@hatfield.bsky.social Are you also an admirer of the gentle giant of the seas?

Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment

“am not arguing that the humanities should adopt scientific norms, but that they should have the financial means to complement, contest, or rival science in explaining people, societies, and cultures. To do this properly today, they need a step-function increase in funding.”

“Intellectual diversity is essentially a fake problem that is used to create cover for ideologically committed, far-right faculty who are not intellectually honest.” Craig Campbell, UT anthropology professor. www.austinchronicle.com/news/2024-11...

Here's a staged propaganda photo of facist leader, Benito Mussolini "harvesting" wheat in 1938. Posting for no reason whatsoever.

1980 - about 20 years ago 1990 - about 10 years ago 2000 - about 10 years ago 2010 - a couple years ago 2016 - 87 years ago 2019–2023 - last year

Total Arty Kill - Woodford Rolls (2024) My Schnoodle with his new D20 chew toy one of my players gifted him. He's mostly rolled 2s. Dogs n Dice #DnD #D&D

Because it needs to be said again

@wesleydean.bsky.social do you know (I’m sure you know) the book The Alchemy of Air? A colleague was just telling me about it yesterday and I thought of you.

Yet another reason to get a covid booster every single time a new one is available to you: www.scientificamerican.com/article/vacc...

After quite a lot of nonsense, this.

@normwilner.bsky.social I finally got Patrick watching Cabaret. Shortly into the movie, he said to me: is liza the original manic pixie Dreamgirl? And I thought: Norm will know.

@nasilemak.bsky.social @wesleydean.bsky.social the sad story of this giant squid preserved in photo history: www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

I cracked the code. Told my boomer dad that having motion smoothing on his TV 'makes it work twice as hard' and will 'wear it out faster' and now hes obsessed with making sure its off.

every year i see this post about the woman who set up a wildlife camera facing her little christmas tree. and every year this pic of a raccoon looking at it makes me feel things i dont have words for 🥹

Because it's so lavishly funded now... Ending public healthcare and ending public education is what these evil shits came to do. And they've been very successful. toronto.citynews.ca/2023/03/08/o...

I’ve followed and interacted with Refaat for years. He was killed three days ago in Gaza with his brother, sister and her four kids. Here is a poem he wrote. I am heartbroken. (Here is a link to a book series he edited of stories from young people in Gaza justworldbooks.com/books-by-tit... )

December 6, 1989 École Polytechnique massacre Geneviève Bergeron Hélène Colgan Nathalie Croteau Barbara Daigneault Anne-Marie Edward Maud Haviernick Maryse Laganière Maryse Leclair Anne-Marie Lemay Sonia Pelletier Michèle Richard Annie St-Arneault Annie Turcotte Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz

@gentlemaniacal.bsky.social ???

Excited for this new group committed to reporting on long Covid: thesicktimes.org/2023/11/14/w...

The director of the New York office of the UN’s human rights agency has resigned. “We are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the Organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it,” he wrote in a letter.

as for some actual made in quebec racism, this is fucking horrifying (tw racist violence) www.cbc.ca/sports/hocke...

Sociologists in solidarity with Gaza: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@finkleberry.bsky.social welcome here and I look forward to beetle and botany posts.

This is what happens when you cave to language populism.

we must heed toni morrison’s warning in her 1995 speech on racism and fascism. fascism’s playbook has always been clear: https://www.leeannhunter.com/gender/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Morrison-article.pdf

@wesleydean.bsky.social did you see what I found earlier this week? I tried to tag you but I think I did it wrong…

feeling old today

@wesleydean lookit what I re-found.

Oh man I had no idea. I was just starting to explore this platform but no thank you. Will be deleting account. Thanks @anildash.com

To all the doggos, have a great day with lots of STICC and FRENS.

I got to interview Sonali Menezes, creator of 'Depression Cooking,' and she's every bit as cool as you think she'd be. This is part of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social's Low and Slow series, which has a ton of amazing feature reads around food and disability.