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adzebill.bsky.social
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
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August 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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ygrene.bsky.social
just an absolutely terrible time to be a rational person who is capable of critical thinking and cares about other people
August 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i’m at the domestic doom
i’m at the geopolitical doom
i’m at the combination domestic/geopolitical doom
August 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
Zuckerberg farted out some nonsense today, and since most media outlets refuse to report critically any time a tech CEO offers them some a pseudoserious press release, I've decided to do it for them.

sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release
How to Read an "AI" Press Release — Sonja Drimmer
Every so often someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Sam Altman will dribble out some unadorned text in Times New Roman font, announcing with stentorian certitude the advent of a new world that their latest...
sonjadrimmer.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
The Misleading Panic over Misinformation
People can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth.
www.cato.org
June 27, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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strangecurrencies.org
Time for one of my favourite poems.
Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America, by Matthew Olzmann: Tell me what it's like to live without curiosity, without awe. To sail on clear water, rolling your eyes at the kelp reefs swaying beneath you, ignoring the flicker of mermaid scales in the mist, looking at the world and feeling only boredom. To stand on the precipice of some wild valley, the eagles circling, a herd of caribou booming below, and to yawn with indifference. To discover something primordial and holy. To have the smell of the earth welcome you to everywhere. To take it all in, and then, to reach for your knife.
June 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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librarycolleen.bsky.social
Ripley, A. T., & Hurley, M. (2025). The museum education job taxonomy: how our job titles affect our work and our value. Museum Management and Curatorship, 1–26. 📜 doi.org/10.1080/0964...
The museum education job taxonomy: how our job titles affect our work and our value
The Museum Educator Job Taxonomy assesses the status of the field of museum education in the United States by collecting and analyzing data on the varied job titles that museum educators hold. Draw...
doi.org
June 4, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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btskinner.io
As an elder millennial, I could trade my lifetime of tax contributions to the NEH for one month of Netflix and have just enough left over to get some avocado toast if I split it with two other people
Line graph titled "What's my share of NEH appropriations" with a caption: "Between its founding in 1965 and fiscal year 2024, the National Endowment for the Humanities received congressional appropriations totaling $7.37 billion. NEH used this funding to support thousands of individuals and cultural organizations - both directly through various grant programs and indirectly through funds disbursed by the 56 state and jurisdictional humanities councils. Beyond these appropriations, grantees raised millions of dollars more from non-federal donors as part of grant matching requirements. To put NEH appropriations in perspective, this chart shows cumulative annual per capita contribution to NEH by age, that is, the total dollar amount the average taxpayer has given to NEH over their lifetime. A few relevant purchases are helpfully included to show what a person could have bought instead, had they kept their personal NEH contribution for themselves..." The x-axis ranges from 0 to 59 years old. The y-axis ranges from $0 to $30. At three ages, items that could have instead been purchased with an individual's lifetime NEH contribution are shown. At 13 years, an egg is plotted on the line with a dollar amount of $6.41 and the caption reads, "Just in time to feed a growth spurt, a person at 13 years old has contributed enough to NEH that they could instead purchase one dozen eggs ($6.23/dozen)." At 36 years, a popcorn bucket is plotted with a dollar amount of $18.20 and the caption reads, "Millennials who are at least 36 years old could exchange their nearly four decades worth of NEH support for a one month subscription to Netflix ($17.99/month)." At 50 years, a gasoline pump is plotted with the dollar amount of $26.00 and the caption reads, "Those 50 years old or older - who have been contributing to the agency for nearly its entire existence - could instead have saved that money to purchase about a half tank of gas (8 gallons at $3.23/gallon)."
April 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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parismarx.com
The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration.

We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.
France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs
The Trump administration has set out to drastically reshape the relationship between the US and Europe. In response, Brussels is scrambling to adapt to this new reality,...
www.techspot.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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stellarine.bsky.social
Plant people and yarn people have one thing in common and it's an obsession w variegation
April 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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jamessnider.bsky.social
Just in time for the long weekend: Ontario announces intent to repeal Endangered Species Act and replace it with new Species Conservation Act: ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0...
Proposed interim changes to the Endangered Species Act, 2007 and a proposal for the Species Conservation Act, 2025 | Environmental Registry of Ontario
The current approach to the protection and conservation of species at risk is complicated, takes too long to complete, and causes unnecessary delays and costs for housing, transit, and critical infras...
ero.ontario.ca
April 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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redgoldsparks.bsky.social
Here's my long comic essay about breaking up with Harry Potter and JKR's increasing transphobia. Please boycott the new TV show and all of her future projects ✨ #harrypotter #transphobia #jkrowling

redgoldsparkspress.com/projects/718...
The Problematic Author
The online portfolio of Maia Kobabe.
redgoldsparkspress.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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noethematt.bsky.social
In other words: double down on our actual missions, abandon all the capitalist business nonsense we've absorbed over the years, and FIGHT.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement. Alternatively, you can try to negotiate with a mafia boss who wants to see you grovel. When these negotiations fail, as they inevitably will, it will be too late to ask for the public’s support.
April 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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daxaeterna.ink
Publish short stories on your blog? Trying to serialize a web novel on your site?

This code can help you add e-reader functionality to your site w just a little copypasting. Let users choose the best font, increase font w/o changing the layout, pick between 4 different themes & add indents!
daxaeterna.ink Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · Mar 28
Basic functionality and basic aesthetics~ Simple Codepen to get you started if you want to build in the functionality for users to change up the site style for a long chapter from your self-hosted web novel! Give them the ereader experience they want.

codepen.io/jdax/pen/MYW...
a website showing settings to turn on indents, increase or decrease font size, or change the theme to dark mode, light mode, sepia mode, or default mode, additionally a drop down to change the font. Shown with indents, pt 18 font, sepia mode, garamond. a website showing settings to turn on indents, increase or decrease font size, or change the theme to dark mode, light mode, sepia mode, or default mode, additionally a drop down to change the font. Shown without indents, 12 pt font, in dark mode, and with the Open Dyslexic font.
March 29, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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courtneymilan.com
One of the things we are going to have to do, repeatedly and often, is remind people that it is not okay to go to war with Canada.

We cannot let people say stupid shit because we are going to start seeing drums get beaten.
March 9, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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ryanlcooper.com
strong agree thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
X Threatens Our Democracy. Canada Should Ban It | The Tyee
The risks of election interference, misinformation and attempts to support a US takeover are too great.
thetyee.ca
March 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
literally every time I talk to friends
three panel cartoon by @emilyscartoons.bsky.social … in the first panel one person says "let's not talk about politics any more, I can't bear it" and the other person replies "same." in the second panel, they say nothing. in the third panel, the first person yells "THE THING IS THOUGH" and the second person yells back "THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS"
March 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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jksteinberger.bsky.social
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation First, clarity on distinguishing AIs: Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use). Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work Generative: ChatGPT & Co. You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content. Why is this delegation of work problematic? 3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement. (Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.) 1) AI and ethics Mass theft of all and everything «learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators. Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …): «correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted). In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes. 2) AI and (un)sustainability Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI. Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs. Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry. Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development. 3) AI and intellectual engagement First, what learning is (or should be) about: The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge, But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain. The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI. Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all. They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS. If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.
February 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
Untitled, by Joan Mitchell, 1992, 📸 via @dimfilipovic.bsky.social
February 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
amarieo.bsky.social
Hello, World!
November 10, 2024 at 7:38 AM