becoming one of those computer scientists who won't stop yapping about my analog hobby of choice. (canon ae-1 · kodak ultramax 400)

the non-ironic, casual deployment of the white usage of "woke" in news articles and opinion pieces makes me want to scream

I've always felt somewhat uncomfortable with the framing of AI risk around the actions of "malicious actors". Because sometimes the malicious actor is the company that built the thing. And the model is causing harm because it was successfully steered into doing what it's creators wanted it to do.

Well, I guess they just declared war on us, but it was either that or having a Black character in Star Wars

the research homies of all time are cooking btw 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

y'know it's kind of a tell that they think celebrating the end of slavery is DEI

my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world

Work can be so endlessly rigorous about the technical half of the word but the socio half just stands in for anything and everything

the mainstream media has been steadily buying into the idea that science and academia are somehow "captured" by left and liberal ideologues, rather than the more obvious explanation that measured analysis leads people away from reactionary thought

anyway, if your problem with technology was those inconvenient people who do technical work, and how they ask questions, have opinions, take ethical stances, etc. then it might be especially tempting to just replace them with ai. fewer tedious coffees, for one thing.

Important points @ach.bsky.social ACH2025 conference by Mohammad Suliman about the gaps in accessibility for research and programming. Taking notes for our new ACH Anthology!

“fort robert e. lee” lmao give us irredeemable loser energy.

mood.

I catch blocks if I talk about C19 but: There’s a new, more contagious strain spreading—“razor blade throat” is one symptom. But, most spread is SYMPTOMLESS. You DON’T KNOW you’re spreading it. More spread, more mutations & variants—>more disabled & dead. Put a mask on in public. We keep us safe.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Few tech critiques have aged as well as Phil Agre saying "Oh come on. Face recognition will work well enough to be dangerous, and poorly enough to be dangerous as well." Obviously lands well beyond face rec.

The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.

40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood

So, you might be wondering: does it matter if Covid shots are recommended? Yes, yes it does. 1. Insurance won't cover them if they're not recommended. That's a HUGE challenge for a lot of people. 2. If more people skip the shots, manufacturers will make fewer doses, making them harder to find.

Your Pope name is the last thing you ate + the # of letters in your first name. pope dosa viii

Highly recommend following the work of the Southern Environmental Law Center who have tracking this and other polluting data center projects in the South www.selc.org/topic/data-c...

I don't think "comfortable dealing with uncertainty" should mean "We build random shit because we didn't talk to the person who asked us to build the thing about what they want."

Personalization is political. Very excited to share a piece I co-authored with @mbogen.bsky.social as a Google Public Policy Fellow @cendemtech.bsky.social! cdt.org/insights/its...

Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.

Happy “The Acolyte was great and I’m not afraid to say it!” day for all who celebrate! www.engadget.com/the-acolyte-...

I do think the experience of lockdown forced every single person alive to confront some piece of themselves they didn't really want to think about, no matter how minor, and a lot of people just could not fucking handle it.

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"Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies" What's Title VI? "prohibits discrimination against or otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or national origin"

yes, ACLU never kidding.

A lot of people like to dismiss racism as insubstantial to material realities but we’re watching a nation burn trillions of dollars in wealth to entrench a racial system of domination.

me trying to dine outdoors whilst actively aggravated that one of the biggest publications in the world felt the need to do a hit piece on masking as the CDC is being gutted in the midst of multiple public health crises

someone shared this on insta and I thought, i better not reshare this bc it’ll piss ppl off. anyway.

i google the definitions of words i've known for 30 years to make sure i'm using them correctly. if you're posting information that's not accurate, that's on you

we gotta start being meaner to people who refuse to do one second of research on things that can be factually verified, and just come online and lie. "if i recall correctly" you don't. i don't care if you had good intentions or meant well, you just lied. why are you lying

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

The fact that conservatives have ran with and won hegemonic support for the idea they face institutional hostility while gleefully dismantling any and all institutions to address systemic racism has been a decades-long dark joke.

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A few weeks ago, I argued in the Post that the Trump administration was ushering in a new era of re-segregation. Now, here we are. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

if stuff "just works" where you live-the water's clean, trash goes away, bridges don't collapse--you can live in an illusion that a) this place is clean because YOU are clean (not because it is cleanED for you) b) maybe you don't need those services anyway (bc you don't understand what they do)

Trash it.

In many ways the Civil War was the original DEI

soot…………… mercury…………….. 😵‍💫

🤐 Have you ever wanted a simple webpage that displays the so-called "woke" and "DEI-related" words that the current administration wants to censor, one at a time, in random order? I did, so I created ForbiddenWordsUSA.com. Enjoy! 🤐 Source: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“To be clear, the opposite of welcoming diversity is supporting segregation. The opposite of moving toward equity is hoarding resources. The opposite of being more inclusive is exclusion.”

If the history of the US from the Black perspective was taken seriously people would know the US too has a decades long history of totalitarian governments.

The problems with universities saying “trust us, we’re still valuing & doing DEI even if we can’t use those words anymore”: 1) language matters, words are action 2) trust in them has eroded a great deal, especially in the last year 3) it’s hard to know which words they’d actually fight for