Not a Decepticon
@notadecepticon.bsky.social
He/him, fan of tabletop rpgs, video games (mostly also rpgs), anime & manga, comics (but not Big Two), fantasy literature, enemy of generative AI and it's vile ilk.
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Trump's Epstein Files Coverup is an affront to justice and an insult to survivors.
Delays... redactions... deletions. They're trying everything.
Trump's priority is protecting himself and his powerful buddies.
news.sky.com/video/epstei...
Delays... redactions... deletions. They're trying everything.
Trump's priority is protecting himself and his powerful buddies.
news.sky.com/video/epstei...
Epstein survivor Marina Lacerda: Files are 'a slap in our faces'
Marina Lacerda originally met Epstein when she was 14-years-old.
news.sky.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Trump's Epstein Files Coverup is an affront to justice and an insult to survivors.
Delays... redactions... deletions. They're trying everything.
Trump's priority is protecting himself and his powerful buddies.
news.sky.com/video/epstei...
Delays... redactions... deletions. They're trying everything.
Trump's priority is protecting himself and his powerful buddies.
news.sky.com/video/epstei...
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Trump once called for Russia to illegally release Hillary’s emails. I call for America to legally release the full Epstein files.
December 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Trump once called for Russia to illegally release Hillary’s emails. I call for America to legally release the full Epstein files.
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Lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle have turned on Attorney General Pam Bondi and have reportedly begun drafting articles of impeachment following the heavily opaque release of the Epstein files.
Bondi faces calls to be jailed as bipartisan impeachment articles are drafted
Several lawmakers accused Bondi of flouting the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandated the government to provide full disclosure of the Justice Department's findings related to the disgraced f...
www.themirror.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle have turned on Attorney General Pam Bondi and have reportedly begun drafting articles of impeachment following the heavily opaque release of the Epstein files.
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Yesterday we were all waiting in the Epstein line. Today, the entire country has turned into investigators, tracking which files are disappearing. Sixteen gone so far. There’s been a remarkable amount of teamwork, with people working together to identify the missing documents.
December 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yesterday we were all waiting in the Epstein line. Today, the entire country has turned into investigators, tracking which files are disappearing. Sixteen gone so far. There’s been a remarkable amount of teamwork, with people working together to identify the missing documents.
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Fudali: The survivors have been wronged by administration after administration, Justice Department after Justice Department, for decades and decades. This is nothing new for them. They were exploited by Epstein, and then they were exploited by the politicians who surrounded themselves with Epstein.
December 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Fudali: The survivors have been wronged by administration after administration, Justice Department after Justice Department, for decades and decades. This is nothing new for them. They were exploited by Epstein, and then they were exploited by the politicians who surrounded themselves with Epstein.
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I trust major news organizations, members of Congress, and public interest groups are publicizing their secure tip lines so DOJ and FBI employees with knowledge of political interference in the Epstein files review process, can explain safely and confidentially what they saw.
December 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I trust major news organizations, members of Congress, and public interest groups are publicizing their secure tip lines so DOJ and FBI employees with knowledge of political interference in the Epstein files review process, can explain safely and confidentially what they saw.
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This is one of the pictures the Justice Department removed from the Epstein files release:
A picture of a table with framed photos of Epstein and famous people. There are two photos of Trump in the picture — including one of him surrounded by women in bathing suits.
A picture of a table with framed photos of Epstein and famous people. There are two photos of Trump in the picture — including one of him surrounded by women in bathing suits.
December 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This is one of the pictures the Justice Department removed from the Epstein files release:
A picture of a table with framed photos of Epstein and famous people. There are two photos of Trump in the picture — including one of him surrounded by women in bathing suits.
A picture of a table with framed photos of Epstein and famous people. There are two photos of Trump in the picture — including one of him surrounded by women in bathing suits.
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The cover-up continues:
At least 16 files disappeared from the DOJ webpage related to the Oval Office criminal and Epstein.
apnews.com/article/rele...
At least 16 files disappeared from the DOJ webpage related to the Oval Office criminal and Epstein.
apnews.com/article/rele...
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
apnews.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The cover-up continues:
At least 16 files disappeared from the DOJ webpage related to the Oval Office criminal and Epstein.
apnews.com/article/rele...
At least 16 files disappeared from the DOJ webpage related to the Oval Office criminal and Epstein.
apnews.com/article/rele...
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📌"Missing are FBI interviews with survivors and internal DOJ memos examining charging decisions — records that could have helped explain how investigators viewed the case and why Epstein was allowed in 2008 to plead guilty to a relatively minor prostitution charge."
Impeach Pam Bondi RIGHT NOW.
Impeach Pam Bondi RIGHT NOW.
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
📌"Missing are FBI interviews with survivors and internal DOJ memos examining charging decisions — records that could have helped explain how investigators viewed the case and why Epstein was allowed in 2008 to plead guilty to a relatively minor prostitution charge."
Impeach Pam Bondi RIGHT NOW.
Impeach Pam Bondi RIGHT NOW.
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Anyone who was a client of Epstein's child sex trafficking operation deserves to be prosecuted
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk
December 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Anyone who was a client of Epstein's child sex trafficking operation deserves to be prosecuted
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk
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Feel like I've been reading and reposting stuff on AI and academic research/publishing all week/month/year. Such a downer to encounter it up close today.
December 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Feel like I've been reading and reposting stuff on AI and academic research/publishing all week/month/year. Such a downer to encounter it up close today.
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for those experiencing paywall problems archive.ph/0Iuo6
archive.ph
December 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
for those experiencing paywall problems archive.ph/0Iuo6
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Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
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(Also, icyi, here are the 42 papers citing our non-existent paper which includes a "meta-analysis" - often called the evidence "gold standard" - of "LLM effects" in education 🤮
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
scholar.google.com.vn
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
(Also, icyi, here are the 42 papers citing our non-existent paper which includes a "meta-analysis" - often called the evidence "gold standard" - of "LLM effects" in education 🤮
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
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(And just to be extra clear - "our" paper in the journal Education and Information Technology, vol 27, pages 3515-3531 really does not exist in that journal, despite all its citations
link.springer.com/journal/1063...)
link.springer.com/journal/1063...)
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
(And just to be extra clear - "our" paper in the journal Education and Information Technology, vol 27, pages 3515-3531 really does not exist in that journal, despite all its citations
link.springer.com/journal/1063...)
link.springer.com/journal/1063...)
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I know the proliferation of references to non-existent papers, powered by genAI, is getting less surprising and shocking but it doesn't make it any less potentially corrosive to the scholarly knowledge environment.
December 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I know the proliferation of references to non-existent papers, powered by genAI, is getting less surprising and shocking but it doesn't make it any less potentially corrosive to the scholarly knowledge environment.
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And so checked out Google Scholar. Now on my profile it doesn't appear, but somwhow on Nelli's it does and ... and ... omg, IT'S BEEN CITED 42 TIMES almost exlusively in papers about AI in education from this year alone... scholar.google.com.vn/citations?vi...
scholar.google.com.vn
December 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
And so checked out Google Scholar. Now on my profile it doesn't appear, but somwhow on Nelli's it does and ... and ... omg, IT'S BEEN CITED 42 TIMES almost exlusively in papers about AI in education from this year alone... scholar.google.com.vn/citations?vi...
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AI slop is now DNA deep in academic research and case law. Awesome.
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
AI slop is now DNA deep in academic research and case law. Awesome.
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ohhh it does look like he's in a giant blender. ppl kept saying he's *in* the slop blender but i meant for him to be on the ledge of a hole that *contains* the slop blender which is, yknow, the blades
Option B: It opens on Goofy and the slop blender in one panel, then cuts to Mickey's reply in the second panel.
December 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
ohhh it does look like he's in a giant blender. ppl kept saying he's *in* the slop blender but i meant for him to be on the ledge of a hole that *contains* the slop blender which is, yknow, the blades
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Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
Did I miss some controversy?
The best thing would never have been to make that decision in the first place.
But I’ll credit the reversal as listening and understanding "we fucked that up, big."
But I’ll credit the reversal as listening and understanding "we fucked that up, big."
Dear SFWA and surrounding industry:
It's a two-mailout kind of day!
Thank you to everyone who wrote in.
The Board wishes to share the results of two votes held this afternoon, with further amendments to our Nebula Awards Rules.
It's a two-mailout kind of day!
Thank you to everyone who wrote in.
The Board wishes to share the results of two votes held this afternoon, with further amendments to our Nebula Awards Rules.
December 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Did I miss some controversy?
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I'll work on my end of year art wrap up need week, but I'm starting think of goals. I'm starting to work on comics of course, and I've got a merch store on the way so I get to justify o so much fanart but outside of that I want to do more 3d and do a lot more stuff with Treya and her experience
December 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I'll work on my end of year art wrap up need week, but I'm starting think of goals. I'm starting to work on comics of course, and I've got a merch store on the way so I get to justify o so much fanart but outside of that I want to do more 3d and do a lot more stuff with Treya and her experience
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work are you really meeting your mission statement as mods of being more than a self promo server?
December 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
work are you really meeting your mission statement as mods of being more than a self promo server?
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Tbh when some one posts in an actual play server, "What are your favorite actual plays that do X?" and it's a broad topic and you only answer with your own show and no others I'm disappointed in you. I thought this was about hyping each other up, if you don't watch/listen and discuss other people's
December 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Tbh when some one posts in an actual play server, "What are your favorite actual plays that do X?" and it's a broad topic and you only answer with your own show and no others I'm disappointed in you. I thought this was about hyping each other up, if you don't watch/listen and discuss other people's