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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 16m

That tracks.

Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 16m

LLMs are particularly susceptible to Poster’s Madness?

Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 42m

Oh.
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New Paper Finds That When You Reward AI for Success on Social Media, It Becomes Increasingly Sociopathic

Stanford scientists unleashed AI bots in different environments, including social media, and they started behaving unethically.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 42m

Oh.
futurism.com/future-socie...

New Paper Finds That When You Reward AI for Success on Social Media, It Becomes Increasingly Sociopathic

Stanford scientists unleashed AI bots in different environments, including social media, and they started behaving unethically.

futurism.com

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 17m

According to Google the Chinese says “Children’s Nutrition Meat Pine,” which makes a bit more sense I guess…

Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 40m

A modest proposal in Chinese.

Jar of CHILD SHREDDED MEAT. Delicious Classic, it adds. Also Chinese text I unfortunately can't read.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 44m

Hi hello did you know that Elon Musk's third Neuralink patient (previously nonverbal) is "getting help from Grok" to communicate

and I hope -- I REALLY HOPE -- he's not stuck in his own brain listening as a robot talks for him without his input because this, to me, would be worse than death

This patient’s Neuralink brain implant gets a boost from generative AI

A patient who types with his brain thanks to a Neuralink implant is using AI chatbots to speed things up.

www.technologyreview.com

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 7h

I cannot in good conscience recommend that my undergraduate or masters students go to graduate school in the USA. I will support them if they apply but I cannot recommend it to them. This is a change from 30 years of practice in which that was my strongest recommendation.

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 7h

Lived through this at a small paper. Every consultant pitch seemed like what someone would recommend if they didn't want any more newspapers.

Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 10h

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 1h

Previously: bsky.app/profile/coli...

Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 6d

We know how to relax. This is a picture of my dogs. #Dogs #DogsOfBlueSky

A small black toy poodle is lying comfortably at one end of a sofa and a tiny blonde toy poodle is lying, eyes closed, sprawled on her back, with her legs in the air, in the center of the sofa.

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 2h

“Got any more toast?”
This is a picture of my dogs.
#Dogs #DogsOfBlueSky #DogsOfMastodon

A tiny blonde (well-aged apricot) toy poodle on the left and a small black-turning-silver toy poodle on the right are politely waiting for more toast to go with their toast.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 2h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 12h

Why, dammit? Why be like that and ruin good things?

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 12h

I was just thinking today about the various authors I have enjoyed the work of and later found out were sex pests.

good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

a not great aspect of the 2020s is every now and then i'll remember a writer/actor/comedian/musician i haven't heard about in a while and i'll think "oh I wonder how they're doing.... really hope they haven't *directly to camera* TURNED EVIL"

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

a not great aspect of the 2020s is every now and then i'll remember a writer/actor/comedian/musician i haven't heard about in a while and i'll think "oh I wonder how they're doing.... really hope they haven't *directly to camera* TURNED EVIL"

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1d

Republicans are pushing debunked anti-abortion propaganda as an excuse to rip mifepristone off the shelves and block women from getting abortion care.

100+ studies prove mifepristone is safe and effective.

SPEAK UP, we can't let them get away with this.

Nearly All GOP Senators Urge the FDA to Restrict Abortion Pills

The senators are asking the FDA to suspend its approval of generic mifepristone, which would heavily restrict access to abortion pills nationwide.

www.notus.org

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20h

This is what I mean when I say, when it comes to political positions, most ppl just run on vibes. 100% feelings-before-facts. Japan is screaming towards a population crash at 1,000 MPH, it's not reversible at this point. But you have political parties agitating to return to hermit kingdom status.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 20h

Japan’s far right is on the rise, alarming foreign workers. Nowhere is that anxiety more apparent than in the city of Toyota, where immigrants power the economy while facing political backlash.

Japan Needs Foreign Workers. Its Far Right Is Turning Against Them

In the city of Toyota, immigrants help power the economy while facing political backlash.

bloom.bg

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Dr Dean Burnett @garwboy.bsky.social · 1d

I'll not even consider paying attention to anything Farage has to say about what happens in primary schools until *every* member of his party is legally allowed to be within 50ft of one

Nigel Farage says Britain's
eachers 'poisoning our kids' and
predicts a teachers' strike as PM
GlAean

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 21h

You know what’s really great, though? You don’t have to pay attention to Kid Rock’s opinion about literally anything.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

No excuses for that dude, he was a normal sized evil wizard and he and his cat just got owned every Saturday by those tiny blue fucks

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 23h

“Oh my God, what will I do if someone in a position of power is not exactly like meeee??!?”

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 23h

How can you represent Ohio, which is 51% women, if you are not a woman, motherfucker?

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Colin Peters (Scary Pumpkin) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 23h

“How can you represent Ohio, which is 64% Christian, if you are not a member of that faith?”

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with a faux naive smile, says “Oh, so you’re afraid of White people becoming the minority? Why? Are minorities treated differently or something?”

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · Sep 8

Federal appeals normally take over 2 YEARS, start to finish.

Here, the circuit court moved heaven and earth and produced its unanimous 61-page order, affirming the district court, less than 3 WEEKS after the district court's.

The Supreme Court just nuked it without a syllable of explanation.

Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Supreme Court's ruling brushed aside, with no reasoning from the court, the district court's 52-page order and the circuit court's 61-page order affirming it.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Sep 8

BREAKING: The Supreme Court — over the objection of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson — allows the Trump administration’s racial profiling of people working certain types of jobs in its immigration raids during litigation.

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