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But I think there are additional directions to go here: It's okay for things to take time, it's okay to just not do some things (and in some cases even preferable). >>

Thinking about the argument from convenience for LLMs & related technologies in the context of a paper I'm working on. And how people might say, "Without [software], it would take to long to ___" My usual reaction to this has been: What did you do four years ago? >>

this man is a gotdamned patriot

it doesn't escape me that we could be spending these hundreds of billions on rebuilding our water/sewer infrastructure (and it would take all those billions)

Whew been a minute.

7 months old. He was in his mum’s arms when the Israelis shot him dead. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I joined NY’s Cutest on the Bergen Bike Bus that they ride to school every Wednesday, rain or shine. We’re adding bike boulevards and more pedestrian space on Bergen and Dean Street, from Court Street to East New York Ave. It was a wonderful kind of day.

The return of runic magic! Golems! The Word made true. If you find the right magic spell, the genie has to obey you. Only you can tame the monkey's paw! It's SCIENCE

honestly if some venture capitalist /tech mogul can remake an entire university in a matter of a year or two in exchange for around 2 days of Bezos’s salary(USC founded 1880), it means that any rich person can do anything to any of our institutions at any time unless we take them back systematically

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It's great to learn more about @cdelawalla.bsky.social who leads @standupforscience.net I hope that once she's done helping us win the good fight, she gets to go back to research (if she wants to!). The same hope I have for all scientists! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Reviews of apps to begin soon. Apply or forward to those you think may be interested and a good fit!

ASU's new AI tool cannibalizes nuanced, thoughtful faculty lectures into sound bites and chatbot junk text: www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...

I can't imagine what would more effectively recruit US scientific talent to other countries around the world than destroying universities, eliminating research funding, and demonizing the very concept of expertise.

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On Monday, EPIC filed an amicus brief arguing that the Virginia city of Norfolk’s use of Flock’s Automated License Plate Reader system creates a warrantless mass surveillance program and constitutes an unreasonable search in violation of the Fourth Amendment.

If I had more energy id take the time to change bees to “LLMs” or “AI”. But yall get it

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion. I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

The misunderstanding of embodiment such that social and cultural groundings are excluded (in addition to the often narrowly invoked views of the physical/affective) remains so problematic and seems to only be getting worse at the uncritical expansion of systems such as LLMs

Excited to go out to Cornell and talk with some folks tomorrow! events.cornell.edu/event/chris-...

what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

“CRITICAL AI literacy”, he yelled into the void…

1 Just passed through security at La Guardia. ICE entirely doing security! 100% of ID and identity checks done by ICE…Truly icky and dystopian. Some thoughts.

We removed the barriers and created an accessible space because resistance is for everyone, everywhere. The *official* No Kings Accessible Rally will be a virtual event to protect our health, defend our democracy, and say NO KINGS. Details: zurl.co/TXWd7 #NoKings #NoKings3 #Democracy #NK3VR

1st two categories are associated in terms of info/knowledge production. Also considerations of control (e.g., “chatbots” is a dominated, centralized category) and related considerations of problems of a centralized (probabilistic, opaque) system (also TESCREAL associated control)

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

TRUMP: I did a mail in ballot for elections in Florida because I felt I should be here REPORTER: You were in Palm Beach the last few weekends TRUMP: Yeah. And I decided that I was going to vote by mail in ballot because I had a lot of different things

Entire neighborhoods in Gaza remain effectively cut off, not by checkpoints but by devastation.

“AI ethics must move beyond the concepts of race-based representation and bias, and towards those that probe the deeper relations that impact how these systems are designed, developed, and deployed.” Via @timnitgebru.blacksky.app — arxiv.org/abs/2111.03687