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07.03.2026 04:17
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Val Nichushkin (no. 13) tied the game with 13 seconds left for his 13th goal of the season.
We will let you sit with that one for a minute.
To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.
Spot on. If you don't know about Clever Hans, the "equine mathematical genuis" it's worth reading up on him.
We need antidepressants built for this era, not the ones built for an era where everything was more or less fine. I need Turbo-Powered Lexipro. Prozac Extreme™. I need god to spit directly into my mouth
This is making the rounds again, and I was amused to reread the thread and see that it was shortly before our book came out. Lots has happened in the past 10 months, but the message of this thread still holds.
Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia!
PLEASE
I don't want a "smart" fridge, or a "smart" TB, or a "smart" anything
they're not smart at all, they're just data mining tools, and I don't want any of them
An illustration of a tiger protecting cubs colored in Trans and nonbinary flag colors. Says: "protect trans & nonbinary kids!"
We're going to make it through this 🩷💙
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.
New tutorial paper published today with PhD student @danaroemling.bsky.social and @bodowinter.bsky.social
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology
doi.org/10.1017/jlg....
I hope people find it useful!
don't forget to take a break from doomscrolling to press your fingers against your closed eyelids until you can see the beginning of the universe
BIGGEST of hugs!! I'm glad you're already home and have been there for a couple days now. Artemis and i are still sending you comfortable and speedy recovery thoughts <3
missing even one paycheck like this would have ruined me and my young family when I was an NSF postdoc. This is heartless
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
I gotta say, I'm getting pretty tired of hearing "he can't do that!" when he very clearly is doing that.
Similar to how I ate breakfast at 4:30 PM today because that’s when I finally broke my fast
(Poor mental health but I am trying to eat like a reasonable person I swear)
this is good, practical, and worth bookmarking for the next time someone you love insists that a myth like "immigrants bring drugs" is a fact
VOWELS 🥰
About links, bluesky loves them. Please unlearn the link-in-reply tricks you've been doing elsewhere and proudly share your blog posts, videos, or any other external link in your top posts so we can all go and visit your fancy websites and then get back here to discuss and repost them. Thanks!
For those interested the World Health Organization is on 🦋. You can stay informed @who.int
The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on!
Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com
omg!! i hope it's amazing!! 🤩
I mean right off the bat, ’idea generation’ is laughable. LLMs cannot come up with new ideas, LLMs can only reformulate ideas it already has access to. Using an LLM for idea generation is plagiarism and no one with ever convince me otherwise.
sometimes while watching hockey, the checks into the board will jostle the dopamine vending machine so i get all the stuck ones at once
basically, i started out wanting to write (including conversations and dialogue), and now i write conversations professionally, but like, not about dragons and swordplay (but maybe now i have an idea for something to do during funemployment to showcase my skills)
if you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. bestselling fantasy novelist
2. creative writing
3. "For the Love of Words" (ling + slhs)
4. conversation design
let's remember that it was an NIH scientist who designed the core of the Moderna Covid vaccine *over a single weekend*
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
oof, sending you all the love and support! here's hoping you have a speedy and comfortable recovery 🤎🤎🤎