Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 26/07/2025I think it's both. They genuinely assumed liberal hegemony in academia would continue forever, giving them a windmill to tilt at. Now that the right is in power and is actively ending all research science their entire worldview looks beyond ridiculous. 0190
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 26/07/2025The pipeline from "criticized for sexually harassing students" to "brave counter cultural Rogansphere hero" is about 2 inches long. 2351
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 26/07/2025It's very funny to me how this book was clearly written to cash in on anti-woke panic and is now so painfully out of date that it may as well not exist. Also of course it's a Lawrence Krauss joint. Read his Wikipedia page for an Epstein jump scare. 060
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Only America and it's allies are allowed to drop bombs, everyone else needs to just sit there and get bombed in silence I guess. 000
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Cool little Hemerodromiinae we used to test out our new microscope camera + focus stacking. Worked well I think! 010
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Ah shit It's a preprint so grain of salt: scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...scholar.google.com 010
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 15/06/2025There's a new paper that recently came out that studied brain activity in people who use llms to write. And they found that people who start with an llm and then make edits have massive deficits in critical thinking and creativity compared to those who don't. It basically makes you dumber over time. 110
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 14/06/2025MFW iNat enters the enshittification era 000
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Well they're lying to us. Either they lied about it being gen AI then, or they're lying about it NOT being gen AI now. 010
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 14/06/2025This still doesn't make any sense to me, why would they proudly call it "leveraging gen AI?" 110
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 14/06/2025So were they lying the first time? Or are they lying now? 010
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Yep. The entire economy is basically just a gambling game now. Generate hype, pump a stock, sell at the peak, rug pull the company, screw retail investors and workers, rinse and repeat. 110
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Yeah we're being asked to do the job of 3 people, so an app that makes it easier is very tempting. Unfortunately the app makes you worse at thinking so I don't think it's a good trade off 110
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 14/06/2025I gotta be honest I think the era of official channels working is over. You can literally choke out an entire town but if you bribe the president you can just do it. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...politico.com'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in MemphisThe company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations. 100
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Hell I'm just an ecologist and I don't use AI for any actual research just cause it might make a stupid mistake I'll get blamed for. I can't imagine trusting it for human health. 220
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 14/06/2025It's crazy to me because we already have really good speech to text tech that isn't generative AI. The fact that they want their notes summarized by AI tells me a lot 110
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Doge cut it already so the guys who stood with trump at his inauguration can make more AI. Remember that? The same guys selling LLMs to iNat were partying with trump lmao 100
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025But it's worth noting that some Drs ARE noticing that it lies and that led to further investigation. 110
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I don't really know or care if physicians personally like it, the data suggests it makes stuff up and the Drs themselves may never even notice. A lot of people blindly trust LLMs because tech bros sell it as actual intelligence when it's absolutely not. 110
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Why don't we just harvest unicorn farts? That's about as realistic in the short term. 000
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025They're literally reopening coal plants to power this Google AI slop 030
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025That application actually doesn't work, a bunch of doctors are reporting that it transcribes gibberish or stuff. The patient didn't say. So. It's not just useless, it's actively harmful for human health! 110
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I'm not exaggerating when I say that tech bros are destroying the world out of spite, because they never experienced joy at creation and discovery, they're trying to take it away from us. 000
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025They're not really listening though, we don't want this at all 120
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I have no faith they're gonna counter the environmental damage, they just said if it's "too high" they won't do it, but how is that quantified? For $1.5 million I bet they'll never hit that imaginary threshold. 190
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025They really are sounding like soulless tech bros. They can't comprehend we don't want LLMs forced into everything, they think we must just be stupid and easily confused. 0150
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Ah yes, the notoriously evil corporation is just giving you a nice little gift. Definitely no strings attached lol 0130
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Trust will be the least of your worries if you don't cancel this asinine project 0120
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Unfortunately they have all the money so we have a bit of an uphill battle here 121
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Sure, but in the short run they're poisoning towns of poor people and pumping out tons of CO2 so they can generate big boob anime ladies for Facebook slop. 200
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 12/06/2025I don't know, it seems like 100% of the users don't want this, but they're plowing ahead anyway. Melting the planet to power an llm that produces incorrect slop captions that we need to fix anyway. How depressing. 1111
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 12/06/2025It's honestly so depressing how every company is falling for this ridiculous AI hype. They may as well be offering NFTs of your observations, this will age about as well. 020
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Reopening coal plants so we can generate incorrect slop captions that experts will need to fix anyway. What a great deal! 020
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Well they provide no quantification for what would be too high of an environmental cost, so they're free to just declare that whatever the cost is, it's worth it. The road to enshittification lies with disingenuous attempts to make users shut up. 100
Tim Lampasona, Ph.D. @bugdrtimlamp.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Right and I think it's not really worth anything unless they're able to massively scale up energy use and keep it on clean sources, which they've given no indication is possible in their last update 110
