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Absolutely amazing speech about questioning the status quo with actionable steps. The subject is code and AI specifically, but the way it's written it can be applied to other aspects of our lives that require courage to act against the status quo. Definitely saving this so I can refer to it later.

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".. American automakers are the hardest hit .. production at factories across the Midwest and South could be cut back in the coming days .. Carmakers need the magnets for the electric motors that run brakes, steering and fuel injectors." @nytimes.com $GM $F $STLA www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/b...

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Sources: UMG, Warner Music, and Sony Music are in talks to license their work to AI music services Udio and Suno and settle copyright infringement lawsuits (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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This Princeton prof's op ed is exactly backwards. Enrollment plateaued because the number of American 18-year olds was flat and now SHRINKING. It's not that international students are muscling aside US citizens, they are filling seats that would be empty and forestalling campus closures

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Aurora alert! It’s possible the aurora boralis may be visible tonight as far south as Alabama. Start looking tonight after dark around 10 pm (I’ve attached both the NOAA and University of Alaska maps, the former is always very conservative with view lines) www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/...

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Spectacular! My father pulling the car over so my siblings and I could run through wild poppy fields in what was then a less developed San Diego, California, is one of my fondest childhood memories. Another kind of remembrance.

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A memorial and jazz funeral honored 19 Black Americans, whose remains were recently repatriated from Germany where they were used for racial research in the late 1800s.

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I enjoyed hearing the nuanced take on the abundance agenda that @costasamaras.com brought to the Energy Gang this past week. There is a smart policy pathway that gets us building things faster w/o undoing decades of labor & environmental achievements and abandoning meaningful community engagement.

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🎓 很榮幸加入牛津大學 AI 倫理研究院的加速學人計畫（Accelerator Fellowship Programme），將臺灣經驗帶向國際最前線！ ⿻ 未來一年，我將與 @aiethicsoxford 合作，讓 AI 成為建構安全、拓展連結與關懷社會的核心橋樑。在臺灣奠基多年的開放政府、青年參與、社會創新、數位韌性等實踐，都將成為「加速分散式戍衛民主」研究的重要參考。 🚀 我期待在 @oxford_uni 新建的人文中心，與各界夥伴共築實驗場域，讓「眾人之事，眾人助之」的臺灣精神，在全球 AI 治理中發揮關鍵影響，共創無限未來。 #taiwancanhelp

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ProPublica reports that the U.S. knew most Venezuelan immigrants sent to CECOT had been convicted of no U.S. crimes before it labeled them terrorists/deported them. I wrote about this crisis – and why we're hosting a June 11 conversation with @andreapitzer.bsky.social and Erica Chenoweth on this.

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excited to get my hands on a copy of @nassimparvin.bsky.social and Neda Atanasoski's new (and very good looking) @dukepress.bsky.social book, Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen. i've got a chapter in there offering some preliminary thoughts on transductive labor in vocal biomarker AI

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“A succession of top agents, all women, were given an ultimatum: Take a different post or be asked to retire.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/u...

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Trump’s secret police deported yet another immigrant to the gulag in El Salvador despite a court order not to do so. They need to be held harshly accountable for this vile lawlessness.

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@jelaniya.bsky.social has been a friend for 25+ years, so I always root for him. But special kudos for this interview with #RyanCoogler in which we are allowed into the circle of Black male trust as the director shows emotional appreciation for mentor #SpikeLee podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t....

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NYT: “The episode was recorded by someone who was sitting in Mr. Nadler’s office. In the video, an officer with the Federal Protective Service, part of the Department of Homeland Security, is shown demanding access to a private area inside the office.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/n...

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"Audra McDonald Is Our Greatest Living Stage Actor" time.com/7285826/audr...

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Ok....#letsgo "From the mouth of babes" @ny-knicks.bsky.social

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Ever new rights- and privacy- violating applications for the AI surveillance net

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Excellent analysis from @himself.bsky.social as we careen into the post-FedSoc judicial badlands

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Congrats everyone: $14 billion in clean-energy projects have been canceled in the US, in this year alone.

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Earlier this month I sat down with @aoc.bsky.social for a @rollingstone.com interview and spoke with the congresswoman about her Fighting Oligarchy tour, tech billionaires, immigration and Trump: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Last year, Elon Musk's xAI set up its "Colossus" supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee. Now, the residents of nearby neighborhoods are pushing for facts and fair treatment as the company looks to expand its footprint amid questions about its environmental impact. Listen/read:

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The entire modern internet has been built on platforms that don’t believe in asking for consent. What if we started demanding a culture of consent online? www.anildash.com//2025/05/27/...

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The House’s 10-year ban on state AI regulation would wreak havoc on our country. The language is so broad that it could upend everything from state privacy law to contract law. It could even break the internet. I will do everything in my power to stop it. www.techpolicy.press/the-big-beau...

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It’s starting to smell more and more like it’s DOGE itself that was the waste, fraud and abuse. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

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Gold standard science

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In Opinion “The leading A.I. giants are no longer merely multinational corporations; they are growing into modern-day empires. With the full support of the federal government, soon they will be able to reshape most spheres of society as they please,” Karen Hao writes in a guest essay.

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"Even the few institutes that would be left standing face multibillion-dollar cuts"

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Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

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Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.

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Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences is getting hit with a 67.6% cut, worse than other programs within NSF. Funding for archaeologists comes from the division for Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, which is facing a 77.3% cut. It appears every post doc program has been 100% cut.

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NSF request is: * GRFP: down by 55.3% * NRT: gone * PRFB: gone * MPS ASCEND postdocs: gone * Noyce program: down by 72.8% * see others

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Seems like a good time to re-up @katecrawford.bsky.social‬'s brilliant coining: "hallucitations".

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For comparison sake, behold original Pizza Rat, living his best life.

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what makes NYC one of the greatest cities in the world in the same way London and mumbai are is that nothing ever fazes the people in these places. A guy dressed as a rat carrying a slice of pizza bigger than the average child? Sidestep, take the railing go about your day and never think of it again

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This Monday at the Institute for Advanced Study and online. Registration details ⤵️

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If attempted, this would constitute flagrant violations of the Privacy Act of 1974 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

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