is one for you: If you had lived at the time, and in the circumstances, in which it would have been relevant, would you have been a Dapper Dan man?
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the worst star wars movie is easily "air force one." I'm supposed to believe han solo is the president of the united states? on earth? fuck out of here with that bullshit.
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
the worst star wars movie is easily "air force one." I'm supposed to believe han solo is the president of the united states? on earth? fuck out of here with that bullshit.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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Might be the most vacuous person of the last decade. An empty vessel for lobbyist cash.
Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema lobbies for data center developer at Chandler AZ Plan Commission. Says she's working "hand in glove" w Trump Admin & warns city to embrace DCs or face federal intervention. City Council vote on Sinema's DC scheduled for Nov. 13.
October 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Might be the most vacuous person of the last decade. An empty vessel for lobbyist cash.
I hope he gets his wish.
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
www.npr.org
October 24, 2025 at 4:46 AM
I hope he gets his wish.
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I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.
October 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.
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Goddamn @theamynicholson.bsky.social COOKED with this FRANKENSTEIN review. Bow down to one of the greats. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
October 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Goddamn @theamynicholson.bsky.social COOKED with this FRANKENSTEIN review. Bow down to one of the greats. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Apparently my kids’ school can’t have a no AI policy because the student teachers placed there are required to teach “responsible use” of AI. What would that even be? How do you responsibly use something built on stolen work? That is draining aquifers and doubling people’s power bills?
October 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Apparently my kids’ school can’t have a no AI policy because the student teachers placed there are required to teach “responsible use” of AI. What would that even be? How do you responsibly use something built on stolen work? That is draining aquifers and doubling people’s power bills?
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I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".
September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".
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Every person who says "of course there are some uses for LLMs" should be forced to immediately list what those uses are, taking into account that:
a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate
b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs
a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate
b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs
September 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Every person who says "of course there are some uses for LLMs" should be forced to immediately list what those uses are, taking into account that:
a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate
b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs
a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate
b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
August 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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NEWS from me: The Trump administration has decided to destroy almost $10 million worth of contraceptives rather than send them to women in need overseas. The destruction itself will cost $167,000, the state department told me. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump administration to destroy nearly $10m of contraceptives for women overseas
As part of president’s shuttering of USAID, destruction of the contraceptives will cost US taxpayers $167,000
www.theguardian.com
July 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
NEWS from me: The Trump administration has decided to destroy almost $10 million worth of contraceptives rather than send them to women in need overseas. The destruction itself will cost $167,000, the state department told me. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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A remarkable moment from an interview with Brad Lander on the Jewish Currents podcast: two ICE officers who arrested him are immigrant New Yorkers, one of whom was considering voting for him and Mamdani
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July 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A remarkable moment from an interview with Brad Lander on the Jewish Currents podcast: two ICE officers who arrested him are immigrant New Yorkers, one of whom was considering voting for him and Mamdani
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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A cool new paper from researchers @harvardepi.bsky.social uses a type of signal processing analysis to examine COVID waves and their findings confirm what I have long suspected about the seasonality.
June 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A cool new paper from researchers @harvardepi.bsky.social uses a type of signal processing analysis to examine COVID waves and their findings confirm what I have long suspected about the seasonality.
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A good rubric for any given piece of media about "transgender issues" is asking yourself how well the author answered the question "What about the trans people?"
It seems so stupidly obvious but you'll quickly notice how discourse ostensibly about us generally avoids the consequences we face
It seems so stupidly obvious but you'll quickly notice how discourse ostensibly about us generally avoids the consequences we face
June 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
A good rubric for any given piece of media about "transgender issues" is asking yourself how well the author answered the question "What about the trans people?"
It seems so stupidly obvious but you'll quickly notice how discourse ostensibly about us generally avoids the consequences we face
It seems so stupidly obvious but you'll quickly notice how discourse ostensibly about us generally avoids the consequences we face
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Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles
May 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles
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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
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The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI:
It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that
It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that
May 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI:
It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that
It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that
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NEWS: Thanks to courageous West Virginia coal miner Harry Wiley and his brilliant attorney, Sam Petsonk, over 100 NIOSH workers in Morgantown, WV just got their jobs back and the crucial Coal Workers Surveillance Program will be restored.
They took on RFK and the Trump admin—and won. Story soon.
They took on RFK and the Trump admin—and won. Story soon.
May 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
NEWS: Thanks to courageous West Virginia coal miner Harry Wiley and his brilliant attorney, Sam Petsonk, over 100 NIOSH workers in Morgantown, WV just got their jobs back and the crucial Coal Workers Surveillance Program will be restored.
They took on RFK and the Trump admin—and won. Story soon.
They took on RFK and the Trump admin—and won. Story soon.
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If multiple breaths are needed to voice a list of caveats about why something might be useful, is that thing really worth it?
May 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
If multiple breaths are needed to voice a list of caveats about why something might be useful, is that thing really worth it?
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It’s true we live in a capitalist system where we are always implicated in layers of harm, but the push to integrate corporatized GenAI into educational systems is an accelerant of precarity, and so, I believe it is worth refusing, right now, with everything I’ve got.
May 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It’s true we live in a capitalist system where we are always implicated in layers of harm, but the push to integrate corporatized GenAI into educational systems is an accelerant of precarity, and so, I believe it is worth refusing, right now, with everything I’ve got.
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This is the Ghorman character I would most like to see as a Return of the Jedi-style Kenner action figure.
May 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This is the Ghorman character I would most like to see as a Return of the Jedi-style Kenner action figure.