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In our book and class, we discuss corporate weaselspeak and the way that it hides the human toll behind a smokescreen of jargon and passive voice. Today's layoff announcement emailed to all PagerDuty employees is a classic of the genre. pagerduty.com/blog/improving…

This is a joke, right? Quotes about misleading stats—followed by the completely unsourced and almost certainly inaccurate claim that half of published medical research is false. You've always been an inspiration. Tell me you haven't descended to quite this depth of self-parody.

Creating a credible deepfake of me giving a lecture took only 6 minutes. AIs handled all of it - writing a speech in my style, cloning my voice, and animating an image of me. You really shouldn’t trust any video or audio on the internet ever again. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefult…

"Your AI chatbot is not 'hallucinating'" post.news/article/2Lr2DC…

TFW you can't read a log-linear plot.

In our book, we talk about the importance of making apples-to-apples comparisons. This paper suggests that the data supporting the safety of self-driving cars may not have accounted for differences in road type and driver age. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

These folks published a paper about the discovery of a rare shark. The shark was a toy. nytimes.com/2023/03/24/sci…

Science published a hopelessly credulous news story entitled "Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common" about one of the worst preprints we've seen in years. This is some next-level bullshit. Over at Mastodon, a full thread: fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/…