um.. excuse me???

damn hanta really went from "there are two cases and it doesn't transmit between humans" to "ok turns out this is the strain that transmits between humans" to "ok we have 23 possible cases spread across the world" real quick

would be really nice to live in a town with good public transit right about now

been working on some papers about face-based AI (beyond surveillance and identification) and i didn't expect the things i was writing about to actually happen 😂😭

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the god delusion, more like the gai delusion, amiright? 😭

Submitting some certified ASS for a paper revision I'm sorry to the reviewers if this isn't better than the original 😭😭

convincing myself that if i scroll on my laptop long enough my brain will finally let me lock in and work on this paper

can someone turn my brain back on so i can finish this paper revision please 😭😭

does anyone want to remind me about the joys of living 😭 cause ya girl is crashing out

my senior thesis was an application for generating sound waves based on midi key input (2015) meanwhile my master's thesis was on a generalized monte carlo tree search... and *mumbles* artificial general intelligence (2016) so i got a lot to say about "AGI" and the endless hype cycle / grift

another day of a bluesky fumble and another day of me wondering when something better will come along (so i can work there)

Ahahahahaha what do you mean the TECHNICAL ADVISOR to Bluesky just blocked over 300k users by following an ANTI-AI, AI HATERS blocklist. Embarassing.

we should bring back vh1 top video countdown and make it a weekly livestream so people can tune in and discover new music that's curated by people instead of algorithms

if you're reading this, put down your phone, take a breath, and look outside your nearest window and remember that you matter and you belong

palantir should be viewed as the enemy of modern society

Palantir just released what can only be described as a corporate mass shooter manifesto.

men write fanfiction and call it theorycrafting

was in a webinar today where i joked in the chat that maybe one day we'd have an AI donald trump chatbot (to give the illusion of connection with more voters) ... but i guess we actually are moving in that direction

i'm in a course that's genuinely upsetting like it's designed so badly and i'm so irritated at it. absolutely demoralizing to be here, stop blaming students for bad instructional choices

bluesky so dead i can't even find folks in real time to talk about the tornado warning that's popping off rn

anime i'm watching this season: - witch hat atelier - classroom of the elite s4 - daemons of the shadow realm - marriagetoxin - needy girl overdose - botan kamina fully blossoms when drunk - even a replica can fall in love *and* i'm still picking up more, dear lord

This is really cool! I'd love to see more of this, and think about how we can take tangible steps for imagining the Internet differently.

saw this and had to share

> Anthropic does not produce science. They produce propaganda that's CSS formatted to look science-y. You can go to their website and load things that look like papers, but they have not been submitted anywhere, will not be submitted anywhere, because Anthropic think they are above all that.

i, for one, do think the world would be better off without some people in it, as a start.

being 32 and living in a college town (because i've gone back to school) kinda really sucks LMAO

i love when people are themselves. don't lose your way, continue to be who you want to be. don't settle for less. the people who claim to love you should still love you if you're even more yourself and if they don't they didn't really love you for you. real love is crazy and intoxicating

there are so many people doing important organizing work together right now, and they really are making a tremendous difference.

this country is so terrible. there is nothing to celebrate about it. i wish and hope it can be stopped.

i wish i didn't have to fight my brain just to exist every single day

the car is america's third space and tech companies immediately knew they had to capitalize that space as much as possible

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We didn't deserve this day.

This is no way to live, man

i'm tired of living in this time of extreme uncertainty and the endless threat of armageddon

donald trump and benjamin netanyahu are the most evil people alive today. there’s no competition. they need to be stopped immediately

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

one man is threatening to kill millions over nothing and the rest of us are just going to go along with our days as usual. incredibly fucked

someone please stop this man already

sorry if this seems harsh but I don't think the president should be allowed to post "a whole civilization will die tonight" and still be president

three more weeks to submit abstracts to our 4S open panel, that articulate STS-flavoured responses to the most important question of our times: "how do we win?"

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

i wish so badly i knew how to make (or assemble a team to make) a better social media site, cause same

how's that working out again

can't help but feel the same way about artemis ii as a spectacle right now, when this exact same government is killing children across the globe

i want to be more connected with folks online again, somehow