Maxyn Rose Leitner

boost !!!

If you make "controversial statements" outside of classroom, that the President of the university dislikes, you can be summarily fired even if you are tenured.

Universities like UT Austin have shown that they will place ideology and political power ahead of the most vulnerable students, faculty, and staff they serve.

Fight against the closure of Black, Latino, and Gender Studies at UT Austin. Support our students.

#Blacksky #polisky

Screenshot of first page of Controller's Charter Reform letter. Read at bit.ly/lacontroller-charter

NOW is the time to get involved with Charter Reform!

Help us STRENGTHEN the Controller's Office so that we can fulfill our role as the City's independent financial watchdog - accountable to the PEOPLE, YOU!

📩 EMAIL your public comment to the Charter Reform Commission at reformLAcharter@lacity.org

My friend Layla has less than 10 days to get all of the money together for her tuition! Despite genocide, starvation, constant bombing, she is keeping her dream of being a dentist alive.

Please donate at the Chuffed:

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"

remember when a bunch of people on here tried telling us what was happening in this chart wasn’t happening that was cool

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...