@mark_carnall

Mark Carnall. Museum goer, writist, cephalopodologist, palaeontologist.

fistfulofcinctans.wordpress.com/
Joined January 2014
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New global rule: Before offering any opinion whatsoever about AI you have to offer a considered opinion on Rival Schools: United by Fate. Rule in effect now.
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Writing up the handover notes for my museum job is firmly a humiliation ritual.
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Welcome to the graveyard of half-done projects going back to the 17th Century
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Lol. LMAO even.
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Wondering what the legality of the: pay to be able to reject data scraping or don't pay and have to accept data scraping on web pages is.
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Love that peer review automated platforms are making peer reviewing more dogshit. Always thought the process was too easy without being emailed weekly about a paper I can't opt out of reviewing.
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I don't think the solution to the review crisis is trapping reviewers into doing it and removing the out option. Just saying.
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Also in enshittification today, X now opens links in X but often covers the area to skip through the cookies rending it inoperable.
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So now it's 3 clicks to view in browser (and still skip through cookie/paywall/fundraising pop-ups). Good job lads, you fucked up hyperlinks.
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This is a new level of search engine enshittifcation to me. Not even trying to return what I looked for. No option for 'no what I actually looked for'. (I was actually, actually after Arthur WIlley)
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Is someone writing a thesis on where all these bullshit posts about corporate shortcuts came from and who benefits from them? It's a good third to half of my death spiral Twitter feed and you'd have to be very naive to believe a word of it.
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@JasoncoderxAug 24
Over my career, I've read roughly 100,000 employee emails. I could tell within the first 2 sentences if someone was a future executive or a lifelong mid-level manager. It all comes down to "Status Signaling." Stop using these 4 weak phrases immediately: 👇
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Using the work mandated machine and network be like:
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How very Venomous Lumpsucker of them @NedBeauman
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Scientific literature availability remains a problem but thankfully publishers have prioritised developing a little AI agent that appears on every page.
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Of course you can't.
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Apparently @nhmlondon has copyrighted fake coral? Odd.
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Didn't @nhmlondon have a dodo foot at one point? Not heard about it for a while.
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Erin 𓅉@getpseudoedJul 18
We need to do the Civilian Conservation Corps again.
zhao levi@aspectofmelinoeJul 18
One of the things that nobody is talking about is that we could genuinely reach a 100% employment rate and have millions of vacant jobs if our economy just focused on actually important things like environmental preservation or building climate change satellites.
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Yes, we will pay for your service for the next decade on the terms that it handles 99.10% of tasks and irretrievably erase 0.90% of them from existence.
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Jeffrey Sachs@JeffreyASachsJul 9
It's the phones.
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If you're into science fiction &/or biology, zoology, conservation biology, ethics and conservation etc. then I heartily recommend Venomous Lumpsucker by @NedBeauman and let me know when you've read it because I want to nerd out about it (especially Yayflies)
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The economics of extinction credits, the 'sciencing our way out of it' on steroids, the Hermit Kingdom so much in the setting around a great story too.
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