Derrick Talbot
@derricktalbot.bsky.social
The Right is wrong when they think our side has no Monsters, like me.
"intellectual Diversity Includes Idiots" - huh?
My goal is ending Intergenerational Tyranny- I will fail. And I abhor single issue posters.
Everything is connected to Humanity.
"intellectual Diversity Includes Idiots" - huh?
My goal is ending Intergenerational Tyranny- I will fail. And I abhor single issue posters.
Everything is connected to Humanity.
Can we get a UN resolution; to ensure that if alien refugees ever show up to ask Humanity for help, we have land set aside that no one is really using, just for this exact purpose?
Florida seems ideal.
Florida seems ideal.
October 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Can we get a UN resolution; to ensure that if alien refugees ever show up to ask Humanity for help, we have land set aside that no one is really using, just for this exact purpose?
Florida seems ideal.
Florida seems ideal.
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🤖 Who gets to decide what counts as ethical in AI?
This week’s Slow AI asks how shared responsibility starts with everyday choices:
theslowai.substack.com/p/why-ai-eth...
#AIethics #SciComm #SlowAI #AI #GenAI
This week’s Slow AI asks how shared responsibility starts with everyday choices:
theslowai.substack.com/p/why-ai-eth...
#AIethics #SciComm #SlowAI #AI #GenAI
Why AI Ethics Fails When Left to Experts
Who gets to decide what’s ethical, and what if it’s all of us?
theslowai.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
H. R. 5518?
Over your dead body.
🦅: "How can we make things much worse?"
🐘: "How about HR5518?"
🦫: 🤬
Over your dead body.
🦅: "How can we make things much worse?"
🐘: "How about HR5518?"
🦫: 🤬
October 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
H. R. 5518?
Over your dead body.
🦅: "How can we make things much worse?"
🐘: "How about HR5518?"
🦫: 🤬
Over your dead body.
🦅: "How can we make things much worse?"
🐘: "How about HR5518?"
🦫: 🤬
Re: Intellectual Diversity Includes Idiots
The most important bit is at the very end of this rundown. How the fuck are dumbasses supposed to be even slightly informed if that report isn't available for the news to dumb it down?
Epidemiology(FU autocorrect!) is THE branch most important to IDII
The most important bit is at the very end of this rundown. How the fuck are dumbasses supposed to be even slightly informed if that report isn't available for the news to dumb it down?
Epidemiology(FU autocorrect!) is THE branch most important to IDII
Each Friday, I summarize what is happening to American science & higher ed. 🧪
This was Week 38:
- MIT declines loyalty oath/compact & I review latest at other 8 universities
- Newest RIFs gutting CDC
- “Payroll pirates” targeting university HR
& so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
This was Week 38:
- MIT declines loyalty oath/compact & I review latest at other 8 universities
- Newest RIFs gutting CDC
- “Payroll pirates” targeting university HR
& so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
Week 38
Oct 4-10, 2025 - failure state
buttondown.com
October 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Re: Intellectual Diversity Includes Idiots
The most important bit is at the very end of this rundown. How the fuck are dumbasses supposed to be even slightly informed if that report isn't available for the news to dumb it down?
Epidemiology(FU autocorrect!) is THE branch most important to IDII
The most important bit is at the very end of this rundown. How the fuck are dumbasses supposed to be even slightly informed if that report isn't available for the news to dumb it down?
Epidemiology(FU autocorrect!) is THE branch most important to IDII
Next person to ask me "Will you sign this petition to remove the homeless encampment?" while unironically standing outside a protest of new low income housing towers, is getting a cuntpunt.
Tired of you elderly MFers ruining🌍this🌎for no other reason than selfish 'value.'
GO TO BED!
Tired of you elderly MFers ruining🌍this🌎for no other reason than selfish 'value.'
GO TO BED!
October 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Next person to ask me "Will you sign this petition to remove the homeless encampment?" while unironically standing outside a protest of new low income housing towers, is getting a cuntpunt.
Tired of you elderly MFers ruining🌍this🌎for no other reason than selfish 'value.'
GO TO BED!
Tired of you elderly MFers ruining🌍this🌎for no other reason than selfish 'value.'
GO TO BED!
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Witness the Delialism Administration. We are literally in the 6th mass extinction event, the Haloscene Holocene extinction, aka Anthropocene extinction event.
This is what happens when you vote for wilfully obtuse ignorance over provable observable science fact.
youtu.be/5EixkhemV1o?...
This is what happens when you vote for wilfully obtuse ignorance over provable observable science fact.
youtu.be/5EixkhemV1o?...
September 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Witness the Delialism Administration. We are literally in the 6th mass extinction event, the Haloscene Holocene extinction, aka Anthropocene extinction event.
This is what happens when you vote for wilfully obtuse ignorance over provable observable science fact.
youtu.be/5EixkhemV1o?...
This is what happens when you vote for wilfully obtuse ignorance over provable observable science fact.
youtu.be/5EixkhemV1o?...
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Not only can we see the Sun in x-rays...here is an x-ray movie of the Sun during the 2017 solar eclipse!
www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/solar/e...
www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/solar/e...
September 7, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Not only can we see the Sun in x-rays...here is an x-ray movie of the Sun during the 2017 solar eclipse!
www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/solar/e...
www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/solar/e...
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unless..
we can pull together 🪢
make a Great Circle 🎪
feed the hungry 🫔
honor the sacred 🦬
love our Mother 🌳
flip Saturn 🪐
live in right relations ⚖️
tell the whole truth 📚
let love be the Light 🗽
go tell it on the Mountaintop 🏔️
and live in solidarity 🌍
we can pull together 🪢
make a Great Circle 🎪
feed the hungry 🫔
honor the sacred 🦬
love our Mother 🌳
flip Saturn 🪐
live in right relations ⚖️
tell the whole truth 📚
let love be the Light 🗽
go tell it on the Mountaintop 🏔️
and live in solidarity 🌍
September 5, 2025 at 6:00 AM
unless..
we can pull together 🪢
make a Great Circle 🎪
feed the hungry 🫔
honor the sacred 🦬
love our Mother 🌳
flip Saturn 🪐
live in right relations ⚖️
tell the whole truth 📚
let love be the Light 🗽
go tell it on the Mountaintop 🏔️
and live in solidarity 🌍
we can pull together 🪢
make a Great Circle 🎪
feed the hungry 🫔
honor the sacred 🦬
love our Mother 🌳
flip Saturn 🪐
live in right relations ⚖️
tell the whole truth 📚
let love be the Light 🗽
go tell it on the Mountaintop 🏔️
and live in solidarity 🌍
Dear fellow dumbasses...shut your fucking mouths about the IC engine
It is okay to not fully understand this study. It is not okay to wallow in the filth of your BS willful ignorance
Let the IC engine die. Move on. Shit happens... and then you wipe. You do, right? Dont be the last shitheel with IC
It is okay to not fully understand this study. It is not okay to wallow in the filth of your BS willful ignorance
Let the IC engine die. Move on. Shit happens... and then you wipe. You do, right? Dont be the last shitheel with IC
🧪 Direct link to the study: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
An Error Greenhouse Gas Reductions Driven by Vehicle Electrification across Powertrains, Classes, Locations, and Use PatternsOccurred Setting Your User Cookie
We assess the cradle-to-grave greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of current (2025) light-duty vehicles (LDV) across powertrains, vehicle classes, and locations.
pubs.acs.org
September 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Dear fellow dumbasses...shut your fucking mouths about the IC engine
It is okay to not fully understand this study. It is not okay to wallow in the filth of your BS willful ignorance
Let the IC engine die. Move on. Shit happens... and then you wipe. You do, right? Dont be the last shitheel with IC
It is okay to not fully understand this study. It is not okay to wallow in the filth of your BS willful ignorance
Let the IC engine die. Move on. Shit happens... and then you wipe. You do, right? Dont be the last shitheel with IC
Learned a new way to use an old word-simulacrum.
An alternate reality that conservatives experience. When they speak to the Public on their interests, they knowingly only refer to their simulacrum when trying to convince people.
Their extra slice of reality, where they aren't harmfully stupid.
An alternate reality that conservatives experience. When they speak to the Public on their interests, they knowingly only refer to their simulacrum when trying to convince people.
Their extra slice of reality, where they aren't harmfully stupid.
August 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Learned a new way to use an old word-simulacrum.
An alternate reality that conservatives experience. When they speak to the Public on their interests, they knowingly only refer to their simulacrum when trying to convince people.
Their extra slice of reality, where they aren't harmfully stupid.
An alternate reality that conservatives experience. When they speak to the Public on their interests, they knowingly only refer to their simulacrum when trying to convince people.
Their extra slice of reality, where they aren't harmfully stupid.
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The NSF Inouye Solar Telescope just captured this extreme-resolution video of an X-Class flare (the nastiest kind) on the Sun. It's sped up by a factor of 100 so you can see the seething streamers of plasma.
This scene is 4x as wide as the entire Earth. 🔭🧪
nso.edu/press-releas...
This scene is 4x as wide as the entire Earth. 🔭🧪
nso.edu/press-releas...
August 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The NSF Inouye Solar Telescope just captured this extreme-resolution video of an X-Class flare (the nastiest kind) on the Sun. It's sped up by a factor of 100 so you can see the seething streamers of plasma.
This scene is 4x as wide as the entire Earth. 🔭🧪
nso.edu/press-releas...
This scene is 4x as wide as the entire Earth. 🔭🧪
nso.edu/press-releas...
Reposted by Derrick Talbot
Our styleguide is a great evergreen resource, but we only update it with new entries after we see a persistent, common journalistic question or misstep.
We also have timely resources related to breaking news, ongoing or upcoming Supreme Court cases, and more:
We also have timely resources related to breaking news, ongoing or upcoming Supreme Court cases, and more:
Coverage resources - Trans Journalists Association
Promoting more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media. Supporting gender-expansive journalists in their careers.
www.transjournalists.org
August 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Our styleguide is a great evergreen resource, but we only update it with new entries after we see a persistent, common journalistic question or misstep.
We also have timely resources related to breaking news, ongoing or upcoming Supreme Court cases, and more:
We also have timely resources related to breaking news, ongoing or upcoming Supreme Court cases, and more:
The "Never Newsome" message needs to die the lonely death it deserved
The American Electorate can never be trusted again. HOW!? Tell the world how we can come to an agreement or Treaty that MUST last longer than 4 years?
Voting (R) is wrong. Not voting is wrong.
Do not fuck this up again!
The American Electorate can never be trusted again. HOW!? Tell the world how we can come to an agreement or Treaty that MUST last longer than 4 years?
Voting (R) is wrong. Not voting is wrong.
Do not fuck this up again!
August 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The "Never Newsome" message needs to die the lonely death it deserved
The American Electorate can never be trusted again. HOW!? Tell the world how we can come to an agreement or Treaty that MUST last longer than 4 years?
Voting (R) is wrong. Not voting is wrong.
Do not fuck this up again!
The American Electorate can never be trusted again. HOW!? Tell the world how we can come to an agreement or Treaty that MUST last longer than 4 years?
Voting (R) is wrong. Not voting is wrong.
Do not fuck this up again!
So I thought I was doing the smart thing by not watching or reading ANY of the Handmaid's Tale until it was all over so I can watch it all in one single timeframe
BUT I am not smart. I AM however always angry now, where normally I'm only capable of (at most)being annoyed
This will end horrifically
BUT I am not smart. I AM however always angry now, where normally I'm only capable of (at most)being annoyed
This will end horrifically
August 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM
So I thought I was doing the smart thing by not watching or reading ANY of the Handmaid's Tale until it was all over so I can watch it all in one single timeframe
BUT I am not smart. I AM however always angry now, where normally I'm only capable of (at most)being annoyed
This will end horrifically
BUT I am not smart. I AM however always angry now, where normally I'm only capable of (at most)being annoyed
This will end horrifically
Helpful reminder to Q. You know, who is concerned about which politicians are pedophiles, or enable them.
The Republican Party is simultaneously FOR and AGAINST kids getting fucked. Depends on the (R) or (D), of course.
The Republican Party is simultaneously FOR and AGAINST kids getting fucked. Depends on the (R) or (D), of course.
It is who republicans are
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers Pt. 56
This is the 56th installment in the list of Republican sexual predators, abusers, and enablers who contribute to rape culture. These are people who abused their power or defended the abuse of power. T...
www.dailykos.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Helpful reminder to Q. You know, who is concerned about which politicians are pedophiles, or enable them.
The Republican Party is simultaneously FOR and AGAINST kids getting fucked. Depends on the (R) or (D), of course.
The Republican Party is simultaneously FOR and AGAINST kids getting fucked. Depends on the (R) or (D), of course.
DO I know any PHD students in planetary science? No.
But I am certain that someone on my list does!
But I am certain that someone on my list does!
I am community sourcing a list of people who are actively in search of MS/PhD students in planetary science/astrobiology/exoplanets for Fall 2026. If you are such a person, please fill out the following google form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Planetary Science MS/PhD Positions for Fall 2026
Crowd sourced list of people who are looking for MS/PhD students to help connect prospective students with advisors so we can do even more fabulous planetary science! (Submitting a response indicates ...
docs.google.com
August 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
DO I know any PHD students in planetary science? No.
But I am certain that someone on my list does!
But I am certain that someone on my list does!
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Researcher says AI [Claude 4 chatbot] suggests it might be conscious [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪👩🔬🤖🧠
Wish interviewers abstained from delusions: a model stitching words is as conscious as a LEGO block assembling machine.
www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
#AI #illusion #intelligence #LLM
Wish interviewers abstained from delusions: a model stitching words is as conscious as a LEGO block assembling machine.
www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
#AI #illusion #intelligence #LLM
Can a Chatbot Be Conscious? Claude 4 and the Limits of AI Understanding
A conversation with Anthropic’s chatbot raises questions about how AI talks about awareness.
www.scientificamerican.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Researcher says AI [Claude 4 chatbot] suggests it might be conscious [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪👩🔬🤖🧠
Wish interviewers abstained from delusions: a model stitching words is as conscious as a LEGO block assembling machine.
www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
#AI #illusion #intelligence #LLM
Wish interviewers abstained from delusions: a model stitching words is as conscious as a LEGO block assembling machine.
www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
#AI #illusion #intelligence #LLM
Reposted by Derrick Talbot
✨Please repost! My newsletter is out.✨
In this issue:
🌊COVID wave starting especially in West and South
💉GLP-1 meds for MCAS and Long COVID?
🧠Human Pegivirus and Parkinson's Disease
📈GI cancers increasing for young
& much more buff.ly/hXjrwjz
#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪
photo: JP Weiland
In this issue:
🌊COVID wave starting especially in West and South
💉GLP-1 meds for MCAS and Long COVID?
🧠Human Pegivirus and Parkinson's Disease
📈GI cancers increasing for young
& much more buff.ly/hXjrwjz
#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪
photo: JP Weiland
July 20, 2025 at 5:42 AM
✨Please repost! My newsletter is out.✨
In this issue:
🌊COVID wave starting especially in West and South
💉GLP-1 meds for MCAS and Long COVID?
🧠Human Pegivirus and Parkinson's Disease
📈GI cancers increasing for young
& much more buff.ly/hXjrwjz
#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪
photo: JP Weiland
In this issue:
🌊COVID wave starting especially in West and South
💉GLP-1 meds for MCAS and Long COVID?
🧠Human Pegivirus and Parkinson's Disease
📈GI cancers increasing for young
& much more buff.ly/hXjrwjz
#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪
photo: JP Weiland
Reposted by Derrick Talbot
JUST IN: 103,270 NC voters need to act imminently to avoid having to cast a provisional ballot in future elections. Who's on the list and what should they do about it? Given the importance of this issue, I've lifted the paywall--> #ncpol
andersonalerts.substack.com/p/nc-voter-r...
andersonalerts.substack.com/p/nc-voter-r...
103,270 North Carolinians must update their voter registration. Here's who's on the list and how they should respond
Elections officials will begin sending out notices to tens of thousands of voters to update their registration. If they don't respond, they'll have to cast a provisional ballot.
andersonalerts.substack.com
July 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
JUST IN: 103,270 NC voters need to act imminently to avoid having to cast a provisional ballot in future elections. Who's on the list and what should they do about it? Given the importance of this issue, I've lifted the paywall--> #ncpol
andersonalerts.substack.com/p/nc-voter-r...
andersonalerts.substack.com/p/nc-voter-r...
Sometimes I have weird thoughts. NOT the monstrous ones, but something like
We-biological machines made of cellular life-made of molecules- are creating artificial life w/machines. Our descendants will be technological life, who create artificial life w/energy. Their descendants will be Universes.
We-biological machines made of cellular life-made of molecules- are creating artificial life w/machines. Our descendants will be technological life, who create artificial life w/energy. Their descendants will be Universes.
July 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Sometimes I have weird thoughts. NOT the monstrous ones, but something like
We-biological machines made of cellular life-made of molecules- are creating artificial life w/machines. Our descendants will be technological life, who create artificial life w/energy. Their descendants will be Universes.
We-biological machines made of cellular life-made of molecules- are creating artificial life w/machines. Our descendants will be technological life, who create artificial life w/energy. Their descendants will be Universes.
Happy Canada Day, neighbours!
Talk to the folks around you this Canada Day, lets find out the national consensus on what I think is our need to build a nuclear weapons arsenal
Yes. This would require leaving the Geneva Conventions so we can pass the laws that allow for their use
Dont drink&drive
Talk to the folks around you this Canada Day, lets find out the national consensus on what I think is our need to build a nuclear weapons arsenal
Yes. This would require leaving the Geneva Conventions so we can pass the laws that allow for their use
Dont drink&drive
July 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Happy Canada Day, neighbours!
Talk to the folks around you this Canada Day, lets find out the national consensus on what I think is our need to build a nuclear weapons arsenal
Yes. This would require leaving the Geneva Conventions so we can pass the laws that allow for their use
Dont drink&drive
Talk to the folks around you this Canada Day, lets find out the national consensus on what I think is our need to build a nuclear weapons arsenal
Yes. This would require leaving the Geneva Conventions so we can pass the laws that allow for their use
Dont drink&drive
The Reasonable Man hopefully wakes up to a day where he no longer will allow Humanity to be the resource that Corporations exploit
How much more misery and suffering can one see in the world before we consider that Corporations have been allowed to exist for too long. Individually, and as a tool.
How much more misery and suffering can one see in the world before we consider that Corporations have been allowed to exist for too long. Individually, and as a tool.
June 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The Reasonable Man hopefully wakes up to a day where he no longer will allow Humanity to be the resource that Corporations exploit
How much more misery and suffering can one see in the world before we consider that Corporations have been allowed to exist for too long. Individually, and as a tool.
How much more misery and suffering can one see in the world before we consider that Corporations have been allowed to exist for too long. Individually, and as a tool.
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BREAKING:
The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering".
It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists.
You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE!
#MAGAKidnappers
The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering".
It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists.
You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE!
#MAGAKidnappers
June 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
BREAKING:
The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering".
It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists.
You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE!
#MAGAKidnappers
The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering".
It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists.
You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE!
#MAGAKidnappers
Below is the 3rd attempt in a week by Deron to get The New Republic to stop being lazy and shabby.
Who the fuck is the Editor there? Michael? MICHAEL!
The next time someone hands one of your Deputy Editors a headline like this? Choose comedic violence... drop a piano on them.
Who the fuck is the Editor there? Michael? MICHAEL!
The next time someone hands one of your Deputy Editors a headline like this? Choose comedic violence... drop a piano on them.
June 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Below is the 3rd attempt in a week by Deron to get The New Republic to stop being lazy and shabby.
Who the fuck is the Editor there? Michael? MICHAEL!
The next time someone hands one of your Deputy Editors a headline like this? Choose comedic violence... drop a piano on them.
Who the fuck is the Editor there? Michael? MICHAEL!
The next time someone hands one of your Deputy Editors a headline like this? Choose comedic violence... drop a piano on them.
Reposted by Derrick Talbot
30 years ago. Nicole Sullivan on Mad TV.
June 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
30 years ago. Nicole Sullivan on Mad TV.