My coworkers joke with me when I'm trying to figure something out "if only you could ask chatGPT" and when that happens I stop and do exactly that and without fail every time the response is something that looks correct but is totally wrong and would cost me another week to fix.

"ai is inevitable" is a high accuracy indicator of "I am a sucker"

as a matter of fact, across the tech giants, the very first use case in all the announcement demos is to automate love for my family. Like LLMs broadly, the use cases only make sense if you are a ghoul.

One of the main things neuroscientists do not like to deal with is degeneracy and the irreversibility of the activity -> function relationship, because that would force them to acknowledge that most analysis methods like decoding and functional connectivity are meaningless.

this whole interview, can you imagine having to filter everything you say through four layers of "i am already a literal god, but it is not ready yet for you to see that, so imminently everyone should prepare for me becoming a god, but next year."

still thinking about that neural basis of speech talk from Eddie Chang on Sunday. Have loved their work for years, that might have been the best talk I have ever seen. I don't really say this that much lately, but truly inspiring work. #SfN2025

A robust ecosystem of many ways of having all the money stolen from my wallet will likely prove to be the most stable and productive ecosystem of ways to have all the money stolen from my wallet, rather than "one size fits all" solutions like "not being robbed"

In defense of things staying mostly the same and making no distinctions about anything being better or worse than anything else, a manifesto

A disembodied radio story narrates how the fascists are trying to kill information at #SfN2025, a welcome centering of what's happening all around us, and if that matters to you you can find us and talk about taking direct action to preserve threatened information way off in the ZZ section tomorrow

We're presenting Miniscope Zero, the first fully-wireless Miniscope, at #SfN25! Wireless power + data enable long-term neural recordings from multiple freely behaving animals. @MiniscopeTeam Poster: Nov. 17, 1–5 pm, ZZ7 Info: tinyurl.com/mhdfb67u Full video: youtu.be/mIt15LA-rZI?...

Watching this literal magic tech take shape has been one of my favorite parts of being in this group - a plausible path to real actual naturalistic life-scale experiments. #SfN2025

Hello #SfN2025, I'm here presenting sciop.net, archiving at-risk information and bootstrapping a hybrid federated/p2p archive, rebuilding NWB and integrating acquisition and analysis with lightweight pipelines. I'll be at ZZ14 in the Monday afternoon session :) aharoni-lab.com/sfn2025/sciop

you know that our information systems are an utter failure, a primary barrier to liberation, the primary instrument of social control when it takes 5 years to communicate the idea that "the virus that killed everyone is an aerosol" to 0.1% of people.

We joke but the constant turmoil is frying my brain . Insomnia beating my ass

Altman has been quite clear about his strategy. From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply. What he's selling is unaccountabilty.

A timeline of events involving the shooting of news TikToker Richard L.A. and the subsequent lockdown and student walkouts at Santee High School. The full story: lataco.com/ice-shots-sa... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Izzy Ramirez, and Memo Torres

There are upsides to having the unit of social media be a community with shared stakes in its moderation and upkeep, rather than the unit being a single account on one big global soup. People notice when a big swell of bot accounts happens next door, but not when they come from the void.

One step closer to replacing all my teeth with two big long teeth that I can clap together and say "action!"

Getting so rich you forget what a lamp is

According to the criminal complaint, the man accused of setting the flames used ChatGPT while calling 911 to ask if you’re at fault if you set a fire with your lit cigarette.

This was the plan. Enclose information access into the oracle prompt, flood the rest of the internet with shit, own the only remaining means of accessing information. jon-e.net/surveillance...

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got - scam machine - psychosis inducing machine - weapons of mass destruction - button you push that makes the planet hotter - markets that intentionally starve people - clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time - medicine you can’t afford

very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos www.404media.co/apple-banned...

ICE has been arresting asylum-seekers in San Francisco for months now—targeting immigration court & sending people to far-flung detention centers. It's a constant stream of news. Readers often tune out. So here's a timeline recapping the most significant events so far.

Appreciate the framing of caution, but having seen vibe coded analysis routines the publication pressures that create them, this is candy flavored poison. The cited paper demonstrates the value of human labor in the training set, and required expert intervention in simply loading 8/12 datasets

What's up we co-run a fork of mastodon and the rules governing moderation include explicit consideration of power, context, and position. It says neuro in the domain name but there are as many artists and dropouts as scientists atp. neuromatch.social

I’ve already said my bit about the problem of moderation by corporation www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/

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UC-Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names “related” to anti-semitism, mostly for voicing support for Palestinians. Judith Butler is among them, she calls this “McCarthyism” UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

FYI www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ryan, i and @thefreeradical.org were working on getting through this release years ago, but its massive, hard to search and very taxing with how horrid the contents are and we just didnt have enough eyes or hands to get through it.

kind of fun to imagine the rest of the world flying their flags at 1.5 mast in reverse mourning though

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

New preprint!

 tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵 w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany.bsky.social, Emily Mackevicius www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

You: pornbots keep randomly following me on Bluesky Me, an intellectual: pornbots are citing my books on Google Scholar

drawing and posting be so fun until the dopamine rush wears off and i realize im being perceived en masse and i want to delete everything

seeders needed: sciop.net/datasets/chr... say there is this archive of most of the newspapers throughout US history that's been gathered by libraries all over the country for 20 years. now say that the proposed republican budget eliminates funding for the endowment that funds that archive...

seeders needed: sciop.net/datasets/chr... say there is this archive of most of the newspapers throughout US history that's been gathered by libraries all over the country for 20 years. now say that the proposed republican budget eliminates funding for the endowment that funds that archive...

Fuck a scab union president. AFT needs to clean house, this is embarrassing to the whole damn labor movement

ICE is fighting (and losing) a classic low-grade insurgency in LA. The administration has to appear strong. The people do not.

ICE and DHS cannot move around Los Angeles undetected. Their every move is transparent from the hotels where they sleep to their morning briefings to their 3-vehicle convoys entering neighborhoods. An entire megacity of 13 million people has awoken against them. They're slow and clumsy.

This public spectacle is meant to be a "shock and awe" campaign, as if a few thousand soldiers can subdue the 2nd largest city in the US. It took them millions of dollars and three weeks to plan this, all for the equivalent of a military parade to satisfy one man's ego. They're desperate.

Anyone concerned that America will quietly succumb to fascism should look at what's happening in LA. This whole thread is wonderful If the United States decides to declare war on its own people, so be it. They can't defeat an insurgency overseas and they can't defeat one here

ICE fucked up! They went to Flatbush to get Haitians and guess what? They got outnumbered! Haitians ran them out of town! They are lucky they got the fuck out without injury. You come into Flatbush, Brooklyn and did not expect a fight? Hell no! Stay the fuck out of Brooklyn assholes. #AbolishICE

👀 🥒 🍅 "this is the first digital, community-led, and undocumented-led farmworker strike of its kind. And it will not be the last" docs.google.com/document/d/1... (sharing all I know)

Yep: sciop.net has got torrents of all the reports from globalchange.gov and a website rip, and we're continuously working on the primary data as well: sciop.net/datasets/glo... No government hosted repository can be trusted rn, but you can seed torrents so we don't need to.

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

ICYMI: Three animal groups have vision sharp enough to detect objects—vertebrates, arthropods and cephalopods—but only the first two have been studied. A lab in Oregon is changing that. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroethology www.thetransmitter.org/vision/cepha...

The masked agents pull up quickly. They jump out of unmarked vans. They wear blue jeans or battle fatigues. They approach Latinos, yelling and carrying assault rifles. If someone runs, they’re taken. If they don’t answer a question, they’re taken. If they can’t produce papers, they’re taken.