@ejwillingham
I’ve angered famous men. Scribe @thinkingautism.com: https://tinyurl.com/TPGA-NL. Books: PHALLACY+TAILORED BRAIN+. Journalist, words@ SciAm++. Biologist: embryos/gonads+. Human-crafted work. Pro-woke/antifascist. Very Texan 🤠 https://tinyurl.com/526jrcuv
We had a Mac 128K! It's a lifelong thing. I actually can't begin to say how disappointing genAI has been on so. many. fronts. (just worse than useless)and that's not even getting into the far more important effects on *gestures at the world*
The thing about me being a GenAI skeptic is that I am a third gen early adopter. My machine worker grandpa thought computers were the future and had an Apple IIE. I had two Geocities sites. Was on Facebook when it was still Harvard only. You know how hard you have to try to make me hate new tech???
I have a v similar situation. I adopt *so many things* early. I made personal websites for blogging in *1990s*. I am the opposite of someone who hates new tech. I am the person who ends up pushing back against tech panics. And in 2022 (I think), I took ChatGPT out for a spin. A *total* skeptic now
There is no surprise here.
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Looks like the AI pulled some schematic of a mitochondrion (respiratory chain, "intermembrane" space, ROS, etc.) signaling to the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell and chose that to represent a bacterium! Good times.
Add in stapedial myoclonus with clicking and sound-triggered rapid-fire tapping noises and MEM is literally a nightmare
This story is nuts
The journal ‘Pediatrics and Child health’ has been published an article type, for case reports, that are made up and fictional without having any clear notice 😱
retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...
I gotta admit, I hear it. I know what they mean.
That character, in turn, has been described as "a blend of Dorothy Parker, Fran Lebowitz, and Janeane Garofalo." Worse things, probably
I am the reader! One reviewer attempted to be negative about that by saying I sound like Daria. Guilty, probably
Chronicle
Name a movie starting with the letter "C”
#moviesky #filmsky
A recent Washington Post headline posed the blatantly eugenicist question, “Is autism preventable in certain cases after all?” and posited its answer as “some scientists say yes.” @ejwillingham.bsky.social shreds the article to bits, in the latest TPGA newsletter:
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive... 1/
If you have not yet read Phallacy by @ejwillingham.bsky.social, I highly recommend the audiobook!
Hey, thank you! Hope you're doing well!
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!
that they have kept their relationship intensely private to the point that this is how we find out is probably the best sign they might actually make it
anyway, rules are rules, here is the exact moment she fell in love
wow who would have expected this from the guy with the totenkopf tattoo
the little dears
Reminds me of this @cragcrest.bsky.social piece on 1-star reviews lastwordonnothing.com/2023/10/13/t...
Feat. 1⭐ review for my book Phallacy: "Author has underlying feminist agenda." Not that underlying tbh
If you're a DC area bartender or related service industry worker and you hear govt./military people talking about the strikes on Iran, let me know what they're saying. I'm on signal at nslayton.12
President Donald Trump's accusation that Iran is building nuclear weapons that could "soon" reach the U.S. is contradicted by a 2025 federal government assessment that said Iran is years away from the ability to produce long-range missiles. (via @politifact.bsky.social)
https://to.pbs.org/4slHtik
“Trump has launched this regime change war and put American forces at risk without presenting evidence of an imminent threat, without clear objectives, without having exhausted diplomacy, without a plan for the aftermath, and without the consent of Congress”
Yeah, given the extreme cost of the infrastructure just to maybe cut out some boring boilerplate coding? Doesn’t seem worth it.
The real story is that foreign govts try to "interfere" all the time. In 2020 and 2024 we had mechanisms to catch them, call them out, & mitigate damage. Now, those mechanims are gone & the Trump admin would prefer to exploit "foreign interference" to justify a federal take-over of elections.
If only someone could have foreseen this... 🙄 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
