Molly
@mhuzzell.bsky.social
PhD student in Evolution, studying lizards. Former AK Press worker. Still an anarchist. @mhuzzell on twitter (inactive) and mastodon.social
this is what my brain feels like
Sarah Archer@sarcher.bsky.social · yesterdayIt's Textile Tuesday, and you know what that means: a piece by artist Faig Ahmed called "The Dragons of Karabakh" that's woven to look like an antique Central Asian carpet is melting off the wall into a puddle. More about the artist here: faigahmed.com
These are so cool. As someone whose doodles ever since school have typically been weird little guys with tentacles (look, they're easier than legs or arms), and/or the transformation of drawings of objects into weird little guys, these pots are like my own drawings made flesh and then stone.
Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social · 3d ago✨Its the Porcelain Pots of your dreams ✨ Avialable on www.roseschmits.com Free UK shipping, worldwide available
If Edinburgh Trams were privately run they'd say "ah well, better cut the frequency, stop running on Sundays, and oh the fare is now £5 single." Thankfully, the Edinburgh Tram is run as a public service, not a cash machine www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur... #edinburgh #scotland #news
Edinburgh Trams make £9 million loss despite record revenue and passenger numbers
‘The annual charge the council levies on the tram company to pay down the debt makes up the lion's share of the operating loss’ - Cllr Stephen Jenkinson
edinburghnews.scotsman.com
...I discuss many other problems with LLMs, but I end with this point that many non-writers (& perhaps some writers) overlook: "That is why I would never use LLMs in my writing. Because *writing is thinking*. And I don’t want LLMs to do my thinking for me." juliaserano.medium.com/on-em-dashes...
I hate this timeline & that I had to write this essay. I hate AI companies & LLMs & the randos who are now using "AI detectors" (also AI!) to smear authors they dislike: on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-em-dashes... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-em-dash...
On em-dashes and “AI detectors”
and the many reasons why I don’t and won’t use LLMs
juliaserano.medium.com
I think people are seeing the mass arrests of people for wearing t-shirts and holding signs in support of Palestine Action and are assuming there's One Weird Trick to force the cops to treat Nazis the same
Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · yesterdaywww.thenational.scot/news/2641894... This is great and all, but the police already ignore it when Nazis turn up with Combat 18 flags and combat 18 has been banned since they went on a bombing spree in Muslim Jewish and Gay areas in London.
So much AI slop out there these days, but you can always tell. I mean look at this one -- the lines don't even make sense!
I mean yeah but there's also something way more shallow: a DM who doesn't know how to paint a picture with words.
Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d ago"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take
Deeply fucked that “regardless of what genitals a little girl has, I don’t think adults should demand to look at them” is considered a radical freak position in some corners
Syrinx aruanus, the Australian trumpet, is the largest snail alive, a shell up to about 75 cm and 18 kg. Why so big? It hunts giant polychaete worms over a meter long, reaching into their tubes with a proboscis up to 25 cm. Big prey, big predator. 🦑 🧪 #MolluscMonday #HowToBuildAGiant #marinelife
This is Fenrir. He has not yet been successful in cuddling with the cat. But thinks if he goes slow enough she might not notice. 13/10 (IG: fenrirfanclub)
A sea pig with crazy big feeding arms! Family Elpidiidae I think with a big pointy extension on its head! #okeanos 5575 m Cook Island abyss
this summer's cultural cross over we've all been waiting for jimothy x bayeux
It's an important observation that the rising rates of disability claims are correlated with hikes in the age of retirement. That the government can't just policy hack its way out of people's bodies getting old and needing care at some point.
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · last wk.Andy Burnham to make it harder for people to claim benefits, vows to ‘get serious’ about cutting welfare bill. Silence on corporate welfare. 37.8% of Universal Credit claimants are in work. Due to hikes in retirement age, many seniors can't work, claim benefits. Women will be hardest hit.
Relatedly, in all the controversy over Edinburgh's proposed tram extension via the Roseburn Path vs. an alternative route via Orchard Brae, it's weird that there's no proposal for the much more sensible historical routes, via Broughton Street and/or Dundas Street: grantonhistory.org/transport/ed...
Granton History: Edinburgh tram routes 1950
grantonhistory.org
Adam Tranter@adamtranter.bsky.social · 2w agoCities dismantled their tram networks to become “motor cities of the future”. The result? You could travel further within 30 mins via public transport in 1957 than you can in 2026. Cities are seeking billions to rebuild networks. Incredible piece of work this.
Cities dismantled their tram networks to become “motor cities of the future”. The result? You could travel further within 30 mins via public transport in 1957 than you can in 2026. Cities are seeking billions to rebuild networks. Incredible piece of work this.
The Exchange@theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 2w agoIf you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk.
They mention the right wing here and tack "trans issues" on at the end, non-specifically. But what kind of trans issues, Guardian? The latest speech suppressing event regarding this in the UK was JK Rowling going to war with amnesty international. Is that what you mean?
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoA third of UK journalists have changed how or what they report over fears for safety, study finds
@theguardian.com UK section? After tens of thousands marched for trans rights? Barren. Because why would they even mention that people actually support trans rights? They never have before. bsky.app/profile/hlee...
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2w ago150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
After seeing @eveshi.bsky.social post about lack of coverage of protests in indonesia this week (which I also missed), went looking for coverage here & saw this good piece from @ekawatikartika21.bsky.social "Journalism exists to bear witness. To document. To challenge" Worth a read.
ekawatikartika21.bsky.social@ekawatikartika21.bsky.social · 2w agoI just published Why Are Indonesia’s Mass Protests Missing from the Headlines? medium.com/p/why-are-in...
Very cool of @alirizataskale.bsky.social to expand this tweet into a 4000-word essay: aeon.co/essays/silic... Relatedly, I keep thinking of Asimov's robot stories lately, whenever an AI company posts another story about an AI "going rogue" by doing what it was told to do but in some unexpected way.
Fun recycling fact: if you take a recyclable material and attach it to a different recyclable material, you get a non-recyclable object!
These data center fights are fascinating because of their scale, but also because they’re successfully bringing out grassroots coalitions of local residents across race, class, and ideological lines. Latest: open.substack.com/pub/workingc...
We didn't ask for any of this.
Working-class people in small towns across America are fighting the construction of data centers. I traveled to Rural Hall, NC, to find out why so many people are showing up over this issue.
open.substack.com
Congrats to #Spain on well deserved win of the #FIFA Men's World Cup. Lets also celebrate the other unequivocal winner - #CaboVerde for an amazing performance. How could they have pulled this off against the odds - it's no coincidence #ZeroMalaria (... ps for last time #NoScotlandNoparty)
This is also the plot of I think literally all(?) of Asimov's robot stories, which I sort of assumed these guys had read.
Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 2w agoIt turns out that often a goal you give a robot to solve for will be in conflict with ethical and social limits you have also trained or instructed it with and because of the priority on replacing human judgement with autonomous robots, the robots will break one part of your reqs to achieve another.
It's not a sign of sentence when an unsupervised Roomba rolls through an open door. Especially when it was programmed to go everywhere and find dirt to hoover up.
