I recognize I am an extremely rare holdout in that I have been so hardline anti-AI that I have still yet to use a chatbot willingly, but uh, I feel like every other story I read is about how all the consumer-facing stuff is a mental illness particle accelerator www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

For a weekly seminar class, I'm looking for pairings of psych popularization with scholarly take-downs of the underlying research. I want students to see examples of how shoddy research gets hyped.

How do our brain hemispheres divide the labor of narrative comprehension? Seminar by Prof. Jamie Reilly (Temple University, @reilly-coglab.com) on local vs. global semantic processing. 🗓️ Monday, March 9 | 2:00 PM 📍 Milano-Bicocca (U6 - Sala Lauree) 🌐 Join online: meet.google.com/wkc-tyiv-zdx

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I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

I will venmo any reporter $2,000 to give trump a map of the middle east and ask him to identify iran

Anyone still using ChatGPT supports fascism quitgpt.org

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Another one from FuckGPT “If you’re experiencing respiratory failure or diabetic ketoacidosis, you have a 50/50 chance of this AI telling you it’s not a big deal,” she said. “What worries me most is the false sense of security these systems create." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is one of the most reasoned & persuasive arguments for not allowing LLMs anywhere near reading & writing intensive classrooms. We can 100% choose not to outsource our reading & writing labor to a bot, and model for our students why they should do the same. #EduSky www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

From Einstein to Neinstein. 👍🏻

This whole thread is a very important insight as to why getting information from an LLM, even if you are dutiful and vigilant, corrodes your ability to ascertain what is true or not ** LLMs do not provide the info you need in order to evaluate truth. **

My comment is going to be this Using AI in education is like replacing the teacher with some random guy who repeats whatever he has heard down the pub. AI is not intelligent, it makes no judgements about what it hears. In no sense is it a professional tool.

*This*

nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/2... not on my watch mate

for some reason the left (goldman sachs) refuses to take AI seriously

I know we in Uni IT aren't always the friendliest folks but please PLEASE if you are a student or faculty member, put in an ticket pointing out this service to the IT security team. This service amounts to a serious login credentials security risk to any individual who signs up.

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

The student-author of this piece is Grace Kaste, who should be widely applauded for writing it. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...

Good, elegantly ruthless thread. Interesting to me just how closely this LLM defense mirrors the genuinely absurd defenses of NFTs a few years ago. When presented with an accurate description of how the technology works, its defenders best response seems to be, “Nuh uh!”.

NSF Update Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit. Now by Directorate... 1/11

Everything that's wrong with higher ed in the US right now. My alma mater. Shameful ...

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Reminder that I have a starter pack of cat accounts run by real people who post original content with meaningful ALT text! go.bsky.app/J8yqxnN

Here’s the thing… a dusty, used-up, gravel-sounding, lying, murderous eugenicist who snorted blow off a toilet seat *is* the best that MAGA can find to do the job. Nobody else is any better than this scumbag. That’s the problem, they’re all this venal. It’s a jobs program for the scum of the earth.

Question for my cognitive friends, would you put discussion of the Stroop task in a unit on attention or in a unit on working memory/cognitive control?

In case you missed these, here's a compilation (for a few giggles to end the week). 1. Instagram post by NYUmed comms (oops). bsky.app/profile/andr...

“Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.”

Found one in the wild! Models of the language network in a published paper in a (presumably) predatory journal. I think I'd be concerned if a patient had four anterior temporal lobes in their lert hemisphere, it might affect their conprehension #NeuroSkyence

Court battle over surveillance footage at the Broadview ICE detention center reaches new levels of kafkaesque absurdity: The DOJ claimed it *couldn't afford* hard drives to put video footage on. Plaintiffs bought THE US GOVERNMENT hard drives. ICE "lost" them. www.404media.co/government-l...

And tech companies like ChatGPT have openly encouraged the public to think of it as a Father Confessor/Therapist, and more.

Hey folks on here, did I see someone recently (thread? Essay?) posting about how AI is fundamentally anti-consent, in its copyright infringement and its uses for non-consensual imagery, and also its pedagogical uses? I’m looking for a source.

This article immediately labels @emilymbender.bsky.social and I as "curmudgeons" because we don't think that the spicy auto complete has a concept of the self.

I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of?

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

ICE had the worst of the worst after all. Not in custody, but on payroll.

A region in the cerebellum is language-selective—something previously found only in the cortex, a new study suggests. By @natmesanash.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/language/cer...

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

One a these days I will turn this into a blog post for better accessibility, but for now, here's a pdf I wrote about the various different notations for derivatives, since that's a weird and confusing thing for students first seeing all these magic symbols rhinopotamus.github.io/pdf/derivati...

Absolute hell: Irishman with valid US work permit held by ICE since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for five months despite having no criminal record Originally from Glenmore, Co Kilkenny, wife Tiffany Smyth is a US citizen www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

one chatbot told a participant in this study to go lay down in the dark when he was presenting with a brain hemorrhage... what are we even doing www.404media.co/chatbots-hea...

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail