Never underestimate employers' tolerance of mediocrity

Human care reduced to five categories, three of which were deemed expendable. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The squirrels in my neighborhood are so literally overburdened with food that i routinely find whole slices of pizza in roof gutters and crooks of trees. But a full sized croissant abandoned in the geraniums, that’s new!

"On Tuesday, a Palantir employee threatened to call the police on a WIRED journalist who was watching software demos at its booth at AI+ Expo. The conference, hosted by the Special Competitive Studies Project, a think tank founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, is free and open to the public."

Not what's meant by human-in-the-loop www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP1t...

Only nine (!!!!) days left in our contract. We’re still here bargaining for a fair contract from Vox Media.

Watermelon aurora during a full moon in Alaska

“I found that on Bluesky.” “People were discussing your article on Bluesky.” “Too bad I couldn’t tag you on Bluesky.” I have become totally shameless

Missed Opportunities in AI Regulation: Lessons from Canada's AI and Data Act New from me and @resieber.bsky.social for Data & Policy @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org We draw out the problems with AIDA and ways forward to shift decision-making and control from AI companies to the people!

🌕 📷 Mapping the descent of a lunar lander, using nothing but data from an event camera – this is the next challenge presented to the space community by @esa.int’s Advanced Concepts Team 👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

National Science Foundation stops www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"We don't have bros or oligarchs making the rules. We don't invade our neighbours, and we don't punish them. On the contrary, there are 12 countries on the waiting list to become 🇪🇺 members. In Europe, children can go to good schools, however wealthy their parents are" President von der Leyen

Because a single hard drive for the cloud storage saves so much money.

Preach! This means-ends flip also shows up in AI governance: "all that is required of civic participation in AI governance is an AI literate public." Accountability? Political influence? Unnecessary.

This dog got a little impatient waiting for his pup cup. Decided to make sure everything was going alright in there. 14/10

"One can only imagine the horror the late Iain Banks would have felt on learning his legendary Culture series is a favourite of Elon Musk"

Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, CAUT strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary. Read more: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

🇨🇳 China imposes export controls on rare earths, threatening US tech and defense supply chains.

"the search product had fundamentally changed in the AI era" Let me fix that for you "the search product had fundamentally enshitified in the AI era" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A geosurveillance public private partnership that you might not be aware of. Add to that questionable accountability when you have to rely on the private sector to protect your privacy www.cnn.com/audio/podcas...

"The right wing aesthetic project is to flood the zone with bullshit in order to erode the intellectual foundations for resisting political cruelty."

“We cannot afford to place our digital sovereignty, workers’ rights, and democratic values in the hands of a corporation that has repeatedly demonstrated hostility to the European model.” @euronews.com covered our statement calling on the European Commission to review AWS public contracts.

The last two weeks have been a whirlwind of presentations and discussions on my research in academia and policy. One of the common threads is the need for pragmatism in academic research, now more than ever. Excited to share more soon. For now, I will be retreating to my writing cave 🧛🏻‍♀️

I'm waiting for someone to say reinforcement learning can't be added to foundation models bc it's biased

"OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases" - WIRED tested the video generator and found that it "stereotypes and ableist tropes, perpetuating the same biases already present in AI image tools." So appreciative that journalists are running evals. www.wired.com/story/openai...

Introducing: Complybot! The first chatbot that preemptively complies so you don’t have to. Why resist when you can pre-surrender? Complybot: Because nothing changes if you do nothing!

A reminder that Curtis Yarvin and the far right stole the meaning of 'taking the red pill' from the Wachowskis, and it would be really great if everyone stopped using the descriptor 'red-pilled' for that new meaning.

Many at USIP have told me from the start that the reason the Trump administration has gone after them so aggressively is because of their really beautiful building.

“‘Emergency’ doesn’t even feel strong enough [to describe the situation],” said the ISC minister, Patty Hajdu. “It’s so urgent that we do more together to figure out what this next stage of living with climate change looks like for remote communities” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

"We Are Killing the Essence of What the University Is". Cancelling McGill prof's talk at her alma mater, NYU. NYU is obeying in advance www.youtube.com/watch?v=eITi...

It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.

We're excited to share about a new species that now calls the Marsh Trek at Mystic Aquarium home! The rare spotted catfish is genuinely one of a kind. This elusive freshwater creature has never been seen by most, some even argue its existence.

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

despite popularised beliefs, LLMs are not fit for medical applications. SoTA models produce "non-trivial levels of hallucinations" even w inference techniques like CoT & search augmented generation: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.05777 of surveyed clinicians, 53% use LLMs daily & 91% encountered hallucinations

RIP Jonathan Sterne - most influential sound studies scholar of the past 20 years, renowned mentor, dedicated colleague.

This is so sad. In addition to being an incredible scholar, Jonathan was a fearless advocate for justice, opposing those who would stand against it, including the university

Really disappointed to learn of the politicization of NIST. NIST has been a bastion of stability in the AI world, respected across political and ideological lines for its ability to define standards & benchmark the state of the art. Many people I respect are now gone. www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...

in retrospect it's kind of funny that sci fi was like "imagine a world where robots gain sentience, but humanity refuses to grant them personhood" but in reality every loser techbro loser thinks chatgpt deserves more rights than like, actual people

No they do not, New York Times! This is like writing that Santa Claus has IBS.

Do they not realize that in Snowcrash, written by one of the authors they venerate, the corporations were the bad guys? www.salon.com/2025/03/17/t...

"the illusion of progress though the strata". Important to always uncover the assumptions baked into our sciences www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Human debiasing was better than computational debiasing. But now, neither are to be allowed?? For once I'm happy that retraining is so costly Buy a @wired subscription! They're doing amazing investigative journalism

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.

Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well…

no. next question

hate this! @rokhanna.bsky.social do your own damn ads! Don't rely on AI slop.

How it started How it’s going 💰 🤷🏼‍♂️