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Me, the expensive marketing consultant they hired: "Name the next model the Infinity. Shoot to top of chart, cash in. Done."

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 5h

Put this in the Louve. And every textbook on the dangers of the misuse of data and data via. Gonna use this in class for sure.

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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 5h

Seen theories running from men being deported driving construction losses to COVID disparities ending as women return to work but it seems pretty clear to me that this is bc men don't like taking care of people and most jobs rn are in elder/child care, healthcare, and services.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 5h

Wow, that was just west of Fallen Leaf Lake, maybe just a couple miles from my parents' house. No wonder they jumped up at 3 am! My Dad said he thought someone ran a vehicle into the house. Which says a lot about how frequently that happens in this country, that his brain would go there. 😟🤷🏻‍♀️

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 5h

@drwendyrocks.bsky.social My parents and my sister and nieces got woken up by a good shaking in South Lake Tahoe at 3 am. I told them to report it to MyShake. 😏

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dark thread. Since we watched Musk literally push a "protect the Boers" button in real time with Grok, we now know people or companies could theoretically pay their way into putting a thumb on the scale for Grok/Claude/ChatGPT. This is why the AI stans want you to believe it's thinking

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 19h

I heard the Hegseth speech and would have sworn up and down that it was an SNL skit. Truly beyond satire.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 01/10/2026

His outfit says carefree casual Friday, but his expression says he's questioning his life choices ...

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 01/10/2026

As much as I hate to say it, it seems many Title IX offices are there to protect the University, not the victim. I saw this happen to a close friend in grad school. She (and the multiple other victimized grad students) were failed at every level. The successful professor got to remain successful.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 30/09/2026

I was co-Chair of my university's Take Back the Night for two years. That was 25 years ago. And not only have things not gotten better on college campuses, they've gotten worse. Thanks somewhat to the internet but mostly the current social and political climate.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 30/09/2026

It's not the "Cornell 7." It is the Cornell 50, or however many are in that group chat. Their silence is complicity. Essays for five of the seven. Essays. Essays are what you get assigned the first time you plagiarize something, or use AI when it was forbidden.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 29/09/2026

617 days into his 2nd term, Trump's Department of Transportation has *still* not approved a single new transit project for full funding. The problems I highlighted in March—how this lack of funding only makes projects cost more & delays completion—have only worsened www.urban.org/urban-wire/r...

There have been no approvals for new transit projects in the entire 2nd Trump Administration. This graph, produced in March 2026, remains accurate now, in September 2026.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 29/09/2026

And then whatever Senator used that to go off on a tangent about women's sports and trans women 🙄

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 29/09/2026

This is galaxy brain level car brain to frame this about anything but road rage. Someone desparate to use a toilet at a closed store will use a shrub outside, they won't crash their car into a store to reach the bathroom. FFS. (*unless it is a story about dementia, but the car is still the weapon)

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 24/09/2026

I don't have an iPhone but I'll look for a similar function in Android/Samsung, thanks.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 24/09/2026

Example eleventy-billion why we should require the humanities in school. What are all the best legends and myths and novels throughout time but stories about how the main character is actually supported and taught and empowered by the characters around them? That those characters aren't just "cogs"?

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 24/09/2026

Great when the Nvidia CEO thinks that memorizing a sequence of numbers is math. Or reading, for that matter.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 24/09/2026

Art is already democratic. Anyone can do it. What AI does is make it EASY. And fast. And unfortunately unless you are a rare virtuoso, getting good at art is neither easy nor fast. (and obviously not original, if you are using AI.)

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 24/09/2026

I have to make a long drive tomorrow (7 hrs plus charging), and need to read a bunch of academic articles. Anyone have an easy way to have them read to you? Maybe within Adobe, or converted to Word, or ? Thanks! (and no, no bus or rail option 😟)

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 24/09/2026

geezus I'm so sorry. The whole thread sucks (the content I mean). The hypocrisy of places like Berkeley add salt to the wound, too.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

increasingly convinced this will end like the railroad boom in that the majority of players are gonna get rinsed

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 24/09/2026

This is a good illustration of why "distracted" is a bit of a euphemism. Distraction means you aren't paying your full attention. But we lose all situational awareness when scrolling our phones, and we know from studies of pilots, it doesn't come back that quickly even in an emergency.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 24/09/2026

Does anyone know why #DiabloCanyon (the nuclear power plant) got evacuated today around 5 pm? I can't find any info anywhere, but I was there at Avila Beach and an officer told me that was what was happening. Just a drill? No sirens obviously, and they didn't clear the beach.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 24/09/2026

Counterpoint: no you don't.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026

Every AI booster: It can do all your most fun activities for you! Art work! Songwriting! Your fantasy draft! Talking to your kid! No AI boosters: It can do the dishes and your laundry.

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Uh, it's actually extremely easy to prove otherwise? Urban consumption is a minuscule fraction of overall water usage in this country. Look to the agricultural sector if you want to see where all our water is going.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

“Also, the same biases that we see within us as individuals are being perpetuated by these algorithms because we are the ones training these systems. To make matters worse, the systems are not even being trained by health care professionals. Instead, the system is being driven by the industry.”

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 20/09/2026

"They want us to panic, instead of seriously deliberating at the polls, in community meetings and in Congress. Panic is chaos without direction, affect set free from the discipline of curiosity, debate and accountability." It is always about power. Understanding that makes so many things make sense

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 20/09/2026

"humans are the problem, and humans are going to have to be responsible for solutions." as usual, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with the 🔥 in this piece. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...

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Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think (Gift Article)

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 19/09/2026

this is type of small town policy that I can really get behind 😍

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 19/09/2026

I just keep coming back to this fundamental mismatch: Some people think the point is Content, just more Content, endless Content to be mindlessly swiped through and consumed on 2x speed. Rather than art, creation, emotion, and shared humanity.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 19/09/2026

Helpful new AI alignment chart just dropped

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 18/09/2026

Just got an email, "Ænima turns 30" and my soul just left my body 👵🏼💀👻😄

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 18/09/2026

this from @ftrain.com is terrific, unsurprisingly, and I think this sentence actually understates the issue; it's not just that the big labs are in a hurry, it's that they don't see producing useful and well-documented tools for using these models as an important part of what they're doing

I don’t blame the coders for this, or even the bosses. I blame the big A.I. companies, who are in such a hurry that they often release new versions of their models and tools without manuals or even clear YouTube tutorials.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 18/09/2026

America is no longer a serious country

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Such a good example of how people adapt to the road network they have. Lessons for the BQE

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 18/09/2026

If AI is going to kill us all within ten years, it'll be because they fired all the food safety inspectors and water treatment plant operators and replaced them with automated agents trained on MAHA nonsense. The "AI-pocalypse" will be much grosser, slower, and more painful than people envision.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 17/09/2026

It isn't hard, actually, if all cars had interlock devices. All of us sober drivers could deal with a couple extra minutes delay each time we start a drive, so that drunk and buzzed driving could be significantly reduced.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the fact that the NTSB is conducting a federal safety investigation of the helicopter crash, but nobody is going to do anything about the original deadly car crash, really shows just how few fucks our country gives about every day traffic violence that kills 40k people every year

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 16/09/2026

Right, but WHY? Do we need aerial views of crashes, or just traffic congestion generally, mostly so news orgs can report on the effect on drivers? Was this because we were trying to get people to re-route? Or is it more sensationalism driven, or ?

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 16/09/2026

thanks. yeah, that's as far as I could find, although that page doesn't load well on mobile for me. But I couldn't find normal timetables so I could see when those lines actually come through the transit center.

A screenshot of the San Luis Obispo, CA public transit system website shows tiny images and print, not optimized for mobile viewing, despite the fact that most people would be trying to find their way using their phone.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 16/09/2026

oh my god. That's horrific. Why the hell do we need aerial news coverage of traffic or traffic crashes anyway? Of course now I'm wondering about the origin of the "eye in the sky" thing.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 16/09/2026

I remember a very non-apology apology. It was more than a small thing. I used to like some of his music, but I can only ever think of that now.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 15/09/2026

the downtown transit center. I am trying to plan our Public Transportation lab for tomorrow and I've either lost my edge, or this is absurdly difficult to figure out.

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 15/09/2026

Anyone got a couple minutes to spare that can help me out? SLO Transit has abandoned their app and are using Transit as the official app (although maybe you need to pay for the Royale?). The website doesn't load well on my phone. Is there any easy place to find timetables? Or what lines pass through

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 15/09/2026

I used a similar cut and paste reply when I was at A&M, with instructions on how to apply to the program. But I don't even want to spend that much time, if they can't be bother to filter out places that don't even grant PhDs!

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