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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Twitter thread from Thomas Dietterich, reading "Attention
@arxiv
authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/
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Thomas G. Dietterich
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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
Thomas G. Dietterich
@tdietterich
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
Thomas G. Dietterich
@tdietterich
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
Thomas G. Dietterich
@tdietterich
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I'm sure you're wondering how many paragraphs it took the NYT to note that the US-Iran crisis the world is facing was *deliberately created by Trump* when he exited the US-Iran nuclear deal in 2018 purely to spite a Black man he hated (Obama). Answer: 22.

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Trump Considers Targeted Strike Against Iran, Followed by Larger Attack

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Audio Plugin Deals and Freebies @plugindeals.net · 06/02/2026

Virtual Pianist VOGUE by UJAM is now available for just $9, a 93% discount. Offer ends February 10th. ➡️ www.pluginboutique.com/product/1-In... [Affiliate Link]

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

apropos of nothing in particular, @lilashapiro.bsky.social gave us a tremendous piece of journalism last year, and it's always a great time to revisit it and thank her for the work she did in bringing these stories to light.

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There Is No Safe Word

How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

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Tom Kroeger, M.A.Ed 🦆🧊 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇸🇪 🇵🇭 @zorlo.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

C. Robert Cargill will return in AVENGERS DOOMSDAY

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 18/12/2025

I also accidentally fucked up a fill layer while rendering and decided to roll with it so here’s a silhouette Gundam variant

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Damn it sure would be embarrassing for the writer of this if there were any medical conditions where people could walk but not for long distances

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

A New York Times headline that reads: "Calibri’s Run-In With Rubio Wasn’t Its First Controversy."

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 30/11/2025

this is quite the detail

screencap from the quoted WIRED article reads: “The study did not include any examples of the jailbreaking poetry, and the researchers tell WIRED that the verse is too dangerous to share with the public.”

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws. Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired. They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.

Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Jimmy Panetta (CA-19)
Don Davis (NC-01) Chris Pappas (NH-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
Jared Golden (ME-02) Josh Riley (NY-19)
Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) Pat Ryan (NY-18)
Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) Kim Schrier (WA-08)
Adam Gray (CA-13) Eric Sorensen (IL-17)
Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) Tom Suozzi (NY-03)
Susie Lee (NV-03) Gene Vindman (VA-07)
David Min (CA-47) George Whitesides (CA-27)

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 18/11/2025

“One of the attorneys said part of the operational plan involves undercover ICE and FBI agents attending and documenting church security plans.”

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The fact that he is allowed to remain in the classroom/teaching is just a point of how little higher education values/supports education in the classroom compared to the industrio-capitalist machine of the “Institution”

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

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Wil Cornish @wilcornish.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Disgraceful from Waterstones; this will be their sixth mediocre bookshop in the city and there's absolutely no good reason to shop in any of them over the swathe of great independent bookshops in the city - of which Argonaut is the best.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Best literary analysis ever

"The Hobbit to LOTR pipeline is hilarious. it would be like if 20 years after Stuart little was published, EB White slammed down 1000 pages about how Stuart's nephew killed the devil."

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16/11/2025

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

My "DHS LAW ENFORCEMENT DOES NOT PEPPER SPRAY CHILDREN" tweet has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my tweet

@DHSgov on X: DHS LAW ENFORCEMENT DOES NOT PEPPER SPRAY CHILDREN.

Here are the FACTS: during an operation rioters began throwing objects at agents and blocking the road. This did NOT occur in a Sam’s Club parking lot. Border Patrol deployed crowd control measures, and safely cleared the area.

When rioters impede law enforcement operations they are putting officers, themselves, and others in danger.
10 Nov 25

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 06/11/2025

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

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Mayday Trippe @maydaytrippe.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

"NOW do you dumb people understand why we needed a Ballroom right the fuck away?" "You guys know we all used the Death Ball summoning orb during my first term, right? What did you think that was about?"

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Matt Holland Author Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Amy's Dead-End Dreamhouse is wonderful. One of the best things I've seen this year and if you've been holding out on getting a Nebula subscription, this is your sign to fix that

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Robbie DeLacy @rdelacy.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Setting aside the fact that the idol industry is sexually exploitative and a 17-year-old shouldn’t be allowed to be part of it in the first place, Japan desperately needs to have laws that ban companies from controlling idols’ personal lives.

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Die Zeit porträtiert eine „Whites Only“ Siedlung in Arkansas samt schicker Fotostrecke, und schreibt dazu in den Insta-Slides über den Gründer, einen Antisemiten und White Supremacist Überschriften wie „Orwoll, ein Rassist?“ (Sein Projekt wird auch von einem australischen Neo-Nazi unterstützt).

Zeit Screenshot: „Orwoll, der Rassist?
Er, der diese Siedlung nur für Weiße aufbaut, sagt, er würde sich nicht damit befassen, wenn Menschen ihn als Rassisten beschreiben würden.
Eher erzählt er von Nachrichten, die er bekommt, in denen Leute schreiben, dass er wenigstens ehrlich sei.“

Mein Kommentar: „Ist der Mann, der einen weißen Ethnostaat will, ein Rassist, fragt man sich nachdenklich bei der Zeit.“

Screenshot X Orwoll:
@Aarvoll_

„David Duke nearly became governor of Louisiana in 1991, garnering more than a half million votes.
There were White Pride rallies in the 80s that filled stadiums.
We are further now from victory than we were 40 years ago, not closer.
We aren't pressing hard or fast enough.“

Zeit insta slide: „Orwoll, der Rassist? Er, der diese Siedlung nur für Weiße aufbaut, sagt, er würde sich nicht damit befassen, wenn Menschen ihn als Rassisten beschreiben würden. Eher erzählt er von Nachrichten, die er bekommt, in denen Leute schreiben, dass er wenigstens ehrlich sei.“

Orwoll X Screenshots:
@Aarvoll_・28.06.25
„Organized Jewry is coming after me for having a White neighborhood“

@Aarvoll_・28.06.25
You'd think this was a schizo post, but that's actually what's happening Q21.“

Screenshot RTTL website:
„Does RTTL want to bring back the Jim Crow Act, segregation, discrimination, or the holocaust?
RTTL is not a political organization and has no intent to shape public policy. We hope that our politicians will enact the best policies "=) ensure a positive future for our nation.“
„Is RTTL a Nazi organization?

The Nazi Party existed in Germany from 1919 to 1945. The year is currently 2025 and we are in America. Draw your own conclusions.“

Screenshot X:
@Aarvoll

„The term "Aryan" as an ethnonym wasn't unique to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European peoples.
It comes from the PIE root *áryas, which meant
"noble", and was probably used as an autonym, in some form, by Pontic Steppe derived aristocracies all over Eurasia.
It's a controvertial subject and modern etymologists will deny it, but the Proto-Germanic
"Abala", the Irish "Éire" and the Greek "Aristos", all meaning "noble", are probably all related to the PIE "*áryas".
It was a word that referred to a single ethnic ruling caste that dominated many societies, it basically meant the same as the modern European concept of aristocracy (most European aristocratic lines descend from Germanic equestrian conquerers).

Aarvoll @@Aarvoll_•31.05.25
Famous "American" classical music composers like Gershwin, Copland and Bernstein (all Jewish), don't capture the uniquely American classical style that developed in the 19th century“

Zeit insta-slide: „ZEIT-Autorin Rieke Havertz ist nach Arkansas gereist und hat das Gespräch mit Gründer Eric Orwoll und weiteren künftigen Dorfbewohnern gesucht.
Die Reportage findet ihr unter dem Link in unserer Bio.“

Mein Kommentar: Bei der „Zeit" spricht man mit einem Rassisten und
Antisemiten, dessen Projekt von einem australischen Neo-Nazi unterstützt wird.

Screenshots Orwoll auf X:
@Aarvoll • 27.06.25
„Jews on Reddit found out about Return to the Land, and now they're all riled up against us.
God forbid a single explicitly White community should exist...
This is a losing battle for them if they decide to press it.
They get a state and nukes but we can't have a neighborhood?“

@Aarvoll_
„Tom Sewell will be sharing his own experience with intentional community in Australia. Many thanks to him for making the time to speak at our conference despite the trials his group has been through recently.“

Photo: Sewell doing a Hitler salute

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 01/11/2025

"But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious."

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 29/10/2025

Zohran Mamdani claims to be an "old school GM," yet the Post's investigation found troubling discrepancies. Despite allegedly running an AD&D campaign, Mr. Mamdani completely ignored weapon speed and encumbrance rules, as well as proper round-tracking for torches. What else is he lying about?

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Check these kids the fuck out!

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

obviously ridiculous on its own but consider these demos are encouraged to get permits/share route with pd. for this request to come ahead of that protest, which will likely be like NKs past (extremely calm), you gotta wonder if LAPD are Plotting Something a la 2020 NYPD Mott Haven cop riot

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Matthew Champion @matthewchampion.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

a hall of fame editor’s note

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
*********** * * * * * *
Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
17|
Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
18
of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
20
submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
21
Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Rob Schamberger @schambergerart.com · 15/10/2025

Just finished the audiobook of @crobertcargill.bsky.social’s All the Ash We Leave Behind. Loved it! I’ve enjoyed the Sea of Rust series a lot.

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touring artists @touringartists.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Tip: Tanja Liedtke Foundation Fellowship for emerging dance-theatre artists based in Europe www.tanja-liedtke-foundation.org/current-proj...

tanja-liedtke-foundation.org

2026 Tanja Liedtke Fellowship | Tanja Liedtke Foundation

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Evil, but also stupid, racists.

We emailed Infidels MC for comment. In response, Mr Mulford instructed fellow leaders of the biker gang not to reply but included the BBC when he clicked "reply all" - inadvertently disclosing email addresses and names of fellow Infidels MC members, some of whom were working in Gaza.

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Mayday Trippe @maydaytrippe.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Alright, let's do this one more time: Val-Zod aka Miles Morales, the Super-Spider of Earth-U. #amalgam #amalgamcomics

Digital color drawing of Miles Morales Spider-Man amalgamized with Val-Zod Superman of Earth 2, webslinging with a Spider-Boy style web-pistol.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

A Democratic Party with any spirit would stage a press conference every single day to present Donald Trump with one sarcastic award after another. The Dennis Hastert Award for Enabling Pedophilia The Richard Nixon Memorial Trophy for Lawlessness The Blue Ribbon for Setting a Record Federal Deficit

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/08/2025

The Federal Emergency Management Agency and at least three other federal agencies have canceled their contracts with unions. The cancellations are a part of a broad effort by the Trump administration to strip federal workers of union protections.

washingtonpost.com

FEMA joins other federal agencies in canceling union contracts

The cancellation of the contracts is part of a broad effort by the Trump administration to strip federal workers of union protections.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

There’s no “inching” needed. When someone tells you who they are- www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

The press freedom crisis in America isn't only billionaires bowing down at big outlets like CBS, the Post. In L.A., elsewhere, indie journalists at protests are getting beat up or arrested by cops, a chilling sign of an authoritarian U.S. police state My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/los-...

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In L.A., police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death | Will Bunch

On Friday, LAPD cops allegedly battered and detained journalists at a protest — the ugliest of the many threats to U.S. press freedom.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 09/08/2025

I'll say it again, as this is ramping up: if you gave access to the archives of goverment data and information, it is your moral responsibility to make sure that untouched versions get preserved, now. There are people worh archival expertise who can help you, if you don't have it yourself. Start now

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