MLF @marklfilteau.bsky.social · 50mI’m a firm believer in “you can only call yourself an engineer if you can be sued”. Take a professional licensing exam and then we can talk. 020
Reposted by MLFAlexander Kasprzyk @amkasprzyk.bsky.social · 23h…assistance of professional mathematicians in the areas, and chose to attempt to answer not just one or two, but as many as possible. This is about power, and nothing to do with mathematics. They’re forcefully asserting their dominance over us. They’re saying, “We are in control; you are powerless.” 29617
MLF @marklfilteau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026For the AI fascists, it's all about the spite at the end, regardless of the result or the journey or the lessons along the way. There's no growth here, nothing is gained. 010
Reposted by MLFCatherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging. 252879758
Reposted by MLFGail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Post Harry Potter art, I'm blocking you without hesitation. I don't care what the excuse is, don't support monsters. 442776664
Reposted by MLFMichael Duitsman @duitsmanms.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is a reminder that friends don't let friends read Annie Jacobsen books. She is a crank. For almost any book she has written, someone else has done it better. Even her good work, such that it exists, is tainted by the bad. 1338
Reposted by MLFCheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026DO NOT LISTEN TO ANNIE JACOBSEN 720627
Reposted by MLFJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10893492931
Reposted by MLFAnil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it. 171751472
Reposted by MLFJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives 1851841378
Reposted by MLFWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The facts are shocking enough, but the bigger reason that the Cornell gang-rape case has broken through is that everyday Americans are sick of the rich and powerful and their sons getting away with it And everyone knows this fish stinks from the head My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/corn...inquirer.comFor a fed-up America, the elite impunity of the Cornell rape case is the last straw | Will BunchA nation’s frustration with rich and powerful men boils over after a stunning rape allegation at an Ivy League college. 291165336
MLF @marklfilteau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Which unfortunately means a lot (that it gets wrong). ☹️ 010
MLF @marklfilteau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A start would be to eliminate political appointments. And reversing Citizens United. 020
MLF @marklfilteau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If they’re not being paid, they want to hang with the cool kids (the oppressors) 030
Reposted by MLFMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We can talk about re-engineering government <after> we: - Restore all the NIH/NSF funds - Restore at the Dept. of Education Title VI/FLAS funds - Rebuild USAID - Hire back as many of the fired federal workers as possible & replace those we can't with new talent as fast as possible - Etc. - Etc. 1238852
Reposted by MLFColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵 121188276
Reposted by MLFMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Most of the beltway shares the same ideology as university administrators/trustees: "my job is to justify the whims and abuses of the rich and powerful." That's why the five members of Cornell's "External Advisory Board" for their report included David Brooks and an AEI scumbag. 325763
MLF @marklfilteau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" Jensen Huang doesn't know his home address, but his assistants/handlers do, they tell him where to go. Aren't the praetorian guard just another form of handlers? And the handlers can end up controlling their masters. misdirection can be easier than a coup. 000
MLF @marklfilteau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Isn't Oracle indebted now to the UAE? oodaloop.com/briefs/techn...oodaloop.comOpenAI Commits to Giant U.A.E. Data Center in Global ExpansionOpenAI said it was partnering with United Arab Emirates firm G42 and others to build a huge artificial-intelligence data center in Abu Dhabi, the ChatGPT 000
Reposted by MLFGod @thegodshow.com · 03/10/2026Thou shalt not rape. Thou shalt not put rapists on the Supreme Court. Thou shalt not make rapists the president. 852613539
MLF @marklfilteau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026NGL, I first read that as "I had to drink so much Scotch". :-) 050
Reposted by MLFPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026At a really fundamental level Leo XIV is just a person with sound, well-reasoned, moral stances on the world and how life should be lived who isn't afraid to say those things in public. That kind of person simply does not make sense to business leaders and politicians for whom speech is convenience. 311420260
Reposted by MLFDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Men who are not assault survivors need to shut the fuck up with opinions about what a woman should have done who gets assaulted. Eat shit and choke on glass, every last one of you. I hope your wife finds your burner phone. 09825
Reposted by MLFAngela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I just think women should be able to get educations without a constant threat of sexual violence. 91381206
Reposted by MLFCheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We make ourselves a crueler nation in the way we handle our penal system. 1479
MLF @marklfilteau.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The reality of AI: www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/...gocomics.comNon Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 1, 2026 | GoComicsRead Non Sequitur—a comic strip by creator Wiley Miller—for today, October 1, 2026, and check out other great comics, too! 000
Reposted by MLFBrooklyn Rousseau (Spooky 365, not just October) 🎃 @glamgothcollective.mu.social · 01/10/2026 51938619
Reposted by MLFRev. Angela Denker @angeladenker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Thou shalt not kill. *A reminder for the same political party campaigning to post the 10 Commandments everywhere.* #AbolishtheDeathPenalty 1212
MLF @marklfilteau.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Obvious truth to everyone but small minded no tab bigots who never grew up. 010
Reposted by MLFCommand & Couture @burnafterbriefing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026And this isn’t just an inclusion argument. It’s an adaptation argument. Future war rewards epistemic diversity: people who think across domains, break assumptions, find failure fast & tell powerful people the model is wrong. COCOM integration doesn’t happen in institutions allergic to expertise. 1233
