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Joe Kraus: Eclipse Fan

@oajoe.bsky.social
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One of the librarians. I'm at the Colorado School of Mines #scholcomm #openaccess #libraries #beer #repositories (not necessarily in that order) libraryjoe.wordpress.com

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 15h
People often ask me, "How is it being in Ohio?" knowing the attacks on higher education are acute here. But the fact is, nowhere is safe. Here's a story about senseless and devastating budget cuts in Minnesota. There is no political party that seriously defends higher education in the U.S. today.
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Joe Kraus: Eclipse Fan @oajoe.bsky.social · 17h
Huh, I wonder why. It is a mystery. I fear we will never know.
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Joe Kraus: Eclipse Fan @oajoe.bsky.social · 17h
Hey @chanda.blacksky.app, @edyong209.bsky.social just advertised your book at his talk at @coschoolofmines.bsky.social
Ed Yong recommends 6 books.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨Exclusive🚨: I have exculpatory evidence in what is easily the dumbest congressional oversight episode of the year...maybe the decade. I was at the Iowa v. MD game & just looked at my pics & sure enough, someone who looks like Jack Smith is sitting in Sec 109, Row 1. Complete & total vindication!
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Joe Kraus: Eclipse Fan @oajoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Follow Dr. SkySkull! He is awesome, full of physics knowledge, and not as spooky as his image. Let's get him above 100,000 followers!
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Kellalena @kellalena.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just you wait and see if I procrastinate
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Joe Kraus: Eclipse Fan @oajoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feminize a band name Dead Milk Delivery Drivers
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Joe Kraus: Eclipse Fan @oajoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feminize a band name Women at Work
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Brian Keith Jackson @bkjwordplay.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s as simple as that.
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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
[Thom at the fish market] I want a perfect sole
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tired: Manmade child annihilating zipline beyond physics comprehension Wired: Grok maims a man on a halfpipe then gets him fired, patent advice sought
From r/legal advice:

I used AI to invent a new skateboard trick that coworker tried & he got hurt. Can he sue me?

My coworker & I were using Grok to generate new types of skateboard tricks that have never been done and I used Grok AI to discover a new trick called a “Pipe It,” which is kind of like skating down a halfpipe but using the AI to calculate the physics and angles, we can go a lot steeper when dropping in. We watch a lot of skate videos on our phone during breaks, so we decided to do a type of skate video with new tricks. 

Grok made up this skateboard trick & I told it to be very careful and use science/physics to make sure that it was as cool as possible but also realistic. Basically, a Pipe It is taking a long 2x4 and placing it up against a wall (like 7 ft tall) and sliding down the wood board using the skateboard with the wheels on either side of the 2x4, kind of like grinding Tony Hawk video game style, but straight down. Grok said it would be possible to pop off the board at the last minute to land & that this would have been a brand new trick. 

Anyways, my coworker tried it in the parking lot during our lunch break at work but immediately fell face first into the floor and busted his nose. He had already gotten written up before, so he couldn’t leave in the middle of the day to change, so when we tried to go back in with blood everywhere our boss got mad and told him to go home  maybe he could get called back in for another shift). He hasn’t gotten called back so I think he’s fired.

Now my coworker is saying that the Pipe-It is my fault & he’s going to sue me. Can he do that? even if he can, it’s not my fault because I told Grok to be as safe as possible and to make sure that the Pipe-It was realistic. Basically, he did the trick wrong and is mad that he couldn't do it and that he lost his job. Can I get in trouble? Also, sorry if I can't combine questions, but can I patent the Pipe It so Grok or he can't steal it now that we're fighting?
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mothra stewart @gorl.gay · 22/09/2026
what if it happens today?
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
"bed bug" and "colonizer" are synonyms
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Jonjust @jonjust.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Heading out
Original bed bug
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/09/2026
"We didn’t so much lie to you as tell you stories that were untrue. We hoped the stories would add magic to your childhood and reassure you that capitalism is a fair system for everyone, instead of one in which some people can’t afford insulin while other people are Jeff Bezos." buff.ly/KM3opmg
mcsweeneys.net
Son, You’re Old Enough to Know the Truth, There is No Such Thing as the “Invisible Hand of the Market”
“You’ll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell you. Santa isn’t real, the Tooth Fairy is imagin...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
People curious about the difference should check out my grandmother’s book pmpress.org/index.php?l=...
pmpress.org
Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet
Selma James • Introduction by Margaret Prescod • Editor: Nina Lopez The much-anticipated follow-up to Selma James's first anthology.
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 16/08/2026
Canada has officially started building the wall at the U.S. border🇨🇦😂 Budget: a few trees Construction crew: 1 beaver 🦫 Payment: maple syrup 🍁 Sorry for the inconvenience, eh? 😂 #Canada #CanadianHumour #SheShed
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 19/09/2026
I interrupt your timeline to bring you a wood duck wearing a leash.
A wildlife expert stands at an event table behind a wood duck. The wood duck wears a harness and leash for security.Duck wearing a harness
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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🤡
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Fat, Bald Dabus @thebleats.by86400.link · 19/09/2026
The other day I saw a car with a bumper sticker that said “My other car is a car with a sticker on it that says my other car is this car.”
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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
bringing dead batteries back to life is revolting
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It...uh...is not meant to be a competition
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
"Crime drump" -- JD Vance
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Gene Rayburn @generayburn.com · 18/09/2026
Mustang Cybertruck? No. No. No. NO.
Cybertruck by Tesla decked out as a Mustang in blue
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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The g is silent in gnostic but pronounced in agnostic and that’s why there are so many English-speaking atheists
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chadzia dax 🔞😷 @m00psy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
we have also seen that it’s damaging our cognition.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ok that's 3 minutes, keep moving, got a lot of sad teens here.
Just 3 minutes with a mini horse or donkey improves teens' moods, study says
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."
bu.edu
New Learning Outcomes Announced | English
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ceej @ceej.online · 17/09/2026
idiot. I just saw it for free
Facebook marketplace:
1993 Star Trek: The Next Generation Romulan Encounter Magic Eye Poster
$90
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Joe Kraus: Eclipse Fan @oajoe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
THE Librarian. Duh.
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Davoid (extra screams) @davoid.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The world sucks, so I thought you might enjoy seeing a blind cat and her pitbull bestie going for a stroll 
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 14/09/2026
A psychology journal has retracted a paper on how using generative AI can affect confidence in work tasks after its sole author refused to share data with the editors.
retractionwatch.com
CEO of AI company loses paper on cognitive impact of generative AI
A psychology journal has retracted a paper on how using generative AI can affect confidence in work tasks after its sole author refused to share data with the editors.  The April paper, publis…
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Sara Ryan @ryansara.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'm no longer working as a public librarian full-time, but reflecting on my nearly three decades of doing so, I really agree with the author's points & hope this piece finds a wide audience with library decisionmakers.
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Joe Kraus: Eclipse Fan @oajoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Whooooos a good boy/girl?
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A.L. likely @alvildalikely.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When I go through a car wash, I like to imagine I’m traveling through a wormhole and that this new world I’m entering has more potential than the one I left behind.
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Joe Kraus: Eclipse Fan @oajoe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I can't deny that I also like this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FklU...
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"Weird Al" Yankovic - Smells Like Nirvana (Official Video)
YouTube video by alyankovicVEVO
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Eileen Oz @eileenoz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
good morning
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Joe Kraus: Eclipse Fan @oajoe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This one happens to be open access, so normal people can read it, too. (Not just academics.) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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planned sprawl @appropriatesetback.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Light weekend read.
Screen shot of a science journal paper. Title Societal collapse: a literature review
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026
Accusing AI critics of not doing the reading is funny because usually it’s AI users are the most likely to have not done the reading So what now then
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MiloPoint @milopoint.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Silence! at the Library
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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Not every day will be filled with joy, but you can try to fill them with visits to friends, haunted libraries, cursed lighthouses, and that weird mansion on the moors with a single candle burning in the attic window.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“Where do you think you’re going?” “Band practice, I told you.” “Is your homework done?” “Yes, DAD.” “Be home by 6 for dinner.” “But-“ “No buts, Mom’s making your favorite.”
A chicken with a distinctive feathery crest stands next to another chicken in a wooden coop
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Joe Kraus: Eclipse Fan @oajoe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Snoop Doggppiillee.
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Joe Kraus: Eclipse Fan @oajoe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It is a dog eat dogpile world out there.
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Joe Kraus: Eclipse Fan @oajoe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's raining cats and dogpiles out there.
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Path (seasonal)🎉 @demandavoider.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
THIS JUST IN: bluesky mods hate puppies
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Tuesday Adams ™ 🌹 @tuesdayadams111.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hmmm... Turns out, food regulations were really important for regulating food.🤔
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