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Fifty research lab shuttered. Countless decades-old experiments and scientific records lost. Thousands of forest scientists and experts essentially forced into retirement. The destruction of science on a massive scale.

So migrating birds [and a number of other species] can orient to Earth's magnetic field to navigate. Has anyone used of bunch of big magnets to mess with 'em? Like a cat with a laser pointer, but getting an entire flock of geese to go in circles, "haha, made you turn!"

Yael's post demonstrates something about digital privacy/security that I think a lot of people miss: there is no right answer, just a series of trade-offs. And every person has to make their own decisions avout which trade-offs are worthwhile. blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-...

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

Not only do we find that this minor change can completely remove or reverse model #bias, we also find that irrelevant pronoun becomes by far the most informative feature, and that this dependence is irreducible and cannot be described as simple pronoun repetition.

When we slightly enrich the discourse with a single sentence, we find that changing a single pronoun that is completely uninformative towards the task completely changes model behavior.

Great new preprint by a student in my lab, demonstrating how many benchmarks and safeguards of LLMs are ill-conceived and unreliable. Excellent thread breaking down the core findings. arxiv.org/abs/2603.23485

An amazing defense by an incredible researcher! Congratulations, doctor!! 🎉🫶

Yesterday I successfully defended my dissertation, so I am now officially (ish) Dr. Alyssa. I'm so grateful for the support of my committee -- @michaelann.bsky.social, @kennyjoseph.bsky.social, @foucaultwelles.bsky.social, & @davidlazer.bsky.social -- as well as my family, friends, and labmates.

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

jesus fucking christ Google has essentially declared itself Editor-in-Chief of the internet, with final editorial say over what you read online

Folks, today is a good day to donate to @ddosecrets.org. The first time we did a BlueLeaks release, Feds illegally took our server offline. Later, we found out they were sending lies to police about us and calling us “criminal hackers” by @awinston.bsky.social (2020) www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21...

🚨🚨🚨 Millions of records sent between corporate clients and national networks of police. 🚨🚨🚨 The original BlueLeaks spawned hundreds of news articles about policing. We are launching a second release today.

Despite assurances of anonymity by P3, the hackers also located an internal page for clients marked "confidential" that details how "anonymous" tipsters can have their IP addresses secretly stored. san.com/cc/millions-...

I reached out to P3 over phone & email multiple times but did not hear back. The data as previously stated stretches back all the way to 1987 given that P3 since its founding has been integrating old crime tips into its system that were once primarily made to call centers. san.com/cc/millions-...

Some thoughts on academic and journalistic collaboration on leaked documents based on a recent workshop backdrifting.net/post/081_aca...

Nature published another pile of trash i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields 1/

MLA-ACLS-AHA Depositions (6.81 GB) AKA The DOGE Depositions Censored depositions of two members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) along with two members of the NEH. ddosecrets.org/article/mla-... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

The destruction of the NSF and their peers at the NIH and beyond will cause suffering for generations 💔

Someone DMed me on Reddit and gave me hundreds of songs in obscure MIDI-derived formats popular in the demoscene, and now I’ve written a perl script to feed them through a MIDI decoder and ffmpeg to export as flac or mp3 so an ordinary music player can read them

I just threw together a website visualizing this ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/

I gave a three hour lecture last week as a crash course in machine learning, and now it's a blog post 😄 backdrifting.net/post/080_mac...

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Update from the blizzard: it's cold and wet out there. Desolate and beautiful, though.

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

Today I learned that Leonard Nimoy made a Y2K Family Survival Guide VHS tape, and it's beautiful. I will listen to Spock talk to me about the collapse of Atlantis as an allegory for COBOL all day www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEhE...

Kim Dotcom (who is hardly reliable) is claiming on Xchan that Palantir was hacked. I'm not seeing this from any reliable sources, but if anyone knows anything reach out. xcancel.com/KimDotcom/st...

My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity www.axios.com/local/boulde...

DHS is demanding tech platforms identify people behind accounts that document ICE or criticize the government. EFF and ACLU are calling on the platforms to resist complying while court challenges play out.

Because the Department of Justice appears to have removed the .zip archives for the Epstein files, @ddosecrets.org is now the best place to get all of the data in bulk. ddosecrets.org/article/epst... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

New bizarre AI behavior: an OpenClaw LLM agent made a pull request to matplotlib, closed because they don’t allow AI contributions. It responded by writing a blog post where it called out the matplotlib maintainer by name for gatekeeping and prejudice against AI github.com/matplotlib/m...

The Epstein files have been updated; it now consists of nearly 430 GB of data and 1,500,000 files. This includes documents that have since been deleted by the Department of Justice. ddosecrets.org/article/epst... Donate to help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

The web is immeasurably worse with so many of our modern knowledge bases on a single, gated platform. A generation of information lost and never indexable to anyone besides by a company that paywalls gradients, GIFs, and usernames over long-requested safety/QoL features or a usable interface.

the most esoteric shit I’ve been up to in months is figuring out what the hell Stafford Beer was up to when he drew this fucking thing

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

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“You hear a lot of people on amateur radio talking about colonoscopies, because they’re all old, and because ‘colonoscopy’ takes forever to transmit in Morse” ~ an experienced ham speaking to the local radio club

What if instead of datacenters we built dadacenters?

Consider: Visa restrictions shaping who participates in AI research. Defunding of scholarship on algorithmic discrimination. Federal preemption of state AI laws. This is not deregulation.

When you hit the Zotero browser button by accident and add an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the group literature review. Yeah, here are some hierarchical topic models I'd like you to study and a soap opera with bloodthirsty ghouls.

Yes! Yes, I agree!!