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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Did you forget about the Silmarillion

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

the first congressperson to get arrested for trying to force their way into an office they are supposed to be allowed in has my undying love and support

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

i mean that is just too on the nose

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Meanwhile Putin is laughing his head off. With Trump heralding Monroe Doctrine 2.0 (the US does what it likes in its 'hemisphere'), legitimising annexation of places close and distant, and violating every verdict of the Int Courts, Putin's annexations are fully normalised.

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

"Leave or die' Trump tells the Palestinians of Gaza, endorsing the war crime of ethnic cleansing as official US policy. Europe now has to make its choice: Leave NATO immediately or forever be remembered as Trump's lieutenant in this crime against humanity www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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Trump, Hosting Netanyahu, Says Palestinians Should Leave Gaza: Live Updates

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Trump's tariffs = politics-by-other-means - macroeconomically senseless but politically potent. Domestically, they furnish him with an income stream independent of Congress. They enable him also to blackmail Mexico (Canada) to accept expelled migrants (to become the 51st state!)

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

What these transphobes forget is that gay people and close allies have an endless ability to come up with terms and/or speak in code. Perhaps some journals will circumnavigate this proscription using alternate terms. For instance, I see that the CDC neglected to include the word “mpreg” 🫃

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

really looking forward to everyones social security numbers and payment history being trained into grok next month

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

We gotta be French DJs about our politics

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Have we tried a counterforce of six 19-24 astrology enthusiasts? Could be more tuned in than the the Democratic Party is right now

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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The National Science foundation has just updated their FAQ to say they are complying with the court order and has restored access to funds and the ACM$ platform new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

1. When will the Award Cash Management Service (ACM$) be restored to allow disbursements on active awards?
Access to ACM$ has been restored and the system is available to accept payment requests as of 12:00 PM ET on February 2, 2025.

2. On Friday, January 31, 2025, a Federal Court issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) directing Federal grant-making agencies, including the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), to"..not pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel, or terminate... awards and obligations." What is NSF doing to comply with this TRO?
NSF has restored access to the ACM$ system as of 12:00 PM ET on February 2, 2025 and is in compliance with the TRO.

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Quick shut down their Roblox accounts

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Ages 19-24? Someone check if they share a Minecraft server

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

HAPPENING NOW: The West Bank town of Tamon is under Israeli military assault, with homes forcibly evacuated, converted into military outposts, and a comprehensive curfew imposed. The IDF uses D10 bulldozers to destroy the infrastructure, taking hostages.

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Thank god for people who take away my rights to make decisions 😮‍💨

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Listening to Techno Feudalism by @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social and I am stopping and rewinding every ten seconds to take notes. Perhaps I should just buy the physical book—but his voice is so rhythmic and pleasant to listen to!

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Humility is a very attractive quality in disgraced tech moguls

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Never forget that Democrats are the ones who tee'd this up. Every faculty member that did not condemn the persecution of students on their campus, the presence of police, you facilitated this. And we will never forget it. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Trump administration to cancel student visas of all 'Hamas sympathizers', White House says

U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday to combat antisemitism and pledge to deport non-citizen college students and other resident aliens who took part in pro-Palestinian protests, a White House official said.

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Thanks for the info. Seems worrisome to me to have the government depend on private infrastructure, but I’m not surprised it would already be doing so

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

“If you follow these steps, you’re sure to come out on top in this international conflict. I hope your carpet bombing efforts don’t go unnoticed! 😉 ”

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

“Certainly! You can [redacted] civilians using a few different methods:”

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The stakes are obviously much higher than the mass quitting and layoffs at Twitter were, affecting far more than one company or social media platform. To appropriate Margaret Thatcher, THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE to the services these valuable public agencies provide 5/5

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Of course, I doubt anyone in ICE got the email…

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Fill the bureaucracy with incompetent AI that can barely send emails and can do *nothing* in the physical world to further grate down any remaining trust in the public sector 3/3

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The motive is supposedly austerity cuts like what musk did to twitter, but I wonder if and when some positions will be filled by people less likely to resist. AI certainly won’t be able to do it. Or maybe that’s the endgame: 2/

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Praying that enough federal workers are brave enough and able to turn down the “fork in the road” offer (quit now and get paid through September.) We need people in the nexuses of action that can resist and challenge illegal orders. 1/

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

How long ago do you think OpenAI started working on ChatGPT Gov? After Elon signed on? When Trump won? Last week? They’re being very vague about what makes it special

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Chinese parents in the year of the snake: you should be grateful, you know. There are starving kids in America with nothing but ChatGPT to eat 😔

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

But DeepSeek shows - in the same moment as the Stargate announcement - that the trade off that OpenAI & co frame as wholly necessary is actually not. 15/

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

After listening to tech news for a while, you realize they can’t so much as sneeze without mentioning a stock price. The tech industry is just a vassal of finance at this point

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Using unreliable (meaning: any existing) predictive AI systems in hiring or welfare should be a crime. Using them to predict and identify targets in war? More of a war crime www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/o...

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Opinion | Our Military Is Adopting A.I. Way Too Fast

The military is integrating A.I. into its deadly systems too quickly, and Trump will only accelerate a dangerous situation.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/01/2025

DeepSeek this DeepSeek that why don't you DeepSeek some therapy

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

For the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, @alexhanna.bsky.social and I will be joined by Dr. @tamigraph.bsky.social to point our ridicule as praxis at tech bros’ unhinged ideas about energy and the environment Join us here: Monday, Jan 27, noon Pacific www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

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dair_institute - Twitch

Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Apropos of a co-panelist's remarks today: If you're asking how do we get people to trust this technology, you're asking the wrong question. Should be: How do we build technology that is trustworthy & sufficiently transparent so people can make informed decisions abt when to trust it.

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Threvin Mudweeks @devinsudweeks.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Stargate? Really? The real connection between corporate AI infrastructure and interdimensional space travel is that we’re going to need an actual stargate to leave this planet once tech corporations have sucked it dry.

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