They made it!!!! 🙏

A reminder that no one has worked out how to spot emotions, nor even is there a full consensus on what emotions there are. Anyone remotely claiming to is lying.

Absolutely heartbreaking. So many mathematicians I know studied there, men AND women. Maryam Mirzakhani studied there. If this isn't enough to cancel/relocate from the US the International Congress of Mathematicians #ICM2026, nothing will be.

Happy Sunday everyone, my chicks say hi 🐥 💜🐣 Look at those fuzzy little butts!

If your faculty senate votes to arbitrarily “cap” the number of As given in credit-bearing courses, you’ve not only missed the point of education, you’re admitting that maintaining artificial elitist hierarchies & colonial structures that discourage collaboration is a higher priority than teaching.

I sat in on a presentation about tech and the future by a top executive at one of the biggest & most powerful companies in the world yesterday, and not a single slide featured any women, girls, or Black people. Nor did the initial remarks acknowledge their existence (until I asked). Bleak.

I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer. This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level. taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

#TDOV Healthy Aging Among Trans People Using Hormone Therapy: Setting the Research Agenda invites trans people & clinicians who provide care to trans people anywhere in the world to complete a survey about research priorities regarding hormones and midlife health: whri.org/healthy-agin...

My wife & I went to see Project Hail Mary for our date night. After the movie, we agreed it was one of the queerest love stories we’ve ever seen on the big screen. And that’s before discussing all the fiber art (!), soundtrack, or the part where Ryan Gosling joins an alien polycule.

So this is the plan then. They know that crypto is worthless outside of money laundering and eventually someone will regulate or ban it for that reason and it will vanish in a poof. So they are creating a government backed exchange to launder crypto into real property and soak the taxpayers.

FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this

Waltzed into the nearest dining hall where crowds were light (spring break) THIS delicious seafood - freshly prepared in house - was just one of many, many tasty options I love our campus food! #GoUMASS

Shout to Lowell, MA for passing a moratorium on data centers!! More of this please.

Timeline cleanse 🦋 🐢 🍃

I love breakfast. 💜

Submitting A.I. slop to journals is a form of A.I. laundering. And intellectual theft! Stealing the time & expertise of actual experts who are forced to review the slop, in exchange for their editorial suggestions & free labor. Manufacturing credibility for machine-assisted plagiarism. IT SUCKS!

i need the “llms are might be conscious” folx to read this

I exhort my fellow peer reviewers: If you receive genAI slop - DO NOT do their work for them! A growing group of manuscript submitters just send their slop to journals, WAIT for actual experts to point out every flaw & provide every missing citation & then resubmit. Don’t fall for their scam!!!

I teach this lesson *constantly*

“we conceptualise venture capital as effectively a form of ‘male-lens investing’, illustrating the limitations of the male-dominated and profit-driven VC investment model” This paper is giving me LIFE.

I hate this man (& the surveillance empire he has championed) with the fire 🔥 of a thousand suns ☀️

I wager that the first ones to open a university where genAI is banned, surveillance culture thwarted, war profiteers shunned, & the humanities and fine arts are celebrated and valued *beyond* their capacity to teach “soft skills” or provide value to STEM fields, will be *overrun with applications*

Woke up to echoes of Mary Oliver

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

I cannot wait to see this

After revelations that companies like Ring have been selling home security footage to ICE, the most common defense of keeping a camera up seems to be, “But what if I’m stalked?” And as a violence researcher, I’m just here to state for the record that police do not care about your security footage.

"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty" Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

The jailbreak was done on the company’s public bot, not the one inside the state system, but researchers “were able to make the bot spread vaccine conspiracy theories, triple a patient's prescribed pain medication dosage, and recommend methamphetamine as treatment.”

GenAI tools are not good at creating summaries: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

The group Elevated Access can fly you for free to a provider that is further away. Help is out there, you’re not alone. There is still time. www.elevatedaccess.org

The gall of old men with gold toilets telling young soldiers that probably many more will die in the needless war they started to distract the world from their crimes & pedophilia

My country’s government refuses to house, feed, or respect the human rights of its residents. Health care & living wages are always a bridge too far. But with a word, our commander-in-chief can start illegal wars overnight. As such men have for decades- Rule by terror, bloodshed & imperialism.

“We don’t have a government that’s properly staffed,” she said. “All of these things [federal workers do] are really part of making life a little fairer, a little safer for the public. We’ve lost that.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/26/n...

To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.

CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.

Has #HATM done Wargames? Feels apt, given <gestures widely> 🙃

I cannot like this enough

AM I SUPPOSED TO BE SUPRISED? IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE WITH HALF A FUNCTIONING BRAINCELL AND A PULSE THAT'S SUPRISED?? fortune.com/2026/02/24/d...

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

“We, the people, have a right to be protected” from harm by #AI, @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social prof. Stuart Russell tells attendees of #IASEAI26 conference in Paris. #AIEthics #safety www.iaseai.org/iaseai26

I'm in Paris for www.iaseai.org/iaseai26, where I'll deliver tomorrow's opening keynote on "Algorithmic Agnotology: On AI, Ignorance, and Power"

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

Visited the botanical gardens earlier in the week. Here’s some of the pretty things I saw.

An AI Data Center Uses The Same Amount Of Water As The City of Philadelphia #shorts #ai #datacenter search.app/r6DZo

I’m generally cautious in amplifying “breakthroughs” but given the havoc wrought by respiratory illnesses, this seems big? And reducing colds & flu not only saves lives but do you know many work hrs (& wages) caregivers, who are disproportionately women & shift workers, lose when someone gets sick?

The pace of change is accelerating, and the implications are far-reaching. Keeping up isn’t easy, but it’s essential. www.wired.com/newsletter/I...

I love breakfast - unexpected Valentine’s Day cookies from a neighbor edition 💜

Many of us have been making noise about this but still not enough I appreciate this explainer from Matthew