The web is immeasurably worse with so many of our modern knowledge bases on a single, gated platform. A generation of information lost and never indexable to anyone besides by a company that paywalls gradients, GIFs, and usernames over long-requested safety/QoL features or a usable interface.

the most esoteric shit I’ve been up to in months is figuring out what the hell Stafford Beer was up to when he drew this fucking thing

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

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I confirm this message's legitimacy.

“You hear a lot of people on amateur radio talking about colonoscopies, because they’re all old, and because ‘colonoscopy’ takes forever to transmit in Morse” ~ an experienced ham speaking to the local radio club

What if instead of datacenters we built dadacenters?

Consider: Visa restrictions shaping who participates in AI research. Defunding of scholarship on algorithmic discrimination. Federal preemption of state AI laws. This is not deregulation.

When you hit the Zotero browser button by accident and add an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the group literature review. Yeah, here are some hierarchical topic models I'd like you to study and a soap opera with bloodthirsty ghouls.

Yes! Yes, I agree!!

I like closing my letters with wax seals, and yesterday learned how to make a two-tone seal. Off-centered and needs more blue, but proof of concept successful ☺️

Yesterday I found a satisfyingly mysterious brick in front of Boston city hall

One of my fountain pens broke, and I had to fully disassemble it with tiny wrenches to repair the plunger, clean everything, re-grease the mechanism, and assemble it again. It works like a charm, and I feel like I've reached a new level of nerding out over this hobby

I think we should use cat purring as hold music! "Your call is important to us. *purrrrrr*"

Leakers do what governments won't.

I think there should be a Where's Waldo about identifying lycanthropes called Wherewolf, and when you find one you exclaim Therewolf!

Fierce debate between small children: “Mummies are dead people.” “Well, yeah. But if they were alive? They would eat brains.” “Yeah.” Consensus.

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I have a great memory from high school of watching two men drive up in a golf cart to one of those electric construction signs, reprogram it to say “Hey Barney!” and then drive away cackling. Inspirational.

The original cache of DataSet 8 (with the incorrectly redacted files) has been added to @ddosecrets.com

I pry open the crab shell but instead of sweet crabmeat I find a tiny, bustling city filled with people who have my face. It tastes terrible

In the last several months, @ddosecrets.com has been powering through archives of Epstein emails and files and releasing them for free to the public. No DoJ meddling, no institutional power making decisions about what to release. They sure could use your help tho... DONATE donorbox.org/ddosecrets

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

NEW: They kept saying they were gonna do it and now they've done it A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230. No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech. We can't let this happen. Share & take action www.badinternetbills.com

Underexplored genre: atomic steampunk. It’s steampunk, but they use radioactive rocks to boil the water. Victorian Chernobyl.

This is a reckless and self-destructive decision by ACM. It violates trust to cover up the peer-reviewed abstract with a lousy, error-ridden counterfeit. It sets a bad example for the community, implying that LLM "summaries" have epistemic value and that reading isn't necessary.

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

Well, this is an utter disaster for science. This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next. 🧪

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Great rundown of the Section 230 debate and why its necessary to preserve by @backdrifting.net! backdrifting.net/post/078_sec...

CDs were a wild technology. “Oh yeah, there was this era where we all had high-precision lasers at home and burned data into reflective platters, like a sci-fi reenactment of etching the early written word onto clay.”

Walking to my car, I pass two men in button-downs and overhear an adamant voice: “I have seen people levitate. I have seen someone crawl up the wall.”

Absolute debasement of academic standards *student submits opinion in psych class *gets bad grade *instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources *student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated *professor suspended

If you are lonely go to the woods, there are bloodless things there that breathe, things that would love to card through your thoughts like wind through autumn leaves. Things that would keep you company in your own mind, curl around your moonlit flesh like roots forever.

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

I'll be joining the folks from @2600.com and @offthehookradio.bsky.social to talk about the Epstein emails released by @ddosecrets.com.

Cinnamon was wearing broccoli as a hat

I really want to know the full story behind this epic hack, and yet I also hope it is never solved.

That scene in Attack of the Clones where C-3PO has his head attached to a battle droid and talks about how strange it feels is probably one of the only instances of the droids having body dysphoria, because the rest of them are CIS

cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents

In 2022 I gave a HOPE talk about the underground abortion movement that was covered by journalist Jessica Bruder for an Atlantic cover story: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc... Sad to hear that HOPE lost its venue because of radical zines.

I've never been prouder of @2600.com and speaking at @hope.net than now. 2600 has apparently been told HOPE can't return to St. John's University - allegedly because some attendees last year were ""too anti-police."" Censorship won't stop the signal - especially not 2600 Hz

HOPE has been banned from St. John's University. www.2600.com/content/hope...

applying for jobs again

I just saw a tiny girl, swiping at her phone in banal disinterest from her stroller, while her mother sprinted to drive the chariot before her, and it was like Cleopatra being spirited by her servants on the royal litter

Reading police radio transcripts. “Unsure if related to this protest, but three people have just walked up with a tuba, a trombone, and a drum. We’ll keep you updated on that.” Ten minutes later. “It’s an update on that protest. They have added a tambourine, but they remain peaceful at this time.”

Very cool work featuring several students from my lab! Analysis of how some publications (NYT) set the agenda on coverage of trans discourse for local media in some states, who lead agenda setting for other states' local media - all measured via topic modeling and transfer entropy