Here is a Reddit threat that explains how to disable Copilot in Windows, which I've just followed: www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHel...

Truly astounding. Whole product philosophy books could be written on this

Nothing says “spark joy” like billions of minutes spent in Teams meetings!

I was at my old high school today, for the first time in over twenty years, to talk to the teachers about how their curriculum can better support students. AI came up, and so many teachers were saying "Well it's a tool, they have to know how to use it, it's the future so we have to accept it!"

I am still waiting for a detailed, pedagogically-backed argument for how AI improves learning. I have only been told it’s a helpful tool that will help students learn and teachers prep faster, but still waiting for what it’s supposed to do that human educators with more funding can’t do.

Yessss everyone plz buy my painting of this next week 😆

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Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

2021, MSFT claimed a Teams app could read emotional affect & I's like "holy shit this will fuck over so many Black & autistic & otherwise neurodivergent & women & non-binary ppl & ppl w/ chronic pain & … like Everybody at any of those intersections." This PainChek thing is that, but a doctors' tool

This is a treasure trove, perhaps THE treasure trove of Bluesky.

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Brown rejected the compact! www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) threatened legal action if Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) delays swearing in Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (Ariz.).

Procrastination takes may forms. Tonight as a service to the astronomical community I offer help with your JWST proposal titles. #JWST 🧪🔭✨

My god.

If you buy an NFT of a stock in OpenAI you should have to wear a big bell like a goat for the rest of your life.

4️⃣ Unplanned scientific opportunity ahead ☄️ Beginning of November, Juice will attempt to observe comet #3I/Atlas over a period of four weeks. The team plans on using several instruments, including cameras, spectrometers and a particle sensor. 6/8

NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure

Could this be aliens?

As an example: AI doesn't understand "no." Because the statements "no ketchup on my burger" and "ketchup on my burger" are almost identical to a machine that does not and cannot actually reason. It's only a 2 letter difference.

You all know we're an American English Dictionary, right? It may be pronounced differently in your country, but that's not our jurisdiction.

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

I would buy, play, read, or watch Coelacanth Fighter, I don't even care what medium it would be. Video game, TTRPG, comic, coffee table book, teen drama on The CW network, cartoon, doesn't matter.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Oh neat! Both Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter and Mars Express observed comet 3I/ATLAS. (Or at least attempted to; Mars Express' max exposure duration was too short for it to be visible. Still, a null result is a result!) Amazing that Mars Express is still doing science. www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

My new paper on Barnard crater, Mars is out in the Planetary Science Journal! #planetaryscience doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/...

The punchline is about 40 seconds into the clip, but worth it.

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

One NASA science mission saved from Trump’s cuts, but others still in limbo arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

Welp that article is going to be seared into my brain. I'm not linking to it, but I will shout again that DISABILITY IS NOT STATIC. Disabled people, like everyone else, have a range of capabilities. Just because you see someone do something you don't think they can do doesn't mean they're a fraud.

More CaSSIS coolness! The correct link is in the thread, but here it is as well: www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

🆕Researchers combed through images from ESA's #MarsExpress & #ExoMars spacecraft to find 1039 swirling dust devils 🌪️ Using these dust devils to track raging winds on Mars, their findings include that the strongest winds blow much faster than we thought! Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🧪 ☄️

You will soon stalk, hunt, and take down Prey in theaters: reactormag.com/prey-predato...

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat. Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

she doesn't even know what a merge conflict is

Yep. This. Machine learning “AI” has been around for a long time and the plagiarism machines are just one specific form. My computer uses “AI” for noise cancellation and it’s not recording all my conversations.

Like I'm sorry, but the AI weirdos have DELIBERATELY created this confusion 100% so they can capitalize on the assumptions people who don't understand the difference will make. This was the endgame of all the AI bros! no one knowing the difference! Sorry they created this mess BUT THEY DID!

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

AI is two projects. The first is willfully degrading definitions to create a void of meaning (any algorithm is AI). The second is projecting propaganda into that void (AI can replace labor, is sentient). This creates a space where you can claim "the Pac-Man ghosts are sentient" to sell products.

For those unaware: Mars orbiters have cameras designed to image a bright thing (Mars) that moves across the field of view very quickly. Many of them use along-track scanners that only sample a narrow stripe of the image at once. This limits their sensitivity and introduces particular artifacts.

Humans did this. People have been busting their asses, going from discovery to imaging with systems not designed for this in three months of solid work. It's been amazing work but stressful.

CaSSIS got it! Push-frame for the win!

🚨 Rep. Jim McGovern attempted to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Rep Elect AZ-07, but they would NOT recognize him in the House. He has a candid reason as to why he thinks this happened. 1/2

thanks to rep mcgovern. i do not have a voice in congress right now because republicans are engaged in a top to bottom betrayal of america.

My colleague @preranawrites.bsky.social broke the news Sept. 28 that new-student enrollment dropped by 19 percent from last year to this year at the University of Arizona. (Apologies, I deleted these posts by accident earlier. ) tucson.com/news/local/s...

It’s time to swear in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva.

The effort put into understanding 3I/Atlas has been spectacular, imaginative, professional and well-organized. Planetary scientists don't need Avi Loeb put in charge of an international directorate to tell them how to do their jobs.