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Chuck Pearson (he/him/etc.)

@shorterpearson.bsky.social

Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Assistant Dean of Math and Science at Tusculum University. All sorts of other nerdy things.

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Jason Kirk@jasonkirk.fyi · 2d ago

North Dakota State making the playoff without upgrading anything whatsoever and Sacramento State being the worst team in FBS while thinking money solves everything would say confusing things about society

David at FOIAball@foiaball.com · 5d ago

30,000. Thirty Thousand. That's how many AI game recaps FanWord wrote for college sports programs last year. www.foiaball.com/p/fan-word-a...

AI has already been writing all your school’s sports stories

FanWord produced 30,000 AI game recaps last year.

foiaball.com

David at FOIAball@foiaball.com · 6d ago

hopefully someone has been looking into this company for a month and has a compilation of the worst ai-mangled game recaps major universities have published ready to go for their newsletter tomorrow

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 5d ago

This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.

Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy
Make Money - Do Magnets@sararah.bsky.social · 5d ago

To me, this sums up why having researchers with a range of backgrounds and life experiences is so critical to scientific innovation. We all experience different chaos and develop unique abilities to solve our way out of it. Science is poorer when it does not draw from many different lives.

Sometimes inspiration came from unexpected places. Hamilton would often bring her daughter, Lauren, to the lab with her on nights and weekends. Lauren, then four years old, liked to play astronaut in the team’s simulators, and one day, pressing buttons at random, she caused a spectacular software crash. Hamilton investigated and found that Lauren had confused the program by keying in a pre-launch sequence, called P01, “in the middle of the mission,” she says.
Esther Schindler@estherschindler.bsky.social · 5d ago

RIP. Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Chuck Pearson (he/him/etc.)@shorterpearson.bsky.social · 6d ago

An American tragedy. Of all the American televangelists, he had so much intellectually right. And at so many points, he was so close to really understanding his place. And his ego simply never let him.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 6d ago

Jim Bakker, who, along with his then-wife Tammy Faye, built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful TV show “The PTL Club,” only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2w ago

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

newrepublic.com

Phil PlAIt@philplait.bsky.social · 2w ago

SpaceX just launched the 14th Starship test flight, and it's now successfully in orbit for the first time. This is an amazing achievement, and I absolutely detest how Musk has ruined this sort of thing both for me and for humanity.

Andy Famiglietti@afamiglietti.org · 2w ago

Student journalists have been heroes over the past ten years and the fact that we have allowed the world to reach a state where hardly any of them will be able to serve communities as journalists after they graduate is something we should all feel shame about

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2w ago

I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

Chuck Pearson (he/him/etc.)@shorterpearson.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm so tired of everything Texas Longhorns Football and I want them to lose. But apparently, from my social feeds, every Republican politician who has been hiding from the state of Tennessee turned up at Neyland Stadium to get pictures taken with Donald Trump. So I'm not mad Tennessee lost.

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 2w ago

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

The media has the AI threat all wrong

Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

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