Berry-ish palette of garden finds, August 🌿

Time to make a list of overseas profiles I miss due to time zone difference, so I can browse. Just spent way too long looking up someone whose name I couldn't recall when I realized I hadn't seen updates in forever. And as an American - international connections are quite valuable to me right now.

I sailed on grass and I liked it! Last weekend I had the chance to take a boat trip on the Elbląg Canal (formerly Oberländischer Kanal). I went specifically to experience history - the canal was built in the mid-19th century, and the engineering marvel is still running!

This isn't the overall point of this excellent thread on what writing actually is - but yeesh, suggested topic #2 is...really something.

Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 13h ago

This is part of the Claude edu, so it might be reasonable to think it s going to walk me through a thinking process/scaffold things for me but not do the work for me. It asks,"which angle do you want to run with?" Just in case anyone is wondering: this is not how writing is taught. /4

I also would issue this release on the day my rocket space trash accidentally smashed into the moon at high speeds.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 13h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

I am going to be spending the rest of my day and possibly my week thinking about "Werner the Herzog" and quite frankly it's the last thing I needed

MaksonLima@maksonlima.bsky.social · 14h ago

Juro que tem dias que eu acordo pensando nisso aqui:

Cape Verde’s veteran goalkeeper Vozinha, who became a social media sensation at the World Cup, has signed for Colo-Colo, the Chilean club announced.

This is from 2019 but still so good. I'm so thankful for her work.

Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 2d ago

Excellent article from the Smithsonian: "Women Scientists Were Written Out of History. It’s Margaret Rossiter’s Lifelong Mission to Fix That' The historian has devoted her career to bringing to light the ingenious accomplishments of those who have been forgotten #MatildaEffect

It's an odd relief to my brain to know that Sacha Baron Cohen has been out creating mischief.

This is what Ken Starr lobbied JP Morgan *not* to do to Epstein, when JP Morgan's compliance guy was seriously considering exiting Epstein as a client. Starr did that while president of Baylor University (Baptist), where a student worker interacted with Epstein's assistant and where later,

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d ago

“.. The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to U.S. President Donald Trump's family business.” @reuters.com $COF www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

can't find premium content like this on threads i'll tell you that much

Conan O’Brien’s take down of HARRISON FORD pointing a lot in his Movies is my favourite thing today.

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Universities imbibing these same premises re: AI workforce and degree program viability will probably find it the most painful to course-correct after slashing longstanding programs. Degree programs, or...writing centers, @harvard.edu ?

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 5d ago

In other words, corporate leadership is starting from the premise that AI has (or will) radically change the business, and they're working backwards from that premise to find the evidence to support this article of faith. 17/

This is what Ken Starr lobbied JP Morgan *not* to do to Epstein, when JP Morgan's compliance guy was seriously considering exiting Epstein as a client. Starr did that while president of Baylor University (Baptist), where a student worker interacted with Epstein's assistant and where later,

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d ago

“.. The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to U.S. President Donald Trump's family business.” @reuters.com $COF www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Ahhh, there we go. [alt text]

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 4d ago

Federal prosecutors admitted that they don’t have evidence to prove the Reflecting Pool was vandalized by the former Olympian David Hearn—undermining everything that Trump has been saying about the pool’s damage, @mviser.bsky.social reports. theatln.tc/ulFfeetG 📸: Tom Brenner / Getty

"Jimothy's suspected dad, named Danny DeVito by locals, performs body roll in yard" Thank you, Saturday.

Speaking of introducing epistemic uncertainty: this is a grenade to public confidence in satellite imagery, undermining public confidence in legit work at orgs like @bellingcat.com which fight for transparency & accountability. OSINT exposes war crimes -

Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 5d ago

seems bad!

If I wanted to introduce malicious disruption to the epistemic foundations of free press, academic research, publishing industry, fact-checking, and source reliability, few things would be as effective as the introduction of unregulated consumer "AI" products:

The thing is, none of this is new - it just scaled. "...they're calling me a ''wunderkind''..."

The Office: Ryan Howard's Dunder Mifflin Infinity 2.0

Alt: GIF from The Office, in which heavily overpromoted former intern, short-lived corporate executive Ryan Howard explains his new pet project, "Dunder Mifflin Infinity 2.0". His "meteoric rise" quickly becomes a fireball of a downfall.

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Tony Tassell@tonytassell.bsky.social · 6d ago

Quote in this story: “The real question is how did anyone invest so much money, and then lend so much money, to a . . . kid with no personal experience and no infrastructure?” as.ft.com/r/5f7537a7-0...

Theory: The context collapse of the 21st century means many people read or consume media through a deeply personalised lens - everything is either about or for them specifically, so critical writing is experienced as confrontation

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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I wrote a book chapter on this topic and spoke about the importance of the process of turning data into information and then into knowledge and how AI flattens that process and in turn degrades the integrity of research 👉🏽 www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

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Research and knowledge security are often in conflict. The former thrives on open and rigorous inquiry, public dissemination, and engagement, and the latter

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Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 3w ago

Policymakers treat critical infrastructure as physical: power grids, communications networks, transportation systems, and satellites. In the age of generative AI, writes Rachel A. George, another kind deserves equal attention: the institutions that determine what governments believe to be true.

AI is not capable of "breaking out of its cybersecurity guardrails and enclosures". If a system produces outputs outside of a set of guardrails it means the guardrails are flawed or broken. It's evidence of technical deficiency not the system "outsmarting" anything. /4

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Happy publication day to American Made! It’s a collection of compelling interviews with people living and working during the Great Depression, from meatpackers in Chicago to fishermen in Massachusetts, farmers in Nebraska, and workers building the New York City subway. So many memorable stories!

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"A mesmerizing combination of voices ... Readers will be hooked." — Publishers WeeklyDuring the Great Depression, out-of-work writers—including Ralph Ellison and other now famous authors— were hired t...

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I have an idea. Require every print, online, video, billboard, you name it political ad to read/print out the top, say, 20 biggest donors/donor entities to the group sponsoring the ad. Just like obnoxious pharma ads rattling off horrific side effects. Require painful, inconvenient transparency.

George Pearkes@peark.es · 6d ago

NYT: Musk preparing 9 figure spending campaign in support of Republicans in "swing" states like Ohio, Iowa, Alaska, and Texas.

What a great photo. Now that's a vibe. Maybe every year instead of "resolutions" (I don't usually make resolutions anyway) I should print a photo of a woman from history from whom I want to capture a bit of her ineffable spirit. Maybe next year is Year of Oceanographic Cartographer Marie Tharp.

Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 6d ago

Geologist & oceanographic cartographer Marie Tharp (born #OTD in 1920) mapped the N. Atlantic seafloor in 1957 & the entire global #ocean floor by 1977. Her work revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and helped validate continental drift, transforming modern earth science. #WomenInSTEM #Cartography 1/2

I worked with international college students about 10 years ago. Some became nurses who worked in overflowing Covid wards.

Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 6d ago

U.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

What does it take for an open access publishing model to be sustainable? The #PathToOpen Community Advisory Committee brings together authors, librarians, and publishers to guide the program, hosted by @jstor.bsky.social, as it transitions scholarly books to #OA. Learn more: bit.ly/4caWVYG

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