Steve Karpik
@stevekarpik.bsky.social
Background in physics, astrophysics, and mechanical engineering. Former researcher and professor. For 25+ years I’ve created science center exhibits. Lifelong science nerd, cat devotee, curious about everything.
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"essays produced by ChatGPT are soulless, boring abominations. Words, phrases and punctuation rarely used by the average college student are pervasive." www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
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November 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"essays produced by ChatGPT are soulless, boring abominations. Words, phrases and punctuation rarely used by the average college student are pervasive." www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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The America First guy has brought in 566 foreign workers during his 5 years in office to work at his companies instead of hiring Americans. And counting.
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The America First guy has brought in 566 foreign workers during his 5 years in office to work at his companies instead of hiring Americans. And counting.
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HAPPENING TODAY! 🌐🎨
Celebrate 1 trillion web pages archived on the #WaybackMachine through art: Internet Archive x @GrayArea.org: Trillionth Webpage Net․Art Commissions.
📅 Sat, Nov 1
🕗 5–8 PM PT
📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1872604563...
#Wayback1T
Celebrate 1 trillion web pages archived on the #WaybackMachine through art: Internet Archive x @GrayArea.org: Trillionth Webpage Net․Art Commissions.
📅 Sat, Nov 1
🕗 5–8 PM PT
📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1872604563...
#Wayback1T
November 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
HAPPENING TODAY! 🌐🎨
Celebrate 1 trillion web pages archived on the #WaybackMachine through art: Internet Archive x @GrayArea.org: Trillionth Webpage Net․Art Commissions.
📅 Sat, Nov 1
🕗 5–8 PM PT
📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1872604563...
#Wayback1T
Celebrate 1 trillion web pages archived on the #WaybackMachine through art: Internet Archive x @GrayArea.org: Trillionth Webpage Net․Art Commissions.
📅 Sat, Nov 1
🕗 5–8 PM PT
📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1872604563...
#Wayback1T
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New trackers bring prairie dogs’ little-known underground life to light [2024]
"The tracker uses sensors, including accelerometers and magnetometers, and combines them with GPS technology to enable researchers to retrace the trajectories of the animals."
news.mongabay.com/2024/03/new-...
"The tracker uses sensors, including accelerometers and magnetometers, and combines them with GPS technology to enable researchers to retrace the trajectories of the animals."
news.mongabay.com/2024/03/new-...
New trackers bring prairie dogs’ little-known underground life to light
To say tracking prairie dogs is difficult would be an understatement. The animals spend most of their time in burrows. Since conventional GPS collars don’t function underground, the movements and inte...
news.mongabay.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
New trackers bring prairie dogs’ little-known underground life to light [2024]
"The tracker uses sensors, including accelerometers and magnetometers, and combines them with GPS technology to enable researchers to retrace the trajectories of the animals."
news.mongabay.com/2024/03/new-...
"The tracker uses sensors, including accelerometers and magnetometers, and combines them with GPS technology to enable researchers to retrace the trajectories of the animals."
news.mongabay.com/2024/03/new-...
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Progressives keep looking for signs that Trump is done. His poll number are low, etc. But the truth is 40% of Americans support him. They would die for him. That is enough to keep him in power forever. How he keeps this support is a mystery to me.
October 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Progressives keep looking for signs that Trump is done. His poll number are low, etc. But the truth is 40% of Americans support him. They would die for him. That is enough to keep him in power forever. How he keeps this support is a mystery to me.
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“Young adults aren’t having enough kids” bro I’m employed full-time with a damn PhD and I’m struggling to afford both groceries and rent.
I love kids but I can barely afford my pets.
Want us to have kids? Try UBI, rent control, universal healthcare, cheaper child care.
I love kids but I can barely afford my pets.
Want us to have kids? Try UBI, rent control, universal healthcare, cheaper child care.
October 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“Young adults aren’t having enough kids” bro I’m employed full-time with a damn PhD and I’m struggling to afford both groceries and rent.
I love kids but I can barely afford my pets.
Want us to have kids? Try UBI, rent control, universal healthcare, cheaper child care.
I love kids but I can barely afford my pets.
Want us to have kids? Try UBI, rent control, universal healthcare, cheaper child care.
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I wrote an article for the latest issue of Noir City magazine, co-authored with Danilo Castro, a managing editor of the publication. It’s called “Between Stories, Elevator Operators in Noir.”
www.filmnoirfoundation.org/noircitymaga...
www.filmnoirfoundation.org/noircitymaga...
October 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I wrote an article for the latest issue of Noir City magazine, co-authored with Danilo Castro, a managing editor of the publication. It’s called “Between Stories, Elevator Operators in Noir.”
www.filmnoirfoundation.org/noircitymaga...
www.filmnoirfoundation.org/noircitymaga...
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George was just trying to get to work.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
October 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
George was just trying to get to work.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
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🤖 Robots are everywhere these days, but how close are we actually to "The Jetsons"? A professor of computer science weighs in on humanoid robotics: buff.ly/UAZYYqx
October 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
🤖 Robots are everywhere these days, but how close are we actually to "The Jetsons"? A professor of computer science weighs in on humanoid robotics: buff.ly/UAZYYqx
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Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube.
It would be a shame for you to share it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
It would be a shame for you to share it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
www.youtube.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube.
It would be a shame for you to share it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
It would be a shame for you to share it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
This is madness. In the NY Times: A federal vaccine advisory panel appeared poised to vote against recommending vaccinating children under 4 with a combination shot that protects against measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox. It was also expected to vote to limit the use of a hepatitis B vaccine.
September 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is madness. In the NY Times: A federal vaccine advisory panel appeared poised to vote against recommending vaccinating children under 4 with a combination shot that protects against measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox. It was also expected to vote to limit the use of a hepatitis B vaccine.
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Nutbar anti-vaxxers granted ersatz respectability by the likes of petulant piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre and Queen of Stupid Danielle Smith are responsible for this👇🏻
September 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Nutbar anti-vaxxers granted ersatz respectability by the likes of petulant piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre and Queen of Stupid Danielle Smith are responsible for this👇🏻
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Why the heck would the Prime Minister of Canada invite this disgusting man to a cabinet meeting? Has Carney lost his mind?
September 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Why the heck would the Prime Minister of Canada invite this disgusting man to a cabinet meeting? Has Carney lost his mind?
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Last week, the CDC director was fired after only a month in the job. Afterwards, other senior leaders resigned from the agency.
After CDC Director Is Ousted, More Senior Officials Resign
Former CDC scientist Demetre Daskalakis left his post, citing political interference and a lack of science in decision-making at the agency.
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September 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Last week, the CDC director was fired after only a month in the job. Afterwards, other senior leaders resigned from the agency.
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Your weekly reminder that voter "concern" with immigration doesn't correspond to actual immigration levels.
It corresponds to the amount of coverage the media gives immigration.
This an entirely self-fulfilling mess, and it is entirely pointless.
It corresponds to the amount of coverage the media gives immigration.
This an entirely self-fulfilling mess, and it is entirely pointless.
September 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Your weekly reminder that voter "concern" with immigration doesn't correspond to actual immigration levels.
It corresponds to the amount of coverage the media gives immigration.
This an entirely self-fulfilling mess, and it is entirely pointless.
It corresponds to the amount of coverage the media gives immigration.
This an entirely self-fulfilling mess, and it is entirely pointless.
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"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda
How quick we forget.
How quick we forget.
September 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda
How quick we forget.
How quick we forget.
Confronting book bans in Alberta, iconic Canadian author Margaret Atwood responded with this short story:
September 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Confronting book bans in Alberta, iconic Canadian author Margaret Atwood responded with this short story:
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