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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 5h

You maybe have gotten threads crossed. Accountability in this hypothetical is what we've been discussing.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 01/10/2026

You're angry at local wastewater regulation and hypotheticals.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 01/10/2026

Treating myself. I've had a genuinely wild month.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 30/09/2026

Okay. Time to collect some data. I'm going to try this without any sort of classifier and see who it nets. There's TONS of latitude in this and it can at most affect the top 0.01% of Bluesky users by follower.

A screenshot of my terminal. NPM is launching and collecting data from bluesky.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 29/09/2026

I think this sequence of events is willfully transphobic. All you have done to suggest otherwise is further suggest that it's on me to make someone else read the pronouns in bio.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 28/09/2026

Then you didn't look and I guess that's your prerogative. And I would love to opt out of further discourse but transphobes are now showing up in MY mentions saying it's MY fault that this got started for mentioning this was brigading.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 28/09/2026

The transphobic mouthbreather squad shows up right on time to lie about the contents of the bio.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 28/09/2026

Behold: the button is not on. They're on for YOU.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 27/09/2026

Okay so why would Americans, who have it seems elected this fascist twice, agree to a General Strike? Why make anything contingent on a general strike? Someone said, "America would be beholden to international law and justice." You rejoined, "That won't happen. General Strike instead."

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 26/09/2026

That is a population density map, and even THEN the Pacific side of the Bay area is weirdly low.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 24/09/2026

Hanania is out here asking, "How can we make generalizations about woman and their age? You know who does that? Bitchy older women."

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 22/09/2026

When you learn that it's actually not just Linear Algebra.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 22/09/2026

Total victory for team anti-science. Everything is "can I find the first hit on Google to link so that I look informed now."

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 20/09/2026

Even the Futurism article ITSELF is forced to moderate its own position. It notes what many people have known LONG before AI was a thing: Students are much more likely to cut corners if they feel like they're under time pressure or otherwise incapable of completing their course load.

“As AI-enabled technologies become more capable, it will be possible — and tempting — to offload more ‘thinking’ tasks to them; not surprisingly, students told us the temptation was greatest when they feared they would miss a deadline,” the report reads. “There are early signals, however, that overreliance on chatbots can have a range of significant negative consequences — diminishing critical thinking, weakening memory, eroding confidence, and undermining mastery.”

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 20/09/2026

The actual MIT report is explaining how existing AI integration is failing to capture what's possible, and recommending students get education on how to use these systems effectively:

The effective, responsible, and ethical uses of AI are distinct – but interrelated. Students need ways to build strength in each area. We recommend immediately integrating these topics into undergraduate and graduate orientation, and infusing them throughout the curriculum as soon as possible, so community members can build a shared sense of competence in assessing and evaluating AI systems.

To use AI effectively, students need to learn how to specify a problem or prompt, how to verify an output, when a model is likely to hallucinate, and when not to reach for AI at all.
Using it responsibly begins with grasping the difference between augmentation and automation when it comes to education: when AI helps a human do better work, versus when it replaces the human (and thereby eliminates the learning that would come from the human doing the work). Responsible use also entails knowing how to disclose AI’s contribution honestly across coursework, theses, internal reports, and published research.
Ethical use requires each of us and all of us together to explore issues our community has not yet worked through, including judgments about the provenance of training data; the potential for bias; the risk of homogenization in outputs; environmental and resource cost; intellectual property issues; and the line between assistance and misrepresentation of authorship.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 20/09/2026

They openly lied about the source of the cognitive surrender paper. And in fact, their link gives it away. Here's the MIT segment on "cognitive surrender."

Getting the right answer from a chatbot can create the illusion of learning – but it can also trigger “cognitive surrender”4, where students fall back on AI at the first hint of struggle. In a recent paper5, three noted MIT economists – Daron Acemoglu, David Autor and Simon Johnson – argue for what they call “pro-worker AI.” They make the case that instead of designing AI systems to replace workers, businesses should develop AI that allows human beings “to be more effective at their existing tasks, tackle new tasks, and acquire new expertise.”

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 16/09/2026

I suspect my mentions are about to be populated by Aella defenders with seldom used BlueSky accounts who have *still* somehow found time to get transphobia tags on Asuka.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 16/09/2026

Balanced coverage: This is cringe come on kids. You have to be more queer coded if you're gonna serve hackers vibes.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 16/09/2026

I dunno who did this but I know EXACTLY what this is invoking and frankly, it was a very good time.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 13/09/2026

New rescue Greyhound acquired. Paddy is his race name. Considering Lunar as his home name. This brave boy was in Australia not even 24 hours ago. It's okay to be tired.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 10/09/2026

So they have basically admitted they read the introduction and discarded the rest of the paper. That's... Well... I guess that's the reactionary narrative worldview for ya.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 09/09/2026

I don't wanna fight with nobody today and I don't think this person means to be strange about what they're saying. I'm just trying to understand how that middle one works.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 09/09/2026

My partner sends me Instagram reels of dogs because she knows I miss having a dog. And I watch them and enjoy them. But holy shit the crazy ass ads they run there. Even crazier to imagine they work.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 08/09/2026

I am somewhat surprised that the 🎲 🦜 discourse has been buzzing over this latest rebuttal and (in my eyeline at least) completely failed to capture the fact that there is a radical concession in it: