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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Politiker:innen finden Wähler:innen sind dumm: buff.ly/49kaFwZ 🤦 Na, wenigstens beruht das auf Gegenseitigkeit. Oh, Mensch.
Wähler sind dumm, finden Politiker
Je länger Politiker:innen im Amt sind, desto zynischer blicken sie auf die Wählerschaft. Das zeigt eine internationale Studie.
katapult-magazin.de
November 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Politiker:innen finden Wähler:innen sind dumm: buff.ly/49kaFwZ 🤦 Na, wenigstens beruht das auf Gegenseitigkeit. Oh, Mensch.
Hauntingly observed. What a time to be alive. buff.ly/4JLYA0R Article of the week.
The Haunting Story of Two People—and Their Bots—on Therapy’s New Frontier
As millions confide in ChatGPT about their most intimate problems, these relationships are even stranger, more moving, and more insidious than we've imagined.
www.wired.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Hauntingly observed. What a time to be alive. buff.ly/4JLYA0R Article of the week.
Looks like that's what's up buff.ly/WZFn1Za #1 in a series of Thursday posts featuring great climate reporting 🌡️ Thursday -> Thor's day -> God of thunder -> Climate 🌍
Six World Leaders on Navigating Climate Change, Without the U.S.
We asked heads of state how they’re steering their countries as America retreats.
buff.ly
October 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Looks like that's what's up buff.ly/WZFn1Za #1 in a series of Thursday posts featuring great climate reporting 🌡️ Thursday -> Thor's day -> God of thunder -> Climate 🌍
"Launch sites of the future need to be fully operationalized like an airport." buff.ly/KLSPV5j Do they? What for? 🤔 #1 in a series of Tuesday evening posts about space. Tuesday -> Mardi -> Mars day -> Space stuff 🚀 🌌 🌑 🛰️
October 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"Launch sites of the future need to be fully operationalized like an airport." buff.ly/KLSPV5j Do they? What for? 🤔 #1 in a series of Tuesday evening posts about space. Tuesday -> Mardi -> Mars day -> Space stuff 🚀 🌌 🌑 🛰️
#1 in a series of Saturday fun (reposted on Sunday correct a misunderstanding) buff.ly/e7kLljC Plus some cool reporting to back it up 1️⃣ buff.ly/hVLqIa2 2️⃣ buff.ly/7YR7NT6
buff.ly
October 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
#1 in a series of Saturday fun (reposted on Sunday correct a misunderstanding) buff.ly/e7kLljC Plus some cool reporting to back it up 1️⃣ buff.ly/hVLqIa2 2️⃣ buff.ly/7YR7NT6
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Shipping emissions levy shelved as countries bow to US pressure #Climate
Shipping emissions levy shelved as countries bow to US pressure
Long-planned charge on greenhouse gas emissions postponed as Trump officials accused of intimidation tactics
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Shipping emissions levy shelved as countries bow to US pressure #Climate
In today's archive session: the fantastical, infinite library politics of ImageNet: excavating.ai 💎
October 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
In today's archive session: the fantastical, infinite library politics of ImageNet: excavating.ai 💎
If you do one thing today, AI-interested people that I'm imagining I'm talking to, read some @sigalsamuel.bsky.social. It's giving me "I wish I wrote that" so badly that it has almost turned into "why do I bother writing."
October 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
If you do one thing today, AI-interested people that I'm imagining I'm talking to, read some @sigalsamuel.bsky.social. It's giving me "I wish I wrote that" so badly that it has almost turned into "why do I bother writing."
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als chatgpt rauskam, hatte ich kurz sorge, dass mein kernskill schreiben wertlos ist.
je länger chatgpt draußen ist, desto sicher bin ich mir, dass menschen jeden text belohnen werden, den sich der autor selbst erarbeitet hat.
selbst, wer den unterschied nicht sofort erkennt, spürt ihn
je länger chatgpt draußen ist, desto sicher bin ich mir, dass menschen jeden text belohnen werden, den sich der autor selbst erarbeitet hat.
selbst, wer den unterschied nicht sofort erkennt, spürt ihn
October 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
als chatgpt rauskam, hatte ich kurz sorge, dass mein kernskill schreiben wertlos ist.
je länger chatgpt draußen ist, desto sicher bin ich mir, dass menschen jeden text belohnen werden, den sich der autor selbst erarbeitet hat.
selbst, wer den unterschied nicht sofort erkennt, spürt ihn
je länger chatgpt draußen ist, desto sicher bin ich mir, dass menschen jeden text belohnen werden, den sich der autor selbst erarbeitet hat.
selbst, wer den unterschied nicht sofort erkennt, spürt ihn
What now?!? "Generating an image uses the electricity of a microwave running for five seconds, while making a five-second video clip takes up as much as a microwave running for over an hour." theconversation.com/openais-newl... Original research here: www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
a man is pointing at the camera and saying `` wait but ... '' with his finger .
ALT: a man is pointing at the camera and saying `` wait but ... '' with his finger .
media.tenor.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
What now?!? "Generating an image uses the electricity of a microwave running for five seconds, while making a five-second video clip takes up as much as a microwave running for over an hour." theconversation.com/openais-newl... Original research here: www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
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Reiche ziehen auch bei höheren Steuern nicht weg.
Denn in Dubai allein mit deinen Milliarden sitzen? Laaaangweilig.
krautreporter.de/geld-und-wir...
Denn in Dubai allein mit deinen Milliarden sitzen? Laaaangweilig.
krautreporter.de/geld-und-wir...
Höhere Steuern? Viele Reiche wandern trotzdem nicht aus
Ein Blick in andere Länder zeigt, dass Steuerflucht im großen Ausmaß ein Mythos ist.
krautreporter.de
October 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Reiche ziehen auch bei höheren Steuern nicht weg.
Denn in Dubai allein mit deinen Milliarden sitzen? Laaaangweilig.
krautreporter.de/geld-und-wir...
Denn in Dubai allein mit deinen Milliarden sitzen? Laaaangweilig.
krautreporter.de/geld-und-wir...
"Men-led papers receive more media coverage than women's" 😳Not altogether surprising. Still upsetting. Lots more bias to unpack here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Let's fix it.
Equity in Science Journalism: Investigating Gender Disparities in News Media Coverage of Scientific Research - Salsabil Arabi, Xiang Zheng, B. Ian Hutchins, Chaoqun Ni, 2025
Media coverage shapes public perception of science, yet gender bias can compromise its objectivity. Based on 1 million papers with 1.2 million media citations, ...
journals.sagepub.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM
"Men-led papers receive more media coverage than women's" 😳Not altogether surprising. Still upsetting. Lots more bias to unpack here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Let's fix it.
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I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...
American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming
The Frog is owning the president.
www.theverge.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...
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A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.
October 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.
Great resource for science journalists❗ womenalsoknowhistory.com Get your experts here 💡#1 in a series of Wednesday morning posts featuring women in academia, science and sci-fi 🏄♀️ Wednesday -> Miercoles -> Mercury -> Marie Curie 👍
Women Also Know History
Expert Historians. Women Also Know History is a media and curriculum tool for promoting and connecting the work of professional women historians to other scholars, journalists, and anyone looking to…
womenalsoknowhistory.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Great resource for science journalists❗ womenalsoknowhistory.com Get your experts here 💡#1 in a series of Wednesday morning posts featuring women in academia, science and sci-fi 🏄♀️ Wednesday -> Miercoles -> Mercury -> Marie Curie 👍
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Mitte des Jahrhunderts werden Roboter genauso viel Strom brauchen wie aktuell ganz Deutschland.
www.cleantech.ing/p/roboter-we...
www.cleantech.ing/p/roboter-we...
Weniger Menschen = mehr Roboter = mehr Strom
Roboter als neue Stromlast: Wie demografischer Wandel und Automatisierung die Elektrifizierung revolutionieren werden.
www.cleantech.ing
October 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Mitte des Jahrhunderts werden Roboter genauso viel Strom brauchen wie aktuell ganz Deutschland.
www.cleantech.ing/p/roboter-we...
www.cleantech.ing/p/roboter-we...
SETI (👀) vs. METI (💬)? A.k.a.: Should we send messages to space? phys.org/news/2015-02... #1 in a series of discussion starters to kick off your week 💥 Feel free to send me ideas 💡
The controversy over interstellar messaging
Should we beam messages into deep space, announcing our presence to any extraterrestrial civilizations that might be out there? Or, should we just listen? Since the beginnings of the modern Search…
phys.org
October 6, 2025 at 5:00 AM
SETI (👀) vs. METI (💬)? A.k.a.: Should we send messages to space? phys.org/news/2015-02... #1 in a series of discussion starters to kick off your week 💥 Feel free to send me ideas 💡
Article of the week: spectrum.ieee.org/whole-genome... Let me know if you'd like a recommendation every Sunday
Mass-Scale Genome Sequencing Will Change Our Understanding of Life
The Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence 1.8 million species. It's one of the most ambitious science projects ever, and it will revolutionize biology
spectrum.ieee.org
October 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Article of the week: spectrum.ieee.org/whole-genome... Let me know if you'd like a recommendation every Sunday
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the rats nest that is the flow of money in AI compute is so unbelievably complicated and circular that i had to make a diagram
September 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
the rats nest that is the flow of money in AI compute is so unbelievably complicated and circular that i had to make a diagram
What about bilingual nominative determinism across English and German: doomscrolling and dumm-scrolling? Or is that too Unsong, @emanorick.bsky.social?
September 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
What about bilingual nominative determinism across English and German: doomscrolling and dumm-scrolling? Or is that too Unsong, @emanorick.bsky.social?
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"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...
September 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...
They meant, *don't* build the Torment Nexus, damn it 🤦♂️ Here's my article on the role of sci-fi in society: www.golem.de/news/sci-fi-...
Golem.de: IT-News für Profis
www.golem.de
September 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
They meant, *don't* build the Torment Nexus, damn it 🤦♂️ Here's my article on the role of sci-fi in society: www.golem.de/news/sci-fi-...