Something I've really noticed among institutional "responses" to generative technologies is that "DO NOT USE THIS TOOL, IT'S COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE" is fudamentally erased from any possibility of ever being an option Often paired with fatalist stuff like "this isn't going away"

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

This picture is worth 1,000 words.

The rumours are true: Leeds is hosting BSPS 2026! Make sure you put the date in your calendars (21-23 July) and, while you're at it, consider submitting a symposium proposal (CFS closes on 14th January 2026)! www.thebsps.org/news/bsps-an...

They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer. It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.

It came as a huge surprise to me in 2004 when the Abbey National was taken over by Santander I didn't expect the Spanish acquisition

Bill Gates sure picked an interesting day to downplay the threat of climate change

If you are interested in a postdoc position on the Stanford campus on the climate effects of a slowdown/shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, please contact me. Atmosphere or ocean modeling experience is a plus. sustainablesolutions.stanford.edu/people/ken-c...

I just tried to use the new AI tool for generating expense reports at work. "Could be a cool time-saver!" I thought. An hour later, I have arrived at a new policy position: Everyone involved in this industry should be fed to an active volcano

The article takes a while to get to this observation: "Several audience members identified themselves as being part of the Dominion Society, a Canadian anti-immigration group that seeks to deport between four and eight million people living in Canada through what it calls 'remigration.'"

I don't even trust Google Scholar to tell me what a paper is about. But sure let's pretend we know what we've read so the next twenty years of citations will be a bin fire

Pretty sure real science is actually reading the papers, thinking very deeply, and more, before writing, not generating literature review-like objects with no authorial intent or legwork

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

Karoline Leavitt on what she expected for today’s demonstrations: “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, violent criminals.” Scott Bessent: “Most unhinged in the Democratic Party” Mike Johnson: “The pro-Hamas wing, the antifa people.” NYPD: More than 100,000 protesters; zero arrests.

#NoKings Phoenix

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

gonna keep reposting this until i don't have to www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

The attack on @frediotto.bsky.social was seeded years ago by Roger Pielke Jr, who started arguing that this table from a recent @ipcc.bsky.social report proved that climate science cannot attribute extreme weather to climate change. But Roger is of course lying. And we know this for 2 reasons. 🧵

When a collaborator is targeted because her scientific findings that attribute extreme weather to human-caused climate change is being used (effectively) in climate lawsuits against oil companies, you know times are dark indeed. ICYMI @davidho.bsky.social www.eenews.net/articles/cli...

I myself am deeply concerned that making people pay for cars would kill the auto theft industry.

"You are a transformative president" -- I regret to inform you that Mark Carney is kissing Trump's ass

Just checking... we're still counting "based off of," when they mean "based on," as incorrect, yes?

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

The bar still exists, even if it’s in hell.

lmao imagine being *this* wretched.

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US. And nobody covered it. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Trying to explain copyright to Open AI.

why not opt-in? just ask permission first if this is truly a positive feature then surely copyright holders will be happy to participate and have their work included if asked just ask permission first

I had a fun chat with Curt Jaimungal about thermodynamics. youtu.be/HIoviZe14pY

Every good programmer I know has been saying this to me for months; meanwhile every not-great programmer I know has been trying to outsource their work to ai, causing more issues/delays than they if did it themselves. A lot of these tools only seem good to people who are not great at their jobs.

This point hasn’t been given nearly enough attention. If you applied actually existing research principles to genAI, it would never be allowed anywhere near a university, research project or classroom.

I know of a landscaping business that cropped up (no pun intended) overnight claiming they use AI for superior gardens. They go around putting little signs on people’s front plants with a plant ID tag and their QR code. All their plant ID is wrong.

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night: Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at? **pause** Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.

"We tend to think of misinformation as a universal problem, with all sides of the political spectrum equally guilty of bending the truth or spreading falsehoods. A new study shows otherwise." Misinformation isn’t just a problem — it’s a political strategy.

fully 50% of these academics (12) are not even from the united states and of those only 33% (4) of them teach/work in the us currently. they hate trans people so much they need to trample rights abroad.

What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

Mark this in your calendar. I will be joining my comrade and life partner in the launch of her new book. We will be discussing the power of place and memory in our writing projects. Perfect Books Ottawa October 9.

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🧵 Thread with my favourite quotes from: 📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/🧵

Take your kids to the Grand Canyon, or Yosemite. At Disneyland, things happen TO you passively. At National Parks, YOU make things happen actively! WIN!

While you’re cancelling your Disney and Hulu subscriptions, don’t forget to cancel Disney vacations. Their theme parks and cruise ships make a ton of money. Boycott Disney and you can boycott Florida at the same time!

If you go to this bookstore today at the San Diego Airport, you will find a signed Scalzi book.

Massively shameful, decidedly uncool, pathetically pandering to OpenAI. Reconsider, @ox.ac.uk

alright i'm doing it. i'm watching doctor who in river song's chron order this weekend. it's maybe the fifth time i've done it, but it's a great way to kill a weekend when you're a tad under the weather. If you've never done it, I highly recommend it! Here's the order.

Amazing photo of Windsor Castle taken last night

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