Don't be evil? "Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..." www.404media.co/google-has-c...

its a mystery

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

Salvadoran President Claims He Lacks Humanity To Return Wrongly Deported Man theonion.com/salvado...

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

Hi, everyone! We're organizing a workshop on software engineering for functional programming as part of CBSOFT, and we welcome industry papers: bit.ly/SE4FP2025

My NSF CS for All grant was just terminated (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...). Nationwide, we were: • Improving the quantity + quality of K-12 CS teachers • Ensuring the sustainability of K-12 CS teacher prep programs • Ensuring all youth in the U.S. have access to great CS teachers

Training AI with copyrighted works isn't just theft or plagiarism. It's worse: it is a fundamental devaluation of creativity. When you steal something, you're not denying its individual value. GenAI is a form of automated exploitation and devaluation of human labor

So Google's latest consent violation is them generating "AI" audio of your voice in YouTube as an opt-out "service." Here's how to turn it off (original images reposted with alt text):

tbh, the AI industry is full of fraud, and fraudsters like this techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/f...

En Chile las mujeres tienen hijos, obvio 🤷‍♀️

El equipo chileno globos.get(), integrado por Diego Arias, Gabriel Carmona y Vicente Villarroel, clasificó a la ICPC World Finals 2025 tras conseguir el puesto 15 en el ICPC Latin America Championship 2025, realizado en Brasil. Continua leyendo en: comunicaciones.dcc.uchile.cl/news/967-uni...

🚨NEW: Major development. German newspaper Der Spiegel has found phone numbers and passwords for Hegseth, Waltz & Gabbard in stolen data freely published on the internet. ‼️It includes details of Signal accounts. “It is conceivable that foreign agents were privy to the Signal chat group.”

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

Informe lapidario. Por María Teresa Ruiz, astrónoma. Premio Nacional de Ciencias Exactas.

As they say in Chile, ¡bacan! A periodic table of female scientists featuring @criordor.bsky.social and many others www.bcn.cl/mujerescient...

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

Ha sido vocero de damnificado de incendios en Valparaíso, vocero del Paro de Camioneros, y vocero de Comunidades Indigenas (pero no es damnificado de incendios, ni camionero, ni indígena). Luciano Quintana: las mil caras de un agitador de ultraderecha: www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/pai...

This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake web.archive.org/web/20231206...

This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

It's a pain in the ass, since you have to do it app by app, but better safe than sorry

It was always apparent but now it's increasingly undeniable that all these 20-something DOGE employees were chosen not *in spite* of inadequate vetting but *because* they would not pass vetting. Trump & Musk chose the people who seemed the most willing to commit illegal acts on their behalf.

Hoy vi una patente TZR... y era un Tesla 😫😫

Ministra de Ciencia y polémico megaproyecto energético cerca de observatorio Paranal: “Tomaremos una posición activa para proteger la astronomía” www.adnradio.cl/2025/02/05/m... vía @adnradiochile

Not surprised ...

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

Today is Retraction Day, when we observe the anniversary of the retraction (Feb. 2, 2010) of the fraudulent paper that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. 🧪#medsky

Aides to Elon Musk have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, two officials told Reuters. t.co/ITmXlX85fl

Las Big Tech no son neutrales: sus modelos de negocio han facilitado el autoritarismo en AL, afectando derechos como la libertad de expresión y la privacidad. 🖋️ Lee la columna completa de Paloma Lara Castro: www.derechosdigitales.org/24797/el-rol...

A cloud security firm has reportedly uncovered a “completely open” database tied to the AI firm containing more than a million instances of "chat history, backend data, and sensitive information."

This is a helpful explainer of one of the underlying difficulties in getting a crewed mission to Mars in short order (the orbital launch windows are relatively short and infrequent). And this is probably the smallest hurdle. 🧪

"Even when the bogus papers are spotted [...] academic journals are often slow to retract the papers, allowing the articles to taint what many consider sacrosanct: the vast global library of scholarly work" (@joelving.bsky.social, Labbé, & @gcabanac.cpesr.fr) 🧪 theconversation.com/fake-papers-...

Sobre Computación Espacial comenta hoy el profesor Eduardo Graells-Garrido (@zorzal.datagramas.cl), académico #dccuchile e investigador del Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial en esta nota en El Mercurio. Te invitamos a leerla en: comentarista.emol.com/2534918/3225...

Debate por permisología: “La mayor cantidad de tiempo de tramitación se produce por suspensiones que piden los dueños de los proyectos” www.ciperchile.cl/2025/01/28/d...

Genetic diversity has declined within two-thirds of more than 600 species over the past three decades, according to research published in Nature. The findings highlight the need for conservation efforts to prevent genetic diversity loss. https://go.nature.com/42EpVo5 🧪

Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

El rango de titulares de La Tercera en una portada

In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists may finally know why

Trump orders opening of migrant detention center at Guantánamo Bay

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot

En Mexico quedaron tan enojados con los cliches y racismo casual de "Emilia Perez" y su director Frances, que hicieron su propia version y se llama JOHANNE SACREBLU y yo me estoy meando de risa www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLT4...

¿Sabías que Fernando Silva es uno de los fundadores y el primer director del DCC? 🧑‍💻✨ En estos 50 años del #dccuchile, queremos que descubras más sobre las personas clave que han construido esta gran Comunidad. #DCC50 #SomosDCC

From Bloomberg. This isn't a perfect comparison, but... loosely speaking the Apollo Program and Manhattan Project put together, had an annual spend about 1/5th what these companies are spending on AI infrastructure. This may be the largest investment in anything outside war ever.