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ADA leaders were forcibly removed from their own meeting for sharing copies of an ADA OpEd critical of Jay Bhattacharya. Thanks to you it's now got >125,000 views. As CDC interim director, Jay also blocked publication of this paper because it showed that COVID vaccines work. You know what to do.

"amid all the creative ideas people have had for new assessments [in light of AI], we also need an explicit, robust defence of the essay." Exactly.

@nsousanis.bsky.social gets it.

They're saying the quiet part out loud now. Jenny Maxwell, head of education for Grammarly/Superhuman: “We’re doing a huge pedagogical upheaval in education,” she said, calling it a “burn it down moment. We’re just in the early stages.” Burn down higher ed without any plan to rebuilt. Gift link.

I never would have been able to predict that tracking every detail of every employee's activities could lead to mistakes that create enormous legal exposure.

My son’s Instagram story today. I’m really lucky.

My son’s Instagram story today. I’m really lucky.

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Friends and followers in Copenhagen: I'm looking forwards to visiting in just under two months to speak at the next Science and Cocktails event. Hope to see you then.

Ein volk. Ein reich. Ein Führer. Bonus: Boden

Seattle folks and beyond: Our annual fundraiser for PAWS pet and wildlife rescue. They've been instrumental in saving owls and eagles this past year; Caspian terns previously. I know it's a rough year, especially for my academic followers, but if anyone wants to contribute to a great cause...

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To the Australian at the Mariners game who drank a shoey in the bleachers during the 7th inning stretch, got picked up on the Jumbotron, received a roaring ovation from 40000 fans, and then watched as massive fireworks exploded in the sky behind him in celebration: Just another day in America mate.

New Don Blankenship just dropped. IYKYK

To the Australian at the Mariners game who drank a shoey in the bleachers during the 7th inning stretch, got picked up on the Jumbotron, received a roaring ovation from 40000 fans, and then watched as massive fireworks exploded in the sky behind him in celebration: Just another day in America mate.

How it's going (gift link)

The course on Game #UX that I worked on for about 3 years now (along with the amazing IxDF team -- shoutout to Laia Tremosa ☺️ ) is finally live! If you're interested you can get a 3 months free by using this link: ixdf.org/courses/game... I hope you’ll enjoy it!

I sure enjoyed catching up with old friends and making new ones at the 2026 Disinformation Summer Institute on Bainbridge Island off Seattle. Thank you so much to the organizers and participants. I was sad to leave tonight, but it’s hard to beat the parting view.

Sailor Manyo Shirakashi: Hands down my favorite fountain pen ink to date, by a long margin.

Attn: David Ellison I would have subscribed to Paramount+ if Zuck had gotten into the ring with Musk instead of watching from the third row and some bunker in Texas, respectively.

Seattle folks and beyond: Our annual fundraiser for PAWS pet and wildlife rescue. They've been instrumental in saving owls and eagles this past year; Caspian terns previously. I know it's a rough year, especially for my academic followers, but if anyone wants to contribute to a great cause...

Which party would YOU want to attend?

Love you, Woody Guthrie, and love the last verse of the song. But I ain't grown up in no honor culture so as you tell it, sure sounds like Pretty Boy beat a man to death for exercising his first amendment rights.

OK so I know I'm going to get skewered here for even studying these godforsaken systems, but I'm working on something about prejudices encoded into GenAI images. It's a trip, y'all. Check out the program officer's DEI coffee cup.

A colleague in CS once told me that Gen AI draws dicks everywhere because it’s been trained on so much stolen NSFW fanart. Going back and looking is quite funny because he’s totally right. It hides them in the little details as if it’s making the next little mermaid vhs box cover.

Ian Fleming might have made the world’s first trillionaire this evil, but only Philip K. Dick could have made him such a pathetic drug-addled loser, desperate for attention and adulation but incapable of human relationships, and now terrified to go out in public.

Heat advisory. Just a warning to my Seattle peeps that it might not drop back into the 40s tonight.

The whole Neville Chamberlain thing is working out about as well as expected for the National Academies.

Got high ate pie

Just to be clear there is no such thing as the "Fountain Pen Institute", the AI that generates these fake statistics is inordinately fond of the number 68%, and future google searches are going to lead to this bollocks instead of the vast wealth of knowledge from actual hobbyists. Get bent.

Update: Today, a nuanced question about my work on misinformation dynamics. I took twenty minutes to answer. The response was almost immediate and asked further questions, but unlike the original email it was more plainly AI. The sender? A gmail address with from a name with zero online footprint.

Ultimate Guide: Best Fountain Pen for Spamming the Fountain Pen Feed (2025)

For those of you who had the Frontiers family of journals as the first quasi-reputable* journals to be utter enshittified by AI editorial systems, you're today's lucky winner. Thread. *this has been debatable since their inception, but they somehow have always attracted good authors.

These fuckers came for fountain pens with SEO-heavy AI slop. Now they're coming for birds, again with AI slop attributed to an author who doesn't exist? This is personal.

Top leaders at the American Diabetes Association have resigned in wake of the huge outpouring of support for the 5 scientists — incl an ADA flagship journal editor — that the ADA forcibly removed from the annual meeting for disturbing an editorial from the ADA’s own flagship journal.

More AI slop buyers guide fountain pen bullshit. "I've restored dozens of TWSBI ECOS over the years. The nibs are consistent, the feeds don't clog, and the piston rarely needs lubrication." Really? What do you mean "restore" exactly? The model is only a decade old.

Another handful of sand in the gears: Researchers cannot serve on a panel *at all* if anyone from their institution has submitted to that panel. Recusing themselves for the proposal itself is no longer sufficient. This is needless, but will certainly slow things up even further.

TECH BILLIONAIRES (rubbing hands together): "Let's buy beloved public institutions—and ruin them!" ALTMAN (scoffs): "Noobs. I didn't have to *buy* the internet to ruin it." BEZOS and WALTON look at one another across the empty main streets of a thousand American towns: "You nerds think too small."

Robin McDonald (my daughter’s partner) playing Blind Willie Johnson on a banjo from the era. Love the video concept. www.instagram.com/reel/DZU2dAI...

‘Lil bit of dirt mixed with tears Car wheels on a gravel road Lucinda Williams opening for Dylan right now. Eddie Vedder already showed up to join in. It’s a good night.

This afternoon's reflection on AI and the dying internet.

This article, with all the signs of having been written by AI, points out that a flexible nib is essential for Spencerian script, and then recommends 8 pens, 7 of which have no flex at all. It justifies this with nonsense like avoiding "ink wastage". We're headed toward a dead internet of AI slop.

"911, what's your emergency?" "Hello, Police? Yeah, our highest award recipient is at our meeting handing out copies of an article that we published. And uh....we....well....shit, nevermind." (gift link)

Taking a brief pause from observing the abrupt slide of a democracy into fascism in order to ponder more uplifting subjects such as the role of AI in science.

If I was invited to speak at a leading medical association meeting and the editor-in-chief of their journal wrote this about me, I'd skip my own talk and call the cops. Wouldn't you?

The criticism of Trump, Kennedy, and Bhattacharya that was so subversive that the ADA had to eject the Editor-in-Chief of their flagship journal from their annual meeting for sharing it? Prior today it had fewer than 1000 views. Do your thing.

The criticism of Trump, Kennedy, and Bhattacharya that was so subversive that the ADA had to eject the Editor-in-Chief of their flagship journal from their annual meeting for sharing it? Prior today it had fewer than 1000 views. Do your thing.