Happy September Equinox! Today the dividing line between day and night runs exactly from the North pole to the South pole, and the sun is directly over the equator. This is an actual image of the Earth today, taken from the Himawari-8 satellite.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Preprint of “Prompting the Professoriate: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Perspectives on LLMs in Data Science Education” available: arxiv.org/abs/2509.12283 By Ana Elisa Lopez-Miranda (an exceptional undergrad!), @tiffanytimbers.bsky.social, and me. Comments appreciated!

What’s it like to date a chatbot? Patricia Marx tries out some A.I. relationships.

Claude, "We all know among Sauron's many evils was that he ran Mordor using an Excel spreadsheet with multiple tabs. Show me the spreadsheet" It made 12 tabs "so bureaucratically complex that even the Eye of Sauron would need reading glasses to review it." Some very funny stuff. Creative, even.

"Fleem has mad charisma." -- Mark Rosewater

Quick rundown for non-US academics of whether you're likely to be eligible for the Anthropic payout: 1. you have works published in or before 2022 2. which are registered for US copyright (most likely if you had a US publisher, not otherwise): check here publicrecords.copyright.gov 1/2

How to make a beautiful Autumn Wreath in just 30 minutes – for free, too apple.news/AYecMaiAwSUS...

2D animation is booming in theaters. In China, the film Nobody is outgrossing many of Hollywood's recent CG films—on a $10< million budget. It's only one example. As 2D films rise, Hollywood's decision to kill them off looks shortsighted. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-hand-d...

AI's best use case will always be scams. It's scamtech, top to bottom. Everything about it is crooked. Its bedrock is theft and its legacy is the destruction of the environment, both physical and virtual. Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying. "I wrote this." "I created this."

Excited to announce that my article "Poetic Lines and Social Thought" is now published over at contempaesthetics.org/2025/08/28/p... An essay about #poetry #poetics and a little bit about aliens 👽

Here is "AI Consciousness: A Centrist Manifesto". I've been working on this feverishly because the issue seems to me so urgent - and I'm worried extreme positions on both sides are becoming locked in, when the best way forward is in the centre. Please read it! philpapers.org/rec/BIRACA-4

New research: spending money on physical #CardPacks is also linked to problem gambling. 🎰 We answer an FAQ: enough about video game #LootBoxes; what about Pokémon / Magic: The Gathering cards? 🃏💳 We surveyed ≈2,000 card game players in English-speaking Western countries: doi.org/10.1037/adb0....

Some tips I’ve learned painting colorful skies …

Italian Stuffed Tomatoes from 1773

Hello! 👋 We're Pine Creek Games and we're making a cozy woodland survival game called Winter Burrow. 🐭 In our game, you can: 🧶 Knit 🥧 Bake pies ❄️ Stay warm 🦔 Meet new friends 🐭 Decorate your burrow 🍄 and more! You can wishlist & play our demo on Steam now: store.steampowered.com/app/3008740/...

I don’t think I’ve ever shown you lot my toast tongs. Behold:

there’s a popular digital guide written and used by police that recommends sharing links with URL tracking elements to capture people’s IPs. Linkumori is a browser extension that purifies URLs before trackers can log you.

Meteion #FFXIV

We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

A French lemonade from 1651

buttondown.com/surekhadavie.... READ

I’ve seen one of these birds grab a whole pizza out of someone’s hands at the crowded Granville Island dock & fly away with it. They are bold, determined & hella strong.

Well this is bad. Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations exposing sensitive user data I tried a few quick searches. I found someone's chat where I can see their api key I found some building their resume. Their name, email and phone numbers are exposed. www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo...

Report: AI skills will add $18,000 to your salary Me, an AI professor: what the hell is an “AI skill”? Report: … qz.com/ai-jobs-skil...

dreaming of winter on a 90 degree day

In #JapaneseFolklore kawauso are river otters, and like many other animals it is believed that once they reach old age they can develop supernatural powers and become #yokai. They are renowned shape-shifters and can also accurately mimic sounds. They use this ability to play... #WyrdWednesday 1/3

omg this totally worked. FREE AT LAST. tenbluelinks.org

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

In the UK, the #SummerSolstice begins on Sat. 21st June at 3:42am "May the warmth of the sun, nurture you; The cool waters, cleanse you; Nature's bounty, replenish you; The song of the trees, comfort you; The knowledge of the bees, guide you." ~ Druid Blessing by Stephen G. Rae

Oh. "LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning." arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Got blindsided by a German translation today LMAO What a treat it can be sometimes to know both languages djwidhakdbejf

We found that AI tools - both general like #ChatGPT and research-specific like #Elicit - lack the reliability, relevancy and accuracy to summarise research for teachers. This is important because we have been sold the idea that AI will make research more accessible.

One week left till prerelease, and we’re giving away ALL of the FINAL FANTASY precon decks! Head over to our YT to enter! Comment the upgrade videos to win! LIKE FOLLOW REPOST TAG A FRIEND

It’s surprisingly difficult to find Wordsworth’s ‘Excursion’ by itself OR fully in anthology, so was really psyched to pick up this Sam Read edition @samreadbookseller.bsky.social today in Grasmere 🥹 Also pictured: @estellunaris.bsky.social’s Everyman Pocket Coleridge & Wordsworth

More cats from the FFXIV precon, taking advantage of the recently created Hero type as well. More previews at http://www.mtgpreviews.com/FIN Source: https://x.com/FinalFantasy/status/1920645151896248371

Azeyma #FFXIV

2 years ago today married the love of my life. Some lines: That is another strange thing about love; It turns us into conspiracy theorists, Convinced of something The rest of the world Might well dismiss or disprove - We know, we know That the sun is there, from far away It burns as it were here.

After a lot of testing and a healthy dose of stress, the party are readying for one last adventure to mark the end of an era. But something feels different… ▶️ youtu.be/CwCyTt8fSAU

My long lost dream <3

More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do

👀This paper finds "the first robust evidence that any system passes the original three-party Turing test" People had a five minute, three-way conversation with another person & an AI. They picked GPT-4.5, prompted to act human, as the real person 73% of time, above chance. arxiv.org/pdf/2503.23674

Me every time I woke up and saw the similar news everyday

91% of medical professionals using LLMs have encountered hallucinations and 84% believe they could impact patient health arxiv.org/abs/2503.05777

in my head they're singing The Hu.

"When humans hallucinate, it’s because something’s misfiring in our brains. AI hallucinations are not a mistake. The system is doing exactly what it was intended to do. That’s why they can’t fix it, because it’s not broken."