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Right. That's why my white Nissan Leaf keeps getting charged when a Nissan Xterra with the same plate number (but different state) is parking. The poor customer support is tired of hearing from me. Bad AI isn't destroying the world, loser executives who insist on using them absolutely are.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/10/2026

whether or not it stayed in the headlines, ICE's on-the-ground presence “shocked the whole system” (in one advocate's words), changing life for Maine communities. many immigrants have been effectively sheltering in place since Jan, relying on grocery drop-offs and volunteers to take kids to school.

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ICE got ‘quieter’ – then killed a father in Maine. Now watch groups are shifting their tactics too

ICE-watchers get creative after the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, as Trump’s immigration crackdown takes a more secretive approach

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Arthritis National Research Foundation @curearthritis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis, and new research is reshaping how we think about slowing its progression. Join us this Wednesday, 9/30 at 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET, for a free live session with Dr. Jean Liew (BU) and Dr. Kelsey Collins (UCSF). ➡️ Register: bit.ly/RSWSOA26

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Saying it again: the destruction of the service academies as actual universities is a very importany piece of the Trump administration's undermining of both higher ed and the civilian-military constitutional order. thehill.com/policy/defen...

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Hegseth freezes hiring of civilian tenured faculty at US military academies

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed departments on Tuesday to halt appointments of civilian staff to tenured positions at U.S. military service academies and develop hiring plans that prioritiz…

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 29/09/2026

> Capitalist elites hate workers and despise worker expertise. [I] have decades of experience, sitting in rooms with (mostly) men who [...] hated that a wage servant possessed technical expertise they needed, but were too lazy, arrogant or stupid to grasp. — @cloudquistador.eurosky.social

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The Tech Industry: An Autopsy

The tech Industry, and the fields that grew from it, are dead. The Industry, which, as Yasha Levine details in his book, ‘Surveillance Valley’, was always a tool of oppression, and never &#82…

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nothing's stopping you Darren

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 24/09/2026

I think that most college professors have gone through something like this at some point. Craig's response was the right one, I believe.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today in class I saw, again, a student just on their phone scrolling through videos. I have a no phone policy in class. This happens every day. I teach college. Honestly, I didn't know what to do. I stood there shaking in confusion for a while until I started talking again.

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

These people watched Jurassic Park and thought, "See, the problem was that their complex system failure could only eat one person at a time. How inefficient."

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It boggles my mind how susceptible they are. My dad is a retired software engineer so should be exceptionally skeptical. He'd rather listen to Gemini than me...

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Big difference. 😂 alt-text: When the cat is snoozing peacefully in a ray of sun on a mattress, the dog gingerly steps around it and lies next to it, respecting it's space. But when the dog was napping, the cat didn't hesitate to lay directly on the sleeping dog, make a couple biscuits and hang out.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I got a *remarkably quick* rejection email from a tenure track job that I applied to. Rejections are part of the process! However, if you’re going to screen candidates with ai, please don’t ask for more than a cv and let us know! It’s a lot of time learning about your dept, writing and tailoring.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

don't fear ai. feat what powerful and incompetent men (it's always almost men) do with ai www.msn.com/en-gb/news/o...

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Is everyone else getting human verification screens when they just open a normal journal article url? Not downloading the pdf, just clicking to the article from a TOC email say? I feel like this is new this year, and probably reflects what @carlbergstrom.com is talking about here.

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Boomers continuing to find new ways to destroy our future

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Public health researchers might only know how to use logistic regression, but at least that means they'll never use MANOVA

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

They want these rules/policies/culture because they want to normalize policing girls and women. No women are safe when female-ness must be inspected, regulated, and adjudicated by the state.

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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This "going rogue" framing is nonsense. These are still just text analysis models. It's openAI that is "going rogue" by giving a computer program complete autonomy to make decisions without human oversight. That's a danger whether it's a fancy new LLM or an old-fashioned SQL database.

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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

No matter how much they try, conservatives can't deliever on their male breadwinner economy. New post. Industries that already employ women are growing faster, indeed they are the only thing growing overall and still the majority effect since November. newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/why-are-wo...

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Why Are Women Over 100% of Jobs Gained Under Trump’s Second Term?

All their effort at a gender vibe shift is in service of a plan that is failing on its own terms.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Easy. Just switch to price per litre like the rest of the world.

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ISEE Env Epi - Global @isee-global.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Launching September 17, the Health & Environment Exchange (HEX) is a student-led Eastern Mediterranean initiative. HEX builds research literacy, appraisal skills, and collaboration to address regional environmental health challenges for early-career researchers: bit.ly/HEXcourse

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NIH can't scrape together enough reviewers or study sections and they're simultaneously making reviews jump through more hoops. Realtime retraining for experienced reviewer. No more zip downloads of all apps. I regret agreeing to a Nov section because it's not just more work, it's more busywork.

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I am in this camp wrt emphasizing remedies of place to benefit physical communities...That said, I can see the counterpoint: The brittleness of any targeted policy, subject to political whim & resentment. Universal (individualistic) income, safety nets, right to organize, regulations still central.

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Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com · 07/09/2026

People are being charged in Singapore for flying kites with the names of children killed in Gaza. A link to an IG post, where most things are shared these days: www.instagram.com/p/Dc79r34o8b...

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I don't agree with arsonists but firefighters are too aggressive for me. I wish there was a... third way

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Oh good, because the DoD doesn't have... [checks notes] enough...money...?

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 05/09/2026

Fun little game in which a human life is randomly drawn for you. I ended up a girl, born in the Yangtze Basin in 670 CE. Died in infancy at 6 months 🥲 anyhumanever.com

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Any Human Ever

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The masculinity report findings are disappointing if not surprising Our own research suggests SG men might be more progressive as parents, but perhaps this is not representative I daresay toxic masculinity, & how powers-that-be leverage men of color within it, may be the issue of our generation

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Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com · 05/09/2026

This week: Activists slapped with charges, the introduction of a pepper-spraying robot, and AWARE's masculinity report. www.wethecitizens.net/wtc-wrap-5-s...

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WTC Wrap: 5 September 2026

This week: Activists slapped with charges, the introduction of a pepper-spraying robot, and AWARE's masculinity report.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 31/08/2026

Let's not forget that we also have living breathing permanently employed adult human men colleagues who steal our ideas, always in damaged/damaging forms: so a tool that turbocharges this is no suprise. They promote things like "responsible use" — laughable to the point of reality being a joke. 1/2

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 24/02/2026

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten 1/n www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🎻 Imagine having to deal with this + the derision of the doc/decision maker's favorite staff statistician who is asking why you didn't use stepwise variable selection like the real pros. Just kidding. Much solidarity to all the workers grinding it out in statistical harm reduction. ✊🏽

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Brandon Tensley @brandontensley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I was really moved by Lil Nas X's statement that being "Black, gay, and bipolar" feels as if you're living life on "extreme hard mode." I spoke with mental health advocates about the distinct pressures that can keep Black queer men from seeking help. capitalbnews.org/black-queer-...

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As Lil Nas X Spotlights Black Queer Men’s Mental Health, Advocates Push for Healing

Shame and stigma have long kept some men from seeking care. A growing openness could change that.

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🚨 I'm so excited to see this out! In 2020, I was captivated by the potential for multiomics + proximal inference to address unmeasured (& pathway-specific) confounding. What @seantbres.bsky.social has done is beyond what I could even dream of: GAN-based sims & extensive sensitivity analyses. 🙏🏽👇🏽

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Me trying to navigate Munich with my Hauptschule-level German: 🧠: Why do I know Taschenrechner and Briefmarkensammeln but not what a fork is called?!?

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Melody Huang @melodyyhuang.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My paper with Sam Pimentel on worst-case confounders is now out at Observational Studies in a special issue on Cornfield sensitivity analysis! (1/5) muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This is an interesting and good take on multiverse analyses…

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Any model that is justified by model fit rather than design is a bad idea

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