Matthew Murray 🦇

Minnesotans don’t want ICE to abduct our neighbors a little differently.

We want all of it to stop. And we’ll keep doing everything we can to make that happen. If you’re outside of the state, you should too.

reminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”

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I remember viewing Watchmen & thinking

wow

this is so UNREALISTIC

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:

"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

I agree that neither the humanities nor STEM are more important or pure or whatever than the other: the thing is that we need BALANCE between the two poles, and we have very much lost that in modern U.S. society today.

a cartoon character with a helmet on is holding a green gun Alt: Martian from MARS ATTACKS! zapping with a ray gun

Democrats will not increase Mars' budget without the following reforms

1/ Tighten the rules on disintegration and require Martians to coordinate with local authorities

2/ Limits on shrink rays and attaching human heads to dog bodies

3/ No more spy girls, body cameras on, invaders carry ID

The amount of money the US government spent on troops in DC in 2025 ($223m) would have been enough to give the city's ~5,100 homeless residents each $43,000. Instead, federal troops destroyed their meager encampments.

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

table 1 extract from Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

5 Ghostwriter in the Machine A unique selling point of these systems is conversing and writing in a human-like way. This is imminently understandable, although wrong-headed, when one realises these are systems that essentially function as lossy2 content-addressable memory: when input is given, the output generated by the model is text that stochastically matches the input text. The reason text at the output looks novel is because by design the AI product performs an automated version of what is known as mosaic or patchwork plagiarism (Baždarić, 2013) — due to the nature of input masking and next token prediction, the output essentially uses similar words in similar orders to what it has been exposed to. This makes the automated flagging of plagiarism unlikely, which is also true when students or colleagues perform this type of copypaste and then thesaurus trick, and true when so-called AI plagiarism detectors falsely claim to detect AI-produced text (Edwards, 2023a). This aspect of LLM-based AI products can be seen as an automation of plagiarism and especially of the research paper mill (Guest, 2025; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025; van Rooij, 2022): the “churn[ing] out [of] fake or poor-quality journal papers” (Sanderson, 2024; Committee on Publication Ethics,

In addition, who is held accountable if nobody with intent authored the text? Because while the original data fed into the system is certainly written with goals, messages, and audiences in mind jumbling this into ad-libbed word salad removes authorial intent (Bender et al., 2021). So do the companies who own the chatbot own the text or do the original authors? These questions denote legal battles, which are being currently fought in the public eye and which affect all of us in all roles, not just as academics (Creamer, 2025; Knibbs, 2024; Reuters, 2025). Either way, even if the courts decide in the favour of companies, we should not allow these companies with vested interests to write our papers (Fisher et al., 2025), or to filter what we include in our papers. Because it is not the case that we only operate based on legal precedents, but also on our own ethical values and scientific integrity codes (ALLEA, 2023; KNAW et al., 2018), and we have a direct duty to protect, as with previous crises and in general, the literature from pollution. In other words, the same issues as in previous sections play out here, where essentially now every paper produced using chatbot output must declare a conflict of interest, since the output text can be biased in subtle or direct ways by the company who owns the bot (see Table 2). Seen in the right light — AI products understood as contentaddressable systems — we see that framing the user, the academic in this case, as the creator of the bot’s output is misplaced. The input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors wrote those, not the search query!

Third, the peculiar idea that somehow we don't need to read, write, or perform literature reviews anymore; popping up like a satanic mushroom in almost all so-called OK uses of LLMs.

Companies writing our papers via their chatbots is not scientific at all. See section 5: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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What I’m hearing: large open source projects are being absolutely hammered by AI-generated security reports. To the point of not being able to handle them.

Feeling is lots of ppl want an easy way to put a CVE on their CV and collect $$ for bug bounty.

Super bad for maintainers

It feels so attractive to just let GPT write a paper draft for you as inspiration, then conduct the actual experiment based on the draft's description, and stop thinking hard about proper methods yourself.

While creating and submitting AI slop papers has been possible before, Prism makes it quite a bit easier. And I fear that it pushes even well-meaning researchers in a dangerous direction.

Congressional Budget Office: “Federal troop deployments to US cities cost a total of $496 million in 2025, CBO estimates. Continuing current deployments will cost $93 million a month; 1,000 Guard personnel deployed to a city will cost at least $18 million a month.” www.cbo.gov/publication/...

This is the large domino, with the small domino being some random quack in the UK in 1998 trying to undermine the existing MMR vaccine so his business partner can swoop in with his own. Instead he lost his work credentials and now kids are dying needlessly all over the world, so great job everyone.

Wtf is this generate podcast nonsense on Acrobat

Having read some of Kathleen's book, it's clearly "We Will Rock You" as there are characters made out of rock.

Monarcinisation

Haven't seen the details, but "require ICE to coordinate with local authorities" sounds a lot like "authorize local cops to help ICE kidnap people."

Reminding everyone, PLEASE, DO NOT sub to your favorite content creators through phone apps as it not only charges you more, it also takes a higher % from us AND to top it all off blocks the money from being received for 30 fucking days for some goddamned reason.

Also: "When Shonen Isn't Shonen: Understanding Manga Age Ratings."

Just like democracies are being put to the test around the world (and succumbing sooner than we hoped), our ideals of research integrity and scientific rigor are being tested by ever-invasive AI tools. I am not hopeful science will survive this unscathed. We'll need to rethink a lot of what we do.

someone I respect very much is very encouraged by vibe coding and I think we are reaching a new threshold we are not fully prepared for here

That's the Irving character they chose???? They could have been the New York Headless Horsemen!!!
(Anyway, neat, thank you for sharing!)

GOD IM EXHAUSTED. Just got done screaming at my senators AGAIN.

NO FUNDING FOR ICE YOU DUMMIES! NONE!

It’s the same damn folks who are currently breaking existing laws! Are you gonna make them pinkie swear they’ll follow these new rules?? FFS. Disgusted.

@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov

Argonautica - Wikipedia

The Toronto Argonauts (Canadian Football League) could maybe be an edge case for named after a poem?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argonau...

(No, I'm not pitching this to any specific conference.)

Quick, someone approve my panel.
"What makes comics good: How to review, analyse, critique, and talk about comics."
Learn how to talk about comics in a way that is helpful to others. Attendees will gain tools to use with reviewing comics, using them in classrooms, giving readers' advisory, etc.
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If I recall, The Walking Dead was a hard sell at the beginning because it was in black and white and that was over twenty years ago. (And they've since released a colour version.)

What was the last "hit" non-manga comic that was published in black & white?

If I recall, The Walking Dead was a hard sell at the beginning because it was in black and white and that was over twenty years ago. (And they've since released a colour version.)

What was the last "hit" non-manga comic that was published in black & white?