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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
‘We value your privacy’ said by companies that only recognise one form of value: monetisation.
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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One of the USA's best political writers, bar none. Buy her real books. Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
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There's an Al-generated "biography" of me that is just my book "The Last American Road Trip" plagiarized near verbatim and sold under the byline of a non-existent person. Today I got an Al-generated email from a non-existent Al publicist. It was addressed to the non-existent Al author of my fake biography. They wanted the non-existent Al author to hire them to publicize it. An entire conversation between robots about my stolen work.

I hate Al.
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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is a very good statement. “In many fields and activities, years of training have traditionally served not only to produce a final answer or product, but also to develop understanding and the ability to formulate new questions and ideas.”
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I would say that mintcake is an uncountable noun, like salt. No matter how many packets you have, you are just carrying mintcake.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Who could possibly have predicted this
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 10/08/2026
This is a fantastic and extremely well-researched summary of the pitfalls of measuring productivity in the LLM era. "Building things got cheap, but building the right thing didn’t get any easier." Absolute must-read:
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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. pubpeer.com/publications...
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
AI does have some great trolling potential
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
So extraordinary that a technology that was initially promoted as reduced the toil of everyday life is now being treated as noxious pollution.
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The more you do science, the more you realize that you’re wrong all the time. But you get more information, and your hypotheses improve. People who are fundamentally incurious and arrogant just refuse to understand scientific processes.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I see that Fauci has wisely invoked his right to shut the f*ck up, remember you can too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEp...
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NLG Know Your Rights reminder: Shut the f*** up!
YouTube video by National Lawyers Guild, Detroit & MI
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yassokiiba @yassokiiba.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A lazy-sounding midsummer jam :)
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 27/07/2026
tapping the sign
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
the benefit of being on bluesky is that there's no chance you could be accused of corrupting the youth
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 27/07/2026
A great post on how AI at most solves ~10% of what we do in research, and many other issues - like grant writing, lead time to do experiments, or peer review - remain as unoptimized bottlenecks in the current research system.
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"We got more gongs than the breakdancing robot that caught on fire." www.youtube.com/watch?v=brlY...
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The Simpsons - Homer On The Gong Show
YouTube video by NoBSClips
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Thank you for your leadership @holdenthorp.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive
There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...
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Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"AI...making things expensive for the rest of us. Large language models...are so resource-hungry that tech companies...purchasing 70% of the world’s supply of high-end computer memory, causing a shortage." The opposite of what we expect from new technologies. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster
A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My latest at The New Republic. AI is a product no one asked for, no one wants, and is being foisted upon us. It (mostly) produced garbage, while making us dumber. I can't wait for the business model to collapse. newrepublic.com/article/2130...
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Everybody’s Weirded Out by AI—Except the People Who Foist It on Us
AI makes the dumbest seem smarter, the smartest seem dumber, while dragging the entire human average down in the process.
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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
data visualization is my passion.
fox news showing weekly temperatures: 92, 92, 92, 94, 94, 92, 92, with a very strong gap between 94 and 92.
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yassokiiba @yassokiiba.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Jamming with Fmco from ALM Busy Circuits (which is making chords) and Samaranda from Xaoc Devices, which is providing the delay!!! :)
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/06/2026
still waiting for AI to solve climate change
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This educational illustration shows the major human body organs and their locations inside the body. The diagram highlights essential organs such as the brain, lungs, trachea, heart, liver, stomach, intestines, diaphragm, spleen, gallbladder, bladder, and urethra. It also displays the circulatory system with veins and arteries. The image serves as a clear visual guide for students, teachers, and health enthusiasts to understand human anatomy better. Perfect for biology education, medical studies, and anatomy awareness, this chart makes learning about the human body simple and engaging.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I especially love this diagram.
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Guy Venables @guyvenables.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
One of my cartoons for Wed's Metro
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I love to learn on the computer.
A (I don't want to say DEFINITELY ai-generated) thermometer of PC temperature ranges with completely incoherent temperatures. Cold is 30 degrees C, 212 Farenheit.
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas
Winners and Losers
The IEA overestimated gas growth in Asia and underestimated solar

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• Forecast 547 TWh
• Actual 17 TWh

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• Forecast 465 TWh
• Actual 1,333 TWh

Note: Shows expected growth in Asian power generation between 2018 and 2025, based on actual 2018 generation, actual 2025 generation, and the 2018 World Energy Outlook's Current Policies Scenario estimates for 2025. Actual 2025 generation figures are from Ember.
Source: International Energy Agency, Ember, Bloomberg Opinion calculations
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
In another example of “everything looks like a conspiracy, when you don’t know how anything works”: Trump and co. allege that “slow counting” reveals fraud, when it’s actually a signal/side effect of the security measures that are used to both prevent fraud and ensure that legal votes are counted.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is very significant. Many of us operate with a simple argument: 1. AI on its own cannot generate anything original. 2. Apart from review articles academic journals only publish original work. 3. Therefore no AI generated paper should get through peer review. Which premise is wrong?
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Unprecedented system. A cat 5 purricane with two distinct eyes visible. And an eye wall replacement cycle appears to be taking place.
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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
New paper with @nickchk.com Do LLMs act as repositories of causal knowledge? Short answer: No! Longer answer: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Nostalgic for the days - the early 2020s - when our biggest concern about AI was algorithmic bias.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/05/2026
glad they found this and will use their work for good to explain this, but also this is self-evident! don't let AI also drain us of our ability to know a priori such tech is wrong and harmful, using common sense so yes, evidence is wonderful, but it serves to support what we knew, not vice versa!
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
#AcademicSky I think a lot about this. AI will perpetuate all kinds of biases already found in the literature. Not just racism & sexism, but Matthew Effect and others. It's a prediction machine, based on what's in the ether.
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The ads now explicitly say you have to outperform the plagiarism machines in order to deserve a job. Further down, there’s another ad that says “We find out what AI can’t do, then we teach it”. You have to be better than the system so you can teach it to replace you. Dystopian nightmare mask off
Better than AI?
Prove it.
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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
and today we thank the internet gods for this wonderful gift
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 18/05/2026
there is nothing more satisfying than starting the day with an O(n²) problem and finishing the day with it optimized into an O(n) problem
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yassokiiba @yassokiiba.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
A clip from last night's jam with the new Fmco from ALM Busy Circuits and Samerkanda on delay :)
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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"AI is 2000s autotune" -- I've never identified with something so deeply
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Our robot overlords 🥴
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yassokiiba @yassokiiba.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Had time to record a jam the other night.... actually, this is a couple of jams overdubbed (using mmmMidi from @almbusycircuits.bsky.social to sync the DAW and the modules). #dubjam #eurorack
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Many important points in here, but I disagree that an answer is necessarily to train models on conversational speech. I wish we just acknowledged that conversation is human, and then designed these systems to be more transparently NOT human.
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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Two things to note about this 1) No journal should ever publish an unsigned commentary 2) All commentaries, like all articles, should have financial disclosures. Not all financial arrangements are conflicts of interest, but all compensation is an interest, which readers have the right to know about.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
woof.
cover the magazine The Economist. chinese president Xi Jinpingnis off to the right with a smile on his face while trump is out of focus on the left but we can see his big squishy mouth is open in mid-speech (almost certainly saying something absolutely inane). the headline over all of is NEVER
INTERRUPT YOUR ENEMY WHEN HE'S MAKING A MISTAKE
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
In my line of work we call this a rhetorical failure.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Fascinating thread on AI and information manipulation by state actors.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
To reduce crime have everyone wear tennis shorts. Fewer than 1,000 crimes are committed by people wearing tennis shorts. I read this parody of Freakconomics many years ago. But I feel I see this depth of analysis more and more.
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Skeet Child O' Mine @furiosity.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most.
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
IT 👏🏽IS 👏🏽NOT👏🏽MAGIC. It’s just predictive text.
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