Alisa Williams
@allywritesstories.bsky.social
Editor, writer, grad student in history at Eastern Washington University. Exploring the intersection of religion & medicine in early 20th century America. Opinions mine or my dog's.
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generative AI is not advancing science, it is destroying it https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03635-w
ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis
Researchers say that the model behind the chatbot fabricated a convincing bogus database, but a forensic examination shows it doesn’t pass for authentic. Researchers say that the model behind the chatbot fabricated a convincing bogus database, but a forensic examination shows it doesn’t pass for authentic.
www.nature.com
November 27, 2023 at 9:39 AM
generative AI is not advancing science, it is destroying it https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03635-w
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Having ChatGPT write something for you is liking having a robot exercise for you: the task might get finished but you won't accrue any benefit from it. Creativity, like athletic performance, is something that only happens as a result of doing the work yourself.
November 27, 2023 at 11:06 AM
Having ChatGPT write something for you is liking having a robot exercise for you: the task might get finished but you won't accrue any benefit from it. Creativity, like athletic performance, is something that only happens as a result of doing the work yourself.
November walk with the pup 🍁🐕🥾
November 4, 2023 at 5:59 PM
November walk with the pup 🍁🐕🥾
"When you teach a person to believe their internal truth is a lie, you take from them the very thing that is most important to each of us: our ability to know and trust ourselves." —Kerry Washington, Thicker Than Water
November 4, 2023 at 5:46 PM
"When you teach a person to believe their internal truth is a lie, you take from them the very thing that is most important to each of us: our ability to know and trust ourselves." —Kerry Washington, Thicker Than Water
"The cruelest thing you can ever do to another human being is to label their suspicions as false when you know them to be true." —Kerry Washington, Thicker Than Water
November 4, 2023 at 5:45 PM
"The cruelest thing you can ever do to another human being is to label their suspicions as false when you know them to be true." —Kerry Washington, Thicker Than Water
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"You cannot be true to me
Til you're true to yourself
When you say you have to leave
and put your heart on a shelf
What taught you that you have to run?
What inspires this fear?
When you start to feel something real
You always disappear"
-"Disappear" by Stephen Speaks
Til you're true to yourself
When you say you have to leave
and put your heart on a shelf
What taught you that you have to run?
What inspires this fear?
When you start to feel something real
You always disappear"
-"Disappear" by Stephen Speaks
November 1, 2023 at 10:50 PM
"You cannot be true to me
Til you're true to yourself
When you say you have to leave
and put your heart on a shelf
What taught you that you have to run?
What inspires this fear?
When you start to feel something real
You always disappear"
-"Disappear" by Stephen Speaks
Til you're true to yourself
When you say you have to leave
and put your heart on a shelf
What taught you that you have to run?
What inspires this fear?
When you start to feel something real
You always disappear"
-"Disappear" by Stephen Speaks
Leo looking magnificent in the afternoon light.
November 1, 2023 at 10:46 PM
Leo looking magnificent in the afternoon light.
❄️❤️ first snow of the season ❤️❄️
November 1, 2023 at 2:14 PM
❄️❤️ first snow of the season ❤️❄️
New book mail! Can't wait to read this one. #TheGospelOfJEdgarHoover
October 31, 2023 at 10:33 PM
New book mail! Can't wait to read this one. #TheGospelOfJEdgarHoover
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It's Halloween! Let's look at some scary eels!
Susan Hill's 1983 horror novel THE WOMAN IN BLACK, takes place at the secluded & haunted Eel Marsh House.
A dark & tortured estate, set in a fen full of eels! Much creepier than setting the stage at Lamb Meadows. 1/6
🧪🗃️
Susan Hill's 1983 horror novel THE WOMAN IN BLACK, takes place at the secluded & haunted Eel Marsh House.
A dark & tortured estate, set in a fen full of eels! Much creepier than setting the stage at Lamb Meadows. 1/6
🧪🗃️
October 31, 2023 at 4:06 PM
It's Halloween! Let's look at some scary eels!
Susan Hill's 1983 horror novel THE WOMAN IN BLACK, takes place at the secluded & haunted Eel Marsh House.
A dark & tortured estate, set in a fen full of eels! Much creepier than setting the stage at Lamb Meadows. 1/6
🧪🗃️
Susan Hill's 1983 horror novel THE WOMAN IN BLACK, takes place at the secluded & haunted Eel Marsh House.
A dark & tortured estate, set in a fen full of eels! Much creepier than setting the stage at Lamb Meadows. 1/6
🧪🗃️
We pour energy into relationships that confirm what we already believe to be true about ourselves. Is your energy going toward people who confirm you're worthy of love or toward those who make you feel worthless?
October 31, 2023 at 2:12 PM
We pour energy into relationships that confirm what we already believe to be true about ourselves. Is your energy going toward people who confirm you're worthy of love or toward those who make you feel worthless?
Are you chasing validation from people who rejected you or is your heart open to receiving validation from those who actively choose and love you?
October 31, 2023 at 1:23 PM
Are you chasing validation from people who rejected you or is your heart open to receiving validation from those who actively choose and love you?
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"Stop killing people" pretty much sums up my politics these days, whether we're talking genocide, covid, the environmental/healthcare/housing crisis, food insecurity, police brutality, lack of disability rights, attacks on LGBTQ+ folx, no access to reproductive medical care, etc etc etc. Just stop.
October 28, 2023 at 8:58 PM
"Stop killing people" pretty much sums up my politics these days, whether we're talking genocide, covid, the environmental/healthcare/housing crisis, food insecurity, police brutality, lack of disability rights, attacks on LGBTQ+ folx, no access to reproductive medical care, etc etc etc. Just stop.
Stumbled upon Mars Attacks! slander on the TL here, and I do not have the emotional capacity this week to see my favorite movie of all time besmirched in such a fashion. I am going to bed.
October 30, 2023 at 12:36 AM
Stumbled upon Mars Attacks! slander on the TL here, and I do not have the emotional capacity this week to see my favorite movie of all time besmirched in such a fashion. I am going to bed.
One of the most difficult things about a breakup is accomplishing something afterward & them being the person you want to share it with most, knowing they would've been more excited for you than anyone. But you can't share it w/ them. They're gone & this thing you're so proud of tastes bittersweet.
October 29, 2023 at 10:34 PM
One of the most difficult things about a breakup is accomplishing something afterward & them being the person you want to share it with most, knowing they would've been more excited for you than anyone. But you can't share it w/ them. They're gone & this thing you're so proud of tastes bittersweet.
Rainy autumn walk with the pup on her birthday weekend (she just turned 4 years old!) 🐕🥾🍁
October 29, 2023 at 7:37 PM
Rainy autumn walk with the pup on her birthday weekend (she just turned 4 years old!) 🐕🥾🍁
Me, minding my business...
HistoryExtra:
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October 29, 2023 at 6:56 PM
Me, minding my business...
HistoryExtra:
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I don't know exactly where the threshold was where I stopped being a person to other people, but it happened
October 29, 2023 at 6:39 AM
I don't know exactly where the threshold was where I stopped being a person to other people, but it happened
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"Grief can look like a safe space for a long time...Make sure you're not so busy living in the past that you don't even notice the open door in front of you." —Jamie Lee Sogn
October 28, 2023 at 2:22 AM
"Grief can look like a safe space for a long time...Make sure you're not so busy living in the past that you don't even notice the open door in front of you." —Jamie Lee Sogn
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Behold the academic rigor of the average Evangelical-fundamentalist private school/homeschool
When I say young earth creationism is a conspiracy theory, this is why.
October 26, 2023 at 10:53 PM
Behold the academic rigor of the average Evangelical-fundamentalist private school/homeschool
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Watching people on tv talk about how losing a girlfriend and losing a job are stressors that can play a part in motivating a mass shooter and nobody’s talking about the fact that women lose jobs and relationships too and it literally almost never ends in mass murder.
October 26, 2023 at 11:10 PM
Watching people on tv talk about how losing a girlfriend and losing a job are stressors that can play a part in motivating a mass shooter and nobody’s talking about the fact that women lose jobs and relationships too and it literally almost never ends in mass murder.
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we all thought Twitter’s collapse would be swift and sudden like the fall of the Roman Empire but instead it’s been a steady, irreversible decay like the fall of the Roman Empire
October 26, 2023 at 1:55 PM
we all thought Twitter’s collapse would be swift and sudden like the fall of the Roman Empire but instead it’s been a steady, irreversible decay like the fall of the Roman Empire