Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦

I cannot express how dangerous DOJ's actions are to free and fair elections in 2026 and 2028. Access to and the misuse of this data is almost certain to be the central fight for the 2026 midterms. Yet, too few are paying attention and treating this as seriously as they should.

DOJ has sued Maine, Oregon, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont for access to its most sensitive voter data.

My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.

Don't listen to him. I can make sure darling little Chadwick will have the gene for 6'2" Entrepreneur for the low low price of $249,999.99. Until Christmas, we will throw in Lacrosse Captain for the unbeatable price of $49,999.99.

i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.

ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers

If these meddlers had their way, actually meaningful funds for early-stage AI research would have been redirected to Y2K preparedness, "expert system," and innovations in Segway design.

To the extent that Canada has any foothold in AI, it's because the government 25 years ago had no idea what it was funding. Top down priorities for academic research are pathetic bandwagoning and strangle real future-relevant innovation.

CAUT:

"Government direction of academic priorities—whether through targeted funding, mandated 'areas of excellence,' or performance metrics tied to ideology—constitutes an infringement on academic freedom at the institutional level."

Anyway, UNESCO:

“Institutional autonomy is that degree of self-governance necessary for effective decision-making by institutions of higher education regarding their academic work, standards, management and related activities.”

(Not that Canadian university leaders care. They will put on ticker tape parade for a kick in the teeth from the fed govt.)

Institutional autonomy is a major facet of academic freedom. Institutions set academic priorities through internal collegial processes.

Starving unis into hiring freezes and then telling them they can only have funds to recruit if they check vapid government PR boxes attacks that autonomy.

AP on Trump now, and Biden in June 2022.

For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”

For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”

Ummm any good leftist demoralizes everyone they can to prove they are good at having perfect politics jeez Faine

no he didn’t

STOP IT STOP IT STOP DOING THIS SHIT

he signed a memo with no binding legal effect on states

Naive q...Shouldn't we expect activity dimensionality to align with task dimensionality? How could it be otherwise? Like the brain is high D and so is behav/the world, but most has to be collapsed to do anything. Q is how manifold geometry arises from current state/env/behav.

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Can Your Face Predict Your Salary? Using AI Personality Assessments in Hiring A new study from Wharton faculty explores how AI can extract personality traits from facial images — and what that means for your career.

Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?"

Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."

Whatever about that, being menaced with being “left behind” by self-made Prompt Engineers in the “giving my child a craft activity” race is objectively hilarious

But what will Sylvester McMonkey McBean do with his Star-On Machine if we don't all operate it for him for free?

My thoughts on the matter: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The point is that most papers we all write are incremental -- based on well established methods and ideas -- and have an audience of subfield experts. These are judged by expert colleagues when they read the work. These don't, in my view, need traditional peer review.

The world is going to hell but today my kid got a letter from Sir David Attenborough (her absolutely favorite person in the world after me, of course) and suddenly everything feels a little bit better. What a kind gesture 🙏

(I don't think he knows he got himself a very enthusiastic pen pal 😂)

No, this is wrong, stop reposting this absurd and miscalculated meme.

It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.

Of course...drivers often barely slow down to turn right on red, or pull out into the crosswalk to wait for cross traffic.

They can't drive through or block crosswalks, which drivers routinely do in other cities.

Right turn on red is always illegal in Montreal, and it's incredible what a difference it makes as a pedestrian.

A Computer Science dept chair told me any discipline with "science" in the name has insecurities about whether it's a science.

Community members in Kenner, Louisiana, activate rapid-response teams to follow Greg Bovino and his Border Patrol goons through the neighborhood. They alert residents and warn them not to open their doors unless CBP has a court-ordered warrant.

Isn't that what Annihilation was?