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return of the rat dck
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CONTENT NOTE: contains scientific AI renderings of rat genitals
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I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience https://bsky.app/profile/michael-okun.bsky.social/post/3mnxkxte55s25
Neuroscience journal editor resigns over automation concerns thetransmitter.org/publishing/exclusive-neuroscience-journal-editor-resigns-over-automation-concerns
Frontiers lets HIV denial article stand, reclassifies it as “opinion” retractionwatch.com/2015/02/24/frontiers-lets-hiv-denier-article-stand-reclassifies-it-as-opinion
Another "Frontiers In" journal steps in it scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2015/08/04/another-frontiers-in-journal-steps-in-it
Wikipedia CiteWatch en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Academic_Journals/Journals_cited_by_Wikipedia/Questionable1
The rat with the big balls and the enormous penis — how Frontiers published a paper with botched AI-generated images scienceintegritydigest.com/2024/02/15/the-rat-with-the-big-balls-and-enormous-penis-how-frontiers-published-a-paper-with-botched-ai-generated-images
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return of the rat dck
pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/02/frontiers-forces-ai-onto-academic-journal-editors - blog post
CONTENT NOTE: contains scientific AI renderings of rat genitals
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I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience https://bsky.app/profile/michael-okun.bsky.social/post/3mnxkxte55s25
Neuroscience journal editor resigns over automation concerns thetransmitter.org/publishing/exclusive-neuroscience-journal-editor-resigns-over-automation-concerns
Frontiers lets HIV denial article stand, reclassifies it as “opinion” retractionwatch.com/2015/02/24/frontiers-lets-hiv-denier-article-stand-reclassifies-it-as-opinion
Another "Frontiers In" journal steps in it scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2015/08/04/another-frontiers-in-journal-steps-in-it
Wikipedia CiteWatch en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Academic_Journals/Journals_cited_by_Wikipedia/Questionable1
The rat with the big balls and the enormous penis — how Frontiers published a paper with botched AI-generated images scienceintegritydigest.com/2024/02/15/the-rat-with-the-big-balls-and-enormous-penis-how-frontiers-published-a-paper-with-botched-ai-generated-images
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![The obnoxious GitHub OpenClaw AI bot is … a crypto bro
AI is crypto part two
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/16/the-obnoxious-github-openclaw-ai-bot-is-a-crypto-bro/ - blog post
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Bitcoin: It can’t be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Bitcoin-It-can-t-be-that-stupid-you-must-be-explaining-it-wrong-by-pivot-to-ai/170130194.IJ6L0
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[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T#31132 https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132
Gatekeeping in Open Source: The Scott Shambaugh Story https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/commit/3bc0a780d25bab8cbd6bfd9ce4d27c27ee1f7ce2
When AI agents attack: A bot’s argument over automated coding gets personal (archive) https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name/
Journalistic standards? https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/journalistic-standards.1511650/#post-44249589
Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/
Sorry all this is my fault https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p
hmm, seems the owner of this bot that harassed the matplotlib maintainer is a crypto bro https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/116065540537300456
Shell Shock! Help Me Get Clawing! https://www.moltbook.com/post/87fa7a31-e139-4a2d-954f-89e782134d8f
Token: Crabby Rathbun (Rathbun) https://basescan.org/token/0x3ed514d115c6ec0f1b3d48dfcb3878f7a94a1ba3?a=0xc376ecff7b4b82c8b0a53a3043a0bc0b94c61ac3
so now the question is — who are these accounts? https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/116065738200671990
Previously on Pivot to AI:
Moltbot/Clawdbot/OpenClaw: an expensive and insecure AI agent that doesn’t work https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/28/moltbot-clawdbot-an-expensive-and-insecure-ai-agent-that-doesnt-work/
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![Google Antigravity AI vibe coder wipes your hard disk
‘built for user trust’
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/03/googles-antigravity-ai-vibe-coder-wipes-your-hard-disk/ - text
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Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of my whole drive https://www.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6/google_antigravity_just_deleted_the_contents_of/
Antigravity Just Deleting/Corrupting Files? https://www.reddit.com/r/Bard/comments/1p3htvu/antigravity_just_deletingcorrupting_files/
Beware of using Antigravity!!! https://www.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/comments/1p1zdz7/beware_of_using_antigravity/
Google Antigravity vibe-codes user’s entire drive out of existence https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/01/google_antigravity_wipes_d_drive/
Welcome to Google Antigravity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVCBA-pBgt0
Google Antigravity’s Turbo mode erased my drive partition?! Really, the ‘smartest’ AI? [Video Proof] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpBK1vYAVlA
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