We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.
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dude at Pitt Starbucks drew me a crab and it is making me unexpectedly very cheerful
Just played around with some of these examples and damn.
Hadas Kotek 🦄@hadaskotek.bsky.social · last yr.Good news (for me!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5. Bad news (for everyone!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5. arxiv.org/pdf/2308.14921 hkotek.com/blog/gender-...
Hello, in your fields, are conferences held during the work week or on weekends? This is the second time this year I am dealing with needing to attend a work event on a Saturday and like... daycare is not open on Saturday? But also, why are any of you working on Saturday? Anyway, hard no here...
GPT-5 is like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.” Man, have you ever tried to get a PhD to follow instructions? It’s virtually impossible.
When you take the Test of English as a Foreign Language, you get a score, a useful result no matter how you perform. Not so for Portuguese -- if I flunk the B2 test, I won't walk away with a certificate saying I speak at a B1 level. Why design the test this way???
Book historians, tech history folks, everyone: what are your favorite examples of pre-computational automated writing systems, machines, etc? I take a capacious idea of “automated writing” here: prompt books, Dadaist poetry, autopens, etc etc
Important details from this story: 1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... 2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal." 3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.
one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules
BRB, need to make another donation to Wikipedia.
Wikimedia Foundation challenges Online Safety Act Regulations
The High Court is to hear the Wikimedia Foundation’s legal challenge to the Categorisation Regulations of the Online Safety Act (OSA). The foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedi...
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Donut holes don't exist as traversable spaces in real life.
Grateful to grow up in a generation of two body academics who had people like Lenore & Manuel (or Manuela & Jose) at CMU to show us that family life and a life rich with intellectual curiosity are not at odds.
Lenore Blum@lenoreblum.bsky.social · last yr.64 years ago, 7/30/61, and we’re still going strong! 😍 That’s Warren & Rook McCulloch at the table with us and Manuel’s & my parents standing behind. #neuroscience #neuralnets #AI #ML #MIT #CSTheory #consciousnes
I'm sure this is a serious social issue (on which I'm not qualified to comment) but I did find this genuinely hilarious: 'The company is yet to experiment with creating plus-size women, claiming "the technology is not advanced enough for that".'
BBC新闻摘要 非官方@bbcnewscn.nzcow.com · last yr.📢 The first AI-generated model to appear in the pages of Vogue is seen in an advert for Guess.
Maybe some more nuance is that in general, I enjoy reading with my kids. But, on the 37th read of That Volcano Book From The Library I am so damn tired of it but he remains obsessed. Sometimes I am just powering through it for the kids' sake...
Nicole Chung@nicolechung.bsky.social · last yr."Fewer than half of gen Z parents called reading to their children 'fun for me' and almost one in three saw reading as 'more of a subject to learn' than something to be enjoyed" I mean sure, I too worry about the kids, but I also just feel sad for the Zoomer parents if this is really the case
Silicon Valley loves to pretend it's all about science and logic, but it's run by the least logical, least evidence-based, most emotional men on the planet.
It is a coincidence that ‘emoji’ and ‘emoticon’ sound alike. ‘Emoji’ is a Japanese term meaning ‘pictograph’ (‘e’ is “picture, drawing” + ‘moji’ is “letter, character”). ‘Emoticon’ is ‘emotion’ + ‘icon.’ 🤯
Portuguese has "anteontem" for the day before yesterday which is also great
Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · last yr.'Overmorrow' refers to "the day after tomorrow," but it has really only been used as an adjective/adverb, and also hasn't had much usage since the 16th century.
my similar boomer opinion is that i think “home economics” or whatever the equivalent is ought to be mandatory for students in middle and high school.
“Hucklebuckets”@hucklebuckets.bsky.social · last yr.boomer opinion i have is that there are way more young adults out there who legit don’t know how to take care of themselves in very basic ways than we’d probably be comfortable with knowing
Pittsburgh is known as the City of Bridges with, allegedly, 446 of them. The Roberto Clemente Bridge is one of the Three Sisters Bridges, three similar looking bridges that span the Allegheny River. #UrbanGaze #coloraday #yellowthur #EastCoastKin #travel #photography #cityscape
I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
HDYGH, @josephgalbo.com ? Social media specialist for the Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov , documentary film lover, and former security guard. Come for the gonzo social media strategy, stay for me accidentally profiling him
Joe Galbo - Social Media Specilaist for Consumer Product Safety Commission
Podcast Episode · How Did You Get Here? · 07/21/2025 · 56m
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Locutus usability tip: There will be no more user interface problems after you become the machine.
handed the mic over to the em dash—read its response to the AI allegations in my latest for @mcsweeneys.net 🎤🎤🎤
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...
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