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every other sportsball statistic looks/sounds like this to me: > so-and-so holds his team‘s all-time record for the most home runs hit during a playoff game while there are two outs in the 7th inning after a new moon

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 15h

Every single one of you needs to touch grass. Seriously. Go

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ultimately I think human authorship is impoetant, even if AI tools are part of the process. (Part of, not the start and finish)

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1h

The other reason you should read Radium Girls is the lawsuits that came out of the girls being made to eat radium on the job (and a later similar case) helped create OSHA. Remember: safety rules are written in blood.

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How the Radium Girls Forced Workplace Safety Reforms | HISTORY

They painted with radium-laced paint—and faced dire consequences.

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Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 2h

Now taking recommendations on resources re: how to understand baseball for dummies

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Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 1h

I had an easier time picking up on football‘s rules bc it seems like the football TV broadcasts have a lot more slow mo replays with helpful annotations to show you exactly what happened and how in a play

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Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 2h

Now taking recommendations on resources re: how to understand baseball for dummies

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Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 2h

We were looking forward to taking spouse‘s parents to a Cubs playoff game at Wrigley this year, but alas, it wasn’t meant to be

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Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 2h

I married into a family that loves Chicago sports, esp. the Cubs, and being from a sports-neutral family myself means I am now a Cubs fan. I have been to 3 games now in as many years and I can finally say I generally know what’s going on 80% of the time, and I was genuinely sad when they lost!

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 4h

"Furthermore the environmental impacts of AI’s widespread deployment are profound, notably due to the heavy consumption of natural resources, energy and water required for powering and cooling the data centers needed to train and serve models, as well as the greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted across...

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From Cradle to Cloud: A Life Cycle Review of AI's Environmental Footprint | Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 3h

Ignoring advice to secure and monitor your sandboxes during testing then blaming it on your AI being so smart that it’s a threat to humanity is nasty work

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is why I'm so in favor of accessory commercial units. Just getting people in the US used to **walking** for a cup of coffee or a sandwich in the neighborhood may finally do something to rid Americans of our terminal car brain.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 6h

The idea that we *can't* rebuild a thing that we built once already seems deeply flawed. It will cost a lot of money but we can in fact do it.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 4h

Because it keeps popping up in AI articles, “Cure for cancer” is a pretty good indicator that someone knows fuck all about biology. At minimum both should be plural!

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 3h

It really does not seem as though the environmental issues with AI are settled or can be easily discarded to me.

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izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 29/09/2026

imagine if we lived in a good timeline where every company was integrating fruit fly brain into their products instead of AI instead of “Ask Gemini” it’d be like “Ask Benny the Fruit Fly” and you’d be like “how do u feel about fruit” and Benny’d be like “bzzzzzzzzt” fuck how great would that be

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The 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.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not everybody knows this, and everybody should. On Sept. 26, 1983, a Soviet nuclear warning system alerted Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov that the U.S. had launched a missile attack. He did not retaliate, preventing WWIII. This is a post about AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Had my first email arising from what seems to be an LLM-guided spite-check of my published code. Anyone else experienced this yet? I'm pulling the repo and verifying the possible error, will happily correct if need be but this seems like a great way to DDoS scientists. #metascience #AcademicSky

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The nightmare of how LLMs will be used to attack researchers. I can see this also being used to attack academics in general for not agreeing with the tech overlords.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 22/09/2026

The idea of AI curing all diseases is, IMO, silly. Biomedical research is mostly limited by data, not ideas. Imagine saying AI will build a world-champion basketball team by replacing basketball coaches with hyperintelligent AI. You see the problem. Someone still needs to dribble and make shots.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A couple weeks ago I heard a joyful shriek from across the street. My neighbor kids, who I planted milkweed for, found 2 monarch caterpillars by their stoop. This week, those monarchs hatched. Our block is fully concrete, .3 miles to the closest green space. But we’re supporting the life cycle 🥰

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026

Papers are written by humans and for humans and there is no technological intervention that is going to turn them into a noiseless transmission medium; sometimes you just have to read what the other guys wrote and figure it out as best you can

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/09/2026

ALMOST EVERY PEER REVIEWED PAPER HAS A SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS RIGHT BELOW ITS TITLE

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 15/09/2026

i've been sending my robot to the gym all year but i still have trouble lifting things

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Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 14/09/2026

you know it's bad when IT starts typing sudo commands in your terminal...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's actually surprising how important machine learning is but how worthless LLMs are. Tons of drugs have already been developed with machine learning

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Trans-Inclusive Misogynist @deletethenats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's also not the same computer, they just really want you to think it is.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Almost everyone in a library is existing as the best available version of themselves.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 11/09/2026

There are very real safety concerns we need to address with generative LLMs. Deepfakes, privacy, AI psychosis, etc We don't need to entertain goofy nonsense from people claiming they're inventing the torment nexus from the science fiction classic "Dipshit That's Not The Torment Nexus Go Outside."

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Daniel S. Katz @danielskatz.org · 10/09/2026

CS talk challenge: Give a talk where *all* the slides are just xkcd comics

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Let's headline this bit:

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Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 03/09/2026

When you cook for someone a special meal you know they‘ll love, and then they scarf it down and ask for more… You can get that feeling by planting native plants!!

A monarch caterpillar on a butterfly milkweed. The caterpillar has eaten almost all of the leaves off them stem it is on. Milkweed is its favorite!! In fact milkweed plants (members of the genus Asclepias) are the only host plants for monarch caterpillars.

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Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 31/08/2026

See also the 3 roads in Ann Arbor that intersect near several popular running/biking routes: Summit, Sunset, & Spring St. I will never keep these straight!

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Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 31/08/2026

either Zenodo or Zotero should consider switching names. I don’t care which one! There’s just only enough room in my brain for one 6-letter 3-syllable Z-word related to publications / citations.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A writer I work with sent a colleague a letter to review and she responed with edits and a note that she "asked AI for help." Please don't do this, especially if it's something that is supposed to be attributed to you. We don't want AI feedback! We want to make sure it's consistent with your voice.

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Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 13/08/2026

I didn’t expect any of mine to bloom until next year at earliest. “first year they sleep, second year they creep, third year they leap.” Keep holding on!

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Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 12/08/2026

First-year butterfly milkweed in bloom — the first to bloom in my new native garden! Featuring a monarch caterpillar munching away.

A photo of butterfly weed (asclepias tuberosa), just starting to bloom. This plant was started from seed 8 months ago. A monarch caterpillar can be seen near the flower buds.

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It has been an incredible day to watch butterflies and hummingbirds from my office window. Native plant gardening freaking rules

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/08/2026

exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!

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Tom-The Accursed Poster [3.89 cubits] @siropsalot.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

As someone who has been in the daata center space and Data/ML space for a long time it's wild how they've managed to take such boring subjects and absolutely trash their reputation.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/08/2026

I understand that funding bodies want to go all in on AI as the shiny new innovation thing. But if all the grants start going to AI at the expense of everything else then the research sector is going to end up looking like a farm with dozens of threshers hacking away in a field with no wheat.

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Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 06/08/2026

hot take: it is better not to have an image/graphic at all for your blog/talk/flyer/poster than to make one with genAI

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

One of the things that frustrates me most is that LLMs are being sold as an everything tool, which means you’re all in or all out. It’s turned into this weird purity thing. But I want there to be room for nuance and conversations about appropriate use-cases and the philosophy behind objections.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

One of most heartbreaking things about Hank Green turning to LLMs is that he gets to do science communication full-time to a massive audience and is well-resourced. He doesn't need to cut corners or outsource his thinking. Meanwhile, there are so many people doing amazing work with zero resources.

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Kelly Sovacool @kelly.sova.cool · 06/08/2026

it sucks when GitHub Actions is down, merging pull requests with happy little green check marks is where I get about 60% of my dopamine on a given work day

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