I heard there was a secret verse That David used to make AI worse But you don't really want to pub that, do ya

Still haven't read the full agreement because I deserve nice things occasionally. But there's really a need for a propublica-type investigation into the social network of these boards, presidents, & donors with the admin. At the same time, exploring the similarities and differences across deals.

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I am not writing a thing about gender and math ability and programming because I think it will prevent horrible arguments from resurfacing. I'm not even writing it because I want confused men to hear it. I am writing it because I want the young women in technical spaces to have what I wish I'd had:

It's terrifying but also weirdly interesting to live in a time when all the status markers and prestige signals we used to lean on are falling apart because it's perfectly possible to imitate, infiltrate or simulate them. It's no guarantee of good science that it comes from x University, x journal

ok this time i double checked and the source for this claim is an AI company. Motivation: we are financially invested in narratives of inevitability Results: we find AI everywhere

I suspect that we really do need to emphasize a much more social learning/collaborative knowledge approach to this versus individual understanding, that's the piece that software culture doesn't like to admit though!

Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.

Folks who wrote that 'AI autism diagnosis' paper in @nature.com don't give a shit what it actually says; all they care is they scored a high-value pub for their CVs. They should be rewarded with deep scrutiny of every future claim.

Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Found out how to make interactive PDFs in InDesign and immediately used it to make the worst info input format I could think of

I'll promote me and @susannotess.bsky.social's book, though it's a free online textbook and not formally "published" Social Media, Ethics, and Automation We teach how to write social media bots, and then reflect on the ethics of what we did social-media-ethics-automation.github.io/book/bsky/in...

but with AI you don't write the code, you just ask for something, and probabilistically it gives you an output. You have something in mind, maybe specific, maybe vague. And sometimes it gives you what you wanted. Jackpot! Sometimes, though, it's not quite right. 7️⃣7️⃣🍒 damn, it was so close!

1) genuine life changing moment of my early 20s was realizing I actually didn't have to do this at all. tell the youths 2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

I'm excited to have updated our color naming in different languages project to use the new Oklab/Oklch color space. The new views highlight the differences in how English and Korean divide blues, greens and purples. idl.uw.edu/color-naming... @jheer.org @uwcse.bsky.social @ischool.uw.edu

I do not believe that the majority of the software people I have worked with all these years sit around thinking, "I want cancer research to be destroyed." We have mountains to climb no doubt, we are trapped in some bad cultures no doubt, but I do not believe this of you for one moment.

there is some amazing internet lore in this thread

AI has been devastating for the “checking on youtube to see if the movie has any trailers yet” user cohort

thank you for watching me talk about PBS Kids so I can donate money to PBS Kids and we can support the team. It's like a circular loop that leads to 0.03% of a Donkey Hodie episode being produced.

I’m writing something about AI and collecting the worst examples of workslop — and AI slop, in general. If you have any particularly appalling and / or hilarious suggestions, send ‘em to me!

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I'm excited to have updated our color naming in different languages project to use the new Oklab/Oklch color space. The new views highlight the differences in how English and Korean divide blues, greens and purples. idl.uw.edu/color-naming... @jheer.org @uwcse.bsky.social @ischool.uw.edu

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I know very few people who think the cost of public transit is prohibitive. It’s that public transit in the US is treated in most cities like the thing you slap on after the fact.

My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Texas A&M Was Wrong to Fire Professor Over Gender Lesson, Panel Rules The firing put the school at the center of national debates over gender identity and academic freedom. A faculty panel ruled unanimously against the termination. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.

I think the debate over what people "want" is a distraction given two basic facts: 1) America vastly over-provides suburbs and under-provides dense walkability; 2) Suburbs are hideously bad for the environment and harmful to numerous markers of well-being. That's enough! We should do more density!

Every day, like a rubberband being stretched a little farther, we see our democracy tolerate increasingly intolerable trespasses against any sensible standard. Much like that rubberband there are likely only two outcomes for us at the end of this: breaking or an extreme, explosive restorative force.

That beautiful surface is a soft cell! I covered the amazing discovery story of these weird shapes — they fill space like bricks, but lack corners — in a feature for @sciam.bsky.social last year. It's one of my best stories. And later today, I'm re-posting it on my newsletter without a paywall 👀

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

THIS. Also, I can't help but think of Claudine Gay being forced out of the Harvard presidency over trumped-up accusations of plagiarism and tolerating antisemitism. While Summers was questioning the intellectual capacity of women while president. And sexually harassed at least one woman.

Ha ha, I trolled my bot the other day. Quote posts can be used for harassment, like doing this to my bot

I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again! My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away

THE SECOND PASS PAGES ARE HERE 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 There are a few corrections I need to make but this is almost the final version — and at least one chapter is noticeably different from the galleys 👀 Soon I will be done reading this thing and it will be your turn 😹 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

I worry about the emphasis on independent journalism we have right now because: 1) it’s not a sustainable business model to hold up an entire industry 2) they don’t have editors or fact checkers to provide checks and balances on their reporting 3) institutional journalism is still important

🙋🏻‍♀️ independent fact checker here! Yes there are many freelance fact checkers and editors. But fact checking is not a priority for pubs. We were the first to be fired as the industry imploded So there’s no desire to hire us, even independently I work on books and am hired* paid directly by authors

The House votes 427-1 to approve a measure that would require the Justice Department to release the Epstein files.

So people who want to change the trajectory of where AI is in society today should start by noting that *current approaches to stopping adoption have failed*. That is a factual, measurable statement. I don’t believe repeating them will suddenly start working, maybe some people think so, but I don’t.

There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are: 1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways. 2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.

last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before

My question is who is doing all the Epsteining for these powerful wealthy men now?

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

I think a real test of your social media platform is if corporations, and governments, and public figures have a greater range of allowed speech than normal users. Also, miss me with "interest of the public" claims -- social media platforms are not designed to be information utilities.

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