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Will Cross, Ph.D. @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 1d

Now and then I remember that Nintendo was founded while the Ottoman Empire was still around and I have to recheck the history and sure enough

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Will Cross, Ph.D. @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 6d

Reviewer #2 here. Your human analysis is clearly supportive of your claim, but this paper would be improved by both a psychological and a prey analysis of seals. R&R.

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Will Cross, Ph.D. @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 9d

The sound track omg

Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 10d

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

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Will Cross, Ph.D. @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 9d

Our PhD process is so broken. Be kind to yourself while you recover.

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Will Cross, Ph.D. @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 13d

If you don’t have time to listen, definitely have ChatGPT summarize it for you /s

Will Cross, Ph.D. @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 13d

Podcast with the family of a boy who killed himself after ChatGPT gave him coaching on how to do it, how noble it is, how his family sucks, and (in rare instances when its safeguards were triggered) how to get around its own safeguards to get the answers he wanted. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Did ChatGPT Encourage a Teen Suicide? The Parents Suing OpenAI Say Yes

Podcast Episode · On with Kara Swisher · 09/25/2025 · 1h 4m

podcasts.apple.com

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Will Cross, Ph.D. @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 16d

Smoked and (moderately) drank.

And my mom was kind of a hippie: gave birth at home, breast fed me, raised me in a small community. Times were weird.

Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 16d

Tylenol, schmylenol. Raise your hand if your mom smoked and drank while she was pregnant with you (basically anyone Gen X or older).

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Will Cross, Ph.D. @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 19d

Yes but it's even more complicated than that: it has to do extra work to play nice with the scope.

A scope can't focus on a nearby thing just sitting there a few inches away. The clip-on needs its own lens to make it "appear" far away just to be in focus when its light passes through the scope.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21d

Guys you really can just spit in their faces. 99% of the time nothing will happen. They’re relying on you being too afraid to do so. Call their bluff. And sign up for the stupid email lists.

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Sarah Birnbaum ❌👑 @sarahvb.bsky.social · 20d

The beard is not my jam but I get the sense that's 30 years of accumulated "I am tired of shaving every day to get on camera"

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20d

Looks like the cis girls are getting some amazing new opportunities to be trained to be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen 😵‍💫

Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 20d

Fewer girls are playing sports after govt erected barriers for girls to play sports.
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms

Province's new requirements are already having impacts on girls' sports in junior high

edmontonjournal.com

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Will Cross, Ph.D. @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 20d

It was never about protecting girls' (or women's) sports

Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 20d

Fewer girls are playing sports after govt erected barriers for girls to play sports.
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms

Province's new requirements are already having impacts on girls' sports in junior high

edmontonjournal.com

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Will Cross, Ph.D. @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 20d

She was so terrifying!

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 21d

In front of the Sybergs in Arnold, MO earlier tonight.

Dark car with licensce plate # JL8 V4D

See, I can do it too.

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Will Cross, Ph.D. @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 20d

Your annual reminder that Popeyes has chicken sandwiches so good that people fight over them when they run out of them. No need to go to Chick fil A.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 20d

Oh since we're talking about boycotts, way too many of y'all still eat at Chik fil A and shop at Hobby Lobby, two companies whose profits are literally dedicated to killing trans people

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Nature @nature.com · 22d

There is increasing interest in using AI tools not only to listen in on animal speech, but also to potentially talk back

go.nature.com/4pqGYCP

AI is helping to decode animals’ speech. Will it also let us talk with them?

The complexity of vocal communication in some primates, whales and birds might approach that of human language.

go.nature.com

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Will Cross, Ph.D. @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 22d

It was never about free speech

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

More employers fire workers over Kirk posts as pressure from right mounts

Actions by employers have stirred a debate over employees’ speech rights, the role of pressure campaigns and what is appropriate public debate after an violent event.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24d

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

substack.com

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Will Cross, Ph.D. @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 29d

Ugh I got a rabies vaccine 18 years ago and it *sucked*. Hope you're back in good health soon!

Will Cross, Ph.D. @thatn3rd.bsky.social · Sep 5

I've been to Sacramento twice and neither time could I have slept without air conditioning and you have an entire mild summer?

Kudos man, but don't expect that roulette wheel to keep landing on Gray.

Will Cross, Ph.D. @thatn3rd.bsky.social · Sep 3

Books on how to parent recommend that when your kid misbehaves, you take away their doctor. /s

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · Sep 3

Loomer: “You think these kids are so innocent? Because they're kids? Yeah? ... You think little kids are not capable of evil?”

Trump ally Laura Loomer on Palestinian children seeking medical care in US: "You think these kids are so innocent?"

www.mediamatters.org

Will Cross, Ph.D. @thatn3rd.bsky.social · Sep 3

We tried a car wash in Bloomfield and they refused service. We were too stinky.

Such a crazy day!

Will Cross, Ph.D. @thatn3rd.bsky.social · Sep 3

We had to park in a garage in Hoboken and we stank the whole place up

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Will Cross, Ph.D. @thatn3rd.bsky.social · Sep 3

Then the smell hit us: it wasn't mud. It was pouring out of a septic truck that had pulled over, a river of effluence.

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Will Cross, Ph.D. @thatn3rd.bsky.social · Sep 3

So I was on Highway 3 east bound going from Montclair to Hoboken and suddenly there was a bunch of mud on the lanes, everyone was slowing down.

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