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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 4h

How bad does it have to get before we correct so hard we get medieval with it? Hypothetically speaking… I hope…

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

“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.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
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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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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 4h

Thank you! I’m a big fan of them!

I have some super cool dangly ones from the same artist too :)

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 4h

I bet! I wish it wasn’t in the UK because it’s not exactly particularly friendly for me at the moment. But I hope you had such fun!!

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 5h

“I asked chat GPT”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

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

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 5h

Oh stawpp. My FOMO can only get so high 😭

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 5h

The curls fall out within a few hours no matter what I do, but the face card remains flawless all day 💅

Hazel with fall leaf earrings and bold blue lipstick and blue eyeshadow

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 6h

Of course not, pffh

Sometimes we eat two

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 6h

Root Cause Analysis 🤝 The Whatever Effext

“Turning complex phenomena into inaccurate but simplistic explanations that lead you to dangerously ignorant conclusions”

Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 8h

Cursed to be both a social scientist who doesn't like to think of phenomena as discrete and isolated "effects" and to be a person who understands that content engagement 10x's every time you describe something as The Whatever Effect

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 8h

When the academics start saying the answer is we should never trust preprints but you're an interdisciplinary applied scholar so all your papers get rejected because they're with real world populations or get wildly biased reviews from hostile applied reviewers who don't know methods

a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat

Alt: a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat. Text reads chuckles, I'm in danger

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 6h

Helm chart is available

Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 1d

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

"Statistical analysis used SPSS"

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

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

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 6h

Skills Judged By Tool

Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 1d

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

"Statistical analysis used SPSS"

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

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

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 10h

I second that! This book is the reason I can break down and explain containers all the way down to their parts and back, in a way that’s accessible to engineers. It’s invaluable for that alone (but contains a ton of other gems too)

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 10h

When data became the currency, and attention became the asset, and human social connection mechanisms became the delivery vehicle, and the soul of humanity became the battlefield… we became fucked

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 17h

I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 15h

Anyway the reason I came here to talk about info overload x channel proliferation instead of yelling into a tree is that I suspect that widespread feelings of precarity + low trust + responsibility-without-control can push a populace toward simplistic solutions that are also very bad.

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 10h

Look these emotional support backup dresses are necessary in case I wanna have options! It’s also the same reason I pack 20 pairs of earrings

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 14h

I really don’t like how terrible products end up being the only option people know about or can use

I haven’t even heard of openalex! And I try to keep up to date with these types of engines

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

I’d actually suspect you could save more time doing the opposite approach: identify frequent users of the app who basically never use the following feed (I’m one of them, for example)

And slowing it down for anyone over 2k following might help too? I suspect the power law distribution hurts here?

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

Oooh I can see that! Unfortunately I won’t have a stable address to send anything to for a few months cause I’m moving but it’s cute!

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

Thank youuu!! I love this dress so much I wanna wear it all the time 😍

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

This is last year! I’m gonna miss Halloween this year but that’s fine I guess 😭💔

Hazel looks at the camera and smiles while wearing a dress with Halloween hands and eyeballs on it and pumpkin earrings

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

I mean this tracks perfectly. We modeled it to take after the “best” of us and what happens when people get endless praise forever for doing nothing of significant impact? 🤷‍♀️

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

This is me doing makeup so I completely understand

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

*stares in apartheid* no idea how this happened. Honest. Must’ve accidentally took a left turn at … the UK… Or something 👀

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

He, SOMEHOW, appears to be a substantial upgrade over ‘23 (and ‘24 too I think?) in terms of representation? Like how??

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · Nov 29

#SouthAfrica I have come to expect a lot from South Africa who previous years have basically done tiny pants and a giant cape but done it brilliantly. These two don't really feel up to standard (it's also become slightly uncomfortable that Mr South Africa is always white...)

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

I don’t think so 😭 I only saw a couple of seasons and wasn’t aware there was so much more I missed! I’m gonna have to catch up!

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