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Cameron Mozafari

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Queer vegan Iranian-American (he/they). Cognition, language, emotion, persuasion. A conventional solution to a reoccurring coordination problem. Keep your hobby politics to yourself.

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Literally study after study shows that the more you engage with LLMs, the lonelier you feel and the stupider you become. Chatbots are bad for your health. There should be a surgeon general's warning, not large-scale government funding.

18.06.2025 21:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And for the folks who are like "but what a contradiction! Didn't he cheer on Brexit? He's losing it!" White Americans believe they are European. They also think they are British. And they also know next to nothing about the EU. Smoosh it all together.

16.06.2025 22:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Everything about this. He's a selfish clown. I don't wish ill, but I do wish he and all of his followers would kindly step down and let people who are more competent and less selfish take over because their ignorance is killing people and driving the rest of us insane.

16.06.2025 21:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I don't know what I would do if I didn't have my dog here. Everything is so bleak. Everyone is so malicious. Just try to be a better person. It's not hard. Figure out who to help and help them. Forgive if you can. If you can't, maintain your boundaries. But work towards helping people. It's not hard

16.06.2025 17:42 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think a lot of the terror of the modern age can be understood by the fact that the Internet accelerated the development of the worst type of person, the "Anti-Intellectual Nerd."

16.06.2025 13:23 — 👍 13657    🔁 2488    💬 165    📌 94

Is active listening a real thing, or is it just performative and interruptive back channeling?

06.06.2025 13:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Donald Trump believes intelligence is the result of genetics and rich people are smart. Poor people are not smart because of bad genetics. People who threaten his money are also evil. But those people are also usually poor, and thus have bad genetics. This is how poor people are evil and subhuman.

05.05.2025 05:27 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I just... What? What is the source of anti-Semitism?

30.04.2025 00:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Art of the Deal

23.04.2025 16:57 — 👍 12347    🔁 3085    💬 392    📌 175
Until now. For instance, the cancer scientist Kseniia Petrova, a Russian immigrant who worked at Harvard’s renowned Kirschner Lab, has been in a Louisiana ICE prison for two months now, and is facing deportation to Russia because she allegedly lied to a border control officer about carrying frog embryos for research purposes. Not only is this likely false—she told NBC News that she did tell the officers the truth—but the usual penalty for such a piddling violation is a $500 fine, knocked down to $50 for a first offense. Instead, ICE revoked her J-1 visa and threw her in prison pending a hearing to deport her back to Russia, where she might easily end up in prison or dead for criticizing the Putin regime.

Petrova is not just any cancer scientist—she is perhaps the world’s top expert on analyzing the images produced by a new cutting-edge, ultra-specialized microscope that is being developed to diagnose cancer cases. Leon Peshkin, Petrova’s manager, told NBC that the task “requires a unique set of skills because you have to both be able to work as an embryologist and do applied math, modeling, data analysis and bioinformatics—all in one package.” Nobody else in the lab could do what she does, he added.

Until now. For instance, the cancer scientist Kseniia Petrova, a Russian immigrant who worked at Harvard’s renowned Kirschner Lab, has been in a Louisiana ICE prison for two months now, and is facing deportation to Russia because she allegedly lied to a border control officer about carrying frog embryos for research purposes. Not only is this likely false—she told NBC News that she did tell the officers the truth—but the usual penalty for such a piddling violation is a $500 fine, knocked down to $50 for a first offense. Instead, ICE revoked her J-1 visa and threw her in prison pending a hearing to deport her back to Russia, where she might easily end up in prison or dead for criticizing the Putin regime. Petrova is not just any cancer scientist—she is perhaps the world’s top expert on analyzing the images produced by a new cutting-edge, ultra-specialized microscope that is being developed to diagnose cancer cases. Leon Peshkin, Petrova’s manager, told NBC that the task “requires a unique set of skills because you have to both be able to work as an embryologist and do applied math, modeling, data analysis and bioinformatics—all in one package.” Nobody else in the lab could do what she does, he added.

one of the world's top cancer scientists, who works for Harvard, is at risk of deportation to Russia where she might be killed for criticizing Putin, because she allegedly failed to disclose carrying frog embryos at the border. it's upending American medical research: prospect.org/health/2025-...

23.04.2025 19:18 — 👍 5297    🔁 1946    💬 98    📌 80

Today was my class where we talked about labor abuse in tech and why labor unions are both on the rise and demonized by CEOs and investors. This is a conversation that undergrads in STEM need to hear before they graduate and likely won't from their professors.

23.04.2025 20:18 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Don’t forget to say please and thank you folks!

21.04.2025 00:06 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Me: Oh cool, what do you study?

People at this conference: I guess I kind of look at the whole idea of ...

10.04.2025 22:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How can attention to language help us to resist, mitigate, or adapt to the changing educational dynamics of our writing classrooms? Join the discussion on Friday from 3:30pm-4:30pm in Meeting Room 347 for the LLW Standing Group Meeting. #4c25

10.04.2025 18:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sometimes when I'm feeling down and defeated, I just start playing the Zero theme song from Megaman X in my head. Dun dunduh Din duhduh Den dunununununu Dun dunuh Din dunuh

23.03.2025 22:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is Trump going to execute someone on live television by the time he is done with his first year, this is what's running through my head.

05.03.2025 03:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What happens to Spiderman's webs after he's done slinging? How bad for the environment are these webs? Can we say for sure that the rise of superheroes is not the cause of climate change? We need to go after the real culprits.

30.01.2025 18:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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