The Erinaceous Advent Stargazer 🌟
@erinaceousphd.bsky.social
Grumpy Black crone who likes to think and explore (and seek mindfulness, within reason). In pfp: a hedgehog with a kente kufi on its head, and red laser eyes. Not chill.
Currently rearing an aging, unsociable 🦔 rescue.
Currently rearing an aging, unsociable 🦔 rescue.
Pinned
Quick intro:
- mid-30s, Fenty 450, Niger Deltan descent 👋🏿
- known elsewhere for locked account where I vented about bad grad school XP
- older now; venting isn’t good for my blood pressure
- non-professional account: expect cooking, plants, mourning pets, deconstruction of fundie upbringing (1/)
- mid-30s, Fenty 450, Niger Deltan descent 👋🏿
- known elsewhere for locked account where I vented about bad grad school XP
- older now; venting isn’t good for my blood pressure
- non-professional account: expect cooking, plants, mourning pets, deconstruction of fundie upbringing (1/)
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I have every conceivable variation of "cute", "aww", "haha", "fyp", "funny", "dank memes", "relatable", and "doggos" blacklisted because using the internet feels like this.
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I have every conceivable variation of "cute", "aww", "haha", "fyp", "funny", "dank memes", "relatable", and "doggos" blacklisted because using the internet feels like this.
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And now AI slop is taking a serious bite out of SocArXiv.
Thread:
Thread:
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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November 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
And now AI slop is taking a serious bite out of SocArXiv.
Thread:
Thread:
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If you're wondering ‘What do you mean it reads back to front as well as front to back?’
Well, I'll try to quickly explain what “THE SPECTACULAR SPACE LOOP” is ⬇️
Well, I'll try to quickly explain what “THE SPECTACULAR SPACE LOOP” is ⬇️
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If you're wondering ‘What do you mean it reads back to front as well as front to back?’
Well, I'll try to quickly explain what “THE SPECTACULAR SPACE LOOP” is ⬇️
Well, I'll try to quickly explain what “THE SPECTACULAR SPACE LOOP” is ⬇️
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When this video would play on TRL, I’d ALWAYS be late to first period. FUCK English! I’m trying to roll it all around, poke it out, and make my back go popt-popt-pop!
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
When this video would play on TRL, I’d ALWAYS be late to first period. FUCK English! I’m trying to roll it all around, poke it out, and make my back go popt-popt-pop!
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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This kind of BS is so insulting to those of us who put deliberate care and thought into crafting scientific figures. The images are supposed to SHOW SOMETHING and to CLARIFY information. What is the point of having an image full of nonsense?? #fuckAI
Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This kind of BS is so insulting to those of us who put deliberate care and thought into crafting scientific figures. The images are supposed to SHOW SOMETHING and to CLARIFY information. What is the point of having an image full of nonsense?? #fuckAI
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If I open an article and the splash banner is AI slop, I close the tab. If you don't have the bare minimum of discernment to not do that, what else do you consider "good enough" to publish?
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If I open an article and the splash banner is AI slop, I close the tab. If you don't have the bare minimum of discernment to not do that, what else do you consider "good enough" to publish?
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The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
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Hello moths,
The harvest has arrived: anisota.net/harvest
It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for Bluesky and the ATmosphere. 🌾
See your most-used words, discover who you interact with most, explore your posting patterns, and find all sorts of fun insights.
The harvest has arrived: anisota.net/harvest
It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for Bluesky and the ATmosphere. 🌾
See your most-used words, discover who you interact with most, explore your posting patterns, and find all sorts of fun insights.
Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest 2025
A recap of your year on Bluesky. Discover patterns, connections, and insights from your journey in the ATmosphere.
anisota.net
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Hello moths,
The harvest has arrived: anisota.net/harvest
It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for Bluesky and the ATmosphere. 🌾
See your most-used words, discover who you interact with most, explore your posting patterns, and find all sorts of fun insights.
The harvest has arrived: anisota.net/harvest
It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for Bluesky and the ATmosphere. 🌾
See your most-used words, discover who you interact with most, explore your posting patterns, and find all sorts of fun insights.
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i baked 3 loaves of bread and 2 pans of rolls today and distributed them amongst various friends, family, neighbors — the cinnamon sourdough loaf is so good 🤤
November 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
i baked 3 loaves of bread and 2 pans of rolls today and distributed them amongst various friends, family, neighbors — the cinnamon sourdough loaf is so good 🤤
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Honestly, if I could do college over, I’d just go at an older age, and never talk to my father (and 90% of his family) again. Life would’ve been a lot simpler.
November 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Honestly, if I could do college over, I’d just go at an older age, and never talk to my father (and 90% of his family) again. Life would’ve been a lot simpler.
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My sous chef has arrived
November 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
My sous chef has arrived
Once again, my thought that very traditional cultures will embed themselves in scamming and deception in this capitalist society is still true. I would read someone’s dissertation on this, because I’m tired of 🇳🇬 never being far from the nonsense.
*snorts*
Meanwhile on Hellsite, who knew all the Elon bots were Nigerian? 🤡
November 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Once again, my thought that very traditional cultures will embed themselves in scamming and deception in this capitalist society is still true. I would read someone’s dissertation on this, because I’m tired of 🇳🇬 never being far from the nonsense.
If these snails end up in some West or Central African soup, I’m going to holler. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thieves have stolen €90,000 worth of fine French snails destined for some of the country’s most prestigious restaurants
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If these snails end up in some West or Central African soup, I’m going to holler. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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My mom made the cutest persimmon shaped 湯圓 (tang yuan) tonight. (It’s a sweet glutinous rice dessert)
November 28, 2025 at 4:46 AM
My mom made the cutest persimmon shaped 湯圓 (tang yuan) tonight. (It’s a sweet glutinous rice dessert)
Personally found this out in the Great Recession, with a biology degree. I learned a lot, but the market said it wasn’t worth anything but lab tech work (if professional schools weren’t your thing). So I worked for years, got the advanced degree and switched to a related path.
The latest NBC News poll shows two-thirds of registered voters down on the value proposition of a degree. A majority said degrees were worth the cost a dozen years ago.
Poll: In a dramatic shift, Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
The latest NBC News poll shows two-thirds of registered voters down on the value proposition of a degree. A majority said degrees were worth the cost a dozen years ago.
nbcnews.to
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Personally found this out in the Great Recession, with a biology degree. I learned a lot, but the market said it wasn’t worth anything but lab tech work (if professional schools weren’t your thing). So I worked for years, got the advanced degree and switched to a related path.
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Anywhere people are, it will be weird.
I’ve seen a few people say if Blue Sky gets weird they’re gonna migrate to Threads and let me tell you something…Threads is WAYYYYYYY worse than you’re imagining 😭
November 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Anywhere people are, it will be weird.
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Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now.
But there's an even more important reason...
But there's an even more important reason...
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now.
But there's an even more important reason...
But there's an even more important reason...
Things I do that reflect how I think about *things*: cleaning a library book once it’s in my possession.
I never particularly learned this (though I keep my own books in great condition), but some paperbacks get grimy in circulation and need a gentle clean. Animism or anthropomorphism? Who knows?
I never particularly learned this (though I keep my own books in great condition), but some paperbacks get grimy in circulation and need a gentle clean. Animism or anthropomorphism? Who knows?
November 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Things I do that reflect how I think about *things*: cleaning a library book once it’s in my possession.
I never particularly learned this (though I keep my own books in great condition), but some paperbacks get grimy in circulation and need a gentle clean. Animism or anthropomorphism? Who knows?
I never particularly learned this (though I keep my own books in great condition), but some paperbacks get grimy in circulation and need a gentle clean. Animism or anthropomorphism? Who knows?
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Right, so, trying to determine if today is a laundry day before stream, a grocery day before stream, or yes, and discourse elsewhere has finally lead me to circle back to this whole thing about "ethically trained/locally trained" LLMs and how they're used in games. Long thread, sorry. (1/10)
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Right, so, trying to determine if today is a laundry day before stream, a grocery day before stream, or yes, and discourse elsewhere has finally lead me to circle back to this whole thing about "ethically trained/locally trained" LLMs and how they're used in games. Long thread, sorry. (1/10)
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To be fair, there has been a millennia long disinformation campaign positing that women must be quiet and demure so displaying any sort of intense emotion is quickly silenced by the patriarchy.
Her righteous outrage is reduced to “hysteria”.
Her bitterness at being betrayed “being standoffish”.
Her righteous outrage is reduced to “hysteria”.
Her bitterness at being betrayed “being standoffish”.
November 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
To be fair, there has been a millennia long disinformation campaign positing that women must be quiet and demure so displaying any sort of intense emotion is quickly silenced by the patriarchy.
Her righteous outrage is reduced to “hysteria”.
Her bitterness at being betrayed “being standoffish”.
Her righteous outrage is reduced to “hysteria”.
Her bitterness at being betrayed “being standoffish”.
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the essence of this morning on the TL in one screenshot
November 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
the essence of this morning on the TL in one screenshot