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Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
if I were still a catholic I would do a whole schism over this
Pope Leo XIV has revealed a closely held secret: He uses a different Wordle start word each day.
Pontifical secret revealed: Pope Leo XIV changes his Wordle start word each day
Pope Leo XIV has revealed a closely held secret: He uses a different Wordle start word each day. Leo divulged his strategy playing the popular New York Times online game during an online encounter with American young people.
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
if I were still a catholic I would do a whole schism over this
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Happy Doctor Who day! To celebrate here is the greatest of Doctor Who images: Verity Lambert using a Mechanoid as a lighter.
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Happy Doctor Who day! To celebrate here is the greatest of Doctor Who images: Verity Lambert using a Mechanoid as a lighter.
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All men live enveloped in whale-lines.
November 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
All men live enveloped in whale-lines.
Found an old “multi vision” lens filter at the bottom of a box and was pleased to see it fits one of my mft lenses. It’s a neat effect when the image has lots of geometry happening anyway. 📷
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Found an old “multi vision” lens filter at the bottom of a box and was pleased to see it fits one of my mft lenses. It’s a neat effect when the image has lots of geometry happening anyway. 📷
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3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇
1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK
2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves
3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK
2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves
3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward
The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.
metro.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇
1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK
2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves
3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK
2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves
3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
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honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)
very glad to hear the monkeys are not carrying infectious diseases, as I was going to be rooting for the monkeys regardless
Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi.
Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C.
buff.ly/16gTRJa
Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C.
buff.ly/16gTRJa
Lab Monkeys Escape Overturned Truck Near Heidelberg, Mississippi
Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck around mile marker 117 on Interstate 59, north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi, marshalling a response from numerous law…
www.mississippifreepress.org
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
very glad to hear the monkeys are not carrying infectious diseases, as I was going to be rooting for the monkeys regardless
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If you missed this, I’d like you to read it, and then share it with folks in your life who likely don’t know this story about AI and teen suicide.
Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.
Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?
"It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
If you missed this, I’d like you to read it, and then share it with folks in your life who likely don’t know this story about AI and teen suicide.
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🗣️ “I have found it very hard to speak out on this topic but I want everybody to experience football and experience the friendship and the girlhood you have within teams” - Kerstin Casparij
#FvT2025 #LGBTQfootball
#FvT2025 #LGBTQfootball
October 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🗣️ “I have found it very hard to speak out on this topic but I want everybody to experience football and experience the friendship and the girlhood you have within teams” - Kerstin Casparij
#FvT2025 #LGBTQfootball
#FvT2025 #LGBTQfootball
I’d add, if you can afford it, get boosted privately if not eligible.
After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet
The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter
christinapagel.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I’d add, if you can afford it, get boosted privately if not eligible.
using someone’s work without compensation to train a machine to produce similar work so you can profit from it is… “avoiding exploitation”???
A categorically new version of pornography centered on narrative while avoiding exploitation of sex workers and millions of liberal millennials inexplicably pretending like they're not going to use it
October 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
using someone’s work without compensation to train a machine to produce similar work so you can profit from it is… “avoiding exploitation”???
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Finally a Large Language Model I can get behind
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Finally a Large Language Model I can get behind
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Ok. They’ve pissed me off.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
September 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Ok. They’ve pissed me off.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
upgraded to iPadOS 26 and have honestly never regretted anything so much in my life
September 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
upgraded to iPadOS 26 and have honestly never regretted anything so much in my life
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If you are cis, please read this entire thread. It won't take much of your time
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
August 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
If you are cis, please read this entire thread. It won't take much of your time
how does this start at “know anyone” and then suddenly become about “friends”?
everyone knows reform voters, it’s just that no one likes them
everyone knows reform voters, it’s just that no one likes them
It's got to the stage where if 'you don't know anyone whose voting for Reform' you need to broaden your social circle.
Or, perhaps, reflect on what it is about your behaviour that means your friends don't feel able to be open with you about politics.
Or, perhaps, reflect on what it is about your behaviour that means your friends don't feel able to be open with you about politics.
August 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
how does this start at “know anyone” and then suddenly become about “friends”?
everyone knows reform voters, it’s just that no one likes them
everyone knows reform voters, it’s just that no one likes them
"cleaning up our streets" my god you are talking about human beings
August 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
"cleaning up our streets" my god you are talking about human beings
HANNAH.
FUCKING.
HAMPTON.
😍
FUCKING.
HAMPTON.
😍
July 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
HANNAH.
FUCKING.
HAMPTON.
😍
FUCKING.
HAMPTON.
😍
July 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM