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a lot of these guys really envision a future where technology relieves us of the burden of human experience

Key point: The losses are so large bc the economic benefits of universities to their communities and our country are so great.

That's why possible NIH budget cuts--expertly visualized by SciMAP--are so damaging. Check out their maps ⤵️

scienceimpacts.org

I cannot keep posting about this silly New England athletic association. Just assume that Harvard is flipflopping, Penn & Columbia are sacrificing students, Dartmouth is pretending neutrality exists during an authoritarian takeover, and the rest are trying to keep theirs heads above water.

Email reading: "Hello Alison, I’m a CEO coach and a former contributing editor to the then-most widely circulated publication to the small business community in New York City, The New York Enterprise Report. I’m pretty active on LinkedIn, and frequently repost compelling, well-written articles I find online. I found your July 7th article, Should I Let an Employee Resign Rather Than Firing Them? compelling, but elected not to repost it. Why? Because while otherwise well-written, it is replete with the use of third-person pronouns with a first-person subject (including right in the title) whenever the employee is referred to (curiously there is agreement whenever Mark is referred to). And being the stickler for grammar that I am, I just couldn’t let that pass. Indeed, in the same paragraph, we see both: “this employee is facing consequences—their job didn’t work out and they’re leaving it…” (it’s one single employee; they use of “their” and “they” suggests one or more employees are now involved)…“Mark’s desire for more consequences than that, when the problem has already been solved, comes across like he wants to twist the knife just on principle…” I’d really like to post this, Alison, and will if the third-party pronouns are changed to be second-party."

for the love of fuck

no, I'm not going to rewrite my answer to cater to your unhappiness about "they" pronouns

(only men send emails like this, by the way...)

Convenient list of places where your donation would go the furthest

Confronting the Rainbow Panic The erasure of LGBTQ+ stories from the National Park Service and other government websites has a long history.

Earlier this year, @wendylrouse.bsky.social was one of the first to sound the alarm about federal censorship of historical work. Today at #AHAPerspectives, she writes about what happened with her own article on the NPS website and the longer history of LGBTQ+ erasure. 🗃️

roses are red
peonies are pale
forgive my delay, I was

This, but in real life.

Here, see? I teach medieval art. It's great. You'd prefer to read threads like this than another screed about "AI."

Zohran Kwame Mamdani‬ ‪@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social‬ · 11h America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

It's the end of the evening and I'm pinballing between apps, looking for one tiny hit of joy so I can go to bed, and I mindlessly kick over to bluesky before realizing "oh no, wrong direction." But then I see the top of my feed -- and you know what? Yeah, that's a little ray of hope. I'll take it.

It would be really cool if the Democratic Senate and House minority leaders from New York City stepped up to defend Mamdani from the fascist president threatening him

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Yikes yikes yikes

#RAdminSky

I am on the other side of the world from Los Angeles and I just heard a news grab on our national radio station of Maxine Waters telling a cop "Are you gonna shoot an elected representative? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight" and she remains one of the best to ever do it

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

To trulye builde a beare, you must firste create the universe.

Donald Trump, despite being the head of a party that has railed about deficits for decades, is about to pass a budget that increases the debt by $2.4 trillion. This happens whenever Republicans get into office, they reveal that a core tenet of their ideology is a lie.

you’re laughing? the leopards have resorted to cannibalism and you’re LAUGHING?

"I asked ChatGPT" well I asked my cat's anus looks like we both did our research

A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding city councils with climate misinformation Internal instructions accessed by Canada’s National Observer show that the chatbot produces tailored scripts, petitions, reports and even speeches for council chambers. The messaging is all framed to ...

"The chatbot’s instructions tell it to “de-emphasize the climate catastrophe narrative,” to focus on “real pollution, not CO2.” The bot is told to frame these arguments in the most reasonable possible way"

"chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person:

A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work

🧵

#RAdminSky

Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist "I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed."

404 Media got to the bottom of it! www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...

This all sucks, but I'm grateful for the research community and for everyone sharing their experiences and tiny bits of knowledge. In this case, the rumor mill warned us about the termination two days in advance, which makes a difference.

Another week, another terminated grant – this time, EPA. #RAdminSky

60% of Americans have a chronic condition. Among people over 65, it's 95%.

Saying most of our health care spending goes to chronic conditions is just another way of saying it goes to health care.

Judge Session: I see no evidence of risk or danger of any kind. The court orders ICE to release Rümeysa Öztürk from custody IMMEDIATELY. She is free to return to her home in Massachusetts. Also free to travel within Mass and VT. I'm not going to restrict her travel, because I see no danger of flight

#RAdminSky

gotta be the first pope who conceivably has tried malort

you know the rules.