Originally, use-cases were what were previously traditional NLP tasks. Namely semantic reasoning, textual entailment, similarity, and classification through what is now called zero-shot learning. The problem is, big tech corrupted what was originally innovative data science into a capitalist gimmick

The LLM economy is powered by two incestuous cycles: - A dozen AI companies pass the same billion dollars back and forth to make it look like their costs are actually revenue - AI-generated "knowledge" infiltrates our sources of truth, and is then scraped back into the training data

Speaker Johnson: Federal employees aren’t being paid. Nutrition cuts may cause children to go hungry. Millions are seeing their health premiums soar. End the 6 week paid vacation you’ve taken. Join your Democratic colleagues and negotiate an end to this shutdown.

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Mike Johnson bemoans able-bodied men collecting healthcare benefits from the government while not working--exactly what Mike Johnson is currently doing.

My two-year-old’s Halloween bucket fell apart from the sheer weight of her candy… I guess that means she got enough? #Halloween

The Trump administration must obey the law. Federal judges have been clear: release the contingency funds NOW. Do not allow 42 million Americans to go hungry while billionaires get tax breaks.

Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving: $100 billion Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%: $100 billion One is decried as "welfare." One is not. Why?

When I explain that boycotting an election over an issue has never once forced a politician to embrace that issue, I'm not "scolding people to vote." I'm explaining reality. Feel free to sit on your ass! Just don't pretend that your lazy apathy is somehow going to advance your agenda.

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

Autism is a social disability because most people don't have empathy for the way we communicate... yet we're the ones constantly accused of lacking empathy. Make it make sense. 😒

So diabolical to make it really difficult for families to have two incomes (childcare costs and scarcity, PTO, family leave) and then call SNAP recipients lazy

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders immediate "powerful" strikes in Gaza.

It doesn't, however, take much to imagine those forests gone as Trump slashes protections. Tell your US senators to vote NO on the misleadingly named Fix Our Forests Act, a gift to the logging industry. @earthjustice.org makes it fast/easy to raise your voice: earthjustice.org/action/this-...? 🌎

An embarrassingly obvious point, but... This. Is. Illegal. If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed. In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists. www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...

Liu Cixin - Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy James S.A. Corey - The Mercy of Gods Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead Jason Pargin - John Dies at the End Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch Chris Whitaker - All the Colors of the Dark And about 200 more…

The complete demolition of the East Wing has occurred in days.   Hundreds of thousands are without work and pay, millions are threatened to have food assistance cut off—and the President is bulldozing the White House to build a $300 million ballroom for himself. Americans will not forget.

But...Major oil companies have previously shown little interest in the refuge. Major banks have committed to not finance drilling in the refuge. And environmental groups such as @earthjustice.org are ready to file lawsuits. The contentious history: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c... (gift). 🌎 #birds

President Obama isn’t mincing words: Trump’s crew is rigging the rules to dodge the people’s judgment. Prop 50 is California’s line in the sand—a fight for fair maps, fair votes, and real democracy. The nation’s watching. Let’s draw the line. ✊ #YesOnProp50 #USDemocracy #Pinks

People often use exclamation marks when talking via text, chat, email, etc. I think it’s typically meant to portray enthusiasm, but I always feel like people are just shouting at me…

Let's game this out...

In June, Kyle Kunkler was named the Trump admin.'s top official in charge of pesticide policy at the EPA. Less than a month later, the EPA proposed allowing the use of herbicides containing #dicamba, a chemical whose use has twice been restricted by a federal court. Read on ➡️ nyti.ms/475FSFE

Just how harmful is aquaculture? It turns out that farming aquatic plant and animal species raises a host of issues for people, the environment, and the animals themselves. But the tide is turning... https://therevelator.org/aquaculture-environmental-harms/

The EPA completed a critical report on PFNA (a "forever chemical" in 26 million Americans' water) in April. It shows serious health harms. But is unpublished as the administration rolls back protections. Originally published by @propublica.org 

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

A very, very good, clear analysis of bubble mechanics, both in the abstract & specific to AI, from @graceblakeley.substack.com, ending with a version of my mantra: It’s not the bubble that you’ve got to worry about, it’s the bailout that might kill us.

Cool new article on how the 2024 total solar eclipse across eastern North America affected bird behavior 🪶 And a good summary in the news release here: news.iu.edu/luddy/live/n...

BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

Trump is literally destroying the White House. After promising that his absurd $250M ballroom wouldn't interfere with the existing structure, he lied and is destroying the White House. Wealth & income inequality is at record highs in America, but glad we're spending $250M on a vanity project.

It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin. Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed. Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!

For anyone North Carolinian, if you can be downtown today it is so important to attend the redistricting watch rally! Try to attend the committee meeting as well at 2pm and you can sign up to make a public comment. #ncpol

Just since February, over 300 North Carolina homeowners across Western NC have applied for FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grants to help rebuild their homes. None - zero - have been approved. Neither the White House nor WNC's Republican Congressman Chuck Edwards will even comment on it. What's going on?

The Diarrhea President shall go down in the anals of history Thank you for following

"Republicans started the fire, they lit the match, and they poured fuel on it. They kowtowed to the President, pitting NCians against each other... to hold onto power. If you are not prepared to lose, dont run. Admitting that you cant win without cheating is foolish." #ncpol

Donald Trump is trying to fire nearly every federal worker who supports special needs education. It’s kids with disabilities who will suffer. The cruelty is the point.

Gov. Josh Stein on the North Carolina Republican legislature redistricting: "They're trying to decide for the voters who their congressperson is. In this representative democracy, the people choose their representatives—it should not be the representatives choosing their people."

In 1933, Adolf Hitler was legitimately made Chancellor of Germany. That doesn't mean that everything he did while in that office, like giving himself absolute power like a king, was legitimate, Meghan.

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

Seen in Philadelphia #NoKings

This has been my biggest question… there comes a point where conservatism crosses over into authoritarianism, and we are well past that. Why are so many people still ok with this?

Them: You don't look autistic Me: You don't see it because my autism mostly affects me. I've spent most of my life painstakingly minimizing the impact it has on others... so now it has no effect on you at all, but my life is indescribably more difficult and exhausting

The police are their own self-ruling political class. The governor nominally governs them but in many towns, states, and at the federal level the police act above the law. No people in other western democracies tolerate police who act this way. Why do we?

My 5-year-old daughter has started pretending to be “villains” from the little shows she watches… at the expense of her little sister. I had to have a talk with her about why it’s not nice to be evil. Why do our government’s most prominent leaders need the same lecture I gave my child?

That's not what AI-free means, you numpties!

Solar energy is good for our environment and good for the economy, creating American jobs and lowering utility bills. I'm glad to see NC fighting to make sure these grants are available, especially for rural and low-income North Carolinians. www.wral.com/story/nc-sue...

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone. And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"