Reposted by Emma StrubellAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026To think that there is nothing to be learned and innovated on from the safety practices of other industries is lunacy. AI tools are power. They are not magical or exempt from safety practices that work for other complex systems. Governing AI requires disenchantment; break the spell. 518348
Reposted by Emma StrubellAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities 7615169
Reposted by Emma StrubellRep. Summer Lee @repsummerlee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Today I joined organizers, researchers, workers, and community leaders at the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit @cmu.edu to talk about what AI innovations should look like in Pennsylvania. Leading means ensuring AI actually improves life for all of us, not just CEOs and oligarchs. 1268
Emma Strubell @strubell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026you can see your categories and control them to some extent in google ads (which is most ads?) myadcenter.google.com/controls for demographics and myadcenter.google.com/customize for product categories, i think other platforms like meta might have smth similarmyadcenter.google.comSign in - Google Accounts 110
Emma Strubell @strubell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026further, faculty will self-select for those who are willing and able to live in the oppressive political climate of Florida, where abortion is de facto illegal, no gender-affirming health care for trans youth, adult trans ppl cannot get id, use bathrooms aligned w/ their gender 060
Emma Strubell @strubell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026there's no need to limit academic freedoms when you build an institution from the ground up that is more narrowly aligned with your views in the first place. no womens studies, labor studies programs to censor or cut. 180
Emma Strubell @strubell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026CMU Miami is being announced as "pioneering a new model for higher education" w/ "research and learning [organized] around consequential societal problems." who decides what are the consequential societal problems & how to solve them? the initial list includes national security but not food security 191
Emma Strubell @strubell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026CMU Miami will be built from the ground up as a politically conservative institution, a response to the lack of "viewpoint diversity" (representation of conservative viewpoints) in higher ed that the ("center") right has been complaining about for years. 1105
Reposted by Emma StrubellCella @cellllla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Please join us at Carnegie Mellon University and online on October 2nd, 2026 for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit, a statewide convening to consider the opportunities, challenges, and governance of AI infrastructure development in Pennsylvania. RSVP here: communityaisummit.org 23216
Reposted by Emma StrubellJacob Morrison @jacobcares.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Most LLM environmental reporting covers only the final pretraining runs. For Olmo 3, we measured every stage across all four variants: 7B and 32B, instruct and reasoning, and found that 82% of the compute went to development, all before the final runs 😱 2443
Reposted by Emma StrubellCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 24/07/2025Canceling transmission lines will raise electricity prices and raise emissions. Canceling transmission lines enhances corporate monopoly power and profit. Canceling transmission lines is climate denial. 713442
Emma Strubell @strubell.bsky.social · 24/07/2025A project that would make energy more affordable and reliable for more than 40% of Americans is cancelled, just days before a new EO is released calling for accelerated funding and permitting for data center energy projects (including reducing and removing environmental review wherever possible).whitehouse.govAccelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center InfrastructureBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy and 14223
Reposted by Emma StrubellChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/07/2025If I were in charge of PBS or NPR I would be doing 24-7 programming right now about the end of PBS and NPR 533752740
Reposted by Emma StrubellDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Platforming this kind of junk in 2025 is itself anti-science 1112634
Reposted by Emma StrubellPatrick Gonzalez @patrickgonzalez.bsky.social · 15/07/2025As a public service, people will find the original pdf files of all the U.S. National Climate Assessments, 2001-2023, publicly available at: www.patrickgonzalez.net#us_national_... 9194104
Reposted by Emma StrubellThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 15/07/2025In all fairness, Trump uses IQ in the most historically accurate way possible, as a way to do a racism in service of eugenics. 322036
Reposted by Emma StrubellVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Another thing this chart shows is that one of these groups is much more in touch with empirical reality than the other. Believing that whites face more discrimination than immigrants or Black people is like being a flat-earther. Propaganda works. 5387103
Reposted by Emma StrubellData & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Websites that use AI to transform photos into nonconsensual explicit imagery have become a lucrative business, and “Silicon Valley’s laissez-faire approach to generative AI” has allowed them to persist. www.wired.com/story/ai-nud...wired.comAI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Millions of DollarsMillions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies. 0109
Emma Strubell @strubell.bsky.social · 15/07/2025looks like Anthropic will be getting ~$200M in DoD funding for AI along with Google, OpenAI and xAI. I doubt there will be any pushback from any of those companies or others hoping to benefit from the massive cuts to academic/nonproft R&D. I think the big bet is that AI will solve all our problems 🙄 000
Reposted by Emma StrubellSal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 15/07/2025if you took a dementia test and thought it was an IQ test you failed both the dementia test and the IQ test 13861161168
Reposted by Emma StrubellWESA @wesa.fm · 14/07/2025Students and community members at Carnegie Mellon University are pushing back against an AI and energy summit planned at CMU on July 15. Leaders in AI and related fields and President Donald Trump are expected to attend the invitation-only event, convened by Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick.buff.lyCMU community pushes back on AI summit with paint, petitions, and protestsStudents and community members at Carnegie Mellon University are pushing back against the National AI and Energy Summit planned at CMU on July 15. 096
Emma Strubell @strubell.bsky.social · 14/07/2025I did an interview w/ Pittsburgh's NPR station to share some of my views on the topic of the McCormick/Trump AI & Energy summit at CMU tomorrow. Despite being hosted at the university, there will not be opportunities for our university experts to contribute viewpoints at the event. 1168
Reposted by Emma StrubellData & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 27/06/2025In a policy memo published by @scientistsorg.bsky.social, D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social, and Emma Strubell, recommend that approaches to measuring AI’s environmental impacts consider the use cases that are driving energy consumption, and how data centers impact communities. fas.org/publication/...fas.orgReporting AI’s Impacts to Build Public Trust and Advance AIAs AI becomes more capable and integrated throughout the United States economy, its growing demand for energy is driving higher environmental costs. 165
Reposted by Emma StrubellLux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 20/06/2025HEY NYC TRANS PEOPLE: Brooklyn Brewery is taking the $25k it would have spent on Pride ads and giving $1k each to 25 NYC trans folk. You can nominate yourself here: brooklynbrewery.com/brooklynbrew...brooklynbrewery.comBROOKLYN BREWERY SUPPORTS | Brooklyn BreweryWelcome to Brooklyn Brewery Supports. Along with Angelica Christina from The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative, we will be choosing twenty-five applications to receive $1,000 in funds each and give ... 2276163
Reposted by Emma StrubellLM4Sci @ COLM2025 @lm4sci.bsky.social · 14/06/2025🚨 Call for Papers: LM4Sci @COLM_conf 2025 🚨 Excited to announce the Large Language Modeling for Scientific Discovery (LM4Sci) workshop at COLM 2025 in Montreal, Canada! Submission Deadline: June 23 Notification: July 24 Workshop: October 10, 2025 156
Reposted by Emma StrubellJulia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 18/06/2025NEW ESSAY: rather than reading the legalese SCOTUS used to justify Skrmetti, learn about how conspiracy theorists hijacked mainstream discourse on gender-affirming care: on Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/what-covid... & Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...juliaserano.substack.comWhat Covid “Lab Leak” and “Rushing Kids into Transition” Have in Commonand more general thoughts about conspiracy theories and negativity bias 6632256
Reposted by Emma StrubellJosé Vargas-Muñiz @mycorican.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Protect transgender scientist! 🏳️⚧️science.orgProtect transgender scientistsTransgender and gender nonconforming (TGnC) people are a primary target of the Trump administration. Multiple executive orders seek to erase TGnC protections; mandate denial of gender identity; and ba... 04726
Reposted by Emma StrubellJoanna Wyld @joannawyld.bsky.social · 15/06/2025This looks like the cover of their third album 1531059
Reposted by Emma StrubellLiz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 19/06/2025there's an interesting detail in this, which is that *technically* he did not have his visa cancelled for his speech, they used his speech as a pretext to single him out for search and concoct allegations that he'd lied about illegal drug use, and that became the pretext for the deportation. 15513
Reposted by Emma StrubellNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 18/06/2025TW: harm to children. My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review. It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban. Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...tandfonline.comHarming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker banThis paper presents an analysis of data from trans children and young people and their parents following the imposition of a UK-wide ban on puberty blockers for this group. The consequences of this... 471702808
Reposted by Emma StrubellJesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 18/06/2025Utilizing new streamlined permitting process, California approves world’s largest solar-plus-storage project www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-stora... Giant 1.15 GW / 4.6 GWh battery + 1.15 GW solar project in Fresno County is first permitted under California expedited process. #Upshift 🔌💡 211824
Reposted by Emma StrubellMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15/06/2025The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it 151104962952
Reposted by Emma StrubellInternet Archive @archive.org · 12/06/2025🎉 Big update! The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more! Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k... 🧵 5651612186
Reposted by Emma StrubellMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025As usual with these dust-ups she is retreating to the ‘compromise’ position that sporting bodies should make standards about transition. The problem is that THIS HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. Standards have been in place for years. Lia Thomas met them! The bigots don’t care. 142344419
Reposted by Emma StrubellSaganism @sagan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025A message from Carl Sagan from 1995—some of his last prophetic words. 22177482889
Reposted by Emma Strubellshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 10/06/2025i know it's just advertisement but it still pisses me off when tech CEOs claim AGI will solve humanity's problems with its vast intelligence. for a lot of problems we already know the solutions, what prevents them being solved is not a lack of intelligence, but that the solutions are unprofitable 8061941455
Reposted by Emma StrubellDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue. 594230355048
Reposted by Emma StrubellDana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025I get tired of people who take themselves too seriously. We are all little dumb dumbs doing the best we can, just get a grip 2866
Reposted by Emma StrubellMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025We made this episode public so everyone could hear us live-react to the White House's berserk conspiracy website www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru... 33632136
Reposted by Emma StrubellCharles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 09/06/2025DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors. 113110852658
Reposted by Emma StrubellElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 09/06/2025Why is the AI company Nvidia pushing for a 10-year ban that'd stop states from putting in safeguards around AI? Because they want to shape the rules so they can make more money. This is just one more example of Nvidia putting its profits over consumers and national security. 371138252
Reposted by Emma StrubellChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/06/2025Immigrants who are forced toward the United States by economic and political forces governed by colonialism and imperialism live their entire lives full of heartache about what they left behind and what they contended with when they got here 124238
Reposted by Emma StrubellJane @jane.meangirls.online · 09/06/2025this is such a good representation of American Christianity 1561041678
Reposted by Emma Strubellonion person @junlper.beer · 08/06/2025it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up 378250894643
Reposted by Emma StrubellJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 08/06/2025We don’t need to guess what tariffs will do. We've seen this movie. Bush tried steel tariffs in 2002. Trump did it again in 2018. Both times, same plot: a handful of steel jobs saved, tens of thousands of downstream jobs destroyed. 5602197
Reposted by Emma StrubellMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits 7164581117
Reposted by Emma StrubellKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying. 29244665614428
Reposted by Emma StrubellDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 08/06/2025ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House. 333177704585