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15 minutes of fame for wanting Nuralagus as a pet; living in infamy for suggesting #mammals influence dinosaur #evolution

(Here for #paleontology #geology #biology #hockey #Bowie #climate #Mesozoic #multituberculates #bunnies)

Shut. The. Front. Door!

This is a very cool website that NAGT (National Association of Geoscience Teachers) shared.

Will definitely find ways to utilize in future courses.

https://beta.visiblegeology.com/?fbclid=IwAR2H_7A9AKIG3aWx0G201zJHvbxiXaEWLJYJZcNSloMwgTxhjE__yIev92o

#EarthScience #Education

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"“Godfather of AI” Geoff Hinton, in recent public talks, explains that one of the greatest risks is not that chatbots will become super-intelligent, but that they will generate text that is super-persuasive without being intelligent, in the manner of Donald Trump or Boris Johnson."
https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/blog/afb21/oops-we-automated-bullshit
Oops! We Automated Bullshit. | Department of Computer Science and Technology

ChatGPT is a bullshit generator. To understand AI, we should think harder about bullshit

Meta will allow political ads that claim the 2020 election was stolen.

YouTube will no longer remove videos making similar claims.

Monetizing lies has become a big business in America. It’s one of the core challenges to democracy.

A sobering thought! #statistics #analytics more at timoelliott.com/blog/cartoons
Hey, I'm over on bsky.social as well. I like the voices here a lot, but I can't find my friends. I think our instances aren't speaking to one another.
You MAGA cretins chanted, “Lock her up” all through the 2016 campaign. So shut the fuck up about Trump’s indictment “interfering in a presidential election.”

My poem about life in Britain in the twenty-twenties.

#poem #PoetryCommunity

A superb summary by @JuliusGoat - the only surprising thing is that it took so long for Adams to get what’s been coming to him.

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-case-for-shunning

The Case For Shunning

People like Scott Adams claim they're being silenced. But what they actually seem to object to is being understood.

The Reframe

February 22, 1875, died #OTD, Charles Lyell, #lawyer & #geologist. Argued that the present can explain the past, revolutionizing #geology. He also popularized this young #science & influenced generations of younger geologists, like Darwin ⚒️👨‍⚖️

https://tinyurl.com/y5s3qsw7

Three views of a partial lower right 3rd molar (missing the 1st lophid) from a Pacific #mastodon. From Alameda Co. California, UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology collection. #DailyMastodon #paleontology #fossil