Sarah
@goldentreese.bsky.social
Ex researcher.
Displaced Montanan
Living in the northwoods
Seasonally employed
Displaced Montanan
Living in the northwoods
Seasonally employed
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LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
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FORTUNATELY, for everyone we have a fun way to tell your House rep that you think Bobby Jr is a quack and has to go…
For $3 we will hand deliver (by a man in a duck costume) a rubber ducky with a message to “impeach the quack” to your rep!
QUACK-O-GRAMS!
act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...
For $3 we will hand deliver (by a man in a duck costume) a rubber ducky with a message to “impeach the quack” to your rep!
QUACK-O-GRAMS!
act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...
August 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM
FORTUNATELY, for everyone we have a fun way to tell your House rep that you think Bobby Jr is a quack and has to go…
For $3 we will hand deliver (by a man in a duck costume) a rubber ducky with a message to “impeach the quack” to your rep!
QUACK-O-GRAMS!
act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...
For $3 we will hand deliver (by a man in a duck costume) a rubber ducky with a message to “impeach the quack” to your rep!
QUACK-O-GRAMS!
act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...
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It's frustrating being like, the only generation that got taught internet research in school, and getting met with skepticism when I say I don't use ChatGPT to look shit up. I wasn't even allowed to use wikipedia as a source because "anyone can edit it", why am I trusting a robot to not do the same?
It really does feel like a lot of formerly reasonable people have been infected by some sort of terrifying brain parasite when it comes to unthinking and total acceptance of using AI tools
Absolute worst part, imo, is the pressure from school administrators to "welcome our new overlords" by adopting AI. It's also happening in elite universities, to my utter bafflement & horror. Anyone who calls bullshit on AI is treated as if only ignorance could explain their perspective.
August 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It's frustrating being like, the only generation that got taught internet research in school, and getting met with skepticism when I say I don't use ChatGPT to look shit up. I wasn't even allowed to use wikipedia as a source because "anyone can edit it", why am I trusting a robot to not do the same?
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Just to give the TL;DR on this one:
*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.
*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.
This is literally some of the craziest shit I have ever read.
And that's saying a lot.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
And that's saying a lot.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
www.whitehouse.gov
August 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Just to give the TL;DR on this one:
*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.
*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.
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As someone who did molecular simulations in undergrad and grad school, I’m telling you now that a computer cannot fucking know about drug interactions.
What's the worst that could happen?
RFK Jr. Says AI Will Approve New Drugs at FDA 'Very, Very Quickly'
gizmodo.com
July 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
As someone who did molecular simulations in undergrad and grad school, I’m telling you now that a computer cannot fucking know about drug interactions.
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Live your life so millions of your fellow citizens don't take to the streets to tell you to go fuck yourself on your birthday.
June 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Live your life so millions of your fellow citizens don't take to the streets to tell you to go fuck yourself on your birthday.
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I am already developing anaphylactic reactions to the phrase “gold-standard science”. And it’s only May of the first year of this damned administration.
RFK Jr. says he met with Argentina’s president Javier Milei and it sounds like they want to make a fascist alternative to the World Health Organization.
May 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I am already developing anaphylactic reactions to the phrase “gold-standard science”. And it’s only May of the first year of this damned administration.
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The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.
What the fuck are we doing here?
What the fuck are we doing here?
May 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.
What the fuck are we doing here?
What the fuck are we doing here?
This!
I've had to "do my own research" about one aspect of food and drug safety that the government doesn't control - gluten content - for 11 years. And let me tell you, it sucks. It's a constant drain on time and energy, and a constant anxiety. This is not a world the rest of you want to live in.
I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”
April 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This!
🧵
To put things in context: Three weeks ago, it felt like every institution was folding. Like nobody was standing up except the American people, like we were calling our representatives and nothing was happening.
April 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🧵
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Congress is legitimately so powerful and yet every one of them is so used to the idea that the President runs them that they don’t know how to seize or use any of that power themselves. Gotta restore the power of Article 1 to slap the shit out of this executive branch my god
Honestly, the first member of Congress in either chamber who just pretends the tariffs don’t exist because they never voted on them has the power to make themselves frontrunner for the *ongoing* presidency
April 7, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Congress is legitimately so powerful and yet every one of them is so used to the idea that the President runs them that they don’t know how to seize or use any of that power themselves. Gotta restore the power of Article 1 to slap the shit out of this executive branch my god
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I fear some of you are still not quite understanding that the purpose of DOGE is not actually to make the federal government more efficient, it's to privatize what they can make money off of and then dismantle the rest.
March 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I fear some of you are still not quite understanding that the purpose of DOGE is not actually to make the federal government more efficient, it's to privatize what they can make money off of and then dismantle the rest.
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one of the things COVID kinda taught me was that a lot of my fellow americans have a sort of switch in their brain where they can be like “hmm thinking about this makes me uncomfortable so *bloop* it doesn’t exist!” and i think that’s how most people are dealing with the extremely overt nazi stuff.
February 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
one of the things COVID kinda taught me was that a lot of my fellow americans have a sort of switch in their brain where they can be like “hmm thinking about this makes me uncomfortable so *bloop* it doesn’t exist!” and i think that’s how most people are dealing with the extremely overt nazi stuff.
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Science (and science policy, and conservation) friends, I need your help!
We are collecting *specific, clear* examples of harms caused by the Trump administration's attacks on science, to be included in an open letter.
Can be links to news stories/social media posts. 🧪🦑🌎 #SciComm #SciPol
We are collecting *specific, clear* examples of harms caused by the Trump administration's attacks on science, to be included in an open letter.
Can be links to news stories/social media posts. 🧪🦑🌎 #SciComm #SciPol
February 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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"But what can *I* do, I'm just *one person*?"
Anything. Absolutely anything. Anything, no matter how small, is more than nothing.
Anything. Absolutely anything. Anything, no matter how small, is more than nothing.
February 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"But what can *I* do, I'm just *one person*?"
Anything. Absolutely anything. Anything, no matter how small, is more than nothing.
Anything. Absolutely anything. Anything, no matter how small, is more than nothing.
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Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend.
This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.
This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.
Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despite receiving an exceptional performance evaluation in the fall.
After landing his dream job as a park ranger, he’s ‘heartbroken’ to be let go in federal cuts | CNN
Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despit...
www.cnn.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend.
This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.
This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.
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Cincinnati, Ohio.
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
More Philadelphia.
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
More Philadelphia.
February 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
More Philadelphia.
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
More Philadelphia.
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CDC 'disease detectors' among hundreds fired as Trump administration ramps up agency cuts www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
CDC 'disease detectors' among hundreds fired as Trump administration ramps up agency cuts
Administration officials last week informed CDC leaders of plans to cut up to 10% of its workforce as it targeted federal probationary employees.
www.nbcnews.com
February 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
CDC 'disease detectors' among hundreds fired as Trump administration ramps up agency cuts www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
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With both RFK Jr and Gabbard confirmed, two people who rose to prominence spreading conspiracy theories about public health and national intelligence will now run the U.S. government agencies in charge of those areas. For someone studying these conspiracy theories for a decade... this is nauseating.
February 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
With both RFK Jr and Gabbard confirmed, two people who rose to prominence spreading conspiracy theories about public health and national intelligence will now run the U.S. government agencies in charge of those areas. For someone studying these conspiracy theories for a decade... this is nauseating.
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Interpretation for the non-scientists: When faculty get NIH grants, the University gets some extra cash to make sure the research is supported. NIH just cut that $$ by a LOT. That means Unis are less likely to support research. Most research in the US is done at Unis, so... it's bad 🧪
February 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Interpretation for the non-scientists: When faculty get NIH grants, the University gets some extra cash to make sure the research is supported. NIH just cut that $$ by a LOT. That means Unis are less likely to support research. Most research in the US is done at Unis, so... it's bad 🧪
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Reminder that if you see someone trying to figure out how to contact their reps, you now have the INCREDIBLY easy to remember URL to give to them:
reps.fyi
Tell your friends! Tell strangers! Print stickers and put them on things!
Crash every voicemail every day. ❤️
(thank you @gregpak.net!)
reps.fyi
Tell your friends! Tell strangers! Print stickers and put them on things!
Crash every voicemail every day. ❤️
(thank you @gregpak.net!)
Find Your Representative
Find your representatives. Learn how to find and connect with them. Stay informed about their bills, committees, and contributions.
reps.fyi
February 2, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Reminder that if you see someone trying to figure out how to contact their reps, you now have the INCREDIBLY easy to remember URL to give to them:
reps.fyi
Tell your friends! Tell strangers! Print stickers and put them on things!
Crash every voicemail every day. ❤️
(thank you @gregpak.net!)
reps.fyi
Tell your friends! Tell strangers! Print stickers and put them on things!
Crash every voicemail every day. ❤️
(thank you @gregpak.net!)
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A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
January 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
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Tell you what I'm gonna save everybody else from fucking embarrassing themselves with whatever cheap ass excuse they have for not at least taking five goddamned minutes to write to congress.
January 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Tell you what I'm gonna save everybody else from fucking embarrassing themselves with whatever cheap ass excuse they have for not at least taking five goddamned minutes to write to congress.