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actuallythemoon.bsky.social
Totally cool and normal that there's a conceited effort to keep trans people off any kind of visible employment, through politically loaded culture war complaints. Definitely something we shouldn't worry about.

Any trans person who persists working in education is unbelievably brave.
kissphoria.bsky.social gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14d
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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rincewind.run
Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal
But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as finance.
September 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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actuallythemoon.bsky.social
Before recording this I oversalted my chicken's brine, so I spent the whole episode feeling like I got shot in the kidneys because of all the salt I ingested.

Link in the post below.
October 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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stickmancomms.bsky.social
I don't think this concept is understood - or talked about - nearly enough. Many disabled people spend very little time in our comfort zone, where things are easy. There are so many extra challenges to doing things, interacting, etc that if we are up and about, we are probably pushing ourselves. 1/3
2 panel cartoon. 1: When a non-disabled person says 'push through' to a disabled person.... Image: stickman in a green 'comfort zone' pushing through a red barrier to 'possible but difficult' zone that has a slightly uneven floor. They are saying "Just push through, you'll be fine! It's just a bit challenging!". At the end of that is a second red barrier - beyond which are spikes and a warning symbol labelled 'Actual harm zone'. 2: REMEMBER: the disabled person may be in a very different place to them! Image: identical to the 1, except barrier 1 is a small pile of rubble, and an exhausted stickman is at barrier two - saying "Um...really not a good idea".
September 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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fhart.blacksky.app
Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic.

Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956
Young Black man in a patterned shirt leans over a metal water fountain labeled “WHITE ONLY,” drinking directly from it. His gaze meets the camera, capturing a bold act of defiance against segregation during the Jim Crow era.
September 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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riley.sbug.games
Have you ever wanted to just be a worm for a day?
Then good news because we're announcing a new game!
wirm is coming SOON!
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Wishlist it on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/1934870/...
September 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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zackbeauchamp.bsky.social
They published it, and it's even worse than I thought www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
September 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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mossworm.bsky.social
I got fired for this, view the secret knowledge of the iChatBio agentic chatbot sucking eggs at its only job while you still can:
mossworm.bsky.social mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · Aug 19
it took one (1) question for the amazing new agentic LLM iChatBio to start fabricating data out of nothing. I asked for a list of clam shrimp in Florida, and it skipped a whole genus. when I told it that it was missing one, it confidently replied that Cyzicus also lives in Florida (it doesn't).
I ask: "how many species of clam shrimp are in florida" ichatbio answers: "You’d like to know how many species of clam shrimp (order Diplostraca, suborder Laevicaudata, Cyclestherida, or Spinicaudata) are found in Florida. I will search occurrence record databases for the count of unique clam shrimp species reported in Florida." ichatbio: According to iDigBio, there are 47 unique scientific names under the order Diplostraca (which includes clam shrimp and related groups) recorded in Florida, based on 524 records. This count may include both clam shrimp and other related taxa (like water fleas). If you'd like, I can filter the list to show only known clam shrimp species or provide the full list for your review. me: show only clam shrimp ichatbio:Thank you for your request to see only clam shrimp species (typically families Limnadiidae, Lynceidae, and Cyzicidae). I will extract and filter the species-level names to include only recognized clam shrimp taxa recorded in Florida. ichatbio lists: eulimnadia diversa, lynceus gracilicornis, eulimnadia insularis, eulimnadia astraova, eulimnadia texana, and limnadia lenticularis. it's missing genus Paralimnetis. me: you are missing a genus ichatbio: Thank you for pointing that out. You are correct that my previous filter included only the genera Eulimnadia, Lynceus, and Limnadia. There is another clam shrimp genus known from Florida: Cyzicus. Would you like me to include Cyzicus in the filtered list and provide updated results for clam shrimp species recorded in Florida? me: cyzicus is not found in florida ichatbio: Thank you for clarifying—Cyzicus is not found in Florida, so it shouldn’t appear in a Florida clam shrimp list. If you believe another genus is missing from the clam shrimp genera known in Florida, could you specify which one? Otherwise, based on iDigBio records and typical literature, the genera Eulimnadia, Lynceus, and Limnadia are the main clam shrimp genera documented in Florida. If you’d like, I can attempt to extract any other candidate genera from the occurrence records or check for further synonymies. Please let me know how you’d like to proceed!
August 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon
TEHRAN—Amidst mounting geopolitical tensions, Iranian officials said Wednesday they were increasingly concerned about the United States of America’s uranium-enrichment program, fearing the Western nat...
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June 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Harvard IS really great at resisting

"Cellini & his researchers have identified more than 900 people that had been enslaved by university affiliates...& nearly 500 of their direct living descendants.

It wasn’t long after the work began to pick up steam that Cellini started running into trouble."
Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’
When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired
www.theguardian.com
June 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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stinasdemons.com
🌈 Happy Wednesday, Scooby Gang 🌈 ⛧💖💜💙⛧
1) Fred from Scooby Doo about to unmask someone. A white circle has been put over their head that says "Bisexual" and text underneath it says "Alright, Bisexual, let's see what your real sexuality is" 2) Fred from Scooby Doo pulling off the mask on the person. Now the white circle says, "Still bisexual but now annoyed"
June 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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xoxogossipgita.bsky.social
You really just gotta imagine that all women are fully autonomous human beings capable of making decisions for themselves in the bedroom, even if their specific choices don’t turn you on. Give that a try.
June 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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rooklafetra.bsky.social
Growing up with a speech impediment and getting called the R word while simultaneously being placed in the gifted program, I realized at about seven years old that people think being able to communicate in a very specific way is the same thing as being "intelligent" and "right."
fangirljeanne.bsky.social Jeanne (she/they) @fangirljeanne.bsky.social · Jun 10
This is the thing I’ve been trying to explain to people. Just people AGI is return right answers doesn’t mean it’s reasoning.

The biggest flaw in how we think about intelligence is rooted in how we’re taught (literally in schools) to value answers over showing the work (reasoning) behind it.
'The illusion of thinking': Apple research finds AI models collapse and give up with hard puzzles
You and me both.
mashable.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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katymontgomerie.com
The Cass Review gets peer reviewed and absolutely shredded

Cass is the Wakefield of our time. A scandal in broad daylight
May 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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canopyrobin.com
This was quite possibly the coolest science talk I've ever done. Let me tell you why 🧵
Robin sitting in a climbing harness, suspended approximately eight metres above a packed lecture theatre while pictures of gliding mammals and lizards and frogs are projected in the background
April 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
A screenshot of a tumblr post's hastgs, which read: "#you all can't be trusted to eat the rich #because you can't identify the rich #you'll eat a bunch of actors and doctors #and the rich will just laugh"
March 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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adamcsharp.bsky.social
There’s an Urdu name for a “Jack of all trades” that translates to “every talent Lord.” A Korean version is “eight direction beauty.” But my favourite name for someone who tries their hand at lots of different things is the Lithuanian Barbė devyndarbė. It means “Barbie nine jobs”
March 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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samwinkler.bsky.social
Me accepting LinkedIn requests and immediately getting messaged about how AI could improve my games writing workflow
Should we have connected? We should not have connected
March 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
Erich Fromm, The Heart of Man (1964)
March 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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brunojnavarro.bsky.social
the full quote here

english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
Q. It wasn’t just Trumpism. Some Democratic voices say it’s time to move beyond the issue of trans rights in areas like sports, which affect very few people. A. You could say that about the Jews, Black people or Haitians, or any very vulnerable minority. Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?
March 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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brandonbird.bsky.social
A key to understanding Reacher is that he's invented by a British guy. The things some people are perceiving as right-wing coded (guns, vigilantism) are things the author perceives, correctly, as American-coded.
gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · Mar 2
Reacher has gotta be the funniest show in existence.

Entire show about a big guy that extrajudicially murders dozens of people in between scenes where he turns to the camera and says “I am a liberal and in this house we believe in WOMEN’S RIGHTS”
March 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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nathanfrancis79.bsky.social
🎨 #WinslowHomer, American painter, was #BOTD 24 February 1836. #Art #Painting
February 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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headfallsoff.com
youtube video: the bluepoint demon souls does not respect the artistic intent of the original

me: i fully agree

youtube video: because of the western cultural imperialism of putting black people in boletaria, a form of propaganda nearly as old as human civilisation

me: ok steady on a minute
February 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM