I dated a guy in Romania whose father got sent to labor camp for saying, in a philosophy college class, that he read a book by Hemingway. He wrote a book about his experience. Title translates to “Torture for dummies” www.galeriile-cismigiu.ro/tortura-pe-i...

What a gift to watch geniuses at work youtu.be/g5zApLvfvPs?.... Brandi Carlile is a fucking angel

Yes. The situation at NIH is worse than the public realizes. The #NIH is on track to be effectively ended as a funder of evidence-based research within a year. That is not an exaggeration. The firings and consolidation announced today will create a new, MUCH worse NIH. 1/

Five alarm fire: The State Department has effectively ended free speech for student visa holders.

Wrong but cute #gpt4o #imagegeneration. Cats are humanity's last exam 🐈‍⬛

Happy Caturday. Look at this diva

Even though Zibalodis insists the cat is dark grey, not black :)

Tired: starting your research paper with "the rapid advancement of AI technologies." Wired: start in the middle.

So well explained!

I really wanted my mom to be with me in Seattle for my 50th birthday… I’m too scared now

French researcher refused entry to the US because he expressed person opinions about research in the US that were critical of the current administration www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

This is a lovely text for teaching people fallacies in argumentation. How many can you spot? wildfirelabs.substack.com/p/the-100-tr...

what's funny about this is chatbots just scour language-based interactions and respond with a version of what seems to be the typical reply, right? so what this tells us is not that a computer program has anxiety but that, in its dataset, the usual response to 'i'm freaking out' is 'girl, same!! 😬'

Rubbish NYT writing. But yes, an AI chatbot will reflect yourself back to you - see examples of chatbots encouraging ppl in suicidal crisis to end their lives. It’s how very fancy autocomplete works.

10 of the leading AI chatbots regurgitate Russian propaganda www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-fun...

Look at Romania www.reuters.com/world/europe...

The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943. Only one cat has ever received the award. This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25

The pages featured short biographies about the people buried in the cemetery, including Gen. Colin L. Powell, the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Hector Santa Anna, a B-17 bomber pilot, Berlin Airlift pilot, and members of the Tuskegee Airmen wapo.st/4isEBv8

ALERT: I've heard from a high up source that Slotkin is against the GOP funding bill, but Gary Peters may vote for it. If you're in Michigan, please call both. Tell Slotkin thank you, and urge Peters to vote against cloture (not just against the bill). Peters: 202-224-6221 Slotkin: 202-224-4822

Microsoft CEO saying that it’s good to get signals about demand/business value before investing like crazy. Finally. www.linkedin.com/posts/kjaels...

NEW from my team: a framework that walks AI product teams step-by-step through understanding and mitigating the risk of overreliance on AI. This happens when ppl accept incorrect AI outputs, b/c we … learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/pla...

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

Breaking: ICE arrests a Palestinian student at Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, whose wife is 8 months pregnant. They revoked his student visa and his green card. BOYCOTT COLUMBIA. WRITE & Demand answers. This is fucking sickening. zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...

This week, but not at work: went to dentist because a crown he had put in last week is uncomfortable. He told me I have mental issues. I walked out as he kept yelling at me in front of his staff. Unhappy international woman's day!

It takes expertise to recognize expertise.

Think we’re over misogyny in the workplace? Things that happened at work in the past couple of days, done by kind men who in theory are feminists: meeting, white man asks the one brown woman in the room to take notes.

Very unhappy international women’s day. Remember that if you’re not actively feminist and anti-racist you are enforcing systems of oppression that in theory you might not even agree with. Educate yourself. I’m so fucking tired.

The opposite of how I feel

Clip of Octavia E. Butler on @democracynow.org discussing Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents from "The Landline", ed. Tiffany Rose & @ashleysimpo.bsky.social "In hindsight, her warnings about climate change, authoritarianism, and survival feel less like fiction and more like prophecy."

This is happening in my Romanian family. They’re consuming American content full of Russian propaganda. Someone pays to have Fox News professionally subtitled in Romanian.

Facebook no longer allows pasting URLs to Signal groups in posts or comments.

Oops, I did it again.... Trump Officials Take Down List of Federal Properties for Possible Sale The Trump administration originally identified more than 440 federal properties that could be sold, which included the headquarters of the F.B.I. and Department of Justice. nyti.ms/4kn3v0N

abc7.com/post/fbi-doj.... This story broke yesterday and got lost amid noise. It’s HUGE. The list is long; look it up. No FBI, no DOJ building? Where’ll they work? Well, probably won’t. In Asheville, fed bldg houses past 30 yrs of climate info for NOAA. Don’t need NOAA. It goes on. FBI galore.

Australian newspaper "The Sun-Herald" opinion piece calls it out. American msm, take notes.

Please read every word

Small steps.

“The sheer rudeness shown to a foreign guest and friend of the United States was (to use a word) deplorable as a matter of manners and grace, but worse, Trump and Vance acted like a couple of online Kremlin sock puppets instead of American leaders.”

Welcome to the USSR

Yes. There are no good Republicans, just as there were no good Nazis. It’s a simple as that.

I say again: any Republican in congress with an ounce of integrity would switch parties immediately. They are complicit, sadistic cowards. Every single one.

The top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

Look at these bebes

Same

How many dead penguins is that? (Climate costs)

How about we celebrate the tiny joys and little wins? This morning I’m stupidly delighted to discover that an emoji for genie 🧞‍♀️ exists. You?

when a coworker texts "Ping me on Teams" and Siri reads it in a tone that makes it sound like sexual harassment 😳

This takes a lot of love and patience.