I'm going to shovel out some opinions, here, and I will not be bothering (entirely) to support them with references…
From: Stderr
My last two AI posts were not meant to evangelize, just preface to this post, in which I talk about…
From: Life's a Gas
The Probability Broach, chapter 12 Win and Ed have one lead to follow up on: the university researcher, Dr. Thorens,…
From: Daylight Atheism
This is another article about AI from a pro-AI position. Haters don't comment plz. Back in the late '90s, Battletech…
From: Life's a Gas
This is about AI from a pro-AI perspective. In the parlance of tumbl, "Antis Do Not Interact." A great deal…
From: Life's a Gas
The Village of Bolingbrook’s generative AI, Brookbot, sent thousands of scam emails to authors around the world. According to sources…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
The Steam game store has a policy that games with AI-generated content are required to say so. The CEO of…
From: A Trivial Knot
[caption id="attachment_5520" align="aligncenter" width="600"] From top to bottom, left to right:1. Dimpled Model with Curls by Meenakshi Mukerji.2. Sonobe Cube,…
From: A Trivial Knot
i bruck my mind on novelwritemonth uggen. it doesn't help my emotions are getting flame-roasted every other day by unrelated…
From: Life's a Gas
Ludwig Minelli died yesterday at the age of 93. He had long promoted the idea that people facing death should…
From: Mano Singham
I'm going to shovel out some opinions, here, and I will not be bothering (entirely) to support them with references…
From: Stderr
You may have noticed (I hope, actually!) that my last posting sounds like it was written with the assistance of…
From: Stderr
I'll be teaching cell biology next fall. Should I be worried? [caption id="attachment_78123" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Little girl: Sings "Jesus loves…
From: Pharyngula
Sometimes, students earn a failing grade. I hand back essays or exams with zeroes on them, and inform students that…
From: Pharyngula
I'm sure you've noticed how creationists only want to talk about their perceived flaws in evolutionary theory, but never about…
From: Pharyngula
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the continuing trend toward a secular future, in America…
From: Daylight Atheism
One of the things that sometimes frustrates me about AI is that they are constantly being tweaked and adjusted, so…
From: Stderr
Back in the day, when I was writing papers, it was a grueling, demanding process. I'd spend hours in the…
From: Pharyngula
Here's a taste of what some apparently consider a persuasive argument. One minute after you die you will be either…
From: Pharyngula
In an earlier posting about my osoraku dagger, I made a comment to the effect that rocks are pretty yawn-riffic.…
From: Stderr
I'm not in favor of assassinations; I'm especially not fond of sloppy wet work. Fortunately I'm not in that business,…
From: Stderr
Wait, what? There's a Riley Gaines Center? Meanwhile, the Leadership Institute, a nearly 50-year-old nonprofit that trains conservative activists, launched…
From: Pharyngula
Incels and misogynists seem to have missed out on a lot of genetics, so they freely make it up as…
From: Pharyngula
Rebecca Watson. The context: it's because Lawrence Krauss was getting clobbered by Watson over his abuses, and he wrote to…
From: Pharyngula
The insufferably pompous, arrogant, and sexist former president of Harvard University has been forced to withdraw from many of his…
From: Mano Singham
I have not written much about the Epstein files and the recently released trove of emails between Jeffrey Epstein and…
From: Mano Singham
It's as if America wasn't the paradise the Right tries to tell us. A Gallup poll shows that a lot…
From: Pharyngula
They have new policies for their university. Courses at Texas A&M University System schools that “advocate race or gender ideology…
From: Pharyngula
The Democrats have been releasing damning emails from the Epstein files, which is a good start. There's nothing too surprising…
From: Pharyngula
Various conservatives are celebrating the publication of a new issue of the Journal of Controversial Ideas, or Peter Singer's slush…
From: Pharyngula
By now, I have become familiar with the signs that something that I receive via the phone or text or…
From: Mano Singham
The science and math party is on Monday, and I had to figure out what to bring. I don't want…
From: Pharyngula
I'm not in favor of assassinations; I'm especially not fond of sloppy wet work. Fortunately I'm not in that business,…
From: Stderr
It's Krampusnacht! This is appropriate in my household, for a couple of reasons. OK, one reason. We are having our…
From: Pharyngula
I tried, despite my misgivings. I tried watching this new season of Stranger Things. I made it a half hour…
From: Pharyngula
The town I live in has a spreading plague of dollar stores -- we've got two (in a town of…
From: Pharyngula
This came out with poor timing. [caption id="attachment_78085" align="aligncenter" width="333"] xkcd[/caption] You see, yesterday afternoon was spent trying to use…
From: Pharyngula
One of the things that sometimes frustrates me about AI is that they are constantly being tweaked and adjusted, so…
From: Stderr
I hate airline travel. It is all so tedious, the drive to the airport, parking, taking the shuttle to the…
From: Mano Singham
I hope you won't mind if I continue blogging about my garden next year too. There is a lot I…
From: Affinity
In these days of relentlessly depressing news, a good comedy comes as a welcome relief and this is such a…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_77735" align="alignright" width="130"] Dumbass[/caption] I don't think she should graduate from college until she passes a basic English literacy…
From: Pharyngula
A reader sent me a comment about how Catholics tell stories that they claim are in the Bible that aren't,…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_77649" align="alignright" width="150"] Chopping it all down[/caption] I had a nightmarish realization last night -- that American education was…
From: Pharyngula
We all know of and despise Ryan Walters, the Superintendent of Public Instruction in Oklahoma. He's a Christo-Fascist of the…
From: Pharyngula
As regular readers know, I play the card game bridge and recently I happened to look at some aspects of…
From: Mano Singham
Joseph Ladapo is the surgeon general for the state of Florida and is a vaccine skeptic who recently announced plans…
From: Mano Singham
I've been pretty blithe in my attempts to make people feel less doomy, and PZ did call me out on…
From: Life's a Gas
I was in the parking lot of home despot, when I saw this sign at a distance. Initially I thought…
From: Life's a Gas
To me the answer is 'no' but the title of this post was suggested by this essay by Philip Goff,…
From: Mano Singham
Remember this guy? A local chiropractor put up signs all around town touting "The Cancer Cure" (but taking care not…
From: Pharyngula
I know that a pile of bones of Tyrannosaurus or Triceratops gets all the attention and popular press, but what…
From: Pharyngula
I'm not in favor of assassinations; I'm especially not fond of sloppy wet work. Fortunately I'm not in that business,…
From: Stderr
Among my friends, many of them complain of problems with sleep, either falling asleep or getting up after sleeping for…
From: Mano Singham
We just struggled to figure out how to put fitted sheets on a split-top bed, so I'm too tired to…
From: Pharyngula
This is another article about AI from a pro-AI position. Haters don't comment plz. Back in the late '90s, Battletech…
From: Life's a Gas
This is about AI from a pro-AI perspective. In the parlance of tumbl, "Antis Do Not Interact." A great deal…
From: Life's a Gas
The Steam game store has a policy that games with AI-generated content are required to say so. The CEO of…
From: A Trivial Knot
So…Donald Trump got an MRI, but he's really stupid about it. Trump added Sunday that he has no idea on…
From: Pharyngula
Let's see…we're living in a country run by openly corrupt oligarchs. The educational system is being undermined by fundamentalist Christian…
From: Pharyngula
The stories of brutality and violations of people rights by the thugs that now make up the Immigration and Customs…
From: Mano Singham
One of the messages of doom that were widely broadcast about what might happen should Zohran Mamdani win the mayoral…
From: Mano Singham
It is fair-minded in pointing out that while Minnesota has done a poor job of preventing fraud, it doesn't justify…
From: Pharyngula
Our horribly racist president went on an ignorant rant about the Somali community in Minnesota. Donald Trump on Tuesday called…
From: Pharyngula
In many of the websites that I read, I come across repeated articles with headlines that suggest that Trump is…
From: Mano Singham
This will (I hope!) take a while, and I'm not going to bother being scrupolous about the sources of my…
From: Stderr
Elon Musk declared that Wikipedia was "woke," and started his own online encyclopedia titled "Grokipedia". He was probably tempted to…
From: Pharyngula
Where are fossil fuels most useful? Here's a hint: it's one of the dumbest reasons you could possibly think of.…
From: Stderr
They have new policies for their university. Courses at Texas A&M University System schools that “advocate race or gender ideology…
From: Pharyngula
It is often interesting when, after a trial that garnered a lot of attention, the jurors talk about what went…
From: Mano Singham
It's not just Jesus with an AK47, now Santa is packing, too. If you're in Homeland Security, you're a twisted,…
From: Pharyngula
Remember this guy? A local chiropractor put up signs all around town touting "The Cancer Cure" (but taking care not…
From: Pharyngula
The NY Times did one of those things they're so fond of: take an unscientific and inadequate sample of a…
From: Pharyngula
I'm going to shovel out some opinions, here, and I will not be bothering (entirely) to support them with references…
From: Stderr
It's a typical scenario this time of year: Ol' Grandpa has a festive wreath on his door, delivery driver drops…
From: Pharyngula
The stories of brutality and violations of people rights by the thugs that now make up the Immigration and Customs…
From: Mano Singham
You may have noticed (I hope, actually!) that my last posting sounds like it was written with the assistance of…
From: Stderr
One of the messages of doom that were widely broadcast about what might happen should Zohran Mamdani win the mayoral…
From: Mano Singham
I'm not in favor of assassinations; I'm especially not fond of sloppy wet work. Fortunately I'm not in that business,…
From: Stderr
Among my friends, many of them complain of problems with sleep, either falling asleep or getting up after sleeping for…
From: Mano Singham