New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it.
Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.
I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool
A scale illustration of the Earth and the Moon, with the Earth on the far left, lots of black, and then the Moon on the far right, about 30 Earth diameters away.
In honor of (hopefully) today's launch of NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon in more than 50 years, here is a to-scale graphic of exactly how far away the Moon actually is. (Click image to expand.) You could fit about 30 Earths between the Earth and the Moon!
This and their whole package on being trans on the internet(www.theverge.com/cs/features/...) is why one should subscribe to journalism with a good ethics policy.
hi I wrote about Chappell Roan, public orgies of misogyny, and the trap of ignoring ‘celebrity news’ when misogynist harassment campaigns affect all women. None of the outrage slop we’ve seen is about Chappell's behavior—it's just a bunch of misogynists are justifying what they already wanted to do
This came out last weekend and feels only too timely as equipment to contemplate yesterday's revelations about Cesar Chavez, notably about why so few victims came forward in the past and why so many old crimes have been exhumed and addressed because something changed (and feminism changed it).
happy international women's day to one of the best genders to ever do it. man, i love you guys <33
"Just because a model correlates with neural and behavioral data, it is not sufficient for us to infer that the model is performing cognition: correlation does not imply cognition."
On Logical Inference over Brains, Behaviour, and Artificial Neural Networks. doi.org/10.1007/s421...
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BONUS ROUND
My talk yesterday was really designed to be heard, especially the last quarter--so I recorded it! Have a listen, if it strikes your fancy!
stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/plausible-...
this is so fun because i know an LLM wouldn’t give me a response this creative. like this took the funniest shortcut possible. come have fun at youraislopbores.me
Most health and medical data are drawn from research on male bodies. That leaves a big research gap that impedes progress on improving treatments for women, writes @smjyoti.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Conclusion: While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender." 🧪
Since I imagine most people joined the beta mainly for Filtr, would it make sense to pause the beta until Apple fixes things? I think many of us would still be happy to send feedback on the regular release and it might reduce the overhead of maintaining two builds in the meantime.
I sat in a fucking court room and heard Apple imply that a naked cartoon banana was somehow inappropriate but somehow Grok non consensually undressing women and children is ok?? www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
Happy Halloween 🦇🦇🦇 Horror movie music can be deeply unsettling. Here's how composers achieve that effect www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... 🧪
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
I took a whole week to read and write about this paper because I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t just rubber-stamping some results I liked. And now I can confidently say, this paper is very well-done and very well-written.
And I believe their results.
open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...
Did get the testflight version yesterday; working fine!
Am assuming the betas of 26.1 too don't allow you to test filtr.
Btw, the test flight has two different versions(notifications) for macOS and iOS/iPadOS. Due to the mac version being approved later when you started this cycle of test flights?
Perhaps, due to this: bsky.app/profile/atpr...
A well written and nuanced article by @helenpearson.bsky.social & @heidiledford.bsky.social arguing that there is insufficient data to link autism and acetaminophen and that focusing on such a link is no more than a distraction.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
When life gives you lemons (a review I thought was lazy and damaging in the way it framed women’s writing), make lemonade (a 2,500-word essay on the habits of literary criticism).
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/literary-c...
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Scotland #Books
Green and red auroras over an old barn in a long time exposure night photo. The red is very streaky, and the green is diffuse
Really neat green auroras in many stripey layers over the horizon
Looking toward the zenith with stripey green auroras with some diffuse red mixed in
Lots of layered green auroras behind some silhouetted trees, with some diffuse patchy red auroras mixed in
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If you are curious about what atproto is, what a PDS is, or what moving to a new PDS looks like. This may be a good starting place for you. This is my attempt at explaining some of the basics of Bluesky(atproto) in a less technical way.
Portrait of Milagros Miceli in a frame that reads TIME100/AI 2025.
I am thrilled to be recognized by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people worldwide in the field of artificial intelligence for my work with @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social.
>> #TIME100AI time.com/time100ai
I want to take this opportunity to share a few reflections on this work 👇🧵
Reaction of probably half this site!
NEW EPISODE!
An OpenPGP.js bug gave us an excuse to tear encrypted email via PGP to shreds. William Woodruff joined us to explain the vuln & indulge our gnashing of teeth on why email was never meant to be encrypted:
securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/08/22/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL3...
What’s the point of vibe coding if I still have to pay a dev to fix it? what’s the point of vibe coding if at the end of the day i still gotta pay a dev to look at the code anyway. sure it feels kinda cool while i’m typing, like i’m in some flow state or whatever, but when stuff breaks it’s just dead weight. i cant vibe my way through debugging, i cant ship anything that actually matters, and then i’m back to square one pulling out my wallet for someone who actually knows what they’re doing. makes me think vibe coding is just roleplay for guys who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part. am i missing something here or is it really just useless once you step outside the fantasy
I think the Vibecoding reddit has accidentally stumbled on the best description of vibecoding:
It's "roleplay for guys [it is always guys] who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part".
#ai #vibecoding
