Russell Baker
@russ.amodernremedy.com
🌱 Writing about solutions @AModernRemedy.com
⚡ Chief Idea Alchemist @GoodGoshMedia.com
🎙️ Watch/listen: amodernremedy.com/NewWays
🌏 Sustainability | Technology | People | Planet
⚡ Chief Idea Alchemist @GoodGoshMedia.com
🎙️ Watch/listen: amodernremedy.com/NewWays
🌏 Sustainability | Technology | People | Planet
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Russell Baker
@russ.amodernremedy.com
· Feb 10
Did I just see the best SuperBowl ad, ever?
✅ Sells nothing
✅ Long-term thinking
✅ Backed by science
✅ Focuses on empathy
✅ Helps people & planet
👉 sciencemoms.com | @katharinehayhoe.com
#climatechange #environment
✅ Sells nothing
✅ Long-term thinking
✅ Backed by science
✅ Focuses on empathy
✅ Helps people & planet
👉 sciencemoms.com | @katharinehayhoe.com
#climatechange #environment
RIP Dame Patricia Routledge, thanks for the countless laughs.
The OG Karen, Queen of the Superior Snobs.
Long live Ms Bucket (Bouquet). 💐🪣👼
youtu.be/v7L3jPYUbTE?...
The OG Karen, Queen of the Superior Snobs.
Long live Ms Bucket (Bouquet). 💐🪣👼
youtu.be/v7L3jPYUbTE?...
October 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
RIP Dame Patricia Routledge, thanks for the countless laughs.
The OG Karen, Queen of the Superior Snobs.
Long live Ms Bucket (Bouquet). 💐🪣👼
youtu.be/v7L3jPYUbTE?...
The OG Karen, Queen of the Superior Snobs.
Long live Ms Bucket (Bouquet). 💐🪣👼
youtu.be/v7L3jPYUbTE?...
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AI is one of the most infuriating phenomena in the world because I'm here reading about how it killed a kid, then I go out into society and people are like, "well you have to admit it's good for some things" No
August 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
AI is one of the most infuriating phenomena in the world because I'm here reading about how it killed a kid, then I go out into society and people are like, "well you have to admit it's good for some things" No
So I finally think I've worked out why Mabel was rejected at a very early age by her parents (and constantly attacked by them over the years):
She's blind in one eye = damaged goods.
As in, cannot see me out of her right-side peeper.
She's blind in one eye = damaged goods.
As in, cannot see me out of her right-side peeper.
August 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
So I finally think I've worked out why Mabel was rejected at a very early age by her parents (and constantly attacked by them over the years):
She's blind in one eye = damaged goods.
As in, cannot see me out of her right-side peeper.
She's blind in one eye = damaged goods.
As in, cannot see me out of her right-side peeper.
"My child is the person they're supposed to be".
- Tamu Thomas
✨ A little message of recalibration for the parents out there who might be struggling right now. ✨
❌ You aren't failing.
✅ Shift your focus.
#parenting #podcast #anxiety #adhd #mentalhealth
@goodgoshmedia.com
🔗 Link in comments
- Tamu Thomas
✨ A little message of recalibration for the parents out there who might be struggling right now. ✨
❌ You aren't failing.
✅ Shift your focus.
#parenting #podcast #anxiety #adhd #mentalhealth
@goodgoshmedia.com
🔗 Link in comments
July 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"My child is the person they're supposed to be".
- Tamu Thomas
✨ A little message of recalibration for the parents out there who might be struggling right now. ✨
❌ You aren't failing.
✅ Shift your focus.
#parenting #podcast #anxiety #adhd #mentalhealth
@goodgoshmedia.com
🔗 Link in comments
- Tamu Thomas
✨ A little message of recalibration for the parents out there who might be struggling right now. ✨
❌ You aren't failing.
✅ Shift your focus.
#parenting #podcast #anxiety #adhd #mentalhealth
@goodgoshmedia.com
🔗 Link in comments
It's baaaaack‼️
A brand new season of New Ways is OUT MONDAY.
Featuring epic conversations with change makers in health, tech and sustainability, including @johnoberg.bsky.social, @andrealearned.bsky.social & more!
❤️🤖🌱
#health #technology #sustainability #newways #podcast
A brand new season of New Ways is OUT MONDAY.
Featuring epic conversations with change makers in health, tech and sustainability, including @johnoberg.bsky.social, @andrealearned.bsky.social & more!
❤️🤖🌱
#health #technology #sustainability #newways #podcast
July 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It's baaaaack‼️
A brand new season of New Ways is OUT MONDAY.
Featuring epic conversations with change makers in health, tech and sustainability, including @johnoberg.bsky.social, @andrealearned.bsky.social & more!
❤️🤖🌱
#health #technology #sustainability #newways #podcast
A brand new season of New Ways is OUT MONDAY.
Featuring epic conversations with change makers in health, tech and sustainability, including @johnoberg.bsky.social, @andrealearned.bsky.social & more!
❤️🤖🌱
#health #technology #sustainability #newways #podcast
July 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Reposted by Russell Baker
It's so cool we're boiling lakes, polluting neighbourhoods, stealing from millions of people and burning billions of dollars to do whatever the hell this is?
June 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
It's so cool we're boiling lakes, polluting neighbourhoods, stealing from millions of people and burning billions of dollars to do whatever the hell this is?
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The only thing that could mitigate climate change is stopping the burning of fossil fuels. Tell your friends and radio producers.
What’s that weird goo in your bathroom or kitchen, and could it help mitigate climate change? These microbiologists are curious. 🦠
The Goo In Your Home Could Help Science Address Climate Change
Microbes—from deep in the ocean to the slime inside your AC—might play a key role in our fight against climate change.
www.sciencefriday.com
June 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The only thing that could mitigate climate change is stopping the burning of fossil fuels. Tell your friends and radio producers.
A week from hell/heaven:
- Directing traffic w/ partners across EU-UK-AU-US-Asia
- Exec producing 3 shows (+ 2 launches)
- Nights ending at 2am, days starting at 6am
- My first fire, second hire
- 11 meetings last 3 days
- Pitching, pitching, pitching
All for people & planet 💚
@goodgoshmedia.com
- Directing traffic w/ partners across EU-UK-AU-US-Asia
- Exec producing 3 shows (+ 2 launches)
- Nights ending at 2am, days starting at 6am
- My first fire, second hire
- 11 meetings last 3 days
- Pitching, pitching, pitching
All for people & planet 💚
@goodgoshmedia.com
June 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
A week from hell/heaven:
- Directing traffic w/ partners across EU-UK-AU-US-Asia
- Exec producing 3 shows (+ 2 launches)
- Nights ending at 2am, days starting at 6am
- My first fire, second hire
- 11 meetings last 3 days
- Pitching, pitching, pitching
All for people & planet 💚
@goodgoshmedia.com
- Directing traffic w/ partners across EU-UK-AU-US-Asia
- Exec producing 3 shows (+ 2 launches)
- Nights ending at 2am, days starting at 6am
- My first fire, second hire
- 11 meetings last 3 days
- Pitching, pitching, pitching
All for people & planet 💚
@goodgoshmedia.com
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I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
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Reposted by Russell Baker
Most of us called "AI denialists" are better described as "AI realists" because we are, in fact, brutally honest about the capacities, limitations, and social impacts of AI. We take AI as it is in the context of its deployment, and not as we wish it to be in some idealized situation.
Hm. Don't think I'm on board with calling AI skeptics/critics "denialists." Seems to obscure the fact that there is an ideological contestation at play, rather than, as with climate change, an empirical or even epistemological one.
June 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Most of us called "AI denialists" are better described as "AI realists" because we are, in fact, brutally honest about the capacities, limitations, and social impacts of AI. We take AI as it is in the context of its deployment, and not as we wish it to be in some idealized situation.
People wondering less and less why I use @signal.org
Online advertising fuels widespread privacy and security violations, EFF’s @legind.bsky.social told @theverge.com. Meta “is putting WhatsApp’s 3 billion users at unnecessary risk, all for the sake of a monetization strategy no one asked for and no one wanted.”
WhatsApp’s rollout of ads will change the app forever
Some users want to switch to Signal instead.
www.theverge.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
People wondering less and less why I use @signal.org
Missed opportunity if this is not called "Jumping Jaq Flash".
Whoopi Goldberg is adding athletics to her resume, co-founding the first global women’s sports network.
Whoopi Goldberg puts global spotlight on women's sports, athletes with All Women's Sports Network
The All Women's Sports Network is exclusively dedicated to female sports around the world.
www.cbsnews.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Missed opportunity if this is not called "Jumping Jaq Flash".
👉 Niche 👈
Where's the "T"?
More like "🦵🤫"
Where's the "T"?
More like "🦵🤫"
June 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
👉 Niche 👈
Where's the "T"?
More like "🦵🤫"
Where's the "T"?
More like "🦵🤫"
No matter how hard today is, at some point you'll look back at these times as 'the good old days'.
Nostalgia be funny like that.
Nostalgia be funny like that.
June 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
No matter how hard today is, at some point you'll look back at these times as 'the good old days'.
Nostalgia be funny like that.
Nostalgia be funny like that.
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Private access to an uncensored internet should be the norm for everyone, not just for someone who “has something to hide,” @torproject.org’s @1s4.bsky.social tells us in the latest “How to Fix the Internet” episode.
Podcast Episode: Why Three is Tor's Magic Number
Many in Silicon Valley, and in U.S. business at large, seem to believe innovation springs only from competition, a race to build the next big thing first, cheaper, better, best. But what if collaborat...
www.eff.org
June 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Private access to an uncensored internet should be the norm for everyone, not just for someone who “has something to hide,” @torproject.org’s @1s4.bsky.social tells us in the latest “How to Fix the Internet” episode.
Turns out I'm a big fan of taking social media breaks!
And my mental health is grateful 🙏
Now where was I...
And my mental health is grateful 🙏
Now where was I...
June 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Turns out I'm a big fan of taking social media breaks!
And my mental health is grateful 🙏
Now where was I...
And my mental health is grateful 🙏
Now where was I...
This is your world. 🌏
And this is your world, with catastrophic climate change. 🔥🌊
Visuals ala our TAC ads or graphic cigarette packaging could go a long way... much more impactful then just talk and graphs.
grist.org/science/brea...
And this is your world, with catastrophic climate change. 🔥🌊
Visuals ala our TAC ads or graphic cigarette packaging could go a long way... much more impactful then just talk and graphs.
grist.org/science/brea...
Scientists just found a way to break through climate apathy
In a field of muddy results, it's among the clearest findings that one cognitive scientist has seen in his career.
grist.org
May 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This is your world. 🌏
And this is your world, with catastrophic climate change. 🔥🌊
Visuals ala our TAC ads or graphic cigarette packaging could go a long way... much more impactful then just talk and graphs.
grist.org/science/brea...
And this is your world, with catastrophic climate change. 🔥🌊
Visuals ala our TAC ads or graphic cigarette packaging could go a long way... much more impactful then just talk and graphs.
grist.org/science/brea...
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Hate this a lot. Value human creators, writers, artists, narrators, editors -- everyone in the chain of making a book and putting it out into the world should be a human being. Humans make art for humans.
P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks
Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages
www.theguardian.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Hate this a lot. Value human creators, writers, artists, narrators, editors -- everyone in the chain of making a book and putting it out into the world should be a human being. Humans make art for humans.
P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Normalise singing in the rain.
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Normalise singing in the rain.
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Ecosia and DDG are powered by Bing. Same/similar results, just different UI.
+1 Ecosia for the environmental push.
+1 Ecosia for the environmental push.
May 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Ecosia and DDG are powered by Bing. Same/similar results, just different UI.
+1 Ecosia for the environmental push.
+1 Ecosia for the environmental push.
Goog-1: What if we make search worse? Then users will have to click more! And we make more money!
Goog-2: Yeah but what if the competition gets better? Or the users get annoyed and leave?
Goog-1: BWAHAAHAHA (dies laughing).
Goog-2: Yeah but what if the competition gets better? Or the users get annoyed and leave?
Goog-1: BWAHAAHAHA (dies laughing).
May 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Goog-1: What if we make search worse? Then users will have to click more! And we make more money!
Goog-2: Yeah but what if the competition gets better? Or the users get annoyed and leave?
Goog-1: BWAHAAHAHA (dies laughing).
Goog-2: Yeah but what if the competition gets better? Or the users get annoyed and leave?
Goog-1: BWAHAAHAHA (dies laughing).
Reposted by Russell Baker
Nothing is sexier than rebelling. AI and Narcissistic Culture is the squarest thing to happen since dress codes, imo. Do real research and be kinder than you need to be and feel extremely cool about it.
May 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Nothing is sexier than rebelling. AI and Narcissistic Culture is the squarest thing to happen since dress codes, imo. Do real research and be kinder than you need to be and feel extremely cool about it.
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EFF has kicked off Season 6 of our award-winning “How to Fix the Internet” podcast with @katerosebee.bsky.social of the Digital Defense Fund and Adversarial Fashion.
Podcast Episode: Digital Autonomy for Bodily Autonomy
We all leave digital trails as we navigate the internet – records of what we searched for, what we bought, who we talked to, where we went or want to go in the real world – and those trails usually ar...
www.eff.org
May 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
EFF has kicked off Season 6 of our award-winning “How to Fix the Internet” podcast with @katerosebee.bsky.social of the Digital Defense Fund and Adversarial Fashion.