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ML E-Book Coordinator, Mathematician, Activist, Adaptation 2017 Civil Tech Co Winner 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mathstodon.xyz/@Don_Rubiel, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
"""Dear %%FIRST NAME%%, I am writing to personally invite ...""" Mmm, maybe I will not finish reading this email...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
So in 2019 with my experience as AI consultant I realized automation has terrible consequences, and I wrote a story about it: rubiel1.github.io/automation.html The story was desk rejected by a literary magazine, but years later that magazine has to close since they received too many AI […]
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
It is hard to watch The Truthers www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvL0oT13djs and read the #Epstein files at the same time...
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Neville Park @nev.status.nevillepark.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
In the MIT Technology Review, @timnitGebru @emilymbender puncture recent LLM hype and remind us to wait for experts to take a sober second look
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
@newyorktimes I suppose you cannot help me prove I am actually not a bot
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Stefano Volpe :spinny_fox: @foxy.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
You can now read the third issue of _The Illogician_ , the student-led magazine for the Master of Logic of the #UniversityOfAmsterdam: resources.illc.uva.nl/TheIllogician… It is a semiserious periodical about #logic, #language, and […] [Original post on blahaj.zone]
Cover of the Fall 2026 issue of "The Illogician". The title is colored so that one can also read "ILLC" off of it. The cover artwork is a sketch of multiple animals, each representing a complexity class. They blend in with the foliage.The Fall 2026 issue of the illogician, open at pages 2 and 3, both available in an accessible format at https://resources.illc.uva.nl/TheIllogician/issues/2026-ii.pdf
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Waiting for the revelation of the real reason of the headlines "AI companies want to slow down research"...
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 29/08/2026
this is one of my favorite websites to check on from time to time isaiprofitable.com
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Is AI Profitable Yet?
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Marc Abrahams @marcabrahams.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
The 36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will happen a week from today in Zurich, Switzerland - on Thursday, 3 September, 2026, starting at 19:00 (Central European time). If you don't have a ticket to be there in person, watch the free webcast. Maybe go to […] [Original post on mstdn.science]
The logo of this year’s ceremony. The Stinker being conveyed on a raft that has the Swiss flag
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
Lol AI related universal income is not happening...
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026
So now every body develops a LLM that bypasses its sandbox, that is the target...
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rAIner Agentic Quantum Rehak @rainer-rehak.mastodon.bits-und-baeume.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
"Over the past year, a team of #GPTZero investigators has used our Hallucination Check tool to uncover hallucinated citations in government reports, academic papers submitted to prestigious machine learning / artificial intelligence conferences like #ICLR and #NeurIPS, and research products from […]
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Daniël Franke :panheart: @ainmosni.ainmosni.eu.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026
This is beyond cartoonishly evil: 1. AI companies buy rare books from bookstores, because they're free from slop. 2. Books get fed to the slopmachine, destroying the books in the process. 3. AI companies don't publish digital books, potentially removing the book from society forever. 4 […]
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026
Statement by the African Mathematical Union: www.afrimath.math.cnrs.fr/sites/def… "nearly two hundred (200) young African mathematicians holding academic positions at African universities were awarded generous travel grants provided by the […]
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026
Fútbol is the name when there are rules, soccer is when Trump decides the rules www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/us/trump…
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Trump Asked FIFA to Review U.S. Player’s Suspension. Now He’s Eligible to Play.
The reversal of Folarin Balogun’s World Cup suspension is highly unusual. It was the first time since 1962 that FIFA has nullified a suspension for a red card received during the World Cup.
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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026
Maps of Mexico City indicating for each burrough which language is the second and third most common language spoken (in all cases Spanish is the most common language). They are mostly indigenous languages of Mexico, but you can also find English, Korean […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]
See post for description.
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Rowena Ball @rowena.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026
RE: mathstodon.xyz/@Don_Rubiel/11683174… A similar conundrum is already here with grant applications in the mathematical sciences, some of which I have seen are riddled with gen-AI content. What, exactly, am I supposed to assess in such applications when they are sent to me, as […]
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026
Dear @tao assuming that in some years AI can discover interesting problems, and that AI can also solve some of those problems, then, the new version of "paper mills" will sell (in the black market) finalized products to mathematicians. What could we do as a community to detect those cases? the […]
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Cartoon. Two people looking out of a window, everything is at an angle. One is saying to the other “It’s thirty degrees out there”
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026
Don't let the bot play doctor! AI gets early diagnoses wrong 80% of the time www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/ai_g… 'LLMs should not be trusted for patient-facing diagnostic reasoning,' boffins advise
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LLMs fail in 8 out of 10 early differential diagnosis cases
: 'LLMs should not be trusted for patient-facing diagnostic reasoning,' boffins advise
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/t… #ICM2026 #cancelICM #ICM
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Thousands of mathematicians to boycott US Fields Medal event
Academics demand that prestigious gathering is held elsewhere because of attacks on Iran and immigration crackdown
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PersonalEscrito @ubique.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026
#ACAB 😂
"BREAKING: Two police dogs at two separate airports have reportedly bitten ICE agents today"
https://x.com/HalfwayPost/status/2036475182261395616
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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 @migueldeicaza.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026
What are the odds
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026
"Grave Concern About ICM in USA in 2026" Letter to the editor, at the Notices of the AMS by Hendrik De Bie www.ams.org/journals/notices/202604… at the Notices of the AMS by Hendrik De Bie www.ams.org/journals/notices/202604…
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Zelda @zelda.zone · 28/02/2025
"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"
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Ivo 🇪🇺 @ivovanwilligen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026
I wanted the blue checkmark on LinkedIn. The one that says “this person is real.” In a sea of fake recruiters, bot accounts, and AI-generated headshots, it seemed like a smart thing to do. So I tapped “verify.” I scanned my passport. I took a selfie. Three minutes later — done. Badge acquired […]
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026
she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/fe…
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’When Karen Newton left...
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026
“Mistreatment of children during a militarized police action that involved armored vehicles and flashbang grenades has sparked fresh questions about tactics being employed nationwide in the name of the Trump administration's wave of immigration sweeps.… The ACLU has] filed a federal civil rights […]
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
A white supremacist threw a *bomb* at a crowd of First Nations — old people, babies, toddlers, ppl of all ages — and it took the gov nearly two weeks to declare this a terrorist attack. And this still barely made headlines.
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Jack Yan (甄爵恩) @jackyan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026
Bingo! #JeffBezos #WaPo #Amazon #BernieSanders
Sen. Bernie Sanders
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75
million on the Melania movie & $500
million for a yacht to sail off to his $55
million wedding to give his wife a $5
million ring, please don't tell me he needed
to fire one-third of the Washington Post
staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 @migueldeicaza.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026
Turns out that Microsoft's BitLocker security for the data stored on your hard drive is just a placebo. Might as well give your password to everyone: techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/microsoft…
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Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects’ laptops: reports
The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026
"Tens of thousands of fans cancelled their tickets to the 2026 World Cup over the weekend amid safety fears, political protests, and human rights concerns in the U.S" www.ticketnews.com/2026/01/nearly-1… What about the International […]
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026
Suddenly, for the last few days my facebook's page had a lot of right wing advertisement. And then the president of Venezuela was replaced by USA. I wonder if there is a way to measure this kind of activities in facebook.
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robinhouston @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026
A 58-Addition, Rank-23 Scheme for General 3x3 Matrix Multiplication arxiv.org/abs/2512.21980 I love this sort of explicit work. The algorithm fits in a screenshot:
A screenshot of the algorithm.
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025
So I am traveling and I want to transfer money from my #Venmo to my bank account. My old phone dies and I get a new phone. Then: Any log in attempt requires me to send a code to my old phone. I can only call Venmo. I actually called and after providing documents, there was no follow up...
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025
The website www.blackangeltapes.net is the website that sold the tapes that appeared on the horror movie "Bring Her Back"...
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WARNING
THIS WEBSITE IS HEAVILY MONITORED BY THOSE WHO GLOW. IF YOU COMPROMISE THE MARKETPLACE YOU WILL BE VISITED. NO SCREENSHOTS. NO SHARES. NO LEAKS. EXPOSE AT OWN RISK. CAUTION ADVISED.
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025
This year I went to two international conferences that had WiFi problems, but they have problems for completely different reasons. The Abdus Salam International Conference on Mathematical Sciences and Emerging Technologies, hosted in Lahore, Pakistan, had virtual sessions, and to keep the […]
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025
At #AS-ICMSET-2025 professor Arabo gave a talk "Mathematics of Deception: How AI Learns to Hack the Human Mind?" One of the points he mentioned is that we need to educate kids if we are going to leaving them with an internet full of AI - generated content. In history, colonizers train kids to […]
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025
At the Workshop on Geometry, Topology, and Machine Learning #GTML2025 , Anna Gilbert describes a whole field in machine learning that used problematic benchmarks. When she tried to replicate the results, her team shows that usual NN were able to outperform the most advanced architectures in the […]
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/11/2025
I am tired of the "we are not like this" slogan in USA. You all want a system where anyone can graduate without learning, access govern positions without preparation. You want a system where you are rich without deserving it, while people in other countries suffer. Quick examples in which USA […]
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025
So, I noticed Reddit repeats post annually. Same topics same comments. This is very likely done with bots. There are also repetition of post that occur at random, like two weeks after the post or some months later, but perhaps this are done by people trying to get karma from successful topics […]
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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025
So that's DeepSeek, Qwen, Moonshot (Kimi), Z.ai (GLM) and now MiniMax all turning out frontier open weight models in China The ai-in-china tag on my blog is pretty busy this year! simonwillison.net/tags/ai-in-china
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77 posts tagged ‘ai-in-china’. See also my tags for Qwen and DeepSeek.
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025
🎉 Con gran alegría les contamos que la Red Feminista de Inteligencia Artificial de América Latina y el Caribe acaba de lanzar convocatoria para recibir notas conceptuales de proyectos. 👉 Buscamos propuestas para co-crear, en la práctica, modelos alternativos de IA que promuevan la igualdad de […]
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025
People see this www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikToks/comm… and decides that this is the perfect country to host the International Congress of Mathematics #ICM2026
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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025
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headlines from BBC and CNN saying "Millions" did the #NoKings protests, plus an NYT headline saying "Thousands"
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Don_Rubiel @don-rubiel.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025
On October 20, Chung To Kong (University of Hong Kong) will give a very interesting talk in our zoom seminar: The possibility of making $138,000 from shredded banknote pieces using computer vision Everyone is welcome to attend, 3 pm Korea time […]
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025
“'Don't bring in foreign culture': Outburst on train leaves Nepali man in Japan fearful” mainichi.jp/english/articles/202510…
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