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Father, husband, scientist, singer. Prone to getting over-excited about nerdy stuff in public. He/him.
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This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

submitted 3 hours ago • 472 comments

Wow. Just wow. The Founding Fathers, who advocated separation of Church & State (over 150 years before the modern state of Israel was created) would pull out their own eyeballs out at this.

submitted 7 hours ago • 51 comments

With apologies to @zachweinersmith.bsky.social , I fly out for #Evol2025 tomorrow, and thus:

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

What if all the stories about the Home Office being incompetent are actually about the Home Office being incompetent, and not about some as yet undiscovered bit of the ECHR that makes the Home Office incompetent.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

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submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

I genuinely think the role of Meta specifically in driving loneliness is underrated. Facebook replaced existing ways of keeping up with friends with what was briefly a great product, then destroyed that product.

submitted 16 hours ago • 32 comments

This is obviously SO low stakes, but it genuinely annoys me that we teach kids "tomatoes are a fruit, NOT a vegetable" rather than "vegetable is a culinary category that includes MANY items that are technically fruits, including tomatoes, peppers, green beans, and all different kinds of squash."

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

This is the vulnerability that lots of pseudo-intellectuals take advantage of too! Just speaking fluently can convince some people that what you're saying must also be smart...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

I found a website where you can specify a tiny bit of dialogue and it'll find a clip of someone saying exactly that for you. I have no idea what to use it for but…

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? 🧪 there is not a single, agreed-upon definition of a species, or clear standards for when a (population of a) species evolves into a new species

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

i’m skeptical of any research relying on LLMs because of the possibility of “hallucinations”/inserting inaccurate information

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Good?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is the last thing the BBC needs

submitted 1 day ago • 171 comments

Google: We are raising your prices for Workspace because of the significant value added by AI. The AI:

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

It's not the biggest problem education is facing but at some point the preference of parents and students for coursework and fewer exams is going to collide with the fact that AI probably necessitates a big return to in-person exams

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

UCL are going back to all in person exams. There is no other solution to this problem currently available.

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

I kid you not, my work knows that I do drawing on the side and someone in the office told me AI could save me time and my response was "but I like drawing" and it broke them. They didn't know how to answer, they just couldn't comprehend that people make art because they like making art.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

time for my new favorite tumblr post

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

submitted 3 days ago • 115 comments

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

submitted 3 days ago • 2075 comments

Yuri Knorozov was the linguist who deciphered the Maya script in 1953. He listed his cat Asya as a co-author on his work but the editors always removed her. He always used this photo with Asya as his author photo and got angry whenever editors cropped her out.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments