Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

welcome back “indistinguishable from a real dril post”

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it’s good when a bot tells a joke

I would like all my opinions to be based on unsourced random screenshots, thanks.

Brett, can we have days off work when migration is really good? Or when the toads are singing? Or when the seals are having babies?!

TFW you're talking about the K-T Extinction in philosophy of science, can never remember the difference between asteroids, meteors, and meteroids, and so you just call it a "space rock"

You should not be working on the railroad all the live-long day, nor should you be working on the railroad just to pass the time away. You should be working on the railroad for the duration of a reasonable shift, for fair wages.

the only thing stronger than fishtopher's chomps is lover's love

Once again, I am promising Democrats there are literally thousands of former department of justice people who will crawl over broken glass to prosecute this administration given the chance

It's amazing how many people don't know what *else* the biologist who wrote _The Tragedy of the Commons_ did and said: www.splcenter.org/resources/ex...

Genuinely excited for this administration discovering ways to get even dumber that don't also pose an existential threat to human civilization

Cursed objects could really only help at this point

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When a democracy is restored after an interlude of criminal looting like this, it is perfectly justified in seizing back the proceeds and prosecuting the looters, regardless of what they have done to make it “legal” on paper.

if you've got any #STS undergrads or even masters students still looking for a diss project, the analysis of the (currently 440+) quote posts here are quite something in terms of "what tech is 'left'". All my initial thoughts (vaccines, heat pumps and other renewables, electric trains) were there.

My AI hot take for today is that "AI can do X" and "AI cannot do X" are both claims that require empirical evidence

long time no fish

in honor of the late great Tom Noonan, i want to encourage everyone to watch (or rewatch) one of my favorite things: They're Made Out Of Meat, an underseen sci-fi short film directed by Stephen O'Regan, starring Noonan and Ben Bailey. Worth the 7 minutes!

Laughing at journalists who say if Bluesky was nicer to them there’d be more journalists here like…you don’t know your audience AT ALL. Trying to shame Bluesky into behaving the way you personally want is like trying to keep a cat off a counter. That cat is gonna be on the counter EVEN MORE now.

Put me in coach

How about if instead of onerous ID requirements on voters we institute constitutional literacy tests for members of Congress?

Goob morning

Crowdsourced deliberation platforms! Public interest tech, commons structures, and open source movements! Advanced batteries! Portable air and health and water sensors! Right to repair! Cutting-edge wheelchairs! Better earplugs! Rewilding! Exit to Community! Also muppets, no argument there.

Back at it tomorrow, God willing. Good night everyone. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace.

Night night sleep tight

If you’re under 40 and wonder why the rest of us are like this, Public Access is a fine bit of disaster tourism …

I think one of the best things about Bluesky and one of the things that is going to keep it from ever becoming as big as other sites is that everyone here has a real internal mistrust and dislike of people selling us something, either literally for money or for some sort of other gain

Justin Joque offers a more radical critique of AI in this review, questioning both the intentional model of language and the liberal politics of Bender and Hanna's the AI Con: olrsupplement.com/2026/02/17/t...

When they ask you to censor yourself, get it in writing! "we do not need to comply with oral directives. We demand written directives."

[screenshotting because her mentions are already full enough of depressing deaths] in 1924, the president's teenage son, Calvin Coolidge Jr., played tennis without socks on the White House tennis courts. he developed a blister which got infected and he died a week later.

A million dollars a year is SO MUCH MONEY. I live in NYC, and I am incredibly fortunate and privileged and I literally can’t even imagine how you could spend that much money! I don’t want for anything! My dogs are spoiled! What do they do with it all? Pay your fuckin’ taxes sheesh

American parades, in my experience, have a sad lack of dragons, unlike east Asian parades

In 2008, my Conservative Family Member wasn't conservative and happily voted for Obama. They almost loss their house multiple times through 2015, voted for Trump in 2016, now get almost all their news from Newsmax, and in February 2026 think ICE is doing great work.

Musk: mama mia da anglo-irish-scot culture offa america, now datsa spicy meataball! [chef's kiss] Joyce carol Oates: [rolling up sleeves] well well well Oates: looks like someone's come back for a second helping Oates: of pain

Coming this May. A documentary about WEB Du Bois - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kMs...

Attenborough is fine and all but I'd watch more bird docs if they were narrated with the vivacity and honesty of Banditelli

Who up continvoucly morging they bugfixes

I thenk thay meant me

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I've heard this position articulated by a lot of people, but I think this is hard to make precise. Much of this tracks a problem we already know in science: standards of authorship are not stable and there are many difficult edge cases. Consider these cases...

I agree that if democrats take control of the house in 2026 they should starve ICE/CBP of funding, as republicans successfully did with the IRS when they took control of the house in 2022

NO READ ONLY CATTE

Two super interesting ways of reading this as an academic researcher: if the code is your statistical analysis, and if you replace "code" with "literature review" in the intro

In the case of statistical meta-science, if your toy model predicts a certain curve under "ideal" research practices, and you find a different curve, it's possible that the curve derived from undergraduate probability has nothing to do with scientific practice.

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''