beat all the kids to the sledding hill by going in the middle of the night

I know I shouldn’t be surprised but this is insane.

Spin reference spotted

i used to do this in undergrad but with fresh baked chocolate chip cookies.

Just attended a talk by the author of this book @tomwilliams.phd. Really great break down of how white supremacy misogyny and robotics intersect. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255402...

Just had a very Legally Blonde moment at the nail salon when the dean of engineering walked in, recognized me, and complemented my nail color.

Populist billionaire is an oxymoron.

my boyfriend makes me tea every morning and leaves me these cute little notes. i love him so much!

Hey friends, Defend Public Health has a new campaign if you’d like to join in. Write your elected reps about ensuring that COVID19 vaccines are available this Fall!

Showing my sister Ponyo for the first time. Shes never watched a movie before so we’ll see how this goes.

but you dont understand, hes MUSLIM

I actually know the woman who founded this nonprofit. Shes a very cool person.

The second invited talk is also about removing harmful behaviors from generative AI. There seems to be a generational gap in the understanding of this field where more junior researchers seem less concerned with real world impact and possible harm than senior researchers and faculty.

I'm at a regional ML conference and the first speaker's talk is about protecting people in creative industries from machine learning. Interested to see where this goes.

It’s very strange to me that this article doesn’t seem to interrogate beyond a passing remark the obvious contradiction in “institutional neutrality” when the state is instituting draconian measures against progressive speech and belief.

I think the end of this paragraph is more telling. The sun will become a red giant in six billion years. That is not exactly a pressing issue. I cannot fathom how someone could pull a quote so asinine and defend their intelligence in the same breath.

I’ve decided I want to write more and one of the ways I’ve been doing that is writing about the books I read and movies/shows I watch. I’ll host my reviews on my website and post about them here from now on. Here are my two most recent reviews:

respectfully, derek jeter is an *interesting* choice for a commencement speaker.

This will be disastrous for the global scientific community even if it’s reversed. It’s hard to find words to describe how devastating this is.

This a great piece with a very clear outline and defense of the YIMBY position.

Great video that offers a compelling explanation of why Democrats have failed to meet the current political moment. youtu.be/B_q1RemGq3E?...

So some good news, the stop work order on this grant was lifted. Curiously, it was the only grant affected at Northwestern to be reinstated.

A film that takes place where you’re from

Included in this funding cut is a stop work order for a project going on in my lab to develop better prosthetic devices for veterans. Make no mistake, this is not unfortunate collateral damage, this a clear communication of the values of the current administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

fantastic piece

Maybe this is a preference thing but I cannot read posts with a ton of hashtags and @‘s in them. I can only do one maybe two in a single post before I stroke out and have to move on.

I wasn’t aware of this model of peer review and it seems to have a lot of pros although I’m unclear on how it would prevent more bunk science from being published. elifesciences.org/about/peer-r...

@scalzi.com I just wanted you to know that my father and I love science fiction and have bonded over audiobooks since I was child. We would stand in the kitchen together, make dinner, and listen to books about space men. Our favorite by a mile was Redshirts.