Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026And, this one goes straight to the lecture on computer game play in my AI course! 😄 110
Reposted by Micah CorahEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In our Nature paper, we introduce the first superhuman Stratego AI, which we built using general techniques that we developed for RL & test-time compute under imperfect information. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comScalable decision-making for games of imperfect information - NatureAtaraxos, an AI for the board wargame Stratego, establishes a design pattern for reinforcement learning and search that is effective under large amounts of hidden information, a longstanding desiderat... 1225861
Reposted by Micah CorahBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 01/10/2026Viral reports this week suggested new Google satellite imagery showed unseen destruction in Gaza. But the imagery actually depicts the scene in February 2026. Bellingcat has obtained satellite images from September that show how the destruction has continued. www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...bellingcat.comViral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained More Recent Satellite Imagery - bellingcatEarlier this week, several viral social media posts and news articles stated that Google had updated satellite imagery over Gaza. But the images weren't entirely new. 2374225
Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Wonder how many rounds of discourse on sexual abuse in the rationalist community we have to go through before Bernie distances himself from Yud 😒 000
Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Every once in a while I pick a paper for students to cover in class that is not nearly as fun as I thought it was going to be 😩 010
Reposted by Micah CorahDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it. 11041791441
Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Not what I usually post, but for Colorado folks, I can mention that this is in many ways a local story. As far as I know, Mason still lives in Denver on Capital Hill. Rice (see down thread) was also a roommate of Mason for several years elsewhere in CO and over the course of key events. 010
Reposted by Micah CorahJohn Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A Waymo robot in a left turn only lane, apparently unobstructed, stopped w passengers for 4 light cycles, reportedly: 16th St at Chestnut, Denver Long enough a telop should've engaged. Waymo: not a ride an adventure. OP: tiktok.kasey_in_denver 163
Reposted by Micah CorahAdam Cook @motorcityadam.com · 25/09/2026A note. If Musk is talking about the so-called "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)" version... you know, the one where #Tesla pretends like the vehicle is "driving itself" but throws all of the liability upon the human driver on the backend in the fine print... That won't fly in trucking. 153
Reposted by Micah CorahDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case. 412099715
Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026You know the Waymos are running driverless in Denver because you see one of these articles a day. 111
Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026💖💜💙 Happy bi visibility day to all who celebrate! 💃🪩 👉👉 010
Reposted by Micah CorahEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026By the way, bad software engineering does regularly kill people, just not in an easily traceable way. 512215
Reposted by Micah CorahKatie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Usually, we'd also be getting new data on the prevalence of food insecurity around this time. But the Trump administration abruptly terminated the government's 30-year annual food insecurity report shortly after the President signed the deepest SNAP cuts in history into law. 12716
Reposted by Micah CorahI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026Elon Musk, unlike Louis Farrakhan, actually does have billions of dollars and was actually running large parts of the government where he generally cut government spending that in his view was associated with Black people as much as he possibly could. We get nothing on this from media or opposition. 51023174
Reposted by Micah CorahAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an... 18845982952
Reposted by Micah CorahJohn Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 06/09/20263rd video has the best view of the traffic from the I-4 off ramp flowing by the robot. If any of these human drivers had made a mistake, eg stopping for the robot or hitting it, the intersection could've locked up in seconds. Waymo sheds risk onto others by stopping in traffic. OP: tiktok.xiospov 111
Reposted by Micah CorahJohn Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 06/09/20262 videos of very likely the same Waymo robot stuck in an odd location and orientation: Universal Blvd at I-4, Orlando, FL It might have been trying to make a u-turn. A telop prob engaged and got it to move into a lane instead of across two. OP: tiktok.beyondthepixiedust 193
Reposted by Micah CorahTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 19/09/2026Embarrassed by the baseless speculation I was spreading nine days ago. Should have waited for the base.engadget.comAnthropic has set up a bio research lab for physical experiments - EngadgetAnthropic now has its own bio research lab in San Francisco. 1526528
Reposted by Micah CorahJason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...bloomberg.comInside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian SchoolPentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab. 11026681410
Reposted by Micah CorahLiz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 18/09/2026anyways I wrote an essay about this: lizthegrey.medium.com/google-emplo... (cc @ellenteapot.ca who's been echoing the same sentiments)lizthegrey.medium.comGoogle Employees: Our Executives Engaged in Abuse. Don’t Let Kink and Polyamory Be Their Scapegoats.A New York Times report exacerbated stigma while bringing wrongdoing to light 1549
Reposted by Micah CorahJulia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026it really does feel as if Democrats en masse are telling trans ppl that they don't want us as part of their coalition. if you disagree with them – if you *want* trans ppl to be a part of the coalition – then please call these trans-exclusionary Dems DIVISIVE because they are DIVIDING OUR COALITION! 6976304
Reposted by Micah CorahAdam Cook @motorcityadam.com · 17/09/2026This is all talking in circles, frankly. Look. If there legitimate public safety concerns, and the necessary political support is there to translate it into fiscal support, we *already have* battle-tested regulatory mechanisms to provide safety lifecycle oversight with respect to complex systems. 251
Reposted by Micah CorahDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future. 201444723
Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Today's been slow, but I found a weird Swiss metal band that sounds like the end and dissolution of all things So that's nice 000
Reposted by Micah CorahColin @colin-fraser.net · 16/09/2026I mean that's just normal. You check things and make sure they're correct and have experts review them and so on. You edit, you extend, you simplify. It's research. Solving the N-S conjecture on Sunday and publishing the proof on Monday is weird. 413420
Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'm drone guy. I nominally follow Faine for drone discourse, Faine, who is like one of three people who talk about drones on Bluesky. Why???? 230
Reposted by Micah CorahMark Histed @markhisted.org · 16/09/2026Scientist here: It is widely known inside science that this—top-down imposition of a research agenda—leads to mostly rote, boring, non-innovative work. Building an institute to do discovery science is hard: you hire young people, put them together, hope synergies arise and ideas fall out. 9363145
Reposted by Micah CorahMikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Software engineers asserting that coding with AI means they’re all becoming “product engineers” now because product management is elite thinking machines can’t do feels a whole lot like how women-dominated programming was rebranded to “software engineering” when men decided they should do it now 3171
Reposted by Micah CorahAdam Cook @motorcityadam.com · 15/09/2026Indeed. The fundamental failure here, aside from Tesla’s deadly marketing, is that Level 2 and Level 3-capable vehicles actually *increase* driver workloads (by adding an additional “supervisory” responsibility) - while the unsophisticated human drivers *feel* the opposite. 2132
Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Good luck to anyone elseon here submitting to ICRA today 😄 150
Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Is it just me, or are google and google scholar getting much worse for discovery of papers from small conferences? 010
Reposted by Micah CorahMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel. 21432714
Reposted by Micah CorahDan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Science Agencies Pull ‘Political Interference’ Protections From Scientific Integrity Policies www.aip.org/fyi/science-... NSF and the Department of Commerce have scrubbed references to the dangers of political interference in science from official agency policy documents.aip.orgScience Agencies Pull ‘Political Interference’ Protections From Scientific Integrity PoliciesNSF and the Department of Commerce have scrubbed references to the dangers of political interference in science from official agency policy documents. 04229
Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Proposal is supposed to be getting shorter. Proposal is getting longer. 011
Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026@reckless.bsky.social on Decoder asking "why now?" on resistance to Flock and surveillance so long after the PATRIOT Act... ICE. The answer is ICE. 100
Reposted by Micah CorahJenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026An excellent piece from a group including fellow Bethesda Declaration signers. Appreciate the call for an increasingly democratic model of shared governance in public research funding. As well as the call for scientists to engage. www.aaup.org/toward-recon...aaup.orgToward the Reconstruction of US Research InfrastructureAcademia must organize now to secure the future of the US academic research enterprise. 04526
Reposted by Micah CorahAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The plan is to fund individual scientists directly and fast, and cut what universities are paid to support their research. In practice that means no infrastrucutre, no shared equipment, no lab manager, no institutional home if a study runs long or a result takes years to pan out. 38121
Reposted by Micah CorahAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgThe wrong platform for scienceDaniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu... 5496264
Reposted by Micah CorahBrandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Blerg. Here... we... go....nsf.govNSF leadership in a new golden age of scienceThe U.S. National Science Foundation was established in 1950 to keep American discovery at the frontier. That mission has not changed. The science and technology ecosystem around it has... 15217
Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026OpenAI is trying to boost their IPO, and the takeaway is going to be that the only way to protect your IP is to run local models and to sanitize discussions from the internet 000
Reposted by Micah CorahSarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 09/09/2026An anthropology professor at UCLA created a product, PredPol, and sold it to the LAPD over a a decade ago, that laid the basis for much of these flawed and dangerous tactics.404media.coA Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime. 8232103
Reposted by Micah CorahDrug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026And there it is. As rumored, and as predicted by YHN from the gitgo, enhanced triage of NIH grants will continue. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...grants.nih.govNOT-OD-26-114: Continuation of Modifications to Peer Review PracticesNIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Continuation of Modifications to Peer Review Practices NOT-OD-26-114. NIH 54136
Reposted by Micah CorahAdam Cook @motorcityadam.com · 08/09/2026Fact is that the State of #Michigan *gave up* A123 Systems to the Chinese long ago. For *nothing*. We could have owned LFP battery cell and pack production. Yet another horrendous and short-sighted mistake by industry and government alike. Indeed, tech transfer is the Big 3’s only pathway left. 271
Reposted by Micah CorahQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The Navier-Stokes fight is a perfect encapsulation of where AI development is right now: this should be really cool and exciting, and instead because of Silicon Valley egos it's become a fight over cheating, surveillance, and companies trying to get one up over the other 749682
Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Great day to troll a friend or spouse in aerospace 🤷♂️ 001
Reposted by Micah CorahChase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Something that could have pretty far-reaching implications for Colorado politics this year is if progressives end up defeating most or all of Advance Colorado's ballot measures specifically by directly defining and tanking the Advance Colorado brand like this. 2197
Reposted by Micah Corah404 Media @404media.co · 08/09/2026404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.404media.coA Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime. 391086618
Reposted by Micah CorahSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Extremely important story. Predictive policing is a euphemistic way of saying DHS is doing pre-crime, because of its improper access to your data. As @jakelaperruque.bsky.social says here, this takes a sledgehammer to the concept of probable cause of the commission of a crime. It can’t be reformed. 221054558