Great night for the Dems. Now let's chat about wealth gap. If the 400 wealthiest people are worth $6 trillion and the next 50% of the country are worth $4 trillion then...<checks math> that means 400 people are worth 50% more than 200 million people. We need more like Mamdani! Rein in the rich.

Got the job DONE!!!!!!

Clearly they don’t watch enough police procedurals!! 🤣🤣🤣

If necessary in NYC, I will definitely be doing this. Have bike, will take a stand.

Time to rewrite the headline. "Microsoft and Nvidia have ... plans to invest up to $45 billion dollars into the UK economy" should be "Major tech bros promise to ruin the environment and economy of yet another country, & nobody wants to stop them".

Her interview on Marketplace last week was fabulous, chock full of key info.

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Projection: by 2030 advanced LLMs will complete in hours or days with 50% reliability software-based tasks that take humans a full month. Question: how much longer will it take human programmers to fix the LLM produced software than it would take for them to code it in the first place?

Stand with FEMA employees! I did, and you can too. Takes but a moment. @standupforscience.bsky.social

I live for the day when a gate agent calls up teachers to pre-board a flight!!!!

Feeling cranky about AI & CS Education I’ve been around for a while.

I've tried to sum up my concerns about the rush to all-AI all the time.
open.substack.com/pub/valerieb...

The Republicans are sex-obsessed. The Dems never bring that up. No, the Dems jump on the sex-obsessed bandwagon, making it all about Epstein, when they could instead keep fighting any of the hundreds of issues T serves up every day.

Given the planetary problems inherent in genAI & the political problems inherent in the T gov't approach to genAI, the only correct position right now seems to be to not use genAI at all (or at least avoid it as much as possible since it's being forced on us in browsers etc.).

Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule In an industry once known for cushy perks, some founders are now asking staff to commit to a 72-hour weekly schedule. You’re either in or you’re out.

Just another way that the tech sector makes itself completely inhospitable for anyone planning to raise children. Work 6 days/week, 9:00am to 9:00pm. It's a shame that tech sector employees are so willing to ignore the bloody history of worker organizing. www.wired.com/story/silico...

We have to stand with NSF and all of the science agencies as they try to retain a semblance of rigorous pursuit of scientific research. @standupforscience.bsky.social

If you haven't used this training yet for your TAs, what are you waiting for? You can get it all set up for fall term!

Support the NASA Voyager Declaration Now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE Your solidarity with the NASA heroes helps their fight to preserve NASA's vital missions.

Support the resistance at NASA! #standupforscience

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When I "finished" in 2005 with the PT who saw me through a disc issue I was very sad. Funny how it works, I just saw her a few weeks ago, and not for the first time since 2005! Your PT is part of your village, so this isn't the end at all, because we all know it takes a village!

Subject line on today's email from Anthropic: "Give Claude the context you have". Let me correct that for them: "We need more training data, please give us access to everything on your computer". Sadly, there are people who will buy the hype & jump at the chance.

An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education

A strong statement of resistance to the relentless marketing of "AI" in education spaces. I encourage all educators to have a look and consider signing on:

openletter.earth/an-open-lett...

If you care about NSF, get ready to show your support when this letter comes out! @standupforscience.bsky.social

"According to the researchers, LLMs should be able to perform software-based tasks that take humans one month of 40-hour workweeks with 50% reliability in days, possibly hours, by 2030." The issue here is that humans need better training so they get closer to 100% reliability. Support teachers!

This Fourth of July, I am thinking about the 139 civil servants who took an oath to uphold the constitution and the EPA’s mission, and were placed on leave for raising concerns about issues such as deregulating asbestos and lead exposure.

This is un-American. The 1st amendment exists for a reason.

A graphic from “Stand Up for Science” with a black background and white and red text. The top features the “Stand Up for Science” logo. The heading reads “Official Statement –” followed by a quote: “All we know is that Administrator Lee Zeldin made the following statement to the Daily Caller:” Below is a block quote attributed to Zeldin: ‘Unfortunately, a small number of employees signed onto a public letter, written as agency employees, using their official work title, that was riddled with misinformation regarding agency business.’ Below the quote, bold white and red text says: “This was not just a public letter – it was emailed to him by employees at the EPA on Monday morning, and published after it was sent to him.” In the bottom right corner, red italicized text reads “More on next page” with a red arrow pointing right.

A continuation of the graphic with a black background and white and red text. The paragraph reads: “he has not formally responded to his employees, and they have been placed on administrative leave. Though we are still gathering information on this situation, we condemn these actions. These are dedicated civil servants whose career goal is to keep Americans safe.” This is followed by the name and title: – Colette Delawalla, Founder & Executive Director At the bottom, the red and white “Stand Up for Science” logo appears again.

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#DeclarationofDissent

Support EPA Staff Now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE Your solidarity with the EPA heroes increases the pressure on their Administrator Lee Zeldin.

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Made worse by the fact that everything he does has to be the biggest: biggest bad foreign policy decisions, biggest bombs, biggest bad budget bill, biggest flag poles even. He's so obvious, and yet has the biggest sycophants right behind him. Makes him our biggest problem. Biggest sigh...

Mattel and OpenAI Announce Strategic Collaboration Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT), a leading global toy and family entertainment company and owner of one of the most iconic brand portfolios in the world, and Open...

Anybody remember how bad Teen Talk Barbie was? Do we think that adding AI to toys will magically make them a positive and affirming experience for all children? Just when it's more important than ever that children have unplugged time... www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

If I can’t opt out, I won’t buy the product. But how do we convince other folks of that?

The Tech Guys Are Fighting. Literally.

Tech bros sending the clearest message that only certain people belong in tech. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/t...

NSF research discoveries?

The science creating:
• MRI
• 3D Printing
• American Sign Language
• Doppler radar
• GIS
• INTERNET
• Kidney matching
• LASIK eye surgery
• Semiconductors
• Supercomputers
• Cybersecurity
• Children's education through TV programming, movies, museum exhibits, and apps.