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What a great way to describe it. We need crows or something like them to fill those spaces in our lives.

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I haven't, but clearly I need to!

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"From the state of Minnesota where we have the Gophers. So there’s not a lot of confusion.” Quite a good line from Senator Klobuchar

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Now banned in California. I'd like to see the rest of the country follow.

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This is so wonderful, Kat! I'm really happy for you and your crows.

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dunno about you but I'm looking forward to watching the UW Huskies play the Atlanta Hawks in a couple of weeks.

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👀 Florida attorney general to OpenAI: (www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/defaul...)

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Interesting. I’ve deleted the thread.

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Mary Gauthier - Alcohol and Adderall

While I'm throwing out Americana recommendations, check out the latest from Mary Gauthier. The opening track Alcohol and Adderall is as good place to start as any. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOrf...

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YouTube video by Stevie's Concertos 2

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So jealous. IMO his first album is the best Americana debut since John Moreland's. I really hope I'll get to see him some day but of course he hasn't been touring and doesn't have anything scheduled outside of Kentucky for the time being.

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The Heidelberg Fisherman's Ball

After a long wait, brilliant Americana performer Ian Noe is back with a double album, The Canyon Falls Trailer Band. Listen to the whole thing—but here's one of several uptempo numbers that are a fun switch-up after the first two records.

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YouTube video by Ian Noe - Topic

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/09/2026

"I believe that science derives its authority from something more than mastering the pipeline from data generation to publication. Rather, it comes from interactions within a community of people trained to interrogate evidence and answer for the conclusions they draw from it."

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Seriously, guys, just leave Gary home.

Recently, Gary’s buddies requested he not mention Palantir on their nights out together so as to not tank the whole group’s chances of getting laid. “I get nervous now. I don’t bring it up,” he says. (Gary, along with the other daters in this piece, have been given pseudonyms to protect against professional, if not romantic, repercussions.)

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The RT was annotated in the sequence previously for sure, but what was discovered was the associated clustered repeats that are expressed and appear to associate with the RT, i.e a potential anti-viral system of unknown function but potentially programmable in some way

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Got it. Thank you for explaining.

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Alex Kale @kalealex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ignore for a moment the question about whether Anthropic trains on user sessions. I am I right in reading this as saying that Anthropic's "never-before-discovered" reverse transcriptase was *patented* three years ago?

Dr. Mestre first encountered the enzymes in jumbo phages in 2022 while searching for new reverse transcriptases. He worked briefly as a consultant for ReNegade Therapeutics, which filed a patent in 2023 on a number of reverse transcriptases, including the ones Dr. Mestre found. He is listed as a co-inventor on the patent filing.

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I would be embarrassed to push a piece of software that lied to and defamed its users like this.

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IANAL but this is an easy win as a false light tort. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_l...

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False light - Wikipedia

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Lesson 2: The Nature of Bullshit

In this case there's no reputational harm because everyone knows that Gemini is literally a bullshit machine—but if we allow these systems to serve as epistemic grounding, what are the remedies in cases where reputations are actually made or broken?

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This lesson explores philosopher Harry Frankfurt's notion of bullshit, and explains why LLMs are, by his definition, bullshit machines.

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Google Gemini says that @jevinwest.bsky.social and I aren't to be trusted because in our first lecture, we had a playful example where Jevin presented data the same way that Tim Cook did, and I called bullshit on it. It hallucinates criticism and the only citations are to the lecture itself.

1. The "Explosive Growth" Slide ControversyIronically, the most direct and explicit example of this occurred during their very first "Calling Bullshit" lecture at the University of Washington.The Setup: Jevin West presented a slide to the class showing a graph that purported to show the "explosive, hockey-stick growth" of web traffic to their new Calling Bullshit website. The graph utilized standard marketing axes and compressed timeframes to make the project look like an unmitigated, runaway viral sensation.The "Bullshit": Carl Bergstrom actually had to step in and call "bullshit" on his own co-instructor's slide. When the data was displayed honestly without selective axis truncation or creative smoothing, it showed that while traffic was high initially, it heavily ebbed, flowed, and plateaued over time.The Criticism: While some praised this as a playful, planned pedagogical moment to show that "anyone can fall prey to bad data framing," critics viewed it as a perfect illustration of the double standard: when it serves a personal or professional promotional narrative (like proving your own course is a massive success), the temptation to use flawed, hype-driven metrics is incredibly high.

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That's the best you've got? 70% funded is massive industry influence. 70% non-disclosure is a problem with norms, not just a few bad apples.

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We desperately need much stronger disclosure, norms in academic publishing and we need publishers to step up their game in enforcing them.

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DMs aren't open; feel free to send me an email

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I see you're keeping up with The Discourse

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Also I totally know that feeling of having a huge number of shots on the camera and not having the patience to find the very very best of them before posting. It's a GOOD feeling.

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I'll say! Getting shots like this of any species is a lifetime dream for me. Crows? Get the fuck outta here. Can't even imagine.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026

Real academic philosophers, extremely sure. Grifters, of course not.

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My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛

a crow flies in front of the moon, greyish sky, the crow is flapping their wings down

two crows fly in front and near the moon, in the middle and the bottom left, a snowy egret is out of focus below the moon, greyish sky

a crow flies in front of the moon, dark sky, the crow is flapping their wings up but not fully extended

a crow flies in front of the moon, dark purple sky, the crow is in full cruise mode

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Brett what are you even doing? What deal with a god or devil did you sign? These are unbelievable! Shots of a lifetime dude.

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Dammit I miss emus. Glad to be coming to South Australia in 2027.

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Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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It’s like having a fellow from the Philip Morris Center of Journalism write a news piece about the health benefits of smoking.

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Of course there’s something bigger going on here.

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