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Emma Strubell @strubell.bsky.social · 3h

CMU Miami will be built from the ground up as a politically conservative institution, a response to the lack of "viewpoint diversity" (representation of conservative viewpoints) in higher ed that the ("center") right has been complaining about for years.

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 2h

There seems to be this developing norm on here that responding by quoting a post is inherently aggressive and that people are doing cynically for “reach.” But for a lot of us, it’s just a way to making sure the reply has context by including the original without requiring a click through.

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 3h

It really hard to look at my profession and see so much of what people fought to build for decades being torn down. It’s a tragedy.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 22h

My first thought about this idiotic nightmare of newspeak is how it's going to affect academia, and whether we're about to see a rash of papers calling it "superintelligence" in a bid to get a drop of the ever-diminishing pool of government funding.

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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @repyassansari.bsky.social · 22h

I'm incredibly proud to have secured over $2 million in federal investments to create the @arizonastateuni.bsky.social Center for Heat Preparedness. This builds on work I’ve been doing for years—first locally here in Phoenix and now in Congress.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/09/2026

Ignore for a moment the question about whether Anthropic trains on user sessions. I am I right in reading this as saying that Anthropic's "never-before-discovered" reverse transcriptase was *patented* three years ago?

Dr. Mestre first encountered the enzymes in jumbo phages in 2022 while searching for new reverse transcriptases. He worked briefly as a consultant for ReNegade Therapeutics, which filed a patent in 2023 on a number of reverse transcriptases, including the ones Dr. Mestre found. He is listed as a co-inventor on the patent filing.

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is an abomination. (Also, did Maya Angelou’s estate sign off on this?)

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today in “AI is not a technology but a political project steeped in hierarchy and dominance.”

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

After many years in AZ, I just found my first live (and very alert) scorpion in my house.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some of you fail to understand that masking can be something you do because you believe in restricting risks for vulnerable people in your lives: it can be an act of community. Not always of course. But some people don’t mask because they’re disabled, they mask for this reason.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A nation of self-induced dementia.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

when i mention "claude" you can assume i'm talking about the albino alligator not the llm

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Rather than being a great democratiser, AI is currently forcing organisations to put up more gates and barriers to keep out the low quality avalanche.

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yep. AI is DDoSing our knowledge systems. So everything is going to contract back to old school networking, which will only be possible in person because AI is also flooding online networks. You do the math on how this new-old system will distribute opportunities.

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YouCarryOats @youcarryoats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

yeah but I don't want the authors' carefully crafted abstract! I want it to be mostly wrong and cost a ton of money and water in order to overwrite the authors' carefully crafted abstract while being very wrong!

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you have decent health insurance, you can just get the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine. I got it last year. Just made an appointment and went. I didn't have side effects and felt fine. Easy peasy.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It has been a baffling and frustrating week seeing people who have had large and influential platforms only just coming to this now. I get there those of us who have been researching this area for years (VERY pre ChapGPT!) are not representative and so I temper my irritation. But even so. C’mon.

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I got my flu and COVID vaccine yesterday. And boy do I feel awful today.

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I really enjoyed this show, but I knew it would be cancelled. Two middle aged women in an action/comedy? I’m shocked it got made in the first place. But Waddingham and Butler are so good together. It’s too bad.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Based upon their documented behavior over the past few years, the tech industry is less afraid of the potential ramifications of Artificial Superintelligence than they are of Lina Khan.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Be the metaphorical herd of trampling elephants you want to see in the world.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.

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Meredith Plays Horn @meredithmoo25.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Vampires from "Sinners" have dropped out of the Ed Sheeran tour

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

People keep replying saying Anthropic is probably not charging full price. Likely. But even if there is a huge discount, it’s a ton of money. And any discounts or subsidies won’t last long. Then it’s a huge line item in the budget. Or it get offloaded to students via fees. My point is abt priorities

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 17/09/2026

There’s a reason why arguments that people on the left need to uncritically swallow the bill of goods being sold by the AI industry come off as offensive to people who were already aware of all this.

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Welp, there’s a whole lotta German on the timeline. That means the Germans are starting their day and it’s very past my bedtime.

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wait. I'm sorry. How is $2500/mo *cheaper* than hiring personnel? That's $30K a year per student or faculty member. You could just hire people.

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's not enough that AI is DDoSing all of our knowledge production systems with slop. They are also insuring that we can't access information either.

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I thought this was fake. But it’s also being reported by Variety. The Stanford Prison Experiment is a literal textbook example of unethical research. It’s used widely in human subjects and research ethics training as a horrifying example not to be repeated.

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“…someday soon, probably the way many restaurant reservations will work online is with one person’s AI agent doing some sort of negotiated bid system with other people’s AI agents in concert with the reservation platform’s AI agents (as in, you will have to pay for restaurant reservations).”

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NO QUALMS

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They’re going to claim that trace amounts of birth control in drinking water is a public health risk, and then make birth control pills illegal, aren’t they?

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am so tired of people using AI notetaking tools to record every human interaction they have. It's on every Zoom call and increasingly in in-person meetings. Many of my colleagues seem too eager to normalize constant self-surveillance. It's super weird.

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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

didnt know they'd invented racism that was too racist for karl rove

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09/14/bo-french-kal-rove-endorsement-jon-rosenthal/

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

File under: less exciting non-scifi ways that AI might kill you.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

OpenAI is giving people’s ChatGPT conversations to contractors to read with the goal of improving the outputs.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Right. I’ll believe AI is a threat to humanity when I can consistently wirelessly print on campus.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 13/09/2026

Another example of how the normative use of generative AI as an image technology is rooted in the rejection of social and cultural differences for an aesthetic world tailored to the likeness and ease of the viewer, even if it means mutilating reality.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

All of a sudden we're not talking about the widely popular bipartisan opposition to massive data center buildouts. I wonder why 🤔

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A scientific platform builds shared capacity on which future discoveries can build. A digital labor platform does something different: it connects individuals to markets while transferring more risk to them. The two share a name. They do not share a function.

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