And the Dept for Ed is spending a million on AIed testbed pilots too, to help generate evidence to support its AI ambitions in the schooling sector. Schools are being funded to become satellite AIed testing labs. >> educationbusinessuk.net/news/1106202...

Thanks for reading, Mr. President

It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality

Is this in a hospital it looks like hospital food served hospital style

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yes, i can assure you this is fraudulent research

Instead of calling the studies that AI companies post on their own websites or preprint archives “published research” we should call them what they are: blog posts.

d... do we expect that? i do not generally think of professional repercussions for sexual misconduct through the lens of the hero's journey

Who is “we”? Because *I* expect profound authentic apology&reparation. This framing conflates emerging from a crucible of externally imposed struggle to produce deeply emotional artistic output w/a scrambling effort to make bank on the hope that everyone has forgotten his unforced criminal errors

Happy holiday to these lil goobers who did not twitch a tailfeather the whole time I stood watching them. They were clearly 100% convinced they were invisible

Incredible and enviable and with alt-text

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

When you allegedly can do a lot of siliconvalbro shit and classic “just asking questions” trolling but you can’t find the mute button. Or your bot can’t.

If someone violates the TOS and the company fails to act in response, a failure that leads to harm, is that not still the company’s fucking fault?

I was today years old when it occurred to me there is prob a Wikipedia app, which there is&which I promptly downloaded &naturally the inaugural search was Oscar Isaac who turns out to have a climate scientist sister “Nicole” &a journalist brother “Mike,” which landed rather abruptly for this reader

My favorite uncle, Phil Parcak, passed away unexpectedly last night (great health, fit, only 74, in ER for fatigue, and just... went). In his honor and to help my family, please reply with your favorite jokes below. x rated is fine. He had the most incredible sense of humor+ we always traded jokes.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly. In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.) RTs appreciated.

Iconic bridge with iconic dinosaurs in flight

Pelis on a blue-sky day

Some of you might recall the reporting from @prismreports.org about @penamerica.bsky.social's treatment of incarcerated writers. It's a long list of horrendous behavior.

95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.

“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion….” OK, but have you seen a northern shoveler reflected in the gently rippling water backdropped by a wash of orange-gold autumn cattails

1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families. For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇

If we are gonna be flying like it’s the 1950s, can we get seats on flights like the 1950s? Maybe people act like assholes on planes now because they’re uncomfortable as fuck

Sapariah “Arie” Saturi grew up in West Kalimantan amid recurring forest and peatland fires, experiences that shaped her understanding of Indonesia’s environmental crises. She joined Mongabay Indonesia at its inception and helped build it into a national environmental newsroom.

Today, Little Lobbyists honors #AliceWong, a ferocious advocate for disability justice and disability culture-maker who died on November 14 at the age of 51. Alice was a larger-than-life figure in the disability community and a friend to Little Lobbyists 1/🧵

I watched him take a victory lap in Austin this month at an anti-vaccine conference for the Kennedy-founded Children's Health Defense. My piece on how Wakefield’s comeback is taking shape: www.ms.now/news/the-ret...

Remember Andrew Wakefield? Here he is with his friend RFK Jr. in 2020. Wakefield is the guy behind the fraudulent, retracted MMR–autism study. He lost his medical license for subjecting autistic children to unnecessary invasive procedures. Now, with Kennedy in power, he’s getting a second act.

You could skip The Atlantic&read @thinkingautism.com newsletter abt RFK the Lesser's motivation&the wellness-grifter whisperers who fuel it. He has 1 "encompassing motivation&that is Being Right About This whether he has to lie, cheat, or let children die to do it." buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

Andrew Wakefield is a con artist, and our autism community members are his victims. Avoid his dangerous pseudoscience messages at all cost. From @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social: www.ms.now/news/the-ret... #VaccinesWork #autism #neurodiversity

These aren’t the droids you’re looking for, Charlie Brown

I just bookmarked the Cheetah Cub Cam, this is the fucking cutest

As I wrote in September: “This is a man with one encompassing motivation, and that is Being Right About This whether he has to lie, cheat, or let children die to do it.” buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

the nation’s largest port - nothin from the WH… www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/t...

I love sweeping statements about “a generation” esp when they boil down in the US mostly to what the white cis boys were up to back in the day

Seems like maybe it wasn’t a great idea to dispense with fact-checkers

But on issues such as respectability and morality, I think you should judge people by their deeper, more important actions. That doesn't mean how they dress, but how they treat others on a more meaningful level. I will end with something I wrote five years ago about the messy nature of dress codes.

Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

Enrollment by international students from China dropped by 3 percent, from India by 4 percent, and enrollment from students from Mexico has flatlined. Here are the likely consequences for Texas' education and economy:

I make each of my flower necklaces by casting real flowers in silver incl snowdrop & bluebells. I also hand-sculpt much-loved bird species to make wearable versions incl wrens & blackbirds 20% off my jewellery atm with code TINYOWL20 Cut off day for🌲orders is Tue 25 Nov: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

Clicked on a story in AppleNews to find this at the end @masslive.bsky.social won’t touch anything from whatever this outlet is ever again

And I'm the one who oughta know Yeah, I′m the one left in the dust Oh, I′m the broken-hearted fool Who was never quite enough

Just had gallbladder out&it was completely wrapped in omentum, which I knew of only from embryonic origin perspective+ a lil anatomy, etc, but the omentum is bananas. It’s mobile&immune active &wraps around inflamed organs to contain them, among other things🤯 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

11 years ago today, 12 year old Tamir Rice was gunned down by police officers on Cleveland’s west side. The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in. Tamir’s life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.

People were arguing in my mentions today about whether the Earth is "round" when it's technically an irregular oblate spheroid and look "round" doesn't mean "absolutely perfect sphere" it means round. A soccer ball is round, a cantaloupe is round, a fluffy borb in winter is round, just go with it.

As always, who fucking knows what's going on in the White House.