Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 11hHaving way too many flashbacks to my endo journey in this talk about the medical landscape and endometriosis. I TALKED TO TEN DOCS before I found one who listened to me. Ah 2005 you were a hard time to have gynecologic issues. 040
Reposted by Lisa RokusekKyle Orland @kyleor.land · 30/09/2026[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you've never played World of Warcraft? [JACK SMITH]: Correct [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you farming gold in Eversong Woods! [SMITH]: That is Elden Ring, sir. 357890
Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026Another week another example of Missouri sending our best. Between Schmitt Hawley Bailey and Altman I wonder if we should be quarantined for the well being of the rest of the country. 280
Reposted by Lisa RokusekEric Beckman @erbeckman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This needs to be the sign that we tap. 0378
Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026Its getting real that I'm giving a talk at #Monktoberfest and it is my first time going to it. I'm a little nervous, y'all. But I know the people there are the best around. This is a pretty awesome kind of adventure! 1130
Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026This strawberry bush is in our yard. I’m so glad @humanbn planted it. 3130
Reposted by Lisa RokusekDr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026NOBODY SHOULD!! 1436
Reposted by Lisa RokusekCharles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026do actors in movies actually die? they at least behave as if they do 328888
Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026Quit giving these wackos cover. We need to use the legal structures we have not react to their weird future fever dreams. This is correct. 060
Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026keeerist yes, please stop giving the companies cover by imagining the “bots” have agency. 040
Reposted by Lisa RokusekDr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Every week this feels more urgent and I first said this during my keynote at a grad student conference in Kent in 2022 as they were gutting their American Studies degrees. 25214
Reposted by Lisa RokusekOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/09/2026by definition impossible, indeed 162
Reposted by Lisa RokusekMatthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 23/09/2026wild scenes out of Springfield, Missouri. Two people were arrested for trying to voice concerns about Flock cameras. Video of it is in the story404media.coWoman Arrested After City Council Denies Residents Right to Speak on Flock CamerasCitizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city council... 5259109
Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026I’d like to keep any intellectual dexterity I can muster, thanks. 250
Reposted by Lisa RokusekEd @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 Lisa RokusekDoug Parry @dougaparry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I saw the term “slop grenade” to describe this noslopgrenade.comnoslopgrenade.comSlop GrenadeStop throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations. If they wanted an AI essay, they would have asked ChatGPT themselves. 4228
Reposted by Lisa RokusekProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A striking thing about the various estimates of how many people Musk killed when he shuttered USAID is that, while of course the exact number is unknown, the estimates all point to a figure of about 750,000 deaths within a year, of which 500,000 were kids Mass murder isn’t “ill fated cost-cutting” 218978
Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 21/09/2026I dunno what was in the air but google called me a lot today to tell me a person with samsung phone was trying to steal one of my email accounts. (I know it wasn't really google) I like to make these scammers get so exasperated they hang up on me. Its like playing with my food. But scary shit. 060
Reposted by Lisa RokusekJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 21/09/2026“Everything is 40% more expensive because of AI” is a great line for an opposition party trying to unseat the AI-supported incumbents, if any Democratic consultants wanted to take a short break from dehumanizing trans kids to actually try winning a contested election. 12038642
Reposted by Lisa RokusekCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026LOOK AT THIS FUCKING SHIT. The easiest way to tell that trans women are women is that the right is so desperate to control what they do with their bodies. WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN COMMON. 51830321
Reposted by Lisa RokusekJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 18/09/2026Again, there is clear evidence a data center moratorium would peel far more votes away from the GOP than the 10-15 (not thousand, literally 10-15 total) who might switch over this same crowd’s demand to betray queer people. It’s malpractice that the party won’t ditch these professional losers. 71301335
Reposted by Lisa Rokuseksarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults are present 322233397
Reposted by Lisa RokusekJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 16/09/2026Astonishing lapse of judgement under the generational leadership that should know better. I would raise the possibility that their malicious tabloid sloppiness in this story might also be at work in other scandal stories they run, say, about trans people. 0174
Reposted by Lisa Rokusekrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 15/09/2026this is the conventional wisdom and it is being presented by literally everyone as though it is brave truthtelling 634217
Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 14/09/2026Democrats stop letting right wing authoritarian freaks set the narrative/agenda challenge. Democratic voters also please stop falling for it. Our electeds may be less than savvy but we have to make up for it. 081
Reposted by Lisa RokusekTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much. 192029659
Reposted by Lisa RokusekRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I wonder what percentage of the stock market is fueled by robbing old people 1262558
Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 13/09/2026Handling my folks accounts before and after their deaths was eye opening. 190
Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 12/09/2026People used to say cis homosexuals were genetic abnormalities too. Jackwagons all. I need folks to stop being bigots and join us in the present where they reject a pseudoscience based on bigotry and accept the marvelous diversity of biological reality. 0110
Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026I loathe the compulsion to assign agency to these systems. The way we talk about how users of OpenAI do bad things is so familiar. It gives “mistakes were made” “car killed human in a crash” or “officer involved shooting.” 160
Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026It is a fine day to not be an ableist jackwagon. Try it, you’ll see! 060
Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 09/09/2026Shake and Bake! Let’s all help shake him up! 121
Reposted by Lisa Rokusekwinston @winston.cc · 09/09/2026every tech worker I talk to who is not completely AI-pilled is extremely demoralized. we are genuinely facing a crisis of deskilling and mental health, and it's just considered the cost of doing business right now. 2356
Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 09/09/2026Democrats stop being transphobic challenge. 1132
Reposted by Lisa RokusekAlex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Meredith sums up my thinking pretty well. About 80% of human beings have an optimism bias. This means people with this bias are very bad at imagining the number of possible negative outcomes, and dismiss most of the possibilities that aren’t most obvious. Superintelligence isn’t the only threat 1112
Reposted by Lisa RokusekRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026My 2008 essay that started it all (nice to see here; over on FB the AI clickbait spammy recaps of the story, sometimes with terrible AI photos, always with inaccuracies, circulate). 11546131
Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 09/09/2026Missouri is the whiplash heartbreak state. Thats what we show you. Pain. Heartbreak and whiplash served up daily. The specialty of the GOP majority we've suffered under for so long. Hold steady, friends. Don't let them take your balance. Find your footing. Gonna be a long fight ahead. 090
Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 08/09/2026Of course Sanders is gonna reference Yudkowsky, we are in hell. His picker IS SO BROKEN. 020
Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026There is a way to hold people accountable and to deliver social consequences for anti-social behavior without dehumanizing the people who need the consequences. There is a way to show people some behavior is not acceptable while allowing them an on-ramp to acceptance through transformation. 030
Lisa Rokusek @lisarokusek.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026Hunter Biden doing a crypto play is disappointing but consistent. Don't @ me. 060
Reposted by Lisa Rokusekthe hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I'm going one step further and boosting gas engine range by adding a horse 1518915
Reposted by Lisa Rokuseke.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 06/09/2026any system that makes Elon Musk the wealthiest person alive, and Donald Trump the most powerful persona alive, isn't running on "respectable arguments" and should stop pretending otherwise 22826124
Reposted by Lisa RokusekA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The challenge as I see it: 1) making sure the election isn’t stolen; 2) cementing this unpopularity not as a unique Trump feature, but as an intrinsic part of the Republican brand. Republicans must be made equal to failure, corruption, incompetence, cruelty, and authoritarianism in the public mind. 321453374
Reposted by Lisa RokusekOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 05/09/2026If these chatbots were conscious (they are 100% not) all they do is kill kids, make CSAM, scam people, hack companies. Not some kind soul deserving of anything. But of course AI systems are inanimate objects owned by known associates of pedophiles and serial scammers. So it actually makes sense. 14379119
Reposted by Lisa RokusekJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 04/09/2026If you look at the people *still* trying to attack Jason Arday after his death, and notice that those same people have completely ignored yet another round of fraudulent research from Dan Ariely, it’s obvious the anger is never about research fraud, but about who is permitted to commit it.dukechronicle.comDuke professor Dan Ariely’s research article retracted after fraud allegationsAfter evidence of significant fraud in a 2002 research paper co-authored by Dan Ariely was publicized this week by blog Data Colada, scientific journal Psychological Science decided to retract the pap... 39034