This is really exciting! Thank you @sloanfoundation.bsky.social! Hope to see even more PhD students, postdocs, and even REUs at next month's @icssi.org meeting in Boulder!

“Viable alternatives to driving” is pretty much the only thing we need to talk about if we are serious about reducing traffic. And massive progress on that can be made if we just forego one or two unnecessary highway projects.

we’ve now created a precedent where every brave policeman is at risk of having to drive slow

If America is so racist, then how come a wealthy white man has been lavishing me with gifts ever since his company started having cases before the Supreme Court, on which I sit? by Clarence Thomas

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

“When antidemocratic politics target universities, universities need more democracy, not less, to protect themselves. Recognize the collective bargaining rights of Colorado’s public university employees.” @campusworkers.bsky.social @aaup.org coloradosun.com/2026/03/26/o...

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NEW, from me: I used 35,000+ leaked messages to create a map of the communication network inside Patriot Front to identify key influencers within the secretive white nationalist group. 🧵 www.splcenter.org/resources/re...

Mindscape 347 | Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social on How Your Data Will Be Used Against You. #MindscapePodcast

Our closing message.

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

Remember when heads were exploding all over Fox News about folks using SNAP to buy cookies?

Spectre Journal has generously let me spout off about pronatalism spectrejournal.com/non-natalism/

1. A new NHS England Review excluded 97% of all trans care studies to conclude that trans youth care doesn't work. It explicitly violates several guidelines around reviewing literature, and appears to be politics masquerading as (shoddy) science. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Responsive, attentive health care shouldn't be the exception for fat people. It should be the rule. Having good experiences with HCPs feels like a glimpse into what a world with more thoughtful care for fat patients could look like. & it makes me want to triple down to bring that world about.

Here’s a better way of putting it: if you’d like to know why faculty are so upset about CU unilaterally signing a $2 million contract with Open AI here are a few reasons 👇

cool to hear that i, a civilian, was a valid military target while working at a national lab

Abstract submissions close on March 3rd! We are also extending a ✨ call for mentored reviewers ✨ if you advise excellent graduate or postdoctoral researchers you are welcome to recommend them to review for IC2S2 2026. Email [email protected] to nominate mentored reviewers (or faculty colleagues)

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

There’s a boom in papers claiming: 1. Graphs only model “pairwise interactions” 2. Hypergraphs uniquely capture group interactions 3. Many systems are better modeled that way, and 4. They reveal new phenomena. I’ve rarely seen claims this misleading repeated so often and so uncritically! 2/N

"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence." Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...

I briefly touched on Epstein’s connection to transhumanism/eugenics, but the latest drop had even more explicit connections to almost all of the dudes I talked about. Goertzel, Thiel, Yudkowksy, Musk. All of them talking about cryonics and immortality and superintelligence. Def worth exploring more

I'm looking for emergency reviewers for FAccT papers about ethics and LLMs. So many reviewers have ghosted, and I have one paper that currently has zero reviews, two days after the deadline :( Please reach out if you could write a review for me!

a great article you should read instead of the Washington post one: theracket.news/p/the-most-a...

yikes ok, unfollowing now. really enjoyed her exhibit at the louvre, had no idea she’s in the epstein files.

after setting ice list as my profile link i lost the ability to follow new accounts. can’t be sure that the relationship is causal but

Police Ask For Public’s Help In Falsifying Report

At least we don’t have to hear Charlie Kirk’s take on this

Question for the brick wall: What concept would you consider an essential inclusion in a "Quantitative Reasoning for Computational Social Science" class where the only prerequisite is basic programming? No math requirement but I'd hold their hands through some basic calculus and linear algebra.

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials (Sam Levin/The Guardian) Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

When does it become appropriate to connect the president's decades-long push to expand the death penalty to the current project to abduct and imprison political dissidents? When do we take seriously the threat that he may attempt mass extermination?

One of the first things anyone learns about facial recognition is that it is often wrong and that it is biased. And yet ICE is using it all day every day to determine legal status & who to detain. And now we have a high-profile example of it being flat out wrong: www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

Over the last year the entire "free speech on campus" beat has been revealed as an utter fraud. Years of punditry puked out in ignorance and bad faith. Yet even as the fraud becomes undeniable we still get stories about wide-eyed idealists who just wanted 'ideological diversity' and 'open debate'.

Average rents in Puerto Rico have skyrocketed 600 percent since 2017 as properties have been bought up by newcomers. It's unaffordable for locals to live on their territory.

boulder, 2025-01-10

DHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism

ICE opinion is shifting from lefties (a little) + reality (a lot). But it's happening much more slowly than it would on the right, because a, our partisan media is comparatively weak, and b, three-quarters of Dems are still prioritizing Seeming Moderate over stopping ICE from murdering moms.

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At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

The murders of two people outside an LGBTQ+ bar at first looked like the act of a lone shooter. A ProPublica and @frontlinepbs.bsky.social investigation shows they were, in fact, the culmination of a coordinated, international recruiting effort by online extremists. (Published March 2025)

hey! just putting this out there: propublica.org/tips

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See Video (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

Hard to express how much I love this. Twitter is the Nazi site for Nazis. Delete it, ESPECIALLY if you're a famous person or political leader. Abughazaleh does a great job explaining that it's also TRASH and doesn't even let you reach your audience. Get the hell off.