New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it. Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

In honor of (hopefully) today's launch of NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon in more than 50 years, here is a to-scale graphic of exactly how far away the Moon actually is. (Click image to expand.) You could fit about 30 Earths between the Earth and the Moon!

This and their whole package on being trans on the internet(www.theverge.com/cs/features/...) is why one should subscribe to journalism with a good ethics policy.

hi I wrote about Chappell Roan, public orgies of misogyny, and the trap of ignoring ‘celebrity news’ when misogynist harassment campaigns affect all women. None of the outrage slop we’ve seen is about Chappell's behavior—it's just a bunch of misogynists are justifying what they already wanted to do

This came out last weekend and feels only too timely as equipment to contemplate yesterday's revelations about Cesar Chavez, notably about why so few victims came forward in the past and why so many old crimes have been exhumed and addressed because something changed (and feminism changed it).

happy international women's day to one of the best genders to ever do it. man, i love you guys <33

"Just because a model correlates with neural and behavioral data, it is not sufficient for us to infer that the model is performing cognition: correlation does not imply cognition." On Logical Inference over Brains, Behaviour, and Artificial Neural Networks. doi.org/10.1007/s421... 3/n

BONUS ROUND My talk yesterday was really designed to be heard, especially the last quarter--so I recorded it! Have a listen, if it strikes your fancy! stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/plausible-...

this is so fun because i know an LLM wouldn’t give me a response this creative. like this took the funniest shortcut possible. come have fun at youraislopbores.me

Most health and medical data are drawn from research on male bodies. That leaves a big research gap that impedes progress on improving treatments for women, writes @smjyoti.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Conclusion: While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender." 🧪

I sat in a fucking court room and heard Apple imply that a naked cartoon banana was somehow inappropriate but somehow Grok non consensually undressing women and children is ok?? www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

Happy Halloween 🦇🦇🦇 Horror movie music can be deeply unsettling. Here's how composers achieve that effect www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... 🧪

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

I took a whole week to read and write about this paper because I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t just rubber-stamping some results I liked. And now I can confidently say, this paper is very well-done and very well-written. And I believe their results. open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

A well written and nuanced article by @helenpearson.bsky.social & @heidiledford.bsky.social arguing that there is insufficient data to link autism and acetaminophen and that focusing on such a link is no more than a distraction. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

When life gives you lemons (a review I thought was lazy and damaging in the way it framed women’s writing), make lemonade (a 2,500-word essay on the habits of literary criticism). kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/literary-c... #Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Scotland #Books

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If you are curious about what atproto is, what a PDS is, or what moving to a new PDS looks like. This may be a good starting place for you. This is my attempt at explaining some of the basics of Bluesky(atproto) in a less technical way.

I am thrilled to be recognized by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people worldwide in the field of artificial intelligence for my work with @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social. >> #TIME100AI time.com/time100ai I want to take this opportunity to share a few reflections on this work 👇🧵

NEW EPISODE! An OpenPGP.js bug gave us an excuse to tear encrypted email via PGP to shreds. William Woodruff joined us to explain the vuln & indulge our gnashing of teeth on why email was never meant to be encrypted: securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/08/22/s... www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL3...

I think the Vibecoding reddit has accidentally stumbled on the best description of vibecoding: It's "roleplay for guys [it is always guys] who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part". #ai #vibecoding

A brilliantly written and researched piece which might get you riled up and eager to defend the Open Web against the incessant attacks by Big Tech: wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/g...

THIS ESSAY IS SO GOOD. I don't know that I've ever read an essay so thoroughly saturated with sarcasm and yet devastatingly accurately shredding someone's stupid ideas. This is the kind of essay our world needs right now […]

“Scientists don’t have the Hippocratic oath that doctors do, but we should. If you see that harm to the stability of climate and to present and future generations is being caused, then, in my opinion, you have a moral and ethical responsibility as a climate scientist to speak out against that.”

Predicting mass layoffs with the confidence of a tech messiah because in the race to automate, inconvenient questions about ethics and livelihoods apparently don't compute. Bold disregard, too, for the nuances of human work and the fallout of mass displacement. gizmodo.com/ai-will-repl...

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

apropos of ~ everything ~ please allow me to share a free gift link to a Flytrap piece I wrote earlier this year about the decimation of reality, AI, and how fucked we all are

My book is out in two weeks. This is the essay I’ve waited longest to share. It’s about body, desire, shame, strength and what happens when you stop letting the world shape you, and start shaping the world instead. kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/what-i-bui... #Scotland #Writing #Books #Essay

Disabled folk don’t have to do “exceptional” things, or be the next Hawking, to have value to society. They have value because everyone has value, and everyone deserves to live & be supported.

"[The Flytrap] aims to be 'unf*ck your algorithm' with a lot of intersectional analysis for and by femme and queer people. This great piece on the “first LGBTQ co-housing community” in the country is a great proof of concept." So true, besties! Read here: theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/take-care-...

Hey wait, this isn’t okay. We need more subscribers, people. This group has already had more hits in its brief existence than the legacy local paper you are (and should continue to be) supporting because the world needs news reporting and analysis. Go. Now. theflytrap.beehiiv.com

"An AI may never be able to write a great poem—a truly original poem—because a poem is made not of language but of experience, and the defining aspect of human experience is the constant collision between our wishes and reality, the sharp violation of our expectations, the demolition of our plans."

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

why call it white dwarf spectroscopy when you could call it ~necroplanetology~ 👻🪐

btw i’m happy to be a resource for anyone considering making the switch from substack, as someone who’s been through it and has ~a year of experience since switching citationneeded.news to ghost. always happy to share my experience, including as someone for whom this is their primary income.

For anyone looking to adjust their media diet, now’s a great time to consider escaping The Algorithms with RSS. Here are some of the blogs, newsletters, and independent news sites I follow: www.mollywhite.net/blogroll/ For feed readers,  I use Inoreader, but there are many other good options.

This week, I’m delighted to welcome guest editor Dr. Kate Marvel. She's a theoretical physicist turned climate scientist whose brilliance, honesty, and humour shine through everything she writes. Read the full edition of the newsletter at the link below!

Fires & Floods & Heat Waves? How I think about Climate Change. [Video. 9 mins. 45 sec. ] www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRA2...

We have one sun, yes, but what about second sun??? 🧪👩‍🔬🔭🛰 youtu.be/oL4f003UCeQ

Why am I squeezing in a conference before I go on medical leave? Because it's my favorite conference of the year. These are the people I want to be with when so many things are going wrong. For those of you who aren't at @socialismconference.org, here are some remarks I shared today.

🚨 Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data) • about 370,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,170,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,910,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,580,000 km² below the 1980s mean More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Some people still believe that vaccines are enough to prevent long covid. This is incorrect. Vaccines protect against disease severity and breakthrough infections are common. Any mild infection can lead to long covid. Yes it reduces long covid risks but it doesn’t eliminate this risk. Neither does

🧵 of 🧵s addressing four of the common arguments used to push schools and teachers into using and teaching AI tools to kids as young as kindergarten: 1 of 4: