academics trying to normalize acceptance of AI hallucinated citations in their field: do you seriously expect me to show my work and check my work me, baffled, a naïf, a fool: yes that’s why it’s called *your* *work*

Man, I first met @ninocipri.bsky.social in the hot tub at WisCon...idek how many years ago - they were obviously great and have only gotten fucking greater. I am so stoked for this book.

feeding auditory hallucinations to a person in active AI-induced psychosis

The discourse doesn’t matter unless it sharpens us to act, as every organization in Gaza raises the alarm about looming famine. Yes, people need to buy food. Make a small pledge to these 21 families, click a recurring option, make a commitment to share. Then ACT.

And this of course is genAI working as it should, as a cultural infoweapon that denatures truth and trust in Everything, including art, even if/when it's not actively in use.

Respond to being charged with crimes against humanity by ordering a fresh new crime against humanity.

Little pencil sketch of Shirley Jackson

Did not know until I read this that there's a protected nature area in Tobago as old as the United States, in case you would like a different 250th anniversary to celebrate globalvoices.org/2026/05/19/t...

I can’t express how disappointed I am. But here’s a second disappointment: Tokarczuk is a co-founder of a video game company that uses AI. This interview is her promoting the company (also why it was published in a business venue).

Is this what mice look like in Warhammer 40k

The owl is happy in his solitude autumn dusk 🦉Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828) #BookWormSat 🎨Yukio Katsuda - Horned Owl and Autumn Colours (1985)

in today's rat crimes, Salmiakki bit the vet to protect her sister Kiki from the torture device (stethoscope)

Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Bacteria, Archea

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

This!! I think about AI transcriptions a lot because a lot of my research involves processing a large number of documents. But usually I can actually just pull the info I need straight from the manuscript into my database, in which case the environmental cost of running the AI would be a waste, OR

Ready for the kiln a panel of painted stained glass for an exhibition at Stackpole Walled Gardens later this year

Big tech corporations have finally figured out who is to blame for their crappy products: science fiction writers.

"There is no such thing as the invisible hand of the market that shapes and balances [our] needs and wants. There is also no version of AI that is simply a repository of human knowledge to draw from as a commons. Instead, AI under fascist capitalism remakes the entire world into Epstein’s island."

I beg leave to doubt this. Because there were certain Palestinian accounts I followed, such as Adham Madi's and Mohamed Ahmed's, who I *know* were not engaging in anything vaguely spammy. They did not even tag or reply to their friends. Yet they were repeatedly suspended.

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

the post: scientists or engineers in A Country achieve an impressive breakthrough with the possibility to improve the lives of people worldwide the comments: america WOULD have been the leader at this if not for trump, how we’ve fallen, woe, we definitely would have done this

For the millionth time: do not use genAI. And do not ask AI ANYTHING. Apart from the thousand ethical reasons why not, do you really want to risk this sort of reputational damage? This bureau chief deserves to be fired (perhaps they have been already). 1/

We tried to warn you about Anthropic. Now they're using xAI's ultra-polluting community-killing nightmare data centre to power your toxic claude relationship All the new paid subs from @rutgerbregman.com and @quitgpt.bsky.social's campaign, now powered by Musk 🫠 www.anthropic.com/news/higher-...

This might be a minor thing, but it makes me happy: hand neutrality (aka making patterns accessible to both right- and left-handed knitters) is gaining traction in the knitting community

ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers! Two recipients will receive $500 to help incubate their future creative endeavors. Deadline: July 31st, 2026.

From @adapalmer.bsky.social’s introduction to The Book of the New Sun.

If you think octopus brains are neat, Weird Fishes (Stelliform Press, 2022) is a first contact story from a cephalopod's POV bookshop.org/p/books/weir...

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

Amazing thread! Mad props to Dr Bob the clever psychiatrist.

I don't know what to write in these anymore. Just please, help Retaj survive. The occupation shot this child in the head and she is having trouble with speech and memory due to shrapnel in her brain. Be bold. In giving, in action. tiny.cc/HelpRetaj

turning every instance of queer depiction into a reflection rather than a window coupled with the way people feel entitled to content was a mistake

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

This is the greatest scam email of all time. I now want to start every email with “Yourself there, take good note”. I salute you, random Argentine scammer who cranked the ChatGPT Oirish setting up to 11

Now this is dark academia

I know my posts are invisible to most of my followers who aren't Palestinian by now, but to those who haven't muted me; shares/donations appreciated. Faraj isn't on Bsky and his family's fundraiser hasn't had donations for 9 months.

“Why do you hate AI so much?” Why don’t you? Why is short-lived convenience more important to you than the curiosity, the challenge, the community, the experience?

Have you ever noticed that the massive, coordinated, multi-year assault on trans rights is based on NOTHING WHATSOEVER

New technologies have long been expected to solve social problems. In the 19th century, the telegraph was sold as a way to end war by reducing misunderstanding between nations. Today we are launching Techno-Optimism Archive, which collects historical press materials documenting old tech promises

Just a side note, if you, a CEO, told me you were going to establish this policy and what did I, your CIO think about it I would start screaming incoherently. Aside from this being inhumane and an HR nightmare, do you have any idea how dumb this is from a security perspective.

"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."

Independent Bookstore Day is April 25! It’s also my birthday! Oh, how the stars have aligned for you to celebrate both events at once by buying or sharing my books through bookshop.org

“The integration of AI across digital platforms and devices has largely taken place without users’ consent. Universities have participated in this coercive project…by contracting with tech companies to embed AI into learning management systems, or by encouraging its use in the name of “AI literacy”

The stunning mummy portrait of Eirene is one of the few mummy portraits that bears an inscription. It mentions the deceased as well as her parents: Eirene, daughter of Silvanos, her mother is Senpnoutis. May her soul live forever before Osiris-Sokar, the great god, the Lord of Abydos. 🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺

Just got £149 to go - so very achievable. Help people in the worst circumstances gain autonomy ❤️

"Writing a book is like reading a book - except the book is trying to kill you." (This will always be the most accurate description of writing, dont @ me.)

Its always so interesting how "Anti-AI extremists" are always "hysterical" and "loud" but AI "enthusiasts" are always just hopeful and optimistic (maybe hyping at best) and nothing else

Guess, how many journalists did Israel murder in Lebanon today? And how many ambulances trying to save those journalists did Israel attack today? This brave woman was murdered, represents less than 0.5% of the journalists Israel has murdered, and just one of half a dozen murdered this month.

I never cease to be amused by how this app has a community that hates the staff and a staff that hates the community and both sides are completely open about it this isn’t a retirement home it’s a Waffle House

This is the thing, if "academia" wanted to stop this, we could easily tomorrow. Over 3 incorrect references? Rejected and forbidden to submit next year. The purpose of a system is what it does!