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José Rodríguez

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Geodesy. GGOS. Alma mater: shooting lasers at satellites.

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Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Our new paper is also feated in Nature news: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Prozac use for childhood depression skewed by single flawed medical trial
One small study in Iran swayed meta-analyses in favour of antidepressant use in children, researchers say.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's hilarious that Huang things not knowing his address, zip-code and phone number are a mark of how he is cognitively off-loading to technology and Klein doesn't seem to press him that what he's actually obviously doing is using the fact that he's rich to off-load onto other humans.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
A big bang showdown in the early salooniverse
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Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
How to think about ADHD Channel 4’s documentary on ADHD earlier this week predictably caused a stir, with cries of outrage starting even before it was aired. But we need to have a debate about ADHD, if for no other reason than it is becoming a significant burden on the health service. Referrals…
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How to think about ADHD
Channel 4’s documentary on ADHD earlier this week predictably caused a stir, with cries of outrage starting even before it was aired. But we need to have a debate about ADHD, if for no other reason than it is becoming a significant burden on the health service. Referrals for ADHD assessments among adults are overwhelming mental health services. Most have had to put a block on referrals, because if they didn’t they would have practically no time to do anything else.
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Pedro Fresco @pedrofresco.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
1/El problema es que es bastante más complejo que esto. Hacer eso es romper el pacto de cierre, conseguido en 2019 después de una década de conflictos, primero con Garoña y luego con las amenazas permanentes de cerrar a los 40 años por los impuestos. Extender Almaraz es romper el cierre escalonado,
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Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This is wild: madinamerica.substack.com/p/depression...
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Depression Drug Approved by FDA Had 11 Failed Trials and an Advisory Committee Vote Against Approval
Two positive studies out of 13 conducted. Rejected by the FDA four times. An FDA advisory committee vote against approval. Yet in 2023, gepirone (Exxua) was approved for treating depression.
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Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
11. To make an informed decision, patients need to understand the clinical significance of the differences in outcome between antidepressants, placebo, and no treatment. The average difference between antidepressants and placebo is below common criteria for clinical significance.[4]
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Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
7. Remission rates with antidepressants, placebo, and no treatment appear to be strikingly similar (28%, 26%, and 23%, respectively).[3]
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Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
1. Do antidepressants really need weeks to "kick in"? A paper correctly dispelled this myth. Unfortunately, they replaced it with other problematic claims, igoring principles of RCTs. My letter to the editor was rejected, so I posted it on PubPeer and summarize it below pubpeer.com/publications...
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PubPeer - When Do Antidepressants “Kick In”: Addressing the 2–4-Week M...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: When Do Antidepressants “Kick In”: Addressing the 2–4-Week Myth (2026)
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Andrés Trasado @andrestrasado.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Al final el único vídeo bueno sobre este tema es el mío
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José Rodríguez @josecrodriguez.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
1. It happens again: in response to MAHA, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention just responded with a problematic claim that his definitely not evidence based -> afsp.org/story/afsp-s...
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AFSP Statement on the Importance of Antidepressants and Evidence-Based Treatment for Suicide Prevention
On May 4, 2026, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an action plan addressing concerns about psychiatric overprescribing following the MAHA Institute’s Mental Health and Ov...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
ArXiv is going to ban researchers for a year if they are caught submitting AI slop. ArXiv told us it's a one strike rule: do it once, you're out. www.404media.co/new-arxiv-ru...
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ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop
The change comes as arXiv and others struggle to manage an influx of AI-generated materials masquerading as rigorous science.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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Minas Karamanis @minaskar.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
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The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.
On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.
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Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
1. Sertraline is increasingly used to treat pediatric depression (not only anxiety disorders), at least in my area. It is also recommended as a first-line treatment in the Cochrane network meta analysis (NMA) from 2021. A closer look at the evidence reveals that this can hardly be justfied
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New generation antidepressants for depression in children and adolescents: a network meta‐analysis - Hetrick, SE - 2021 | Cochrane Library
Select your preferred language for Cochrane reviews and other content. Sections without translation will be in English.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
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Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
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Daniel Mang @danielmang.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The Red-Brown “Zombie Plague”: How Fascist Ideas Are Becoming Popular on the Left – Part 1, by Daphne Lawless – May 2018 leftrenewal.org/articles-en/...
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The Red-Brown “Zombie Plague”: How Fascist Ideas Are Becoming Popular on the Left – Part 1, by Daphne Lawless – May 2018 – Left Renewal Blog
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I can’t get over all the journalists and centrist pundits who sneered that “Twitter isn’t real life” when it was full of weird leftists but now insist it’s a vital window into the public mood when the entire site is Nazis, illegal porn, bots, and Belarusians calling themselves “Iowa MAGA Farm Guy”
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Sano y salvo @sanoysalvo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Medicamentos a evitar para una atención más segura: la lista negra de Prescrire 2026 👉108 medicamentos a evitar por balance beneficio-riesgo negativo 👉no iniciar, revisar, deprescribir y notificar RAM + info: sano-y-salvo.blogspot.com/2026/01/medi... #SegPac
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Medicamentos a evitar para una atención más segura: la lista negra de Prescrire 2026
Sano y salvo, seguridad del paciente, atención primaria, atención sanitaria, sanidad, medicina de familia, enfermera, centro de salud,salud, semfyc
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Corriente Cálida @corrientecalida.com · 03/01/2026
INVERNADERO | Petróleo, ideología, democracia Escribe @xanlopez.xyz estas notas sobre la agresión estadounidense a Venezuela, sobre si el petróleo es la motivación real del ataque y sobre cómo la reacción fósil está buscando subvertir el orden global: reparto de zonas de influencia y sometimiento.
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Petróleo, ideología, democracia - Corriente Cálida
Xan López ¿Es el petróleo la causa fundamental de la agresión de Estados Unidos contra Venezuela? Pienso que no lo es. Aunque vaya en contra del sentido común histórico de las últimas décadas. Incluso...
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Country 9 in global oil reserves has invaded country 1 and arrested its president. Country 7 is under sanctions and its refineries are being destroyed. Country 2 is facing off with country 6. And there are riots in country 3. But oil is only $60/bbl. Maybe oil is not as critical as it used to be?
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Óscar 🇫🇴 @frikitiva.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Tu tío pasó de ser conservador moderado a compartir memes de Vox en cinco años. No fue un cambio brusco: fue una escalera de pequeños pasos donde cada peldaño parecía razonable. Cómo tu tío se convirtió en un facha racista sin que nadie se diera cuenta www.lafrikitiva.com/como-tu-tio-...
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Cómo tu tío se convirtió en un facha racista sin que nadie se diera cuenta · La Frikitiva
La radicalización es gradual: conformidad , obediencia y algoritmos convierten a gente normal en extremistas sin que se den cuenta.
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Encephalophatass (Any pronouns) @encephalophatass.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
You know about Pavlov's bell. Pavlov grabbed some dogs, rang a bell before feeding them, and eventually the dogs started to salivate when the bell rang, regardless of whether they were given food or not. Now, let's say you studied the brain activity of those dogs. 🧵
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Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
1/ What if a drug for anxiety disorder more likely makes you feel suicidal than help against anxiety? This was found for escitalopram in paediatric generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), but it was nonetheless approved. Let me explain and summarize experiences with trying to get this corrected in a🧵
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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds" Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"... www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
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Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds
Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 06/09/2025
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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Wolfgang Bremer @wolfgang.bremer.co · 19/08/2025
Paris has removed the paving from its city hall square and transformed it into an urban forest. Stunning! 🤩
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Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Blog on the longstanding tendency to play down the dependence-inducing effects of psychiatric drugs, now playing out in two reviews that minimise antidepressant withdrawal effects based on flawed studies of short-term users www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/chem...
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Antidepressant Withdrawal: Nothing to Worry About?
Recent reviews claim antidepressant withdrawal is clinically insignificant, but they are based on flawed and short-term studies. Minimizing withdrawal problems is worrying.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
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AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
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AmazzoneFuriosa 🦋 @amazzonefuriosa.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
"Maybe admitting that a widely used treatment, like antidepressants, has messed up thousands of lives is too much to contemplate" #pharmsky #medsky #madsky
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Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Has anybody both really watched the discussion and is aware of the evidence behind antidepressants? I doubt it.
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I'm going to be honest here, I think AI is going to do so much damage to the usable internet that even after it's inevitably crashes out, it's going to take years to disentangle from every space it's polluted, like digital asbestos it's gonna be time consuming effort and likely expensive venture.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
When LLM's commit "crimes," there's never a motive. Yet the press & industry assert the "black box" frame at the wrong level of AI: suggesting moral decision-making, rather than the hidden logic of flipping neurons. My latest in @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/the-black-bo...
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The Black Box Myth: What the Industry Pretends Not to Know About AI | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio says it's a problem is that those of us outside of the AI industry don’t know what rules they are following.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Everybody getting mad about this needs to actually read TFA: archive.ph/iR2Ba If you are one of the 40% of people who get debilitating side effects on a standard taper off psych meds -- which the founder was! -- and you ask your doctor for a custom program, they are going to give you a 🤷‍♀️.
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IAG + GGOS Geodesy @iag-ggos.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
📣 We’re live! Check out the brand new #IAG website 👉 geodesy.science 🌍 Making #Geodesy more visible, accessible & connected. Focusing on #Geodesy 📰 News, 📅 Events, 💼 Jobs, 👥 Member. More info ⬇️ geodesy.science/2025/new-iag...
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/04/2025
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/04/2025
For my Patreon post this week, I wrote about why TERFs are still complaining about not having friends. www.patreon.com/posts/you-ha...
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You have no friends because you're a transphobic asshole | Katelyn Burns
Get more from Katelyn Burns on Patreon
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Dr Ryan MacDonald @distantworlds.space · 17/04/2025
𝗡𝗼, 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝟮-𝟭𝟴𝗯'𝘀 𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. K2-18b is back in the news, now with a bold claim that biosignature molecules (DMS and/or DMDS) have been 'detected at 3σ'. Most exoplanet astronomers are extremely sceptical about these claims, let's see why (1/n). 🔭🧪🪐 #exoplanet
Artist's impression of the exoplanet K2-18b.
Credit: A. Smith, University of Cambridge.
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IAG + GGOS Geodesy @iag-ggos.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
👉 We invite you to get acquainted with the 🌎 Global Geodetic Observing System #GGOS by reading the latest paper published by the GGOS Executive Committee, more information available at: ggos.org/2025/04/10/p...
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New Paper Highlights the Power of Geodesy to Support Science and Society |
The global geodetic community has come together to address one of the most pressing needs of our time: monitoring the dynamic Earth system. A new peer-reviewed article, “The Global Geodetic […]
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Kevin Webb @kevinwebb.io · 05/04/2025
A fantastic article the in the Institute of Navigation newsletter on something else of societal importance, held together only by norms and fraying international agreements: The invisible global infrastructure supporting GPS and other satnav systems.
THE INVISIBLE FOUNDATION CRUMBLING
GPS Relies on a Fragile Global
System
by Kevin DennehyTHE INVISIBLE FOUNDATION CRUMBLING
GPS Relies on a Fragile Global
System
by Kevin DennehyTHE INVISIBLE FOUNDATION CRUMBLING
GPS Relies on a Fragile Global
System
by Kevin DennehyTHE INVISIBLE FOUNDATION CRUMBLING
GPS Relies on a Fragile Global
System
by Kevin Dennehy
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
At @globalvoices.org, we have set a new LLM/"AI" policy globalvoices.org/2025/03/07/g...
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Global Voices’ policy on AI
In keeping with our mission and values, we will not publish articles, translations or illustrations that are produced entirely or mainly through LLMs or other generative AI tools.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/02/2025
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com
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INTRODUCTION
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
DeepSeek hot take: The emperor still has no clothes, but it's very distressing to the emperor that their non-clothes can be made so much more cheaply.
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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 28/12/2024
i'm reluctant to post this because the overuse of "rhetorical quotations" is one of the "big tells" right now and they're going to "fix it" and "make everything worse" qwantz.com/index.php?co...
T-Rex: I have developed an unintentionally but absolutely sincere visceral repulsion to AI-generated stories! I see them and I'm like "OH GOD NO THANK YOU!"

T-Rex: That's what I'm like! I'm like that thing I just said!T-Rex: It's the creeping blandness of them, the favourite phrasings done to death. I hate it! If someone can't be bothered to write something why should I bother to read it?
Dromiceiomimus: How can you tell you're reading an AI story though?
T-Rex: That's the thing - I can't! I can GUESS - and I can certainly identify a new genre of ultrabland slop that's popular now - but it's ALWAYS just that: a guess!Utahraptor: So in conclusion, there's a new style of storytelling that may or may not be AI, and you hate it.
T-Rex: SO IT SEEMS.

T-Rex: It's made me a much less patient reader. I used to think "haha this is horrible, imagine the person that wrote this!" but now all I just get annoyed at someone using software to waste my time. So I do less reading, and I'm suspicious of EVERYTHING! This is how I have to live my life now, and I hate it!!Off panel: Am I the asshole? My friend says my stories are "probably AI generated" and "not worth reading" and says he "hates to see them" because they "use quotations randomly". But I think he's being "unfair".
T-Rex: YES!
T-Rex: DUDE, THE ANSWER TO YOUR INITIAL QUESTION IS YES
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
In "A Critique of Pure LLM Reason" I asked why tech evangelists are so angry about the "Stochastic Parrot" framing, and answered their questions about so-called reasoning models - "Could a stochastic parrot do THIS?" Spoiler: Yes, yes it can. mail.cyberneticforests.com/a-critique-o...
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A Critique of Pure LLM Reason
It's Parrots, All The Way Down
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José Rodríguez @josecrodriguez.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
OK, it's rising, but...how do we know? 👇
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José Rodríguez @josecrodriguez.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
"There are two ways to win the Turing Test. The hard way is to build computers that are more and more intelligent, until we can’t tell them apart from humans. The easy way is to make humans more stupid, until we can’t tell them apart from computers". Alan Blackwell, Moral Codes, The MIT Press, 2024
Recent published research concluding that so called AI has no understanding of meaning. Recent published research concluding that so called AI writes better poetry than humans.
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