I have thoughts on MTG and the death threats she's receiving. 1. MTG is a bona fide asshole. I mean, through the roof, do anything to succeed, screw anyone over, asshole -- so long as what few morals and ethics she has aren't violated. 1/7

I didn't see three people were asking for details on this. My apologies to Ivy for repeating some of this. 1. I'm looking for existing line art, colors are fine, but I plan on tracing just the lines in a personal derived work. 1/3 @sharalyy.bsky.social @ivyvelvett.bsky.social @canely.bsky.social

It is not true that computers by design have no concern for truth (in the way that LLMs do) 😊 but of course you are free to misunderstand the pragmatics of my post ❤️ adoring computers is also silly though, thus in that respect you are right ✌️

No. We extend benefit of the doubt to people about whom we do not have prior data or information When someone has shown us a pattern of behavior we believe that until they demonstrate real and consistent change

More than 1 in 4 physicians surveyed by the AMA in December said that prior authorization had led to a serious adverse event for a patient in their care. And 8% responded that prior authorization led to a disability, birth defect, or death. #RSNA25 kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Ah, man...

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"Consumer neurotech products capture less-sophisticated data than implanted BCIs do." Ya don't say. Don't use those, please, everybody.

Do any TTRPG artists know of any relatively simple "fruitcake-weapon" illustrations, which are mostly or solely line art? (e.g. where the fruitcake is the head of a hammer, or mace...etc) I have an idea that requires some. #Art #ArtSky #TTRPG #TTRPGSky

Perfectionism is living hell when severe. So to whoever needs to hear it: There’s relief. You will one day be able to take less than 1 hour to write a 3-sentence email. And you won’t even find yourself googling the exact definition of every other word, just to *make sure* it is the right word to use

That code runs is no guarantee it is any good

A reminder, if one is needed, that these platforms should be considered a threat vector. I suggested alternative plans in this essay and, once again, volunteer to provide guidance: monroelab.com/2025/01/22/s...

A simple graphic from WaPo should make the idiocy of these investments as clear as a bubble. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

And that's setting aside the whole "designing education around a few workplace-defined skills is actually a shitty way to teach" thing...

I don't know what exactly you're teaching, but if your "Advanced Research Writing" course allows students to use "generative AI as a source of information and to generate content," it sure doesn't sound like you're teaching good research skills.

Trying to have “meaningful” human control over robot swarms is computationally intractable, even for absurdly simple environments. But sure, go ahead and promote the use of swarm robots in automated warfare. I guess the gaslighting is the point. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

PSA: If you commission your favorite artist and they send you a formal invoice ask before adding a tip to your payment - we don't like being jailed for tax fraud! 💀

Yeah, and ppl who take exception to this kind of narrative from patients are always pretending we're advising people to bedrot. What we're saying is that movement is good for you until it causes PEM. At that point and beyond, more exertion is bad. It's really not hard to understand!

A few minutes of qigong is a good way to gently resume activity if you've started to improve after a long crash or are housebound but know you need to & are able to stretch. While the practice varies a lot, it's mainly stretching and gentle movement, and you can easily adapt poses & stop whenever.

hi, please, eat the food you want on the holidays you want. my family was choked by one person's expectations of dead great grandma's famous whatever, it was never right, no one else liked that menu. cook what you want, order what you want, use the shortcuts or conveniences you want.

definitely if you're the femme spouse who does most or all of the cooking . . . please cook what you want. do something fiddly that you enjoy instead of feeling stressed out the whole time. make a regular meal but with a special dessert or something. or just order buffalo chicken pizza.

You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again. Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students. #Critical_AI_Literacy www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...

AGI is a scam www.ru.nl/en/research/...

AGI is a scam idea Did you listen to the video?

sickening

You can access the Congressman's floor speech comments by clicking the link here: youtube.com/watch?v=IaLqyEIuGYs&t=29589s&pp=2AGV5wGQAgE%3D

The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.” Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

Academic intros that go hard

I am begrudgingly willing to believe Grok on this... but only for the obviously absurd and deplorable behaviors.

Today in AI research

This is the result of not taking the GOP's depraved behavior for what it is. And I've been saying this since I was on the bird-site: "There is no bottom to the well of depravity. We should never assume those diving ever deeper will ever do anything but dive ever deeper."

Dept. of Ed is reclassifying all the female dominated professions (nurse, therapist, speech pathologist, PA) as not having “professional” degrees, which makes it harder for them to get educational loans. Another FUCKED UP thing this admin is doing to attack women’s power. Take that shit to court!

"Scientists have taken an exhaustive look at potential environmental causes of autism. One thing that is very clear is that vaccines are not one of those things. They do not cause autism. Period.” www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recast the vaccine safety section of its website on Wednesday to align with the view of Health Secretary Kennedy that childhood vaccines cause autism, countering decades of science showing them to be safe. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Millions of Americans face sharply rising costs for health care plans they bought through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, unless Congress acts soon. www.npr.org/2025/11/20/n...

If you have time for a long read this weekend, make it this excellent article. It considers the nature of the internet, i.e. dominance of white, Western commercial content, which underpins GenAI output production & the impact of excluding local & Indigenous language & knowledge from this.

Okay but at least I love seeing the grassroots movement of shared awareness/tips for how to disable the invasive collection of data for AI training purposes. The latest wave being the Smart Features in Google that are casually turned on despite touting a permission-based opt-in. Mhm mhm we see ya.

Reminds me: can any of you with musky-loving acquaintances ("friends" might be a bit much) ask them how he's is not creating his own, manipulated, echo chamber? I caught hell for leaving my once-favorite platform and yet *I'm* in the echo chamber 😆 how.

I feel like I talk about this too much, but also many of you probably are unaware: In 2018 I flew out to Hong Kong on my own dime to try and find Finex and Tether. Here’s a video of that journey. youtu.be/soNnMObpiYM

Is anyone else that's using Chrome for @bsky.app seeing it act like you clicked the message body when you click the reply icon? I expect it to display the reply dialog. So this is a VERY annoying experience. I'd rather sit on half a dozen fire ants (okay not actual fire ants, butt....)

This science-based RPG looks so interesting! It was written by Dr Sandy Antunes who has worked with NASA, and is a more reality grounded rpg based on Traveller rules We loooove science in this house so very excited about this one!!! Can’t wait to grow some potatoes on mars

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

Trust in science will increase when we stop all the money being used to fund anti-science political attacks and spread disinformation.

Been a bit busy with PT for my wrists and cleaning my place (which has been aggravating my wrists) so I've not had the time for social media. Not a whole lot to mention apart from "The Residence" on Netflix was hilarious and fun. I loved it!

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

Ty Webb: "Do you take drugs, Danny?" Danny Noonan: "Every day." Ty Webb: "Good."

Therapy update. We discussed the nature of KLS, vs bipolar, and my pain coping strategies. (I'm usually in some level of pain.) And she indicated. a) symptoms don't match bipolar. b) my pain coping mechanism is likely a form of lowgrade dissociation. Meaning I'm usually slightly dissociated. 1/5