Maxyn Rose Leitner

outside agitators but this time derogatory

18-year-old woman dies while in NYPD custody in the Bronx. Here's what we know. A Bronx mother is desperate for answers after her daughter mysteriously died while in NYPD custody over the July 4 holiday weekend.

RIP Saniyah Cheatham, an 18-year-old Bronx Community College student murdered by NYPD this weekend.

Fuck the pigs. Abolition now.

They shattered her car window. They cuffed her in front of her daughter. With no warrant. No charges. No evidence. No due process. We must demand Noemi’s release.

#DisappearedInAmerica
#AbductedByTrump

USC ISI student @maxynroselight.bsky.social shared work on the network structure of anti-trans actors on TikTok

This work builds a taxonomy of anti- and pro-trans content and examines user interactions. There are more anti-trans actors and they are often connected to pro-trans users... #WebSci25

Every time I see a NLP / CSS paper that relies on Moral Foundation Theory my hackles are IMMEDIATELY raised.

Enough relying on a racist theory from a fascist. It was always bullshit.

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨

Dialz: A Python Toolkit for Steering Vectors

ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.06262
Docs: cardiffnlp.github.io/dialz/
Repo: github.com/cardiffnlp/d...

A Python package to help you create, apply and visualise steering vectors for anything you want - from sycophancy to bias.

Washington Post: 1 in 5 people in Gaza are starving amidst the aid blockade that Israel imposed more than two months ago. If this continues, the entire population could be starving by September.

Imagine if 1 in every 5 people you knew, where you lived, were starving.

Highly recommend following the work of the Southern Environmental Law Center who have tracking this and other polluting data center projects in the South

www.selc.org/topic/data-c...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

"Happy Bat Appreciation Day! April 17th🦇

Today, we celebrate the incredible diversity & importance of bats in our world. Did you know there are over 1,400 species of bats worldwide? These fascinating creatures come in all shapes and sizes, from the tiny bumblebee bat to the majestic flying fox."

100% this. Everything RFK, Jr. said was a trap laid to get people to accept his frame that some people have worth & others don't. Don't fall for it! Humans have value & are deserving of dignity because they are humans. Full stop.

I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.

anyone who thinks universities are liberal should try organizing one

If Mahmoud isn't free, none of us are free.

every time I see someone reference openai I feel compelled to remind everyone that sam altman is currently being sued by his sister for rape & nobody is taking it seriously in part bc she’s a sex worker

The Lemkin Institute — named after the man who coined genocide — has issued a statement condemning Israel, the U.S., Canada, and Europe for perpetrating genocide in Gaza.

Not to "I have a book coming out while the world is on fire" meme, but THE AI CON is getting 🔥 reviews:

From @karenhao.bsky.social:

"Come for the piercing observations; leave with the tools to slice your way through the absurdist narratives that prop up the AI industry and to hold it accountable."

Stop Cop City & the assassination of Tortuguita should have been a clear warning sign.

There are many of us around that have been organizing and preparing for these moments. Do not cower. Join us.

For Tortuguita. For all the martyrs. 🖤🫡

they have to tell this lie about harris running too far left because they're not allowed to say "look, we will not run on the left regardless of electoral performance because our rich donors pay us not to"

A tweet from Nancy Mace showing herself in front of a bathroom door with a seemingly "Female" symbol outside of it, smiling, with the tweet itself reading: "Real women have their own bathroom in Israel! [🇮🇱]"

About the confluence here between Zionism, transmisogyny, racism, and cis feminism: What seems like a pivot from a feminist politician - from "pro-LGBTQ" pinkwashing to anti-trans woman-washing - is actually a seamless commitment to a settler-colonial, bourgeois, white-supremacist ideology: cisness.

Microsoft Research: GenAI can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving.

Microsoft: *sells GenAI aggressively into the Education 365 packages*

The NCAA had to be shamed like four years ago to finally let women basketballers use the phrase “March Madness.” So, I’m saying: I agree with Ryan.

Google Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance Google published principles in 2018 barring its AI technology from being used for sensitive purposes. Weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term, those guidelines are being overhauled.

We fought so hard with employee collective action to get these *bare minimum* ethical principles into place, and now they're being gutted. www.wired.com/story/google...

The absolute glee some are displaying in blaming Palestinians, and people who protested on their behalf, for their own ethnic cleansing is a strategic error (obvs you target the decision maker), a political error (obvs you need those votes), and a moral error (obvs fix your hearts or die).

Come on, we knew that they co-signed onto any ethnic cleansing project.

"Audacious" is a way to say that they want the slow violence of starvation and continual occupation, rather than violence as bald as Trump's.

STUDENT WALK OUT- OUTSIDE LOS ANGELES CITY HALL:

High school students from all over LA have walked out of class and gathered in front of city hall to protest the president’s fascist agenda. SOLIDARITY WITH THE YOUTH! FUCK ICE!

It’s all a part of the same continuum. Genocide & ethnic cleansing from Gaza to the West Bank, silencing of Palestinians & their allies, resegregation, incarceration, and deportation, erasure of trans people. That’s why those who resist have to draw the line at every single moment—no exceptions.

Tan background graphic with slightly darker brown waves in the background. There are three main images: one mostly pink print with Let Gaza Live in green text and a red poppy illustration; the second an illustration of a white bird flying up and holding an olive branch; and a third image of a yellow crochet hat. Text reads: Asian Artists for Palestine... Donate today. Palestine Fundraiser. Logo is Appa from Avatar wearing a keffiyeh. Text on logo reads Asians 4 Palestine Twin Cities.

Asians 4 Palestine - Twin Cities in #Minnesota is holding an Asians Artists for Palestine fundraiser to raise $$ to go towards families in Gaza to support their rebuilding and to connect them with e-sims. There are multiple ways to donate! Donate here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...