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사실 난 행복하고 싶은 걸 누구보다 더
사실 난 행복하고 예쁜 걸 누구보다 더
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eithin.bsky.social
"AI is inevitable and we'll never get rid of it" - mate, they said the same thing about smallpox, absolute monarchy, and Mr Blobby.
December 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social
#Caturday 🐱:
Min Zhen 閔貞 (China, 1730–after 1791)
Black #Cat (n.d.; Qing dynasty, 18th c.)
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Painting: 78.5 x 38.5 cm. (30 7/8 x 15 3/16 in.)
Princeton University Art Museum y1947-65 artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collecti...
#CatsInArt #ChineseArt
hanging scroll with ink painting of a CHONKY tuxedo cat, tail up and looking towards viewer smiling
December 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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chrisgardiner.bsky.social
Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.

But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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i-330.bsky.social
..But a profit-driven industry bullied us into inserting it everywhere; into our homes and schools and public spaces, before we really understood the risks. This resulted in decades, if not centuries, of illness, injuries, deaths, and the astronomical financial burden of trying to remove the stuff."
December 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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i-330.bsky.social
"As one Massachusetts school administrator recently said; this moment with AI is remarkably like the moment when we were introduced to asbestos. Yes, it had some remarkably promising characteristics – fireproofing! – and had some real utility in science, research, and industrial applications...
December 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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ali-alkhatib.com
how much water does it take to disrupt the careers of millions of people? how much water does it take to make deepfakes of underage kids? how much water does it take to exacerbate people's mental health crises? is there a good number? is there an acceptable number?
December 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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genderjustice.us
On a dark teal background Megan Peterson, Executive Director of Gender Justice is quoted: “[This is] an outrageous overreach of federal power — an attack not just on transgender people, but on everyone’s right to make private medical decisions free from political control.” On a dark teal background text reads “This attack on health care access is part of a larger political strategy to undermine bodily autonomy and erode trust in medical science. We vow to continue defending providers, families, and patients and their access to proven, and often lifesaving medical care.”
December 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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corgibutt79.bsky.social
I have yet to see a single explanation of how AI provides any tangible benefit to anyone. It’s Crypto part 2 where only the people who create it see any value in it.
December 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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kizzythechemist.bsky.social
A day in the library saves a week in the lab, and that is the hill I will die on!!
disabilitystor1.bsky.social Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19d
How, I really do wonder, do you "do science" without actually reading the existing scholarship? What has really struck me since the gAI boom is how many people have such a profound contempt for the act of reading--or at the least seem not to understand that reading is thinking.
December 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
The Medical University of South Carolina Research Integrity Officer and Committee concluded that "human error in regards to organization and record keeping of original images was the cause for this mistake."

How the heck can this be caused by a mistake?

#ThisImageIsFine
#ImageForensics
Figure from a scientific paper showing three Western blots, each with five lanes. The bottom one (labeled b-actin) has three dientical lanes, which I marked with red boxes. https://pubpeer.com/publications/4E8CA18B8A0DE440619A23D705CBB8 doi: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2021.11.005.
December 16, 2025 at 11:01 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.
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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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katz.theracket.news
Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
bnonews.com BNO News @bnonews.com · 18d
WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
December 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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celestelabedz.bsky.social
It's over.

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.

www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
persiimmons.bsky.social
it’s almost like….. people have been saying this would happen……. the entire time…….
December 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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ctimmermann.bsky.social
Useful reminder here from historian of medicine Fay Bound-Alberti that assumptions that the human body can be repaired like a machine as long as spare parts can be sourced, are misguided.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable
Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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mtacalendar.bsky.social
This is really concerning. The Junta in Myanmar will arrest, conscript or kill many of those the US may return.
We honestly cannot understand how the US admin can say the situation in Myanmar is improving when ALL EVIDENCE IS TO THE CONTRARY.
womenspeacenetwork.org Women's Peace Network @womenspeacenetwork.org · Nov 24
🚨"The Trump administration announced it will cancel temporary asylum for around 10,000 #Myanmar nationals living in the US, despite the country being ruled by a military dictatorship that has a record of executing dissidents."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump administration cancels temporary asylum for Myanmar nationals living in US
Homeland security claims country being ruled by military dictatorship ‘no longer continues to meet conditions’ for Temporary Protected Status
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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juliet-turner.bsky.social
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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jameeljaffer.bsky.social
MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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watershedlab.bsky.social
If you enjoyed the below article, may I offer up the (in)famous Shugar Kane medicine cabinets study. We withdrew the submission when it was accepted and the (predatory) journal wanted $$$. 🧪https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qM0mQDNmYbhbZSobESSTo81ihV2yguFNMNZb13C91V4/edit?usp=sharing
November 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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natureportfolio.nature.com
A Comment article in Nature Reviews Nephrology discusses how little attention has been given to how the termination of 2,100 NIH grants effect people who stand to benefit most from scientific discoveries: patients, care partners and community leaders. go.nature.com/47nCWmG #medsky 🧪
A quote on a blue background states, "The majority of the patients on our board interpreted this message to mean: 'Your life does not matter to us.'" The logo for "Nature Reviews Nephrology" is at the bottom.
November 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM