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Tara Calishain

@researchbuzz.bsky.social

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Obsessed with search engines, databases, and online information collections forever. Writing books & such since 1996 (OFFICIAL NETSCAPE GUIDE TO INTERNET RESEARCH, GOOGLE HACKS, INFORMATION TRAPPING, etc) and ResearchBuzz since 1998. I live at Calishat.com

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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · Jun 18

MiniGladys has been updated! MiniGladys is a search/reference tool designed for looking up quick facts, exploring public interest in topics on #Wikipedia, generating #RSS feeds, and exploring associated topics. MiniGladys is free and free of ads at megagladys.com/mg/

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MiniGladys - Quick Wikipedia-Based Search and Reference

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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 1m

I don't know but it's annoying AF for my information traps

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13h

Banana Republic has an “archive” collection. Sydney Sweeney has worn an "archival" Versace dress.
Why is everything in fashion “archival” all of a sudden?

The Word Everyone in Fashion Can’t Stop Using

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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 1m

Slop cannot regulate slop

Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1m

Here's a rule of thumb: If "AI" seems like a good solution, you are probably both misjudging what the "AI" can do and misframing the problem.

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Comment by Tom Diettrich on a linkedin post reading:

"You can't "test-in quality" in engineering; you can't "review-in quality" in research. We need incentives for people to do better research. Our system today assumes that 75% of submitted papers are low quality, and it is probably right (I'll bet it is higher). If this were a manufacturing organization, an 75% defect rate would result in bankruptcy.

Imagine a world in which you could have an AI system check the correctness/quality of your paper. If your paper passed that bar, then it could be published (say, on arXiv). Subsequent human review could assess its importance to the field.

In such a system, authors would be incentivized to satisfy the AI system. This will lead to searching for exploits in the AI system. A possible solution is to select the AI evaluator at random from a large pool and limit the number of permitted submissions. I imagine our colleagues in mechanism design can improve on this idea."

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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 2h

If Google doesn't offer an easy way to turn this water-wasting crap off, then absodamnloutely

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h

Fuck yeah you should.

Using a swearword in your Google search can stop the AI answer. But should you?

Artificial intelligence is more than Trump deepfakes of Tilly the actor. It’s used in smartphones, customer service, healthcare – even legal cases. Is it possible to avoid?

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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 10h

Go AWAY we already DID Up With People

www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...

Turning Point USA plans alternate Super Bowl halftime show - UPI.com

The Charlie Kirk-co-founded Turning Point USA is planning to host an alternative musical performance called "The All-American Halftime Show" for Super Bowl LX.

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 16h

Mum and Dad reached Reeth today in their Coast to Coast challenge and are now officially over halfway!

Map showing the Coast to Coast route in the Buck Hotel, Reeth, with a star indicating 'you are here'

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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 10h

Says the man whose wardrobe comes from Restraining Order of Beverly Hills

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 12h

Aw, you're making me miss my Herbie.

A giant floofy cat with one green eye and one yellow eye. She is reclining in a cat scratch bed and looking at you judgmentally.

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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 12h

Oh yeah, Washington DC REAL safe now, thanks orange daddy

www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/y...

Teen shot near Air & Space Museum as bullet flies through window

A young shooting victim ran into a building near the National Mall for help Friday afternoon, with a bullet hole seen in a window at the Smithsonian National Air and Space museum in the aftermath. Fir...

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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 12h

He's gotten away with so much and I blame that thatch on his head. If he didn't have that goofy hair he'd be just another bald git

Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 17h

And absolutely nothing will happen as a result of this.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 19h

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 12h

Do y'all think I should upgrade No Kings TV in advance of October 18? I think I could add more news sources, etc

#NoKings

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No Kings TV

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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 13h

Damn it's an entire swarm of perverts

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 15h

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 14h

Go look at the futures. And I oop!

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

I guess they didn’t like Trump’s new 100% tariffs on China today, added on to the previous tariffs.

Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 14h

That's why we think outside the box

Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 14h

When Pandora open up the box and released all of the curses onto mankind, what was left behind was, not hope, but actually autism and thats why it’s so prevalent now

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 14h

Running that economy straight into the ground, big mad he didn't get his Peace Prize that he was going to impress God with

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 14h

Breaking: President Trump said he will hit China with an additional 100% tariff and impose new export controls on critical software products, starting Nov. 1.

Trump Hits China With Additional 100% Tariff, Citing Restrictions on Rare-Earth Elements

President Trump said there was “no reason” to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping after the country’s newest restrictions on rare-earth materials marked an escalation in trade negotiations.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 19h

"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"

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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 15h

Also: Hot Pockets used to be good. I don't know when they started putting lava in that shit

Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 23h

I’m 52. I remember the initial national marketing campaigns touting the inventions of Diet Coke, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Chicken McNuggets, soft & chewy store bought cookies, Hot Pockets and microwave popcorn.

Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 1d

also, if you were born before 1987, you are older than honey roasted peanuts

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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 15h

Current status: very confused by France

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France's Macron asks newly resigned Sebastian Lecornu to try again to form a government

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday reappointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, to try again to form a government in a bid to end the country’s political d...

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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 15h

What the fuck? ABBOTT Of all people?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Greg Abbott tells Pritzker to "stop complaining and do some pushups"

Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 16h

I can almost believe it when Wil Wheaton says it. Almost.

Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 16h

A gentle reminder for whoever needs it: you don't have to make yourself small for anyone. You are perfect, exactly the way you are.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16h

John Lodge, the singer and bassist of The Moody Blues, has died at 82.

John Lodge, singer and bassist of Moody Blues during classic era, dies at 82

John Lodge, the singer and bassist of The Moody Blues, has died at 82. His family announced Friday that Lodge died suddenly and unexpectedly.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 20h

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17h

lying

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 18h

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals on.ft.com/4q0tjCV

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals

The company behind ChatGPT has signed agreements with many of the largest tech groups, adding to a growing web of financial dependencies across the AI world

on.ft.com

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