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Musician, technologist, science enthusiast and avid reader. Humanist | Feminist | LGBTQIA+ Ally | Advocate for empathy, diversity, sustainability & clean energy Cover photo: Pride flag using only NASA images made by @rachellense.bsky.social
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Darwin's greatest regret and his deathbed reflection on what makes life worth living www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/28/d...

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NEW: The @wired.com crew has put together a new package all about fighting, fighting back, and defending yourself and others. It includes some great guides, feature stories, and a quiz that lets you see what kind of fighter you are. Enjoy! www.wired.com/how-to-win-a...

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

Whether intentional or not, an attempt to paint Bluesky as one type of thing has taken hold in the press. A bad narrative is hard to shake, even if it’s unfair. As a user, don’t be afraid to push back. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17051355/bluesky-unfair-narrative

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Source: thejenkinscomic.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/g...

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RFK Jr. spouted dangerous vaccine falsehoods on national TV. As a parent and infectious diseases doctor, I couldn't stay silent. Here's what the data actually shows. 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

You want to learn? I've been there, part of the disability rights movement before there was an internet. So go ahead. Ask me about dis/ability rights.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

HAPPY MOTHERFUCKIN' PRIDE! For our free post this month, we have @tinavasquez.bsky.social's on the ground report about North Carolina’s Village Hearth, the first LGBTQ cohousing community in the nation for people 55 and over. theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/take-care-...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."

submitted 77 days ago • 19 comments

Just finished listening to @karenhao.bsky.social's empireofai.com 📚💙 A sobering investigative journalism, exploration of the power dynamics of the AI industry, its ethics, environmental impact, & the dual possibilities of AI as either an equalizer, or a tool to perpetuate systemic inequality. 1/

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

"frontier LRMs face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities. Moreover, they exhibit a counter-intuitive scaling limit: their reasoning effort increases with problem complexity up to a point, then declines despite having an adequate token budge" ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...

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🚨PSA for anyone using GPT in human subjects research🚨 A judge has ruled that OpenAI must retain ChatGPT and API data indefinitely, with few exceptions. This might have implications for your IRB compliance and the security of your participants' data. 1/

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

submitted 8 days ago • 37 comments

Y'all are just gonna have to get to know me as the book club girl! If you're interested in AI or navigating the hype-fueled AI space with a realistic perspective, you should join me! Starting next week I'll be leading a weekly 1hr discussion on The AI Con and Data Grab! #bookclub #booksky

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/hea... Two decades ago, India was praised for eradicating leprosy, but climate change and poverty could lead to its resurgence. Climate change is causing cracks in our public health systems. It demands urgent interventions, visibility, and funding.

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Self hosting your own media considered harmful (according to YouTube...). www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/se...

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

Proponents of genAI promise to end cancer, solve climate change, enable brain microchips, & eliminate work. However, the reality is at best a 10% ROI in developer productivity. Amidst the vitriol of overly optimistic views, this article offers a refreshing perspective. blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-th...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Pride, Everyone.

submitted 12 days ago • 61 comments

This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

submitted 14 days ago • 78 comments

Why Do We Undervalue the Lives of Disabled People? www.disabledginger.com/p/why-do-we-...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o... 1/3

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The kids are not the problem

submitted 14 days ago • 30 comments

Today, as part of the @techpolicypress.bsky.social and @datasociety.bsky.social "Ideologies of Control: A Series on Tech Power and Democratic Crisis" series, @emilymbender.bsky.social and I write about the myth of AGI. www.techpolicy.press/the-myth-of-...

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

I want to add another layer of nuance here. Ethan writes "But the world we live in now, in which we struggle to understand and constrain our machines, is anything but normal." I don't think the LLMs are actually mysterious at all >>

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Put it this way: The universe does not care if we live or die. It is a dangerous and hostile place and the best tools we have to prevent suffering, death, and misery is science. And it’s an “arms race” in some aspects. Science has saved more humans than any other investment throughout history.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment