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Julia Piaskowski

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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 11h
I'm learning a new language and it's quite fun to be reminded how different languages have totally new sounds that my native English tongue has not done before and my ears can barely discern. Human language is amazing.
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey academic peeps, that awful new policy targeting international students got raked over the coals by a Bush-era judge, who wrote that the stated justification of National Security "borders on the absurd".
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The part that struck me the most was how much this scientist was an advocate of gen AI tools like Claude Scientist and they still scooped him (allegedly, probably).
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The gap between what gen AI can do is an how it is often used not so much a chasm as two different manifestations of the multiverse
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Sustaining R: Investing in the People, Infrastructure, and Community Behind R" Register for Oct 6 R Core / R Foundation panel discussion Simon Urbanek, Kurt Hornik & Heather Turner. Hosted by R Consortium. r-consortium.org/webinars/sus... #RStats
"Sustaining R: Investing in the People, Infrastructure, and Community Behind R" - Register for Oct 6 R Core / R Foundation panel discussion
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We’re at the “shipping container courts” stage of ICE’s mass expansion of the enforcement system.
Each detention unit would sit on asphalt or concrete behind an office's existing security fence, with a counter for processing people and a separate holding area fitted with a toilet and sink for detainees according to the draft work statement.
The agency also wants a 300-square-foot unit for interviewing people in custody and a 60-square-foot "Virtual Immigration Court Unit" for hearings run by the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the Justice Department agency that operates the immigration courts.
Both must also be designed for their purpose before delivery.
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Changing what I donate to: $$ to @zeteo.com @investigatewest.bsky.social @bcmerchant.bsky.social @404media.co because good media is what we need rn
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Now I'm pondering this in terms of the grave announcements about the "end of science", implying we have discovered everything there is to know
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
the beaver PR team really is crack. This video -- about beaver reintroduction in Idaho --is an unexpectedly joyful 5 minutes youtu.be/adDEAUSqxs8?...
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geronimo was a beaver
YouTube video by sawdustbear
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Reminds me of how OpenAI argued in court that someone convinced to kill themselves by chatgpt was breaking the terms of service and thus openAI is not legally responsible for their actions
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I always feel slightly embarrassed for the researcher when I see this. "All analyses were done using R v 1.1.4.1-5". Wow, from 2001?
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
mind blown at the contrast of how we are considering chatbots to be conscious while simultaneously refusing to acknowledge the humanity of immigrants, prisoners, so many other groups. What has happened to us?
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just came across this book and wow, is there anything Du Bois did not do? papress.com/products/w-e...
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W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits
"As visually arresting as it is informative."—The Boston Globe"Du Bois's bold colors and geometric shapes were decades ahead of modernist graphic design in America."—Fast Company's Co.DesignW.E.B. Du
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This will effectively end OPT
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
thoughtful
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are so many stories lately about people who died by suicide after falling into emotionally manipulative patterns with chatbots. We rarely get to hear how the people who loved them are coping after an unimaginable, senseless loss. This is one of their stories: www.404media.co/austin-gordo...
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'Tell Everyone:' A Man Died by Suicide After Talking to ChatGPT. His Former Partner Wants to Warn the World About AI
After allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Read my summary of the Cell paper here: medium.com/@m.j.faccian...
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If Scientists Don’t Show Up, Someone Else Will
Our new paper in Cell breaks down six practical ways scientists can communicate with a broader audience.
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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
OpenAI is now facing more than 50 consumer harm and wrongful death lawsuits alleging that extensive use of ChatGPT resulted in psychological harm, physical injury, and even the deaths of users and/or those around them. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits
OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Loreto Javar, a green card holder who’s lived in the United States for over three decades and is being treated for Stage 4 prostate cancer, has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for more than two months. 

A 76-year-old retired hotel worker who lives in Fife with his wife and daughter, Javar was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials June 23 during an interview for his U.S. citizenship application in Tukwila. He was receiving ongoing cancer treatment when he was taken into ICE custody, his family said, and has missed several medical appointments since his arrest.
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Got some corrections and "at least 25%" is true. My concern is that it's still misleading as people will only remember 25%, not that it's the lower bound
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
What a misleading stat! The study said of the samples they received, roughly 25% of former NFL players who died within the study time period, 90, had CTE. It's likely not a random sample, so inference to the target population is difficult, but "at least 25%" as the headline is absurd.
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
the "bespoke mentor-mentee relationship"
miranda and andy from "devil wears prada 2"
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I've also gotta sing the praises of 'revdepcheck' for checking reverse dependencies. Wow, it's handy. revdepcheck.r-lib.org/reference/in...
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Package index
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Look, I'm new to package debugging (infinitely more complex than homespun functions), but I'm genuinely impressed with Positron debugging tools. I can step through the call stack? See what variables are in scope at each stage??? I think I'm in love.
Screenshot of Positron debug tools
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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 06/08/2026
The title is a little pointed, but I am very serious here. Academics, medical researchers, and other organisations should not collect data on birth sex. It is rarely relevant, and it almost always leads to privacy violations for transgender people. Please share. I would like people to read this one.
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Separating sex and gender is statistical malpractice – Notes from a data witch
Statisticians and academics in Australia should ignore the terrible advice of most LGBTIQA+ organisations and read this post instead. The 2020 ABS standard is almost never the correct way to collect d...
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
we fucked with our code 220% more than last year and yet somehow people still don't like our pervert glasses
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
23% drop in student visas to US in 2025 57% drop from India alone catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
Graph of visas issued to students per month in 2024 and 2025
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Geeking Out Podcast @geekingoutpod.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
GenX-er @elchefe.me, Millennial @cassidoo.co, and GenZ-er Divyasha Pahuja share their perspectives on surviving in the age of AI and how the 3 different generations can help each other navigate these uncertain times. Save the date for Sept 8th at 12:00 ET: buff.ly/EiunlC8
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Spam filter too powerful? Traffic congested in your sleepy hometown? Did you get a late fee for a bill? A sunburn while waiting in line for an event outdoors? Most certainly, the radical left is to blame for any and all inconveniences!
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
the great wealth transfer
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
stop using our repo for learning how to use genAI to bug hunt (you know who you are)
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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Parents often ask me if it's a bad sign that their kid's class is taught by an adjunct. Educationally, no--we are *extremely* qualified and experienced! We definitely aren't in it for the money or benefits! But it might be a sign that the university needs to get its budget and priorities in order.
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
First time I've seen this explanation for the anti-trans sports 'movement' and it hit so hard, and explains why they even go after cis women who look too masculine: women's sports are garden party activities to them, not serious athletic endeavors.
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Like the Hubble telescope, my USPS package is on a journey through space and time, visiting all corners of the U.S.
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is just pure comedy. the millionaire who regularly had blood transfusions from his son (causing autoimmune issues), who claims to have cloned *himself*, who has openly sought biological immortality, may have "taken this whole longevity thing too far". Yeah buddy, possibly.
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🤣🤣🤣 I'm sorry, are we supposed to take this seriously and give it due consideration? www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-o...
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Sam Altman says we are in the singularity: 'This is the moment'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he believes the technological singularity, the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses humans intelligence, is here.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This chart is basically the whole story of American politics. Only one party has “centrists.”
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The policy also gives them a chance to also further wound higher ed in addition to furthering Stephen Miller's anti-immigrant stance
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Yet another reminder that the party that ran on mass deportations, that said it was only against "illegal immigration", comes after those who are here legally: www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Trump Administration Finalizes Limits on Student Visas
International students previously could stay as long as their program lasted. The Trump administration is ending that 1978 policy.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
In 1969, the Black Panthers launched their legendary Free Breakfast Program for Children. In a 1969 Senate hearing, the federal school lunch program administrator admitted, "I don’t think [the gov't] wanted to be outdone by a community-based organization, especially the Panthers." Learn more here:
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The Free Breakfast Program for Children
In 1969, three years after Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, the Panthers launched into community services, including the highly successful Free Breakfast P...
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