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ianhussey.mmmdata.io
Critique argues post-publication peer review "often focuses on minor details" and "risks damaging trust in both the research itself and the peer review process" found to contain:

- Hallucinated references
- Undisclosed COIs (EiC is author)
- 8/9 authors have retractions or related scandals
An expert criticism on post-publication peer review platforms: the case of pubpeer - DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
While traditional peer review offers advantages in academic publishing, it is often hampered by significant weaknesses, leading to frustration among many authors. Scientific discoveries after publicat...
link.springer.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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justinbaragona.bsky.social
A+. Perfect. 10/10. No notes.
December 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"

Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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dennycarter.bsky.social
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
“A big part of the high stock prices is not a reflection of high future growth,” he said. Rather, it is a sign that A.I. is expected to boost productivity and shrink employment. “The firms all think they’re going to shed a lot of labor, and that’s why the profits will be high,” he said. And while the construction of data centers to power artificial intelligence is fueling economic growth now, these centers, once built, employ skeleton staffs.
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
I think Claude Code has achieved AGI
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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birdrespecter.bsky.social
Shot + chaser
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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davidgerard.co.uk
banger of the day

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P'tit Belliveau - Income Tax (Official Music Video)
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September 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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edzitron.com
You have got to be kidding me with this.
1. This isn't saying that Ai is replacing workers in these industries, just that young people have trouble finding work in some industries "most exposed to AI"
2. This is based entirely on payroll data. No connection to A.I. - why did Bloomberg cover this?
Artificial intelligence is making it harder for entry-level workers in the US to find jobs in fields like software development and customer service, according to new research. Employment has dropped for people who are just starting out in fields determined to be the most exposed to AI — such as accountants, developers and administrative assistants. Drops in employment are most common for jobs where AI is most likely to automate human work, instead of helping people to do their work. Artificial intelligence is making it harder for entry-level workers in the US to find jobs in fields like software development and customer service, according to new research. In a study released Tuesday, Stanford University researchers said they found that over the last three years, employment has dropped 13% for people who are just starting out in fields determined to be the most exposed to AI — such as accountants, developers and administrative assistants. Over the same time frame, they said, employment trends have remained the same or improved for more experienced workers in the same fields, even as they slowed for workers ages 22 to 25. Employment trends also strengthened for lower tech jobs, such as nursing aides. To help them conduct the study, whose findings have not been peer reviewed, researchers said they looked at data from payroll processor Automatic Data Processing Inc., which included monthly payroll statements for millions of people at tens of thousands of companies.
August 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward.

Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything.

www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
There Is No Trolley Problem
We actually aren't constrained into atrocious premises by thought exercises. Obstacles are a reason to fight, not an excuse to quit. Our friends and neighbors aren't distractions..
www.the-reframe.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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alex.antilogik.de
Is it time?
Skeet saying "Microsoft's latest 10-K shows that the company's committed datacenter construction is down YoY, with almost no new leases signed in the past 12 months (@semianalysis_)" read by some women, as her partner? random dude in her house? Let's not make assumptions here. Anyway, some dude in her vicinity flips over the calendar to reveal THE SMILE
August 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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jamesheathers.bsky.social
No it won’t.

theconversation.com/ai-will-soon...
AI will soon be able to audit all published research – what will that mean for public trust in science?
An AI audit of scientific research would likely expose some fraud and widespread inconsequential work. But we need to be careful it doesn’t discredit science in general.
theconversation.com
July 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
July 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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egg-brained.bsky.social
lots of talk about the nyt about them using the crimieux twitter/jordan lasker as a source, calling him an "academic". i wanted to share a response to the *one* publication he actually has in a real journal.
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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kthorjensen.bsky.social
The singularity is awesome
Google search for “all you can eat buffet near me” Al Overview To find an all-you-can-eat buffet near you, you can use online search engines like Google or Yelp, specifying "all you can eat buffet near me". These searches will typically provide a list of nearby restaurants offering buffet-style dining, including their addresses, contact information, and customer reviews. You can also refine your
June 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
One of my favorite social media interactions is someone will say they don't like broccoli and people will reply saying just don't eat it then. Bet you didn't think of that dumbass. Bet you were miserable eating your compulsory broccoli meal every day
May 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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gergely.pragmaticengineer.com
One reason Apple fought tooth and nail to disallow web payments for apps:

Because Apple’s IAP is SO bad in many ways, and *so many* apps will move to web-based payments now not mainly because of the 30% Apple fee, but because of how bad IAP is (from a dev perspective).

Let me give you21 examples:
May 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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edzitron.com
Doing battle with the Mind Battalion
Matthew Yglesias & @mattyglesias.4h I don't really get the affect in this @edzitron piece — sure, maybe OpenAl will never be profitable and its investors will lose money ... who cares? wheresyoured.at/reality-check/pic.x.com/ omaHqlembu Matthew Yglesias @@mattyglesias•4h It then just pivots to a clearly erroneous underestimation of the current utility of ChatGPT — a product that can clearly do more than "generate shitty limericks" — to its users. pic.x.com/p1e8HR9uKo
April 30, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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melhogan.bsky.social
Most Researchers Do Not Believe AGI Is Imminent. Why Do Policymakers Act Otherwise?

www.techpolicy.press/most-researc...
Most Researchers Do Not Believe AGI Is Imminent. Why Do Policymakers Act Otherwise? | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio says it is dangerous to the public interest for policymakers to center the pursuit of AGI in AI policy.
www.techpolicy.press
March 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
WATCH: “You’re saying you revere a time when their ancestors were in bondage.”

In NC, @davidjoy.bsky.social powerfully explains why it’s wrong to remove a “compromise plaque” without public input, and why revering the confederacy is offensive.

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DI9vdzA...
April 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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edzitron.com
The latest Kevin Roose column may be the dumbest one yet. Not just because the subject matter is ridiculous, but also because it's basically an ad for Anthropic's new "ai welfare researcher." It rocks to see a Times tech columnist so in the bag for a company!

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/t...
Should We Start Taking the Welfare of A.I. Seriously? As artificial intelligence systems become smarter, one A.I. company is trying to figure out what to do if they become conscious. It’s hard to argue that today’s A.I. systems are conscious. Sure, large language models have been trained to talk like humans, and some of them are extremely impressive. But can ChatGPT experience joy or suffering? Does Gemini deserve human rights? Many A.I. experts I know would say no, not yet, not even close. But I was intrigued. After all, more people are beginning to treat A.I. systems as if they are conscious — falling in love with them, using them as therapists and soliciting their advice. The smartest A.I. systems are surpassing humans in some domains. Is there any threshold at which an A.I. would start to deserve, if not human-level rights, at least the same moral consideration we give to animals? Jared Kaplan, Anthropic’s chief science officer, told me in a separate interview that he thought it was “pretty reasonable” to study A.I. welfare, given how intelligent the models are getting. But testing A.I. systems for consciousness is hard, Mr. Kaplan warned, because they’re such good mimics. If you prompt Claude or ChatGPT to talk about its feelings, it might give you a compelling response. That doesn’t mean the chatbot actually has feelings — only that it knows how to talk about them. “Everyone is very aware that we can train the models to say whatever we want,” Mr. Kaplan said. “We can reward them for saying that they have no feelings at all. We can reward them for saying really interesting philosophical speculations about their feelings.” So how are researchers supposed to know if A.I. systems are actually conscious or not? Mr. Fish said it might involve using techniques borrowed from mechanistic interpretability, an A.I. subfield that studies the inner workings of A.I. systems, to check whether some of the same structures and pathways associated with consciousness in human brains are also active in A.I. systems. You could also probe an A.I. system, he said, by observing its behavior, watching how it chooses to operate in certain environments or accomplish certain tasks, which things it seems to prefer and avoid. Mr. Fish acknowledged that there probably wasn’t a single litmus test for A.I. consciousness. (He thinks consciousness is probably more of a spectrum than a simple yes/no switch, anyway.) But he said there were things that A.I. companies could do to take their models’ welfare into account, in case they do become conscious someday.
April 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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edzitron.com
I thought I had lost all respect for Kevin Roose at this point but even now he surprises me. This is not journalism or analysis, it's marketing for AI companies. When this bubble bursts we cannot let this slide.
April 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.

YALL, THE TITLE!!
“The War on Science”
April 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM