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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 19/09/2026

AI generated posters report from Somerville Fluff Fest. Guys it's bleak out there. Not as many as I feared but... Ugh.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 07/09/2026

AI images are flooding online ordering.

Panera orange juice bottle with corrupted writing

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 05/09/2026

Behold. I've had their pizza before, too, and it's not very good.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 05/09/2026

Can't wait until someone breaks this piece of shit. Also, this is not in any way, shape, or form a hologram.

Image of an AI "hologram" at Logan as part of a Boston Globe story.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 05/09/2026

The nerds at the Somerville Police Department have installed lightsabers outside. (They're parking gates.) (Also they're incredibly bright. I wonder if they violate Somerville light ordinance.)

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 31/08/2026

The half that's not serious: This is the current classification system.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 30/08/2026

Haven't seen this yet, so: Animorphs

Animorphs Book 1 cover art, featuring a kid turning into a lizard

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 24/08/2026

About to see this very topical play, starring Tatiana Maslany, John Turturro, and Paul Giamatti. Everyone has their reasons for going along with the crowd.

Pamphlet for the play Rhinoceros. "Everything seems normal... until it's not." Next to a yellow drink on a black table.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 21/08/2026

I'll just leave this paragraph here as just one component, and others can judge if my reasoning is "highly-motivated" (by what?) and that you're right that Gen AI can, right now, be trusted in the clinic.

Gen AI models also lack true clinical reasoning.
Despite generating responses that may appear ana
lytically sophisticated, the models do not reason in
the way clinicians do in form differential diagnoses,
weigh competing clinical priorities,or integrate nuanced
patient-specific context in a principled manner. Model
outputs are the product of statistical pattern recogni
tion over large text corpora,not of causal or mechanistic
understanding of patient physiology, radiobiology, and
dosimetry.As a result,a model may produce a plausible
sounding treatment recommendation without any under
lying understanding of why that recommendation is or is
not appropriate for a given patient.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 20/08/2026

She's blocking for any even mild criticism lol

hailey @hailey.at
its been said many times but it is absolutely insane to watch the left shoot themselves in the foot by hopping on this anti-AI train. a massive generational L awaits.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 18/08/2026

I'm sure this is somehow serious, but it's the funniest fucking ad I've ever seen on Instagram.

Depicts two stacks of Pringles chips, one of which has extra phantom chips. It reads:

Siemens
Pringles uses a Digital Twin of the dough to produce perfect chips faster and more efficiently.

Are you ready to level up your production, too?

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 14/08/2026

Here, let me help you compare similar time periods.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 11/08/2026

As always, when these stories come up... The userbase is actually pretty solid. There's some slow decay, but it is very slow.

Graph of BlueSky likes per day since 2024.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 09/08/2026

From Tom Hiddleston's Pompeii documentary, speaking with a disaster psychologist on the population potentially not heeding increasing earthquakes: "I don't think you can underestimate the human capacity for inaction."

Tom Hiddleston and Sarita Robinson in Pompeii: Out of Time

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 08/08/2026

If the party was doing more of the left, and less of the right, they'd be much better positioned to take advantage of the so-called "attention economy" and build a successful political movement.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 07/08/2026

Funny example from right now 😆 The bus is off route and heading away. Next bus in 25 min.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 31/07/2026

Random Air Force helicopters are doing donuts over Cambridge.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 30/07/2026

I cannot stress how much I hate "web apps" that are used for regular applications on Windows.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 18/07/2026

I made a tool to explore how time zones, daylight saving time, and our schedules interact in the United States. One thing I hope will be clear is that the real enemy is our work schedule, not the clock. bioturbonick.github.io/DaylightExpl...

Screenshot of the Daylight Explorer tool

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 18/07/2026

Sunday looks fun for the Northeast. firesmoke.ca/forecasts/cu...

Forecast map of fire smoke of the Northeast US

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 17/07/2026

The Sun is dim enough that I can't see it with eclipse glasses in Somerville (don't stare at it though, the UV isn't being filtered)

Extremely red sun near sunset through smoke

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 12/07/2026

"coordinated the delivery of over 2.5 billion units of inventory. 2.5 billion, Darryl? 2.5 billion units of what?"

Screen clips from The Office of a scene where Jo Bennet is reading Darryl's resume, where he exaggerated the numbers by counting pieces of paper.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 29/06/2026

I'm so glad I'm using Tidal. New Anti-AI policy.

Our stance on AI-generated music

Hi Nicholas Bauer!

AI music generation tools are changing how music is created and distributed. As this technology evolves, Tidal is introducing platform standards to protect artists, their craft, and inform listeners.
Here are the highlights of our new AI Policy:

Tidal will identify and tag AI-generated music in our app. Listeners will see an "AI" badge next to music we detect as wholly AI-generated.

Tidal will not tolerate AI-generated music that impersonates an artist or group, or that facilitates fraudulent activity. We're implementing automatic tools to remove these releases immediately and on an ongoing basis.

Tidal will not allow music that is 100% AI-generated to be monetized. No royalties will go to such releases, nor will AI-generated uploads be eligible for direct-to-fan sales.

We will expand these policies to music that is substantially AI-generated when AI detection technology is sufficiently reliable to do so.

You'll start seeing these changes from July 15.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 24/06/2026

Just tried "Hyperlapse" auto-timelapse feature on my Samsung phone, it's pretty cool. I'll need to play with it more.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 18/06/2026

Ok, sure, why not. (Accuweather, this REALLY should not be red to confuse it with a warning.)

Accuweather Tornado cautionary note for Boston

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 14/06/2026

A friend posted this on Instagram, and I can't find fault with the logic.

A post on Twitter from @buggirl: "in nature if a monkey hoarded 1 trillion bananas the other monkeys would beat that monkey to death and take his bananas"

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 13/06/2026

Interesting view except... this big believer in AI is clearly using AI to generate figures and not checking the results. The six "modalities": two are identical, one of them is an administration route, not an agent type, and the other is a placeholder. And the subtitle doesn't relate to the image.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 23/05/2026

We just live in such the dumbest of times. Might as well read tea leaves. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

You can read into that as a sign of progress. This also shows the importance the president places on this region: Any deal he would obviously want to let them know about.

He told Axios earlier that he was “50/50”: 50 percent considering going back to war and 50 percent agreeing to the proposal.

It’s important to remember that Donald Trump said he was an hour away from relaunching military strikes against Iran, but then told reporters he stopped after requests from leadership in the Gulf because they wanted to see if a peace deal could be reached.

So, it’s very notable who he’s not speaking to – and also notable who he’s not speaking to. We’re going to be waiting to see if he reaches out to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 17/05/2026

What do they think the fucking point of the VRA is?

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 17/05/2026

I can't help but notice one big problem with this framing.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 09/05/2026

What in the Facebook algorithm is this.

Springer ad showing books titled "Normal and Abnormal Scrotum" and "Bioware's Mass Effect"

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 28/04/2026

When you read this ad Trump put out calling for the execution of the Central Park Five... Trump was always this way.

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 19/04/2026

No, actually they haven't. What are you smoking?

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 18/04/2026

I can feel my argumentative college atheism re-emerging. I don't mind people who have faith in a religion generally, but I very much mind when they claim to have strong evidence that their religion is true, or engage in special pleading by dismissing science.

The Atlantic

IDEAS

The Evidence That God Exists

Searching for scientific proof for faith misunderstands faith.

By Elizabeth Bruenig

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Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 16/04/2026

I'm loving the new self-care feature

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