Software development in 2026 increasingly feels like giving up control. Move beyond "role-play and pray" with vibe-coding best practices.

Here's a totally harmless hammer to break ChatGPT.

Newer, Larger, Better? A Critique of the Unreflective LLM Adoption in Communication Research The growing adoption of large language models (LLMs) in political communication research has prompted excitement but also concern. In this opinion piece, we offer an informed and critical overview ...

📢Publication alert 📢

LLMs are an awesome technology, but they come with trade-offs!

Paul Balluff, @justinho.bsky.social, @seanhp.bsky.social, Alexis Palmer, @lrossi.bsky.social, Irina Shklovski, Chung-hong Chan and I commented on these trade-offs in #commsky research. Out now and open access!

To be critical of the government is the most American thing ever.

Dario Amodei, PhD, the CEO of Anthropic has a spine for refusing to let our Mad King use Claude for domestic mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.

I just bought a Claude Pro subscription. Fight on scholar. 🎓⚔️

In the latest #aBitOfCCS episode, we dig into research showing that LLMs often deliver only marginal gains at major environmental cost. 🌱🌍
Sean-Kelly Palicki breaks down when simpler methods beat large models—and why a CO₂-adjusted F1 score matters.🌱
Listen here ⤵️
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Free Audiobooks!! Good AI ❤️marhamilresearch4.blob.core.windows.net/gutenberg-public/Website...

Academic life hack: check which papers AI hallucinated most often and write them 🚀🚀🚀

I'm DONE with Google YouTube video by PewDiePie

Speaking of Europe, I've been deGoogling on the grounds of data privacy, personal freedom, and surveillance capitalism. Yeah, it's kind of annoying but it's also pretty great. Here's what started my journey and how you can get started www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Lx...

📢 New Preprint: "Don’t Look Up: Evaluating the Tradeoff between Performance and Sustainability of LLMs for Text Analysis."

Providing guidance for social scientists, we challenge the "bigger is better" narrative, instead encouraging social and environmental responsibility.

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Germany drops opposition to nuclear power in rapprochement with France

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F1 LEGO Race In Full | 2025 Miami Grand Prix YouTube video by FORMULA 1

In case you missed it - last week they had the F1 drivers race giant lego cars for one lap and mayhem ensued. Some of the best racing drivers on the planet giggling like schoolboys as they race (and wreck) the cars 🤣

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A Founding Father of Cyberpunk Isn't Surprised By Its Comeback Mike Pondsmith, who wrote the tabletop RPG that inspired 'Cyberpunk 2077,' explains why the genre feels vital in 2020.

Gossip on the internet, hang out, and let some political party decide what you’re going to do. And the next thing you know, you go, ‘Where did my health care go? Why are we fighting a war over here?’ Because you didn't pay attention. Maybe you should pay attention.
www.wired.com/story/cyberp...

HOW TO SHARPEN PENCILS Official Selection: 2013 Austin Film Festival 2013 SF Docfest 2013 Sidewalk Film Festival (Winner: Best Documentary Short) 2013 Indie Memphis Film Festival (Winner:…

Looks like the original artisanal pencil sharpener was David Rees, here's his short film from twelve years ago vimeo.com/60718161

May the 4th be with you! Watch Andor Season 2 ;)

More dumb…

Welcome to The Future This time it arrived right on schedule.

This article is a great reminder to “appreciate” that we’re living in a cyberpunk future.
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I’m thinking Small Language Model + Whisper Speech-to-Text + RAG AI System that runs on an Inference Optimized Raspberry Pi 5. Let’s keep this implementation local and open 😉

Great read about the emergence of a topic that’s becoming increasingly part of popular culture: An AI enabled “afterlife”.

All praise to @seanhp.bsky.social @isaacbravo.bsky.social for producing and presenting this fantastic paper! Check out the results and the R adaptation of CodeCarbon on linktr.ee/comptext25

Thanks for giving us the chance to share!

See you at COMPTEXT 2025 in Vienna! I'll be presenting "Don’t Look Up: Evaluating the Tradeoff between Accuracy and Sustainability of LLMs for Text Analysis"

Things are changing fast. ICA, the largest academic conference for communication researchers, has begun omitting paper titles from acceptance letters to smooth out issues during the travel visa application process. #AcademicFreedon #BandAidSolution

"Trump and his American oligarchs are now openly aligning themselves with Putin and his Russian oligarchs," Bernie Sanders wrote Monday on X. "This Putin-Trump alliance means abandoning our allies, supporting authoritarianism and undermining our democratic traditions."

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Trump calls Zelenskyy a dictator amid fears of irreconcilable rift Remark follows Ukrainian leader’s claim US president living in a Russian ‘disinformation bubble’

Trump’s former vice-president, Mike Pence, who said in a social media post: “Mr. President, Ukraine did not ‘start’ this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The Road to Peace must be built on the Truth.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

The tech oligarchs and their AI are taking over. Let's fight back. Alright, I’m really doing this thing. Support Blood in the Machine and fearless independent tech journalism.

I've been writing BLOOD IN THE MACHINE for months, but I was on the fence about going all-in. Recent events have made the call easier.

Elon Musk, the Silicon Valley oligarchs and their AI are taking over. I want to do all I can to push back. I hope you'll join me, and I'm asking for your support.

Brazil’s former President Bolsonaro charged over alleged coup that included a plan to poison Lula Brazil’s top prosecutor Paulo Gonet has formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat.

Brazil’s former President Bolsonaro charged over alleged coup that included a plan to poison Lula

However, the prosecutor-general perpetuates the narrative that the armed forces had been a 'victim' of the plot, despite the obvious institutional involvement

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Two highlighted contracts for $9,999,999 each.

Let's see how the intrepid Elon inspired team at DOGE - the folks who are currently examining your tax records - are doing! Today they put up their their idea of "open data" which they call a "Wall of Receipts". And look here - two cancelled DEIA contracts for $9,999,999. Wow, they saved $20M! 1/