Helped my grandad through a technical problem, called the service line, got an AI bot with vocal fry. Did not like. Keep bots sounding like bots please and thank you.
Kerry Kole
@merrykerry.bsky.social
Just here. Slowly dying. Personal Account. Not representative of any organisation. Interests in Dataviz / Intelligence / Philosophy / Psych / Linguistics / Cultural History / Knitting / Alpacas kerrykolosko.com grafiqinsights.com workout-wednesday.com
Agghhhh! I just want a quick summary on the history of a specific discipline, its past research areas and current research focus areas... to then go and read deeper. Can the blasted AI stop trying to think for me and identify gaps research and connect "through-lines" from my previous questions!!!
I make this plot each year for our "intro to rocket science" course. It's remarkable that as many rockets go to orbit from New Zealand as from Russia – but on a per head basis we stand alone. This is an amazing place for a small country to find itself, and we should be making the most of it...
Original article www.jaci-inpractice.org/article/S221...
Asthma Control Before and After Changing Gas Stoves to Electric Stoves
Cooking on natural gas stoves is a major source of indoor nitrogen dioxide (NO2) exposure and may contribute to asthma exacerbations.
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Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · 2w agoInsane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Abstract submissions for the Australian Data Science Network Conference are closing THIS Friday! Get your submission in ASAP adsnconf2026.netlify.app/abstract
Abstract submission – ADSN2026
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The extent of the 1666 Great Fire of London superimposed over modern London. (By @Julian_H0ffmann) www.julian-hoffmann-anton.com/networks-and...
Esther Perel says workforces are suffering from social atrophy and AI is making it worse | Fortune share.google/ZdrZvwkkxkHl...
Esther Perel has a warning for executives: Your workforce is suffering from social atrophy and AI is making it worse | Fortune
Europe's boardrooms have spent the past year fixated on productivity and AI adoption. Esther Perel thinks they're missing a more urgent problem.
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> No single person suggests making a logo that resembles an anus, but when everyone's feedback gets incorporated, that's what often emerges. Risk aversion in corporate environments naturally pushes designs toward familiar, "safe" territory, which apparently means anatomical openings.
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence t...
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NEW: Tropical nights come to Europe One of the most striking features of the Europe's record-breaking summer is the intense night-time heat. Globally, the hottest nights are warming at a faster rate than the hottest days — with increasingly severe consequences. as.ft.com/r/eef6f0c5-6...
"Kerry, what do you want to be when you grow up?" "I don't knooooowww... I don't want to be limited to a single profession or way of thinking - you can't put me in a box"
Vice: "Modern Life May Be Overloading the Human Brain, New Research Suggests" www.vice.com/en/article/m... To be honest, we've been evolutionarily mismatched since we invented agriculture.
Modern Life May Be Overloading the Human Brain, New Research Suggests
A new review argues that constant news, social media, and overlapping global crises may be creating an evolutionary mismatch for the brain.
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I know this is probably a bad time to post, but I made this interactive Region / Quadrant chart with #SVG in #PowerBI and I'm feeling like I want to show everyone. It's not a patch on @merrykerry.bsky.social's stuff, but I think it's the best one I've done so far.
New interactive blog! "Why Adjusted Regression Coefficients Are Less Descriptive Than They Look" rpsychologist.com/descriptive-...
WHO POWERS AI? My visual essay on the AI data infrastructure and how it supports the work of big AI players like #OpenAI and #Anthropic. Visual powered by @motherduck.com and Claude using the excellent data from @epochai.bsky.social #datafam #datasky @dataBS Link: motherduck.com/dive-gallery...
When you want more brownie but you don’t want to admit to taking a whole brownie, so you repeatedly cut a sliver off the edge of the brownie pan as if that doesn’t count.
I'm going to try something next month. AI deskilling is real. I'm going a month without it. blog.stephenturner.us/p/ai-dry-july
AI Dry July
AI deskilling is real. I'm going a month without it. 900 words, 4 minutes reading time.
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She managed to turn on the screen reader... The laptop was audibly complaining.
Those days when you feel like you are on deaths door...
Bubbles' Sleepy Monday Morning
ALT: Bubbles' Sleepy Monday Morning
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It's Wednesday! This week's #Wow2026 for #PowerBI is an Euler diagram. Give it a try using your visual of choice! I used Deneb, but there are other possibilities. www.workout-wednesday.com/pbi-2026-w23/ @shan-gsd.bsky.social @merrykerry.bsky.social
CrankGPT. “Just a hand crank, a little computer, and a small stack of speech and language models running locally. Provided the electronics are kept dry and at a reasonable temperature, there’s no reason this thing won’t still work in a thousand years.” [squeezlabs.github.io]
CrankGPT — fully offline, human-powered local AI
A local, voice assistant running on a hand-crank-powered single board computer.
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I’m freaked out - someone explain why this illusion happens
Peter Coles 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇮🇪@telescoper.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhichever of the purple dots you look at turns more purple.
This week's Workout Wednesday for Power BI is a wind vector map created using Vega-Lite in Deneb. Check it out and create your own version! www.workout-wednesday.com/pbi-2026-w22/ #Wow2026 #PowerBI @shan-gsd.bsky.social @merrykerry.bsky.social
Yes, actual networking is hard to do due to the noise. I don't personally know or remember all my connections like I would have done if I were still collecting business cards. I'm an accidental "content creator" now
Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social · 2mo agodanah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.
One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?
