This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire control of free speech. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...

We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

anildash.com

This reads like an onion headline.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 12h ago

BREAKING: The U.S. stock market hits an all-time high as expectations rise for companies to keep making more money.

the tech bro who uses AI to play fantasy football for him is being dragged online. no one has ever been quite so mad frankly.

Seattle rocks

I am watching and enjoying Neagely but I’m being reminded of how inexcusably shit the Amazon streaming app is

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many

Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.

forbes.com

Me when I get minor revisions, oil on canvas, 2026 #science

Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan

The last year I played FF I simply knew so little about football still that I just didn’t touch my lineup all year even to cope with injuries and I made it all the way to the final. My friend who truly cared was so mad 😂 Anyway, AI could never lead to this much fun

Mike Drucker@mikedrucker.bsky.social · yesterday

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base

Mike Drucker@mikedrucker.bsky.social · yesterday

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

Just…no

Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 17h ago

Many degree programmes do no more than “eat three years” of students’ lives, according to the shadow minister for work and pensions. Georgia Louise Luckhurst reports from #CPC26 #highered #education https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/bad-degrees-eating-young-peoples-lives-shadow-minister

I’m 33% of the way to a Nobel

Andrew D Wilson@adw.bsky.social · 15h ago

Step 1: get rejected by Nature Step 2: ?? Step 3: Nobel Prize!

No walking with super long arms.

it's easy to forget how delightfully weird turing's actual paper is

Step 1: get rejected by Nature Step 2: ?? Step 3: Nobel Prize!

Sitting on a corn flake@grrlscientist.bsky.social · 18h ago

In 1992 Peter Ratcliffe received this rejection from Nature. Almost 30 years later he won the Nobel Prize for the same discovery.

Art

cagygibbon.bsky.social@cagygibbon.bsky.social · 17h ago

Every. Damn. Day

Despite an estimated $30–40 billion in corporate AI investments worldwide, 95% of custom enterprise AI pilots fail to generate ROI or remain stuck in the testing phase. Only 5% make the leap into day-to-day production use with measurable P&L impact. mlq.ai/media/quarte...

I hate English department Halloween. What do you mean, you're the hermeneutics of suspicion

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Our department @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience! Join our lovely community here in beautiful Amsterdam! 🧠🔥 Deadline: October 15 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

How do philosophers and scientists of mind actually work together, and where does the collaboration break down? ISPSM is launching In Conversation, a new online series that aims to bring philosophers and scientists together to work through questions like these. 📅 23 Oct 2026, 1pm BST/8am EDT

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

This isn’t AI. My cousin Braycen was torn apart by Havana syndrome which is why he’s in his coffin in “chunks”. The ugly “boy” in the (real) photo isn’t his son; it’s a full grown small intruder man who ran off with the head & ate it behind the funeral home. RT to salute 🫡 🇺🇸

👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 4d ago

judging by the size of this alleged toddler, i’m suspicious this is ai

Look I know why the cord’s here etc but there’s an affordances issue where I always deeply want to pull it and no sign beats the perception of an affordance And that’s why, Officer…😂

Ok, so of course the hunt for markers here is a hunt for *neural* markers of consciousness, and I get that to an extent. But what if consciousness, like cognition, is also best understood as happening at the organism-environment scale? What would an ecological hunt for consciousness look like? 🤔

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 2d ago

I'm delighted to kick off a new project from the @nytimes.com science desk called Unknowns. My contribution is an essay on the consciousness of babies. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jDfXLU

I am able to take on new doctoral students through this amazing initiative! If you are interested please reach out to me by email to discuss.

Steve Fleming@smfleming.bsky.social · 2d ago

Excited to be launching our new PhD program in Minds and Machines at UCL with co-Directors Tali Sharot and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social To apply, find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Our launch event is on Nov 10th, with a cracking lineup of speakers: luma.com/cikzcth0

Me when my parents rented DEEP IMPACT from Blockbuster

Viewing this video changed the trajectory of my day earlier