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LTurculet

@lturculet.bsky.social

Chemistry prof at Dalhousie University. Canadian 🇨🇦, Maritimes ⚓️. Opinions my own.

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LTurculet@lturculet.bsky.social · 2d ago

State of play: ignorance, stupidity, and incompetence weaponized so that a handful of horrible people can profit at a level that is incomprehensible to the average human. Increasingly happening at a tipping point that has us fumbling towards apocalypse.

Lisa Needham@snipy.bsky.social · 6d ago

If someone cornered you at a cocktail party and said something like this, you wouldn't just try to get away from them. You'd bounce from the whole event because wtf. But elected Republicans get up every day and say unhinged stuff like this in Congress and I honestly do not know how to unfuck this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Rep. John McGuire: "I don't know if you heard about the BLT sandwich -- using human fetus baby parts in the vaccine when they could've used ivermectin"

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 6d ago

One drum I keep beating is that the Trumpification of the Republican Party is irreversible. Even after he's gone it will be exclusively cranks, charlatans, and malevolent antisocial goons. "It was always like that"-it wasn't! It's gotten steadily, measurably worse, and he was the nail in the coffin

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d ago

New, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.

If the entire Democratic Party is being asked by the press and pundits about a few DSA candidates in NYC, it seems like the entire Republican Party should be asked about their colleague who has been credibly accused -- by another colleague's daughter -- of repeated acts of violence.

Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · last wk.

GOP House member--and fmr Trump advance man--allegedly -threw boiling water on his then-wife -held a gun to her head -broke his daughter's collarbone. She's 2 -abused abuse a fmr Trump WHer too When a reporter asked him about it , he threatened to block their # www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · last wk.

Elon Musk, Royal Society Fellow SHAME @royalsociety.org

Mr Elon Musk FRS | Royal Society Fellow

Elon Musk is the CEO and co-founder of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink and The Boring Company.As lead designer at SpaceX, Elon oversees the development of rockets a...

royalsociety.org

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last wk.

When Elon Musk says "zero" children died in Africa from his DOGE cuts, he really means zero children died who are *worthy of any concern.* It's vile coded signaling to his global fascist audience. From me and @polphilpod.bsky.social, a deep dive into Musk's fascism: newrepublic.com/article/2135...

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · last wk.

by way of idle wishful thinking - would be great if NYT hired a science writer/thinker for the op-ed page to tell us what’s happening and what’s at stake in the sciences, at a time when they are under attack in a way Galileo would recognize, while newspaper science journalism is facing extinction

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.

It's darkly depressing that the entire GOP -- from the White House to Congress to the Supreme Court -- insists that the president and his aides cannot be held accountable for all the very clear crimes that they clearly committed, but they think Dr. Fauci should hang for alleged mishandling of COVID.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · last wk.

Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.

Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.

dropsitenews.com

Blayne Haggart@bhaggart.bsky.social · last wk.

This is an epistemological change on the level of science supplanting religion as the dominant form of knowledge. GenAI is making people dumber by the standard of scientific knowledge. But it’s also creating a new standard of oracular knowledge with techbros as the new priests. From 2024.

ChatGPT Strikes at the Heart of the Scientific World View

Expertise with data collection and manipulation has all too often been equated with deep understanding of that area.

cigionline.org

Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦@emmettmacfarlane.com · last wk.

I don't know what will change things, but if no guardrails are put up in a generation we will be a dramatically dumber society. Which is hard to imagine given how fucking dumb we are right now.

Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦@emmettmacfarlane.com · last wk.

I've played around with AI enough to know what it is - and any academic using it as more than a fancy search engine is playing with fire. It is capable of some degree of synthesis, often flawed, and that's about it. If you're letting it do your thinking for you, you're a fraud.

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel.bsky.social · last wk.

For the love of Coatlicue, don't use LLMs to summarise! Those things have no cognition. They put text together that looks "coherent" but since they cannot understand it is all based on statistics. An author who writes about truth & technology yet doesn't understand this? 🤡 #academicsky

Brendan Keogh@brkeogh.bsky.social · last wk.

Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??

Conor Curtis@conorcurtis.bsky.social · last wk.

Our Prime Minister is following this man's policy wants nearly to the letter: thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... You want oligarchy? Keep believing in 4d cHeSs, fail to stand up. Keep believing all the neoliberal crap is necessary for national unity. Let the Trojan Horse inside the gates. #CDNpoli #Carney

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke says “good system.” In response to the following proposal: “Interesting... what about weighted voting proportional to the level of income tax you pay? (no income tax paid - O vote, $1-100k - 1 vote, $100-200k 2 votes and so on... cap it at 5 votes for $500k+. For those that constantly complain about the wealthy not paying tax/fair share they'd have nothing to worry about right? Why not reward representation of taxation and build a democracy around those that foot the bill?”
Dmitry Eremin@dmeremin.bsky.social · 2w ago

The new web interface of @acs.org publications is agonizing. TOCs missing from ASAPs/misplaced in issues, terrible URLs, and reading that’s now painful on both mobile and desktop. If page views and readership matter to ACS, this is an emergency. I hope ACS leadership is listening.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2w ago

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.social · 2w ago

This story is indeed insane. They literally *discounted his correct answers* (on questions about the Constitution) so that a Trump supporting girl who wants to go to Hillsdale College could win $25K and be televised meeting Trump. So. Gross.

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2w ago

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

Aaron Bady@zunguzungu.bsky.social · 2w ago

But I think the main point the movie is trying to make is: A. We made Trump, we broke the world by doing so, and it's time to feel bad, really bad, about that B. The Gods aren't real, but killing them is worse, because it removes the structure of belief that kept people's worst impulses in check