“A Home Depot in Los Angeles installed three high-pitch noise-emitting machines outside to deter day laborers from seeking work there, causing them to suffer headaches and nausea, advocates alleged at a press conference on Wednesday.”

Hoppy Sunday Bunday! 🤍🐰🖤 #bunny #rabbit

grown adults in charge of people's lives frequently sounding like when ur in 2nd grade and a classmate w diabetes has to go to the nurse to get a snack and another one of ur classmates is like "um. how come *I* don't get to go to the nurse to get a snack 🤨" except it's like. 50 yr old men.

I know the proliferation of references to non-existent papers, powered by genAI, is getting less surprising and shocking but it doesn't make it any less potentially corrosive to the scholarly knowledge environment.

And so checked out Google Scholar. Now on my profile it doesn't appear, but somwhow on Nelli's it does and ... and ... omg, IT'S BEEN CITED 42 TIMES almost exlusively in papers about AI in education from this year alone... scholar.google.com.vn/citations?vi...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

people can do everything right but still suffer because others insist on doing everything wrong.

I offer this to others who may be going through covid for the first time & think you are done after the first week of acute symptoms. It's a long haul, 3 weeks minimum, up to 4 weeks. 90% regained taste and smell (10% may never recover them). We are taking it day at a time & monitoring carefully.

Critical aspect of the 2nd week is whether our organs, blood vessels, heart, kidneys, lungs make it through the covid cycle. In my case, stage 3 kidney disease, artificial heart valve, pacemaker, polycythemia. Covid attacks organ & vascular cells. It consumes all of our energy. Save it for healing.

Here's another way the intentional PR conflation of the term AI with all ML is undermining academic work: I'm collab'ing on an archive management project that involves developing an ML tool to analyze texts. The answer to asks for funding/resources has often been, "Just use chatgpt/copilot/etc.!"

Update @cameronbolton.bsky.social @chi.streetsblog.org on the Cook County Department of Transportation and Highways O'Hare Area Bike Network Study, which is examining ways to create a more connected bikeway network in the communities surrounding the airport. chi.streetsblog.org/2025/12/16/o...

iphone summary screen stop showing me my dead friends challenge

Someone sent me old photos of me unmasked, saying they're grieving that version of me. Umm, I'm very much alive & just paying attention to the evidence. I am, however, grieving the version of them I thought had empathy

yep.

Generative AI is also causing me more work as a college professor, in teaching, research, and admin work.

So far AI is causing me more work. One of my main responsibilities is to use a database to find certain things. This database used to have humans look at the webpage of a thing and then write a description. Bad AI descriptions have led to an increase in false positives I need to sift through.

Apple wants most to update to iOS 26.2, but if you want to stay on iOS 18, but don't see iOS 18.7.3 as an option. Here is how you can update for now. youtube.com/shorts/p6RK1...

Galaxy brain shit✨🧠✨

yall this is so, so funny to me 😂

how to handle the what now

Hey y'all covid-prevention nerds: Well Before is offering 15% off today if you buy two different products. (7% if just one.) Good time to stock up on masks and hand sanitizer at the same time! (Or whatever your covid-safer heart desires)

How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀 LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽‍♂️

Do you feel safer now that anyone wearing a balaclava and a jacket that says FBI can come into your house and rob you? www.chronline.com/stories/they...?

So, SFWA is very much not my circus, not my monkeys, but here are my two general thoughts right now: 1) clear rules excluding AI-created content are important to hold the line, especially for publishers who would want nothing more than to toss their editors into the drink.

“When individuals donate their bodies for science, such as organ donations, tissue banks often collect abdominal fat cells. Tiger Aesthetics purchases [it], screens it for diseases, purifies it, & processes it… it looks like clumpy butter in a syringe.” Wake up, babe—new corpse product just dropped

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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

This made me sob. Thank you for sharing Melissa Hortman's incredible life with us, @stephenrodrick.bsky.social.

Hosford-Abernethy, Portland, OR #pdx #houses #homes #murals #streetart

I found out my doctor moved around his whole schedule and came in today solely to give me a complicated injection that may bring me meaningful pain relief. Taking a moment to share a positive story, so I remember there still are rare people in our medical system who always go above and beyond. 🥺

I know disciplinary standards differ, but I've been at this for decades and I've never cited a paper I didn't read. Didn't like, sure; didn't understand, often; kind of drifted off in the middle there, it happens. But didn't read at all? Nah. Come on.

when you're conceived, your "self" begins borrowing matter from the universe like checking out books from a library. in a tub your feet exchange particles with the water. where do you end and begin? that's why it's ontologically impossible to get mad at me for stealing pens from the bank. they're me

December 19, 2025. Current Epidemic Growth Status (Based on Rt) for States and Territories Last updated 12/16/2025. {https://www.cdc.gov/forecast-outbreak-analytics/about/rt-estimates.html} #COVID19 💉😷

Meanwhile my girl is curious

This is a ridiculous overreach into consumer privacy.

Aw, your bunny looks a lot like mine, only mine wasn't in the mood for a photo

Big Oil is selling the promise of “low-carbon data centers” using carbon capture, reports @emdashsanders.bsky.social. But these plans could "easily transform into a sprawling build-out of high-polluting methane gas infrastructure" with lasting impacts to "the climate and communities nearby."

very quickly hitting my weekly limit for dealing with ✨everything✨

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What’s the opposite of formaldehyde? casualdejekyll

Scientists recently combined DNA of a cheetah with the DNA of a crab. It went sideways real fast.

Hey, it's actually pronounced "jaslight" You've been saying it wrong this whole time.

"UVA Board likely to Cost VA Taxpayers Millions in Inevitable Buy-Out for President Set Up to Fail" www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Hooman give me treats or else

“Student Council released a statement calling for the suspension of the presidential search [writing] that the current pace of the process would lead to an appointment “motivated by partisan interests” rather than one that keeps the Univ. & student body in mind” www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

🌊 🐟🦭🐋🐧 I have a PhD position available (4 years, start Mid-2026) at NRM Stockholm to work on the macrogenomics of sea warming. Apply here: recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a... #PhD #MarineGenomics #ClimateChange #EvolutionaryBiology #PopGen #Bioinformatics #conservationgenomics

Daughter refusing to go outside

my final study for my dissertation will be about digital yellowface, mostly from a digital media studies angle. what would be a good journal to target?

It's Weekend Soup, where I make a HUGE pot of soup we eat all weekend so I don't have to worry about cooking and can just do fun things. It's a day early because I host writing group tomorrow and we always go late.