Aren't European Robins so lovely to have around as they sing almost all year round? #festivedailyrobin #holidayrobin #birds #birdingwales #ukbirding Taken in February 2024 somewhere in South Wales UK.

I functionally stopped reading the Atlantic after the mess of the "carry-on baggage" article and apparently I was vindicated in my decision (Yes, it's a niche one, but that article was so irritating to read that I could not spend money on the Atlantic anymore)

One of the coolest things I got to do in my education was spend - on someone else's dime - weeks and weeks in different archives in South Africa. LLMs can't match the wonder of that experience.

i am actually working on an article right now about how the vast majority of the world's information - and so many current events - are not at all legible to LLMs, a fact that a startling number of people never seem to think about

“please use our submission form” the submission form:

Visiting the Acropolis was INCREDIBLE. The Parthenon, Erechtheion, Temple of Nike and Odeon of Herodes Atticus took my breath away. Seeing these places with my own eyes was just fantastic.

Rauðufossar Rauðufossar seen from the F225 on our way back from Landmannlauugar. #Iceland #Landmannaleið #F225 #Landscape #Landscapes #Landscapephotography #Nikon #Photography

Last year @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social and I had a conversation about parallels between Trump of today and PRI in the 80s and every day since has reminded me of this

Part of this is that people tend to defer to business owners in their social circles as experts on “the economy” (perhaps because they have “skin in the game”), and what’s good for small business owners is not necessarily what’s good for everyone.

If a neurodivergent influencer is taking money from Meta AI, you should probably be leery of any content they make about accommodations and supports.

Beyond pop culture, there are also a lot of autistic people who are not great at realizing that people have different experiences and will be different as a result of that. And so they assume every autistic person who is not like them is masking or putting on airs or sucking up to neurotypicals.

if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade

I think I need a badge for graduating from a certain podcaster's materials to become more advanced in what I consume on critiques of certain tech

Some delightfully spicy dragging of OpenAI and why LLMs are bad for accessibility in this piece - @baldurbjarnason.com and @alexhanna.bsky.social , reminded me of stuff y'all have posted: adrianroselli.com/2025/10/open...

Inside the mother of all Neolithic tombs ... Newgrange in Ireland. This photo, from excavator Michael O'Kelly's book, shows the chamber (with spiral carving) that is illuminated via the famous roofbox opening at winter solstice. A 5,200-yr-old celebration of the return of the sun. #TombTuesday

The @mta.info has different farewell to the metrocard collaborations. Did we get a Carvel metrocard ice cream cake for our 2yo's birthday? Yes, yes we did!

Northern Cardinal #birds #birdphotography #cardinal #photography

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yeah I yell at anyone who uses the phrase "AI race" around me. it's purely manufactured urgency with shifting markers. "first mover advantage" isn't really a thing. we're 26 years into the 21st century. the future's here. cool. time to confront the material realities of the present.

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

our brains have just been permanently warped to see the world of the period shortly after the war as normal because of the cultural impact of those decades, so we're constantly readjusting based on an unusual mirage

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

My debut, a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide (COLOR TASTE TEXTURE) sold twice this in preorders, with the tiniest sliver of her marketing budget. Also: It’s a great holiday gift! 🎁

no one on ao3 shipping tolkien/lewis. that feels sacreligious somehow

TIME magazine is owned by Marc Benioff, owner of Salesforce, who literally ran an AI agents puff piece about his ow company in the magazine. I’m unsurprised he thinks a bunch of grifters are person of the year, he thinks they’re cool

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

put my transportation planner hat back on for a lovely chat with @citycastdc.bsky.social about traffic circles ⬇️ dc.citycast.fm/podcasts/why...

Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion. That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/

Y'all wanna warn your friends before you get on the "AI companion" bandwagon and warn your friends, help them get informed.

Blair Witch Project only because the moving footage is so nauseating

Way too much press coverage of "AI" is spent debating the hypemerchants' claims of speed & efficiency & scale of impact, & not nearly enough is time spent on 2 very basic questions: Are these systems outputs anything like correct? And, if & when they get things wrong, how much harm will that cause?

Japanese maple leaves show off their most glorious crimson. Hope you all have a great week! #VT365 #NaturePhotography

Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM. I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?

I get this a lot too. I don't use ChatGPT or any LLMs in my work because I want my writing to sound like me, not like the averaged-out voice of the internet. But also, writing is thinking, and thinking is a habit. I don't want to get out of that habit.

When you are this cute, does anything else really matter? #🪶 #birds #nature #wildlife #birding #photography #birdsofbluesky #mallardducks #naturephotography #birdphotography #nikon #nikonZ8 #nikonphotographer

"This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise"

This was a great piece, and while it is temporally specific I'm thinking of how this is also useful in the accessibility realm.

That's the big shame here. Some of the work he does has been extremely useful and important and him running a PR firm with clients in the tech and "AI" industry directly undermines that work. It makes the work easy for those criticised to dismiss and it makes it harder for others to build on it.

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

New digital #a11y food analogy in latest update to "Accessibility is Delicious" (1st written in 2020, updated ever since) This one about swiss cheese, thanks to @possumrabbi.bsky.social. Read it here. I welcome accessibility food analogies from all over the world! www.lflegal.com/2020/05/acce...

Yep. Anything to keep it going. Andreessen said that "any deceleration of AI will cost lives," and called slowing down AI "a form of murder." These billionaires are so entitled — and so terrified of their own inevitable deaths — that they frame any limits on their own power in apocalyptic terms.

there really is something inherently abusive about AI. Buying into the hype means you are perpetually gaslighting your workers while desperately explaining away its faults as if they're either your own or your employees. Very nasty stuff.

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

If you think the LLM told you something, ask yourself: What is your belief about who's talking? What is feeding that belief?

Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.

Every person who says "of course there are some uses for LLMs" should be forced to immediately list what those uses are, taking into account that: a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs

Wow a lot of people are hitting on the National Guard guys in DC

I also really appreciate this advice from @emilymbender.bsky.social and @karenhao.bsky.social, which tracks with my own experience teaching high school students and college students and talking with my own kids. Emphasize environmental costs and - once more - that GenAI is *not* inevitable.