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@mihaelav.bsky.social
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Researcher, Responsible AI, human-AI interaction, Microsoft, cats, yoga, 🌈Bramily, 💜Brandi Carlile💜. Opinions are my own. she/her

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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I dated a guy in Romania whose father got sent to labor camp for saying, in a philosophy college class, that he read a book by Hemingway. He wrote a book about his experience. Title translates to “Torture for dummies” www.galeriile-cismigiu.ro/tortura-pe-i...
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Tortura pe intelesul tuturor - Florin Constantin Pavlovici
Tortura pe intelesul tuturor - Florin Constantin Pavlovici
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
What a gift to watch geniuses at work youtu.be/g5zApLvfvPs?.... Brandi Carlile is a fucking angel
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Elton John & Brandi Carlile - Who Believes In Angels? Stories From The Edge Of Creation
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Yes. The situation at NIH is worse than the public realizes. The #NIH is on track to be effectively ended as a funder of evidence-based research within a year. That is not an exaggeration. The firings and consolidation announced today will create a new, MUCH worse NIH. 1/
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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Five alarm fire: The State Department has effectively ended free speech for student visa holders.
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Besmira Nushi @besmiranushi.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Wrong but cute #gpt4o #imagegeneration. Cats are humanity's last exam 🐈‍⬛
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Happy Caturday. Look at this diva
Fluffy white cat hanging out on the back of a couch, with one paw extended gracefully
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Even though Zibalodis insists the cat is dark grey, not black :)
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Tired: starting your research paper with "the rapid advancement of AI technologies." Wired: start in the middle.
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
So well explained!
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I really wanted my mom to be with me in Seattle for my 50th birthday… I’m too scared now
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
French researcher refused entry to the US because he expressed person opinions about research in the US that were critical of the current administration www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This is a lovely text for teaching people fallacies in argumentation. How many can you spot? wildfirelabs.substack.com/p/the-100-tr...
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The $100 Trillion Disruption: The Unforeseen Economic Earthquake
While Silicon Valley obsesses over AI, a weight-loss drug is quietly becoming the biggest economic disruptor since the internet. Here's why your job, investments, and future depend on understanding it
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/03/2025
what's funny about this is chatbots just scour language-based interactions and respond with a version of what seems to be the typical reply, right? so what this tells us is not that a computer program has anxiety but that, in its dataset, the usual response to 'i'm freaking out' is 'girl, same!! 😬'
screenshot of article by Alexander Nazaryan, published on March 17, 2025, reading as follows

Even chatbots get the blues. According to a new study, OpenAl's artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT shows signs of anxiety when its users share “traumatic narratives” about crime, war or car accidents. And when chatbots get stressed out, they are less likely to be useful in therapeutic settings with people.

The bot's anxiety levels can be brought down, however, with the same mindfulness exercises that have been shown to work on humans.
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Rubbish NYT writing. But yes, an AI chatbot will reflect yourself back to you - see examples of chatbots encouraging ppl in suicidal crisis to end their lives. It’s how very fancy autocomplete works.
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
10 of the leading AI chatbots regurgitate Russian propaganda www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-fun...
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A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda
An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Look at Romania www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Romanians rally to show support for Europe amid election tensions
Thousands of Romanians took to the streets of Bucharest on Saturday to show their support for the European Union, amid political disputes over a presidential election rerun scheduled for May.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943. Only one cat has ever received the award. This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25
a slightly grumpy looking tuxedo kitty, lounging in a wood tray filled with straw, with a medal round his neck.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The pages featured short biographies about the people buried in the cemetery, including Gen. Colin L. Powell, the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Hector Santa Anna, a B-17 bomber pilot, Berlin Airlift pilot, and members of the Tuskegee Airmen wapo.st/4isEBv8
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Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans
Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
ALERT: I've heard from a high up source that Slotkin is against the GOP funding bill, but Gary Peters may vote for it. If you're in Michigan, please call both. Tell Slotkin thank you, and urge Peters to vote against cloture (not just against the bill). Peters: 202-224-6221 Slotkin: 202-224-4822
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Microsoft CEO saying that it’s good to get signals about demand/business value before investing like crazy. Finally. www.linkedin.com/posts/kjaels...
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#ai #entrepreneurship #business | Kjael Skaalerud
Just because an industry is hyped doesn't mean it's creating value. They're not the same thing. When Satya Nadella said, "You can go off rail when you are…
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
NEW from my team: a framework that walks AI product teams step-by-step through understanding and mitigating the risk of overreliance on AI. This happens when ppl accept incorrect AI outputs, b/c we … learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/pla...
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Overreliance on AI: Risk Identification and Mitigation Framework
This article describes a framework that helps product teams identify, assess, and mitigate overreliance risk in AI products.
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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Breaking: ICE arrests a Palestinian student at Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, whose wife is 8 months pregnant. They revoked his student visa and his green card. BOYCOTT COLUMBIA. WRITE & Demand answers. This is fucking sickening. zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...
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BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This week, but not at work: went to dentist because a crown he had put in last week is uncomfortable. He told me I have mental issues. I walked out as he kept yelling at me in front of his staff. Unhappy international woman's day!
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
It takes expertise to recognize expertise.
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Think we’re over misogyny in the workplace? Things that happened at work in the past couple of days, done by kind men who in theory are feminists: meeting, white man asks the one brown woman in the room to take notes.
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Very unhappy international women’s day. Remember that if you’re not actively feminist and anti-racist you are enforcing systems of oppression that in theory you might not even agree with. Educate yourself. I’m so fucking tired.
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
www.kuow.org/stories/noaa...
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NOAA firings in Seattle include orca-saving employee of the year
Until Thursday afternoon, Hanna Miller focused on protecting whales from oil spills, ship strikes, and fishing gear. While on vacation in Hawaii, the federal biologist opened her work email on her per...
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
The opposite of how I feel
Grey cat sleeping peacefully
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
youtu.be/5-33HggcyEY?...
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Brandi Carlile - Sinners, Saints and Fools (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Brandi Carlile
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Clip of Octavia E. Butler on @democracynow.org discussing Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents from "The Landline", ed. Tiffany Rose & @ashleysimpo.bsky.social "In hindsight, her warnings about climate change, authoritarianism, and survival feel less like fiction and more like prophecy."
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Remembering Octavia Butler: Black Sci-Fi Writer Shares Cautionary Tales In Unearthed 2005 Interview
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This is happening in my Romanian family. They’re consuming American content full of Russian propaganda. Someone pays to have Fox News professionally subtitled in Romanian.
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Facebook no longer allows pasting URLs to Signal groups in posts or comments.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 05/03/2025
Oops, I did it again.... Trump Officials Take Down List of Federal Properties for Possible Sale The Trump administration originally identified more than 440 federal properties that could be sold, which included the headquarters of the F.B.I. and Department of Justice. nyti.ms/4kn3v0N
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Trump Officials Take Down List of Federal Properties for Possible Sale (Gift Article)
The Trump administration originally identified more than 440 federal properties that could be sold, which included the headquarters of the F.B.I. and Department of Justice.
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Jane Ferguson @jfergus13.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
abc7.com/post/fbi-doj.... This story broke yesterday and got lost amid noise. It’s HUGE. The list is long; look it up. No FBI, no DOJ building? Where’ll they work? Well, probably won’t. In Asheville, fed bldg houses past 30 yrs of climate info for NOAA. Don’t need NOAA. It goes on. FBI galore.
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FBI and DOJ headquarters are among more than 440 federal buildings listed for potential sale
Roughly 80% of the country's 2.4 million federal workers are based outside of metropolitan Washington, D.C.
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Dr. René MD 🇺🇸🩺 @drrenemd.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Australian newspaper "The Sun-Herald" opinion piece calls it out. American msm, take notes.
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Please read every word
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Small steps.
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
“The sheer rudeness shown to a foreign guest and friend of the United States was (to use a word) deplorable as a matter of manners and grace, but worse, Trump and Vance acted like a couple of online Kremlin sock puppets instead of American leaders.”
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Welcome to the USSR
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Tracy @tcarblue.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Yes. There are no good Republicans, just as there were no good Nazis. It’s a simple as that.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I say again: any Republican in congress with an ounce of integrity would switch parties immediately. They are complicit, sadistic cowards. Every single one.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Look at these bebes
Black cat curled up with one bright eye openFluffy white cat sleeping peacefully
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Same
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
How many dead penguins is that? (Climate costs)
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
How about we celebrate the tiny joys and little wins? This morning I’m stupidly delighted to discover that an emoji for genie 🧞‍♀️ exists. You?
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
when a coworker texts "Ping me on Teams" and Siri reads it in a tone that makes it sound like sexual harassment 😳
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mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This takes a lot of love and patience.
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