@miadove.bsky.social
multiply disabled. intersectional justice. work doesn't define me. Profile pic: a tree with pink leaves in shape of a heart. Profile banner: wispy branches with flower buds against a pale blue sky.
As of this afternoon, ICE has purchased 11 warehouses for conversion into detention camps. 11 sales have been canceled.
ICE has spent $1.04 billion on warehouse acquisitions. It will cost the government an estimated $7.57 billion to operate all 11 warehouses per year.
“Republican politicians and strategists in Texas are amping up anti-Muslim rhetoric as a way to energize…voters after several elections when the border was the animating force.”
Disgusting & blatantly Islamophobic.
Majoritarian grievance mongers gotta have a minority to target.
Gift article
Shame on Senator Tuberville: Keep New York City out of your bigoted mouth.
This Jewish New Yorker is proud that we elected our first Muslim mayor. (2/2)
the WonderCon screening of our trans sci-fi short film set in a comic shop, LONG AWAY, made the list! and we’re the first thing mentioned?! bananas (lovely, delicious, thankful bananas).
full details on the screening and Q&A panel that follows are coming soon!
ImmDef attorneys report rushed hearings, weakened safeguards, & increased pressure to issue deportation orders following the mass firing of immigration judges & their replacement with military judges.
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What happens when the immigration court system - which holds the fate of our neighbors' lives in its hands - begins to implode?
“At this point the judges are just rubber stamping DHS policies.”
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You're so close
@vanhollen.senate.gov has emerged as a moral leader. He's been on the right side of issues the past year.
Uh, guys...
I'm teaching invertebrate zoology in the fall. I'm looking for textbook recommendations with good online resources like slides and study guides? Does anyone have presentations they're willing to share? Thanks! #Invert #Zoology #Invertebrate #lecture
The Senate GOP posted an AI deepfake of Texas Senate candidate James Talarico.
Using this tech isn't just a profound threat to our democracy - it's a disgraceful attempt to intentionally deceive voters.
Congress must swiftly pass federal AI protections.
Our disaster recovery efforts should not be held up by Republican's demands to give more money to ICE without any reforms.
I'm headed to the floor with @padilla.senate.gov to reject that false choice and call up legislation to open FEMA today.
Mike Johnson said the admin is in “course-correction mode right now,” but just last year Mullin said that US-born children should be deported alongside their undocumented parents.
They want people to shut up about “mass deportation,” but it’s still mass deportation: www.reuters.com/world/us/rep...
Now that our Kickstarter campaign is over and successful, I am looking for comic work again!
I write, flat and letter. I am fast and cheap. Let’s chat. Email or Dm!
www.jumpstartcomic.com
Art by
NerdiGrey & me
Lane Lloyd
Matt Battaglia
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This draft is now up on SSRN... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
comments welcome!
v/excited to share that my article, Congress's Power of Inquiry in Impeachment, is forthcoming in the Virgina Law Review. Abstract below. Full draft up soon (SSRN... throws hands in the air)... happy to share the draft, though, and would love comments ...
Hear me out: it might suggest a level of state sanctioned and institutionally sanctioned violence that has had a chilling effect on campus protests, and led these students to direct their energies into other kinds of activities, which assumes they weren't expelled, thrown in jail, or deported.
I don't, clearly. Regarding grammar engineering, relevance for me has to do with linguistic concerns. Regarding the societal impact of language technology, relevance is grounded in the prevalent harms, the systems that enable them, and the concerns of the people experiencing them.
And more broadly, LLMs haven't made the field of computational linguistics irrelevant, even if so much of the tech landscape is trying replace better constructed/better evaluated/more reliable language technology with the synthetic text extruding machines.
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LLMs haven't made that irrelevant, because it has never been about automatically creating well-formed (but communicatively empty) text.
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I have never worked on "GOFAI" ("Good Old-Fashioned AI") because "AI" has never been a project I have been invested in. I work (among other things) on grammar engineering, as a means of using computational methods to better understand how languages work.
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The remarks are meant, I think, as an attempt to undermine my public scholarship a) about the actual harms being done in the production/sales/name of "AI" and b) pushing back against AI hype.
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Not infrequently, something I post is subjected to hostile quote tweets (or screencaps) leading to a wave of AI boosters discussing me/my work, or rather pretending to, since it never actually reflects understanding of what I do.
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Cuts to scientific research will have effects for years to come. @standupforscience.bsky.social has been an important voice connecting scientists & all of us.
@cdelawalla.bsky.social leads that group, & her latest post is a call to action to restore funding
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We routinely bought crawfish from Louisiana suppliers as they were the best quality available on the market.
The Gulf fisheries are not just crawfish however. They are also shrimp, crab, oysters, products for pet food across the country, and alligators.
We are talking 20,000-25,000 jobs here.
It's crawfish season and Louisiana's crawfish processing plants are at a standstill because there is no migrant labor www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/new...
No, “AI” is not a Stochastic Parrot 🦜
@mmitchell.bsky.social writing on how people dramatically misunderstand the "stochastic parrot" critique.
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we expelled them, blacklisted them, called cops to beat the shit out of them, and deported them. why aren't they protesting again? i'm very smart
Would anyone in the Seattle area be interested in a several year archive of physical Game Developer magazines? I need to take stock of what I have and consolidate some of them into the same storage but if I had to guess this is ~probably~ in the range of like 2006-2012, give or take?
Six years ago WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Despite tens of millions of deaths, the world has not sufficiently addressed the ongoing impacts of COVID-19, and we are more vulnerable to future pandemics due to anti-science officials leading government agencies around the world.