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Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

“Cyclists are often perceived as recklessly flaunting road laws. A new study challenges this perception. The study found only 5% of cyclists broke road rules while riding on bike infrastructure versus 66% of motorists who broke rules while driving.” Safe bike infrastructure fuels rule-following.

I threw Liberty Bibberty under a steam roller.

Another excellent and highly detailed story by #cybersecurity reporter Brian Krebs (who unfortunately is not on BlueSky).

This is quite the story, but the headline buries the lede, which is that one grad student was poisoning another.

I voted (early)!

Add 'for Tax Purposes' to the name of a movie. When Harry Met Sally for Tax Purposes.

Walmart says its electronic shelf labels are about "efficiency." Their patent filings tell a different story. With this new pricing technology they could: →"Dynamically & automatically" update prices based on popularity → Set prices based on individual customer data We have the receipts.

iRhythm, maker of Zio heart monitors, notified the SEC in June that its systems were hacked and patient data was stolen. But it didn't notify its patients of the breach until October. That tells you the company's priority.

LOL

Law Island in Lake Champlain at the Colchester Causeway north of Burlington, VT. I've been here a couple of times a year for decades, and this is the only time I've seen the water level low enough for people to walk across to the island. #ClimateChange

If Pluribus and Severance weren't strange enough for you, check out Backrooms. It brings strange to a whole new level.

Schmitt: "Have you ever attended a Savannah Bananas baseball game?"

In a post Tuesday on X, the party’s account wrote: “We openly support the assassination of basically every elected Democrat in New Hampshire.” The state Libertarian Party lost its national affiliation in May for violating the party’s rules and ideals.

Was on a cycling vacation in Switzerland recently. We were on conventional bikes, but about 3/4 of all the bikes we saw were e-bikes. Several towns featured public e-bike charging stations. One even included a selection of charging cables for popular e-bike connector types. #BikeSky

R.I.P. Cassandra Wilson #JazzSky

I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:

I'm headed for Storrow Drive. Wish me luck.

Redbone!

Wow [mild spoiler alert]. I certainly was not prepared for Peter Gabriel (yes, that Peter Gabriel) to appear in S3 Episode 9 of #Silo.

MLB posting a 9 minute compilation of right field assists to third base in honor of Dolly Parton. Because 9-5. Genius. youtu.be/IokVk0-XS8Y?...

The tracker blocking counter in DuckDuckGo mobile can only go up to four digits. We're gonna need a bigger counter.

Dwayne Dopsie movin' and shakin' at the Salem Jazz and Soul Festival

Sunflowers 🌻 Concord, Massachusetts

BWM cars now showing owners and unskippable ad for the new Spider Man Film whenever they start the vehicle. This shit needs to become illegal, yesterday, else how long before you have to watch it *before* you can start the vehicle.

Turned the TV on to the Red Sox vs. Dodgers game a few minutes ago. Sox were at bat, and the first three batters I saw all hit home runs. The #RedSox team should pay me to watch the games.

Gloucester = the Gorton's fisherman. Magnolia = flowering trees

It's a TV stick! It's an internet proxy that steals your bandwidth! It's a bot in a fraudulent ad-click network! It's a floor wax! It's a dessert topping!

The next time you hear someone say, "the whole kit and caboodle," ask them what a caboodle is.

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation

Some of the thousands of Black-Eyed Susan wildflowers in bloom along the Mass Central Rail Trail in Sudbury and Hudson, Massachusetts

Today, I heard someone refer to A1 Steak Sauce as "A.I. [ay-eye] sauce." Maybe they thought there was intelligence inside?

A car alarm device, KARR, inside millions of cars has a security flaw that lets hackers unlock, track, even paralyze vehicles. There's a patch. The problem? Half of car owners who have the device installed didn't ask for it, and may not even know it's there. Thread👇 www.wired.com/story/a-devi...

Great article about the enshittification of cookware.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

Wut?

Cyclists, watch out for ice cream cones in the road? #BikeSky

New to YouTube: One of our favourite channels, pdbass, explores the bassline from Miles Davis' 1969 recording 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘄. #jazz #jazzsky #milesdavis #miles100

My bingo card for 2026 definitely did not have NPR featuring Napalm Death in a Tiny Desk Concert. 😀

Spotted near the Bow Valley Parkway in Banff National Park, Canada, this male creature appears to be a young Rocky Mountain Elk.

Amazing color of the glacial melt water in Peyto Lake, Banff National Park, Canada

This sounds very promising! 🤞🤞🤞 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Ants attacking a Spotted Grapevine Beetle

Always great to get a personalized email