@jensfoell.de you might like this game: coming up with random file names and see what falls out of LLMs as an answer :D

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

So, I put the calculation experiment from my article on this in www.linkedin.com/pulse/chatbo... Right answer! Cool! But it went from 0.2 watt hours to 6.8 watt hours. IE, it goes from 2.5 million times more energy than a calculator to ~62 million times more energy than a calculator

We’re just kidding, that’s why you can’t uninstall it

This is going to leave the US so deeply unskilled. This is exactly how technofascists like to see it. As @olivia.science & I wrote: “the AI industry has lobbied government agencies to mandate the use of its products, claiming that without them, students will be unprepared for the job market.”

#franceuniversites #esr #csiesr comment accueillir en France les EC US wokiste migrant islamo-gauchiste pro-palestinien qui fuient Donald le Clown Orange avec des budgets pareils... Ahah ce n'était que de la comm. tout est cohérent finalement www.ouest-france.fr/education/et...

these are people for whom the only virtues are being smart and rich. you know, monsters

NEWS: Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration "It's an extinction-level event for science". This would decimate the world's leading scientific system, from NASA to NIH, and eliminate social, economic and behavioral science at NSF www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The whole-Earth-at-night photo from the #Artemis II mission was brighter than many expected. That was mostly due to camera settings; here’s another pic taken just before with diff settings. Digital photography is always subjective—even before processing! (HT @swapnakrishna.com @jasonc0.bsky.social)

On attend des précisions, mais effectivement ça dépend souvent des pharmacies. On va remettre à jour la carte collaborative (pour mémoire : vaccins-covid.gogocarto.fr)

La campagne de printemps de vaccination Covid 19 va bientôt ouvrir 🎉 (du 20 avril au 30 juin) Un DGS urgent publié aujourd'hui précise le "public cible" : * Personnes âgées de 80 ans ou + * Personnes immunodéprimées .../...

More to see in that image: * Aurora Australis (bright green, upper right) & Aurora Borealis (plane green, lower left) visible as faint streaks * The bright dot in the lower right is Venus * The white haze in the lower right is zodiacal light: dust in the plane of the Solar System lit by sunlight

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

Les services du Quai d'Orsay ont beaucoup plus bossé pour débunker l'interview de Lavrov que Léa Salamé pour la préparer. 😡 Ce n'est pas ainsi qu'un média de service public devrait fonctionner !

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

has anybody read this from the union of unions, yet? > Governing Artificial Intelligence in the Higher Education Sector Sociotechnical perspectives, regulatory challenges and working conditions Edited by Aída Ponce Del Castillo PDF: etuceprodstorage.blob.core.windows.net/assets/files...

Discussed here.

@attie.ai, for those who wanna press the funny buttons too

#FunFactESR : le montant nécessaire pour que les universités ne soient pas en déficit est dans l'épaisseur du trait de ces nouvelles dépenses (dont l'efficacité n'est pas prouvée).

Someone infected for 2.5 years leading to this variant: noteworthy 50 spike mutations vs. BA.3: noteworthy Immune escape: noteworthy Still highly divergent variants evolving: noteworthy Mitigations: Clean air. Ventilation. N95s. Minimizing: Same as before.

Sobre a cátedra adusp.org.br/universidade...

Enquanto a USP tiver uma cátedra financiada pelo Google, minha primeira reação será achar que quem quer que esteja falando sobre IA lá não tem moral jornal.usp.br/artigos/uma-...

They: “But we use AI responsibly!” Us: “Do you mean, smoke with a filter?” olivia.science/before/ @olivia.science

Recently, due to repeated threats from the far-right, one of the bravest people I will ever meet decided to leave Germany. If people like that have decided that the price of staying is too great, then just imagine how much danger German democracy is in. Just imagine it.

154/ 'The head of Europe’s central bank just said financial markets don’t understand what they’re in for. This is Christine Lagarde saying the damage is already done. Most people have absolutely no idea.' x.com/Microinterac...

They: “We cannot ban AI from the classroom!” Us: “Would you allow students to smoke in class?” -- It is still possible to do the right thing. You can sign our Open Letter here: openletter.earth/open-letter-... 🖋️

"The uncritical adoption of AI can lead to students not developing essential academic skills such as critical thinking and writing." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Really important to reemphasize this - the findings of the UK COVID Inquiry are a huge win for patients and science - and an equally huge defeat for the medical establishment. There should be many resignations, professional discipline and investigations for negligence happening this week.

#MedSky Please read and update your practice.

"Developers who fully delegated to AI produced working code but failed conceptual quizzes afterward. They couldn't debug what the AI had written for them. They had the output without the understanding."

This is what’s so scary about AI usage in education. For adults, offloading tasks may lead to atrophy of cognitive skills that are still recoverable; for kids and young adults, they’re foreclosing the ability to fully learn, think, and reason.

We’re wrapping up Long Covid Awareness Month with a focus on children. Today, we’re sharing this list of Long Covid symptoms in kids, published by leading researchers in JAMA Pediatrics: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #LongCovid #ILCAD2026 #LongCovidAwareness #pediatriclongcovid 1/2

The severe systemic risk here is obvious, so I'll confine myself to one aspect of it. The possibility of medication and medical supplies shortages in the near future is very real, so staying as healthy as you can is more important than ever. Wear FFP2 / FFP3 as often as possible.

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Exactly this. We should not accommodate a tool of our oppression. A tool extremely useful to those who would drown truth in irrelevance—every authoritarian’s dream. Resistance is not futile. It is imperative.

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

The universe is a glorious, stunningly beautiful place, and it’s offensive & gross when people produce or share fake space imagery. There’s a video floating around on here pretending to be the night sky viewed from Mars. It’s extremely fake, has been polluting the internet for years. Don’t share it

I am convinced that the pandemic will lead to 2 paradigm shifts. The first, as described in this article, is a reconceptualisation of pathogens as not just common causes of acute illness, but also common causes of chronic illness. The second will be the end of droplet dogma time.com/article/2026...

It turns out when you try to serve AI slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social on Disney pulling out of the $1 billion investment with OpenAI. Read the full story now: www.404media.co/disneys-open...

This is in line with a BUNCH of other studies. Even in a population with a good bit of immunity, vaccination during pregnancy STILL shows benefit www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Going to share this with my lab group

Les dotations aux unités du CNRS sont tombées: cure d'austérité trumpienne pour la recherche fondamentale. Pour la première fois, le budget prévisionnel était déficitaire, de 239 millions € (nous l'avions annoncé). Encore 20 millions de moins demandés par Matignon. rogueesr.fr/wp-content/u...

Six years ago when we were quarantining a friend told me that what people wanted that what people really wanted was to just close their eyes and wake up when the pandemic was over, which I suppose explains why six years later so many people still have their eyes closed.

For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024. Compare that to: Google: 71% Nvidia: 88% Meta: 96% Microsoft: 119%

Work is a social relationship. We create things together. This is especially true of UX design. AI's value proposition is freedom from relationships. So when designers champion AI tools, we are not making ourselves layoff-proof. We are reinforcing a system that frames us as unnecessary friction.

A new study finds that US COVID deaths were undercounted by nearly 20%. While COVID revisionists and antivaxxers are trying to con people into thinking governments did too much, the data says the opposite: Governments didn’t implement public health measures effectively enough to save more lives.