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Judge orders Workday to supply an exhaustive list of employers that enabled AI hiring tech Workday cannot narrow the collective to exclude individuals ranked or sorted using the HiredScore artificial intelligence product, which it did not develop.

This is interesting: people are going after AI-enabled hiring software, alleging it discriminates against people over 40.

www.hrdive.com/news/workday...

Gender, race, and intersectional bias in AI resume screening via language model retrieval | Brookings Kyra Wilson and Aylin Caliskan examine gender, race, and intersectional bias in AI resume screening and suggest protective policies.

www.brookings.edu/articles/gen...

(Caveat that these results may not be applicable to Workday/HiredScore because I don’t know specifically what model they use and if they may have any custom finetuning or system prompts to mitigate this)

Whole body controller from my team. Lean on it, push it, robot doesn't fall. Important to watch the feet: it smartly changes its posture as Jonah pushes down on it.

In preparation of today's mark-up of the NIH appropriations bill in the Senate and other activities, I sent this note to Senator Susan Collins' office.

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Why White Supremacists Love the Numbers 14 and 88 Law enforcement officials in Tennessee have arrested two white supremacists who planned to assassinate Barack Obama, the New York Times reported...

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Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations, potentially exposing sensitive user data Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats—including deeply personal details about mental health, relationships, and trauma—are appearing in Google search results, raising major privacy concerns.

NEW: ChatGPT allows Google to index chats users share using the Share functionality - presumably misinterpreting "make this chat discoverable". The result? Frank admissions about sex lives and drug dependencies. My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo... tip @techmeme.com

Reform Movement Statement on Starvation in Gaza In response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the Reform Movement has released the following statement.

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Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.

I've been in an ongoing conversation with several other demographers about birth rate panic and what we can do about it. We've written this, with @karenguzzo.bsky.social and Shelley Clark. More to come! theconversation.com/fears-that-f...

For people trying to find the paper but finding the above article paywalled, here it is: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.14805

14 Republican senators urge White House to release delayed NIH funds Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) is leading the letter making the ask of OMB director Russ Vought.

Why call? Why sign letters? Why protest? What does it do??

It. Adds. Up. And PRESSURE WORKS!

Keep it up, Dorks!

#StandUpForScience

www.politico.com/news/2025/07... 14 Republican senators urge White House to release delayed NIH funds - POLITICO

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
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We need to amplify the good news, the stories where communities come together, where ordinary people learn to fight back, where politicians and judges do what is right. If this ship can be saved, it will be up to all of us to not give up the fight.

Press briefing graphic for July 8 at 2 PM ET at Rayburn House, DC, titled “An Update on the Retaliation to the EPA 139.” It states that 139 EPA employees who signed the Declaration of Dissent were placed on administrative leave July 3. Speakers include Colette Delawalla, EPA signatories, members of Congress, and science org leaders. The background features a faded image of the Statue of Liberty.

🚨 On 7/3, 139 EPA employees who signed the #DeclarationofDissent were placed on administrative leave while being investigated.

We'ew holding a press briefing TOMORROW (July 8th) to update the press & public on the retaliation faced by the #EPA139 .

📍Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC.

The Biological Truth Is That There Is No Simple Dichotomy Between Male and Female By Amanda S. Therrien Ph.D.

“Penn’s acquiescence here is troubling…not least of which is condoning the scapegoating, revisionism, & transphobia…also bc it adds credence to an interpretation of biological sex that flies in the face of current science.”
@philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com

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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I am once again pitching my romantic comedy:

- two academics start dating
- discover they are each other's terrible reviewer
- hijinks ensue

Working title: Love is Double-Blind

jfc

Lander, as he's being cuffed: "You don't have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens. You don't have the — I'm not obstructing; I'm standing right here in the hallway. I asked to see the judicial warrant. [...] You don't have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens asking for a judicial warrant."

This is fascism—there are no checks & balances if legislators are arrested for questioning a member of the executive branch.

I struggle to understand how to best operate in this reality. I'm making incredible progress in my state, but uprooting this kind of evil feels beyond the scope of my office.

It's not going to be enough to abolish ICE.

There are going to need to be prosecutions.

Interesting take. I’ll add an additional wrinkle: the proliferation of higher education might have made this worse, not better. You don’t feel status anxiety over positional goods that seem impossible to get: you feel status anxiety over ones that near-peers have that you don’t. 1/3rd have a degree…

Long term, we want to be able to tell a computer what we need a robot to be able to do and have the computer give us a design and manufacturing instructions for a robot that can do it. (3/3)

My current work is on algorithms and interactive tools to design the shapes of kinematic linkages - assemblies of joints linked together by rigid structures (like arms, legs, and torsos branching into multiple limbs). Project details: sung.seas.upenn.edu/research/kin... (2/3)

Computational design is about getting computers to help us design robots! We aim to empower non-engineers to design and build their own robots, and to support engineers to rapidly make custom robots for new needs. (1/3)

We are Jewish students from universities Trump is targeting. He’s not protecting us The president and his allies are using our pain as a pretext for an assault on higher education we didn’t ask for.

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forward.com/opinion/7218...

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.

Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

Screenshot of chat with “Ask CAL FIRE”. The user asks “What is fire?” Ask CAL FIRE responds “Sorry I don't have the answer to that question right now. Do you have any questions about information on this site that I can answer?”

Looks great Gavin!

What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT? Very small compared to most of the other stuff you do.

There are lots of things that warrant discussion & debate about AI, but "it uses too much energy" is a short-sighted critique that will appear silly in retrospect.

It’s a brutal time for young men.

Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute.

Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo.