Seeing this as I’m listening to @trufelman.bsky.social new episode on sizing and fit models is just a little on the nose

It needs to be stated over and over - this isn't just a matter of errors: The point is that LLM AI is literally incapable of reviewing or validating research data. It absolutely cannot do that job, at all, ever. But it is very good at generating something that looks like a convincing review.

Okay so I read the whole of the Pope's latest encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas", the one the internet is calling the AI Encyclical, but it's about a LOT more than that (of course it is, it's over 40,000 words). Here's a thread of quotes...

Love this bit on Ai from the Royal Society. A classic case of the probability engine getting itself in a mess and revealing its complete lack of understanding

"women can be perfectly capable of using this technology and simply choose not to" we did in fact need data backing up this incredibly obvious claim bc a LOT of companies will insist Susan from Accounting is refusing to use AI to do the books because IT needs to come explain how it works to her

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

And we are live! Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible

The solutions we will need to develop at the level of the classroom are unlikely to be in alignment with policies like this that first and foremost imagine our students as incipient wage-laborers rather than learners.

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

The most horrifying part of this is buried at the end. Like half the “citations” are just slapped on to give a false veneer of credibility.

Don't taco Tuesday this shit. Millions of people spent the day wondering if they would get vaporized, and no one in our government stood up to him. Nothing cutesy about it.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

What this also means: We should be grateful for our atmosphere 👀

#Artemis crew to Mission Control, after seeing and attempting to describe the eclipse: "And if you could give me about 20 new superlatives in the mission summary tomorrow, that'll help my vocabulary out a bit. Thank you."

You can’t really learn much if you’re having AI generate your homework, your papers, and everything else you need to complete a class, but for some reason universities keep shoving AI into the learning environment on the assumption that it’s an improvement.

"Art didn't used to be political." Meanwhile, Mr. William Shakespeare: www.youtube.com/shorts/uec_u...

For those days when I’m not in one of my exhaustive exhausting village explainer moods: Normalize googling words/terms followed by “definition” or “etymology.” Doors of knowledge will hurl themselves open for you, I swear. I even swan.

Honestly cannot think of a time I knew less what was going to happen at court than I feel ahead of oral arguments on birthright citizenship tomorrow. The fact that this is getting a full hearing instead of a 9-0, per curiam, benchslap is already beyond disturbing.

I dunno. If they end birth right citizenship, a clear corruption of the plain language of the Constitution, I think this country is over.

"The IOC already tried mandatory sex testing. For decades, every female Olympic athlete was screened. In all those years, it never caught a single person deliberately misrepresenting their sex. What it did was destroy the careers & lives of women with intersex conditions they didn’t know they had."

the thing about "i'll just pirate it" for this HP show is that it is *ruined* i literally cannot enjoy it, she has put her disgusting transphobic veneer over all of it and so it literally cannot be enjoyed, even if I wanted to try (I don't) I would see her smarmy cigar smoking face in my mind's eye

the amount of energy some people use up on a daily basis just hating people, hating whole groups of people, trying to remind themselves again and again why they're the enemy and must be stopped. Instead they could learn to watercolor or bake sourdough, go on bike rides, plant a butterfly garden...

However much we love Emma Thompson, it's not enough.

And what I’m calling “opportunity theft” is the theft of someone’s future and their potential by means of robbing them of appreticeship, menteeship, and experience now. Using AI to perform the tasks that students and trainees do in the early phases of training and education is opportunity theft.

In addn to the “opportunity theft,” as Sonja 🤌 calls it, I’m struck by how this prof thinks of grad students: purely as cheap labor to serve him. Zero acknwlwgmt of the ethical / intellectual responsibility or *joy* of sharing your knwledg with others, learning *from* them, supporting the next gen.

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

People are dead.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere

i think this is one of the biggest dangers in llm output: even if everything it gives you is 100% correct (not bloody likely) what did it LEAVE OUT? the more fully-formed an output looks, the less likely you are to notice it's incomplete

Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten

thinking about women at the top of their game winning medals and trophies and being genuinely supportive of their competitors bc they aren’t threatened by each other’s success, meanwhile the face of sports transphobia is some asshole who placed eighth in a swim meet and made it everybody’s problem

will the prices that went up because of tariffs now go right back down? or are we now living with higher prices on some goods because of this unconstitutional decision?

This is an important point. As yet Andrew has not been arrested for anything involving Giuffre, which is difficult to prove in court. They have him on information in the Epstein files regarding his time as trade envoy, which was well known to be corrupt. They mean to put him in prison.

Watching other countries actually make their leaders and powerful men face consequences with jealousy.

I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”

Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga as Sky Masterson and Sister Sarah when?

Abolish. You can’t bodycam this shit. Abolish must be the hard red line.

buds i am so excited for the olympics. whatever people mean when they say "lib out" i'm gonna do that. for the olympics

We need an updated "Desk Set" (1957) in which women fact-checkers beat the AI bros. And drink buckets of champagne.

I think a lot about how important it is to the promise of this country that if you make your life in America, you are an American. Liam and his father are as American as Alex Pretti and Renee Good. I’m not hand waving away the awfulness of this country to its own people. But there has been a shift.

getting SO TIRED of seeing so many social media posts written by AI It makes it not fun! It kills the soul and the joy! Ethics aside WHY ARE WE SO DEVOTED TO THINGS THAT KILL JOY

This is, in my opinion, not only the correct moral/ethical/legal position but also the correct political framing. Everyone can see the agency is out of control; everyone can see that it is constantly violating human rights. "Scrap it and start over" is the moderate position.

something something when a good man goes to war

No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.

The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time." Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...

Ken’s work is never perfect but I appreciate that this is not hours of founding father glazing. He keeps coming back to the rhetoric of white colonists invoking the language of unjust devotion to the crown well being committed to chattel slavery.

I’m listening