resieber @resieber.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Never underestimate employers' tolerance of mediocrity 000
Reposted by resieberAna Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Human care reduced to five categories, three of which were deemed expendable. www.propublica.org/article/trum... 045
Reposted by resieberDara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 05/06/2025The squirrels in my neighborhood are so literally overburdened with food that i routinely find whole slices of pizza in roof gutters and crooks of trees. But a full sized croissant abandoned in the geraniums, that’s new! 1243
Reposted by resieberAna Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 05/06/2025"On Tuesday, a Palantir employee threatened to call the police on a WIRED journalist who was watching software demos at its booth at AI+ Expo. The conference, hosted by the Special Competitive Studies Project, a think tank founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, is free and open to the public."wired.comPalantir Is Going on DefensePalantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm’s work with the Trump administration. 01610
resieber @resieber.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Not what's meant by human-in-the-loop www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP1t...youtube.comHow Big Tech Got Scammed by an 'AI'YouTube video by Slidebean 000
Reposted by resieberVox Media Union @voxmediaunion.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Only nine (!!!!) days left in our contract. We’re still here bargaining for a fair contract from Vox Media. 1488
Reposted by resieberVincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Watermelon aurora during a full moon in Alaska 220129951418
Reposted by resieberTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 04/06/2025“I found that on Bluesky.” “People were discussing your article on Bluesky.” “Too bad I couldn’t tag you on Bluesky.” I have become totally shameless 0431
Reposted by resieberU.S. Federal Department of Propaganda @usfdop.bsky.social · 05/06/2025 335131511687
Reposted by resieberAna Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Missed Opportunities in AI Regulation: Lessons from Canada's AI and Data Act New from me and @resieber.bsky.social for Data & Policy @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org We draw out the problems with AIDA and ways forward to shift decision-making and control from AI companies to the people! 42013
Reposted by resieberESA Technology @technology.esa.int · 01/05/2025🌕 📷 Mapping the descent of a lunar lander, using nothing but data from an event camera – this is the next challenge presented to the space community by @esa.int’s Advanced Concepts Team 👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup... 0265
resieber @resieber.bsky.social · 02/05/2025National Science Foundation stops www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comExclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing onesUS science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’. 000
Reposted by resieberPablo Perez @pablopereza.bsky.social · 17/04/2025"We don't have bros or oligarchs making the rules. We don't invade our neighbours, and we don't punish them. On the contrary, there are 12 countries on the waiting list to become 🇪🇺 members. In Europe, children can go to good schools, however wealthy their parents are" President von der Leyen 53813
resieber @resieber.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Because a single hard drive for the cloud storage saves so much money. 010
resieber @resieber.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Preach! This means-ends flip also shows up in AI governance: "all that is required of civic participation in AI governance is an AI literate public." Accountability? Political influence? Unnecessary. 020
Reposted by resieberWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 16/04/2025This dog got a little impatient waiting for his pup cup. Decided to make sure everything was going alright in there. 14/10 338186291689
resieber @resieber.bsky.social · 16/04/2025"One can only imagine the horror the late Iain Banks would have felt on learning his legendary Culture series is a favourite of Elon Musk" 021
Reposted by resieberCAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, CAUT strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary. Read more: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...caut.caCAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encou 3106101
Reposted by resieberBRICS News 📄 @bricsinfo.bsky.social · 07/04/2025🇨🇳 China imposes export controls on rare earths, threatening US tech and defense supply chains. 48725
resieber @resieber.bsky.social · 08/04/2025"the search product had fundamentally changed in the AI era" Let me fix that for you "the search product had fundamentally enshitified in the AI era" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comGoogle AI Search Shift Leaves Website Makers Feeling ‘Betrayed’In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways the search giant had helped her family’s business grow. 000
resieber @resieber.bsky.social · 06/04/2025A geosurveillance public private partnership that you might not be aware of. Add to that questionable accountability when you have to rely on the private sector to protect your privacy www.cnn.com/audio/podcas... 010
Reposted by resieberAna Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 04/04/2025"The right wing aesthetic project is to flood the zone with bullshit in order to erode the intellectual foundations for resisting political cruelty."newsocialist.org.ukAI: The New Aesthetics of FascismIt's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right. 1134
Reposted by resieberUNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 03/04/2025“We cannot afford to place our digital sovereignty, workers’ rights, and democratic values in the hands of a corporation that has repeatedly demonstrated hostility to the European model.” @euronews.com covered our statement calling on the European Commission to review AWS public contracts.euronews.comUnion asks Commission to reassess public contracts amid trade warEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hinted at a “strong plan to retaliate” to US tariffs. 01611
Reposted by resieberAna Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025The last two weeks have been a whirlwind of presentations and discussions on my research in academia and policy. One of the common threads is the need for pragmatism in academic research, now more than ever. Excited to share more soon. For now, I will be retreating to my writing cave 🧛🏻♀️ 172
resieber @resieber.bsky.social · 01/04/2025I'm waiting for someone to say reinforcement learning can't be added to foundation models bc it's biased 000
Reposted by resieberMargaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 01/04/2025"OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases" - WIRED tested the video generator and found that it "stereotypes and ableist tropes, perpetuating the same biases already present in AI image tools." So appreciative that journalists are running evals. www.wired.com/story/openai...wired.comOpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist BiasesWIRED tested the popular AI video generator from OpenAI and found that it amplifies sexist stereotypes and ableist tropes, perpetuating the same biases already present in AI image tools. 15521
Reposted by resieberResistbot @resist.bot · 01/04/2025Introducing: Complybot! The first chatbot that preemptively complies so you don’t have to. Why resist when you can pre-surrender? Complybot: Because nothing changes if you do nothing! 917426
Reposted by resieberDaily Grail @dailygrail.com · 01/04/2025A reminder that Curtis Yarvin and the far right stole the meaning of 'taking the red pill' from the Wachowskis, and it would be really great if everyone stopped using the descriptor 'red-pilled' for that new meaning. 1151
Reposted by resieberMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Many at USIP have told me from the start that the reason the Trump administration has gone after them so aggressively is because of their really beautiful building. 12439451239
resieber @resieber.bsky.social · 01/04/2025“‘Emergency’ doesn’t even feel strong enough [to describe the situation],” said the ISC minister, Patty Hajdu. “It’s so urgent that we do more together to figure out what this next stage of living with climate change looks like for remote communities” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...theguardian.com‘The ice is not freezing as it should’: supply roads to Canada’s Indigenous communities under threat from climate crisisNorthern Ontario is seeing a ‘shorter window’ for ice roads that deliver vital supplies to remote First Nations 010
resieber @resieber.bsky.social · 01/04/2025"We Are Killing the Essence of What the University Is". Cancelling McGill prof's talk at her alma mater, NYU. NYU is obeying in advance www.youtube.com/watch?v=eITi...youtube.com"We Are Killing the Essence of What the University Is": Dr. Joanne Liu on NYU Canceling Her TalkYouTube video by Democracy Now! 011
Reposted by resieberTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 31/03/2025It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country. 102180182503
Reposted by resieberMystic Aquarium @mysticaquarium.bsky.social · 01/04/2025We're excited to share about a new species that now calls the Marsh Trek at Mystic Aquarium home! The rare spotted catfish is genuinely one of a kind. This elusive freshwater creature has never been seen by most, some even argue its existence. 58926
Reposted by resieberMichael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 29/03/2025I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity. 10934311712000
Reposted by resieberDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 22/03/2025despite popularised beliefs, LLMs are not fit for medical applications. SoTA models produce "non-trivial levels of hallucinations" even w inference techniques like CoT & search augmented generation: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.05777 of surveyed clinicians, 53% use LLMs daily & 91% encountered hallucinations 13302120
Reposted by resieberJosh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 21/03/2025RIP Jonathan Sterne - most influential sound studies scholar of the past 20 years, renowned mentor, dedicated colleague. 214930
resieber @resieber.bsky.social · 21/03/2025This is so sad. In addition to being an incredible scholar, Jonathan was a fearless advocate for justice, opposing those who would stand against it, including the university 031
Reposted by resieberMargaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Really disappointed to learn of the politicization of NIST. NIST has been a bastion of stability in the AI world, respected across political and ideological lines for its ability to define standards & benchmark the state of the art. Many people I respect are now gone. www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...wired.comUnder Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful ModelsA directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.” 49327
Reposted by resieberalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025in retrospect it's kind of funny that sci fi was like "imagine a world where robots gain sentience, but humanity refuses to grant them personhood" but in reality every loser techbro loser thinks chatgpt deserves more rights than like, actual people 9686801799
Reposted by resieberBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/03/2025No they do not, New York Times! This is like writing that Santa Claus has IBS. 39999241167
resieber @resieber.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Do they not realize that in Snowcrash, written by one of the authors they venerate, the corporations were the bad guys? www.salon.com/2025/03/17/t...salon.comTech's dystopian plans for "freedom cities" expose why Musk wants to end government by the peopleTech's dystopian plans for "freedom cities" expose why Musk wants to end government by the people 010
resieber @resieber.bsky.social · 17/03/2025"the illusion of progress though the strata". Important to always uncover the assumptions baked into our sciences www.theguardian.com/science/2025...theguardian.comRocks and racism? How geologists created and perpetuated a narrative of prejudiceKathryn Yusoff sparked a culture war with her latest book, suggesting slavery and white supremacy informed the work of geology’s founding fathers. Here, she and other experts suggest that attitudes ha... 000
resieber @resieber.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Human debiasing was better than computational debiasing. But now, neither are to be allowed?? For once I'm happy that retraining is so costly Buy a @wired subscription! They're doing amazing investigative journalism 010
Reposted by resieberWIRED @wired.com · 16/03/2025A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.wrd.cmUndergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science ConjectureA young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. 1058599
Reposted by resieberSantiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 16/03/2025Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well… 545222996122
resieber @resieber.bsky.social · 03/03/2025hate this! @rokhanna.bsky.social do your own damn ads! Don't rely on AI slop. 110
Reposted by resieberThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/03/2025How it started How it’s going 💰 🤷🏼♂️ 14249202181
