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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"You are a transformative president" -- I regret to inform you that Mark Carney is kissing Trump's ass

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Wayne Myrvold @wmyrvold.bsky.social · 1d

Just checking... we're still counting "based off of," when they mean "based on," as incorrect, yes?

Google ngram for frequency of the phrases "based off" and "based off of" from 1900 to 2020, showing an alarmingly steep rise that takes off around the year 2000.

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 2d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 6d

The bar still exists, even if it’s in hell.

Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 7d

Update: Lindsay Shepherd says the B.C. Conservatives have fired her.

An X post that reads: Today, BC Conservative Leader John Rustad fired me from my position as Comms Officer with the Conservative Party of BC Caucus. It was because of this tweet.

I am a mother of two young children, and I am 32 weeks pregnant -- I was about to go on maternity leave.

More to come.

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 6d

lmao imagine being *this* wretched.

Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 7d

Update: Lindsay Shepherd says the B.C. Conservatives have fired her.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 7d

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned

Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Chris Washington 🧛‍♂️ @cwashington.bsky.social · 9d

Trying to explain copyright to Open AI.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 9d

why not opt-in? just ask permission first

if this is truly a positive feature then surely copyright holders will be happy to participate and have their work included if asked

just ask permission first

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 9d

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

on.wsj.com

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Wayne Myrvold @wmyrvold.bsky.social · 9d

The thumbnail says "The Second Law is Wrong," but we all understand that is short for, "The Second Law, as originally conceived, isn't quite right, and has to be replaced by a probabilistically qualified version," yes?

(Those who watch the video will get the appropriately nuanced take.)

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Wayne Myrvold @wmyrvold.bsky.social · 9d

I had a fun chat with Curt Jaimungal about thermodynamics.

youtu.be/HIoviZe14pY

A 2 Hour Deep Dive into Entropy

YouTube video by Curt Jaimungal

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 10d

Every good programmer I know has been saying this to me for months; meanwhile every not-great programmer I know has been trying to outsource their work to ai, causing more issues/delays than they if did it themselves.

A lot of these tools only seem good to people who are not great at their jobs.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10d

“In a new report, management consultants Bain & Company found that despite being ‘one of the first areas to deploy generative AI,’ the ‘savings have been unremarkable’ in programming.”

AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds

The AI industry's claims about AI coding assistants boosting productivity significantly appear to be massively overblown, per a new report.

futurism.com

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 25d

This point hasn’t been given nearly enough attention. If you applied actually existing research principles to genAI, it would never be allowed anywhere near a university, research project or classroom.

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 26d

Loved how I got to clarify that the 5 principles in section 4 of the paper were nothing new. They came straight out of The Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, that every scientists in The Netherlands already ought to know. All we did is apply them to AI. www.nwo.nl/en/netherlan...

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Angry Persian Gardener ✊🏼🐈‍⬛🤘🏼 @angrypersiangardnr.bsky.social · 11d

I know of a landscaping business that cropped up (no pun intended) overnight claiming they use AI for superior gardens. They go around putting little signs on people’s front plants with a plant ID tag and their QR code.

All their plant ID is wrong.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 12d

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night:

Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at?

**pause**

Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 11d

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Wayne Myrvold @wmyrvold.bsky.social · 12d

We're still combining research excellence with a transformational student experience to create a meaningful impact in our communities and beyond.

I feel so inadequate.

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 14d

UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.

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Rupinder (Rup) Sahsi, MD 🧠💭 @hotsahs.sahsi.net · Jan 23

"We tend to think of misinformation as a universal problem, with all sides of the political spectrum equally guilty of bending the truth or spreading falsehoods. A new study shows otherwise."

Misinformation isn’t just a problem — it’s a political strategy.

New study shows radical-right populists are fueling a misinformation epidemic

Misinformation isn’t just a problem — it’s a political strategy.

www.zmescience.com

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stronk @flag-division.com · 15d

fully 50% of these academics (12) are not even from the united states and of those only 33% (4) of them teach/work in the us currently. they hate trans people so much they need to trample rights abroad.

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 16d

What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

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the option of interpreting the Idaho and West Virginia
statutes as motivated by the justified aim of excluding
all males from female sports, it is quite invidious to
interpret them as instead motivated by the unjustified
aim of excluding males who identify as female in par-
ticular.
Consider a simple analogy. Imagine that we are
back in Medieval Europe. Gold is the currency of the
land. Consequently, many merchants prefer to accept
gold and only gold as payment. However, a new move-
ment is afoot, whose members are known as the alche-
mists. The alchemists purport to have found a way of
turning iron pyrite (fool’s gold) into gold. Some people
are convinced by the claims of the alchemists, though
many others are not. This difference in attitudes
starts to lead to time-wasting interactions in which an
alchemist or fellow traveler tries to purchase a good
using iron pyrite from a merchant who, unmoved by
well-publicized insistence on the part of the alche-
mists that only irrational prejudice could lie behind
lingering doubts about the possibility of converting
iron pyrite into gold, continues to insist on only ac-
cepting gold as payment. One such merchant, whose
unofficial working policy has hitherto been to accept
only gold as payment, decides to make his policy offi-
cial by putting up a sign on his store saying, “Only
gold accepted (no iron pyrite!).”

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Wayne Myrvold @wmyrvold.bsky.social · 15d

It's on, mufferbuckers!!!

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 16d

Mark this in your calendar. I will be joining my comrade and life partner in the launch of her new book.
We will be discussing the power of place and memory in our writing projects.
Perfect Books Ottawa October 9.

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Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social · 17d

Public service announcement:

ONTARIO SFF WRITERS PLEASE REMEMBER TO APPLY FOR THE OAC RECOMMENDER GRANT

AUGUR IS A RECOMMENDER

WE WANT TO RECOMMEND SFF WRITERS GET GRANTS

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19d

🧵 Thread with my favourite quotes from:

📝 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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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

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 col...

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Wayne Myrvold @wmyrvold.bsky.social · 17d

That was the one name I recognized on the list of performers!

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