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James Townsend
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truth coming out of her well to shame mankind
September 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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When I asked Bluesky users why they left X, many said they didn’t want their posts training AI.

But with Bluesky’s open API, anyone can scrape posts for that purpose. A HuggingFace employee just shared a dataset of 1M posts.

The reality: if you post online, assume it’ll be used to train AI.
Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research'
A Hugging Face employee made a huge dataset of Bluesky posts, and it’s already very popular.
www.404media.co
November 27, 2024 at 10:37 AM
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Molluscs in Japan
November 27, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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Paleontology is full of references to "dominance," "invasion," and "colonization," and it's obscuring so much of what we could learn about the history of life.

My latest in AEON.
Earth’s story is not about dynasties but communities | Aeon Essays
When we think of changes in Earth’s history as changes of dynasty we miss out on understanding how life really works
aeon.co
August 17, 2023 at 4:02 PM