@darkphoenix There is one thing that you get on a Flixtrain that you will never get on an ICE, though. And this admittedly doesn’t get old….

More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review, often against guidance

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04066-5

#HackerNews #AI #in #Research #AI #Peer #Review #Research #Trends #Academic #Integrity #Technology #in #Academia

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/115684433341937765

One Haitian woman who has had a green card since the early 2000s "showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled,” her attorney said.

@laprice will reply upon wakeup

EU Leaders Fight Over Ukraine Aid and Trade Deal: What to Watch
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-18/eu-leaders-fight-over-ukraine-aid-and-trade-deal-what-to-watch?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Economics @economics-bloomberg

New blog post: One semester of law school done

https://blog.legoktm.com/2025/12/18/one-semester-of-law-school-done.html

I don't think I've ever had so much information dumped into my brain in such a short period of time. People say that the first year of law school is the worst, and I certainly hope that's true!

#WritersCoffeeClub 08
early fantasy vs. late fantasy

FAR more emphasis on character. I left epic fantasy behind long ago, but even over the last 5-years, the lens through which I view my stories has grown increasingly intimate.

Kovenlore Chronicles, in a way, reflects this, as the camera slowly zooms in over the course of the books, which were written between 9 & 4 years ago.

The book I’m drafting is almost a metaphor for the change, the city choked with fog.

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity

#WritersCoffeeClub 6: How has your past writing shaped your present writing?

I wrote about this in 2021, and it's still pretty valid now. https://veocorva.xyz/2021/09/17/reconnecting-with-another-writer-past-me/

I used to desperately polish my work while hiding myself as I wrote it. And now I let the rough edges show, because that's where most of my voice exists.

I still have some similar loves. I love to write a protagonist that isn't the hero of the story. I still write character-first. But I'm also a different person now.

@futurebird LLMs are designed to produce plausible bullshit. But if you know enough about the subject to reject plausible bullshit, why are you asking an LLM?

Huch.

Spotted the text below at the end of the minutes of a meeting of #Quakers. I'm confident there is an interesting back story.

"Footnote: If you would like the minutes to be shorter, please remove this footnote from your personal copy."

@aeva burning the meaning away from every word with the big laser in my head

A Home Office study by on the facial recognition system used by UK police forces has found that it is significantly less reliable with certain ethnic groups and genders.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/police-facial-recognition-biased-against-certain-groups-study

#facialrecognition #ulpol #police #technews

Extreme Ausleuchtung als antifaschistische Gegenwehr:

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/17/style/christopher-anderson-vanity-fair-analysis

NOAA announced a machine learning system for predicting weather and it's huge and groundbreaking and is not the horrible slop-lie-theft machine please for the love of all that is holy, unholy, and in between, don't ruin this because they used the term "AI" and that's become a scary term in 2025.

showing your ass / showing off your ass

know the difference

showing your ass / showing off your ass

know the difference

@ciggysmokebringer I WANNA ME EME ME

@zzt i see others have noted this. i have mega ocd and wish people would use cws proactively much more often so i don't have maintain mutes for shit. i'm tbh in a pretty whiny mood atm too tho lol