LLMs have been widely reported as left-wing biased. The finding has shaped policy and debate — with Trump banning "Woke AI". Our new paper challenges this story. It's not that the models are biased. It's that they think the auditor is. 🧵 w/ michelleschimmel.bsky.social‬arxiv.org/pdf/2604.27633

Absolute long shot ask here but if anyone has been the victim of a romance scam/catfishing and is open to talking to a journalist about it shoot me a DM. (Also please repost this so it gets a broad audience)

I guess she was using an academic marking scale.

I feel I need to tap the sign: ----------------------------------- - SINCE AT LEAST AS FAR BACK - AS 2013, IT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED - THAT TURING'S 'IMITATION GAME' - IS BETTER THOUGHT OF AS A TEST - OF HUMAN CREDULOUSNESS THAN - ONE OF MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS. -----------------------------------

this is my ministry. make hobbies leftist again bsky.app/profile/noam...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana postpones May 16 House primaries after US Supreme Court rolls back Voting Rights Act.

I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours

This type of racist attack is one of the things Hayek’s Bastards powerfully reframes in quite a long history now.

Generative AI, and LLMs in particular, seems to be causing a lot of people to lose their minds. Not in the sense of AI psychosis exactly, but a loss or abandonment of critical faculties. It’s happening everywhere, and those who are affected become unresponsive to rational argument.

History of (bad) ideas at its peak, shedding light on and helping weave together every single apparently random quirk/kink/obsession of the alt-right. The timing of this is, as a back cover blurb declares, perfect. So much so it’s uncanny. 🙏 @quinnslobodian.com

-Losing the ability to make vital pieces of equipment so when they're destroyed they're gone -Feeding your troops >1000 calories of 'Surprise Meat' per day -Theocratic displays and masculinity elevated over operational efficiency Congratulations the US military, you are now in Warhammer 40,000

I don’t think people are understanding that the civil rights movement included a lot of violence.

White genocide is when a neighbor has a weird name. White genocide is when you hear a new language for the first time and don't understand it. White genocide is when the girl who ghosted you, after you generously offered to breed her, starts posting Insta pics of her new favorite ethnic cuisine.

No sugar-coating the Court’s decision today. Real talk. @allinwithchris.bsky.social

Indeed.

I am thinking of so many conversations with undergrads who were uncomfortable with protests, sit-ins, and other tactics that "inconvenienced" white people, and I would ask them what approach Black Americans should have been using instead. They'd always say "voting" and then the penny dropped.

One of the most consequential civil rights decisions came down from the Supreme Court today gutting the Voting Rights Act. Black people and allies are gutted and enraged. And Bluesky is doing… this.

This is a key point that our head librarian pointed out to me. Flat or declining library budgets combined with rising ebook costs mean that increasingly the work of curating the collection is managed by outside vendors w no sense of specific institutional needs or attendance to concerns about AI.

Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

@annmb48.bsky.social @ebonyisis2.bsky.social @preciouspetal.bsky.social @ginly47.bsky.social @j1j2.bsky.social @gorgeousgeorge3.bsky.social @merlinmm.bsky.social @olszewskijc1891.bsky.social @dkrappe.bsky.social @jb592353.bsky.social @williamshawn996.bsky.social @dailykotzn.bsky.social

My book BEYOND BELIEF is out today! It says: in a world flooded with questionable claims and misinformation, evidence from science can help show what’s nonsense – and what’s not. In other words: "Essential reading for the rational-minded". Please repost! 1/🧵 @princetonupress.bsky.social

I recall when a friend of mine back during the BLM movement told me that if people reject the cause then the logical conclusion is that No Lives Matter & I thought I understood what he meant philosophically but living through the explosion of global suffering since I see now that he meant materially

People, scientists included, have a rough time working with Deep Time and Big Numbers (especially when they're mingled with Little Numbers!). It's easy to add one to a power of 10, but walking that distance or waiting that much time on hold with customer service? A totally different experience!

Trump celebrates political violence when it serves him. He mocked Paul Pelosi’s hammer attack, suggested Mark Milley deserved death, posted himself with a bat aimed at Alvin Bragg, and watched for 187 minutes as his mob attacked police and chanted “hang Mike Pence.” This is a monster.

New paper pre-print, accepted at FAccT 2026, wherein @fintanmallory.com , @sashamtl.bsky.social , and I argue that hype-laden AI terms like “hallucination”, “reasoning”, and “agent” are doing strategic, rhetorical work, which we call "glosslighting".

This is emblematic of the naval-gazing bullshit we're getting from some media types around this event. Cheryl Hines is fine. The people being killed by her husband's policies and lies won't be. Nothing much happened to the people in that banquet hall, but they were all so shocked and changed by it.

There should be a name for it The age after which you get less interested in hearing things you agree with, and more interested in whether a talk or book actually teaches you something new (If there’s an age where that preference reverses, I don’t wanna hear about it 😛)

🗺️🔔L'exposition commence aujourd'hui ! Des cartes de toutes les tailles, un croquis de cachalot à retrouver sur une grande carte marine du 19e, des loupes pour observer les détails, un atlas qui a près de 500 ans, des textes du 16e au 21e siècle... Venez nombreux ! 📍Infos: urlr.me/39pe8X

The controversial weed killer Roundup is now being deployed in private and public forests at record rates. We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible.

We cannot allow this man to continue as House Majority Leader. Normie Democrats are crying out for justice. Lock up the Trump Crime Family and their associates.

Si jamais, voici la traduction de la lettre (le "manifeste") envoyée par Cole Allen, le jeune homme qui a tenté un truc lors du dîner des correspondants de la Maison Blanche 🧵 1/

Whatever Didi Wants

Well, actually...

Congratulations to heat pumps: a technology that has now hit the milestone of "PR guy with gas industry links is doing astroturfing campaigns against you" stage all clean technologies have to go through 🥂 🎉 www.desmog.com/2026/04/23/f...

I made a webpage for my stuff on epistemic injustice, like the one I made on pornography and objectification last year:

giving some attention to my other child, hayek's bastards is out in paperback in UK and got a nice write-up in @theobserveruk.bsky.social from @chrispower.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Other side of this, we really gotta start teaching kids about/in a production model of knowledge rather than a discovery one. *Way* too many people still seem to think that knowledge & research just like… happen, w/o the entangled embedded infrastructural systems of universities, libraries, labs, &c

This is horrifying. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov

Guardrails are a scam, as @olivia.science says "guardrails can be bypassed via our manually curated examples, revealing not only the limitations of current benchmarks for risk assessment but also unexplored risks in five distinct scenarios. " dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

unlocking the rare Democracy Now-Bloomberg doubleheader www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

Possibly the best thing in Moma's current Duchamp show is this 1913 newspaper cartoon poking fun at his "Nude Descending a Staircase"

‘I saw the backlash coming’: civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw on America and race

Keith I know no progressive who opposes use of robots in research hospitals or on their phone GPS, but opposition to huge plants further wrecking the Earth, conglomerates stealing copyrighted literatures (mine among them), widespread online disinformation and means for cheating, are all good causes…

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr Guardian If you read nothing else today, try this long-form interview with Kimberle Crenshaw on her breakthrough work, early life, the Obama years, and how she saw white backlash against CRT and intersectionality coming which eventually expanded incll. trans ppl.

Thread très intéressant - BlueSky et ses usagers semblent encore tenir à la dimension "sociale" du social media, on y interagit, on y discute et on y tisse des amitiés, mais tout cela semble en effet se raréfier au profit d'un devenir télévisuel généré par IA des plateformes.

"Based only on their accent, lower-working-class people were judged to be on average 14% less intelligent, 4% less friendly and 5% less trustworthy than upper-middle-class people." #language #HigherEd #AcademicSky #edchat #DEI #linguistics www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2...

Plus de visa aux US pour les chercheuses et chercheurs qui travaillent sur les plateformes de media sociaux et la tech, ainsi que les professionnels de la sécurité et de la protection de la vie privée en ligne 🫨

Passionnant et réconfortant numéro de Politis consacré à la riposte mondiale des gauches face à l’extrême-droite. La machine à propagande l’invisibilise mais une Internationale progressiste se structure, tardivement mais rapidement, et rappelle que rien n’est perdu.