I believe this is the reverse centaurism that @doctorow.pluralistic.net warned us about...

404 Media@404media.co · 19h ago

Meta announced that its new AI agent, Muse could call businesses for you to do things like make reservations. But in reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media @jasonkoebler.bsky.social learned. www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...

Hey #ChemSky and other environmental types: I'm looking for a few papers to read in the seminars we do in my Environmental Chemistry class. I have the aqueous environment pretty well covered, but I could use more suggestions for atmospheric papers.

‘Every hour a chemist spends deciphering figures or images to see what has already been made is an hour that could instead be spent on chemistry discovery,’ says Mirit Eldor, life sciences managing director at Elsevier. #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/elsevie...

Elsevier teams up with AI firm to extract chemical structure data from papers

Publishing giant will host data on Reaxys but researchers have concerns about independently validating the method

chemistryworld.com

PSA: sending an abusive email and then asking for a favour isn't a great way to do business.

BBC "broadcast a livestream" Other outlets (Times, Metro) see slashing the dinghy as the headline

It is probably right to make it the headline. To omit it entirely while finding space for "organised recent protests" looks like bowlderising the news out of some curiously skewed idea that being even handed means out leaving out the facts www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard

Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover

theguardian.com

The BBC news report simply says Mr Thomas broadcast a livestream. This seems highly inadequate in quite a lengthy report, leaving out such key details: what he did; the French stating the behaviour was unlawful www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dozens of migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea

Protesters had earlier gathered in Gosport after an initial report that the small boat would be brought further west.

bbc.co.uk

And they thought Muslim women choosing to wear hijabs (headscarves) and niqabs (face veil) was a threat to British values lol

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2d ago

Good luck to the Hampshire police. Requiring those present to be identifiable could be one key to deterring disorder

...and at the end of it John Henry is like 'well, it felt kind of efficient using two hammers but I’m not sure what the point was.'" -Rusty Foster, Today in Tabs www.todayintabs.com/p/meta-s-new...

Meta's New A.I. Agent For Losers

Also: "fast as hell and built for sickos?" That's what they called me in high school.

todayintabs.com

This really puts stuff like publicly funded third spaces in perspective for me. It's so relatively cheap to build out community centers, gyms, makerspaces, studios etc.

Tim O’Brien@timobrien.bsky.social · 2d ago

The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in U.S. history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge U.S. infrastructure projects such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

Maybe those antibody vendors should have just said their validation western blots were AI-enhanced. Then it would all be fine 😌

Christophe 🔬 Leterrier@christlet.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is the updated part. Looks like the movie is an AI-generated fluorescence image from a non-labeled acquisition technique. No indication that the Small World jury and organizers have requested and verified the raw data (as mentioned as a possibility in the competition rules)

BBC news has been by and for the far right for many many years.

Marianne Heaslip@marianneh.bsky.social · 3d ago

On the Today programme just now Patriot Platform were described as 'carpenters who go round building houses' and 'working class men'. I'd really like to know WTF is going on with BBC news.

it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow

Decades of cowardice and appeasement of the far right by successive governments has led us to a place where volunteers in lifeboats are at risk from armed thugs.

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · 4d ago

5. After around 30 hours at sea, the dinghy was intercepted by the RNLI and those on board transferred to two lifeboats. Two lifeboat personnel tried to secure the empty dinghy. Thomas yelled abuse and knifed the dinghy to deflate it - with a rescuer still on board.

Happy Birthday Michael Faraday! 🎉 Faraday was born #OTD (22 Sep) in 1791. He made significant contributions to electrochemistry, including popularising many of the electrochemical terms used today ⚡ wp.me/s4aPLT-faraday #ChemSky 🧪

From @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me on what we should take from the 2026 summer of AI hype: www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

technologyreview.com

I don't know, maybe all those non-"straight white dude" people won their awards because their books were actually really fucking good, how about that as a hypothesis

A study tracking diamond open-access journals has found an increase in titles switching to other publishing models — especially over the past few years. My latest for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hundreds of ‘free’ academic journals have started charging fees

A study tracking diamond open-access journals has found an increase in titles switching to other publishing models — especially over the past few years.

nature.com

My two brains

Dave Palmer@davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 4d ago

My two brains

Whoever decided all images should be webp instead of literally any other format needs a slap

If Democrats continue to focus on elite issues like the price of diesel fuel instead of on kitchen table issues like chem trails and racial purity, they're going to get walloped in November.

I get a sneak peek at the votes coming in, but I have to say I was not expecting the non-zero number of people currently voting for David MacMillan to get a 2nd #ChemNobel.

Laura Howes@laurahowes.bsky.social · last wk.

And ahead of that, we'd love to hear who you think might be in the running. You might get bragging rights if your prediction turns out to be correct. cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

This Black Mirror episode is an allegory of AI in the workplace: shortly after you come to rely on it, the price will ↑↑ and the experience will ↓↓. It happened to AirBnB & Uber, and it's why you should NEVER build a workflow on something that's still burning VC. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_...

Common People (Black Mirror) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Hey so Cofnas's racism is so clear-cut and overt and central to his targeting of Arday that if someone say something like this it's actually an invitation to ignore everything they say about anything because they fundamentally lack either intellectual honesty, critical thinking, or both.

Brooke@brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 6d ago

"Pinker, who never met an anti-woke campaign he didn’t like, recently joined the crusade of 'race realist' Cofnas against Arday.... Pinker grieved not over Arday’s presumed suicide but the fact that he and Cofnas had been been 'tarred' with charges of racism for their attacks on him."

"All corners of academia will soon be flooded with AI-generated research....Maths and CS go first because their entire output is symbol manipulation...Biology comes later not because biologists are cleverer but because the rate-limiting step is physical" giorgio.gilest.ro/the-weimar-o...

I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.

Oh I see you think this has nothing to do with you

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 7d ago

That stop the boats shit not looking so smart now, I guess

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.