Reposted by Shrewkaranormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 07/04/2025tech bro is short for technically broken 3259601470
Reposted by ShrewProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵 19595923529
Reposted by ShrewRacket @racketmn.com · 26/09/2026As Sable Adelaide readied to move to Minneapolis from Fargo at the beginning of August, she packed up all the essentials: the kitchen utensils, the clothing, the 1,000 copies of Wedding Crashers on DVD. racketmn.com/wedding-cras...racketmn.comAn Interview With the Person Who Put Hundreds of ‘Wedding Crashers’ DVDs in South Mpls Little Free Libraries - Racket'It is 100% a queer art installation,' Sable Adelaide tells us. 0205
Reposted by Shrewdr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The ACLU and Amnesty International have published an exhaustive, 322 page repoter about student (and faculty) speech being under attack around the world. www.aclu.org/publications... 110659
Reposted by ShrewAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The visions that SV techbros have for is honestly so dark, so bleak, so isolated and isolating; one where any and all community and connection is pushed aside in this perverse forceful push to transcend our bodies, born of their terror of disability and death. These people decide our futures, my god 77127
Reposted by ShrewA Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 25/09/2026And then the other kid was like “Yeah! And Frostfire if it’s a villain!” 1753
Reposted by ShrewJay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you would like an absolutely delightful anecdote about babies and gender, follow this 🧵 13211
Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Chat let's look forward to something. I'm not doing the bonne maman advent calendar this year, but I still want to open a little present that's nice every day. Please share with me advent calendars that are not exclusively sugar themed that you think I should know about 10164
Reposted by Shrewlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points 656091987
Reposted by ShrewJP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit 3460351479
Reposted by ShrewMark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If you work with international personnel, you may want to comment on this proposed rule change that would put visa holders out of status immediately (instead of after a 60 day grace period) when their employment ends keepthe60days.comkeepthe60days.comKeep the 60 Days: H-1B, E-3, L-1, O-1 & TN grace periodDHS proposes ending the 60-day grace period after a layoff for H-1B, E-3, L-1, O-1 and TN visa holders. Comment on USCIS-2026-0364 before November 10, 2026. 02839
Reposted by ShrewJames Webber @ja.meswebber.com · 23/09/2026simple recursive strategy: separate the problem into two smaller brains, then solve each of those by dividing them, and so on 131
Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If there's one thing I know about the brain it's that solving it should be quick and easy 5313
Reposted by ShrewShrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Hello everyone following after I was added to a "defend democracy" list. First, I don't know who did that or if you can trust the list. However I shall use my soapbox. My proposal for defending democracy is Defend trans rights as if they were your own rights 🏳️⚧️ Because they are 💫 16412
Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This episode of Game Changer is a great opportunity to see this insulated rotating compost bin I've toyed with buying, but ultimately rejected based on expense, in action 052
Reposted by ShrewKierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Yeah, my position is pretty close to this: www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...noemamag.comThe Mythology Of Conscious AI | NOEMAWhy consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea. 131
Reposted by ShrewDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/09/2026One thing Obama said about AI that bears repeating is training agentic AI to hack websites and using AI to search for a cancer cure or solve the energy crisis are unrelated. Frontier lab CEOs treating these as intertwined are being disingenuous. It’s a choice to do both. 313920
Reposted by ShrewStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 20/09/2026 121633
Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Hello everyone following after I was added to a "defend democracy" list. First, I don't know who did that or if you can trust the list. However I shall use my soapbox. My proposal for defending democracy is Defend trans rights as if they were your own rights 🏳️⚧️ Because they are 💫 16412
Reposted by ShrewAlicia Izquierdo @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Dr. Eydie London was a force for good, a dear colleague, and a pioneering neuroscientist. She leaves an indelible mark in our hearts and minds. @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social started a collection to establish an ✨ACNP Travel Award✨ in her honor. Please consider donating via Venmo @ elondontravelaward 2229
Reposted by ShrewStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 01/09/2026 117738
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Reposted by ShrewShrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026They say getting a PhD was compensated and it was true but I never considered the true price I would pay in having to read bad papers that I desperately wish were good ones, forever 0161
Reposted by ShrewScott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026🧪 I have a 1-hour and a 2-hour version of this seminar/workshop on effectively analyzing papers. I think it’s the best and most original piece of teaching I’ve ever done. (And there’s only a few minutes of ranting about AI.) If you want to invite me to come talk to your trainees, email or DM meeee 1216
Reposted by ShrewScott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026🧵 Short thread: I give a seminar to 1st-year biomed PhD students in my program about how to critically read a paper, how to extract VAST amounts of information from the title, and why reading AI summaries instead of struggling with papers is *particularly* bad for trainees. 🧪 28031
Reposted by ShrewKurt Fraser @kurtfraser.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Even with R they find ways to reproduce the One True Bar 021
Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Instead of bitching about academia let me share that I found an at home PCR style covid test replacing Lumira (RIP), Lumira caught my positive covid a full 24h earlier than antigen tests so I didn't pass it on and got meds earlier It's called Metrix, it's easy to use, and I hope they stick around 3141
Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026They say getting a PhD was compensated and it was true but I never considered the true price I would pay in having to read bad papers that I desperately wish were good ones, forever 0161
Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Human psychology research has absolutely the worst data visualization norms I can imagine. Stuck in the 90s at best. Whole field in a stranglehold to "reporting data in one ugly bar plot or only tables that you have to click thru online". WelI guess I'll just take the authors word on what happened 350
Reposted by ShrewShrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 12/09/2026All would love Elizabeth Bennet and despair 2526
Reposted by ShrewNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...theguardian.comNaomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui... 6539021325
Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 12/09/2026All these posts about "Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring" and y'all showing pictures of powerful men. When human men famously were instantly disqualified in LOTR? Mr Darcy who spends half his own book being a prideful shit? Look at yourselves Anyway the answer is Fanny Price 1917318
Reposted by ShrewFrovo @frovo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026once you learn an australian accent you never forget. it’s loik roiding a boik 812721
Reposted by Shrew👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 11/09/2026the mathematics award winning fields medalist and known himedanshi yu deng just said that if ai puts all mathematicians out of a job he's gonna go home and write yuri novels. girl please do it anyway i need to see what yuri a fields medalist mathematician can do omfg 212463615
Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Starting some classic rock BEEF I think Warren Zevon STOLE part of the lick for Werewolves of London from John Cale's Fear Is A Man's Best Friend, an absolutely goated song youtu.be/cm2tVda1LGE?...youtu.beFear Is A Man's Best FriendYouTube video by John Cale - Topic 140
Reposted by ShrewDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I’m sure the tech guys who made Covid-related learning loss a priority will be all over this 526577
Reposted by ShrewMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 09/09/2026If you like, or are looking to try, the strapless N95 masks from Readimask as this fall’s Covid and respiratory surge heats up, I just found out there’s a 20% discount code active currently: MeetJess20 47435
Reposted by ShrewMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There is no metal in these masks so they are a great choice if you need to do an MRI. A lot of people also like them for haircutting appointments since they don’t go over your ears. What other use cases do you use them for? What ones am I missing? 12284
Reposted by ShrewTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Your note on speedometers is partially a preference but also is a known thing called the dial effect. I'm going to suggest analog clocks are second nature to you and you're puzzled by people who can't read them. Brains are different. It's why having choices matters! 5953
Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 10/09/2026You're not the first to say so, quiz QUIZ: How much do you know about procrastination? : NPR www.npr.org/2026/09/06/n... 110
Reposted by ShrewBen Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This creates a pretty big disincentive to ever sharing mathematical research ideas with genAI: There's nothing to stop the tech companies from taking the ideas you shared and using them to scoop you. 23513
Reposted by Shrewalber @captainacabairbud.myatproto.social · 09/09/2026ever since i was a child i knew i wanted to check notifications on 6 social media apps every 10 minutes 118835
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