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AmoeBaHumbug

@amoebahumbug.bsky.social
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Scientist in academia, fighting for science & people. Swirling thoughts. Many Interests. Human. Lots of favorite TV shows.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It 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.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
underrated 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.
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Ben 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.eu
Recognizing LLM-generated ideas – Lavinia Marin
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Many 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.
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Hypervisible @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.com
ChatGPT Health adds Epic integration for clinicians to import patient data | TechCrunch
OpenAI said that the integration provides read-only access to health records for clinicians.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
After 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.
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Elizabeth 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.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I’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…
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026
If 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.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This 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.
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William Umboh @swumboh.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Excited 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
Photo of P Hotel
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Hypervisible @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.com
Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out
As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.
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nerdbird @nerdbird.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
absolutely sickening that fucking NATURE is both-sidesing this. great thread, thank you.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
If 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.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Civil 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.
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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
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AmoeBaHumbug @amoebahumbug.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Relatable, on a molecular level.
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AmoeBaHumbug @amoebahumbug.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Kinda like theft… Same goes for the ai art generators.
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AmoeBaHumbug @amoebahumbug.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Guess I’m finished with A24 films. What a short-sighted, anti-artist, anti-human, endeavor.
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AmoeBaHumbug @amoebahumbug.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
When driving I often reflect on how much I love random reordering of stop light colors…. almost as much as I love grammitcal checks.
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Adam G. Murphy @murphy4va.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The 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.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 31/05/2026
What 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
The graphic contains photos of speakers Prof. Timothy Snyder, U. of Toronto, Author of On Tyranny, Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi, Standford U. Nobel Laureate 2022, Amb. Norman Eisen, Democracy Defeders, and Dr. Elizabeth Ginexi, 20 yr NIH Veteren, "AND MORE..." to speak. The graphic reads: "TUESDAY JUNE 2nd 4PM ET/1PM PT, All welcome for the SUFS EMERGENCY SCIENCE MEETING, VIRTUAL AND ACCESSIBLE, What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? REGISTER HERE: https://zurl.co/oCIDw, LINK IN BIO".
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Gracu ✨🌈 @prismagic.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Listen 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.
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Adam G. Murphy @murphy4va.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Transgender 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
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Hypervisible @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?”
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I'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?!?
The reactions of some researchers on Twitter finally being held responsible for not having read the very paper they submitted are... something. Mainly, they don't think they should have to check every citation or make sure the data is real and accurate. Because it's too hard, I guess.
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Woltergeist 2: The Other Side-Eye @wolter.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is the money paragraph for me.
What if we got away from the argument that doing cosmology and particle physics is practical or materially valuable? Then we have to accept that we're like the poets.
What we do is important culturally in the same way poetry is. A piece of this book is me saying there is value in banding with the poets, and fighting for the value of being curious and trying to articulate the world with whatever tools are available to us. Not for the purposes of selling something, but for the purpose of fulfilling our humanity.
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AmoeBaHumbug @amoebahumbug.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Part 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.” 🫠
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Dr. Mansa Keita @rasmansa.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I 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.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
What 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.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I 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
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Matt 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.com
Reporters at McClatchy Withhold Bylines in Dispute Over A.I. Content
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Dr. 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.org
Guns and bulletproof vests: How federal agents arrested Fauci aide
David Morens, 78, was stripped and handcuffed for email violations
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
ICYMI: 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.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Acting 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.com
C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines
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Oceanity 🔜 BLFC @oceanity.live · 22/04/2026
Spent a long time on this art, now time to post it to very functional website BlueSky
Definitely a painstakingly detailed and beautifully rendered art piece and not just a 1280 x 1280 square the same color as a broken image on Bluesky, totally
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Just Some Grey Bunny @greybunny.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Too many pizza delivery customer service bots doing python for people.
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AmoeBaHumbug @amoebahumbug.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
For 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.
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026
OpenAI: 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
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Wootles @music2000.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
tl;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.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like. [Via @itep.org]
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Dr. 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.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 08/04/2026
"i see a ghost"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The 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.
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AmoeBaHumbug @amoebahumbug.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Raise 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.com
a cat sitting on a chair in a living room looking at the camera
ALT: a cat sitting on a chair in a living room looking at the camera
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The 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.
Someone Has to Be Happy. Why Not Lauren Sánchez Bezos?
As half of an unfathomably powerful couple, Mrs. Sánchez Bezos seems to have influenced the uber-rich to stop apologizing, and start enjoying themselves.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 13/04/2026
New Anti-AI watercolors in the shop! Artologica.etsy.com 🧠
Three watercolor paintings with brains and anti AI messages
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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Absolutely 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.
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Woltergeist 2: The Other Side-Eye @wolter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Oh so now copyright matters.
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