Christopher Weaver

Rescinded NIH & NSF Grants

Substantial updates to the list of cancelled grants👇

- THANK YOU to all who have contributed. Crowdsourcing restores faith in humanity.

- It's still a work in progress. You'll see more updates shortly.

- There are multiple teams & efforts engaged in tracking & advocacy. More to come soon!

As political scholars argue in The Harvard Crimson: “Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable, but, as the Columbia case suggests, it’s not working. Its leadership made repeated concessions to right-wing critics, only to be the first to come under attack.”

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place

advait.org/files/lee_20...

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.

But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

Here's some numbers just in case anyone needs them. I know it doesn't feel like it but there's so much to live for. Reach out if you need it.

Trans lifeline 1-877-565-8860

Trevor project 1-866-488-7386

SAGE elder hotline 1-877-360-5428

I'd argue that it depends, in part, on whether one is making a good faith effort to understand the consequences of their actions. If they aren't, then they can be held responsible.

There are currently only 22 films streaming on Netflix made before 1980 and not a single one made before 1960, with the oldest film on the platform currently being PSYCHO. I know I’m a broken record but: buy physical media, support your local library, etc etc

This isn't your first trip, is it? Make sure you hit Timber.

I'm just here for the quality cephalopod content.

If Descartes taught fencing his students would be Cartesian duelists.

Thank you, and thanks again for a great show!

@adeemtheartist.bsky.social Who wrote that song you played in Durham that you compared to "Lake Marie"? I didn't catch the name and want to check them out.

If it were possible for me to be more excited for the next album, this would do it.

I don’t know about “known for” but I was most proud of finishing this

According to the republican nominee for VP (quoting noted American hero Richard Nixon), I'm the enemy.

"So I got that going for me... which is nice."

It's incredible how accurately Shel Silverstein predicted AI decades ago

George Santos might not see your posts mocking him, but your friends who falsified their entire identity and are committing both large-scale and minor fraud will.

When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem-- which did we fail?

I have a case for him

What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Folly of AI What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Folly of AI

Happy to share my first piece in TIME! It's about Socrates, #LLMs, and #democracy. #AIEthics #author "If Socrates was the wisest person in Ancient Greece, then large language models must be the most foolish systems in the modern world." https://time.com/6299631/what-socrates-can-teach-us-about-ai/

This heuristic, that the ethical philosophy that affords the funniest jokes is the deepest is: Occam's Whoopee Cushion.

I'd call that irresponsible.

Being asked to defend a terrible song that you didn't even write is the biggest gimme in the world, and he still whiffed.

I'm seeing it tonight.

Just skeeting and popping xits in the idiocracy.

Why is there no "sad Ying yang twins" gif?

Tweet from Blaire White making dumb but common logic error - “If the statement “trans women are women” were true, the statement “women are trans women” would be equally as true”

Well maybe there is some practical value to teaching logic after all (if only to stop people from making this idiotic argument)

Glad I got this account set up before Twitter imploded.

Now I just have to relocate my favorite follows.