I've seen people suggest you look at the eclipse through a colander. Don't do that, you'll strain your eyes.
William Russell
@robotowilliam.bsky.social
He/him | 38 | Lifelong explorer and learner Teacher, MSc Animal Behaviour (Queen's University Belfast), interested in animal cognition and social behaviours 🦋 Reylo ⏹️ Stop AI https://linktr.ee/robotowilliam
Today in cool stuff - 5500-3500-year-old tattooing needles.
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.
Absolutely delighted by this century-old news clipping stating that women should not read novels because reading will make them horny and depraved
Okay, is Disney just targeting black shows or were the black shows just the only ones that included trans characters?
ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social · 2d agoDisney has now shelved three episodes featuring storylines centered on transgender characters and gender identity. The episodes, from ‘Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur,’ ‘The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder,’ and ‘Win or Lose,’ were either cut from release or have since leaked online.
Go back to playing with different styles, Disney. I dare you!
BlueSky: I give you the very grown up and highly professional Astronomer Royal for Scotland, as quoted in the Times. 🤣 #solareclipse 🔭 www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
This is me apparently. The terminology is a bit opaque, but fun to read. My strongest results are: * Always On (for "Vigil") - I post at all hours * Broadcast (for "Chorus") - I don't reply much? * Immaculate (for "Polish") - my writing is "well-formed"
"I can't believe The Elder Scrolls 6 is coming out soon!" - geologists
Oh so we're fully just trying to make sure the world ends and everyone dies now, for real
Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by AI
Researchers say breakthrough offers hope for new medicines but also raises urgent biosecurity questions
theguardian.com
I used the power of the One Ring. I recognize that it's evil, and I expect a lot of people to be mad at me for using it. Sorry! However, I plan to continue using it. Here's why: (1/62)
it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout
Even if an intervention helps in the moment, good assistance should also help someone solve new problems later. We tested students on new problems targeting the same underlying skills, and found that LM-based interventions did not improve accuracy on these new problems.
New lab preprint! AI assistants are myopically helpful. Unlike caregivers that want to empower people and grow their long term autonomy, AI assistants interrupt independent thinking and jump right to the answer.
Verona Teo@veronateo.bsky.social · 4d agoDeciding when to jump in and help someone—and when to hold back and let them work through it—is something humans navigate constantly. How do AI assistants handle this tradeoff? We introduce Int-Bench, a framework for evaluating interventions during problem-solving tasks.
Child: Look, it's a red Mazda 3 like ours! But it has a roof rack. Me: That's sexual dimorphism. Child: Mom. Me: The rack is for carrying their young; I just don't remember which sex has it. Child: MOM STOP
1/4 This beautiful image, captured by Cassini’s narrow-angle camera on 18 January 2005, shows the heavily cratered moon Mimas drifting across the blue-tinted northern latitudes of Saturn.🔭🧪⚛️ photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/pia0... Image by NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute #planetsci #histsci
It’s the 88th anniversary today of this immensely enjoyable headline 🧵
My son just described camping as: ‘it’s like paying to be homeless’.