At this point honestly shout out to the students who half ass their homework making it obvious it isn’t AI. Meanwhile looking at one of the nicest assignments I’ve ever seen 🤔

Tonight I was behind a car that was the same make and model as my 2019 car and it had a Gore Lieberman 2000 bumper sticker and… I don’t even know but I thought I should share.

I bought my first ACA plan two years ago. It was $595 a month, this year it was $688 a month. Next year, with a higher deductible, it is $821 a month… I hate this effing timeline

Is it possible to be friends with a praying mantis asking for a friend send skeet

“We have a Pokémon situation here” Someone remind me to come back to this skeet and tell you what it’s about in like a few months.

The chamber to group member ratio in my lab is getting a little out of hand. It’s giving Oprah.

Still server issues. Now Laura Watkins (head of science policy at STScI) is saying new deadline tomorrow, Oct. 1st at 5pm EDT for all proposers.

Sarah E Moran@offallingstars.bsky.social · 5d ago

STScI says deadline extended 1 hour to 9pm EDT, unless issues persist in which case this time will be updated

STScI says deadline extended 1 hour to 9pm EDT, unless issues persist in which case this time will be updated

Sarah E Moran@offallingstars.bsky.social · 5d ago

#JWSTC6 APT has crashed with ~8 minutes before the deadline tonight. Chatter says the deadline will be extended but we don't know until when...

So the lander has a group chat? Do the instruments emoji react? #ThingsActualScientistsSay

Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.

District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'

Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.

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All the replies to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s posts are wild to me. Like I can absolutely envision something like this existing. But the sheer amount of work required to make it better/easier/less time consuming is absolutely not even remotely worth it to me (ignoring environment, ethics, etc)

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7d ago

I am sincerely happy for you (environmental and political issues aside) but my point stands that most people — dare I say those we might call normal people — simply do not think of their lives this way. For them to train an agent they would have to first do a lot of emotional and cognitive work.

A thinking that I find…something is I have yet to be surprised about who is all in on GenAI and who isn’t. Every time I’m like yup that tracks

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people.

The sunny side of this delusion is the computer gives you a flying car and makes it so you don't have to work. The blackpill one is that it wipes us out via some cinematic method TBD. Two futures you don't actually have to live in. Both are abdications, and embarrassingly childish on their face.

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

Ok unrelated to my car. A thing I’m *still* not used to about Maryland that feels like magic is multiple growing seasons. I mostly gardened in Montana which, well it snowed one 4th of July as a child so. I planted these a few weeks ago. Fall garden what

he is! www.etsy.com/listing/4330...

Walnut Stained Antler Earrings - Etsy

This Wedding Earrings item by EshkanHouse has 4 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Minneapolis, MN. Listed on Jul 7, 2026

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Does Bluesky have car nerds? I need help. I got my oil changed and new brake pads installed today. The whole thing was a CF, which is why I’m asking you not them. When I got home I discovered a piece of black plastic in my cup holder. Google lens swears it’s a piece of my car. Im less convinced

Here! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Planetary Science MS/PhD Positions Starting Fall 2027

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Dr. Adeene Denton@spacewhalerider.com · 2w ago

Anyone know if that spreadsheet of places recruiting planetary science grad students is up for this year?

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

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Read this before upgrading to iOS 27 if you have an iPhone 15 or newer that supports "Apple Intelligence." New AI features might send your data (like Signal messages) off your device to Apple's servers It's absurd that we have to work so hard for our privacy :(

How to Limit What Apple’s New Siri AI Can Access in iOS 27

Apple’s new operating system is here, and along with it comes a new version of Siri, dubbed with two very familiar letters: AI. As the name suggests, this Siri power-up resembles an AI chatbot more th...

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What's the rule? DO NOT. PICK UP. OR TOUCH. THE BATS.

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 2w ago

if you’re the white woman who was picking up a bat in downtown minneapolis on hennepin ave between washington & 3rd on 9/15 at noon, the minnesota department of health would like to talk to you because that shit was RABID! i would also like to talk to you because girl, wtf

*8* postdoctoral positions in atmospheric physics, from the Earth to Exoplanets: aas.org/jobregister/... This is part of the Multiscale Physics of Clouds Across Planetary Atmospheres collaboration, funded by the Simons Foundation, led by Prof. @astrocaroline.bsky.social!

I’m watching Mystery, Alaska and having Thoughts about AI. Time to put down the internet for a while.

what are we doing

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 2w ago

US officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

I took my class on a “field trip” across campus to see a colleagues lab today. Whooo boy I need to do a better job of using the absurdly amazing resources on my own campus. I’m sorry you are doing what in the basement of Malone

This Saturday! A rare day game, er, tour! Join us in the morning and then head to the Trey Mancini O's game or the Baltimore Book Festival! Lots and lots going on in town 🧡

Full Story Baltimore@fullstorybaltimore.tours · 3w ago

~Radical Spirits in Right Field~ tours coming up soon: Thursday, Sept 17, 7:00pm Saturday, Sept 19, 10:00am Thursday, Sept 24, 7:00pm We're only planning to run this tour regularly through September, so come on it while you can!! Tix & more info here: fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#c...

There is a class I team teach every semester. There are three instructors. 20 students. And somehow every semester they don’t notice that we are strategically spaced throughout the room. I sit in the back row. So today I got to stand up and remind them I can see their laptop screens…

More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.

Avery@dyingsignals.love · 3w ago

The amount of money I saw one department paying for several AI services in a school year could cover the University’s pay one price textbook costs for nearly their entire enrolled student body in said department