I think we need to put a little more respect on snake oil salesmen. Do you think it's easy to squeeze the oil out of all those snakes?

What brave hero will create presentation software that allows me to embed webpages - not links to webpages that make me exit the presentation and go into the browser, but just a handy little iframe in the presentation itself

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Solidarity with Emily Tucker and her open letter to students. Tucker writes, "But the great thing is, you don’t have to go along with this, and I urge you not to. You can refuse to use the chatbot. You can tell your professors that you don’t want them to use it or to require you to use it."

An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements about "Generative AI"

Image source: Bibliothèque nationale de France An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements by the University about “Generative AI” Dear students, As you know, in …

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Streaming services that have introduced ads forgot the lost art of making sure someone isn't mid sentence when you cut to one. Watch older TV and you can see they built it kn. Between that and the fact that most ad spots are incoherent AI slop it makes for rough viewing

WE ALL HAVE THE EXACT SAME GENETIC CODE THATS WHY SEX ACTUALLY WORKS

Philip Ball@philipcball.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Reminder to media: Your genome sequence is not your "genetic code". That is not what "genetic code" means. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER!

oh cool we’re doing the Wire Mother experiment again, but on all of society

horror Ewacui@ewacat.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is so tragic it's actually incredibly funny

New! For robust research, center values, not technology, w/ @nerdpro.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1894... Our commentary on Futrell/Mahowald "How linguistics stopped worrying and learned to love the LMs”, forthcoming in BBS

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

I have learned in my travels that it is currently basically impossible to get a VM of any kind on Azure anywhere in Europe. Ironically, I had to learn this through a tortured interaction with an actual person in customer service. Copilot seemed not to be aware it was eating the world

I like how social media enables scientists to actively dispel popular myths & misconceptions about our research. As an illustration, here’s my thread on why there’s no such thing as a “gene for language”... 🧪 1/9

Incandescent. One of the best pieces I've read about what university means to people and their communities - and what will happen to a city and people after one closes. The *Labour* government and Jaqui Smith in particular should be ashamed of themselves and shamed into doing something. Deplorable.

‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?

When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...

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There's a lot of bad shit going on right now, but god help me, this automatically generated pie chart from google forms might be the proverbial straw for me

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

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It’s a tremendous honour, really tremendous - to be presented with a ‘World No.1 University’ ranking from Oxford. Very smart people. The best. Everyone knows it. Nobody thought it could happen, but here we are. Absolutely incredible.

are you displeased with today’s AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a... pls repost

This was a cowardly subtweet of this mess, dissected at length here: bsky.app/profile/mehr...

Dr Christine Cuskley@nerdpro.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I keep coming across this idea that AI can be used to generate research ideas..where did this come from? I know a lot of people who are burnt out and have trouble moving forward with or engaging with new ideas, but I have never met anyone who's like "welp I got to the end of ideas I guess"

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service

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I keep coming across this idea that AI can be used to generate research ideas..where did this come from? I know a lot of people who are burnt out and have trouble moving forward with or engaging with new ideas, but I have never met anyone who's like "welp I got to the end of ideas I guess"

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

Why is Trump always doing interviews on Air Force one looking like he just got caught by reporters wiggling out of the bathroom on an easyJet flight

New Leather-Bound Notebook To Really Unleash Area Woman's Creativity https://theonion.com/new-leather-bound-notebook-to-really-unleash-area-woman-1819576030/

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet

Steve Rattner@steverattner.bsky.social · 8mo ago

In 2025, AI became pervasive in American life and the economy, with ChatGPT surging in adoption much faster than any other major technology in memory. @nytopinion.nytimes.com