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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This applies to everything: "The most precious resources of our profession are students and ideas" -- mathandai.org

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

Looks like OpenAI may have stolen another mathematicians work.

Screenshot of an X post by user Valerio Capraro (@ValerioCapraro) featuring text followed by an embedded photo of a man in glasses and a dark sweater against a forested outdoor background.
The post text reads:
"BREAKING: OpenAI might have stolen another major proof.
In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAI may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov's soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAI later announced Astra had solved.
I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and one of the most respected scholars in the field. He has spent two decades working on this problem.
If his account is correct, this is not a minor dispute over attribution. It would mean that unpublished human work was absorbed into a model and then presented to the world as a breakthrough by the model itself.
And if the allegations raised by Levent Alpöge, Tristan Buckmaster, and now Andreas Thom are all substantiated, we are no longer looking at isolated incidents.
We may be looking at one of the greatest intellectual scandals in the history of science.
AI is not discovering new mathematics.
AI is stealing human discovery."

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/09/2026

3. If some random presents me with anything in the hope of collaborating with me, I AM NOT TAKING THAT SHIT. I'm not even looking at it. It's an open invitation for that random to attempt to sue me later for "stealing their idea" or whatever. Also, fuck you, random, for putting me in that position.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 11/08/2026

I read that about half a million children go missing in the US every year. I haven't read any Flock press reports of its cameras finding any of them. One would think that putting cameras on every corner and hooking them up to face-recognizing AI would turn up at least a few of these missing kids.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Transphobes are uniformly trash and we don't need to pretend otherwise. It isn't complicated.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23/07/2026

the entirety of U.S. telecom history involves dems taking 20 years to implement basic consumer protections only for them to be immediately destroyed by a broad coalition of Republicans, telecom monopolies, and "free market" libertarian think tank guys telling you how wonderful this will all be

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ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over

FCC lets ISPs stop listing all fees after companies complained it was too hard.

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 20/07/2026

“China is going to beat us on AI and that’s a national security problem” and “we gotta stop letting foreign students study in the United States” are two beliefs that some people are capable of holding simultaneously, isn’t that incredible?

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Jene @luckymud.myatproto.social · 03/07/2026

If you don't care about doing alt text for folks who are disabled and folks who need accomodations, at least do it for when this website is broken. If you're going around right now not seeing pictures, read the alt text and you should be able to understand what's going on, if they did a good job.

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The government has a formula that decides whether safety rules are worth passing. And that formula was rewritten to put a new price on your life: zero dollars. #PublicHealth #EPA #News #Trump #climatechange

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

He signed an unconditional surrender at Versailles? Come the fuck on.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

One company paid $500,000,000 for AI in one month.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

the best argument against democracy is 5 mins with the median voter, the best argument for democracy is remembering that without it, thats who gets what they want, not you

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I've got to say that I'm really disappointed in the recent discourse surrounding the RCP8.5 scenario. The lack of context and understanding is something I expected from the usual suspects, but it's frustrating to see such bad takes from people and outlets who should know better.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This is where I started ruthlessly unsubscribing from campaign fundraising texts and emails.

How much of the money raised by these groups actually makes it to candidates and party committees?

After subtracting these massive operational costs—the payments to Mothership, the fees for texting services, the cost of digital ads and list rentals—the final sum delivered to candidates and committees is vanishingly small. My analysis of the network's FEC disbursements reveals that, at most, $11 million of the $678 million raised from individuals has made its way to candidates, campaigns, or the national party committees.

But here's the number that should end all debate:

This represents a fundraising efficiency rate of just 1.6 percent.

Here's what that number means: for every dollar a grandmother in Iowa donates believing she's saving democracy, 98 cents goes to consultants and operational costs. Just pennies reach actual campaigns.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

1) DHS has in custody, for once, for real, an alleged violent criminal alien. 2) They manipulate a judge into releasing him so they can attack the judge for doing so.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

A friend asks: “Has it occurred to anyone that the MAGAs think you have to show IDs at restaurants because they’ve been eating all their meals at strip clubs? This isn’t even an unreasonable theory”

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 03/05/2026

Just saw an ad for samsung appliances touting "bespoke AI" integrations. So now not only is your IoT connected device spying on you, it's doing so in the service of an LLM enabled ecosystem of bullshit. Don't buy any new samsung shit is i guess what I'm saying.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/04/2026

I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

"Turns out students aren't great at asking questions well." No fucking shit. Literally any educator could tell you that. 90% of my job as a high school librarian is trying to figure out what kids actually want versus what question they asked.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 31/03/2026

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Stephen Miller complaining about the UK finally eliminating heredity nobility from their legislature is a perfect encapsulation of how perverse it is to have these people in charge during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

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libraryn.bsky.social @libraryn.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Holy crap! Less than $1,700 away from raising $15,000!!!! 20hrs left! I watched this bundle raise over $1,000 yesterday. Let’s make the world just a bit better today! Buy awesome books! Help trans people! Hooray! AND VERY IMPORTANT TO ADJUST DONATION! DON’T BE LIKE ME AND MISS THAT PART!!!!

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

It’s too late for Micah, but for others let this be a warning - go buy a hot dog first.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The Trump administration made a conscious decision NOT to target the agriculture and hospitality industries because of pushback from capital interests.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would force social media platforms to filter and suppress content that the Trump admin is willing to argue makes kids "depressed" or "anxious." Videos of ICE murdering people make me pretty depressed and anxious, and I'm a grown ass adult. See where this is going?

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 05/01/2026

And when she was just on the cusp of understanding this, I said, now imagine they sold that information about you to anyone who wanted it, so that there would be people out there able to manipulate you whom you've never even met. And now you're not the trainer, you're the dog. Now she gets it.

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10

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Russ Fischer @superelastic.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

and the winner of the "2025 best thing on Internet" has just arrived neal.fun/size-of-life/ @carlbergstrom.com

neal.fun

Size of Life

From an amoeba to a blue whale

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Tanya Janca | SheHacksPurple @shehackspurple.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

React Developers: I need you to upgrade right now. I don't ring the alarm bell often, but this time I am. It's similar to Log4j, but not yet exploited in the wild. This is quite serious, please upgrade now.

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SheHacksPurple: Upgrade React and Next.JS RIGHT NOW

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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

EVERY house we looked at in altadena had a high fire risk, so we looked and bought in Pasadena even though there was less inventory. EVERY house i looked at in Altadena burned in Eaton, four weeks after we closed. Eaton missed our house by five blocks. the risk rating worked. shame it’s gone.

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Troy Hunt @troyhunt.com · 06/11/2025

This has been an extraordinary set of data to process: 1.3B unique passwords, 2B unique email addresses (including mine 😭) and almost 3M of our @haveibeenpwned.com subscribers in there. It’s been weeks of processing to get this loaded, and finally, it’s done www.troyhunt.com/2-billion-em...

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2 Billion Email Addresses Were Exposed, and We Indexed Them All in Have I Been Pwned

I hate hyperbolic news headlines about data breaches, but for the "2 Billion Email Addresses" headline to be hyperbolic, it'd need to be exaggerated or overstated - and it isn't. It's rounded up from ...

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Dan Veditz @dveditz.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

In NYC watching as Liz Story is back in a recording studio for the first time in 15 or more years. It sounds glorious!

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

do folks have any idea how much cops cost?! it would be less expensive to just feed people.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/10/2025

there is NOTHING in the science to justify this. fuck this

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Rich people don’t buy newsrooms because they care about journalism they do it so they can control the news.

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CharliCenter-CX @cambrianera.radical.town · 26/10/2025

I feel this should be obvious but we do understand the reason for the focus on gender affirming care for incarcerated people, right? The goal is to get people to admit that they think gender affirming care is *not medically necessary*.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🌖 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 25/10/2025

Clocks go back in the UK tonight. They change in the US on November 2nd. Welcome to the Week When No One Knows What Time It Is 😆

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

WBEZ/Sun-Times are crowd-sourcing a map of ICE raids. Put aside what they’re doing and to whom and why. The fact that the people of an American city, including the mayor and governor, have to guess where Federal agents are operating, is itself insane. interactive.wbez.org/uploader/en/

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Submit your photo of ICE in Chicago | WBEZ

Help us track where ICE agents are being deployed in Chicago. If you see federal action, submit your photos — which will be vetted by our journalists for inclusion in a map.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

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New Work by Gary Larson | TheFarSide.com

Get an exclusive look at brand new cartoons and artwork from cartoonist Gary Larson, creator of the iconic comic strip The Far Side®.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

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