I loved it, too! Highly recommended.

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...

It took us a long time to get to building contact imports for Bluesky because we wanted to do it in a privacy preserving way. Read more about how we did it in the blog post below!

O quê vem depois da a era da pós-verdade? O @msoares.bsky.social explica espetacularmente.

Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...

Super! One point you might make even more explicit, which is obvious for you but not always to the students, is that the product of your class is not whatever output the students produce. Nobody cares about it. It will be thrown away. The product is learning.

Calibri was asking for it, walking around without any serifs.

The first known use of ‘conspiracy theory’ was in 1863…or so they want you to believe.

I'll stop here. But note that these are all cases involving ADULTS outsourcing the basic requirements of their professional responsibilities to these tools of cognitive automation. Now tell me we need to be pushing this into schools. I fucking dare you.

Colocaram implantes cerebrais em uma mulher que perdeu os movimentos e agora ela consegue tocar piano só com os impulsos nervosos enquanto ela imagina tocar. Muito legal. O twist: os eletrodos lêem os impulsos antes de serem registrados pela consciência. Então ela sente que o piano toca sozinho.

Gift article about the across-the-board *slowdown* in federal funding for science - on ALL the topics. But especially for up-and-coming scientists. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🎁

“it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”

Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy

"Meanwhile, artificial intelligence technologies are undermining the value of the industry’s creative endeavours by enabling companies to create ads quicker and more cheaply".

Here’s this year’s Books We Love—but thanks to lots of work by lots of people, you can also look over all the Books We Love years back to 2013. It’s a remarkable project, and I can say that because I have nothing to do with it. (/fin)

it’s over

dá pra ter muito problema ao mesmo tempo não precisa escoher um só.

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

I just published: Gene Editing: Precision Breeding Regulations Now Live On 13 November 2025, UK regulations for precision bred plants came into effect. We can now register precision bred plants, such as those with disease resistance and reduced reliance on fungicides. medium.com/p/gene-editi...

Salve, pessoal. Um projeto que eu estava preparando para o ano que vem subiu no telhado. Cheguei a recusar algumas propostas pra não estar com o tempo comprometido caso desse certo. Não deu. Assim, estou aberto a tomar cafés pra pensar coisas pra adiante.

Chorei no início de uma aula na semana retrasada falando do Lô. Enquanto eu viver, garanto a imortalidade dele!

It's time to remove laptops from classrooms. 24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images. The pen is mightier than the keyboard.

Although focused on the EU, the warnings offered here are no less true for AI policy in the US, or anywhere else for that matter. In my lifetime I've never seen grandiose hype of what *might* happen with a technology drive what we are doing in the here and now. Not good!

It's a wee bit unfortunate that the phrase "cognitive offloading" has become the go-to phrase for describing what AI does, including by those worried about its impact on education. I believe a more accurate term is cognitive *automation*, as Francois Chollet described years ago.

ICIJ's latest investigation The #CoinLaundry is a collaboration of 113 journalists from 38 media partners in 35 countries that exposes how cryptocurrency companies have empowered a shadow economy that lavishly profits from crime. Here are our findings:

Even @wired.com acknowledges how superior (better!) @home-assistant.io is! I've been using Home Assistant for almost 2 years now. There's no turning back.

My quote of the day In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator. Dan Ariely

As Doug Altman wrote, "We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons”. Incentives are key for that, but I'd argue that so should accountability. Without real consequences for deviating from such goal, nothing will change.

During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures My latest for @sentientmedia.org

Shameless plug: For a year, I've been working on a series about the vast systems that underlie life in most of the world. Built up over generations, these systems are the cathedrals of our time--but all too few of us know anything about them, and they're all at risk of failing. Here's the latest:

What innovations/changes/updates would you like to see in a non-profit publisher that would make you submit your work there *even if their impact factors might be lower*? And I fully realize that the answer from many might be "none, IF or GTFO" 😅

Tive o privilégio de conviver com vários "filhos científicos" (orientados) e até com o viúvo (Jürgen) da Johanna. A herança que ela concretamente deixou para o Brasil não é mensurável. Os R$10 bilhões são uma fração pequena do legado dessa cientista formidável. super.abril.com.br/ciencia/quem...

There are lots of answers out there that are beautiful because the truth of the system is beautiful. If I find one of these beautiful facts, it doesn’t make me brilliant. Just right place and right time. True scientific heroes acknowledge that fact.

Proveniência da informação é 90% da história, pessoal.

The advances we've made in statistics, experimental study design, and causal inference over the past century are remarkably useful for understanding our world. But there is never been a push to make people use them like we are seeing with generative AI. Perhaps take a moment to consider why.

Bluetorial-Jim Watson I met Jim Watson a few times but did not know him well. However, I was greatly influenced by his book “The Double Helix”. He was a complicated human being with some very, very bad features, but some good contributions. What follows is my personal perspective. 1/41

And, yet, that's what one sees looking at pretty much any research institution on the world... 😔

I lift the silly weights in the gym. I will mess around with my own words and sentences and thoughts out of it. See where it all takes me.

parabéns pra quem está morto! quem ainda não está, apenas aguarde

É preciso parar pra ontem de debater se os mortos eram trabalhadores, vagabundos, inocentes ou criminosos. Isso não é relevante. O que é relevante é que execução sumária é ILEGAL.

🚨 Unraid 7.2.0 Stable is here! Bringing you fresh new features+improvements like: ✅ Responsive WebGUI ✅ RAIDZ Expansion ✅ NTFS/exFAT/ext4 support ✅ Built-in open-source API So, whether you’re a homelabber, data hoarder, or virtualization pro—this release is for you! unraid.net/blog/unraid-...

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

My dad, explaining AI to my mom: “It doesn’t think. It copies stuff wrong.”

Read the whole thread, please.

'Astronomers' is an anagram for 'moon starers.'

Does Disney espouse my feminist world view? No. Am I going to berate my granddaughters for wearing princess Halloween costumes? No. There's a lot to be said for the innocence of children, and I'm happy to let them experience this uncomplicated time of their lives 💕💕💕 Tomorrow is another day!