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@alexamarchives.bsky.social
librarian, health sciences; genre fiction & films
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LPlevparikian.bsky.social

‘Just checking in to see how things are going over on tw—‘

Screenshot of a tweet saying that training to be a doctor should take no longer than two years because ‘it’s all memorisation not technically difficult stuff like maths or physics’
A screenshot of a discussion about LLMs ‘solving’ medicine. A user asks ‘let me know when the LLM can respect my pancreatic tumour.’ A reply; ‘it maybe can’t resect it, but it can give you instructions on how to have a family member help resect it for you.’
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DBbakerdphd.bsky.social

My day is bananas so I'm sneaking reads of the news between meetings and good golly miss molly this is wild www.science.org/content/arti...

Screenshot of article that reads: But over the past 2 years questions have arisen about some of Masliah’s research. A Science investigation has now found that scores of his lab studies at UCSD and NIA are riddled with apparently falsified Western blots—images used to show the presence of proteins—and micrographs of brain tissue. Numerous images seem to have been inappropriately reused within and across papers, sometimes published years apart in different journals, describing divergent experimental conditions. After Science brought initial concerns about Masliah’s work to their attention, a neuroscientist and forensic analysts specializing in scientific work who had previously worked with Science produced a 300-page dossier revealing a steady stream of suspect images between 1997 and 2023 in 132 of his published research papers. (Science did not pay them for their work.)
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AMamymaxmen.bsky.social

Here's the most troubling story I've investigated all year. I hope it has an impact. Lower wage health workers faced deadly conditions during covid outbreaks in 2020. Now they're struggling with PTSD & more. Employers & the government have left them hanging. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Nursing Aides Plagued by PTSD After ‘Nightmare’ Covid Conditions, With Little Help - KFF Health News
Nursing Aides Plagued by PTSD After ‘Nightmare’ Covid Conditions, With Little Help - KFF Health News

A KFF Health News investigation reveals that employers and the government have offered nursing aides little assistance for PTSD and other ongoing maladies triggered by hazardous work during the pandem...

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DJshengokai.bsky.social

If there was some "woke" Marxist cabal running academia, we'd be paid better, adjunctification wouldn't be a thing, and running a university like a business would be unthinkable. Alas.

NOnateo.bsky.social

Matthew Syed claims there’s a secret cabal of ‘woke’ Marxists in academia that cannot be found through any evidence-gathering, but must exist because academia leans left

If you think were past peak woke, we may not even be halfway up that hill Unconscious bias training and cancellation are mainstream for the young. Just wait until they're in charge Matthew Syed Sunday September 22 2024, 12.01 am, The Sunday Times
I disagree. I say this because, while the visible data reveals a clear pattern, I find myself asking: what about the invisible data? What about the cancellations that have become so normalised they are no longer reported? What about the initiatives (like mandatory unconscious bias training, which has never had evidence to support it) that are no longer mentioned in quarterly reports because they have become routine? What about the conservatives who self-censor out of fear of cancellation? When you take a step back, the data shows that woke is not past its peak but has moved from the wallpaper and into the brickwork.
And it is, I think, this last point that is most significant. When we think of "the long march through the institutions", too often we forget the key word: "long". Forgive a crude generalisation, but those on the right tend to go into finance and business because they are motivated by money. Those on the left tend to go into museums, charities and academia because they are willing to play a longer game. That is why cultural institutions trend left and Marxists console themselves with the thought that, while they live in smaller houses, they have the greater - if subtler - influence.
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AMadmancomics.bsky.social

I knew that John Carpenter Letterboxd account was fake once I saw Escape from L.A. rated lower than Escape from New York (Carpenter has said a few times he considers the sequel to be the superior film). Anyway, his response to this is, as usual, succinct and perfect.

Filmmaker John Carpenter reacting to a fake Letterboxd account pretending to be him by tweeting “What the hell is a Letterboxd!??”
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DWnrvscrcts.bsky.social

"Because these programs cannot themselves be concerned with truth, and because they are designed to produce text that looks truth-apt without any actual concern for truth, it seems appropriate to call their outputs bullshit."

ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technology
ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technology

Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...

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Aalexamarchives.bsky.social

They deserve it.

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GMgretchenmcc.bsky.social

Oh hey, my tweet is in this @xkcd.comyoutu.be/0EytSWiKrFg

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Mrincewind.run

I said to myself when this news broke, I said, Micah, Eric Adams is going to have done the absolute stupidest shit imaginable, shit that would get you thrown out of the writer’s room on Law and Order my friends, he did not disappoint

JCjosephcox.bsky.social

New: Eric Adams changed his phone password while being investigated. He told the FBI he had forgotten the password he had just set, meaning he couldn't help unlock it for the FBI. This is in a section called "attempt to conceal their criminal conduct" www.404media.co/eric-adams-t...

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DWnrvscrcts.bsky.social

I've seen students complete the library's academic integrity activities using gen AI tools, so I can certainly sympathize.

GSjon-christian.bsky.social

AI going great i see futurism.com/the-byte/pro...

Professor Horrified When Students Use ChatGPT to Generate "Briefly Introduce Yourself" Assignment... in Ethics Course
Professor Horrified When Students Use ChatGPT to Generate "Briefly Introduce Yourself" Assignment... in Ethics Course

An assistant professor of philosophy was shocked to find her students use ChatGPT to "briefly introduce" themselves.

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librarian, health sciences; genre fiction & films
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