Seeing tech people all claim in unison that AI is about to kill us makes me less worried about AI and more worried about the human propensity to form a hive mind.
Sarah Brodsky
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It's interesting that in Star Trek, there was just one Data. There weren't a million Datas automating everything.
Getting AI-generated spam about the importance of human connection. Why.
Interesting that people are saying AI will be less useful to them when it watermarks text. So was it just about deceiving others?
Unpopular opinion but I'm okay with this.
Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: The NIH is quietly restricting funding for research that evaluates how public policy impacts human health. According to internal documents I obtained, the agency no longer considers policymakers "mission relevant" — a massive shift for the biomedical funder. My latest for @nature.com:
So I'm guessing everything written by Claude will now mention Madagascar?
Polymarket@polymarket.extwitter.link · 2mo agoJUST IN: Claude will now invisibly watermark AI-generated text so it can be detected after being copied & pasted.
I really enjoyed this investigation into how AI might change math. www.understandingai.org/p/mathematic...
Mathematicians are grappling with the possibility that AI might eclipse them
I talked to 20 mathematicians about rapid AI progress in their field.
understandingai.org
Making an overnight dragonfruit chia pudding for the first time.
Grant me to apply a screen protector without dust specks, but not yet.
My least favorite part of having multiple invisible illnesses is being treated as an unreliable narrator.
Closing lots of tabs as I complete the last writing assignment of June.
news.griffith.edu.au/2026/06/30/c...
Chain reaction in cells may be driving low energy in ME/CFS patients - Griffith News
Griffith researchers have identified a key immune cell dysfunction in people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, offering new clues on the condition.
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Just learned that the word "balagan" originally meant a traveling puppet show. That seems appropriate.
"A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain." www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45896/...
The Day is Done
I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me That my soul cannot resist: A feeling of…
poetryfoundation.org
Today I have Mormon hymns stuck in my head. Guess I'll just go with it.
OpenEvidence is terrible so I am not surprised by this. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
General-purpose large language models outperform specialized clinical AI tools on medical benchmarks - Nature Medicine
In an independent evaluation, frontier large language models outperformed specialized clinical artificial intelligence tools on medical knowledge, clinician alignment and real-world clinical queries.
nature.com
I found the best hummus ever! It's Sonny & Joe plain hummus with tahini.
This is really sad. share.google/KQKeSx79n4n1...
Missouri kids keep getting stuck in hospitals, even after being cleared for discharge
Missouri lawmakers have repeatedly introduced bills to try to significantly reduce the number of hospital boarding days each year and eventually end the practice altogether.
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Very cool that there is now a Booker Prize for children's literature. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
The Children’s Booker Prize 2027 | The Booker Prizes
Submissions are now open to publishers, the three adult judges have been announced, and a UK-wide competition to find child judges has begun
thebookerprizes.com
These videos where people compare related languages are fun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y5H...
Similarities Between Assyrian Aramaic and Hebrew
YouTube video by Bahador Alast
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