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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 9h
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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HydrologyNL @hydrology.nl · 13h
Eight or nine years old. Murdered.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 2h
This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 15h
HEY DORKS!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 19h
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 16h
On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream, we’re so excited to chat with authors of the new book, Against Tech Oligarchy! @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine will join me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to chat about tech industry labor: Mon, Oct 5, noon Pacific twitch.tv/dair_institute
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dair_institute - Twitch
Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). — dair_institute streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 16h
This is why science is a critical pillar of democracy, BTW.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 16h
If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 19h
Customer: I asked ChatGPT what I should read and -- Me: Well I'm sure its advice is *great* because LLMs are all just massive databases of books stolen from me and my fellow writers. Customer: Wow I did not know that. Keep telling people. Also if you want to know what to read, ask a bookseller.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 22h
I suppose in the same way that eugenics was also the "biggest idea"?
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 20h
This is Yelyzaveta Devdyuk. She was 26 years old. She had her best years ahead, but russia killed her in an overnight strike on a residential apartment building in Kyiv’s Darnytskyi district. 🕯💔
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 22h
My theory: More than critiques of circular financing, or of dubious product functionality, "stochastic parrots" undermines the foundation that the entire AI boom is built on: The story that the AI industry is building an unfathomably powerful machine god.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 22h
No two words send AI industry advocates into fits of rage more than "stochastic parrots." The question is: Why? Why do they get so worked up over this particular critical framework time and time again? I sat down with @emilymbender.bsky.social, one of the coauthors of the original paper, to discuss
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The two words the AI industry hates more than anything
I talk with computational linguist Emily M. Bender, co-author of the influential 2021 “stochastic parrots” paper, about why AI industry leaders can’t stop seething over the term.
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 22h
While putin is desperately fighting with bridges in Kyiv, we find solutions. I’m in an absolutely beautiful Telegram group, where people can ask for a lift from one bank of the city to another or offer one. I love reading messages there.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h
Planning out my teaching schedule for 2 years in the future and thinking fondly of the not-very-distant-past when Chegg was the biggest problem I had to deal with to make sure students were actually trying to learn my course material. Fuck LLMs.
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Ɐuska @auska.esq · 02/10/2026
It is only the most tortured reading by which a permissive license could have been interpreted to mean unfettered, directly competing use by novel tech. But MIT/BSD licensing was always a mistake, the peer pressure to be “open” led by the libertarian techbros who turned out to just be cryptofascist
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 01/10/2026
Another week, another “we’re vaguely familiar with the basic premise of the story while at the same time wilfully missing the entire point” moment
Screenshot:

Is this a 3D model?
@IsThisA3DModel

80% of the children who accepted Wonka's Golden Ticket died

Josh Daws
@JoshDaws 
Rejecting Al is like refusing Wonka's golden ticket.
Anything you want to, do it Wanna change the world?
There's nothing to it
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23h
Kharkiv today ‼️ ​Russia killed at least 2 people and injured over 30 by dropping 3 glide bombs on a regular residential neighborhood in the middle of the day, crushing people's homes right over their heads. Terrorist bastards.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Massive crowd outside Palantir’s HQ in central London. Throw this evil corporation out of our public services." via Global Justice Now
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When the book is done And the 3 murals are finished And I finish the scicomm landscape paper And we hit the Skype a Scientist annual fundraising goal I am going to have to shut my whole life down for at least a week and eat pastries and make art for no good reason, & read books, and just lay. down.
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A researcher asked if their 8th grader could use me as a resource for radiation questions for a project. I said yes, but that I would fill their child's head with wonders and horrors. Them: If you can do worse than I already have, go for it. Me: Challenge accepted. Them: Wait...oh no.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Putin ordered Russian troops to disregard the rules of war, Zelenskyy tells the FT. ​Ukrainian intelligence intercepted information indicating that in September, Putin ordered the Russian military to intensify strikes on civilian infrastructure. Since then,
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Still somehow not the dumbest thing the Trump regime has said or done about climate change. I say that as a climate scientist.
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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This policy, cuts in NIH and NSF spending, restrictions on international student visas, etc., all have the effect of making universities into desperately underfunded, subservient institutions. I increasingly wonder if that isn't the most important goal.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is Ilya Honcharov. He was only 14 years old. Russia killed him in Vyshhorod, Kyiv Region on September 30 🕯💔 ​Ilya’s family had moved to the Kyiv region from Sumy to escape relentless bombings, only for a Russian missile to strike the building where they lived.
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 01/10/2026
We know from existing satellites and constellations that they have direct negative environmental effects on the global commons (e.g., biodiversity, cultural, scientific, etc.). But there are also indirect negative impacts like unintended emissions from onboard compute that affect radio astronomy
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An Emerging Risk to Radio Astronomy | Spaceaustralia
A new study using a prototype SKA-Low telescope has detected over 100,000 emissions from Starlink satellites, including signals in radio bands protected for astronomy. The findings raise urgent concer...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
CEO 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.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.
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California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US
Finally, some good news
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every time Putin speaks, global news outlets breathlessly cover it as breaking news, ignoring that he hasn't uttered a word of truth in his lifetime. His speeches serve a single purpose: delivering propaganda. ​Imagine if the media actually exercised critical judgment.
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At this point, Trump has done so much damage to Puerto Rico over two terms I'm just waiting for the Navy to draw up live fire exercises for San Juan.
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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 01/10/2026
> People who don’t want to contribute without LLMs are probably not able to review and understand the code by themselves (or they will lose that ability soon enough).
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot. Salah Sarsour was arrested and jailed. The next victim of ICE's cruelty could be you. We must all speak out and demand accountability.
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‘She was pure love’: Renee Good’s partner makes first public comments as family sues U.S. government, ICE officer over her killing
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Good, 37, in the driver’s seat of her SUV during a Jan. 7 en
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The future is slop and pervert glasses, get on board, everyone
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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Which is nearly synonymous with stopping basic research in the US.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/
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Essence of RBG 🦋 @rbgprevails.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every horrendous villain movie come to life!
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/10/2026
exactly. Don't debate these weirdos: just decide for yourself if you want THEM in charge of the future of humanity, because "being in charge of our collective future" is what they're trying to accomplish.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OMB's focus on NIH and NSF, which has confused a lot of folks, pretty much boils down to stopping money going to universities.
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Here lies JD. He drew as many comics as he could. @lostcity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There are NOT machine-made clothes. If there were, your clothes would be made in the country you live in (where the customers are), or in China (where machines are cheap). They’re made in Bangladesh or India or Indonesia because that’s where the LABOUR is cheap. Your clothes are made by people.
Joyce Carol Oates says: “This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to
different consumers.“
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today, Russia struck a school in Kyiv with a drone during the morning hours. At the time of the strike, about 100 schoolchildren and 60 staff members were in the shelter; fortunately, no one was hurt. Who does that? What kind of barbarians attack children on a school day?
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is what I was afraid of. russian drones struck near the support structure of the Pivdennyi Bridge in Kyiv. It connects the two banks of Kyiv across the Dnipro and it’s the one I use. Metro and other public transport across the bridge have been stopped while engineers inspect it.
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump's effort to rebrand AI as SI doesn't go far enough. It should be called Super Human Intelligence Technology. We'd get more accurate news headlines, like: "Under Trump, Government Turns to SHIT" or "SHIT Heads Visit White House"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After heavy lobbying and huge donations from Big Tech, Trump killed a proposed Biden-era rule requiring AI companies to disclose their riskiest experiments to federal officials. Everything is for sale. This is worth a read: www.levernews.com/ai-regulation-was…
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AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/09/2026
generative AI ends up being used where you want to create the outward appearance of accuracy or quality without either of those things actually being involved
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 30/09/2026
NY Post: Dennis Rodman is expected to meet with President Trump on Thursday as prez plots Kim Jong Un reunion I wish I was making this up.
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