Zachary Sam Zaiss
@zszaiss.bsky.social
Data Science + Product Analytics. Believer in building Deliberate Data Cultures (deliberatedataculture.substack.com). All views my own.
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A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.
She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!
Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!
Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
October 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.
She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!
Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!
Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
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Can confirm this email is authentic — and about nothing in it is true.
Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that.
It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.
Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that.
It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.
Hi, I think a lot of us received e-mails from SSA saying that social security will no longer be taxed - and that somehow there is "enhanced deductions" (how much enhancement can you make to 0?) for those over 65. What part, if any, of this is true? Thank you!
July 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Can confirm this email is authentic — and about nothing in it is true.
Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that.
It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.
Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that.
It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.
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“It has become clear that our journey towards being carbon negative is a marathon, not a sprint.” — Microsoft
Lol; since 2020 Microsoft’s total emissions have increased by 23.4%! What’s the race where you end up behind the start line?
Lol; since 2020 Microsoft’s total emissions have increased by 23.4%! What’s the race where you end up behind the start line?
The trouble with Microsoft’s carbon numbers
Surging AI energy demand puts a spotlight on Big Tech’s climate claims
www.ft.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“It has become clear that our journey towards being carbon negative is a marathon, not a sprint.” — Microsoft
Lol; since 2020 Microsoft’s total emissions have increased by 23.4%! What’s the race where you end up behind the start line?
Lol; since 2020 Microsoft’s total emissions have increased by 23.4%! What’s the race where you end up behind the start line?
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Brand Manager getting ready for Pride Month
May 31, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Brand Manager getting ready for Pride Month
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We are democratizing art. No longer will you have to pay someone who owns a data center just to generate pictures. With a pencil and notepad that costs less than a dollar, you too can create Artisanal Imagery.
The word around town is that the next big thing is Artisanal Imagery, hand-made visuals that you simply have to own if you don't want to be left behind
May 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We are democratizing art. No longer will you have to pay someone who owns a data center just to generate pictures. With a pencil and notepad that costs less than a dollar, you too can create Artisanal Imagery.
For the second time this year, a well disguised Google ad has funneled me into making a purchase with a company I didn't intend.
As someone in a technical field, I should know better, and I'm concerned that it's happened twice. Are bad sites getting more brazen? Should I slow down? Am I just tired?
As someone in a technical field, I should know better, and I'm concerned that it's happened twice. Are bad sites getting more brazen? Should I slow down? Am I just tired?
May 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
For the second time this year, a well disguised Google ad has funneled me into making a purchase with a company I didn't intend.
As someone in a technical field, I should know better, and I'm concerned that it's happened twice. Are bad sites getting more brazen? Should I slow down? Am I just tired?
As someone in a technical field, I should know better, and I'm concerned that it's happened twice. Are bad sites getting more brazen? Should I slow down? Am I just tired?
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Useful chart to understand AI agents (by @mmitchell.bsky.social) www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/24/1...
March 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Useful chart to understand AI agents (by @mmitchell.bsky.social) www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/24/1...
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get in losers we’re doing pivot to video metrics again but with ai
Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks
Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks
Meta released Llama 4, but the announcement was eclipsed by benchmark drama.
buff.ly
April 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
get in losers we’re doing pivot to video metrics again but with ai
I am all of these cats.
(For both durian and the timeline.)
(For both durian and the timeline.)
Cats reacting to durian fruit like people reacting to the timeline
April 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I am all of these cats.
(For both durian and the timeline.)
(For both durian and the timeline.)
What's the policy on repeating words of the day? Asking for a country.
Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
February 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
What's the policy on repeating words of the day? Asking for a country.
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thank you for asking! if I ran Chuck Schumer's account, I wouldn't say anything unless it contained one of the following:
1. details about how Chuck Schumer is helping
2. details about something the person reading the post could be doing
3. any other kind of helpful information at all
1. details about how Chuck Schumer is helping
2. details about something the person reading the post could be doing
3. any other kind of helpful information at all
Not trolling you. What would you post if you were running his account?
February 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
thank you for asking! if I ran Chuck Schumer's account, I wouldn't say anything unless it contained one of the following:
1. details about how Chuck Schumer is helping
2. details about something the person reading the post could be doing
3. any other kind of helpful information at all
1. details about how Chuck Schumer is helping
2. details about something the person reading the post could be doing
3. any other kind of helpful information at all
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Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.
February 15, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.
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You: They did the math.
Me: ᵀʰᵉʸ ᵈⁱᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵐᵒⁿˢᵗᵉʳ ᵐᵃᵗʰ
You: What was that?
Me: Nothing.
Me three hours later in a whisper: ᴵᵗ ʷᵃˢ ᵃ ᵍʳᵃᵛᵉʸᵃʳᵈ ᵍʳᵃᵖʰ
Me: ᵀʰᵉʸ ᵈⁱᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵐᵒⁿˢᵗᵉʳ ᵐᵃᵗʰ
You: What was that?
Me: Nothing.
Me three hours later in a whisper: ᴵᵗ ʷᵃˢ ᵃ ᵍʳᵃᵛᵉʸᵃʳᵈ ᵍʳᵃᵖʰ
February 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM
You: They did the math.
Me: ᵀʰᵉʸ ᵈⁱᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵐᵒⁿˢᵗᵉʳ ᵐᵃᵗʰ
You: What was that?
Me: Nothing.
Me three hours later in a whisper: ᴵᵗ ʷᵃˢ ᵃ ᵍʳᵃᵛᵉʸᵃʳᵈ ᵍʳᵃᵖʰ
Me: ᵀʰᵉʸ ᵈⁱᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵐᵒⁿˢᵗᵉʳ ᵐᵃᵗʰ
You: What was that?
Me: Nothing.
Me three hours later in a whisper: ᴵᵗ ʷᵃˢ ᵃ ᵍʳᵃᵛᵉʸᵃʳᵈ ᵍʳᵃᵖʰ
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Artists need to let this sink in:
The thousands of followers who insist you stay there are actively hurting you at this point. You deserve a better audience who understands your rights and concerns. The sooner you rebuild, the easier it gets.
The thousands of followers who insist you stay there are actively hurting you at this point. You deserve a better audience who understands your rights and concerns. The sooner you rebuild, the easier it gets.
It might hurt my bottom line, but I’m probably going to stop posting art to Twitter entirely and I suggest you do too.
Not only is the site actively putting a “Okay, now remix this” button below art (and elevating them above the OP with a QRT) and it’s false flagging original art as made by AI.
Not only is the site actively putting a “Okay, now remix this” button below art (and elevating them above the OP with a QRT) and it’s false flagging original art as made by AI.
February 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Artists need to let this sink in:
The thousands of followers who insist you stay there are actively hurting you at this point. You deserve a better audience who understands your rights and concerns. The sooner you rebuild, the easier it gets.
The thousands of followers who insist you stay there are actively hurting you at this point. You deserve a better audience who understands your rights and concerns. The sooner you rebuild, the easier it gets.
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100% this. But also Google's excuse is bullshit. International Holocaust Remembrance Day... is on timeanddate. So is Black History Month. Google changed which holidays and occurrences feed they used to find one that excludes these days. This isn't efficency (not an excuse anyway), it's a choice.
February 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
100% this. But also Google's excuse is bullshit. International Holocaust Remembrance Day... is on timeanddate. So is Black History Month. Google changed which holidays and occurrences feed they used to find one that excludes these days. This isn't efficency (not an excuse anyway), it's a choice.
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People on TikTok are reporting ICE raids happening in small cities in various states.
To get past algorithmic censorship, they’re writing down the information on paper and holding up and shuffling through the handwritten signs as they talk about pretend subjects like shopping, food, and animals.
To get past algorithmic censorship, they’re writing down the information on paper and holding up and shuffling through the handwritten signs as they talk about pretend subjects like shopping, food, and animals.
January 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
People on TikTok are reporting ICE raids happening in small cities in various states.
To get past algorithmic censorship, they’re writing down the information on paper and holding up and shuffling through the handwritten signs as they talk about pretend subjects like shopping, food, and animals.
To get past algorithmic censorship, they’re writing down the information on paper and holding up and shuffling through the handwritten signs as they talk about pretend subjects like shopping, food, and animals.
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If you are one of the top ranked political officials you are not trolling. Part of trolling is that you're saying shit you can never do, so its mean but funny. It isn't trolling if you can, and have shown a willingness, to do all the things you are "trolling" to do aramzs.xyz/microblogs/t...
This is my theory of what happened: Elon is an overgrown adolescent who thinks Nazi trolling is just hilarious www.vox.com/politics/396...
January 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
If you are one of the top ranked political officials you are not trolling. Part of trolling is that you're saying shit you can never do, so its mean but funny. It isn't trolling if you can, and have shown a willingness, to do all the things you are "trolling" to do aramzs.xyz/microblogs/t...
I didn't really drink coffee in high school, but in college it was Caffeine Dreams in Omaha for a Caramel Macchiato.
if you had a high school era coffee house, what was it & what did you use to order?
mine was the Last Exit in Seattle; at 13 or 14, I drank mochas. (mint tea when broke)
& the best turkey/avo/cream cheese/sprouts sandwich
& apple pie that came with cheddar, cinnamon sauce, a la mode, or all 3
mine was the Last Exit in Seattle; at 13 or 14, I drank mochas. (mint tea when broke)
& the best turkey/avo/cream cheese/sprouts sandwich
& apple pie that came with cheddar, cinnamon sauce, a la mode, or all 3
January 15, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I didn't really drink coffee in high school, but in college it was Caffeine Dreams in Omaha for a Caramel Macchiato.
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Just read the response from Costco to shareholders requesting it back down from DEI. It was glorious. It begins "Our Board has considered this proposal and believes … an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary." and gets better. A happy investor #diversityandinclusion
December 25, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Just read the response from Costco to shareholders requesting it back down from DEI. It was glorious. It begins "Our Board has considered this proposal and believes … an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary." and gets better. A happy investor #diversityandinclusion
I haven't seen this episode yet, but I can already tell that Olivia is my new hero.
Yep, Taskmaster will do that to you.
You can watch all five #JuniorTaskmaster heats on Channel 4 in the UK right now, and on YouTube internationally from tomorrow.
You can watch all five #JuniorTaskmaster heats on Channel 4 in the UK right now, and on YouTube internationally from tomorrow.
December 6, 2024 at 9:59 PM
I haven't seen this episode yet, but I can already tell that Olivia is my new hero.
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This entire thread is filled with the best vibes and the sweetest animals ❤️
do you have a piece of furniture you keep only because your pet loves it? this chair is 15+ years old and matches nothing in the living room, but to her it is perfect
November 29, 2024 at 3:04 PM
This entire thread is filled with the best vibes and the sweetest animals ❤️
When you come home from walking the dog, and "The Time of My Life" is blasting in the house, you have to pick up your dog and spin around a la Dirty Dancing. That's just how it is.
Waffles 🐶 was not amused. 0 / 10. ❌❌❌
Happy Thanksgiving!
Waffles 🐶 was not amused. 0 / 10. ❌❌❌
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 28, 2024 at 3:48 PM
When you come home from walking the dog, and "The Time of My Life" is blasting in the house, you have to pick up your dog and spin around a la Dirty Dancing. That's just how it is.
Waffles 🐶 was not amused. 0 / 10. ❌❌❌
Happy Thanksgiving!
Waffles 🐶 was not amused. 0 / 10. ❌❌❌
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
November 27, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵