OMG I do not understand why intelligent people continue to read Washington Post editorials, but god bless them for their reader comments, summarized here by the Post's AI. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me "LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts .... This one is worth it. First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important. #ArtemisII

My local industrial gas supplier also wanted people to know this recently

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Dawg if I was a cookie-cutter shark and found out that my species could have been known as the "demon whale-biter" instead I'd be fuckin' *pissed*. Absolute nomenclatural humiliation. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

There is no marketing I'm more susceptible to these days than any company saying they don't use generative AI in their projects. I'm a sitting duck for that promise even if they're selling graham crackers or masking tape.

It Happened to Me: Someone I consider a dear friend asked me how my manuscript is coming along

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.

NGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

Hubble took a long look at a nearby cloud of gas suspected to be hiding billions — BILLIONS — of times the Sun's mass worth of dark matter, and found out… yup. It's a dark-matter dominated cloud that failed to make a galaxy when the Universe was young. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/hubble-pee... 🔭 🧪

Most Nobel Peace Prizes are awarded after the recipient threatens to go to war with the committee. This is very common.

This, my friends, is bad ass.

How many Magi were there and were they descended from Seth? Check out this piece that draws on essential work by @brentlandau.bsky.social and @evandeneykel.bsky.social ial www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

This is your regularly scheduled reminder that “Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas” began as a symbol of inter-immigrant solidarity. www.tabletmag.com/sections/foo...

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried

Ah, I see someone has exhumed the desiccated revenant named Carville, and used a hand bellows to force air into its lungs, so as to allow it to wheeze out miasmic utterances before being lowered once more into its crypt

So, we don’t call him the richest man in the world anymore. He’s referred to as the greediest man in the world.

Said the phrase 'I'm over the moon!' to a Polish man and he was a little confused and asked what I meant so I explained and when I finished he just shook his head and said 'You're happy but you have no business in space.'

This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.

3I/ATLAS is the first interstellar object bright enough for amateurs to image: so fabulous to see the delight ☄️😍

This is one of the good applications of AI. I really wish our society would invest more into its useful applications instead of going all in on the grifting-and-plagiarism racket.

Weird that we have a planet-wide magnetic defense system that self activates when the sun decides to attack but it is very pretty

Yeah I got nothing.

Blah blah blah men…Young women are ready to set the country on fire

why is it always "i created a new social media site to mine your data" or "here's a new AI bot we're training based on your work to put you out of a job" and never "we invented an affordable replicator from Star Trek so Preeti doesn't have to cook anymore"

Every so often I'll remember that we are all made of thinking meat and feel weird.

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

Common grackle presents a gorgeous profile #birds 🌿

See that small, moving splotch? That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter. A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS last Friday

Jane Goodall was actually the only one keeping the apes in control. Now there's a power vacuum

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Trump’s inability to pronounce “acetaminophen” raises new questions about Joe Biden’s mental state.

If you think Tylenol is bad for children’s health what until you see what guns do.

I'm a little tired of octopuses making the rest of us look bad. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text

nazi guy: i'm pretty much a nazi lefty: wow. you suck, nazi centrist: the rule is NO AD HOMINEMS, lefty

Look you can’t tell me this thing is “intelligently designed” — it goes into a five-minute coughing fit if I breathe wrong. Sometimes it accidentally bites itself. It draws blood.

On the House floor, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) speaks for a lot of us about the Big Beautiful Bill: “I say to my Republican colleagues, what’s wrong with you people?... Jesus Christ, what are you people thinking?”

Here he is, folks. The President of the United States selling his new men’s cologne for $199 and women’s perfume for $249.

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?