@clnorth.bsky.social
Middle aged human, accidental homeschooler, defender of the little grey cells 😷🧠, trying to be a Good Ancestor 🇨🇦
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just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.
January 1, 2026 at 7:11 AM
just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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Fresh air is not a lifestyle preference or a comfort feature. It is one of the most effective public-health interventions we have. A century ago, this was already understood. Today, we continue to ignore it, even as COVID and Long COVID persist.
Read the full article: whn.global/fresh-air-sa...
Read the full article: whn.global/fresh-air-sa...
December 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Fresh air is not a lifestyle preference or a comfort feature. It is one of the most effective public-health interventions we have. A century ago, this was already understood. Today, we continue to ignore it, even as COVID and Long COVID persist.
Read the full article: whn.global/fresh-air-sa...
Read the full article: whn.global/fresh-air-sa...
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People say AI has no business model; but tbh I think part of the business model is getting people so hooked on it by the means of cooking their brains alive, that they then will pay any price to even function in everyday life.
Rent your basic life skills.
Rent your basic life skills.
I know it sounds boomerish, but I'm terrified of AI. People getting dumber by becoming overly reliant on it for thinking and expression, the weird AI psychosis. I can already feel the negative impact of addictive short-form content on me. I've never used Chat-GPT etc and hopefully never will.
July 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
People say AI has no business model; but tbh I think part of the business model is getting people so hooked on it by the means of cooking their brains alive, that they then will pay any price to even function in everyday life.
Rent your basic life skills.
Rent your basic life skills.
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In the words of C. S. Lewis: “I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”
May 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
In the words of C. S. Lewis: “I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”
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Chatgpt is not a car, and the assignment is not to "get someplace".
The assignment is to learn to drive and chatgpt is taking the bus.
Take the bus as often as you like, but you're not learning to drive.
The assignment is to learn to drive and chatgpt is taking the bus.
Take the bus as often as you like, but you're not learning to drive.
May 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Chatgpt is not a car, and the assignment is not to "get someplace".
The assignment is to learn to drive and chatgpt is taking the bus.
Take the bus as often as you like, but you're not learning to drive.
The assignment is to learn to drive and chatgpt is taking the bus.
Take the bus as often as you like, but you're not learning to drive.
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That's a great advertisement for my research, thank you, @thev.bsky.social. It's all in your head. The first study mentioned in the video below is our work. The data is from 2022, and not preliminary anymore. You can read here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
April 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
That's a great advertisement for my research, thank you, @thev.bsky.social. It's all in your head. The first study mentioned in the video below is our work. The data is from 2022, and not preliminary anymore. You can read here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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CBC science show Quirks and Quarks just had another great episode talking about the long term damage caused by each COVID infection.
If you're starting to wonder why so many hard-core scientists are so contemptuous of our public health institutions, listen to this.
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
If you're starting to wonder why so many hard-core scientists are so contemptuous of our public health institutions, listen to this.
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
Mar 15: The silent, long-term effects of COVID, and more... | CBC Radio
On this week's episode: polar bear dens, modern sleep woes, climate change is bad for satellites, and an ancient Australian crater
www.cbc.ca
March 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
CBC science show Quirks and Quarks just had another great episode talking about the long term damage caused by each COVID infection.
If you're starting to wonder why so many hard-core scientists are so contemptuous of our public health institutions, listen to this.
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
If you're starting to wonder why so many hard-core scientists are so contemptuous of our public health institutions, listen to this.
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
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The link to our talk from yesterday.
With thanks to the Kirby Institute and Prof. Raina MacIntyre 🙏🏻🙏🏻
youtu.be/V9f_kjlz6Ho?...
With thanks to the Kirby Institute and Prof. Raina MacIntyre 🙏🏻🙏🏻
youtu.be/V9f_kjlz6Ho?...
Dr David Joffe & Dr David Tuller – Is Long Covid psycho-behavioural or biological? State of evidence
YouTube video by Kirby Institute
youtu.be
March 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The link to our talk from yesterday.
With thanks to the Kirby Institute and Prof. Raina MacIntyre 🙏🏻🙏🏻
youtu.be/V9f_kjlz6Ho?...
With thanks to the Kirby Institute and Prof. Raina MacIntyre 🙏🏻🙏🏻
youtu.be/V9f_kjlz6Ho?...
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Orkney Library & Archive is a library AND an archive but did you know about the miniature library that is stored IN the archive?
Read on to find out more about the incredible Minervian Library, created by a group of young children in #Orkney more than 160 years ago.
Read on to find out more about the incredible Minervian Library, created by a group of young children in #Orkney more than 160 years ago.
March 13, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Delightful content! 10/10 no notes
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Does Covid Lead to Dementia? How It Affects Your Brain - Bloomberg
www.bloomberg.com/explainers/d...
www.bloomberg.com/explainers/d...
What We Know About Covid’s Impact on Your Brain
Scientists worry that persistent cognitive issues caused by Covid signal that a surge in dementia cases and other mental conditions is on the horizon.
www.bloomberg.com
March 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Does Covid Lead to Dementia? How It Affects Your Brain - Bloomberg
www.bloomberg.com/explainers/d...
www.bloomberg.com/explainers/d...
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More human neurons under the microscope! Doesn't it look like there is a forest inside our heads? Markers used in the Alt text! #Microscopy #Science 🔬🧠🤓
February 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
More human neurons under the microscope! Doesn't it look like there is a forest inside our heads? Markers used in the Alt text! #Microscopy #Science 🔬🧠🤓
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Great stuff here from @thewalrus.ca. More local/regional coverage is exactly what's needed right now. thewalrus.ca/the-walrus-l...
The Walrus Launches Six Regional Bureaus to Tell Canada’s Local Stories | The Walrus
From the Yukon to Newfoundland, we are putting reporters on the ground
thewalrus.ca
February 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Great stuff here from @thewalrus.ca. More local/regional coverage is exactly what's needed right now. thewalrus.ca/the-walrus-l...
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Determinedly sliding into the new week with all the enthusiasm of this 18th-century sea-lion
Hope it finds you similarly blessed
Hope it finds you similarly blessed
February 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Determinedly sliding into the new week with all the enthusiasm of this 18th-century sea-lion
Hope it finds you similarly blessed
Hope it finds you similarly blessed
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Doom scrolling is great right now because The Doom is always fresh. It used to be The Doom would get stale after a day or 2 but now the horrors are unending 😊
January 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Doom scrolling is great right now because The Doom is always fresh. It used to be The Doom would get stale after a day or 2 but now the horrors are unending 😊
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Roses are red
Violets are purple
Please can you pass
the maple syrurple
Violets are purple
Please can you pass
the maple syrurple
January 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Roses are red
Violets are purple
Please can you pass
the maple syrurple
Violets are purple
Please can you pass
the maple syrurple
Thrilled to report that a single gin & tonic & staying up to watch some BBC nestled under the duvet is now the equivalent of stumbling home at dawn after a particularly wild night at Jay Gatsby’s mansion
20’s: what even is a hangover?
40’s: puts on sunglasses to open fridge
40’s: puts on sunglasses to open fridge
January 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Thrilled to report that a single gin & tonic & staying up to watch some BBC nestled under the duvet is now the equivalent of stumbling home at dawn after a particularly wild night at Jay Gatsby’s mansion
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Whenever I start to feel anxious I immediately have another coffee and scroll through the worst news imaginable on my phone and omg it does not help at all
January 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Whenever I start to feel anxious I immediately have another coffee and scroll through the worst news imaginable on my phone and omg it does not help at all