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This in-depth documentary from Samuel Black at @moreperfectunion.bsky.social on xAI's Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, TN for training Grok is a phenomenal example of the kind of in-depth AI accountability reporting we cannot have enough of. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT...

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I re-present this piece, given Trump deploying the military to the streets of LA.

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The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

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"Large [language] models should not be viewed primarily as intelligent agents but as a new kind of cultural and social technology, allowing humans to take advantage of information other humans have accumulated." henryfarrell.net/wp-content/u...

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Fascinating, illuminating, eye-popping conversation between @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @gilduran.com about the unholy stew of techbro-fascist-religious delusions bubbling behind the current attacks on democracy

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One striking thing from this (excellent) report on a DOGE employee's use of AI is that everything about it is antithetical to sound software engineering practices—an engineer hurriedly deploying an unfamiliar tool to meet an impossible deadline for a problem domain in which he has no expertise.

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NEW: "Big Balls" is making big bucks. The infamous technologist is now a permanent federal employees (with a GS-15 grade), as are other DOGE operatives like Luke Farritor, who was closely linked to the destruction of USAID. This is by @makenakelly.bsky.social

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I’m excited to start my summer research internship at Abridge!

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togelius.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

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News🗞️ I will return to UT Austin as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics this fall, and join its vibrant community of Computational Linguists, NLPers, and Cognitive Scientists!🤘 Excited to develop ideas about linguistic and conceptual generalization (recruitment details soon!)

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I can’t believe I only just discovered Beer.

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psycnet.apa.org/record/1994-...

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"First came mass firings disguised as efficiency reforms. Then the gutting of oversight agencies. Next, the weakening of enforcement through EOs. Now, the final step: replacing career professionals with political loyalists through ideological screening." data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-to-dis...

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“Thousands of newly obtained documents show” that the founders of Clearview AI—which is backed by Peter Thiel—“always intended to target immigrants & the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump admin.” This is incredible reporting by @lukeobrien.bsky.social, 4/2025 1/

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Hoy, en esta isla, ha ocurrido un milagro

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Musk’s winter blitzkrieg on this once-proud democracy’s Constitution, laws, and traditions leaves behind a trail of institutional wreckage and bureaucratic damage that will take the country decades to undo — if it’s ever able to rebuild successfully. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/with-coup-...

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How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's proposed budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

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A headline that captures so much about our current moment: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Shared with a gift 🎁 link. Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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Those who can speak out without fear of retribution (e.g., losing their visa, green card, or getting thrown in a van by goons) should protest

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Revoking visas to Chinese students in the US is both cruel and stupid. Immigrants and investment in science made this country great. They are throwing it all away for no reason

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"Tell, Don't Show" was accepted to #ACL2025 Findings!    Our conceptually intuitive, lightweight approach for literary topic modeling combines the new (language models) with the old (classic LDA) to yield better topics. ✨📚 arxiv.org/abs/2505.23166

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The more leches the better

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Because of propaganda Americans do not understand what Rubio is doing with visas. "I gave you a visa to come and study," they think. x.com/CitizenFree... NO, he has not!! Please help explain to X how Rubio has stopped ALL student visas, and how it is killing US science.

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"The AI industry is saturated in spectacle. The spectacle of AI, more so than the tool of AI, speaks to dreams of generalities, born from abstractions, forced together through the violent reduction of our world to tiny signals." - @eryk.bsky.social mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-noise-...

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It's an exciting prospect to have corporations provide AI friendship and companionship services, competing with legacy friendships and seeking to establish a friendship monopoly. Software eating yet another aspect of the world

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I hope this crashes and burns

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Check the bonus panel on the site! ◆ COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com ◆ PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... ◆ STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com #webcomic ⁠smbc

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Too many interesting papers coming out, too little time

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put this on a massive billboard

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It's good to finally have a good reference for this stuff! Kudos to the authors. arxiv.org/abs/2501.18374

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www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Most of us in higher ed in the US are going to lose something over the next four years (opportunities, or funding, or time). But if we believe universities exist, in part, to preserve historical memory and create a space for dissent, our primary job right now is to fight and take the hit.

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Where are the student protests?

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Breaking News: Newark's mayor, Ras Baraka, was arrested while he and three members of Congress from New Jersey were protesting at an immigration detention center in the city. He was taken to an ICE facility in Newark, his aides said. nyti.ms/3Z680Un

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The only thing that is appropriate to say in this time ... is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine.

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The fascist spectacle is the point.

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Most researchers don’t believe AGI is coming any time soon. But policy makers are steering policy toward AGI anyway. In this article for Tech Policy Press, a look at the distortions the AGI Frame introduces to policymaking. #ai #criticalai #aipolicy In @techpolicypress.bsky.social

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This in-depth documentary from Samuel Black at @moreperfectunion.bsky.social on xAI's Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, TN for training Grok is a phenomenal example of the kind of in-depth AI accountability reporting we cannot have enough of. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT...

I re-present this piece, given Trump deploying the military to the streets of LA.

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

"Large [language] models should not be viewed primarily as intelligent agents but as a new kind of cultural and social technology, allowing humans to take advantage of information other humans have accumulated." henryfarrell.net/wp-content/u...

Fascinating, illuminating, eye-popping conversation between @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @gilduran.com about the unholy stew of techbro-fascist-religious delusions bubbling behind the current attacks on democracy

One striking thing from this (excellent) report on a DOGE employee's use of AI is that everything about it is antithetical to sound software engineering practices—an engineer hurriedly deploying an unfamiliar tool to meet an impossible deadline for a problem domain in which he has no expertise.

NEW: "Big Balls" is making big bucks. The infamous technologist is now a permanent federal employees (with a GS-15 grade), as are other DOGE operatives like Luke Farritor, who was closely linked to the destruction of USAID. This is by @makenakelly.bsky.social

I’m excited to start my summer research internship at Abridge!

togelius.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

News🗞️ I will return to UT Austin as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics this fall, and join its vibrant community of Computational Linguists, NLPers, and Cognitive Scientists!🤘 Excited to develop ideas about linguistic and conceptual generalization (recruitment details soon!)

I can’t believe I only just discovered Beer.

psycnet.apa.org/record/1994-...

"First came mass firings disguised as efficiency reforms. Then the gutting of oversight agencies. Next, the weakening of enforcement through EOs. Now, the final step: replacing career professionals with political loyalists through ideological screening." data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-to-dis...

Hoy, en esta isla, ha ocurrido un milagro

Musk’s winter blitzkrieg on this once-proud democracy’s Constitution, laws, and traditions leaves behind a trail of institutional wreckage and bureaucratic damage that will take the country decades to undo — if it’s ever able to rebuild successfully. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/with-coup-...

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's proposed budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

A headline that captures so much about our current moment: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Shared with a gift 🎁 link. Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Those who can speak out without fear of retribution (e.g., losing their visa, green card, or getting thrown in a van by goons) should protest

Revoking visas to Chinese students in the US is both cruel and stupid. Immigrants and investment in science made this country great. They are throwing it all away for no reason

"Tell, Don't Show" was accepted to #ACL2025 Findings!    Our conceptually intuitive, lightweight approach for literary topic modeling combines the new (language models) with the old (classic LDA) to yield better topics. ✨📚 arxiv.org/abs/2505.23166

The more leches the better

Because of propaganda Americans do not understand what Rubio is doing with visas. "I gave you a visa to come and study," they think. x.com/CitizenFree... NO, he has not!! Please help explain to X how Rubio has stopped ALL student visas, and how it is killing US science.

"The AI industry is saturated in spectacle. The spectacle of AI, more so than the tool of AI, speaks to dreams of generalities, born from abstractions, forced together through the violent reduction of our world to tiny signals." - @eryk.bsky.social mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-noise-...

It's an exciting prospect to have corporations provide AI friendship and companionship services, competing with legacy friendships and seeking to establish a friendship monopoly. Software eating yet another aspect of the world

I hope this crashes and burns

Check the bonus panel on the site! ◆ COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com ◆ PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... ◆ STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com #webcomic ⁠smbc

Too many interesting papers coming out, too little time

put this on a massive billboard

It's good to finally have a good reference for this stuff! Kudos to the authors. arxiv.org/abs/2501.18374

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Most of us in higher ed in the US are going to lose something over the next four years (opportunities, or funding, or time). But if we believe universities exist, in part, to preserve historical memory and create a space for dissent, our primary job right now is to fight and take the hit.

Where are the student protests?

Breaking News: Newark's mayor, Ras Baraka, was arrested while he and three members of Congress from New Jersey were protesting at an immigration detention center in the city. He was taken to an ICE facility in Newark, his aides said. nyti.ms/3Z680Un

The only thing that is appropriate to say in this time ... is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine.

The fascist spectacle is the point.

Most researchers don’t believe AGI is coming any time soon. But policy makers are steering policy toward AGI anyway. In this article for Tech Policy Press, a look at the distortions the AGI Frame introduces to policymaking. #ai #criticalai #aipolicy In @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Maybe Harvard should invalidate the diplomas of their graduates now working for DJT

WTF

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