So, I used to help domestic violence survivors get civil protection orders. I can say confidently that the answer to every one of this jackass’s rhetorical questions about whether a “real” victim of domestic violence would behave toward an abuser the way his ex behaved toward him is… yes. 100%.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

Vacation day 1, 10k run, groceries, reading, then, Spiderman!

Nature did a short piece on our preprint about how LLMs will affect the practice of science; my more detailed thread is below.

Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts

Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

OK, LOVE that the Giant Red Octopus is the main swag for the Not Since Moses run this year... but, being a Marine Biologist in Nova Scotia... why wasn't the swag a creature that actually lives here?? Like, all the lil hermit crabs in the area? Shore birds? Lobster? Clams/cockles? Barnacles? Whelks?

Someone I went to HS with has "created" a company, based on AI-generated stuff, using Gen-AI to advertise said AI-generated stuff. Hallllpppp us all. (if you are curious, look up The Fundy Mist on Insta). My brain cannot handle this AI-obsessed world.

Before the Crash: The First 100 responses to our Incident Report Form paint a worrying picture. Will our councillors act with more urgency? Read the report and join our call to action here: visionzerohfx.ghost.io/before-the-c... #VisionZero #NearMissesMatter

Before the Crash: The First 100 responses to our Incident Report Form paint a worrying picture

On April 10, 2026, Vision Zero Kjipuktuk-Halifax launched an online incident safety report form for people who walk, cycle, roll or use other modes of micromobility or mobility aids to report any clos...

visionzerohfx.ghost.io

Fuck off, Adobe. I need to know this shit, not pretend to know it.

If you use Gen AI for creating your ads... for making your merch... if you share Gen AI-created images about things... I am sorry, I have lost all respect/faith in your intelligence. Please stop sharing and promoting Gen AI crap. No joke, saw a new "business" selling all AI-made "designs" ...

Even though Coastal '26 is done, I need therapeutic adventures at field locations.

Coastal Ecology (v. 16) over for another year... this year, inspired by my co-instructor Mar from MIZ, I decided to do a "Coastal Creative" where students submit any HAND DONE creative piece (including a hand-written "display card". It was such an amazing success that I think I need to write it up.

"Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well."

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

As a driver do you... look in your right mirror before turning right? ... Dutch reach to open door?... look right for pedestrians before turning right?... scan crosswalks as you approach? ... look for pedestrians before left turn (not just oncoming cars!)... if you do none/some of these, time to!!

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals

Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

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Dudes I'm so on fleek. 💄👁🤡

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 2w ago

People defending Mark Carney by justifying their vote for the Liberal party because of the far right Conservatives. I get it. However, we as Canadians need to have expectations of whatever government is in power. We need to question and expect answers. They work for us.

I have been teaching a field course every summer for 15 years. The types of injuries one can accrue are numerous. Never did I think one injury would be from falling asleep at the kitchen table.

Yup fell asleep working, and my elbow slipped and I smashed my head into the table. Broke my glasses. I promise I really do love teaching field school.

www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

Two pedestrian road collisions in Halifax cause outcry from activists

Two road collisions resulted in pedestrians transported to the hospital with serious injuries. Activists say these crashes are too common.

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3 field trips and 6 days, Coastal Ecology v. 16 week 1 is done. I am not exaggerating when I say I am covered in hundreds of midge bites. HUNDREDS.

nazis love each other's company.

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m cryinggggg look at the invite list for the US Ambassador to Canada’s 4th of July party dawg 💀💀

Turns out you cannot readily become an elite thinker by feeding yourself buckets of slop

Lauri Donahue@lauridonahue.bsky.social · last mo.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

After sunset, to stay cool, my son and I went for a walk during the power outage. At the intersection of Southgate and Larry Uteck, probably about 75% of cars never stopped at the "lights". I'd say only about 1 in 15 cars did a FULL (legal) stop. Most did rollings, half just went through no care.

Hottigen Street Peggys Stove Hot Chocolate Lake NSCC Bakerley Campus Burntside Industrial Park The Magazine Grill Bedforged Basin Q104° East Roast Lifestyle Lot Six Six Six Mic Melt Mall Hot Mezza Two If By Searing Salvatorrids Hellifax🔥

Lightning 🌩 struck a tree right behind my parents' garage! So glad they were indoors when it happened.

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

But, no climate action plan/targets anymore, yay. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Extreme weather, including flooding, wipes out Canada Day activities in Ottawa

Evening Canada Day activities in Ottawa were cancelled, including the fireworks display, due to "extreme weather," as heavy rain and thunderstorms caused flooding and power outages. The CBC's Emma Wel...

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It CAN have value, though... 2 years ago, Erik realized he still had a library book... or, maybe kids forgot something in the classroom that they need before doors are locked for 2 months. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Why, why, why is the last day of school only 2 hours long? N.S. parents want to know | CBC News

"Silly," "pointless" and "nonsense" is how some parents describe the final, two-hour day of school.

cbc.ca

Had to buy a few packs of washable markers for my SEASIDE class that starts soon... because, the large container that had years' worth of end-of-school-year hand-me-downs from my kids' supplies got STOLEN FROM MY OFFICE during the lockout last year. Like... who steals a container of old Crayolas?!