Christie Aschwanden
@cragcrest.bsky.social
Best-selling author, journalist, podcaster, outdoor adventurer. My parties have dancing. Western Colorado. www.scientificamerican.com/uncertain
This thing about Nate Silver remains my favorite chatGPT answer of all time. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/10/a...
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This thing about Nate Silver remains my favorite chatGPT answer of all time. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/10/a...
I just finished reading Willa Cather's O Pioneers!, a true masterpiece. My first Cather novel was My Ántonia (also a masterpiece!) Which should I read next?
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I just finished reading Willa Cather's O Pioneers!, a true masterpiece. My first Cather novel was My Ántonia (also a masterpiece!) Which should I read next?
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"Chat GPT is not hallucinating, it’s bullshitting,"
ChatGPT is that guy in law school, dangerously wrong, deeply uninformed, and totally sure Debate Team is real life.
Except now, in 2025? Everyone trusts him. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/10/a...
By @cragcrest.bsky.social
ChatGPT is that guy in law school, dangerously wrong, deeply uninformed, and totally sure Debate Team is real life.
Except now, in 2025? Everyone trusts him. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/10/a...
By @cragcrest.bsky.social
The Last Word On Nothing | AI is Full of Bullshit. Now It’s Faking Science
www.lastwordonnothing.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"Chat GPT is not hallucinating, it’s bullshitting,"
ChatGPT is that guy in law school, dangerously wrong, deeply uninformed, and totally sure Debate Team is real life.
Except now, in 2025? Everyone trusts him. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/10/a...
By @cragcrest.bsky.social
ChatGPT is that guy in law school, dangerously wrong, deeply uninformed, and totally sure Debate Team is real life.
Except now, in 2025? Everyone trusts him. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/10/a...
By @cragcrest.bsky.social
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
OMG, please let the baseball time space continuum be the thing that bumps us to a better timeline!
November 2, 2025 at 4:13 AM
OMG, please let the baseball time space continuum be the thing that bumps us to a better timeline!
How much deader can the rule of law be?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
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Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
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October 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
How much deader can the rule of law be?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
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The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
October 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
Interesting thread about No Kings coverage that starts with a paper here in Western Colorado.
I scrolled through the @1stforall.bsky.social's gallery of print front pages for local coverage of "No Kings" protests. Here are some of the standout papers, starting with the Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, Colorado:
October 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Interesting thread about No Kings coverage that starts with a paper here in Western Colorado.
If you buy your own health insurance, this calculator will show you how much your premiums will rise if Congress does not extend the enhanced tax credits. You'd better be sitting down... I'm surely not the only one who will consider going without if these credits expire. www.kff.org/interactive/...
How Much More Would People Pay in Premiums if the ACA's Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire? | KFF
The ACA's enhanced premium tax credits are set to expire at the end of 2025. This calculator estimates how much out-of-pocket premiums would increase for families if Congress does not extend the credi...
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October 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If you buy your own health insurance, this calculator will show you how much your premiums will rise if Congress does not extend the enhanced tax credits. You'd better be sitting down... I'm surely not the only one who will consider going without if these credits expire. www.kff.org/interactive/...
Important @undark.org story about the precarious nature of philanthropic funding for science journalism. With insight from @meaghanparker.bsky.social and @siricarpenter.bsky.social undark.org/2025/10/15/s...
Will Science Journalism Funders Step Up or Retreat?
Amid Trump-era funding turmoil, foundations are finding themselves pulled in many directions to fill in the gaps.
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October 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Important @undark.org story about the precarious nature of philanthropic funding for science journalism. With insight from @meaghanparker.bsky.social and @siricarpenter.bsky.social undark.org/2025/10/15/s...
The photos with this story are really something.
We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...
October 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The photos with this story are really something.
I’m just fundamentally incapable of leaving a library without at least one book in my hands. Today’s exciting find: Insectopolis by Peter Kuper.
October 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I’m just fundamentally incapable of leaving a library without at least one book in my hands. Today’s exciting find: Insectopolis by Peter Kuper.
Wait, that’s not a bird! I guess I’m going to wait until hibernation has begun to refill the bird feeder.
October 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Wait, that’s not a bird! I guess I’m going to wait until hibernation has begun to refill the bird feeder.
Congratulations to this year's Victor Cohn Prize winner, @charlespiller.bsky.social casw.org/news/charles...
Charles Piller wins 2025 Victor Cohn Prize - CASW
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October 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Congratulations to this year's Victor Cohn Prize winner, @charlespiller.bsky.social casw.org/news/charles...
Do not give in to despair. Instead, connect with people in your community and find your shared values. Let's dismantle the us vs them mindset. We are all in this together. The future is not yet written! We can make a better tomorrow.
October 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Do not give in to despair. Instead, connect with people in your community and find your shared values. Let's dismantle the us vs them mindset. We are all in this together. The future is not yet written! We can make a better tomorrow.
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Taking the side a few people who disagree with the dominant scientific consensus and claiming that is letting science guide our decision making is pure gaslighting. No consensus is sacred, but not all claims (or all scrutiny) are equally valid. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Thune on Trump's Tylenol claims: "I think science ought to guide these discussions and our decision-making around our health. There are studies out there that they reference, but I think there are an awful lot of people in the medical community who come to a difference conclusion about Tylenol."
September 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Taking the side a few people who disagree with the dominant scientific consensus and claiming that is letting science guide our decision making is pure gaslighting. No consensus is sacred, but not all claims (or all scrutiny) are equally valid. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
The sitting President of the United States is once again issuing threats to the media. THIS IS NOT OK. "I think we’re going to test ABC out on this. Let’s see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative." variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Trump Rages at Jimmy Kimmel and ABC as Late-Night Show Returns: ‘A True Bunch of Losers!’
President Donald Trump slammed ABC's decision to bring Jimmy Kimmel back to late-night TV.
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September 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The sitting President of the United States is once again issuing threats to the media. THIS IS NOT OK. "I think we’re going to test ABC out on this. Let’s see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative." variety.com/2025/tv/news...
"He's gunning for our journalists too...they want to pick and choose what the news is." "It's so important to have a free press and it's nuts that we're not paying more attention to this." youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY?...
Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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September 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
"He's gunning for our journalists too...they want to pick and choose what the news is." "It's so important to have a free press and it's nuts that we're not paying more attention to this." youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY?...
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Health and science reporters should lead the coverage of all these health-related conspiracy theories & newsroom leaders should keep their both-sides political reporters out of their way.
September 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Health and science reporters should lead the coverage of all these health-related conspiracy theories & newsroom leaders should keep their both-sides political reporters out of their way.
Interesting shift in public opinion about DOGE, among both supporters and critics of trump. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
September 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Interesting shift in public opinion about DOGE, among both supporters and critics of trump. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Happy publication day @juliabelluz.bsky.social !!
September 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Happy publication day @juliabelluz.bsky.social !!
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Interesting we seem to accept "science is broken" while still receiving medical treatments for illnesses, flying airplanes that are extraordinarily safe, using generative AIs to develop glue-based lasagne recipes, admiring EVs and Starlink, and so on and so on.
Almost as if science is not broken.
Almost as if science is not broken.
Opinion | ‘The Power of Science to Solve Problems Is Almost Limitless’
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September 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Interesting we seem to accept "science is broken" while still receiving medical treatments for illnesses, flying airplanes that are extraordinarily safe, using generative AIs to develop glue-based lasagne recipes, admiring EVs and Starlink, and so on and so on.
Almost as if science is not broken.
Almost as if science is not broken.
"Yudkowsky and Soares are earnest; unlike many of the loudest prognosticators around AI, they are not grifters. They are just wrong. They are as wrong as the so-called accelerationists, who insist that AI will unleash a utopia of universal income and leisure."
The new book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” aims to explain why superintelligent AI would eliminate humanity. But along the way, the authors “fail to make an evidence-based scientific case for their claims,” Adam Becker argues:
The Useful Idiots of AI Doomsaying
Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will solve all of our problems.
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September 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"Yudkowsky and Soares are earnest; unlike many of the loudest prognosticators around AI, they are not grifters. They are just wrong. They are as wrong as the so-called accelerationists, who insist that AI will unleash a utopia of universal income and leisure."
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Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/
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