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:

Newsletter: It's time for a radical new approach to tech CEOs: mocking them, because they talk like idiots and provide little value to society outside of their dedication to shareholder value. They sound stupid, they do nothing, and it's time to fight back. www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

i've been compiling resources for people who want to push back on ai... i look forward to reading your book and maybe assigning it in class: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Because trans-women ARE women. www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/26/i...

I spent months on this video about people worshiping ChatGPT, please watch and leave a comment and share if you can!! My YouTube channel is still so small that I lose money making these videos rn 😭. Every little bit helps!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKCy...

Whew, what a day! Today we revealed the preview of NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's epic cosmic movie🎬 #RubinFirstLook From wide-field and deep views of the Universe, to the dynamic and changing sky, Rubin is already bringing the night sky to life! 🔭🧪 rubinobservatory.org/news/first-i...

First Image from the Rubin Observatory - Only shows a small portion of one Rubin image only 2% the actual image is 50x greater than seen here System is designed to take large images rapidly. Can see the Simonyi Survey Telescope in 3rd placard. 4th placard shows the LSST Camera...

AI coverage has developed the same problems as bad political journalism: covering the horse race and who is most popular, vs "are their platforms/politics actually any good" defector.com/toward-a-the...

It’s been a weird, unproductive week at the lab and I’m feeling a little down. So here are 10 cool facts about vision:

Rolling the ladder up behind us https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/rolling-ladder-behind-us/

I got tired of having the "should we colonize Mars" argument, so I wrote something that makes my feelings, and reasoning, extremely clear: medium.com/@adeene.dent...

Does anyone actually understand quantum physics? We asked six physicists why they’re still arguing after 100 years of quantum mechanics

We made a zine! www.wired.com/story/downlo...

Over 4 months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. www.media.mit.edu/publications... The researchers even booby trapped the report to see who uses the synthetic text extruders to summarise the report. Also as expected it hallucinates key details.

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds

New episode of "The T Elders" is now available. Chatting to the fantastic @taliabhatt.itch.io Talking about their journey, feminism and her book Trans Rad Fem Go check it out 👇👇 youtu.be/Ub6hqna6eXc?...

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Complex compositions are often recorded and mixed in a shorter time frame than simpler ones. For eg, most of Dunkirk's soundtrack was recorded in under 5 days, while Sabrina Carpenter's Manchild took us from July to December to complete.