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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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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 31m

The most intimate thing you can do? Sign up for a joint National Trust membership (we don’t make the rules)

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 3h

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 1h

I see the apocalypse is well underway. Odd place to start...

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Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 1h

Canadians – If you have some time this long weekend, fill out this godawful government survey on AI, which itself seems to have been written by AI trained exclusively on buzzword-laden LinkedIn posts.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, I don’t expect any scientific accuracy whatsoever 😂

Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 3h

"Thirty years ago, a Chicago wise guy (Bob Odenkirk) fled mob life, change his name, and entered holy orders. Now the two halves of his life collide as he's accidentally elected Pope, and has to stay alive during a Papal visit to Chicago. DA POPE, coming soon to a cinema near you." 😂

A photograph of the Pope meeting Chicago labor leaders, who are gifting him a dark T-shirt with the words "DA POPE" on it.

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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 3h

I like it...

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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 4h

Typo of the day. "Well, I used to be in healthcare, but then I became a Viking..." #awriterslifeforme

A section of a script where, instead of "Nurse Wilcox", I've typed "Norse Wilcox".

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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 4h

This sounds interesting, if not for the reasons the makers intended...

New Scientist @newscientist.com · 4h

Brian Cory Dobbs's documentary promotes the baseless idea that Mars was once inhabited by an advanced civilisation. But there's some value in how it inadvertently documents a generation of otherwise-sensible scientists, says Simon Ings

Blue Planet Red is wrong about Mars – but it's surprisingly poignant

Brian Cory Dobbs's documentary promotes the baseless idea that Mars was once inhabited by an advanced civilisation. But there's some value in how it inadvertently documents a generation of otherwise-sensible scientists, says Simon Ings

www.newscientist.com

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Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 5h

In 1982, #Tron’s CG visual effects were so new that they completely confused Academy voters. Animator Bill Kroyer recalls what happened.
filmstories.co.uk/news/why-tro...

Why Tron didn't get a VFX Oscar nomination in 1982

In 1982, Tron’s CG visual effects were so new that they completely confused Academy voters. Animator Bill Kroyer recalls what happened.

filmstories.co.uk

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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 6h

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Sarah Todd Taylor @sarahtoddtaylor.bsky.social · 7h

This is going to be amazing! Piu crafted such an incredibly rich story in The Secret of the Snakestone and I can't wait for the next adventure.

Piu DasGupta 🐒🐍💫 @piudg.bsky.social · 1d

Adventure awaits! The next book in the Snakestone Cycle, The Golden Monkey Mystery, is out in January 2026!

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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 7h

Well, everyone loves a sequel in Hollywood 😂

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 7h

Hello, people of North Wales!

I’m coming to Bangor on Friday to do a lovely event called Ask A Historian, where you can ask me anything about history — tickets still available. All part of Bangor’s 1500th anniversary!

And @katewilliamsme.bsky.social is there too

www.pontio.co.uk/en/events/g%...

Bangor History Festival - Pontio

https://www.pontio.co.uk/en/events/gŵyl-hanes-bangor

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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 7h

"Four feet of snow".

(Fastest rewrite of my life... 😂)

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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 7h

"The director has notes".

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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 7h

"That was well told".

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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 7h

"There's no rebrief fee".

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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 7h

"It's good exposure though".

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 11h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 11h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 8h

“After the AI chatbot made suggestions to Alan about places to visit and routes to take, he checked them on Google to make sure they were legitimate.”

If you have to check the accuracy of everything, what’s the point?

Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 8h

“Travel writing is shit”

AI holiday planning: I found the perfect seaside town for my summer trip

Holiday-makers say AI-powered chatbots really help organise where to go - but some things need double-checking.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 8h

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 9h

Honestly, I just... Why are you outsourcing all the good bits of life??

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