Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026Sen. Pete Ricketts gets the Trump rally crowd in Nebraska to boo the mention of "transgender rights" 12042677
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialDan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It surprised me that the NYT story, which has five bylines, does not mention that Walters’ company, Salus Worldwide, has lost its $915M self-deportation contract. www.projectsaltbox.com/p/dhs-taps-r...projectsaltbox.comDHS Taps ResponseAI, an ICE Skip-Tracing Contractor, to Run Self-Deportation ContractThe company, whose growing ICE portfolio includes locating people for deportation, will now run DHS’s contract for people leaving through the CBP Home app. 17922
ithacagreg.bsky.social @ithacagreg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Glossed over is that activity change at a set of single synapses as traditionally conceived neither physiologically nor mathematically in NN’s support what is now termed Biological Time Scale Potentiation BTSP. So that ability to learn and know in the way we take for granted, is not supported. 010
ithacagreg.bsky.social @ithacagreg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Kids in college doing we are doing fine, we simply realize our age will likely mean not as much grandparent time, but no regrets. There many greater risks. 010
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialThe Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...youtu.beBOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funeralsYouTube video by MS NOW 17123741126
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026Loll Yudkowsky, Soares and such AREN'T SHILLS? The Yudkowsky who founded the eugenicist, rationalist cult? The one who predected singularity to be 2025? The one in the sex parties that women have to attend to "network? The rape orgies with dubious consent mechanisms that Soares coorganizes? 636470
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialAaron Littman @aaronlittman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Believe it or not, the Supreme Court was presented as far back as 1947 with the question whether attempting to execute someone a second time, after a botched first go round (then, in a portable electric chair known as “Rusty”), was cruel and unusual. 317850
ithacagreg.bsky.social @ithacagreg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026That synthetic AI agents are more extreme then the real demographic info has come up in a number of studies. Not only should we be worried about political polling, but also its uses in education, marketing and social science research. It can all push us to lean into stereotypes even more so. 051
ithacagreg.bsky.social @ithacagreg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We need to call it western analytic philosophy and even that will be a bit of a straw man, part of Gettier conditions and post-Gettier attacks certainly fall into the modern analytic tradition and though they have played an outsized role, part of their flavor is that they are counter intuitive. 000
ithacagreg.bsky.social @ithacagreg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It seems a form of material reductionism, that cognitive affordance that often comes with new insights or methods with the clarity of a new prophet, “now we will be able to understand everything“ and phenomena that don’t take the new insight into account are illusions of old failed explanations. 001
ithacagreg.bsky.social @ithacagreg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Sounds like a reprise of open science. 010
ithacagreg.bsky.social @ithacagreg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026When I learned that cocaine made other people seem interesting, a lightbulb went off. 120
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11/09/2026I'm excited to share this preprint by my wonderful MSc student Yihsin who's thought deeply about how psychological & neurocognitive theories relate to different types of evidence. Beyond Empirical Success: Evaluating Theoretical Virtue Across the Computational Modeling Chain doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 716442
ithacagreg.bsky.social @ithacagreg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I like the annealing of theory and method, but “don’t have a useful theory” seems too strong for practice. “Crystalize“ supports a description that also limits usefulness. Theory imprints methods but methods bring in other material, historic and cognitive stuff that rarely reach understanding. 021
ithacagreg.bsky.social @ithacagreg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026All three of those would be light years better. 011
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/09/2026Politicians who throw trans people under the bus: stop asking me for money 1617116
ithacagreg.bsky.social @ithacagreg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It is Russia and Ukraine all over again. Both Ukraine and Iran were supposed to lose and because they aren’t it is treated as many as a wrong. 000
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialWayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The Tree of Life web project is back! A phylogenetic view of biodiversity way ahead of its time (ca. 1995!), conceived and led by David Maddison, collaborative & human-curated, widely used in teaching. Defunct technology had doomed it until Travis, Danny, and Andrew revived it. 🥳🎉 🧪 #evolbiol 010250
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"Kennedy's department cited seven articles, two of which were apparently made up entirely and three of which did not exist in the journals to which they were attributed..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...ms.nowJudge slams HHS for referencing fake studies generated by misuse of AIThe Department of Health and Human Services has suffered more than its share of AI-related humiliations. The list, alas, is still growing. 24543221844
ithacagreg.bsky.social @ithacagreg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026You take out large amounts of cash. They pull you over. Them: Profit. 020
ithacagreg.bsky.social @ithacagreg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Don't know if it really has much to do with it, but there were strong matrilineal traditions in Kerala that persisted into the early 20th century. 010
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.social(s)noey❄️🏳️⚧️ @nelloshots.bsky.social · 12/08/2026they genuinely would rather we not exist in the first place. so they settle for indirectly killing us. and then celebrate when we die 0131
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Personally, I think what needs reckoning with is how fake it all was. Centrists convinced themselves annoying leftists on twitter were an equivalent threat to Jan 6 insurrectionists. They wildly inflated the threat of left-wing authoritarianism while ignoring how it was taking hold on the right. 92069330
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 24/07/2026"Federal officials offered the new details about the grant cancellations as part of an agreement with plaintiffs meant to spare the government an exhaustive, evidence-uncovering process known as discovery...That process could have required federal agencies to hand over more damaging records." 0910
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...notus.orgSuspicion and Doubt at the National Civics ContestAmerica’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust. 10558932288
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialJathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 23/07/2026The Mayo Clinic's AI assistant has serious privacy problems, an extremely high error rate, and a team that manipulated data to lie about the tool. After raising concerns, the research director and AI compliance lead was fired. The future is bright! futurism.com/health-medic... 05928
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 22/07/2026this seems like political poison with the desi community tbh 932758
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Do you want to know how popular school vouchers are? They have never won on a ballot. Not once. In any state. Ever. The only way states are able pass a school voucher scheme is behind closed doors. Legislatively. The people would never approve their tax dollars going to private religious schools. 237122224101
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialChristopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Another loss for the Trump administration and a win for honorable transgender service members who were promised early retirements if they “voluntarily” (it wasn't) chose to go and then were stripped of them after retirements were approved. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...advocate.comJudge rejects Trump administration bid to dismiss transgender Air Force troops’ retirement lawsuitA federal judge ruled that all 17 service members may continue challenging the Air Force’s decision to revoke early retirements it had already approved. 03011
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Just canceled my DashPass and sent this email to DoorDash. I encourage you to do the same if you support D.C. home rule. press@doordash.com and ir@doordash.com 192675802
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialBrad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 22/07/2026The @freedcproject.bsky.social, whose activists packed today's oversight hearing, has launched a flash campaign calling on people to #DeleteDoorDash in response: 0148
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialNicolas Bierne @couplingdmi.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Not everyone knows that there’s more genetic divergence between a mussel and a clam than between a dog and a fish. 0104
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialSami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here. 20692853852
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialKathy Gori @kathygori.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Money in politics is sickening and sickens us! 1146
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Brandon Herrera is the GOP nominee for TX-23 (San Antonio suburbs). He has a long history of making lewd and sexually suggestive comments about women and children, which are documented here. Speaker Mike Johnson is campaigning for him and funding his campaign. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...yahoo.comGOP Candidate Brandon Herrera Attacked Moms, Made Vulgar Remarks About ChildrenTexas congressional candidate Brandon Herrera's past comments include sexually explicit attacks on women and crude remarks about motherhood and children. In a January 2023 video post on X, Herrera att... 16142100
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026To be clear: As I say in the post, I don't think Trump fired Bondi to prevent sharing NM files. But I do think the NM files can be a politically damaging point of pressure for Blanche in this week's hearing. 2406112
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialAlina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026what Dinaw Mengestu said, yes. 💯 09415
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Believing that sexual assault is “not that bad” is absolutely a risk factor for committing an act of sexual violence. And why wouldn’t it be? If these men are insisting that it’s perfectly fine sexual behavior, then why would they hold themselves to a standard they don’t believe in? 310426
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialDittie @dittie.sheshed.rocks · 10/07/2026NM’s AG just accused Trump’s DOJ of stonewalling the Zorro Ranch probe. Letter dated June 30, released Thursday: 130+ days of silence after 6 attempts to get records. Thread on what’s in it A #SheShed 🧵 413985
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Are you sick of winning yet?apnews.comOutbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite grows to more than 1,000 casesMichigan is experiencing its largest outbreak of a parasitic infection that causes severe diarrhea. Nearly 1,000 people have been diagnosed with cyclospora as of Wednesday, though no deaths have been ... 461396434
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialDemocracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 09/07/2026The Trump-Vance admin deleted records showing if and when DOGE accessed sensitive data. We will continue to shed light on their attempts to operate in secrecy.wired.comFederal Investigators Say Certain DOGE Records Were DeletedA government report claims DOGE didn’t access sensitive systems. It also says the agency deleted records that would show if they had. 818984
ithacagreg.bsky.social @ithacagreg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026There is massive pressure for everyone in detention to accept deportation. But if we believed in justice we would at the very least protect the witnesses to a murder. 0120
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026ICE murdered another person. 5840321908
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026"Another caller, who said she was sleeping in her home, said she heard someone say the n-word twice before she heard two or three gunshots." 11892379
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialCinnamon Toast Cunt @meri90.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Meta contaminated Cheyenne Wyoming’s wastewater supply with a bacteria with a 31% mortality rate DEATH TO AI 131511885
Reposted by @ithacagreg.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/07/2026"why didn't she come forward about the rape earlier" Because police don't do anything about rape most of the time, they try women for "false accusations" some additional percentage, and what was she supposed to do, upturn her mental health only for some judge to give him a suspended sentence? 313087579
ithacagreg.bsky.social @ithacagreg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Even if it was an op it worked for the same reason. 0120
