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Mark Slagle

@markslagle.bsky.social

Twitterer in exile.

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Citizen Screen@citizenscreen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Raymond Chandler, novelist and screenwriter who excelled at hardboiled noirspeak, was born today in 1888 #botd “It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.” - Farewell, My Lovely

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Will Harris@willharrisinva.bsky.social · 3w ago

R.I.P., Sam Neill, and thanks for a rollicking interview that went from “Please don’t mention that ever again, don’t even inquire about it, if you continue to try and find it, I will hunt you down” to “You’re very knowledgeable, aren’t you?” Although it’s that first bit that’s really stays with me…

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Sam Neill

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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New York City is the most perfectly "American" place in the nation, just one wave of newcomers after another, gradually building up the culture, one remarkable cultural collision after another. MAGA chuds hate NYC not because it's awful but because it disproves every lie they tell about immigration

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2mo ago

The Bengali Knicks poet and the Sikh dholi guys combined forces for a follow-up! Now we just need the sewing machine guy and the ride a bike with stuff on his head guy to meet.

Rachel Navarre@rnavarre.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here’s the article btw: Cheng, Myra, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Sunny Yu, Dyllan Han, and Dan Jurafsky. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, no. 6792 (2026): eaec8352.

The_Lady_Red@theladyred.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Floyd's Warped Mind A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable. Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used Al models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations. The first thing they measured was how often Al agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the Al simply told you what you wanted to hear instead.
Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals

Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

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Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

You don’t hate country music, you just hate the same 100 songs of bootlicking corporatized trash about saluting the flag while drinking a beer in your truck at a football game next to your pretty silent wife in daisy dukes who also knows how to fish.

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 3mo ago

TIL a bunch of ex-Gawker folks sold a series based on their stories to Apple and Tim Cook personally quashed it when he heard about it www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

At Gawker, They Battled a Billionaire. 10 Years Later, the Scars Are Still Healing

Their weaponized wit made enemies, minted stars and helped define the internet as we know it. A decade after Peter Thiel engineered the site’s spectacular collapse, Nick Denton’s diaspora is still sha...

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Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"[Gosling] said, ‘I saw this movie last night with Abbott and Costello where they meet Frankenstein. I’d like to maybe give that type of energy a try.’ When he said that, what he really meant was: I’m going to do a pitch-perfect Lou Costello impression sitting next to a tree for 60 seconds.”

Theme to Immodesty Blaise (aka Robert)@mcswagger.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Sweetheart, how many times have I told you don't say 'and stuff'. Just say that The Nice Guys is one of the best movies of all time." apnews.com/article/nice...

Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Extraordinary story, from Siobhán O'Grady, formerly the Ukraine bureau chief of the Washington Post, and her team. She and her colleagues were all cast aside by the management. Here's just one line: "He radios his commander and asks for a drone to drop a body bag from the sky."

Siobhán O'Grady@siobhan_ogrady • 4h Three months later, this is my last @washingtonpost story — delayed because nearly everyone involved in it was laid off. I am very grateful to newsroom friends who made sure it published anyway, and to brave Roman Mongold and his family for their time. b-w photograph caption: Smoke rises above houses during a Russian advance into Vovchansk, a small city on Ukraine's border with Russia, in May 2024. (Ed Ram/For The Washington Post) [headline over photo] Trapped in a kill zone for 177 days, his wife's voice was his lifeline