Chris Lindgren ✨☕️✨

I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.

Why AI chatbots lie to us A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine needed to collect and format some data from a website, and he asked the latest version of Anthropic’s generative AI system, Claude, for help. Claude cheerfully agr...

In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail).

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Questioning AI Resource List Excellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Another g...

i have updated my anti-ai resource list to include a tab full of memes and social posts people can share (including ai fails, posts with analysis and framing) as well as a tab about taking action. i'm open to suggestions if people have ideas for things i should add: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A short blogpost detailing my experience of censorship at the AI for Good Summit with links to both original and censored versions of slides and links to my talk

aial.ie/blog/2025-ai...

The Big Beautiful Bill gives Meta a $15 billion check.

That’s more than our federal government spends on child care in an entire year.

If we invested that much in child care & early childhood education, we’d create stronger futures for everyone, not just Mark Zuckerberg.

A 14% ⬆️ in applications of Americans seeking education abroad, with record numbers of US students turning to UK universities. Meanwhile, international students are avoiding the US due hostility + uncertainty. The current administration's policies are systematically eroding our knowledge ecosystem.

The denouement is incredible

Pretty incredible interview with NY Liberty's Natasha Cloud telling Trump to fuck around and find out about attacking Zohran.

ICYMI: Trump’s budget (aka the Big Ugly Bill) passed the Senate yesterday, but now it’s back to the House. House Democrats are holding the line and voting NO – but we need 4 Republicans to join us to tank this bill.

Stay tuned – we’re doing everything we can to stop this.

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

This is a concentration camp

A bar graph. On the left side is a bar showing that Republicans are cutting $930 billion from Medicaid. On the right side is a bar showing that Republicans are giving $910 billion in tax breaks to corporations under their budget bill, paid for by gutting Medicaid.

Republicans may lie about what's in their budget bill but the numbers sure don't.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren I'm angry. You should be too. But this fight isn't over.

After 26 hours of fighting on the Senate floor, Republicans voted to rip health care from millions of people and let little babies go hungry. And they cheered.

I'm angry. You should be too. But this fight isn't over.

7 things everyone should know about Trump's megabill The Republican reconciliation legislation, which Trump calls his "big, beautiful bill," is massive.

Judd Legum explains 7 of the things in Trump's megabill:
1. Cuts $930B from Medicaid
2. 16M lose health ins
3. Slashes food asst for poor families by $186B
4. Lower incomes for bottom 40% of families
5. Increases deficit by $3.3T
6. $45B for new immigration jails
7. Billions for defense contractors

DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship Denaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually us...

"The Justice Department is aggressively prioritizing efforts to strip some Americans of their U.S. citizenship...At least one person has already been denaturalized...June 13, a judge ordered the revocation of the citizenship of Elliott Duke, who uses they/them pronouns."

www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...

BREAKING: We're filing a new class-action lawsuit to challenge President Trump's lawsuit restricting birthright citizenship.

The 14th Amendment is clear: Every child born on U.S. soil is a citizen, whether the president likes it or not.

BREAKING: if the Supreme Court wants a class action to hold Trump's birthright citizenship unconstitutional nationwide, we will give them one!

We @democracydefendersaction.org just filed with our wonderful partners @aclu.org, NAACP LDF, LULAC & more

assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...

The takeaway is not that electoral politics will fix everything.

We know it won’t.

Obviously.

The takeaway is that people will show up if you give them hope & a way forward.

And that, my friends, can & must look like a lot of things right now.

Marco Rubio needs to be asked whether he believes his grandfather who remained in the U.S. after receiving a deportation order from our govt should have been treated the way the father of 3 Marines was treated by ICE this weekend in California.

ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.

"In 2020, Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said the company "is fiercely committed to diversity and inclusion across all spectrums because it makes us and the world better." (That statement has been erased from Verizon's corporate website.)"

That’s the one! Thanks for sharing it!

Sample Size Considerations for Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Named Entity Recognition Tasks: Methodological Study Background: Large language models (LLMs) have the potential to support promising new applications in health informatics. However, practical data on sample size considerations for fine-tuning LLMs to p...

Our data show that systems designed for specific tasks do better at those tasks than ones designed for all tasks. They also show that smaller systems are more fine-tunable. This implies that if the goal really is bespoke and individualized AI, small is the way. ai.jmir.org/2024/1/e5209...

Oh, I believe @sscottgraham.bsky.social has co-authored an article about how smaller language models perform so much better. Am I imagining this, Scott?

Who could have predicted that context and situation matter so much when interpreting information and tasks?

Dear gods. Please call the Heritage Foundation and thank them for allowing this level of corruption in our Supreme Court all to allow the theft of our most personal data.

a man stands at a podium with microphones that say wor on them ALT: a man stands at a podium with microphones that say wor on them

"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)

There are literally no words for how incredibly devastating this is and it’s only been 5 months.

Go, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors Again The worst ultra-billionaire on Earth says he’s leaving government. Let’s hope he actually does it.

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

reason 5327 jersey is better than new york: eric adams, andrew cuomo, bill de blasio, rudy fucking guiliani could never.

this is also the guy who told a bunch of other democrats “you talk a weak game *and* when it counts you don’t even come through for trans people.”

Remember when I discussed the idea for a new data visualization framework for Svelte? It is time to get excited! I’ve been secretly working on making SveltePlot possible and will finally share the current state next week at @svelte.dev Summit 2025!!! Stay tuned... www.vis4.net/blog/2024/01...