This slide unfortunately generalizes well 🥲

"Schrödinger's causal inference" (n): The practice of making causal claims or interpretations within a scientific article - typically in the title, abstract, implications, or conclusion - while simultaneously warning that the study design is unsuitable for causal inference.

Doing non-causal inference (and being explicit about it), yet using a causal word as second word in the title. If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing. I can tell you what I think of that for free. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

Funko is dying Repost to make it die faster

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

"A lot of academic research on AI currently is also funded by the AI industry, which creates the risk of distorting scientific knowledge, similar to how we’ve seen happen in the past’, adds Iris van Rooij, co-author and professor of computational cognitive science at Radboud University."

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

AI . Racism and ICE

This is the spirit! 😉😂

sociolinguistics / raciolinguistic ideologies / linguistic racism

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

god inventing the human neck: this is gonna fuck em up so bad lmao

ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant” He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

I’m conflicted about all this. The double helix story is important and incredible. My inclination is to say it’s great that his terrible statements are out there, so we all remember we’re not in a scripted narrative — no amount of wonderful works or generosity proves someone isn’t also doing evil.

From the outside US evangelicalism is a very puzzling religious group because ostensibly they are very concerned with the moral teachings of a publicly accessible text but also they seem to have inferred completely the opposite lessons from that text than what everyone else thinks is the plain read.

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

A final fuck off to James Watson and to every news source who’s naming him as one of two co-discoverers of DNA structure without mentioning Rosalind Franklin. 🖕

The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"

You only argue that kids should be exposed to this because you believe the children matter less than the tech

Stochastic Book Fair

@pranav-nlp.bsky.social and I are surveying researchers about naming and name changes in academia (especially computer science). If your academic name is / has been / might someday be different from other names you've used, please tell us about it here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP

Opening up #MozFest, @ruha9.bsky.social asks us "who owns the future?" but also problematizing the notion of ownership. Need to shift the question, expanding the vision of how we imagine new futures.

I seriously think this is correct. Companies should be required to ensure that to the best of their ability the bots frequently identify themselves as non-human. They should not attempt to be your friend.

putting my overlong academic cv where my critical tech policy analyst mouth is!!!

Nancy Pelosi secretly being queen of the stock market and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vocally opposing elected officials profiting off the stock market feel like intrinsically connected facts that quietly explain their instant bad blood the minute they became House colleagues

Important lesson Post 2024 polls show Harris campaigning with Cheney decreased enthusiasm by 7% Post 2025 polls show Mamdani running as unapologetic progressive earned him 9% of MAGA 2024 voters Corporate Dems: You dont flip votes by compromising your values—but by unapologetically embracing them

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

Daily reminder than numbers actually aren't real either (platonists not allowed sorry)

ICE won't allow communion to be given in detention centers because demons quail and shiver at the divine presence in the Host.

i am not an expert scientific freedom and biases etc but my personal hunch would be that the most likely effect of relying on a ton of external funders with entirely different (often profit-driven) motives is that institutions and researchers avoid controversial areas (consciously or subconsciously)

important (and perhaps obvious) sidenote to the recent Sheffield Hallam case — foreign governments are not the only groups who may want to discourage critical research conducted at universities

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

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“They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.”

In addition to everything mentioned in the thread above, cities have also long been viewed as immoral for giving women and queer people some freedom to escape patriarchy and heteronormativity, even if only temporarily🥴

if Zohran’s victory has inspired you, if you’ve seen the power of what a mass movement can do, if you are ready to fight for a better world, it’s time: join DSA today, and let’s make one thousand Zohrans happen across the country act.dsausa.org/s/2784.PebCRO

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Gorsuch finally starting to understand what they have unleashed

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Historians are going to look back at this year and marvel at the fact the president of the United States posted an AI video of himself dumping 💩 on Americans and it was just a random relatively uneventful day in Trump’s America.

Burry’s Palantir trade is roughly an order of magnitude bigger—and more interesting imo—than the Nvidia puts.

yeah why might it be harder for someone to break 50% in a three-way race versus a two-way race. obviously it has something to do with ideology.

The federal government has put out a list of 8 platforms it expects to comply with the teen social media ban: - FB - IG - Snapchat - TikTok - YouTube - X - Reddit - Kick Most were already were known, but a few of inclusions & exclusions are interesting! (More to come)

My son is on blockers legally from before the ban and we did everything they told us to do and now we are being threatened with social services if we don't allow them to "safely withdraw" medication. They admit that the impact will be "stark" for our kids but they are going to do it anyway.

Dick Cheney was responsible for so much death and suffering, and he should be remembered for that. But somehow, this morning I'm thinking about when he publicly disagreed with Bush about marriage equality during an election no less. Can't imagine a Republican VP doing that today

Added a new line to my bio here: “I won’t share AI generated content (except to critique it).” I added this because a follower wasn’t sure if a video I shared from another platform was real or not.

This post looks great for someone with solid Bayes skills who wants to work for public good. Requires Dutch language proficiency, but if you speak German and English in my experience you can already understand like 30% of spoken Dutch so could learn it pretty fast!