Mitchell Hashimoto (creator of Ghostty, etc.) wrote an insightful piece on his evolving use of AI tools: "My AI Adoption Journey" mitchellh.com/writing/my-a...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

please remember that an “asset” that produces no value can rise in price **only if** someone else is willing to pay more for it.

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Please take a few minutes by the end of the day Thursday to email VDOT and City Council in support of the West Main/Ridge intersection plan! Details in this 🧵

Call for applications for the 2nd edition of our Summer School in Computational Social Science. *** DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: February 28th, 2026 (firm deadline) *** css2.lakecomoschool.org

Amazing how snow is cleared from parking lots and roads within hours, but bike lanes remain inaccessible and bike racks uncleared for weeks

If you want to learn more about this topic, check out the very helpful write up by @yyahn.bsky.social yyahn.com/wiki/article...

We wish Friends of Downtown understood what all the research shows: making business districts more accessible to customers who bike, walk, and roll is better for business than prioritizing cars. www.29news.com/2026/02/03/f...

Exposure to voter suppression ads on Facebook—which targeted non-White residents of battleground states—was associated with a 1.9% decrease in voter turnout in the 2016 election, representing approximately 4.7 million fewer votes nationwide. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/HJGf50Y7FPG

The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next go.nature.com/4kxrivL

IMO just separating outlook into two apps—outlook "email" and outlook "calendar"—would instantly improve it 1000%

Sexual harassment is a horrible impediment to academic research, shutting out talented researchers and slowing scientific progress. What can we do? I believe we're not helpless; we can improve our communities through practical actions. Take a look: github.com/maria-antoni...

On August 12, 2017, Heather Heyer was killed by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville. On August 17, 2017, Noam Chomsky told the Washington Examiner that antifa was “a gift to the far right”. In between those dates he met with Jeffrey Epstein in Tuscon.

Our Satellite Call for #CCS2026 is still open, but the clock is ticking. ⌛️ Want to spotlight a hot topic in #ComplexSystems? Submit your proposal by Feb 10 and help shape our community. Any methods, tutorials, debates, and demos are welcome! Apply here: bit.ly/3LUgTNc

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

Microsoft Research NYC is hiring a researcher in the space of AI and society!

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

One problem with coding agents like Claude Code is that every 10-minute administrative chore turns into a full-blown software project.

As the cost of generation goes down, the emphasis shifts towards evaluation and verification. But scientific peer review system doesn't seem to be ready for this yet. A fundamental shift in incentive system may be due, and challenging.

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

It’s only logical that a city that makes it illegal to play in the streets would also not have a track record of making streets safe for kids. We can and must do better.

"Machine learning research is not serious research & therefore hallucinated references are not necessarily a big deal, agrees prestigious group of ML researchers" I ❤️ when the titles write themselves But seriously, I don't think there's much to debate statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/26/m...

Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...

In this brutal winter weather, having safe shelter is a matter of life and death for some of our neighbors. If you’re able, please consider donating.

Our latest paper in @science.org warns about malicious AI swarms, agents capable of adaptive influence campaigns at scale. We already observed some in the wild (picture). AI is a real threat to democracy. #SciencePolicyForum #ScienceResearch 🧪 Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Fire depts can have a surprisingly big negative impact on street safety. Cville folks, help shaping the strategic plan of the city fire department! It'll be Feb 2nd from 6-8pm at Carver Rec Center 👇 youtu.be/j2dHFC31VtQ?...

It was a "historic" and "unprecedented" level of investment into manufacturing capacity in the US.

Announcing the release of the official Common Corpus paper: a 20 page report detailing how we collected, processed and published 2 trillion tokens of reusable data for LLM pretraining arxiv.org/pdf/2506.01732

This can be an important reason why many people try out but don't "stick". Starter-pack is great, but it's inherently towards a very small set of the most visible users, not the niches that individual users are drawn to. This may be a critical feature as a social platform. @jay.bsky.team

BREAKING: The Tribune confirmed on Instagram that the man shot has died, according to two sources with knowledge of the incident. ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.

TikTok is now under US ownership and their new ToS reads like a guide to giving fascists everything they need to put you on a list. They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.

"What if AI wasn't just hallucinating information, but thousands of AI chatbots were working together to give the guise of grassroots support where there was none? That's the future this paper imagines—Russian troll farms on steroids,” @ninajankowicz.com www.wired.com/story/ai-pow...

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In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.

UVA Data Science Expands MSDS Residential Program with 4 New Concentrations: (1) *Genomics*, (2) AI, (3) Sports data science, (4) Visualization datascience.virginia.edu/news/uva-dat... 🧬💻🧪

We have over 65 people registered so far for our webinar tomorrow. It’s going to be a great conversation! There is still time to sign up: events.humanitix.com/belonging-in...

Happy Martin Luther King Day my friends: "I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war." Speech given on December 11, 1964 after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Made a tiny CLI helper that turns natural language into shell commands using Claude Code. howto find python files over 1mb → fd -e py -S +1m I just put this into my dotfiles. No API keys. This simple script lets me stick to Ghostty instead of Warp. yyahn.com/wiki/Software/howto/

A minimal implementation of Ralph Wiggum loop: github.com/yy/wiggum uv tool install wiggum wiggum init wiggum run try it for low-stake projects. ;)

This is a watershed moment for Texas - for the first time ever, solar supplied more electricity than coal in 2025. I will say it again: At this rate, TX will likely decarbonize its electricity sector faster than CA. TX clean electricity is growing at 13%,m more than twice that of CA's at 6%.

📣 Parents. If cars make your walk or cycle to school feel unsafe, that's not okay. We need your photos of the school run! The more people can see how awful it is out there - and how unsafe it is for our children - the more power we have. DM pix or tag us in a post. #streetsforkids #schoolrun

America's global pre-eminence in research was partly driven by a great power competition. At a time when China is investing more in research, and relaxing visas to attract academic talent, the Trump administration is doing the opposite.

Latest on the federal forces in Minnesota from me and my colleague Jeff Hargarten: There are now more federal immigration agents in MN than the 10 largest Twin Cities police departments combined. 9% of ICE is in MN right now, even though MN has less than 1% of the nation's undocumented immigrants.

New preprint on unifying the zoo of multivariate higher-order information measures into a common form. May be of interest to anyone interested in higher-order interactions, complex systems, emergence, or complexity. 1/N arxiv.org/abs/2601.08030

One car repair buys the ebike. One tank of gas covers a year of maintenance. One coffee fuels a whole year of it.

We are hiring a post-doc to study the impact of AI agents on complex social systems in Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative and/or the Polarization Lab! Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...

BREAKING | South Korea’s ex-president Yoon facing possible death penalty over insurrection

It’s not just X. There is simply no winning in a *privately owned* website by a *single person* with an agenda that’s opposite of yours. 🤷

"In some cases, jailbroken Claude 3.7 Sonnet outputs entire books near-verbatim ... Taken together, our work highlights that, even with model- and system-level safeguards, extraction of (in-copyright) training data remains a risk for production LLMs." arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671