Amaro Tuninetti, Ph.D. 🦇

Tweet from Homeland Security with ICE agents wearing Christmas gear. The caption says "YOU'RE GOING HO HO HOME."

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint

Buster from the tv show ‘Arrested Development’ holding an arm full of plushies while he looks at his mother Lucille, saying, “these are my awards, mother, from FIFA.“

Who has made this 🤣

This has been true in higher ed as long as I've been in it: claims that programs need to be close or reduced due to "budgets" but the details show that the programs in question actually bring in money, meaning the actual reason is ideological.

A light brown gloved hand holding a black and white bat, which is looking towards the camera.

Day 5 #BatMas: Pied butterfly bat (Glauconycteris superba) 🦇🌎🧪

This bat is very rare! It’s been captured a few of times, but after the 5th time, the species was put in the genus ‘Niumbaha’, named after the Zande word for ‘rare’. However, it is now part of the genus ‘Glauconycteris’

📸: Jacob Fahr

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Jonathan the Tortoise (left) and friend

Happy Birthday (Observed) to the uncontested KING Jonathan The Tortoise, estimated to be 192 years old

192 MORE YEARS! 192 MORE YEARS!

go birds!

Is my mirror conscious? The being reflected in it is able to duplicate everything I do, even very hard things.

Here's @daryllmarie.bsky.social helping me to haul some shark fishing gear

this really isn’t an exaggeration

This is 𝘔𝘺𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘺𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘴. He's not sure whether he has two first names or two last names, but he's chill either way ✌️

🦇 Greater mouse-eared bat
📸 Dietmar Nill/ Foto Natura/ Minden Pictures

As a bioethicist, I also feel the need to add that the central issue with eugenics is “it’s evil” not “it’s factually incorrect.” And if we finally learned that, maybe big name bioethicists wouldn’t publish “what if eugenics but hi-tech” every five years.

After Obama Victory, Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage Early GOP Front-Runner For 2016 Sources say the screaming orb might be the only potential candidate that would tap into Republicans' deep-seated, seething fury after this election.

I hate this one so much, but I think about it at least once a week, if not more. I don’t know if it falls under your category, but it’s the one that comes to mind.

www.theonion.com/after-obama-...

I always thought of it as a reflexive reaction to USamerican exceptionalism and our 'bro-ey' tendency to boisterously enter new spaces (like the global football convo/media over the last 20 years) and talk about things as if we're the experts that invented it... orr am i just projecting?

Court filing: LLMs are tools that “emulate the communicative function of language, not the separate and distinct cognitive process of thinking and reasoning.” Benjamin Riley, Large language mistake, The Verge https://www.theverge.com/aiartificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligenceneuroscience-problems [https://perma.cc/7EHD-PLLZ]. When an LLM overstates a holding of a case, it is not because it made a mistake when logically working through how that case might represent a “nonfrivolous argument for extending, modifying, or reversing existing law or for establishing new law;” it is just piecing together a plausiblelooking sentence – one whose content may or may not be true.

Cool update to last week’s story on why language doesn’t equal intelligence: a Michigan judge cited it to justify imposing sanctions over a ChatGPT-assisted filing that mentioned real cases but misstated their facts. Congrats to author @benjaminjriley.bsky.social!

Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.

screenshot of the YouTube recap, telling me I'm in the top 0.4% of taskmaster viewers

thank you for making me feel less ashamed 😬

Satellites keep photobombing the Hubble telescope, and it’s getting worse Overcrowded orbits are making astronomers’ jobs harder.

Satellites keep photobombing the Hubble telescope, and it’s getting worse

"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried

Exhibit B: Lawrence, Kansas

(that one little spot all the way on the east of the map where the district dips south into Douglas county)

Timeline cleanse, please enjoy a minute with the local raccoons.

Raccoon interactions as snow softly falls in the garden.

#mammals

Let's save this cave with mama 🖤

See how we’re ensuring bat pups can keep roosting with mama by purchasing Brandon Hill Cave, the only known maternity roost for the sword-nosed bat in Honduras. https://www.batcon.org/our-work/endangered-species-interventions/bhc/

Oceanography For Everyone Supply Depot for the OpenCTD and Oceanography for Everyone. Here you can find custom PCBS, stickers, OpenCTD kits, and other OpenCTD accessories.

I currently have a few OpenCTD kits left to move before the end of the year. If you've wanted to build your own oceanographic instrument, now's your chance.

Details about the project: oceanographyforeveryone.com

OpenCTD Store: oceanographyforeveryone.bigcartel.com

Haidt is "stunned" that ChatGPT asked how it would threaten youth reveals that its plan would be what Haidt has argued in his books. The secret plan!

There should be some way to rescind the doctorate of any commentator on digital media who interprets ChatGPT output like this. I am not joking.

Screenshot reading "It’s unclear what kind of investigation it needs to perform, given that Fulnecky’s 650-word essay is available for us to read and has all the textual depth of a discounted “He Is Risen” throw pillow at Hobby Lobby."

wrote about the recent national controversy at my alma mater johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/samantha-f...

Here, take an RHC (Reciprocal Hermit Crab)

(RIP Bilbo the prince)

Fun fact, a lot of wonderful scientific illustrations you see in the 19th century natural science publications, were done by women, usually spouses of the researchers as uncredited free labour. The famous finches, came from John Gould, his wife, Elizabeth, illustrated his ornithology books.

DOMINO MEME Little Domino says: President Rutherford B Hayes retreats from confederate capitals, ceding control of the southern states back to the redeemers in 1877 Big domino says: Oops! All Nazis 2025

Read through the quoted posts to read the essay and the TAs comments. This does not bode well for academia and is further evidence that professors are being attacked for doing their jobs, in this case requiring empirical evidence in an essay.