Jen
@junipergal.bsky.social
communist | feminist | settler in #yyc | she/her | art nerd
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like big tobacco funding cancer research
December 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
like big tobacco funding cancer research
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A really important thing to learn about fascism imo is that one of its most appealing traits to followers is giving a “place” to the talentless and mediocre so long as they tow the line enthusiastically and assert their superiority to the designated Other.
I am so glad I’m not teaching rn because I’d go viral for giving people no credit when they don’t do the assignment or use an adult level of critical thinking in a COLLEGE CLASS
December 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
A really important thing to learn about fascism imo is that one of its most appealing traits to followers is giving a “place” to the talentless and mediocre so long as they tow the line enthusiastically and assert their superiority to the designated Other.
Ooof seems I tripped down a 90s music nostalgia rabbit hole after work and somehow I find myself sitting here in my living room belting out Lisa Loeb's 'Stay' #ITurnTheRadioOnITurnTheRadioUp Jesus. How do I still know all the words?!? lol
December 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Ooof seems I tripped down a 90s music nostalgia rabbit hole after work and somehow I find myself sitting here in my living room belting out Lisa Loeb's 'Stay' #ITurnTheRadioOnITurnTheRadioUp Jesus. How do I still know all the words?!? lol
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If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.
#AcademicChatter
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.
#AcademicChatter
Slop graphics in academic journals
Use this form to share graphics (e.g., figures, covers, graphical abstracts) made using generative A.I. that have appeared in academic journals.
The plan is to compile these slop graphics in an ope...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.
#AcademicChatter
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.
#AcademicChatter
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A reminder this holiday season and always
November 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
A reminder this holiday season and always
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The Frankfurt School be like . . .
November 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The Frankfurt School be like . . .
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Most people with Covid brain damage do not know they have Covid brain damage or don’t link their persistent new onset cognitive problems with a Covid infection. Same with post-Covid increased aggression - people don’t realize they’ve changed but standardized evaluation picks it up
November 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Most people with Covid brain damage do not know they have Covid brain damage or don’t link their persistent new onset cognitive problems with a Covid infection. Same with post-Covid increased aggression - people don’t realize they’ve changed but standardized evaluation picks it up
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curious people will find a way. incurious people will take what they’re given. this doesn’t change.
The browsing conversation is interesting to me - I feel like browsing is a skill people had to pick up, and “navigating streaming services to find the interesting stuff” is also a skill people have to pick up
November 29, 2025 at 11:06 PM
curious people will find a way. incurious people will take what they’re given. this doesn’t change.
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Here's a question I've been meaning to ask the gang: I'm looking for a streaming jazz station that isn't trying to be Jazz For Everybody™️. In other words, no cloying interpretations of pop songs, decent balance between eras and/or hosts worth checking out. Lemme know!
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Here's a question I've been meaning to ask the gang: I'm looking for a streaming jazz station that isn't trying to be Jazz For Everybody™️. In other words, no cloying interpretations of pop songs, decent balance between eras and/or hosts worth checking out. Lemme know!
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Learning With AI Falls Short Compared to Old-Fashioned Web Search
In virtually all the ways that matter, getting summarized information from AI models was less educational than doing the work of search.
buff.ly
November 30, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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Do CEOs know how much this says about their work specifically
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Do CEOs know how much this says about their work specifically
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
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"it's basically the It's a Wonderful Life of fucking" is the best description of Eyes Wide Shut I've ever read
One of the reasons why EYES WIDE SHUT has become such an unlikely Christmas movie is that it’s basically the IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE of fucking. www.vulture.com/2019/06/eyes...
November 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
"it's basically the It's a Wonderful Life of fucking" is the best description of Eyes Wide Shut I've ever read
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Today is Nonidi the 9th of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate juniper.#JacobinDay
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Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate juniper.#JacobinDay
More information on juniper
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today is Nonidi the 9th of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate juniper.#JacobinDay
More information on juniper
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate juniper.#JacobinDay
More information on juniper
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Kneecap is suing Canadian MP Vince Gasparro for his lies and defamatory comments.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Kneecap is suing Canadian MP Vince Gasparro for his lies and defamatory comments.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
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I am a dev and I dislike AI because
•it cannot operate without stolen data
•it does not work reliably
•it lies all the time
•it is terribly inefficient
•it pollutes
•it is/was oversold
•the biggest frauds champion it
•the people behind it are psychos
none of these are unreasonable complaints
•it cannot operate without stolen data
•it does not work reliably
•it lies all the time
•it is terribly inefficient
•it pollutes
•it is/was oversold
•the biggest frauds champion it
•the people behind it are psychos
none of these are unreasonable complaints
November 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I am a dev and I dislike AI because
•it cannot operate without stolen data
•it does not work reliably
•it lies all the time
•it is terribly inefficient
•it pollutes
•it is/was oversold
•the biggest frauds champion it
•the people behind it are psychos
none of these are unreasonable complaints
•it cannot operate without stolen data
•it does not work reliably
•it lies all the time
•it is terribly inefficient
•it pollutes
•it is/was oversold
•the biggest frauds champion it
•the people behind it are psychos
none of these are unreasonable complaints
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Please Mr Carney, trains are pipelines for people. Why can’t Alberta have that?
November 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Please Mr Carney, trains are pipelines for people. Why can’t Alberta have that?
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If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…
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Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
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I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
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When a pedestrian is not paying attention and walks into something, no one dies. When a driver is not paying attention and drives into something people are often injured/killed. How long will it fucking take for society to STOP EQUATING THE TWO?
Cllr Atkinson asks about educating public re: pedestrian injuries/deaths. Deputy Chief O'Brien says peds + drivers both need education. People are being hit in crosswalks + jaywalking. Drivers not paying attention. "We’re trying to target everybody because it is a shared responsibility." #yyccc
November 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
When a pedestrian is not paying attention and walks into something, no one dies. When a driver is not paying attention and drives into something people are often injured/killed. How long will it fucking take for society to STOP EQUATING THE TWO?
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Australia’s latest cervical cancer report is wild:
Zero cases in women under 25 for the first time ever — a milestone researchers say is almost entirely due to HPV vaccination.
But vaccination rates are slipping, and experts warn urgent
#BlueSky #NewsSky #MedSky #SciSky #IDSky #ObSky #PedsSky
Zero cases in women under 25 for the first time ever — a milestone researchers say is almost entirely due to HPV vaccination.
But vaccination rates are slipping, and experts warn urgent
#BlueSky #NewsSky #MedSky #SciSky #IDSky #ObSky #PedsSky
2025 Cervical Cancer Elimination Progress Report | C4
Australia’s progress towards the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Holding on to this for when I review a grant application from one of the newbie principal investigators on the team and they use chatgpt for every section but their research plan; I can see it now "this NSERC application won't stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God's creation"
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Holding on to this for when I review a grant application from one of the newbie principal investigators on the team and they use chatgpt for every section but their research plan; I can see it now "this NSERC application won't stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God's creation"