Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It doesn’t matter if you eat organic foods. It doesn’t matter if you exercise regularly. It doesn’t matter if you inject peptides. It doesn’t matter if you have “good genes”. None of these things will prevent you from contracting vaccine-preventable diseases. There is only one thing that will. 281454325
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking. 186151282695
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugBen Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"Inventing words as the main contribution of a paper is really not enough, but LLMs don’t know that and, again, having been trained on papers that make conceptual distinctions and keep proposing terms, LLMs start to assume that this is what philosophy is about." 🎯 www.laviniamarin.eu/recognizing-...laviniamarin.euRecognizing LLM-generated ideas – Lavinia Marin 096
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugHarmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Many arguments for jettisoning PhD thesis requirements because it serves no utilitarian value and is a waste of time have also been used to argue against liberal arts. If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s the value of a liberal arts education. Everything isn’t about utility. 4729
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026“OpenAI said today that it is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) system, which holds data for over 325 million patients, to let clinicians import patient data and use AI to ask questions.”techcrunch.comChatGPT Health adds Epic integration for clinicians to import patient data | TechCrunchOpenAI said that the integration provides read-only access to health records for clinicians. 60230109
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026After fifteen years of studying the anti-vax movement, I came to the conclusion that upholding legal requirements for vaccines for school entry is the single most important thing we can do. You cannot use facts to convince someone who did not employ facts to make their decision. So use the law. 451793458
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 11/08/2026…the person will come up with another objection. Next, it is very dangerous business to pander to people who refuse to listen to the consensus of healthcare professionals and instead embrace the fringe. Look what happened with ivermectin. 775960
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I’ve seen a few people commenting today that the idea of separating the MMR vaccine into three separate shots might be a good strategy to get anti-vax parents to vaccinate. Absolutely not. Here’s why. First, countering anti-vax misinformation is like playing whack a mole. You bat down one lie… 772364630
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability. 909378009480
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugDeva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is a very serious problem for libraries, archives, and knowledge-keepers of all kinds. If you don’t control access to your collections, *you do not have collections.* If we do not have permanent access to records, stories, & sources of knowledge then our histories and memories are not our own. 6790440
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugWilliam Umboh @swumboh.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Excited to share a remarkably short proof that P is NOT EQUAL to NP: Here’s P Hotel and it’s clearly not the same as NP Hotel. QED 181
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026“As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes. All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt—if it’s public—and they can use Meta AI to generate an image using your likeness.”wired.comMeta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt OutAs part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. 21470432
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face. 7763681314
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugnerdbird @nerdbird.bsky.social · 02/07/2026absolutely sickening that fucking NATURE is both-sidesing this. great thread, thank you. 082
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugDavid Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 26/06/2026If I had money and time, I’d set up an NGO that: 1. Monitors Con media 24/7 to flag anything that could be actionable. 2. Hands flagged cases to a team of attorneys to determine if a suit exists. 3. Contacts the defamed party or parties and offers to file and litigate their claim pro bono. 46810
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugDavid Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Civil suits. Civil suits are the only thing that has consistently worked against these bastards. From Jones to Giulliani to Trump himself, civil suits are the most functional route to something like justice. If they ever hand you standing and cause, sue the bastards. 4892112
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugHeather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool 502243365590
AmoeBaHumbug @amoebahumbug.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Kinda like theft… Same goes for the ai art generators. 000
AmoeBaHumbug @amoebahumbug.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Guess I’m finished with A24 films. What a short-sighted, anti-artist, anti-human, endeavor. 010
AmoeBaHumbug @amoebahumbug.bsky.social · 19/06/2026When driving I often reflect on how much I love random reordering of stop light colors…. almost as much as I love grammitcal checks. 020
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugAdam G. Murphy @murphy4va.bsky.social · 03/06/2026The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has proposed rule changes to the federal grant making process. 🚨 Under proposed changes, political appointees will become decision makers for grant approval. The potential for abuse is obvious. 042
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 31/05/2026What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? All of these questions and more to be discussed at the Emergency Science Meeting on June 2nd, 4PM ET, hosted by Stand Up for Science! Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/g3vTZ 13479281
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugGracu ✨🌈 @prismagic.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Listen I'm very loudly anti-AI but I think part of being anti-AI is also that you have to be AGGRESSIVELY pro-artist. Please support your artists, especially ones with marginalized identities. 126911286
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugAdam G. Murphy @murphy4va.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Transgender and gender identity are not threats to the people of the USA and do not need a warning label for it. We need warning labels for AI generated content and penalties for those who don't label AI content, even if partially AI. #glaad #trans #ai glaad.org/fcc/glaad.org 022
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/05/2026“The company will also offer digital assistants, known as agents, to automate searches so that someone who may be apartment hunting can be notified of a new listing without opening a real estate site like Zillow.” The question isn’t “racist or not?” but rather “exactly how racist?” 2347
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugDr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!? 484112292254
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugWoltergeist 2: The Other Side-Eye @wolter.bsky.social · 14/05/2026This is the money paragraph for me. 01254290
AmoeBaHumbug @amoebahumbug.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Part of me wonders if the **fully appropriate** growing blanket anti-AI sentiments mean researchers can go back to describing methods plainly vs lumping every machine learning principle as “AI POWERED.” 🫠 000
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugDr. Mansa Keita @rasmansa.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I often tell AI models their answers are incorrect or misleading, and they typically agree and update. The problem is...the people who can authoritatively tell when an AI is wrong are few compared to those who simply trust what the model says. 64113
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP. 242049766
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are 15682361443
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugMatt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 01/05/2026“We don’t want to put our bylines on stories we did not actually write even if they’re based on our work,” said Ariane Lange, an investigative reporter at The Sacramento Bee and the vice chair of The Sacramento Bee News Guild. “That in itself feels like a lie.”nytimes.comReporters at McClatchy Withhold Bylines in Dispute Over A.I. Content 185
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugKristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Dr. David Morens - who is 78 years old and served his country for nearly 50 years - used Gmail, which he shouldn't have done. However, "[he] was stripped and handcuffed [by] a half-dozen federal agents carrying guns and wearing tactical gear [..] and jailed". www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgGuns and bulletproof vests: How federal agents arrested Fauci aideDavid Morens, 78, was stripped and handcuffed for email violations 13165121
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugKatie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 30/04/2026ICYMI: The House Appropriations Committee voted 35-25 yesterday to advance a bill that would underfund WIC and cut fruit and vegetable benefits for almost 5.4 million toddlers, preschoolers, new moms & pregnant women in low-income families. 29554371
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugPeter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Acting CDC head cancels publication of a study showing Covid vaccine sharply cut odds of hospitalization and ER visits. Agency veterans say they've never seen an article pulled after being cleared by scientists and scheduled for publication. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...nytimes.comC.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines 24390181
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugOceanity 🔜 BLFC @oceanity.live · 22/04/2026Spent a long time on this art, now time to post it to very functional website BlueSky 66517
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugJust Some Grey Bunny @greybunny.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Too many pizza delivery customer service bots doing python for people. 1122
AmoeBaHumbug @amoebahumbug.bsky.social · 20/04/2026For me, the fun of online discussion has deflated, knowing ai bots are garbling up every word. I want to converse and share ideas for sake human experience, not to create content/training data for corporations. Hoping to find a way past these feelings. 000
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugDr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay 120111844070
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugWootles @music2000.bsky.social · 13/04/2026tl;dr Brave was created by a guy who got kicked out of the for-profit part of Mozilla for being too for-profit and corrupt, so he created a browser that was focused around manipulating advertisements to divert the revenue and then threw several crypto scams on top of it when that failed. 9258213
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like. [Via @itep.org] 31171473791
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 14/04/2026"Gen AI" is not politically neutral, even & especially when using it against political opponents. This isn't some "tying a hand behind your back" situation, this is literally harming yourself and everyone else by giving legitimacy and credence to a deeply dangerous technisocial paradigm. So stop it. 2449138
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/04/2026The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it. 541234748164
AmoeBaHumbug @amoebahumbug.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Raise your hand if usage of #genAI by coworkers exponentially increases your workload. Thank you for sending me this #AI summary, much of it is wrong and will require double the work to rectify.media.tenor.coma cat sitting on a chair in a living room looking at the cameraALT: a cat sitting on a chair in a living room looking at the camera 000
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/04/2026The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant. 8642711897
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugArtologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 13/04/2026New Anti-AI watercolors in the shop! Artologica.etsy.com 🧠 114446
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugBarbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Absolutely heartbreaking. So many mathematicians I know studied there, men AND women. Maryam Mirzakhani studied there. If this isn't enough to cancel/relocate from the US the International Congress of Mathematicians #ICM2026, nothing will be. 2458212
Reposted by AmoeBaHumbugWoltergeist 2: The Other Side-Eye @wolter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Oh so now copyright matters. 559722023