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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 2h

don't threaten us with a good time

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Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 1d

I think at night all the Skarsgards line up and get inside Stellan like Russian dolls

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12h

i’ve been trying to think of the real actual applications of generative ai in it’s current state and the two things i have so far is it makes everyone more dumb and also every more paranoid

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 4h

they are evolving diseases we don’t have names for

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 4h

bro they are fully inventing Cholera II

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 5h

i too have been reading a lot about the American Civil War for some reason and this does seem to be the consensus

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 5h

lauren
@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
(lying) of course i would love to be proven wrong
November 19, 2024 at 12:52 PM

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 1d

When I was your age, searching for a phrase in quotes returned results for that exact phrase

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 11h

her advocacy for Palestinians shouldn’t bother you at all actually

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 12h

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

The tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 is now 39 species – far more than for any other country It’s official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List, the world’s most comprehensive global inventory on extinction risk, has declared the Christmas Island shrew is extinct. This little animal is extremely common all over the island, and at night its shrill shriek, like the cry of a bat, can be heard on all sides. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 13h

Happy butterfly season to all who celebrate. If you’re in Melbourne good news - the caper whites have arrived!

A white butterfly with black wing veins and yellow wing spots sitting on the ground amid sparse grass.

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 20h

this seems very illegal
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Australian on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla told she will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 20h

he’s gonna stuff you in the boot yeah

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 1d

Nelson Alexander requiring tenants to use an AI chatbot to report urgent repairs. Reportedly this chatbot cannot differentiate between urgent and non-urgent repairs. Incredible.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 1d

Incidents which were mistakenly described as antisemitic incidents by NSW Police

20-Mar-24 A Palestinian protestor was sitting outside Anthony Albanese MP's office when a man approached, made remarks about hostages, and verbally abused the demonstrators, calling them 'anti-Semites." He then damages a Palestinian banner taped to a pole, returned shortly after to repeat the act, and stomped on the banner's frame.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 1d

i've never been inconvenienced before and i hope i never will be. it sounds terrible

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 1d

In my classroom, there is always a delay. Between question and answer. That space—the stutter, the pause, the gesture—is where actual teaching happens. Not in the bullet points or the Google Doc comments, but in the moment someone says, “I don’t know if this makes sense, but—” and suddenly it does.

Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

therumpus.net

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 1d

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

the best part of being in the SES is that sometimes i get to end a long annoying week helping to pull a tree off someone's roof and i know I've accomplished something good that actively helps my community while also having fun

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 1d

this is a good story but it shows that people still fundamentally misunderstand LLMs - there is no "working properly", they're inherently probabilistic models. hallucinations aren't a bug, they're a fundamental part of language models. these aren't fact machines!!!

www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 1d

get labubu, less delulu

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 1d

don’t trivialise the serious issue of labubutomy

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Bevil 🔜 MFF! @thebevil.bsky.social · 1d

Shout-out to one of my coworkers who thought "labubu" was slang for lobotomy

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 1d

get off depop imo

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Rocketpilot 🇵🇸 @rocketpilot.xyz · 1d

Barely a week after the Queensland government banned drug testing facilities. All public policy has tradeoffs but the hard right consistently choose the ones that lead to bigger body counts

Person dies after deadly opioid detected in yellow teddy bear pill

Queensland Health issues a public health alert warning nitazenes have been detected in tablets.

www.abc.net.au

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