1967ers
@1967ers.bsky.social
Neurodiversity, Leafs, but mostly random things that strike me as interesting and leave me wondering how I wound up with a pocket full of unusual rocks again.
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In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
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This morning I spent time looking up citations for a student. By the time I got to the third (with zero results), I asked where they got the list, and the student admitted they were from Google’s AI summary.
Honestly though I’m relieved I don’t manage interlibrary loan anymore?
Honestly though I’m relieved I don’t manage interlibrary loan anymore?
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This morning I spent time looking up citations for a student. By the time I got to the third (with zero results), I asked where they got the list, and the student admitted they were from Google’s AI summary.
Honestly though I’m relieved I don’t manage interlibrary loan anymore?
Honestly though I’m relieved I don’t manage interlibrary loan anymore?
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Check em out!! These include some Mars missions I've never painted before 👀
Also Daniel did an excellent job with the photography, not to mention the final touches culminating as jewelry 🤌✨
Also Daniel did an excellent job with the photography, not to mention the final touches culminating as jewelry 🤌✨
I'm beyond excited to be releasing the latest Mars Rover jewelry together with ceramic artist @amyraehill.bsky.social on Wednesday 🤩
All pieces can now be previewed here:
🔗 sciencesocks.co/pages/amy-ra...
This one-of-a-kind collection goes live Wed. at 12 PM PST / 3 PM EST. Don't miss it!
🔭🧪🐡🎨
All pieces can now be previewed here:
🔗 sciencesocks.co/pages/amy-ra...
This one-of-a-kind collection goes live Wed. at 12 PM PST / 3 PM EST. Don't miss it!
🔭🧪🐡🎨
December 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Check em out!! These include some Mars missions I've never painted before 👀
Also Daniel did an excellent job with the photography, not to mention the final touches culminating as jewelry 🤌✨
Also Daniel did an excellent job with the photography, not to mention the final touches culminating as jewelry 🤌✨
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new newsletter from me & @lollardfish.bsky.social on a volcano, ice cores, and the Black Death (and the humility of what research can tell us) #medievalsky
always free to read -->
buttondown.com/ModernMediev...
always free to read -->
buttondown.com/ModernMediev...
A Volcano Caused the Black Death?
Plague on a Boat
buttondown.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
new newsletter from me & @lollardfish.bsky.social on a volcano, ice cores, and the Black Death (and the humility of what research can tell us) #medievalsky
always free to read -->
buttondown.com/ModernMediev...
always free to read -->
buttondown.com/ModernMediev...
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Automation is concerned with the edges of things, with interfaces and input and output flows. Many things which appear the same to humans by virtue of having very similar centres can have very different edges.
i can never find a good way to phrase this, but: the way that every time a piece of work is automated, the nature of that work is transformed, and parts of it slip into or out of the defined nature of that work
December 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Automation is concerned with the edges of things, with interfaces and input and output flows. Many things which appear the same to humans by virtue of having very similar centres can have very different edges.
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The discussion of Wes Streeting talking about how there're too many ADHD diagnoses (which parallels RFKs' bullshit about it) feels particularly pointed as I take my blood pressure today for a state-mandated check-in about whether I'm faking having ADHD for the drugs.
December 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The discussion of Wes Streeting talking about how there're too many ADHD diagnoses (which parallels RFKs' bullshit about it) feels particularly pointed as I take my blood pressure today for a state-mandated check-in about whether I'm faking having ADHD for the drugs.
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any Neurodivergent or Queer person is on the list and the order matters not
we need to stand together
we need to stand together
December 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
any Neurodivergent or Queer person is on the list and the order matters not
we need to stand together
we need to stand together
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like i have been saying, if you have ADHD you should be standing with trans people on their medical rights for basic moral and solidarity reasons but also the practical reason that you can fight at their barricade or you can fight at ours but it's the same fight
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
like i have been saying, if you have ADHD you should be standing with trans people on their medical rights for basic moral and solidarity reasons but also the practical reason that you can fight at their barricade or you can fight at ours but it's the same fight
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At Pearson the Air Canada people saw my wife's ankle brace (sprained it 2 days before the trip) and wouldn't take no for an answer when she was offered a wheelchair.
It did make the customs a lot faster.
It did make the customs a lot faster.
A constant blazing terror that somewhere, somebody might be getting a free cheese sandwich. Or indeed brief use of a wheelchair.
December 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
At Pearson the Air Canada people saw my wife's ankle brace (sprained it 2 days before the trip) and wouldn't take no for an answer when she was offered a wheelchair.
It did make the customs a lot faster.
It did make the customs a lot faster.
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As I wrote in 2020... "The web makes up a large chunk of the data feeding GPT3 and kin. Posting the output of large language models online builds a feedback loop that cannot improve quality.
All ingredients for an information heat death are on hand."
All ingredients for an information heat death are on hand."
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
on.ft.com/4ahkNKa
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December 3, 2025 at 5:02 AM
As I wrote in 2020... "The web makes up a large chunk of the data feeding GPT3 and kin. Posting the output of large language models online builds a feedback loop that cannot improve quality.
All ingredients for an information heat death are on hand."
All ingredients for an information heat death are on hand."
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Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with
2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with
2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
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Elon does not fundamentally believe that any government or governing body should be allowed to constrain or regulate him in any way and he is deploying all of the vast resources at his command to make it so
governments should act accordingly
governments should act accordingly
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Elon does not fundamentally believe that any government or governing body should be allowed to constrain or regulate him in any way and he is deploying all of the vast resources at his command to make it so
governments should act accordingly
governments should act accordingly
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You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
December 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
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It is an absolutely delightful irony that the richest man in the world is universally acknowledged to be a huge fucking loser who not a single living person envies in any way at all
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
It is an absolutely delightful irony that the richest man in the world is universally acknowledged to be a huge fucking loser who not a single living person envies in any way at all
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She does this sly smile and slow blink as the train pulls away. Incredible.
In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.
Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
futurism.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
She does this sly smile and slow blink as the train pulls away. Incredible.
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these gross fucks. just scum.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
these gross fucks. just scum.
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Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
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The way anti-vaxxers and conservatives have carelessly thrown away children’s lives has unironically made me feel we should reclaim the “pro-life” label and start yelling at these people for killing kids
December 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The way anti-vaxxers and conservatives have carelessly thrown away children’s lives has unironically made me feel we should reclaim the “pro-life” label and start yelling at these people for killing kids
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getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads
December 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads
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I wrote about why MAHA especially hates the hep B vaccine in this article.
Basically, they believe "good" women don't get hep B, and so there's no need to vaccinate babies for it.
www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...
Basically, they believe "good" women don't get hep B, and so there's no need to vaccinate babies for it.
www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...
RFK Jr.'s war on vaccines is about shaming women, not helping kids
The MAHA movement regards all childhood ailments as a sign that moms are failing
www.salon.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I wrote about why MAHA especially hates the hep B vaccine in this article.
Basically, they believe "good" women don't get hep B, and so there's no need to vaccinate babies for it.
www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...
Basically, they believe "good" women don't get hep B, and so there's no need to vaccinate babies for it.
www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...
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This is such a smart, perceptive piece, and gets at so much of the zeitgeist of this content-obssessed stripe of fascism we're seeing. This passage (about Walter White and Tony Soprano in particular) is spot-on:
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This is such a smart, perceptive piece, and gets at so much of the zeitgeist of this content-obssessed stripe of fascism we're seeing. This passage (about Walter White and Tony Soprano in particular) is spot-on:
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Total success to the first college/university that pledges to be AI-free and brand it as an opportunity to receive a real education.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Total success to the first college/university that pledges to be AI-free and brand it as an opportunity to receive a real education.
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Canada Post has been screwing its union over for *two years now* because Canadians can’t grasp this either 👇🏼
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Canada Post has been screwing its union over for *two years now* because Canadians can’t grasp this either 👇🏼
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Based on what @marisakabas.bsky.social wrote, it appears they are threatening the USTA's ability to choose which players go to the olympics and paralympics, so USTA is upending recreational leagues that thousands of people participate in. The professional players should speak up on this.
December 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Based on what @marisakabas.bsky.social wrote, it appears they are threatening the USTA's ability to choose which players go to the olympics and paralympics, so USTA is upending recreational leagues that thousands of people participate in. The professional players should speak up on this.