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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 1m

does your patient have white coat hypertension, or do they just have hyperadrenergic POTS and they had to be upright to get to your office and then weren't able to sit crosslegged in the waiting room?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9m

Oh my god

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

“People who dislike Gen AI are just stuffy bores”

Bitch one of us actually knows how many fingers humans have and evidently it’s not ChatGPT

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 31m

If I got to interview the president I'd only ask him things like "Can you talk about the last time you grilled a burger" and just see what kind of 15-minute "Oh this guy is an alien" monologue his brain can conjure

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 22m

neither is it harming them. nonautistic techbros are like this too.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 56m

yeah, it's definitely the autism and not some autistics being attracted to fields that then affirm their intelligence in a narrow domain without insisting they also develop the skills and knowledge to engage critically with the world.

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 1h

see also: RFK Jr. saying they will "make the proof" of Tylenol causing autism.

Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 3h

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 3h

Amazing

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1h

Not sure why it has taken until late 2025 to see this, but this is how you do it. Every time. For every one of these guests.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1h

"Pope Leo quoted Hannah Arendt... warning that the ideal subject of totalitarian regimes is not someone ideologically committed, but rather someone for whom “the distinction between fact and fiction, and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”" www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Pope: In this age of communication, nobody can say 'I did not know' - Vatican News

Addressing a global network of leading news agencies, Pope Leo thanks reporters who every day work to share the truth, often risking their lives. It ...

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 1h

it feels like everything is held together with duct tape and they're the ones with the box cutters.

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 5h

Bar associations need to start disbarring. There's immediate precedent with Giuliani. To the point @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has repeatedly made, a polity that allows elites to repeatedly lie, obviously and with impunity, is not sustainable. Feels like the legal profession is at the same juncture.

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 15h

The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 5h

Bar associations need to start disbarring. There's immediate precedent with Giuliani. To the point @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has repeatedly made, a polity that allows elites to repeatedly lie, obviously and with impunity, is not sustainable. Feels like the legal profession is at the same juncture.

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 15h

The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 1h

whatever happened to practicing kissing your pillow? Jesus Christ. the kids are learning how to do sex from porn and how to do romance and relationships from AI.

NPR @npr.org · 3h

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

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Shana V. White (she/her) @shanavwhite.blacksky.app · 2h

*stares into the abyss*

NPR @npr.org · 3h

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 13h

Also: I like & respect Fr. Larry A LOT, and his words are rightfully being celebrated.

But let’s not lose sight of the leadership of the Coalition for Spiritual & Public Leadership, who organized this action and continue to organize prayerful protest & action formed by liberation theology.

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Marc Hirsh @spacecitymarc.bsky.social · 1d

"What do you propose they do?" I would start with "something."

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Pinko @pinkoscare.bsky.social · 2h

Needing AI to come up with "it was lovely to meet you" is fuckin sad

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 9h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 9h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 2h

I am not sure it isn't. I've also noted that making money, even through theft, is now treated as a right of capitalists rather than a contractual arrangement between capital and labor. without that, the most problematic AI vanishes.

Jeremy C-Howl @jmchao.bsky.social · 3h

We somehow decided shaming is bullying, which only makes sense if “being a bad person” is a protected class.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 16h

Sometimes you just can't tell people things. You just have to sit back and let them find out for themselves. Usually those people are children.

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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 9h

ok, but please, I must know what the South African dish is now? because it must be delicious.

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 9h

autism doesn't make people racist, but being ableist certainly does make you an asshole.

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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 9h

capitalism creating new markets so it can continue its growth.

next thing will be an ultra premium service that de-AI-ifies that writing so the plagiarism detector won't catch it, unless the institution buys the ultra premium detector and so on ad infinitum.

dona 🍤🥔 @aldonanana.bsky.social · Aug 18

Grammar selling an AI writing agent to students and an “AI detector agent” to teachers… 🫩

An Al detector agent is also available that provides a score to indicate the likelihood of the text being written by a human or Al-generated.