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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 5h

That is some HUBRIS. TechBros vs Mother Nature. This will accelerate the planet's temperature (bad); ruin the delicate biological ecosystem; and wreck every creature's Circadian Rhythms. All for what? The goal isn't to bring sunlight to darkness. The goal is MONEY. Bros gotta plunder.

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 1d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 10h

MMWR was the early alert system that told doctors to be on the lookout for Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (and just about every other pandemic/epidemic since the 70s

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Alex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social · 18h

Kuzu just folded/pivoted.
> Kuzu is working on something new! We will no longer be actively supporting KuzuDB.
is on kuzudb.com

Me thinking a startup has promising tech has so far been a kiss of death to the company. An "Inverse Alex's Tech Opinions" fund might be very profitable. 🤔

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 8h

Beware of AI videos like the one below.

And, AI sucks for many reasons, but among the worst is that it destabilizes our shared reality.

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 9h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 8h

@jennbudd.bsky.social

There is a claim that this video is fake and created by AI. This account's bio on TikTok reads:

"the program 🔌
(don't take stuff too serious)
enjoy the content 😎"

Do you have another source to verify the video? Or know anything about the location, IDs of individuals, etc.?

Sam @dragonborn.bsky.social · 9h

Hey this is an AI generated video actually, here’s the TikTok:

www.tiktok.com/@dontbeonlin...

News reporter gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tiktok, #trending, #follow, #followme, #bestvideo, #thisis4u, #featurethis

TikTok video by dontbeonline

www.tiktok.com

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 16h

The Daily show also interviewed "father" of effective altruism William MacAskill & promoted his book.

The billionaires gave him millions to promote his book so a PR person probably got him on the show.

All mainstream media shilling propaganda for the corporations claiming to build machine gods 🙄

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · 1d

In this week’s new #TheWeeklyShow episode, Jon & Geoffrey Hinton discuss ⬇️:

>> AI 101
>> AI Threats & Regulation
>> Ping, Ping, Ping
>> Always Angry Trump & Pardons

NEW YouTube video out now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrK3...

AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

www.youtube.com

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 16h

If you go "hey the synthetic text extrusion machine understands the topic better than you" to a woman academic, you‘re an utter creep and an intellectual void. Don‘t ever sink to that level.

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 16h

… I just found the part where he asserts the synthetic text extrusion machine is smarter than you.

That’s not edgy. That’s completely disgusting and missanthropic if not misogynistic. Urgh.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 3d

Quick spaceship sketch. 'Spiteful Interceptor', built by Jeffery & Co.

#Spaceship #Illustration #SciFi

A digital illustration of a spaceship. Wedge-shaped, with a small cockpit right at the front. A section of the middle is cut away. Grey and red in colour.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 27d

Not had time for #Shiptember really, but here's The Erebus, a Type 16 Clipper, built by Komatsu.

#Illustration #Spaceship

A long twin-hulled spaceship in orange, cream, and dark teal.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 14d

A little more #Shiptember action. Here's The Vale, a Type 13 Skiff, built by Husqvarna.

#Illustration #Spaceship

A digital illustration of a spaceship. Vaguely crustacean in shape, with a central shell, and four pods/hulls attached by rods. Blue and orange in colour. #Shiptember

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 11d

Some more #Shiptember action. Here's The Foundry, a Fast Picket, built by Chalmer & Hoyer.

#Illustration #Spaceship

A digital illustration of a spaceship. Twin hulls join at a single large engine at the back, in front of which there's an enclosed spherical cockpit.

#Shiptember

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 18h

"Spacecraft? Steel!

"Power armor? Also steel!

"That skyscraper? Believe it or not, steel!

"Giant space habitat? Straight to steel."

Doc Vivi Leandra - Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 20h

Every sci-fi author tries to come up with a material "more advanced" than steel, as if steel is a single material with a single set of properties and not, like, hundreds of different materials that we are still advancing and improving

The more advanced equivalent of steel is just better steel lol

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Manuel 'HonkHase' Atug @honkhase.bsky.social · 18h

Wirtschaftsministerium: Reiche berät Reiche

"Bei Treffen mit der Stiftung Familienunternehmen gaben Ministerin Reiche und ihr Staatssekretär Tipps, wie die Superreichen-Lobby Steuersenkungen erreichen könne...."
#Machtmissbrauch #Korruption #CDU
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Wirtschaftsministerium: Reiche berät Reiche

Bei Treffen mit der Stiftung Familienunternehmen gaben Ministerin Reiche und ihr Staatssekretär Tipps, wie die Superreichen-Lobby Steuersenkungen erreichen könne. Das zeigen interne Unterlagen.

fragdenstaat.de

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 18h

"Your mission, should you choose to accept it-"

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 22h

stop liking this, people LMAO

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 22h

as a cognitive scientist, I can confirm we don't know how humans think

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Cuw @cuw.bsky.social · 20h

Printing press: repeatable process for mass reproduction of the same thing at scale, maybe killed the illuminated manuscript
AI: personalized liar that is not a reproduction of the source material nor is it reproducible, actually literally kills people with psychosis.
Did Gutenberg do K?

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Marisa Elena Duarte @mwhitehorse.bsky.social · 20h

Okay, thank you for this, as the president of my university recently compared AI to the printing press, and as an information scientist I am saying, "no, sir, that is neither helpful nor accurate."

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 23h

really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer

The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

sonjadrimmer.com

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 18h

Oh now that is a *very* interesting brainteaser!

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 23h

really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer

The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

sonjadrimmer.com

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 19h

I know that one very well. My most recent conference presentation, in part, dealt with pseudoscientific hacks and anti-intellectual Gish galloping.

The transcript, if you're curious:

stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/stained-gl...

Stained Glass Woman

Remixing Research as a Technical Writer-Advocate for Trans Liberation

stainedglasswoman.substack.com

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 20h

As a professor and a researcher:

Good god, the lack of understanding that this post reflects is stunning. Scholars do not *ever* get paid for our research, either to directly publish it or on a per-read basis. It's not uncommon to have to *pay* to get your work published.

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Sevoris (he/him) @sevoris.bsky.social · 19h

Is there a psychological study about the weird "I‘m going to try and insult your person by using the synthetic text extrusion machine" behavior? Or is that just "oh look at me I‘m doing the thing you dislike I‘m so edgy"?

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 2d

please think about this deeply & consult with experts who do NOT have Conflicts of Interest! See:

Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

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

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

The attack on @frediotto.bsky.social was seeded years ago by Roger Pielke Jr, who started arguing that this table from a recent @ipcc.bsky.social report proved that climate science cannot attribute extreme weather to climate change.

But Roger is of course lying. And we know this for 2 reasons.

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CLIMATEWIRE
Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking
disasters to global warming
By LESLEY CLARK, SARA SCHONHARDT, CHELSEA HARVEY | 10/09/2025
06:22 AM EDT Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose
work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

Table 12.12 | Emergence of CIDs in different time periods, as assessed in this section. The colour contesponds to the confidence of the region with the highest confidence: white cells indicate where evidence is lacking or the signal is not present, leading to overal bu confidence of an emerging signal.

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