Spectacular data-driven work from @anabrdly.bsky.social on #agricultural impacts in #Iowa - www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... - one for the open data nerds for sure!

We mapped every factory farm in Iowa. This project has been A YEAR in the making and at a soft launch, one newsroom told us: "This is going to blow the doors off the CAFO industry." Iowa is...

We mapped every factory farm in Iowa. This project has been A YEAR in the making and at a soft launch, one newsroom told us: "This is going to blow the doors off the CAFO industry." Iowa is home to 1...

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Love the fact that in most places back then, rumours of a vampire in the neighbourhood would have had the local kids hiding in their bedrooms, while in the Gorbals, they were like: "Let's get tooled up and leather the cunt."

Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · 2h ago

Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 72nd anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives, and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth

Somebody forgot to check whether they owned the domain name ditchmitchgreen.com before they put it on a billboard 😈

Willamette Week@wweek.com · 5d ago

The money behind that billboard can be traced in part to the Portland Metro Chamber, the city’s chamber of commerce—and the message shows how eager the city’s business lobby is to unseat Councilor Mitch Green. www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · 18h ago

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

Dalí was a brilliant painter. But while undervaluing his talents, George Orwell put it perfectly in 1944 in a review of artist's autobiography, "One ought to be able to hold in one's head simultaneously the two facts that Dalí is a good draughtsman and a disgusting human being"

Just saw a video of a guy in Florida discovering his dog had cornered a crab holding a knife blade The ancient prophecy has been fulfilled You mess with the crabbo You get the stabbo

Can university teams train large-scale foundation models? Yes! At @geotessera.org, we've been training state-of-the-art FMs from scratch at Cambridge. This involved vast data shuffling, stuffing every SSD we can find, overloading network links, jury-rigging GPU farms, and using national clusters.

'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org

The sole promise of using LLM's in war is to entirely remove a Stanislaw Petrov from the decision chain. (Oh, remember how LLM's were found to advocate nuclear strikes in 95% of tested scenarios?) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

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Owls don't look for a mate when it's raining because it's too wet to woo.

Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.

Gabatha@gabatha.bsky.social · 2d ago

So we are a two-brained species after all... Interesting. #urantia #UrantiaBook www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

1/x Captain Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama is taken hostage in a lifeboat, and US Navy SEALs end it after five days. The snipers dealt with the guys in the lifeboat. The Belgians dealt with the guy at the top of the whole trade. A thread.

please enjoy 30 seconds of water lapping against this sunlit dock

Code extruders are useful tools for software development in much the same way that a nailgun is useful for construction. Neither is without risk - although the cognitohazard that genAI represents is significantly more dangerous than a mere nail through a finger.

austinzheng.bsky.social@austinzheng.bsky.social · 2d ago

‘I find AI useful’ says nothing about AI and everything about the speaker (none of it good). (Also, why are these stupid ‘lived experience’ threads always by an econ, polisci, or marketing/comms professor?)

Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚

When I grow up, I want to be a "radical street librarian" too!

This Woman Is Bringing Free Books to Hundreds of Kids With Magical Trolley

Ms. Maze, who calls herself a “radical street librarian,” tells TODAY.com how she is working to eliminate book deserts around Baltimore “in a fun and magical way.”

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bear with me but... wouldn't it be wild... if the head of the British Library had ever been... a librarian??

mia ridge@miaout.bsky.social · yesterday

New CEO at the British Library www.bl.uk/about/press/...

Chuck Jones (1912-2002) was born on this date. "A small child once said to me: 'You don't draw Bugs Bunny, you draw pictures of Bugs Bunny.’ That’s a very profound observation because it means he thinks the characters are alive, which, as far as I am concerned, is true." #BOTD #FilmSky #Animation

In a study of doctors in Poland, using an AI for three months, then ceasing to use it, resulted in a 20% loss of skill and accuracy. Cognitive systems are metabolically expensive. When your brain knows there's a substitute, it resents not having access to it.

AI Took Something From Doctors and Nobody Noticed. The Lancet Caught It. Here Is the Story

A landmark study in The Lancet measured what happens to a physician’s diagnostic instincts when the algorithm is switched off. The findings…

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Don't work harder or smarter. Work darker. Use your knowledge of ancient magic to call upon the old gods. Turn all CEOs into newts & ferns. Cover all data centers in moss & wildflowers and let the raccoons have them. You deserve a rest.

So, Mr T, what's your ideal holiday?

Just encouraging all Mac users to contact Apple and tell them it's BS that Siri and Apple intelligence can no longer be fully disabled in the latest update (OS27). Reports vary by device, but between 10G and 30G of AI garbage models downloading. I just wiped and will be staying with 26 for a while 😡

"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...

AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies

In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.

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Email advertising poppy themed merch for us to order for our museum shop, and I HATE everything about it. The manky AI image, the profiteering from Rememberance (there's no mention of any money going to good causes), and the cheap crappy product. And of course they supply the BM. 🤮

Claim: "AI is going to help scholars do research faster than ever" Fact: I was translating an OB economic text (outside my usual wheelhouse). I can't figure out amount of grain for a loan. One source suggests sign might be read "šar-gal." Google "šar-gal in Old Babylonian loan documents"

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

jenny tightpants@jtp.bsky.social · 2d ago

i don't care if the danged chat bots are "thinking." that's not my problem. stop putting them in my computers

Pick a side: A. People attacking the International Criminal Court B. Judges at the Court

The flag of the British Batallion with the names of the places they fought in Spain against Franco: Madrid, Brunete, Quinto, Belchite, Gandesa, Pàndols... It was embroidered by women in Barcelona in 1938. Now held by the Marx Memorial Library in London.

some people replying and saying ed sheeran can’t take the same risks as an established legend like david byrne, but then you look at olivia rodrigo who is 12 years younger than sheeran and just organized an entire festival to support ABORTION. bravery has little to do with age/experience.

You can see from the photo that boat's tipped too far right

Ian Fraser@ianfraser.bsky.social · 3d ago

A boat purchased by far-right activist Daniel Thomas (aka “Danny Tommo”) to interfere with Border Force operations in the English Channel has sunk.