Streaming has Sleepaway Camp and I watched Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma so...I have to

the *amount* of books I have read that are like "so and so preferred spending hours cataloging specimens and also started fights with every other scientist in the same field who was slightly wrong"

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · yesterday

Academia and its millennia long history would not exist without autism and adhd send skeet

do not outsource your thinking to search results, social media or a chatbot. do the work. read deeply. listen carefully. stay curious. it's so important to stay sharp. i really worry about skills erosion in this era - simpleflying.com/faa-autopilo...

Why The FAA Tells Airline Pilots To Keep Mentally Flying The Aircraft Even With Autopilot On

Despite advanced autopilot capabilities, pilots must always stay focused.

simpleflying.com

Once again I must note that a major goal here is to destroy women’s sports. By redefining any woman who defies their strict rules for femininity as a “man,” they basically deny that women’s sports are real. Because, to them, a female athlete is not a woman. sports.yahoo.com/articles/wnb...

"The WNBA currently has multiple men that play in the league" - Patrick Bet-David thinks the WNBA is trying to hide some shocking information

Patrick Bet-David's WNBA comments have opened another can of worms around the league's eligibility rules.

sports.yahoo.com

"AI" has existed in its current form for barely four years and the fact that it's jammed up the cognitive development of an entire generation that fast (and that there's a specific overclass of techofascists who are deeply thrilled about this) is a big damn red flag. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

nytimes.com

omg (and yes, the whole thing is linked in the thread)

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · yesterday

the entire Chinese internet has embraced what's basically a work of outsider art; a terribly animated film about a cow's dream made by a mother-son team and distributed by a former interior decoration company. It's now made millions at the box office.

Hard to not be moved by the careful work to hand raise, release and monitor these sea stars - a keystone species in kelp forests. This is the kind of ecological and cultural repair demanded by climate change; success ultimately depends on how quickly we stop the ocean warming driving their decline.

NPR@npr.org · 2d ago

Sunflower sea stars are critically endangered in the Pacific Ocean. University of Washington researchers are working with the Samish Indian Nation to bring this 24-armed creature back from the brink of extinction. n.pr/4x5f0QH

Efthymis Filippou slipped a whole minor arc about a Greek man named George's dick into Rosebush Pruning 🤌

ok seriously I feel like a lot of people are still in the "information should be free" mindset and...why do you think data centers existed *before* the slop machines

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 5d ago

... However, I do think Bluesky should at least entertain the idea of some form of a membership/ subscription system. Having built a reader-funded newsroom myself, Bluesky's operation model is not sustainable and the last thing I want is for this platform to get bailed out by a billionaire

Keep one of the best sff magazines around running, and help them give everyone behind it a pay raise. Here's one of my favourite short stories that I've written, which they published:

muo-ka's Child by Indrapramit Das

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

Clarkesworld@clarkesworldmagazine.com · 7d ago

And now that I'm back home, it's time to break out the reminder that we are in the midst of a subscription drive to increase staff and contributor pay to celebrate our 20th anniversary issue in October. Subscribe here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Just so everyone knows, this is a tried-and-true mainstream media tactic. For progressives/leftist candidates, every election is a “crucial test” and any loss would serve as proof to the media that the latest left-side moment is at its end. Any win, though, just means it’s time to find a new test.

Politico@politico.com · 2w ago

Michigan will provide another crucial test of whether progressives can not only keep up their winning streak in safe-blue seats but also break through in battlegrounds crucial for control of Congress. The stakes for the Democratic Party are huge.

All the adults working on the wizard bigot show made an active decision to endorse a vile campaign of hate. We do not in any way have to reward them for that, let alone sympathize with their plight. Which they CHOSE.

Mo Ryan@moryan.bsky.social · last wk.

what you will hear actors, writers and directors etc bleat is -- when you translate it from self-pity word salad -- "I don't want you to make me feel bad about the active decision I made." nah. they knew better and did it anyway. no part of that is on us

oh my god (literally?!) anyway...guess who popped in, got her White Sox pope hat, and then went for bubble tea

Jimothy Chiropractor@timbaffoe.bsky.social · 6d ago

On Pope Hat Night, White Sox blew a 4-1 lead late and then got closed out in extras by a pitcher named Pagán.

oh my god it's happening again

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d ago

My man looks like Mel Gibson headbutted a wasps' nest

ICYMI at @americasvoice.bsky.social: Trump stripped legal assistance from thousands of immigrant kids after refusing to pay its bills and allowing a federal contract to expire. The regime has since awarded a new $150m contract to a small, Trump-linked firm with little experience in immigration law:

Gut Punch to Immigrant Kids: Trump Administration Strips Legal Assistance from Vulnerable Children

Children “who have fled violence, trafficking, and abuse” woke up Saturday without the legal support they were promised, said one legal service provider.

americasvoicecnn.substack.com

NEW FROM ME: The Great Delegalization. There are now (almost certainly far more than) 1M immigrants who were protected from deportation on Jan 20, 2025, and no longer are. It’s the result of a problem that’s been building for 30 years—& now only Congress can fix. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

These Immigrants Lived in the U.S. Legally. Now Trump Is Changing Their Status.

More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.

newyorker.com

went to see The Samurai and the Prisoner and have discovered I am not mentally prepared for samurai movies in *full color* 😂

Every day is a good day to donate to WCK.

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · last wk.

World Central Kitchen is on the ground in Spokane feeding folks displaced by the fires, so if you're looking for ways to help, here's a good option: donate.wck.org/campaign/829...

Making a very public spectacle of legally prosecuting and punishing corrupt and lawless people supports public belief in the rule and validity of law. Letting corrupt and lawless people get away with it is ultimately a far more dangerous outcome, as the public only tolerates this for so long.

ok wow I will be using this phrase. the conflation of probabilistic structures of rhetoric with *actual thought* is...A Lot

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · last wk.

They keep trying to make "correlation is cognition" happen. Through asserting: 1️⃣ models with only correlationist powers (data and correlations over that data) work well & 2️⃣ our own cognitive powers are no different to these machines, which can only rehash the past. @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social 1/

Every time I enter a farmers market I black out and end up with 3x the amount of fruit a grown adult can possibly eat. Please send help, it is clearly a serious condition

I hope everyone caught the kayfabing during Blanche: 🤼‍♂️🤼‍♂️ Tillis and Cornyn both no with ultimatums, both cave 🤼‍♂️🤼‍♂️ Collins a no as soon as Rs have enough yes votes 🤼‍♂️🤼‍♂️ Cassidy wavers but caves (RFK redux) 🤼‍♂️🤼‍♂️ Murkowski a no as soon as Cassidy turns yes It's all a game, folks.

In 2022, before Chatgpt and everything that came next, I participated in this study. It was framed as a research on a new tool that I could try and offer my opinion on. I didn't know that it was trained on copyrighted material.

Wordcraft Writers Workshop

The Wordcraft Writers Workshop is a collaboration between Google's PAIR and Magenta teams, and 13 professional writers. Together we explore the limits of co-writing with AI.

wordcraft-writers-workshop.appspot.com

protip: if your LLM scrutiny only picks up people from specific countries...it's not actually LLM scrutiny

I've walked out of 3 cafes so far. One was a chain that LLM generated *their operating hours*

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 2w ago

Hello local business, your AI ads are costing you customers: aftermath.site/ai-poster-ad-f...

SCOOP: On Flock's YouTube page, there are dozens of videos touting the work of police departments that use its license plate readers. Four of them have since faced allegations of misusing Flock's technology: www.wired.com/story/flock-...

Flock Highlighted Police Departments Using Its Tech. Now 4 Face Allegations of Misuse

Flock posted videos on its YouTube channel highlighting at least four police departments whose officers have faced allegations of misusing the company’s tech.

wired.com

omg

Sofi LaLonde@sofilalonde.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Have you ever noticed a peculiar line of text on your elevator's certificate of inspection? A line of text in ... Comic Sans? If you have, you aren't alone! I tracked down the answer to how this goofy font found its way onto an official city document. www.wbez.org/curious-city...

SARS-CoV-2 did not come from a lab. There is no evidence pointing to laboratory origins. There’s been a massive disinformation campaign to convince the public otherwise. It’s scary how effective that campaign has been.

read the full piece here for free: rdcu.be/fxQn1 please. indulge the overthinking spiral. do it :D

Nature Futures@naturefutures.bsky.social · 3w ago

This exhibition is like no other you have visited. It is an experience you cannot get anywhere else. It will show you things you’ve never seen. Teach you things you didn’t know you needed to know. It will literally change your mind. #scifi by @priyachand.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

ok seriously also like...are you all looking at the accuracy stats these companies are reporting, because they are *wild* and 0 access is being given to the underlying datasets used to make their claims

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2w ago

I'm just gonna say: it somewhat baffles me that people who are understandably skeptical of opaque LLMs as legitimate sources of information will suddenly go full on "the computer KNOWS" when they are using opaque tools to "detect" AI. The computer does not know.