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emilymbender.bsky.social
Every day it feels more and more like a zombie apocalypse over on LinkedIn, in which you start a conversation with someone who you hope is an ordinary person and then a couple of turns in discover that they have surrendered their brains to the "AI" mass delusion.
Comment on a linked in post, from user Kurtis Loken who presents themself as "Experienced Metrology Engineer | AI/ML real world experience | Patented Solutions | R&D | Mass Production" Comment reads: Emily M. Bender You are a linguist. LLMs have proven some theories disproved others about how language works. I would think that would be an amazing time to be a linguist. Have you ever actually talked to an AI…I mean really talked to one? The Turing test has been passed. (Sonnet 4.5 has particularly impressed me when discussing ideas with it…definitely has passed my own Turing test.) I would really love to see a conversation between yourself and it discussing your views. That would make a great podcast. Have these models explain to you why your idea to ban them may or may not be a good idea. These things probably have their own opinions on the topic if someone would listen to them. Maybe that’s you?
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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mikeyearworth.bsky.social
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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emorwee.bsky.social
The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today.

Charlie Kirk was no exception.
Charlie Kirk's extremism was fossil fueled
Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.
heated.world
September 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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revkin.bsky.social
Thankful to @rarohde.bsky.social and @weatherprof.bsky.social for clarity on extreme North Pacific heat
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How "Geoengineering" and Global Warming are Boosting an Extreme Heat Wave Across the Vast North Pacific
Robert Rohde, chief scientist at Berkeley Earth, is great at climate science and at communicating it.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"
September 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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doctorvive.bsky.social
Folks, he's too modest to say, but Andrew Dessler has led and coordinated a full-court scientific response to that execrable, climate-denying "report" from the DOE.

It was a massive effort, accomplished in mere weeks. And the response itself is of historic importance, because...

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September 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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johngoodman.bsky.social
realistic Star Trek
A comic on the bridge from Star Trek the Next Generation. Picard: COMMANDER DATA, PLEASE IDENTIFY THAT ROMULAN VESSEL. Data: THAT'S A GREAT IDEA CAPTAIN! IDENTIFYING A VESSEL IS A GREAT PLACE TO START - IN ANY TACTICAL OR STRATEGIC OUTER SPACE SITUATION. THIS VESSEL APPEARS TO BE A 23rd CENTURY KLINGON BIRD OF PREY! 🚀🦅✨ Picard: ARE YOU SURE? LIKE I SAID WE'RE... PRETTY SURE IT'S ROMULAN. Data: ... Data: OF COURSE! SO SORRY ABOUT THAT, YOU'RE RIGHT! ON CLOSER EXAMINATION IT'S A ROMULAN VESSEL! CAN I RECOMMEND SOME SOONG™ BRAND PRODUCTS THAT CAN HELP YOU WITH THAT? Picard cradles his face in his hand in a gesture of frustration. Data: DID I MENTION THE PLIGHT OF OPRESSED WHITES IN SOUTH AFRICA?
August 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
jhfh.bsky.social
fuck off
August 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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dailycorrelation.bsky.social
The distance between Neptune and the Sun correlates with NASA's budget as a percentage of the total US Federal Budget (r=0.895)
August 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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alaskawx.bsky.social
If you're a storymap kind of person, here's one that nicely explains what's happening & why with the glacial lake outburst flooding now underway on the Mendenhall River near Juneau. #akwx #ClimateChange #Flood #Glacier @spiraledu.bsky.social @alaska.bsky.social

storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/72ce...
Glacier Outburst Floods: Mendenhall Glacier
Every year since 2011, Juneau, Alaska, has been impacted by a unique type of flood that can only occur near places with glaciers.
storymaps.arcgis.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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jsmankin.bsky.social
Can scientists trace climate losses back to the emissions from individual fossil fuel companies?

Yes, we can.

The inimitable @ccallahan45.bsky.social and I provide an 'end-to-end' attribution framework that can be applied in many climate accountability contexts:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature
A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...
www.nature.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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ledevoir.com
Des manifestants infiltrent un futur dépotoir de déchets dangereux à Blainville, créant des tensions avec les policiers et les travailleurs. Lire l'article pour en savoir plus 👉 bit.ly/3Ghn77a #Stablex #environnement
April 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
If I were an editor at a prestigious national publication I would simply ask writers to define what they mean by words like "forced"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
“Wokeness,” as it’s known, introduced the asymmetrical capitalization of the letter b in Black but not the w in white. It forced Romance languages like Spanish to submit to gender-neutral constructions such as Latinx. It called for the display of pronouns in email signatures and social-media bios. It replaced a slew of traditional words and phrases: People were told to stop saying master bedroom, breastfeeding, manpower, and brown-bag lunch, and to start saying primary bedroom, chestfeeding, workforce, and sack lunch. At the extreme, it designated certain words—such as crazy—beyond redemption.
April 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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kellerfish.bsky.social
First post here.
I’ll unpack our new paper @science.org highlighting the loss of old animals and calling for ‘longevity conservation’

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Loss of Earth’s old, wise, and large animals
Earth’s old animals are in decline. Despite this, emerging research is revealing the vital contributions of older individuals to cultural transmission, population dynamics, and ecosystem processes and...
www.science.org
November 24, 2024 at 6:43 AM
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theonion.com
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American people wouldn’t notice them. “Don’t make any sudden movements, or they’ll spot us,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said out of the corner of his mouth, […]
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March 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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michae.lv
Microsoft Research: GenAI can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving.

Microsoft: *sells GenAI aggressively into the Education 365 packages*
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Feb 9
Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place

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February 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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theonion.com
Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal
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Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal
February 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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voidburger.com
this bitch has never stepped foot in a grocery store shut da fuckkkk up

arrested_development_banana_10_dollars.gif-motherfucker
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Feb 3
i love that in addition to everything else, elon musk is the dumbest asshole on the planet
February 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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katharinehayhoe.com
AMOC news can be confusing—is it slowing? Collapsing? Remaining stable? There’s studies that claim each!

That’s why, instead of the latest headline, I always rely on what @rahmstorf.bsky.social has to say—he’s studied it for nearly 40 yrs and knows how each new study fits into the bigger picture.
The AMOC is slowing, it’s stable, it’s slowing, no, yes, …
There's been a bit of media whiplash on the issue of AMOC slowing lately - ranging from the AMOC being on the brink of collapse to it being more stable than previously thought. AMOC, of course, refers...
www.realclimate.org
February 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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astrokatie.com
“researchers suspect [the grant review freeze] may be related to President Trump's targeting of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. NSF reviews grant applications based on two criteria: intellectual merit and broader impacts”

www.npr.org/sections/sho... 🧪
National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders
The National Science Foundation has canceled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.
www.npr.org
January 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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ifbookspod.bsky.social
Episode 36: You Are A Badass

Do you want to take control of your life? It’s a two-step process: (1) defeat your evil subconscious and (2) go into massive amounts of debt.
You Are A Badass
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 01/23/2025 · 59m
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January 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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julietalbot.bsky.social
Pour les gens/organisations qui sont encore sur X, combien de saluts nazis ça va vous prendre avant de quitter ? @umontreal.ca @uqam.ca @ledevoir.com @lapresse.ca etc etc
January 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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titocurtis.bsky.social
As Montreal loses its wetlands at an alarming pace, locals are fighting to get the province to enforce its own environmental laws. Excellent piece by Natalia Rivero Gómez. therover.ca/why-are-queb...
Why Are Quebec's Wetlands Disappearing – The Rover
In Montreal, where 80 per cent of wetlands have disappeared, locals are fighting to make Quebec enforce its own environmental laws.
therover.ca
December 1, 2024 at 1:06 PM