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BJ Nicholls

@bjn2

Retired graphic designer and marketing consultant. Volunteer fossil preparator. I love deep time and geoscience, but my curiosity is ecelectic. He/him.

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“Classic”? AI has a classic era?

23.02.2026 15:49 👍 54 🔁 1 💬 6 📌 1
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We've got a lot of salt.

17.02.2026 04:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dimetrodon's not on the direct lineage, but I like sphenacodontids.

16.02.2026 21:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

O: "Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there's life out there. But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we've been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!"

16.02.2026 21:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Anty dendrites.

16.02.2026 21:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”

You can’t trust chatbots.

15.02.2026 20:25 👍 1774 🔁 833 💬 19 📌 172

Didn’t notice it near 13th east and 13 th south.

14.02.2026 01:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bedbugs leaving one apartment building and heading to another

Bedbugs leaving one apartment building and heading to another

#ICE finally leaving one traumatized city and heading to the next. Like cockroaches swarming en masse after fumigation.
Coming to a blue city near you.

Willa Benet cartoon

14.02.2026 01:19 👍 21 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 1

Take care, PZ. Wishing you a lot more upside.

11.02.2026 05:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

08.02.2026 22:23 👍 17927 🔁 5443 💬 245 📌 257
You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
You are being misled about renewable energy technology. YouTube video by Technology Connections

This is brilliant. Watch it all. youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?...

03.02.2026 03:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Resilient clowns are the most scary.

01.02.2026 18:58 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“…schools would cranking out…”. Bad headline writing is usually at least grammatical.

30.01.2026 16:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

KUER’s mormonopoly on display again.

30.01.2026 15:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

See BS affiliate, Sinclair at your service.

30.01.2026 04:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Melanoma.

30.01.2026 04:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, that's petty and misanthropic.

28.01.2026 15:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@andertoon.bsky.social

26.01.2026 20:18 👍 4702 🔁 1873 💬 86 📌 61
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Kash Patel today: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want."

Really?

25.01.2026 22:36 👍 4890 🔁 1674 💬 252 📌 99
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This March 1965 Herblock cartoon about police violence against civil rights activists has added relevance today.

26.01.2026 13:08 👍 4852 🔁 1535 💬 28 📌 37
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Academic Neutrality - Lightspeed Magazine When Amy begins to flay herself during office hours, you aren’t quite sure what to do. You hate office hours. You used to enjoy them, actually, back before the flayings started. Sure, it’s hard sharin...

New story out now from @lightspeedmagazine.com! This one is all about how it feels to work in higher education these days. Spoiler: it feels extremely bad, like “what if your university signed a compact with the actual devil and now there’s an unbreakable curse” levels of bad 🫠

22.01.2026 13:34 👍 82 🔁 24 💬 11 📌 10

Yeah, but he has the power to implement his idiocy, and his lies are stock in trade for an autocrat. I don't dare time out the dismantling of civilization.

18.01.2026 00:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The science behind Walking With Dinosaurs!

Curator on our excavations at the largest ankylosaur bonebed this week at Science Thursday. You’ll learn about discoveries that weren’t featured in last year’s BBC/PBS documentary including some that are rewriting the books on armored dinosaur biology!

15.01.2026 04:35 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Nikki Glaser calls out CBS News at the Golden Globes while it’s being broadcast on CBS.

“And the award for Most Editing goes to CBS News. Yes, CBS News, America’s newest place to see B.S. News.”

12.01.2026 02:23 👍 15152 🔁 3746 💬 346 📌 216

He’s both a troll and a snowflake. The Utah Way.

12.01.2026 16:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The criminals running our government wouldn’t want it any other way.

12.01.2026 16:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Folks still on X have had no conscience for a long time.

12.01.2026 16:17 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Gullible, easily-misled dolts

11.01.2026 16:41 👍 81 🔁 34 💬 6 📌 1

Headcount chirps after taking cover from a predator alert?

10.01.2026 19:07 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0