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Dee Crescitelli

@dcrescitelli.bsky.social

Educator (Math wants to be your friend! Science rocks! The arts are essential!)-- #MathsPunk she/her

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 23h ago

Every villain has a weakness. And occasionally their weakness is turning to the camera and explaining what their weakness is and that their weakness is making themselves stupider

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · yesterday

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.
Dee Crescitelli@dcrescitelli.bsky.social · last wk.

Do we really want to put all of our important work on Hugging Face for rogue agents to mess with? Have we learned nothing from recent incidents? www.platformer.news/openai-huggi...

The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought

The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?

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Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social · last wk.

This is the future of scientific papers. Instead of a PDF, the paper is an AI agent that you can talk to, ask questions, run analyses. No more digging through supplements - just ask the paper directly: "what p-value cutoff was used in Fig 3B? Re-run at 0.01." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dan Whitehead@danwhitehead.net · 2w ago

The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w ago

There are currently no active conversations for a full ‘MUPPET SHOW’ series revival. Disney, The Muppets Studio and Point Grey Pictures have had difficulties with deciding on a premise for the series that they can all agree on. (Source: Deadline)

Helen Czerski@helenczerski.bsky.social · 2w ago

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 3w ago

so far these are the big real uses of AI 1. Analyzing huge data sets better than we could before 2. Automate hacking and malware to an unprecedented degree 3. Supercharge fraud beyond all prior precedent 4. Flood the internet with slop / disinfo Where's the change in our very nature?

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · 3w ago

I think there are fair questions when the POTUS spends his day posting Ai cringe 60 times. Like who is making all of these memes? Is he posting with Natalie or does she have full permission to post on his behalf without content approval? Is the White House ever asked anything about these episodes?

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · 3w ago

Democrats who have had absolutely nothing to do with Hasan Piker will be hounded about him, while Republicans who are directly benefitting from Musk funding will be asked about him in the most generic "money in politics" way, if at all.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3w ago

Once you notice this, it's the most obvious double standard in the political press. Democrats have to answer for the smallest voice even if it has no actual tie to them, but Republicans never have to answer for the insanely racist billionaire donor driving their entire party.

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · 3w ago

Democrats who have had absolutely nothing to do with Hasan Piker will be hounded about him, while Republicans who are directly benefitting from Musk funding will be asked about him in the most generic "money in politics" way, if at all.

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm sure "affordability" has popped as the poll tested safe ground for Democrats to campaign on. But I wonder how often the consultants poll, "How sick are you of the bad guys getting away with it?"

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4w ago

Cool, cool, I have a couple quick questions -- who's in charge of preventing food-induced illnesses right now and how good a job are they doing?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

RFK Jr defends measles: "In 10 years, there have been 3 measles deaths in America. There are now about 1.2 million deaths every year from food-induced illness. The media and certain demagogic politicians are constantly trying to scare us about infectious disease."

Justin Levitt@justinlevitt.bsky.social · last mo.

As mentioned in my comment on USPS's new ballot rule, the American postal service was born in 1774 _because_ the alternative system (the Crown's post) let the executive decide which mail not to deliver. For a Court riveted by bespoke historical analogs, this rule is 252 years of unAmerican.

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