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bbl-astrophyscs.bsky.social
This needs as much coverage as protests or ICE raids. Los Angelenos FTW. ❤️🙌
From NYT article in QT: On Alondra Boulevard in Compton, the streets are quiet after last night's protests. About 15 people came to clean up the mess of rubber bullets, tear gas canisters and other projectiles shot by law enforcement. "Everyone loves to come to Compton and tear it up," said Elaina Angel, 30. "But who's going to come help us clean it up?" She rallied her family this morning, and they bought brooms, trash bags and gloves to collect the hundreds of objects littering the street.
June 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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teenvogue.com
One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search.

In this op-ed, politics editor
@leximcmenamin.com
addresses the environmental costs of AI that not many seem to be talking about ⤵️
ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs?
One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search.
www.teenvogue.com
May 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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adrianaguatame.bsky.social
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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benwikler.bsky.social
This period under Musk/Trump feels like early February in 2020—when a terrible thing was happening with breakneck speed, and the people paying close attention were hair-on-fire about it while the rest of the country carried on as normal.
February 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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timnitgebru.bsky.social
Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see

1. The data it was trained & evaluated on

2. The code

3. Model architecture

4. Model weights.

DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
January 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Corporations worldwide are spending untold billions to make this technology the frontal experience of every user interface, for some fuckin reason.
AI: No, water will not freeze at 20 degrees Fahrenheit; water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius). So, if the temperature is at 20 degrees Fahrenheit, the water will still be liquid. Explanation: The freezing point of water is defined as 32 degrees Fahrenheit, meaning that when the temperature drops below this point, water begins to turn into ice.
January 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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ethicsinbricks.bsky.social
"A record-breaking 10,000 scientific papers were retracted in 2023 because of scientific misconduct, and academic journals are overwhelmed by AI-generated images, data, and texts."

Read more: www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/01/how-...
January 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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sambiddle.com
Never in my career have I seen such a giant gulf between What Companies Think Is the Most Important Thing in the World and What Normal People Have Absolutely Any Interest in Whatsoever
jasonkoebler.bsky.social Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · Jan 6
New: Days after Meta had to kill its AI-generated profiles due to backlash, some Instagram users are now being shown AI-generated images of themselves that are being automatically created by Instagram and put in their feeds

www.404media.co/instagram-be...
Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves
Meta AI put a Redditor into "an endless maze of mirrors" as part of a new AI feature it is testing.
www.404media.co
January 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM