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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · Aug 18

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

For help with attribution and sourcing, Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing, and an expert review agent that provides personalized, topic-specific feedback.

Screenshot from Grammarly's demo of inserting a post-hoc citation.
https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/citation-finder

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 13h

On the gripping hand, there's something very poignant about the whole idea of "some Guys with A Lot Of Hybris set off a kinda-benevolent Von-Neumann that now probably defines the frontier of explorable interstellar space". With the right treatment there's a bunch to work with there.

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 13h

I have this one vague concept in my notes for a techbro-adjacent "dyson foundation" who programmed their self-replicating dyson swarms with smart contracts to never allow direct militarization of the beam output.

For obvious reasons, not sure I‘ll ever commit to that one.

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 13h

"You may not jump now, the FTL drive is doing an Intervention"

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 13h

Also it tickles my brain in just the right way to imagine an entire ground-to-Mars transit pipeline that sees passenger capsules moved around like marbles in an orbital rue goldberg machine.

Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 13h

Bonus points for the darn kids building their first candle and not getting out of grandba Bill‘s airspace.

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 13h

The "only" catch is well, it‘s public infrastructure. No intrepid independent people running around with… uh… nuclear drives powerful enough to explode an entire space habitat if switched on too close… uh…

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 13h

I‘m 100% on team launch loops, orbital rings, tethers and big-ass beamed power systems for interplanetary travel. It‘s trains but for space! "Oh no this properly shielded spin-hub is too heavy" bruv, I gotcha, we‘re gonna add a few more GW to the ion beam.

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Sarah Smith - Nature Artwork @doedryadart.bsky.social · 3d

I tend to be out of the loop with well known artists, and I've only recently seen the wildlife art of Bob Kuhn. Incredible color and simplicity while still displaying a strong knowledge of the subjects.

"Velvet Removal" a moose scratching his antlers on a tree, rendered in vivid but still lifelike colors.

"Not this Time" a detailed jaguar pouncing an egret in a loose jungle setting.

"Shady Spot" a coyote sits in the shade surrounded by a brightly lit scrub land. Fur and vegetation details are implied through smart brushwork.

"Hit and Miss" a dynamic scene of lionesses hunting antelope, with a focus on a lioness reaching into the air at an even higher jumping antelope.

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 14h

"even if it's AI, it feels true" is a feeling we really, really need to kill. This is the way you loose attachment with reality.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 16h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 16h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Her three arms/hands are the big tell in this case...

Screenshot from a TikTok video with red circles around the person's three hands and arms

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 15h

Content creators who exploit oppression to create AI videos and promote themselves are just trash.

Generally speaking, there's no need to lie when talking about authoritarian regimes, and it's especially important not to do so. The truth must prevail.

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 21h

That is some HUBRIS. TechBros vs Mother Nature. This will accelerate the planet's temperature (bad); ruin the delicate biological ecosystem; and wreck every creature's Circadian Rhythms. All for what? The goal isn't to bring sunlight to darkness. The goal is MONEY. Bros gotta plunder.

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 1d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 1d

MMWR was the early alert system that told doctors to be on the lookout for Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (and just about every other pandemic/epidemic since the 70s

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

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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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Alex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social · 1d

Kuzu just folded/pivoted.
> Kuzu is working on something new! We will no longer be actively supporting KuzuDB.
is on kuzudb.com

Me thinking a startup has promising tech has so far been a kiss of death to the company. An "Inverse Alex's Tech Opinions" fund might be very profitable. 🤔

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

Beware of AI videos like the one below.

And, AI sucks for many reasons, but among the worst is that it destabilizes our shared reality.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

@jennbudd.bsky.social

There is a claim that this video is fake and created by AI. This account's bio on TikTok reads:

"the program 🔌
(don't take stuff too serious)
enjoy the content 😎"

Do you have another source to verify the video? Or know anything about the location, IDs of individuals, etc.?

Sam @dragonborn.bsky.social · 1d

Hey this is an AI generated video actually, here’s the TikTok:

www.tiktok.com/@dontbeonlin...

News reporter gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tiktok, #trending, #follow, #followme, #bestvideo, #thisis4u, #featurethis

TikTok video by dontbeonline

www.tiktok.com

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

The Daily show also interviewed "father" of effective altruism William MacAskill & promoted his book.

The billionaires gave him millions to promote his book so a PR person probably got him on the show.

All mainstream media shilling propaganda for the corporations claiming to build machine gods 🙄

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

In this week’s new #TheWeeklyShow episode, Jon & Geoffrey Hinton discuss ⬇️:

>> AI 101
>> AI Threats & Regulation
>> Ping, Ping, Ping
>> Always Angry Trump & Pardons

NEW YouTube video out now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrK3...

AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

www.youtube.com

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 1d

If you go "hey the synthetic text extrusion machine understands the topic better than you" to a woman academic, you‘re an utter creep and an intellectual void. Don‘t ever sink to that level.

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 1d

… I just found the part where he asserts the synthetic text extrusion machine is smarter than you.

That’s not edgy. That’s completely disgusting and missanthropic if not misogynistic. Urgh.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 4d

Quick spaceship sketch. 'Spiteful Interceptor', built by Jeffery & Co.

#Spaceship #Illustration #SciFi

A digital illustration of a spaceship. Wedge-shaped, with a small cockpit right at the front. A section of the middle is cut away. Grey and red in colour.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 28d

Not had time for #Shiptember really, but here's The Erebus, a Type 16 Clipper, built by Komatsu.

#Illustration #Spaceship

A long twin-hulled spaceship in orange, cream, and dark teal.

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