I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

I’ve just discovered that @cwjones.bsky.social first posted this in 2019 - thanks and all credit to him!

"this meeting could have been a clay tablet"

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

I haven’t gotten in to the AC games but Fallout 4 has forever warped how I view the Boston area and given me a visceral fear of Malden.

Exciting to join in a new initiative coming out of @utexaslaw.bsky.social: the AI Opportunity inventory 👉 law.utexas.edu/ai/ai-opport... Read on for more about this and how to participate. 1/n

Played Assassins Creed Odyssey months; then went to Athens. Have played AC Valhalla for a month now; am going to London (Lunden). Now I need to figure out a trip to Tokyo for AC Shadows :). In each actual place I visit, I feel this compulsion to climb buildings and jump into leaves. #IYKYK

As @acm.org made clear in 2020, there should be "an immediate suspension of the current and future private and governmental use of FR technologies in all circumstances known or reasonably foreseeable to be prejudicial to established human and legal rights." ... www.acm.org/binaries/con...

Sure, it's been a few years, but that's the nice thing about statements based on ethical principles: they remain relevant. Software engineers shouldn't be building this shit. bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/ai-bill...

My day is half over, and so far I've been ... takes deep breath... PhD Advisor/budgeting strategist/event planner/comms expert/product manager/strategy thinker. Do a Ph.D they said. Become a prof they said. You'll have infinite time to think they said. Academics don't live in the real world HA

Luckily, there's a foolproof solution to this conundrum.

Started a thread in the other place and bringing it over here - I really think we should be more vocal about the opportunities that lay at the intersection of these two options! So I'm starting a live thread of new roles as I become aware of them - feel free to add / extend / share :

Once more for the nighttime crowd.

Hahahaahaa my kids call ALL desi women aunties, whether we know them or not. And certainly none are related to us!

I have a very bad feeling about this...

The best protection against rogue AI is ... weaponized philosophers. existentialcomics.com/comic/626

Beavers! Cryptids! Antihydras! And yes it's all math. A beautiful article by @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social - I had not realized the deep connections between Busy Beavers and the insanely vexing Collatz Conjecture.

This is brilliant. search.app/8BgNd

🌟 Weekly AI Evaluation Spotlight 🌟 🤖 Did you know malicious actors can exploit trust in AI leaderboards to promote poisoned models in the community? This week's paper 📜"Exploiting Leaderboards for Large-Scale Distribution of Malicious Models" by @iamgroot42.bsky.social explores this!

I am surprised at how deeply emotionally upsetting I find the White House destruction. Like amongst the heat death of a livable ecosystem and extrajudicial killings and rampant human rights violations, I almost feel guilty at how much those photos have made me actually tear up.

good news (what's that?) for higher ed... Unless there are some hidden details.

Book here archive.org/details/cybe... @archive.org is such a gem

get your math politics jokes here, folks.

Stop trying to make Minority Report happen.

Very timely insights on an issue that's becoming a "hot topic" in AI work.

Read just this brief excerpt from her book and you'll marvel at a) how prescient she was and b) how SV hasn't really changed. www.motherjones.com/politics/199...

this is a blockbuster report. worth reading the whole thing as well as the technical explainer (www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/...)

I'm glad that we also know that Anthropic is "one of the good guys".

Now a beer company is getting in on the joke.

fine! i’ll say it. Dogs aren’t people

Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u... And then there were 5. Meanwhile the White House is trying to find others willing to sign on.

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

I hope each and every one of the fascists who rule this country read this and choke.

Just want to give a shout out to my 83 year old dad- normally conservative, a former SCOTUS law clerk for Rehnquist- who protested out in the rain this morning in St Louis. #NoKings

Technologies like synthetic data, evaluations, and red-teaming are often framed as enhancing AI privacy and safety. But what if their effects lie elsewhere? In a new paper with @realbrianjudge.bsky.social at #EAAMO25, we pull back the curtain on AI safety's toolkit. (1/n) arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22872

This is very cool. And has geometry to boot!

I very much appreciate this: "Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."

This is a fascinating piece of work by @r-jy.bsky.social, and continues her years-long exploration of how technical innovations and tools can be misappropriated to avoid regulation.

And USC makes it 4. share.google/9c4ufKoI0Z4S...

To @lizz-iek.bsky.social 's point: (from moritzlaw.osu.edu/sites/defaul...)

And we're four months into the "Harvard is about to cave" narrative in MSM/NYT. GOOD FOR PENN, BROWN, and MIT.

@aselbst.bsky.social @geomblog.bsky.social omg our example in action

@brown.edu rejects the compact. www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

This is a good thread for many reasons, not least of which is that it shows why its important for experts on AI to testify at hearings like this at all levels to counter the FUD and propaganda from industry lobbyists who dismiss valid concerns of lawmakers.

MIT on the USG's Compact promising preferential treatment in exchange for specific on-campus changes: "Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone" orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega... 💪

Many people have ideas for AI firms to manage provenance and data agency (copyright, identity spoofing, scraping, tracing data training paths). But how do we design the needed tech? Great conv recently with Emily Wenger at Duke, who is working on this: arguslab.pratt.duke.edu/2025/01/01/a...

💡We kicked off the SoLaR workshop at #COLM2025 with a great opinion talk by @michelleding.bsky.social & Jo Gasior Kavishe (joint work with @victorojewale.bsky.social and @geomblog.bsky.social ) on "Testing LLMs in a sandbox isn't responsible. Focusing on community use and needs is."

Hi #COLM2025! 🇨🇦 I will be presenting a talk on the importance of community-driven LLM evaluations based on an opinion abstract I wrote with Jo Kavishe, @victorojewale.bsky.social and @geomblog.bsky.social tomorrow at 9:30am in 524b for solar-colm.github.io Hope to see you there!

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)