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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 14h

Not surprising. The AI bubble needs to burst faster.

By @joeonhere.bsky.social, illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins for @futurism.com. #scicomm #noAI 🧪

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 13h

Come learn the tricks of giving a BAD talk: begin the process by organizing your slides - the more, the better, try to impress, run over your time, embrace distractions, and treat questions as threats!
Join us tomorrow at Weill Cornell for this month's Postdoc Night Science NYC!

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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 14h

I don't think folks understand how incessantly biomedical research institutions are propagandizing the use of LLMs. The propaganda language is a heady mix of pseudo-technical buzz-terms and alluring productivity promises. The structural (non-remediable) limitations and dangers are never articulated.

Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 1d

The screenshot dunking is so unnecessary in this instance. People told her why it's wrong and she understood. She's not a computer scientist, she's not a petulant young whipper snapper trying to be unethical on purpose. Sending the hounds on her like that is ghoulish.

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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 1d

🚨New Preprint: We develop a novel task that probes counterfactual thinking without using counterfactual language, and that teases apart genuine counterfactual thinking from related forms of thinking. Using this task, we find that the ability for counterfactual thinking emerges around 5 years of age.

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 22h

Thrilled to have two years' of work out, in a pair of papers led by @gradientrider.bsky.social and @maxecharles.bsky.social.

We've built a data-driven calibration of the James Webb Interferometer to near its fundamental limits for high-res imaging - explainer at @aunz.theconversation.com!

How we sharpened the James Webb telescope’s vision from a million kilometres away

The only Australian hardware on board the legendary telescope is starting to fulfil its duties.

theconversation.com

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 1d

Academic articles can be written in a popular science writing style

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 23h

Kitchen gliders doing what they do best

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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CNBC @cnbc.com · 1d

NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the Caltech.

cnb.cx

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 1d

The screenshot dunking is so unnecessary in this instance. People told her why it's wrong and she understood. She's not a computer scientist, she's not a petulant young whipper snapper trying to be unethical on purpose. Sending the hounds on her like that is ghoulish.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 1d

If a quarter of the people shoving their phones in the face of people being dragged by the state would do so much as extend a hand, no one would be arrested. Videos have made people impotent. They're 50 phones against 3 goons thinking they're doing something. No one needs 50 angles of a kidnapping.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 1d

Please implement "remove follower" function. Blocking people do not remove the follow!

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 1d

That's what the caption says. I'm still dumbfounded!

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産経ニュース @sankei.com · 1d

【絶叫大会】「コメの値段が高い。変わらないのは旦那の給料」。

大分県産の高級牛肉を食べた後、思いの丈を叫ぶ「由布院牛喰い絶叫大会」が13日、同県由布市の牧場で開かれた。県内外から参加した70人が、日頃の不満や切実な思いを大声で訴え400人近い聴衆を沸かせた。

🔽記事を読む
www.sankei.com/article/2025...

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 1d

Racism, famously absent on bluesky. Wtf. And victim blaming on top.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 1d

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 1d

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 2d

"Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis." futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 2d

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, this is amazing. Listen live to whale songs!🐋🔊

Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com · 5d

Important alert for people who like working while a light white noise is playing in the background, there is a family of whales singing next to the Moss Landing Marine Lab hydrophone right now and you should listen! radio.garden/visit/moss-l...

Listen to live Moss Landing CA radio on Radio Garden

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 2d

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone I know falling for it.
Including me...

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 2d

98% of AI bros shaping society right now have no pride for their work at all, and I'm sorry to say I believe that's why they expect everyone else to also not give a fuck

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d

IMHO, LLMs will be an economic negative for years.

They'll do a worse job than humans,

but will still replace humans because they're cheaper for employers,

but really they're costlier, it's just that lots of costs get externalized to society by our horrible energy/tax policies.

Lose-lose-lose.

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All

While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 7d

I like Bsky more than any social platform I’ve used, but my goodness it has big “I knew them before they were cool” energy.

You mention something bad: “are you surprised?” You mention something good: “I knew about that WAY before you.” This is an exhausting, anti-social way to interact, you guys.

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