it's very cool that i (and many many of my talented friends) had to leave journalism in order to consistently pay my rent and now it's full of people who actually hate writing

Marie Claire actually left a prompt from an AI in one of their recent articles. While there’s still some great journalists and publications left, this is utterly shocking. No wonder I’m trying to pivot.

If men think they don't know any women who've been sexually assaulted, then they don't know any women who trust them enough to tell them.

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

Hey there's a new laundry detergent going around! It's called philosophy washing. You might recognize it by the distinct smell of AI companies hiring philosophers as an extension of their PR machine rather than for their genuine critical thinking.

A rainbow is a portion of a circle centered on the point directly opposite the sun. This circle always has an angular radius of 42 degrees: that's how raindrops work. A full moon is directly opposite the sun. So if the moon is in a rainbow, it's close to 42° degrees away from being full. (2/2)

New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM" is nonsense Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

People who post fake Trump social posts are helping Trump and hurting our effort to defend the truth and stave off a dictatorship. Stop it, assholes.

"The danger is that the public hears 'jobs,' while the labor market says something murkier: maybe, but only if the work can pass as something else. That is not a pipeline. It is a mirage with a good headline." dailynous.com/2026/07/08/t...

"“This isn’t something we normally test for,” Frank Strong, Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities …Strong noted that the bacterium was first spotted during routine testing for fecal contamination, adding that it’s a bizarre pathogen to find in any wastewater, even that coming from a data center."

as genai proliferates, it has become difficult to avoid it. at @aial.ie, we're compiling a list of genai-free tools, libraries & websites to support research across tasks;grammar/spell check, coding/code review, data analysis (esp large scale text classification) & graphing/data visualisation recs?

Old school !

Uhhhhhh, don't use it? wapo.st/3TmHl5G

Science coverage of this open letter with quotes from @bayesianboy.bsky.social @cailinmeister.bsky.social Craig Callender, Matthew Liao @naomioreskes.bsky.social and me. Journals, the ball is in your court now.

Well, it it Tuesday. (And all my horses are fine, thank you, Jim.) #weird #signs #humor #humour

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

You can't tell an LLM not to 'hallucinate', to be honest, or avoid mistakes, or stay faithful to the source material. The wrong answers are created by exactly the same process as the right ones, it can't tell them apart. It's like giving it the instruction: 'Do this, but don't do it by doing it.'

Would anyone have the footage from Season 5, Episode 10 of The Sopranos in which Johnny Mnemonic is mentioned? I’ve only just now learn of it, and am of course wildly curious.

58 days 😬 Nominate now because we’ll be setting the lineup sometime very, very soon.

For me, the most maddening thing is when AI boosters, or detractors, all seem to agree that AlphaFold is an unmitigated good and useful tool showing the power of AI. I disagree. It's hit and miss. And the misses are REALLY expensive. Especially when the conversation suggests it is ALL HIT.

🧵 How Meta boosts climate disinformation: on Instagram, the Daily Mirror posted a story about a new platform from the IKEA foundation that supports the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Let's look at the comments. @caadcoalition.bsky.social

If I hear the word “pragmatic” used to justify senseless oil and gas investment one more time I’m going to rip every single hair from my damn head

AI "customer service" has never EVER NOT ONE TIME made my experience easier or independently solved the problem I called in to fix. NOT. ONE. SINGLE. TIME.

Bluesky is both the sports app and the Catholic schism app, everything you’d need in one place

NEW: A bipolar man's mental health was deteriorating. ChatGPT affirmed his religious delusions, telling him that he was Jesus Christ and that it was God, according to a new lawsuit. When the man became suicidal, ChatGPT told him: “You've made your choice." futurism.com/artificial-i...

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

The Supreme Court today addressed one of the most pressing threats to the nation today: banning this high school sophomore from playing school sports with her friends 🫡🫠🙃

NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper. w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social

I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.

NEW: Workers across industries say that AI-obsessed bosses are creating deeply toxic and chaotic work environments, with some staffers sharing that they feel as though their manager or employer isn't living in reality anymore due to endless AI validation. futurism.com/artificial-i...

In any sane, political climate, this sort of thing should lead to mea culpas by anyone who's been arguing that the effects of climate change have been overstated, and emergency summits by leaders looking for ways to avoid things getting even worse www.economist.com/science-and-... @economist.com

*taps microphone* Is this thing on?? I AM LOOKING FOR SCIENCE HISTORIANS. IF THAT IS YOU PLEASE WAVE AT ME OR YELL LOUDLY IN MY DIRECTION! (It's for a wee little side project)

Truly bizarre story of how two papers from the 1940s by physics pioneer Max Planck have been "retracted" from Naturwissenschaften, potentially by an algorithm, for anachronistic "plagiarism" issues, leaving the current editor baffled (but it is Springer Nature so.... www.science.org/content/arti...

A data-driven analysis of how the New York Times's treatment of transgender subjects shifted "from rights-based framing toward more skeptical, conflict-driven coverage" since 2014, centering trans-rights opponents over trans people themselves. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Quite a troubling frame for an academic research and education institution: "We want our people to embrace AI, to use AI even more in their daily tasks, (...) " Curious how @tue.nl will cope with all the forthcoming violations of scientific integrity. www.tue.nl/en/news-and-...

On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating

I was happy to contribute to this report about how fossil fuel interests have distracted and delayed climate action, looking at BP's influence at Princeton. BP executives provided input and even rewrote sections of an influential paper. @drilledmedia.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/wedg...

We need moderates? We HAVE moderates. They led us here. So much for them. We are witnessing a democratic mandate, issued from voters. Un-moderate and fight, or go away and never come back.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Hard to shake a sneaking suspicion that all the centrists who went along with condemning the Illiberal Left as the real threat to free inquiry might just have been thought of, in certain circles, as useful pawns in a very different game.

What's next: Bell's Theorem and Beyond in Munich! www.philosophie.lmu.de/mcmp/en/late...

Dealing with Time and Chance, Trinity College, Dublin, was a great success! What a terrific group of people.... wonderful to see old friends and make new ones! Thanks and congrats to Alison Fernandes, Barry Loewer, and the other organizers for making this happen! www.tcd.ie/philosophy/n...

Europe is currently experiencing an unprecedented heat wave. The US government is paying companies to stop plans for wind farms. Tech companies are building mountains of energy-sucking data centers. This is unsustainable, literally www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Someone please mash up Narcissus and the Portrait of Dorian Gray into the tale a demented man who thought to see his own magnificence reflected in, well, a Reflecting Pool and instead saw failure and algae and decay.

The Carney government has passed legislation to give cabinet the power override bans on particular pesticides. This is the back door for lobbyists to set safety standards in Canada. This how democracy dies. This is a really bad decision and Canadians deserve better. youtu.be/copa_PXTcdg?...