Zara Hoffman
@zarahoffman.bsky.social
Self-published author & founder of @inimitablebooksllc.bsky.social
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"Be passionate about what you do! Don't stick with something that doesn't bring you joy."
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July 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"Be passionate about what you do! Don't stick with something that doesn't bring you joy."
Swipe for ambassador @zarahoffman.bsky.social's advice ❤️
Swipe for ambassador @zarahoffman.bsky.social's advice ❤️
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Research from @smnstuttgart.bsky.social shows #LLM #AI chatbots reflect typical human biases about insects:
- Bees/butterflies good, wasps bad
- 'Bees' restricted to honeybees, 'wasps' to yellowjackets, underplaying masses of vital species
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
#bugsky #scicomm
- Bees/butterflies good, wasps bad
- 'Bees' restricted to honeybees, 'wasps' to yellowjackets, underplaying masses of vital species
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
#bugsky #scicomm
Some Insects Are More Equal Than Others: A Comparison of Popular Large Language Model Chatbots' Treatment of Different Insect Groups
Our research demonstrates that in mirroring prevailing human biases towards different insect groups, LLM chatbots oversimplify insect diversity by predominantly restricting “bees” to honeybees and “w...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Research from @smnstuttgart.bsky.social shows #LLM #AI chatbots reflect typical human biases about insects:
- Bees/butterflies good, wasps bad
- 'Bees' restricted to honeybees, 'wasps' to yellowjackets, underplaying masses of vital species
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
#bugsky #scicomm
- Bees/butterflies good, wasps bad
- 'Bees' restricted to honeybees, 'wasps' to yellowjackets, underplaying masses of vital species
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
#bugsky #scicomm
Okay, but tell me why the captions on www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/... are wrong (he clearly says “whitely” and then the captions say “wisely”) - there are other errors, too. What the hell?
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton Met Donald Trump in SNL's "Founding Fathers" Cold Open
Lin Manuel Miranda
www.nbc.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Okay, but tell me why the captions on www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/... are wrong (he clearly says “whitely” and then the captions say “wisely”) - there are other errors, too. What the hell?
The Trump Administration is desperate to have this case dismissed
www.everylibrary.org/trump_imls_e... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
www.everylibrary.org/trump_imls_e... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
STATEMENT: Federal Funding for Libraries Makes it Case in Court
The Trump Administration is attempting to have this case dismissed based on standing.
www.everylibrary.org
April 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The Trump Administration is desperate to have this case dismissed
www.everylibrary.org/trump_imls_e... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
www.everylibrary.org/trump_imls_e... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
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Thinking of this sign from the Sackets Harbor protest:
April 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Thinking of this sign from the Sackets Harbor protest:
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“Ai would never rebel against me like those accursed human voters”
- every evil billionaire in a movie before his Ai destroys the entire world
- every evil billionaire in a movie before his Ai destroys the entire world
April 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
“Ai would never rebel against me like those accursed human voters”
- every evil billionaire in a movie before his Ai destroys the entire world
- every evil billionaire in a movie before his Ai destroys the entire world
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WaPo's own AI summary is calling BS
April 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
WaPo's own AI summary is calling BS
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another day, another reason to hate AI
The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers.
AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege
AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege
April 3, 2025 at 9:21 AM
another day, another reason to hate AI
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‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’
‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’
Writers will gather at the Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the LibGen database to train its AI models
Authors and other publishing industry professionals will stage a demonstration outside Meta’s London office today in protest of the organisation’s use of copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence.
Novelists Kate Mosse and Tracy Chevalier as well as poet and former Royal Society of Literature chair Daljit Nagra will be among those in attendance outside the company’s King’s Cross office. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’
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unbelievable that people need to be told that using ai images to criticize ai images is just using ai images
April 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
unbelievable that people need to be told that using ai images to criticize ai images is just using ai images
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embrace ai and perish
Less than a year after a full-throated embrace of AI, NaNoWriMo is shutting down :
April 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
embrace ai and perish
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Even Elon Musk's AI Grok says Trump's tariffs will be definitively bad for the U.S. economy.
April 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Even Elon Musk's AI Grok says Trump's tariffs will be definitively bad for the U.S. economy.
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go AI, fucking die
Less than a year after a full-throated embrace of AI, NaNoWriMo is shutting down :
April 1, 2025 at 4:20 AM
go AI, fucking die
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thanks AI
April 3, 2025 at 1:03 AM
thanks AI
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Overturning democracy and replacing it with one-party tyranny. It's happening right now in North Carolina. Coming to a state near you.
On Friday, lawyers for Griffin laid out their case for retroactively disqualifying 65,000 ballots, disenfranchising tens of thousands of registered voters and overturning the election results and Riggs’s victory. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
‘The Right to Vote Is Not Absolute’: GOP Bid to Steal North Carolina Supreme Court Election Heard by Court of Appeals
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
March 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Overturning democracy and replacing it with one-party tyranny. It's happening right now in North Carolina. Coming to a state near you.
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If I wanted to weaken the United States and make us less capable of combating 21st Century threats, I’d be doing exactly what the Trump White House and DOGE are doing.
February 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
If I wanted to weaken the United States and make us less capable of combating 21st Century threats, I’d be doing exactly what the Trump White House and DOGE are doing.
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If you want to reach out to the acting commissioner of the FDA to kindly ask WTAF, her name is Sara Brenner, M.D. and here's her email: Sara.Brenner@fda.hhs.gov
abcnews.go.com/US/fda-cance...
abcnews.go.com/US/fda-cance...
FDA cancels pivotal advisory meeting about next season's flu vaccine
An FDA vaccine advisory committee meeting to discuss next season’s flu vaccine has been canceled, potentially delaying the delivery schedule.
abcnews.go.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
If you want to reach out to the acting commissioner of the FDA to kindly ask WTAF, her name is Sara Brenner, M.D. and here's her email: Sara.Brenner@fda.hhs.gov
abcnews.go.com/US/fda-cance...
abcnews.go.com/US/fda-cance...
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these terminations are good evidence that this is just wanton destruction by deranged ideologues. there is no rhyme or reason other than whatever makes sense to a bunch of zoomer nazis and their bosses and enablers
The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach.
www.tsunami.gov
www.tsunami.gov
February 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
these terminations are good evidence that this is just wanton destruction by deranged ideologues. there is no rhyme or reason other than whatever makes sense to a bunch of zoomer nazis and their bosses and enablers
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Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business.
We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.
We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.
February 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business.
We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.
We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.
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TODAY. ONE DAY ONLY. Don't buy anything today if you can--wait until tomorrow (or if you must, buy from a small business and use cash). Send a message. 👇👇👇
I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!
February 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
TODAY. ONE DAY ONLY. Don't buy anything today if you can--wait until tomorrow (or if you must, buy from a small business and use cash). Send a message. 👇👇👇
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Democrats do not recognize or believe that public uproar, WHICH THEY CAN DRIVE, can change or affect politics. They have instantly forgotten about COVID, 1/6, Charlottesville, the ACA fight, the Kavanaugh fight. They desperately want to believe they have zero agency, so they can relax.
February 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Democrats do not recognize or believe that public uproar, WHICH THEY CAN DRIVE, can change or affect politics. They have instantly forgotten about COVID, 1/6, Charlottesville, the ACA fight, the Kavanaugh fight. They desperately want to believe they have zero agency, so they can relax.
The photo is satire but I totally believe people exist who are like this
February 6, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The photo is satire but I totally believe people exist who are like this