Reposted by Amy van der HielDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026we have a policy for the use of genAI at the @aial.ie. we reflect on values key to scientific integrity, such as replicability, and err on the side of not using it blogpost: aial.ie/blog/gen-ai-... pdf: zenodo.org/records/2322... 7265116
Amy van der Hiel @amyvdh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I love this scene! I’ve mentioned it to others many times. 010
Amy van der Hiel @amyvdh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I have my own super-earworm song that always overrides any other earworm *don’t continue reading if you don’t want a potential earworm* my super-earworm is any of several versions of "Come On Eileen" 240
Reposted by Amy van der HielElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026CEO compensation has increased 1,316% since 1978. And worker compensation? Just 28%. The system is rigged. We need to start taxing the rich so they pay their fair share. 14838721355
Reposted by Amy van der Hielmanic kirby dream land @loggingintoday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i would like for these people to go to jail. I would like for “i want these people in jail” to be a viable election strategy. 330447
Reposted by Amy van der Hieljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule. 942827461
Reposted by Amy van der HielKarla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and the “largest theft of labor in human history” is what a Microsoft executive privately said about GenAi as shown in newly unsealed court filings. And these court filings get worse. These execs knew all along the immense theft they committed.404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." 111409591
Amy van der Hiel @amyvdh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026gently tormenting a GenAlpha colleague, who I actually quite like, by sharing fairly GenX style memes with her Is there a word for pleasure in subjecting the youth to cringe? 000
Reposted by Amy van der HielElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 16/09/2026Today, I'm calling to immediately press pause on the development of advanced AI while lawmakers and regulators put systems in place to keep people safe. 391096196
Reposted by Amy van der HielMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 08/09/2026“The logical response to material deprivation is to hate ethnic and sexual minorities“ - no, it’s not, it’s a choice! And to call it bigotry is not “name-calling”. It’s factual. These voters have agency. Let’s not patronise them by claiming that they don’t. 6389101
Reposted by Amy van der HielAnnieD @anniedemoranville.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Here you go...this should help you start the work week. youtu.be/yf0Amcgxot8youtu.beTubthumping - They Might Be Giants & The AV Club ChorusYouTube video by ParticleMen 084
Reposted by Amy van der HielJosh Moretto @joshmoretto.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Art by @reforest-kelley.bsky.social. A reminder for Labor Day. 4647350
Amy van der Hiel @amyvdh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026do you think it’s because they are valuing only certain kinds of intelligence, eg: “physicist “ or more likely something about “clues” and makes it seem difficult vs. an amazing mechanic who plays cello or someone who knows amazing amounts about politics and arctic explorers and can explain it well? 000
Amy van der Hiel @amyvdh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026yeah, same. I answered “devil’s night” but “mischief night” also works. Though I don’t think we used either term much though - our miscreants (not saying if I was one) were out and about on halloween itself, not the night before :) 010
Amy van der Hiel @amyvdh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026they should have a very specific PA area for that word, 100%. I got very north-east for my result with one anomaly for Detroit re: what I call the night before Halloween. 100
Amy van der Hiel @amyvdh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026happy birthday! wishing you many happy returns of the day 🎁🎈🎂 020
Reposted by Amy van der HielFactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Mayor Mamdani announces a ban on generative AI in schools through 8th grade: AI is not going to replace student-teacher interaction in NYC public schools. We have also heard the importance of protecting childhood—allowing students the opportunity to ask questions, to engage, to fail, to learn. 15763190
Amy van der Hiel @amyvdh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026a mail header: “Everyone is talking about us but no one is talking to us” really got me today. Friends, would you also be willing to donate to the Trans Lifeline today to provide life-affirming, consent-based care to trans and non-binary people in need? give.translifeline.org/campaign/839...us.list-manage.comDonate to Gender-affirming care is Suicide Prevention | Trans LifelineShow your support for Trans Lifeline’s life-sustaining work during Suicide Prevention Month - give.translifeline.org/SuicidePreventionMonth2026 031
Reposted by Amy van der HielDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026👏🏾👏🏾 techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/m...techcrunch.comMapQuest's app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario | TechCrunchMapQuest is getting an unexpected boost from its decision to defy President Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario. 38014
Amy van der Hiel @amyvdh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Without saying how old you are, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old? 010
Reposted by Amy van der HielPaul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Seth Moulton wanted a debate over trans rights and he got one. 11818146
Reposted by Amy van der HielAliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026“To every trans kid/person, You are a part of MY community & tribe” “You belong. You’re loved. You’re seen. You’re perfect as you are. & you will always be protected by me” - Natasha Cloudhuffpost.com'To Every Trans Kid/Person': WNBA Star Speaks Out After Confrontation With Former NBA PlayerCloud’s post arrives after her heated exchange with Enes Kanter Freedom, whose anti-trans activism has reportedly been dismissed as a “publicity stunt” by the WNBA. 0625155
Reposted by Amy van der HielKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 26/08/2026They remind us that such things are possible. And to honour them, we should believe in ourselves, in humanity writ large, as much as they did. For I will not stain their memories by saying they were wrong about us. That faith is the gift that people like Dolly Parton and Fred Rogers leave behind. 2565
Amy van der Hiel @amyvdh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026same! so many treat the idea of corn with inexplicable enthusiasm. I am mostly ambivalent (fresh, on the cob) to negative (canned) on corn. my theory is people like most corn on the cob because it is a butter (and salt) delivery mechanism. and maybe the crunching noise 000
Reposted by Amy van der HielTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Real talk, all of this right now (in the U.S. anyway) is mostly about the fact that some people eked out the power to say, “no” and some other people lost their entitled minds over it. 3878181
Reposted by Amy van der Hieljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs. 171146053122
Reposted by Amy van der Hielmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 23/08/2026the guy who said he wanted to chair the harvard department of eugenics and race science??? people are signing a letter in support of his right to bully black men to death in pursuit of his dream of eliminating black people entirely?? just making sure i’m reading this right!! 9956941291
Reposted by Amy van der HielDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026Cofnas is not "an outspoken critic of DEI". he is an outspoken racist and a vile human being. any academic institute that harbors him is complicit in his racism and makes academia a hostile place for the rest of us 326173
Reposted by Amy van der HielBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Occasional reminder that the Trump administration refuses to publicly disclose or tell Congress what is happening with Venezuela’s oil revenues. 12378129
Amy van der Hiel @amyvdh.bsky.social · 17/08/2026"A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health." ysph.yale.edu/news-article...ysph.yale.eduUniversal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study ProjectsA single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it 032
Amy van der Hiel @amyvdh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026had my first sip of a La Croix and the memes and jokes about the taste don’t even begin to cover it. Ok, it’s water, but at what cost? 010
Reposted by Amy van der HielTom Scott @tomscott.name · 13/08/2026I’ve written a thing about our recent trip around Namibia. Not really a travel log, more of an essay about landscape and time. tomscott.name/2026/08/13/t...tomscott.nameThe shape of timeSouthern Namibia felt ancient and monumental, shaped by forces acting over spans of time that are difficult to comprehend. Further north, the abundance of Etosha surprised me by making the landscape f... 221
Amy van der Hiel @amyvdh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026wow! this is gorgeous writing with intriguing thoughts and beautiful images. 100
Reposted by Amy van der HielKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026It carried many sneering names over the decades: 'political correctness,' 'women's lib,' 'the gay agenda,' 'multiculturalism,' 'critical race theory,' among other things. Every single one was a weapon to denigrate the project of building a more inclusive America. That's it, that's the whole story. 5668161
Reposted by Amy van der HielJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I'll go another step further: the research shows that BLM protests causally shifted Americans' racial attitudes leftward and helped Democrats in the 2020 election link.springer.com/article/10.1... 342434547
Amy van der Hiel @amyvdh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I’m so sorry for your loss. she sounds deeply kind and the world needs that 110
Reposted by Amy van der HielREwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026my theory is that classic hand-drawn stars have several points because many, many people over the millennia have had astigmatism and drew the stars as they saw them. my basis for this: my own astigmatism and being amazed when i had my first pair of proper glasses and realised they were just dots 1347167
Reposted by Amy van der HielKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 09/08/2026The insane thing about this take is that we're plagued by the opposite problem: too many people listening to shit on their phones *without* headphones. I do not want to hear your TikTok or your phonecall. Grow up, buy headphones and leave us the hell alone. 413521
Amy van der Hiel @amyvdh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026so sorry for your loss To me, the funeral scene from Four Weddings and a Funeral with the “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone” poem shows the kind of dizziness of regular living going on parallel to your own grief 011
Reposted by Amy van der HielACLU of Massachusetts @aclum.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Say it loud, say it clear: IMMIGRANTS ARE WELCOME HERE. PROTECT Act is now a law which seeks to curtail the federal government’s brutal immigration enforcement activities, protect due process, and limit local agencies’ cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 0174
Reposted by Amy van der HielKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 04/08/2026I intend to write more thoroughly about this soon, but the fad for social media child bans should be resolutely resisted at all costs. There are genuine public health concerns about social media, yes. But unlike smoking, it has genuinely salubrious effects as well--including for teens. 27931
Reposted by Amy van der HielKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 04/08/2026These bans are ineffective for their stated purpose, but they *do* empower states to create ugly architectures of surveillance and control. This will not solve the problems that lead social media to be a festering malignancy on democracy, it just erodes our freedoms for no discernible gain. 04614
Reposted by Amy van der HielACLU of Massachusetts @aclum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026VICTORY: The PROTECT Act is now headed to the Governor's desk. Massachusetts lawmakers have sent a message to the Trump administration: We will not stand idly by while ICE agents tear apart families and terrorize our communities. Thank you to every lawmaker fighting to keep our communities safe. 02110
