ICYMI earlier this week: help my research team with our latest research project! If you started discovering more about yourself 2020-2022 ish and TikTok played a part in it, let's talk (anonymously). Not you? Share the link! #neurospicy #lgbtqia #adhd #relationships #identity bit.ly/4fCx52d

Mastodon pilot for research and education www.surf.nl/en/mastodon-... Of possible interest, especially in #academia and #HigherEd. Probably the kind of thing certain small academic institutions should consider too. #SocialMedia #Mastodon #AcademicSky

Mastodon pilot for research and education

SURF and Universities of the Netherlands are jointly exploring Mastodon as an open source platform for education and research in the Netherlands.

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Fascinating experiment: current AI systems lack creativity to reliably pursue research arxiv.org/abs/2607.27191 - poor judgment about the bar for publishable research - uncreative responses in research design - ineffective backtracking from dead ends - poor resource awareness - instruction drift

Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies

Forecasts of explosive AI progress hinge on AI agents automating AI research. But evidence on whether agents can carry out open-ended AI research is thin. Current evaluations either test agents on nar...

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Weird to see COVID discourse back in the timeline, but apropos since I'm doing a post-doc study about the 2020-2022 time period and looking for participants. Did you come out of that time period feeling like a different *you*? Did TikTok play any part in that? Let's talk! bit.ly/4fCx52d #AcademicSky

Do feel a little ✨zing✨ when you call out someone you think is using AI to write? We're talking about it on the pod today: psyber.space/episodes/got...

PsyberSpace® - we help you understand your world | Gotcha Culture: Why Catching an AI Cheater Feels So Good

The Psychology Behind AI Call-Outs and False Certainty Dr. Leslie Poston examines why people react with such gleeful certainty when an AI detector flags someone's writing, even though these tools a...

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Do feel a little ✨zing✨ when you call out someone you think is using AI to write? We're talking about it on the pod today: psyber.space/episodes/got...

PsyberSpace® - we help you understand your world | Gotcha Culture: Why Catching an AI Cheater Feels So Good

The Psychology Behind AI Call-Outs and False Certainty Dr. Leslie Poston examines why people react with such gleeful certainty when an AI detector flags someone's writing, even though these tools a...

psyber.space

Just your friendly neighborhood former housing worker tapping in to remind everyone to locate your local fair housing board to report these types of practices to. You don't have to receive any kind of subsidy to access their services.

ᴋɪɴɢᴘɪɴ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ɪɴᴋᴘᴇɴ@killlthehype.blacksky.app · last wk.

Landlords about to start rent subscriptions. This is so nasty.

Ryan Grim has gotten away with being an antagonist fabricator because he started out being racist And we gotta talk about how that’s a starting part for so many people to be absolutely dastardly

Post-Left Watch@postleftwatch.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ryan Grim wants Dr. Fauci prosecuted because we didn't know everything about COVID-19 a month after it was discovered.

The evasion strategies creators use to dodge algorithmic suppression have a shelf life. They spread, go mainstream, get detected, and stop working. The communities who invented them have to start over. I documented this cycle across five years of data. bit.ly/4gQ6AHv

PsyberSpace® - we help you understand your world | Coded to Exhaustion: The Hidden Cost of Outsmarting the Algorithm

Algospeak and the Cost of Speaking Under Algorithmic Suppression When millions of creators have to say 'unalive' instead of suicide and use a grape emoji instead of talking about rape, something ha...

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Kazuo Ishiguro: In my book I make use of the dystopian concept of cloned children raised as organ donors as a cautionary tale. Tech millionaire: At long last I have recreated the dystopian conceit at the heart of Ishiguro's classic sci-fi novel Don't Clone Children for Use as Organ Donors

the hype@thehyyyype.bsky.social · 2w ago

There's no way Bryan Johnson could possibly get any creepier than he already- hang on, I'm getting a note

Genocide is a policy, carried out by the hands of many, tolerated by many more.

Racism built the internet and everyone is lying about it

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

I could select a more recent example, but maybe not a more egregious one, of the many reasons not to do this.

This is a blunt assessment of what the Trump regime is proposing for US science: they plan to take all the funding, essentially collapsing university-based research, in order to give that money to themselves, and they are lying about it.

Derek Lowe@dereklowe.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:

This is correct. The report is infuriating. An abuse of the history of science, and a nonsensical "vision," where superhuman AI will direct science and the only human talent needed is heartland tinkering to build the mechanics dictated by AI. It is bad science fiction and worse science policy.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...

The neat thing about glasses is they break when a fist contacts the wearers face

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2w ago

jesus fucking christ

jesus fucking christ

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Meta’s smartglasses mean any child can be covertly filmed. In the age of AI, how do we tackle that risk?

They’re ripping off other people’s work – again – and destroying books to avoid polluting their software with the flood of shit that software created.

Boing Boing@boingboing.net · 2w ago

AI companies are buying up old print books to escape the AI slop clogging the web. Train on the sludge and you get 'model collapse' — so now they want text from before the flood.

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

I have a better idea. Let’s raise money for me and other filmmakers to make films that guarantee we will protect the rights and jobs of artists by refusing to use any genAI.

Steven Santos@stevensantos.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING NEWS: NEW SCAMMER IN TOWN!!!

As unpopular as the Iran war is, the coverage still doesn't do justice to the fact that they just could have not done any of this. There was literally no reason beyond general bloodthirstiness and incompetence.

That's because they really, really want to massively expand online surveillance and don't actually give a fuck about online privacy or child safety.

Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ironically, France's government did a study several years ago that found there was no safe or technically feasible way to mandate online age verification without massively expanding surveillance and eviscerating online privacy. They decided to do it anyway.

Thinking about reality TV today as we watch this reality TV persona turned "president" break all the things. Here's my PsyberSpace take: psyber.space/episodes/whe... And for fun here is Diabolical Lies take: open.spotify.com/episode/4gdd...

PsyberSpace® - we help you understand your world | When TV Makes Harm Look Normal: Why We Keep Watching

The Ethics of Reality TV: Deception, Conflict, and What We NormalizeHost Leslie Poston examines the ethical and psychological costs of reality and reality-adjacent TV that relies on deception or en...

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can’t breathe the air can’t drink the water can’t eat the food, finally the capitalist utopia is complete

Knowledge is about more than degree = job. New PsyberSpace episode: bit.ly/44Aaddf

PsyberSpace® - we help you understand your world | What We Lose When Knowledge Has to Pay Rent

Education’s Value Beyond Jobs: Critical Thinking, Humanities, and the Real Jobs CrisisHost Dr. Leslie Poston argues that education’s value is not defined by whether it leads directly to a job, crit...

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The CLARITY Act is the bill supported by the crypto industry to increase their reach into our banking system and broader economy. There are many problems with the bill, but most egregious is that is essentially legalizes Donald Trump's crypto corruption scheme. Let me explain.

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

I’m saddened to announce the passing of my work colleague, The Zodiac Killer. While we were often on opposing sides of the business, I always enjoyed his silly little scavenger hunts.

So important.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to obtain an unredacted copy of New York's statewide voter registration list. A big victory for Elias Law Group and our Client the NAACP. DOJ is now 0-12 in these cases. ELG is undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-yo...

A must-read thread www.threads.com/@ceray.carte...

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I need you to pour something, get comfortable, and give me your full attention. Not a skim. Not a scroll. Read every word. Because if you have ever asked yourself why those opaque orphans cannot just ...

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