Kristen Koopman

Also something something girly literature cooties something something masculine science

I think some bad writing is bad in the same way that scientific writing is bad, so the argument is then that it's not bad, it's science-y, so trying to apply literary criteria isn't appropriate.

Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust So, new research shows that a) LLM-type “AI” chatbots are extremely persuasive and able to get voters to shift their positions, and that b) the more effective they are at that, the less…

This is to answer one question so I couldn't go too deep, but I'm reccing @wolvendamien.bsky.social article: afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=6422 and Justin Brown's siliconcanals.com/sc-d-i-spent...

Saw this over on Masto, was too lazy to copy a link and post it here, glad Mr. Blabalino has done the work for all of us

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

ME: pack a bag, we’re flying to kansas

MY WAYWARD SON: what kind of bag

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen back to the feed.

His GFM still hasn’t met its goal. Please consider supporting if you can.

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Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

Private money cannot replace public funding of science | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
By Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social

2) lower the temp on your water heater so that if someone were to turn on the hot water and have a medical incident before they got to the cold, they wouldn't scald themself.

I can't read the article, but I'll mention two things that the graphic leaves out, carried from my old day job: 1) change hinges if you need to so that your bathroom doors open outward, not inward, so if someone falls inside you can still open the door
2)(next post)

ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS: Novel Architects Residential Workshop, Lawrence KS, 7/5–7/18. Focusing on structure and the issues unique to long SF/F/H projects, for writers at any level of experience. Details here: kijjohnson.com/teacher/

The 5 biggest obstacles to AI data centers in space There are plenty of engineering obstacles, and those can be overcome. But you cannot change the laws of physics, and those matter too.

The 5 biggest obstacles to AI data centers in space

There are five main objections to building AI data centers in space.

Engineering challenges are one thing.

When you need to defy the laws of physics, that's where you get into trouble.

bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astro #physics #ai

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

cant.stop.laughing

“Dragon is an equal-opportunity exploiter.” 😂

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men.

This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries."

"Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife"

abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

Can confirm recording will be available shortly!

You know, I'd never considered that I could bird shitpost my way into learning audio production and composition

This knowledge may have ramifications, Later

Reminder: this is tomorrow! Registration is $25 to dissuade trolls, video will be available after for the same price. (If you register and attend the zoom, you will also have access to the recording for no additional cost.)

LET'S GOOOO

This is my shocked face: 😐

Look, I love science fiction & desperately want many of its concepts & ideas to be real (but, y'know, w/ the sociotechnical concerns attended to because I Actually love sci-fi). But some people want sci-fi to be real so bad that they ignore obviously over-hyped bullshit

How does The Onion know what the Trump administration is going to do before it happens?

Clearly there must be a lot of leeks inside the White House

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Which is a real shame and I have a lot of feelings about it that I'll spare you, but if you want to watch it but can't afford it, drop me a line and we'll work something out!

One clarification that's probably important - the VOD will be available *for purchase* after. This is both because we want to be able to keep doing cool things, and also because if the Puppies nonsense taught me anything, it's that trolls are largely dissuaded by paywalls.

…That "Generative AI" does not tell you the truth, that it doesn't give you facts, & that when its outputs conform to factual reality, it's by fucking happenstance. These systems are not all-in-1 answer production machines, they are collections of stats & regularities spat out via fucking dice rolls

How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…