Please stop surveiling your neighbors 🙏

Just walked past a mile long line for Panda at the airport for no wait counter serve at Tocabe because airports make sense

Pro tip: If the person providing a different interpretation is not speaking for Moneyed Interests and is an expert in their field, they’re an “independent scholar”—not just a “skeptic” (ffs!)

Average electricity cost increase since Jan: Missouri ⬆️ 37% Iowa ⬆️ 30% North Dakota ⬆️ 30% Oklahoma ⬆️ 30% New Jersey ⬆️ 27% Nebraska ⬆️ 25% Montana ⬆️ 25% Wyoming ⬆️ 23% NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11% Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.

Do they make Christmas sweaters?

Excited! 🤖&👥 😃

The Peter Thiel Antichrist lectures have been stuck in my head for too long, and I want to explain why I think a lot of people covering this are badly misunderstanding the obvious context of Christian community this is situated within and that supports these activities 🧵

Gonna come in again late with a shitpost to say that lack of drone music discourse in response is disappointing. Need more Sunn O))) fans on here 😩

I had to get level 2 "research animal care and handling" certifications for this activity and all I did was fly drones close enough for them to maybe notice me youtu.be/T0jvYnnnVtU?...

The thing about directing your science teams to stop "all monkey research" is Watching monkeys counts as "monkey research"

If you are looking for a postdoc, there's a lot of great algorithms/theory research (and in all parts of CS) happening at NYU! Come work with the best, as @gautamkamath.com says! Courant CS: apply.interfolio.com/175537 CDS: apply.interfolio.com/174686

specifically, if I see one more article that doesn’t seem to grasp that Ukrainian FPV drone pilots are almost always on the frontline, in *extreme* danger, and are very regularly killed because their controller signals are easily detectable via electronic warfare methods

New: Student journalists say they were banned from CU Boulder campus after covering pro-Palestine protest www.denverpost.com/2025/11/20/c... via @dailycamera.com

Now do Denver!

There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are: 1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways. 2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.

That's just secret police. They're doing secret police.

And that would be the part we really really wouldn’t want him doing.

THIS IS BIG For non-academics who might not understand why: 1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house 2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.

Been seeing and hearing a lot of discourse about Peter Thiel's Antichrist lectures, and my hot take is that a lot of people are over-indexing on how bad and weird his theology or historicity is versus inspecting how he fits into the Non-Denominational and Evangelical milieu.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

No quarter for faculty and teachers who prey on their students.

If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

Heather Knight is an Assistant Professor at @oregonstate.edu, where she runs the CHARISMA Robotics research group. She has previously worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, produced the Robot Film Festival, and performed robot comedy. Listen to our chat here: www.robottalk.org/2025/11/14/e...

Reasons I'm not in Texas. I teach courses on AI and a course involving robot sensing and perception. But, technology has politics, and my teaching reflects that.

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

🤖 Robot people: I am looking at purchasing one or more mobile robot platforms for my lab. Are there any alternatives to Clearpath products (e.g. Jackal) that I should consider?

New from 404 Media: ICE plans to spend as much as $180 million on bounty hunters to physically locate and stalk immigrants. I spoke to multiple private investigators/skip tracers. Some horrified. Others said they will do this work. "Money is money." www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it. He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted. Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.

It’s wildly disingenuous for @aaron.bsky.team to reply to queries about Sarah Kendzior’s suspension about how they don’t comment publicly on individual users when he knows that we all know that they haven’t even told her privately what the basis for the suspension is

If someone makes *one more* strained reference to Reynolds flocking with fantastical implications about intelligence, I swear I'm going to blow a gasket 😫

AS AN EXAMPLE: Aurora, Colorado. Dominated by conservative politics for over a decade. All five city council seats last night? Won by Democrats. And not like, the kind of milquetoast centrist Democrats we've been told are the only kind of people who can win.

I'll add a little nuance to this, though I do understand this point: people don't often understand what they're doing when they subscribe to a blocklist. The mental model of how blocklists work is often fundamentally incorrect, and grants far more power to maintainers than they intend.

Just for those not aware, Margaret Mitchell is an AI ethicist who was fired by Google after co-authoring the famous "Stochastic Parrots" paper that criticized the entire project of ever-larger LLMs way before most of the people now blocking her had ever heard of them. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/t...

And, for emphasis, Margaret Mitchell is a *central voice and essential figure* amongst people critical of AI, and these lists alienate her from her community and natural audience. By pushing her away, these lists *impede their own apparently goals*

Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform. Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

NEW: DHS plans to collect driver’s license data from states. It’s the latest step in an unprecedented initiative to pool confidential data the Trump administration claims will help identify noncitizens on voter rolls and tighten immigration enforcement. With @texastribune.org

"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition www.vox.com/politics/466...

Where can lefties improve? I think knowledge about Christian nationalism is a big gap with progressives, lefties, socialists, etc. This is a problem because it means that people aren't always strategizing around the opposition we actually face. Here are my recs for self-ed 🧵

This exactly. Relying on facial recognition for a "definitive" determination of immigration status is unreasonable and wildly irresponsible for these reasons

Graham Platner’s campaign thought they could silence me by offering me money and calling me a liar in the press. I was going to let it go. It has become increasingly clear they are unfamiliar with Maine women.

"OpenAI said on Tuesday that it had adopted a new for-profit structure, a long-sought change that could allow the business to operate like a more traditional company while it raises the billions of dollars it needs to develop artificial intelligence."

The way python and R foster inclusion directly contributes to their success: joyful places to exist, a steady flow of new maintainers, and a delightful collection of niche tools empowered by wildly different expertise coming together Watch the new python documentary for more on PSF’s work here

This was a tough but necessary decision - I posted my own notes on this here, from the perspective of a current PSF board member simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/...

Resistance is possible, and it’s happening right now.