@morganrobertson.bsky.social
Geographer at UW-Madison. Political ecologist, policy nerd, plant noticer, union member, Iowan, 🔱. Wetlands restoration, ecology and history are my jam. Also Australia and roller derby. USEPA HQ alum 2004-07.
Yes but what you’re forgetting is that there is no ethical use case for an LLM. Everything else is just noise.
“Overall, the study participants who saw the biased AI text shifted their positions toward those espoused by the AI.”
Is this a Joementum joke in 2026?
I’m just saying I know for a fact this guy isn’t busy
#Seahawks
is it good that Iran is putting mines in the strait of hormuz? we asked this group of Iowa republican voters, who agreed that the real problem was trans athl
The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣
Exactly. He was literally dropped in halfway through the season, into a complex scheme that had been cooking for months. What did we expect? We got way more out of him than I’d hoped.
I have acquired a portable bluetooth label maker
If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question
The Vikes solving their QB situation by essentially swapping Darnold for Geno would be the funniest outcome
they’re just begging for a car chase
"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"
counterpoint!
the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time
1. World War I British field artillery vet who became a forestry professor in the US.
2. Medical insurance fraud investigator for Met Life
Imaging a human saying to you, "i will only ever tell you what i think you want to hear, based on what i know about ppl like you, how you start our conversation, & what you say during it. Sometimes that will sound like truth, sometimes like errors or lies. Now: Let's talk about your medical history"
The model of unpaid academic labor required good jobs with ample unstructured time.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
I'm 110% sure the moment Zendaya fell for Tom was during his Lip Sync Battle performance and the lesson for young men to learn from this is women find it incredibly hot when you are so comfortable with your masculinity that you can preform effortlessly in drag.
Ugh this aged well
Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish are instead hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.
Surge pricing on anthropometric calipers in Indy right now.
Definitely some elements of moral panic to this as people sublimate broader anxieties about AI onto a kinda whatever light industry land use with some pluses, some minuses. But it is funny how the AI firms brought this on itself & is now befuddled not everyone wants the machine god in their backyard
No, turning over activities designed for your learning to a bot does not free you.
Undermining online learning hurts access to learning, especially for the not-wealthy.
Had a great discussion with @mjgault.bsky.social of @404media.co about Einstein and other online course autocomplete systems.
The US NSF has put out a "dear colleagues" letter that is essentially a yard sale list for @ncar-ucar.bsky.social
It asks questions such as, who'd like to take over some of NCAR's programs? Is anyone interested in commercial use of the Mesa Lab?
If you have thoughts, send them to NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov
i’m tired of hearing about the founding fathers. i just feel like, that’s enough of that
Call it The Tall Poppy.
His aversion to and dismissal of “militant particularisms” never stopped pushing him away from grounded movements pursuing change. It was just the Oxford Rover plant over and over again.
FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.
i love european olympics opening ceremonies. the second the ioc names a european host city the prime minister calls the culture minister into their office and says "find me your strangest homosexuals. give each of them a period of our great nation's history, a kilo of cocaine, and Ten Million Euros"
Occasionally reminded that Georgia added a “post tenure review” process bc they were so certain that professors became deadweight once they had job security, and all the outcomes have proven JUST THE OPPOSITE! People work harder and in more complex ways when they feel secure in their employment.
The Church just excommunicated AI.
I fucking love this man.