This is really, really good. Seriously, give it a read.

https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/

The two relics of exploding stars are black holes and neutron stars.
Both were discovered by women.
Jocelyn Bell discovered neutron stars, in the guise of “pulsars”, in 1967.
Since then, three Nobel prizes have gone to male scientists for their work on pulsars, but none to Bell.
Louise Webster, the co-discoverer of black holes, has been largely forgotten.
Unless, of course, you remember her name.

https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6296

When placed next to a window with sunlight, a cat may bloom from a wonderful sprouting orb.

#caturday #caturdayeveryday

the artificial pressure people put on themselves to specifically give gifts on december 25th is, uh

quite a thing

we've come around to the view that we'd rather give people gifts whenever we're thinking of them or see something they'd like, regardless of what time of year it is

Last week in a seminar we discussed a text that was largely about sexual violence, including mass rape during war. Heavy stuff.

One student admitted they had not read the text but worked off a ChatGPT summary.

They had no idea the text was about sexual violence. ChatGPT withheld that information.

This wasn’t just a minor error nor a typical LLM hallucination.

About a third of the text, arguably its most important part, went completely ignored because it didn’t match OpenAI’s content policies