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Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him) @dlarsn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What a twofer to see first thing on opening the app

A headline about a botched lethal injection above a post about taking injectable medicine.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

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Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him) @dlarsn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't know you, but you post funny memes about my favorite fantasy universe so that must mean you're pretty cool!

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Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him) @dlarsn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well gosh, he was right! It is super intelligent

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.

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Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him) @dlarsn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Put some stank on it: a life-cycle cost analysis on manufacturing food-safe swamp slug slime on Dagoba (desk rejected)

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Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him) @dlarsn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yes, I agree with you! I use ML for image segmentation at times, but much prefer analytical methods.

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Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him) @dlarsn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

LLMs are AI but not all AI is LLMs. What we normally call machine learning is great for imaging, yes. LLMs are not.

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Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him) @dlarsn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

These end-of-days AI articles read like Zizian rantings, probably because Silicon Valley is a cult. I'm not going to live my life in fear of the word guessing machine getting better at guessing words. We should regulate them because of the dangers of unfettered capitalism, not their publicity stunts

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 06/09/2026

I'm deadly serious about this: every Republican should be shown this photo on TV and asked if they repudiate/reject/renounce Musk. And if not, why not.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

US House passes legislation that blocks federal aid for colleges and universities if they engage in boycotts against Peru in 237-169 vote. (jk, of course it's Israel).

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

BREAKING: OMB PROPOSED RULE IS PAUSED UNTIL DEC 11th. This is a direct result of OUR ACTIVISM! It's a critical step in the right direction AND the fight continues. NOW, it's time to revoke the rule. Email here: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/rev... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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House passes funding bill to avoid shutdown before midterms

Continuing resolution to approve government spending until 11 December passes 370-48 and will now go to Trump

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Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him) @dlarsn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Glad to hear you and your family are okay! Important for people to hear this and understand it's not just normal food poisoning

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The overreaction to this Hugging Face thing is driving me nuts. Come flay me for being wrong but... 1/x

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Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him) @dlarsn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

NPR's had some bad "both sides" takes under Trump for sure. But an article targeted towards people who already want to have kids explaining factors that might help them that aren't often talked about doesn't seem to me to be a covert right wing ploy.

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Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him) @dlarsn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Adoption is often a priveleged, paywalled action: adoptionnetwork.com/adoptive-par.... People are going to get have kids; it will never stop. Rather than calling them all evil, why not focus on bettering the world for the next generation? There will always be one. It would be futile to do otherwise.

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How Much Does Adoption Cost? Full Breakdown (2026)

How much does adoption cost? Learn average fees, legal expenses, and financial help options. Get a clear breakdown of total costs.

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Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him) @dlarsn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Track AIPAC may use a stricter definition for contributions (counting PAC donations that themselves have received money from AIPAC, etc.), but AIPAC doesn't like Ossof or Warnock. That doesn't mean their definition is bad; we want zero foreign interference. It's just not wholely accurate

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Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him) @dlarsn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Search for yourself on opensecrets: www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup, Ossof and Warnock have not taken AIPAC money. The creater of integrity index has a video about Track AIPAC's inconsistent methods for determining the Israeli lobby's contributions: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFUU....

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/08/2026

AI is alarming for many reasons: it's a dangerous financial bubble, an environmental catastrophe, and a tool for eroding wages and labor power. But in addition to all that, AI is an epistemic disaster. 1/

The North Pole at night, hand-tinted in blues and purples so it looks more like a moonscape. Protruding from the ice is the cross-sectioned head and neck of a man, his brains on display. Stepping over the leftmost mountains is a killer pulp robot, about to crush the head. Leaning against the rightmost mountains is a sneering, princely toff in a red frock coat, holding a cane that has penetrated the decapitated skull and lodged in the brains.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottom

A nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

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Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him) @dlarsn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I would believe some in the DSA are pro-Russia/CCP, but I haven't heard of them being antisemitic. Admittedly, I'm not in DSA or familiar with the IC and only know the big faces like Mamdani and AOC, who generally seem good. Do you have any sources on the antisemitism? Genuinely curious

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Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him) @dlarsn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"What are some issues that could have caused this swing?" Enten: "It's the economy" sounds reasonable, I sure can't think of anything else that happened that would impact the Latino vote

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Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him) @dlarsn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

On a smaller scale for academic journals, this is why I always prefer citation formats that let me cite throughout the sentence instead of just one string of citations at the end of a sentence. Like which of these 5 papers apply to which of the many claims you made here?

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

authors who put a single endnote at the end of a long paragraph and then cite half a dozen different books without any indication of which factual assertions came from which sources are actually going straight to hell, I'm so sorry to be the one to tell you!!!!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/07/2026

Amnesty International has now issued a public groveling apology to JK Rowling's organization and has pulled her another report documenting the anti rights platform of gender critical organizations. www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

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An Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026

Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/07/2026

With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026

As far as I can tell, this dialog between MacArthur prize-winning mathematician Terrence Tao and Chatgpt about "the Jacobian conjecture counterexample" is very impressive: chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc... 1/

A 1960s classroom. A teacher in a blue dress stands at a blackboard in the background; in the foreground, a child works at a desk. The child's head has been replaced with the head of a killer robot. The blackboard is covered in printed circuits

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Happy to share a new zine we just finished that's an updated version to "Recognizing Hate". This zine is a reference guide to identify various nazi dog whistles, and includes a list with brief descriptions of the most active far-right groups currently in the US. www.wewillfreeus.org/farrightthre...

cover of new zine titled "Far Right Threats. A reference guide for recognizing far right groups, symbols, and dog whistles." in the middle is a black and white photo of a member of patriot front with a circle / dash covering the dork.

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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 15/07/2026

Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/

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Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him) @dlarsn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm glad AI helped you identify what was wrong, that sounds like a frustrating experience! On the test, it's not currently gatekept, I know someone who's had it! But, high p-tau doesn't mean you have Alzheimer's; it was correlated with developing it later in some people, so some docs are cautious.

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Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him) @dlarsn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So, there are reasons why they roll things out more cautiously. Also, AI won't be replacing anyone, let alone doctors. See how that's going for the companies that fired their workforce in favor of it: www.forbes.com/sites/joetos... You're right, some doctors are not great. But most do their best!

forbes.com

Ford Hiring 350 Engineers After AI Failed Shows Human Value In AI Era

Ford rehired 350 engineers after AI systems failed to maintain quality. The decision is attributed to lead in JD Power's ranking for the first time in 16 years.

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Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him) @dlarsn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I know someone who has taken this test because her dad has Alzheimer's; it said her p-tau levels are high. But, like in the article, that changes nothing about her treatment right now. She was already being monitored because of her dad. Now she's just more worried and there's no action steps.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2026

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 02/07/2026

The King must get his due these days OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake www.ft.com/content/7c80...

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OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake

Sam Altman’s start-up in early talks for a public ownership deal as political pressure rises

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This is a brief but utterly harrowing description of our nation in decline and the role of Trump's disastrous presidency in making it all happen, from @pkrugman.bsky.social on the pod. Transcript: newrepublic.com/article/2121...

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

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Lars Nelson, PhD (he/him) @dlarsn.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Do we think he actually meant 47 years referencing specific US wars or did he get confused because Trump is #47

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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Ríhanna doesn't have an official legal defense fund because multiple crowdfunding websites have shut down her campaigns. please donate to her directly and send her well-wishes on Facebook. Venmo: venmo.com/u/Rihanna_Ke... www.facebook.com/share/p/18uT...

This is a facebook post from Ríhanna Novalee ChasingStars, ie Ríhanna Kelver. It reads:

Hello! Welcome those who have found my Facebook! My name is Rihanna Kelver and yes, I am currently facing two felony charges after defending myself from a violent hate crime.

If you are a member of the press, please feel free to message me through here or at rihanna_kelver@outlook.com.

If you are someone looking to support me and my legal fund. You can find my Venmo at @Rihanna_Kelver or https://venmo.com/u/Rihanna_Kelver

The reason I have to use my Venmo is because we’ve been kicked off three crowd funding sites now due to ToS violations. Apparently surviving a hate crime and being charged for surviving it constitutes “fundraising for the defense of a violent crime.”

Anyways, thank you all so much for your support and keep up the good fight 💖🏳️‍⚧️

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I wrote about the way that killing people seems to just be another cost of doing business, and a modest proposal for a reversal in the ways our systems of commerce, government, and law operate that just might provide an effective deterrent. www.the-reframe.com/the-cost-of-...

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The Cost of Doing Business

A modest proposal: Abolish the death penalty for humans. Institute it for corporations.

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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The rebellions continue! The publisher Springer put pressure on a journal's editors to accept more papers, just to make more money. The editors resigned and started their own journal, which is peer reviewed and 'diamond open access'. That means FREE to publish in and FREE to read! (1/n)

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New Open Access Journal to Launch Following Resignation of Editorial Team from Natural Language Semantics

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language …

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Time for a thread on all the @standupforscience.net action tools! Site: www.standupforscience.net Action Center: fight2win.standupforscience.net SUFS OMB Overview: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a... SUFS Guide to Public Comments: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...

standupforscience.net

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

Science activists and allies mobilizing to save science, health and democracy itself from the Trump administration's dismantlement and privatization.

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