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Information Retrieval Researcher ✊🏽🍉🕊️ | Pronouns: He/him Homepage: bhaskar-mitra.github.io

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 1h
I hope the survivors who came forward years or decades ago know that they are the reason the Cornell case is resonating the way it is. Every single one of you helped pave a path for people to understand the harms of rape and institutional betrayal. Thank you. I know it’s hard. But thank you.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1h
I am incensed by sexual violence, and also angry that the systems that have disappointed people are actually working as intended. A system's purpose is what it does. It's pretty hard to make progress without acknowledging that.
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Jennifer @jenwith1n.bsky.social · 3h
Last time, during metoo, the patriarchy mobilized to shut us up before anybody had a chance to reckon with how sexual assault irreparably derails the lives of victims. This time, every woman you know will swing a bat at your face before you can say “false accusations.”
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 3h
No. They have no fucking clue.
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Elmo on Fire
Alt: Elmo on Fire - Elmo in foreground, upper body cut w head thrown back, arms raised triumphantly, as flames blaze in the background.
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Art and Politics with Renee @reneebfa.bsky.social · 3h
Started the fire 🔥 and and recruiting others patriarchy is evil
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Angela Bassett: Burn Baby Burn!
ALT: Angela Bassett: Burn Baby Burn!
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12h
Any talk of "independent AI auditors" & FTC enforcement actions is meaningless when the ppl who do not want enforcement have actively captured both a) the people who'll choose the "independents" & b) the *FTC Itself*. Folx who aren't ex-Googlers who left on great terms maybe might tell you that.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 13h
Trump going all-in on "AI" self-regulation is no surprise, but please interview ppl from, e.g., @cdt.org, @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social, @dairinstitute.bsky.social, @ainowinstitute.bsky.social, or anyone else with a perspective on regulation not informed by a primarily Rosy relationship w/ big tech
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 13h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 16h
with this and the microsoft exec calling ai the largest of theft of human labor in history, we've got some evidence that people in power understand the various reasons you might hate ai, and they think those reasons rule
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When the “censorship industrial complex” myth was just getting started, in Fall 2022, I got a public records request from the AG’s office of Missouri looking for all my emails related to my team’s election rumor research. The Missouri AG at that time? Eric Schmitt. What a tool.
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Fire Captain 🔥 @rescuecaptain.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
#maddow Science break. This momma bear trying her best to herd her cubs across a road.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 17h
She also adjusted her pace to ensure the injured cub could keep up. By 2008, he was observed hunting on his own & at the age of 20 is King of the Fat Bears, holding his own at the crowded Brook Falls. A story of a mother's love, sacrifice & a little cub who became a champion fat bear. 🥹
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How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack
Discover how Bear 89 became Backpack, why his nickname predates his leg injury, and how his mother Holly adjusted to her cub’s needs.
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Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · 18h
Two Jewish activists have had their aliyah applications denied by Israel – for trying to defend Palestinian communities in the West Bank against state and settler terror.
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British Jew’s aliyah put on hold over work protecting Palestinians from settler violence - Jewish News
London-raised activist had been approved for aliyah before Israeli immigration officials placed his case under review
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Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · 18h
Jewish liberation can and will never come at the expense of Palestinian liberation.
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Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · 18h
We reject the false promise of security in ‘returning’ to the Jewish state, which would turn us into the footsoldiers of dispossession – and we call out the hypocrisy in denying this to Jews who diverge from dominant state policy in Israel.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026
shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/09/2026
Jonathan McKinsey, a transgender New Times executive who was head of engineering at NYT games, was murdered by his in laws over the weekend. This follows years of allegations that the in laws were abusive to him over his gender identity. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/28/u...
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New York Times executive killed by his elderly in-laws, police say | CNN
A couple in their late 70s gunned down their son-in-law in a California city park over the weekend, authorities said, and court documents showed the victim had been in a bitter custody dispute with th...
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
lol didn't see this in time for today's Pivot - Meta Muse uploads your past and present Apple Messages to Facebook's cloud, even if you told it not to appleinsider.com/articles/26/09/28/…
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Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Free Press bravely challenging the orthodox belief that film criticism should involve watching the film.
A headline from Bari Weiss’s The Free [sic] Press:

“Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary

There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,' including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.”

First line: “i haven't seen the film,”
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds 16 September 2025 GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.
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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it’s utterly incomprehensible to me that anyone can see this and still claim Israel hasn’t been committing genocide
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, 404 Media has learned. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Sccop here by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Plenty of brown people subscribe to and believe in White supremacy and fascism; or at least enough do to make it something that should be a part of how we understand people like Salam, Usha Vance, and more. Like the Brahmins who still argue that they possess a ‘proximity’ to White people.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026
8. often, when people say LLMs "can do" something they mean LLMs can produce output that looks like the output of doing something 9. producing something that looks like the output of doing something is not the same thing as doing it
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.
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Dana McKay @danachatter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
These are the (mostly men) who are creating the tech that shapes our lives. Making it difficult for women who expect consent to be normative to be part of the conversation changes the world for all of us
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Ingo Frommholz @ingo.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
RE: idf.social/@djoerd/1173476250200419… “The real test of an AI-mediated tutor is not what a child can do with AI beside them, but what the child can still do when the AI is gone.” That holds true for students also. Children and students are not guinea pigs for a technology that […]
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
CEO: I have invented the off button.
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OUTRAGEOUS scenes outside the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool yesterday! But it’s nothing new... In the UK, OVER 3,500 people have been arrested, with MORE THAN 2,250 formally charged under TERROR LAWS for PEACEFULLY PROTESTING the ban on Palestine Action.
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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
lol how did I miss this I just got an email advertising a prize for 1 MILLION dollars to 5 ‘social scientists who tell controversial truths at great professional cost“. The head of the committee is Roland fryer, it’s got Vanderbilt report alums, and it’s bankrolled by Bill Ackman And NerI Oxman.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who does this kind of propaganda even convince?
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you want to say that clear statements of what's going on with LLMs aren't getting enough media attention, then do something about that and lift up the work of those of us who have been researching and speaking about this, from a place of expertise. >>
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026
Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @bmitra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Every potential target is assigned a NAZA value in the AI software. This value represents the expected number of civilian fatalities in the event of an air strike on that target." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAZA_(f...
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NAZA (film) - Wikipedia
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Several protesters just interrupted the pro-data center party, flipped everyone off while yelling “thank you for using all of our water!”
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I feel like techbros imagine themselves to be Tony Stark but in reality they’re every banal technocultic tech obsessed villain who thinks the world is overpopulated and many must die so some may thrive
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/09/2026
They are attributing agency to these products as a rhetorical strategy *to specifically avoid that outcome*
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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🚨 THIS IS NOT LAW! 🚨 The IHRA is not law, this Public Safety announcement cannot legally curtail your speech. You cannot be charged or accused under this definition. This is an attempt to SHUT US UP. Don't be afraid! Don't be quiet! The more they try to silence us, the LOUDER WE WILL BE. Free 🇵🇸
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
All too often the heroes of such fantasies behave exactly as the villains do, acting with mindless violence, but the hero is on the “right” side and therefore will win. Right makes might.
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