Reposted by Erin LeDellKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Current state of things: there's crop art of Signal at the Minnesota State Fair www.cropart.com 171783334
Reposted by Erin LeDellBluesky @bsky.app · 19/03/2026Last April, we raised $100M in Series B funding. This round gives us the ability to scale our team to meet the rapid growth of Bluesky and the AT Protocol. Read more: bsky.social/about/blog/0...bsky.socialBluesky's 2025 $100M Series B Lays Foundation for Open Social Web - BlueskyIn April 2025, Bluesky raised $100 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Crypto. Since our Series A, we've grown from 13 million to over 43 million global users. 34993021371
Reposted by Erin LeDellDia Lacina @dialacina.com · 08/03/2026Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman 5115523249
Reposted by Erin LeDellElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 07/03/2026This International Women’s Day, five women at EFF talk about the women who have inspired them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgAdmiring Our Heroes for International Women’s Day: Five Women In TechIn honor of International Women’s Day, we asked five women at EFF about women in digital rights, freedom of expression, technology, and tech activism who have inspired us. Anna Politkovskaya Jillian 010541
Reposted by Erin LeDellJanelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 13/04/20251. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware. 12078743580
Reposted by Erin LeDellPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 24/11/2025This is an incredible image of comet 3I/ATLAS, taken by Satoru Murata ICQ Comet Observations group on 16 November 2025 from western New Mexico. Structure within the major dust tail from the comet is clearly visible, together with two smaller jets trailing the nucleus and maybe even an anti-tail. 839585
Reposted by Erin LeDellEmily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 28/10/2025The way python and R foster inclusion directly contributes to their success: joyful places to exist, a steady flow of new maintainers, and a delightful collection of niche tools empowered by wildly different expertise coming together Watch the new python documentary for more on PSF’s work here 05020
Reposted by Erin LeDellGaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social · 10/10/2025A speech about what drives me, how science and open source are bitter victories, unable to make improve the world if society does not embrace them for the better: gael-varoquaux.info/personnal/a-...gael-varoquaux.infoA national recognition; but science and open source are bitter victoriesI have recently been awarded France’s national order of merit, for my career, in science, in open source, and around AI. The speech that I gave carries messages important to me (French below;... 511437
Reposted by Erin LeDellPython Software Foundation @python.org · 27/10/2025TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵python.orgThe official home of the Python Programming Language 12363792728
Reposted by Erin LeDellMichael Lund Markussen @mlmarkussen.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Lilac-breasted Roller Lillabrystet Ellekrage Coracias caudatus #birds #birding #Kenya #photography #nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #ornithology #birdphotography #animalphotography 592237268
Reposted by Erin LeDellJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Look at that. And New Mexico is not a rich state. Just one that figured out some priorities. 321521331
Reposted by Erin LeDellSung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Meta trained a special “aggregator” model that learns how to combine and reconcile different answers into a more accurate final one, instead of relying on simple majority voting or reward model ranking on multiple model answers. 3467
Reposted by Erin LeDellmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 06/09/2025Hallucinations are accidentally created by evals They come from post-training. Reasoning models hallucinate more because we do more rigorous post-training on them The problem is we reward them for being confident cdn.openai.com/pdf/d04913be... 8657
Reposted by Erin LeDellAutumn Nash 🎃👻💀🖤 @withenoughcoffee.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Plugging something into the tiny computer that you keep in your pocket. That one that has all your passwords, information, and location.. and giving control away to a random ai and company you know nothing about…media.tenor.coma cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fineALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine 2266
Reposted by Erin LeDellEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 02/09/2025A nasal spray reduced the risk of Covid infections in a double blind, placebo controlled randomized trial jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 21619174
Reposted by Erin LeDellAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 01/09/2025It's fine if this is all seven overvalued companies in an AI trenchcoat, right? Right? 24710
Reposted by Erin LeDellViolet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 13/08/2025"When in doubt, don't ask ChatGPT for health advice." 05613
Reposted by Erin LeDellHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13/08/2025“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”bloomberg.comAI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in StudyArtificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study. 11152242557
Reposted by Erin LeDellGareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking. 480247235179
Reposted by Erin LeDellShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 10/08/2025I have some academic lady friends I’ve known for 20+yrs. This industry can be so cold, competitive, and selfish, but these women are so kind, generous, steadfast, and fun. We’ll sometimes get busy and go months without chatting, then reconnect as if no time has passed. I’m so grateful for them… 1903
Reposted by Erin LeDellRadical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 13/07/2025"Capitalism is temporary. Dykes are forever" Seen in NYC 102167645
Reposted by Erin LeDellSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 23/07/2025Maybe if your country is the wealthiest in the world but the richest tenth of the country have two thirds of the wealth and the bottom 50% only have 2.5% of the wealth, you don't have the wealthiest country in the world, you just have feudalism. 432430667
Reposted by Erin LeDell404 Media @404media.co · 23/07/2025ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It 🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-hall...404media.coChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add ItWelcome to the era of ‘gaslight driven development.’ Soundslice added a feature the chatbot thought it existed after engineers kept finding screenshots from the LLM in its error logs. 1017762
Reposted by Erin LeDellMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 21/07/2025In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work. 432936468
Reposted by Erin LeDellAnil Dash @anildash.com · 20/07/2025It is *bananas* that they would give vibe coding tools (and _Replit_, of all platforms 🤣) production deploy access! With no backups! We gave better backup tools to teenagers on Glitch remixing apps a decade ago. 1325335
Reposted by Erin LeDellIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/07/2025This thread is incredible.xcancel.comJason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk).@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database 31241241208
Reposted by Erin LeDellAmy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...thenextweb.comChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study findsA new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. 8919231014
Reposted by Erin LeDellChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/07/2025make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now! 6239801255
Reposted by Erin LeDellMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 18/07/2025A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it. (1/2) 23958052474
Reposted by Erin LeDellLetícia Cesarino @letcesar.bsky.social · 19/07/2025futurism.com/stanford-the...futurism.comStanford Research Finds That "Therapist" Chatbots Are Encouraging Users' Schizophrenic Delusions and Suicidal ThoughtsA new pre-print study from Stanford researchers finds that AI chatbots used for therapy routinely fail at providing safe, ethical care. 13610
Reposted by Erin LeDellve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 18/07/2025If you grew up around or spend a significant amount of time talking to people who participate in cultic, occult, or conspiratorial cultural milieus, it’s very easy to understand the pathways by which a person talking to a chatbot could end up in exactly the same type of disordered cognitive state 317939
Reposted by Erin LeDellvan cartier @christopherxci.blacksky.app · 15/07/2025universal healthcare & universal basic income are literally the main 2 things that should have come out of the covid lockdown era— instead we just got twice as many nazis 413256
Reposted by Erin LeDellMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 13/07/2025This is my most confrontational post of the day: please watch Armond’s video & think on it. It isn’t at all progressive or leftist to spread disabling disease in an ongoing pandemic. There are more Armonds than you know, & folks who don’t mask are making more each day bc most spread is asymptomatic 12917426
Reposted by Erin LeDellHanna Wallach @hannawallach.bsky.social · 15/07/2025If you're at @icmlconf.bsky.social this week, come check out our poster on "Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement Challenge" presented by the amazing @afedercooper.bsky.social from 11:30am--1:30pm PDT on Weds!!! icml.cc/virtual/2025...icml.ccICML Poster Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement ChallengeICML 2025 13210
Reposted by Erin LeDellLucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 15/07/2025This was such a wonderful discussion, if anyone has any ideas for helping build curiosity in the classroom please share!! 0173
Reposted by Erin LeDellGrace @gracekind.net · 14/07/2025If you thought men writing women was bad, get ready for men prompting women 2332941
Reposted by Erin LeDellEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 601545998
Reposted by Erin LeDellJames Baker @jwbaker.bsky.social · 30/05/2025GenAI suggesting 'rm' is a big red flag for me. I'll always remember my @carpentries.carpentries.org instructor saying something like "rm exists, but there is no recycle bin, so probably best not to use rm". Pair programming with GenAI requires some ability to understand the output, the red flags. 1123
Reposted by Erin LeDellWIRED @wired.com · 19/05/2025As fog blanketed Seattle, @knibbs.bsky.social's waited to meet @jay.bsky.team—CEO of Bluesky. Fittingly, just before she arrived, the skies cleared. It felt poetic. Her name, Lantian, means “blue sky” in Mandarin. And her mission? Clear the smog from social media.wired.comBluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social InternetAll the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online. 421506315
Reposted by Erin LeDellJeanette Schofield @itzjeanette.bsky.social · 25/03/2025@womeninaiethics.bsky.social is delighted to announce the AI Ethics Book Festival this Friday from 11am to 6pm ET. 🎙️Join us to hear from pioneers and scholars whose work reflects a deep commitment to diverse and vibrant technological futures for everyone! 👇Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...us02web.zoom.usWelcome! You are invited to join a webinar: AI Ethics Book Festival - 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.Women in AI Ethics™ (WAIE) is delighted to announce our first virtual AI Ethics book festival. This festival reflects our core mission and key role as a catalyst in the global movement towards inclusi... 1136
Reposted by Erin LeDellRLadies+ @rladies.org · 14/03/2025In order to better align with our mission to support all underrepresented genders in the R community, R-Ladies is re-branding to R-Ladies+! 💜 🌈 🏳️⚧️ ⚧️ ✨ R-Ladies is rebranding to R-Ladies+ rladies.org/news/rebrand... ✨ Rebranding Call For Proposal rladies.org/news/rebrand... #rstats #rladiesrladies.orgR-Ladies is rebranding to R-Ladies+ - R-Ladies GlobalR-Ladies is a world-wide organization to promote gender diversity in the R community 010032
Reposted by Erin LeDellJay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 14/03/2025We put up a proposal that lays out a way for users to declare whether/how they want their data to be used by things like generative AI or public archives, check it out on github: github.com/bluesky-soci...github.comproposals/0008-user-intents at main · bluesky-social/proposalsBluesky proposal discussions. Contribute to bluesky-social/proposals development by creating an account on GitHub. 1452253410
Reposted by Erin LeDellGordon Forbes @gforb.bsky.social · 05/03/2025It's amazing how far back ideas go. This paper from 1984 by @f2harrell.bsky.social discusses the need for train/test data splits and the importance of assessing model calibration and discrimination and instability in variable selection methods. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....onlinelibrary.wiley.comRegression modelling strategies for improved prognostic predictionRegression models such as the Cox proportional hazards model have had increasing use in modelling and estimating the prognosis of patients with a variety of diseases. Many applications involve a larg... 1216
Reposted by Erin LeDellMike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...blog.archive.orgEnd of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs 4803278112105
Reposted by Erin LeDellDanielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025This is one of the images deleted from the CDC historical archive, by the way. I downloaded it this morning and can't access it anymore. We are ready to repeat the past. 6881418
Reposted by Erin LeDellKathie McDonald-McClure @kathiemcmcclure.bsky.social · 31/01/2025This just in. Calling all public health folks to download the CDC data sets you need TODAY! #PublicHealthData #CDC 15830
Reposted by Erin LeDellDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 31/01/2025The CDC has removed data on sexual orientation, gender identity, and health disparities from their website. Pages removed include: - Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System - Social Vulnerability Index - Efforts to Address Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities 20619336