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“I saw the joke on Monday on three different platforms, from three different people who have zero overlap on the political spectrum and have no reason to know each other: “I didn’t think this is what Ed Gainey meant when he said he wouldn’t deal with I.C.E.” www.post-gazette.com/opinion/adri...

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this is what's up in Pittsburgh city government this week -- check out the top three bullets, and take the survey to have your opinions represented to city council

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Pitt pauses grad school admissions while waiting for judge to decide if Trump administration's chaotic attempt to abruptly reduce medical research funding that was already promised is legal www.post-gazette.com/business/hea...

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one reason i'm cheering the increasing capability of AI is that i hope i'll never have to do this kind of shit again

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science may be decimated in the stupidest most chaotic way possible, but at least you'll all get one of these nice $11 checks with Trump's name on them! www.post-gazette.com/business/mon...

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Excited to share our #CHI2025 preprint: CodeA11y: Making AI Coding Assistants Useful for Accessible Web Development arxiv.org/abs/2502.10884 🧵(1/n)

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Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...

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trump supporters call using trump's actual words about how he is king trump now a sign of trump derangement syndrome. something is deranged alright…

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how hasn't there been more (any?) work exploring the accessibility of UI code output by copilot??… @peyajm29.bsky.social considers how a11y of UI code is affected by copilot, and then introduces several tech interventions to make it more likely that devs inexperienced in a11y produce accessible code

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so, if they cut NSF staff, is the idea that elon musk is gonna review my proposal? or is he gonna delegate it to that big balls guy … cra.org/cuts-to-nsf-...

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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

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the doggy folks have made clear that government service isn't something they find valuable, so why would these tech guys join on a government job? to smash it? or, to smash random stuff while secretly benefiting themselves?

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how hasn't there been more (any?) work exploring the accessibility of UI code output by copilot??… @peyajm29.bsky.social considers how a11y of UI code is affected by copilot, and then introduces several tech interventions to make it more likely that devs inexperienced in a11y produce accessible code

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with facebook, ig, and twitter having gone down a very deliberately divisive propagandist rabbithole, the irony is that tiktok is the more pleasant place to be.

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one thing in AI is not new -- people taking one small part of a job, mischaracterizing it, ignoring all the other stuff, and then assume the AI can do the whole job on its own

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DOGGY is going after FAA now… so close to a tragedy, and already poor morale, doesn't seem wise … www.post-gazette.com/news/transpo...

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back in Pittsburgh, eating pizza and listening to a remote talk by Jason Wu at Accessibility Lunch

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ran yesterday on a long layover at heathrow terminal 5 -- left my bags at the north british airways club, went down to the half mile long pedestrian tunnel on -4, and did some laps! appreciate the help random people on the internet! www.benedelman.org/travel/runni...

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Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

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on the long return from (my former phd student) prakhar gupta’s wedding — amazing event, prakhar rode in on a horse! since I’m off instagram, this is the only photo you get unless you find me in person .. congrats prakhar!

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entirely off of twitter for this reason

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More evidence-framing dynamics: "They’re running the ‘Twitter Files’ playbook against the entire U.S. gov't. The claims are a bunch of half-baked conspiracy theories built around idiotic misinterpretations and intentional mischaracterizations of bits of data and out-of-context communications."

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Journalists, Dem political consultants & pundits have stayed on Twitter, while it is entirely designed as a propaganda outlet for the Trump administration. Neutral journalists, NGOs, and Dem politicians should get off. You reach some people, but the game is fixed. Only way to win is to defeat it.

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Mayor Appoints a new Police Chief pending Public Hearing and Council Vote, Council to approve 4 more years of the Downtown ambassador's program, and more: Let the City Council know how you feel about these issues at informup.org/council-call... #pgh, #pittsburgh

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Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

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the new chaos hits home, as the PG discusses what would/will happen to Pitt (and Pittsburgh's economy) if the abrupt and chaotic defunding of medical research that Trump ordered actually happens -- www.post-gazette.com/business/hea...

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This is what amounts to an ILLEGAL & indiscriminate funding cut for research centers everywhere. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, and derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction. We all need to speak out to save lives.

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kind of amazing that Trump keeps going after the NIH…

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NEW: Treasury, White House officials claimed DOGE engineer who resigned today after WSJ inquired about connections to racist posts didn't have write access to code controlling trillions in federal payments when he actually did. This is from @telliotter.bsky.social, @leahfeiger.bsky.social, and me.

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BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems! Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!

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drivers license is due for renewal, and decided to get a "RealID" after declining for the past 15 years, it's always been stupid since it's really just like a barcode and they verify your passport, … anyway, i went to reapply online in PA, and they already had all the information on file. LOL

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joke's on all of you! i forgot to start it until 5:15, but remembered the lid!

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