Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 7hIf John Henry doesn't throw a kitchen sink contract offer at Schlitter this offseason, what are we even doing? 000
Reposted by ErrantRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 8hRed Sox should take Rice’s bat and have it x-rayed. Teams don’t do this enough. 0231
Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 9hIt's really heartwarming to see a lying shitbag's VP/Pres ambitions evaporate before their eyes. 000
Reposted by ErrantAdam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 20hGo vote! I cast my PA ballot today. Vote however you're most comfortable. For PA residents, vote.pa has all the info you need in one place. 4365
Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 21h@ericmgarcia.bsky.social holy shit Economist/Yougov just dropped a 53/38 GCB resultd3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net 100
Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The most truly delusional wrecker shit imaginable from Bankhead. What an absolute shitbag of a candidate. Hope the party crucifies her for costing a legit shot at the MT seat 010
Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is a poll result that is carefully crafted to make everyone on all sides insane. 000
Reposted by ErrantDaniel Lenski @moxfyre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I truly appreciate that Biden was working hard to put out fires and steering a low-drama, non-leaky foreign policy team. … but in hindsight it sure seems like a leaked audio recording or three of Biden berating Netanyahu on the phone could've made a big difference in the 2024 election. 102279
Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Dude I've been begging my IT dept in big pharma to ask M$ to enable this functionality. Would you be up for forwarding the announcement from your university so I can ask my IT to try again? 000
Reposted by ErrantVinny Costa @vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Someone tell the AI biology labs that the best place to buy antibodies is from Santa Cruz. 0103
Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026static.klipy.comMichael Scott's 'I Love It' MomentALT: Michael Scott's 'I Love It' Moment 000
Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Another resounding success for American cultural supremacy. I'd like to see any other society try to come up with something as glorious as the Emparogi. 000
Reposted by ErrantColin @colin-fraser.net · 28/09/2026Some of you may be tying too much of your self worth in your unique ability to write computer code 4271
Reposted by ErrantColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The humanities have been calling out genAI theft since the jump, while STEM has rallied around “discovery potential”. I am *ONCE AGAIN* reminding EVERYONE that science is not the sacred cow, STEM isn’t the exception. They are going to steal our IP, too. We aren’t special. 8369148
Reposted by Errantae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i am making this recommendation because generally this genre of critique tends to over-index on 1) grand sweeping but unworkable ideas 2) "we must change society" 3) vague gestures at a solution in theory-speak 4) arcane technical fixes etc 417921
Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And TBH the US automakers deserve it. Stop building dogshit EVs and counting on the feds to maintain your monopoly on the market. 000
Reposted by Errantda spreadsheet lover @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026so, i don't think you should feed proprietary research data into these things at all. seems like a real bad idea. like people who wouldn't share preliminary results with colleagues are just dumping it into these corporate models.nytimes.comDid Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work. 094
Reposted by ErrantMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I've talked to a few journal editors who are concerned about similar problems re: anonymous reviewers. If a peer reviewer wants a little help & feeds your unpublished submission into an AI system, they've just shared your proprietary work & broken confidentiality. A nightmare to think about 6235133
Reposted by Errantc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The obvious conclusion (to me): if you have proprietary research & you upload it into the Plagiarism Nexus, it's not YOUR proprietary research anymore. Behave accordingly. 726488
Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Shocker, the language model is only capable of reproducing language from its training data. 000
Reposted by ErrantMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime. 363573825
Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026And there is no evidence beyond the press releases from OpenAI & Anthropic that this is what is happening. Google's Gemini and the open-weight models out of China don't seem to have this problem. 220
Reposted by ErrantG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/09/2026Enough with the skywalkers already. Do the Thrawn ascendancy trilogy you cowards 2221919
Reposted by ErrantSecessio Plebis Advocate @mgraalum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Silicon Valley Disruptors reinventing Epstein from first principles 19526
Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just gonna put it out there, but the Cambridge biotech scene doesn't have a fuck-for-professional-access sex cult problem. This is a product of really dangerous SV people. 010
Reposted by ErrantLeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I don't want alarm anyone who has invested heavily but cases of 'LLMs can't perform this task to the required standard and how they work means they never will' are now filtering up through organisations. Sooner or later CEOs will become aware. 391
Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Drexel appears to have refused an offer from the William Penn Foundation to cover the Academy's operating costs for a year in order to find a permanent funding solution. Fuck Antonio Merlo, he just wants to shut the academy down because he loathes museums and archivists.inquirer.comWilliam Penn Foundation offers funding to keep Academy of Natural Sciences museum openA Drexel spokesperson did not say whether the school had declined the offer, but said, “No proposal has been presented that would provide a permanent, sustainable path forward" for the museum. 000
Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Sounds like a written confession that should be admitted as evidence during criminal prosecution? Where's the fucking DA? 000
Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026@funranium.bsky.social I've always wondered why pilots/flight attendants don't wear badge dosimeters and abide by occupational exposure limits. I guess because it would be hard to keep staff under exposure limits while working full-time hours & prohibitively expensive for airlines to staff? 100
Reposted by ErrantMicah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026this is the story of the midterms I am not sure I have ever seen a more demoralized republican electorate, and the more irregular trump voters we can get to disconnect from the political system entirely the better 312018234
Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Ayup. I work in antibody discovery in big pharma our hit rate for in vivo & in vitro screens is ~60% I've screened over 10k predicted molecules from partners at the big AI labs in SF this year. They have produced a total of 2 hits, both of which were plagiarized from molecules on the market already 213438
Reposted by ErrantAaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 25/09/2026One concept I tried out in a meeting this week was Determinations vs Decisions, and that our automations should focus on removing the non-expert brain work of making Determinations (there's a right answer) so our people can spend more time making more and better Decisions (no obvious right answer). 1728
Reposted by ErrantEd @ed3d.net · 25/09/2026when it comes to LLMs, I have been trying to beat the technician/expert drum. LLMs are becoming master technicians, but they obviously lack integrative capabilities to deploy expertise. but I'm starting to realize that a lot of people don't understand, or don't value the difference. 626427
Reposted by ErrantWill Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 24/09/2026“Our models took actions we did not intend” = “we intentionally directed our software to perform a task without human supervision knowing that it is inherently unpredictable and might implicate us in the violation of laws or damage to others’ systems but we’d prefer to be exempt from liability, thx” 66518
Reposted by ErrantCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Tired: Being 6 and having an imaginary friend Wired: Being 36 and believing your chatbot has feelings and deserves rights 647068
Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Dems would really do well to pass corporate structure reforms to ban the existence of non-voting stock. One share = one vote should be the only allowable stock structure (at least for public companies). 000
Reposted by ErrantMaria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/09/2026Aaron Swartz is no longer here to tell us what he saw like twenty years ago. futurism.com/artificial-i... 91389419
Reposted by ErrantElectionCord @electioncord.com · 24/09/2026People to be honest are overreacting to polls right now. While I do understand having a lack of information about November leads to us dissecting every little piece we can get our hands... But they're just polls at the end of the day. Put them in the average in move on! 3217
