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You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why? Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Mister Rogers never misses

A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it.

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My university has announced a fund to essentially poach doctoral students from US institutions. DM me if you do work on the history/social impacts of AI and are interested in being poached 😂

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations
retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/s...

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

When lawyers first started getting yelled at by judges for citing hallucinated case law 2 years ago I naively assumed word would get around and they would all learn not to

This new DB has 116 cases from 12 countries where this happened, 20 from just this month!

simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

A New Headache for Honest Students: Proving They Didn’t Use A.I.

This article interviews students harmed by Turnitin’s error-prone AI detector. Turnitin’s 4% false positive rate, which is increased when English is not a first language, represents harm to millions of innocent students.

This technology is not safe.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/s...

Major software engineering conference locations for the next few years #ICSE2025

When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History | Quanta Magazine Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer.

Very interesting oral history -- interviews with some top NLP folks on the effects of GenAI on their field:

www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...

if you are using primarily local models, which ones are you using and for what lately?

* A Retrospective on Mining Version Histories to Guide Software Changes * Simplifying and Isolating Failure-Inducing Input: A Retrospective on Delta Debugging

Double feature! The newest Transactions on Software Engineering features retrospectives on the most influential papers published in the journal’s first 40 years. Check out our takes on
* Mining Software Repositories www.computer.org/csdl/journal...
* Delta Debugging www.computer.org/csdl/journal...

Voting locations – Elections Canada Information for electors in Canada. All you need to vote.

#Canada, You still can vote early today before 6pm and skip voting on the final election day.

Visit your Election Canada office stated on your voter information card or check on this site (using your postal code): www.elections.ca/content2.asp...

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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:

—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.

Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us' Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

Having developed one of these protocols 17 years ago, still in use today, I don’t like how Twitter and now Bsky confuse identity verification with account and institutional popularity. It’s a slippery slope. Do domain verification and stop there.

#TIL

We got ourselves to the advance polls in #ygk as well!

Polls are open 9 to 9 today and Monday across #Canada! 🇨🇦

Find YOUR voting location at elections.ca and #vote

Did advance voting for the federal election yesterday. So many people voting already! Great to see the enthusiasm. #Voted #CDNPoli #ygk #Canada 🇨🇦

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence t...

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? 👀 The design article you never knew you needed.

A Caroll diagram consisting of four rectangles arranged in a square. The Y axis is labelled MOVE and split into FAST and SLOW. The X axis is labelled THINGS and split into BREAK and FIX Top left image: (Move Fast and Break Things) Tech Bro Bottom left image: (Move slow and break things) Runaway Steamroller Top right image: (Move fast and fix things) Emergency Plumber Bottom left image: (Move slow and fix things) Grandpa with a toolbox

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

Mark Carney’s Liberals announce new Canada Strong Pass | Liberal Party of Canada With President Trump threatening our economy and sovereignty, Canadians are uniting to find new ways to discover and celebrate our beautiful country. So many Canadians are cutting back vacations to th...

We'll make your family's summer memories more affordable this year.
 
The Canada Strong Pass will make our National Parks, national galleries, museums, and VIA Rail free for kids under 18.
 
Take a look: liberal.ca/mark-carneys...

Phrases about trying to give advice to someone who knows more about it than you, from five languages.

That’s like trying to teach…

5. Grandma to suck eggs (English)
4. A crocodile to swim (Thai)
3. An eagle to fly (Russian)
2. A leopard how to climb a tree (Kikuyu)
1. Your father to fuck (Finnish)

Our English dad used to love to go to Canadian Tire and just stroll around looking at stuff. He’d say that it was Canada to him. Elbows up because that’s what my dad would have wanted.

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Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.

NEW: No fewer than 10 principle scientists at NIH investigating emerging infectious diseases and neural disorders were among those fired by RFK Jr. today.

One is an esteemed scientist awarded for breakthrough research into the causes of Parkinson's disease.

By me and @emilymullin.bsky.social: