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maryan506.bsky.social
@maryan506.bsky.social
Angry old woman, railing at the parlous state of the world.

That was my profile way back when. Seems a little inadequate now.

Can’t access DMs due to silly govt regs.
What about Dublin?
December 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
You might wish to hope they don’t let you back in 😄.
December 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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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
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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
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As the Russian delegation is being treated like VIPs & old friends by Trump's guys in Florida today, U.S. Intel has spelled out in black + white, what anyone with any sense already knew (not least because Putin's said so previously).

The war criminal wants to restore the USSR.
December 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
For performing apes?
December 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It’s a fecking brilliant album. Leave her alone.
December 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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for those experiencing paywall problems archive.ph/0Iuo6
archive.ph
December 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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FBI agents responsible for the mass redactions can be subpoenaed. There is also a video instructing those agents how to redact and how to catalog all mentions of tRump into a PDF. That can also be subpoenaed. They can run….
December 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
If they want to take America back for its “native population”, it’s obviously time they got on a plane and left. Not sure what country would take them though.
December 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“Fact”. Wouldn’t know one if it slapped him in the face.
December 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Doubt he realises that. It’ll just be those bloody forriners.
December 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Had to read the alt text to see that!
December 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I’m with the cat 😃.
December 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM