my lovely wife: “congratulations, you now have the dishwasher for programming” chat, she’s right

I'm not going to be gaslit anymore about whether this guy is an anti-Semite. Everyone who defends him is also incredibly suspect.

Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · 3d ago

This guy has anti-Semitic brain worms (among many other species of brain worm) and he needs to be treated as radioactive by every Democrat.

Once again I'll reiterate that the way AIPAC has been transformed into this creeping villain behind every unwanted election result is feeding a resurgence of antisemitism, and that goes triple if the winner is Jewish and was opposed by AIPAC. Please please think about your words here!

This is a robot failing to grasp a ball. Almost every robot lab produces clips like this daily… and almost all of them get thrown away. This is the most abundant but underused resource in robot learning. We’re collecting all of it now as “OopsieData”, please join us at oopsie-data.com! (1/13)

Swathes of this website are radicalized against the idea of thinking through policy tradeoffs

This is bad, but also a useful reminder that an obsessive fixation with AIPAC as a socially acceptable way of hinting at a global Jewish conspiracy is both a red flag and a stepping stone to other regressive beliefs.

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

honestly those people don't know anything

When you say you find MTG more pro-Palestinian than AOC, what you’re actually saying is that you don’t think someone is fully pro-Palestinian unless they’re antisemitic too.

Post-Left Watch@postleftwatch.bsky.social · 2w ago

Will Menaker from Chapo Trap House says it's AOC's fault that people think MTG is more pro-Palestine than she is. "If you put yourself in a situation where Marjorie Taylor Greene can be compared favorably to you on the issue of Palestine, then I'm sorry, like, that's on you."

Genuinely concerned about the potential leakage of the various forms of "bigotry is okay if you think they deserve it" from trans acceptance being conditional on leftist politics to antisemitism being okay if prefixed with "israel" to blatant misogyny being acceptable if prefixed with "white".

I guarantee you will not be able to guess what this is in reply to

em@foremphasis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Principle component analysis

Scientists--if your funding was cut over the last year (for research on climate, global health, DEI, LGBTQ or womens health, etc) but you managed to keep the research going, I want to talk to you for an upcoming article! Plz contact me: gewin at me dot com. Re-posts appreciated!

Essential & timely analysis via @techpolicypress.bsky.social on the massive public response to the White House's proposed OMB rule that would politicize grants, science, and federally funded research, including comment analysis dashboard. www.techpolicy.press/the-public-r...

The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Tens of thousands of scientists, clinicians, and ordinary citizens warned OMB about putting political appointees in charge of which research gets funded.

techpolicy.press

“To accommodate the expected funding withdrawal, programme officers…are being required to pull back proposals that have already passed peer review and have been recommended for funding….[M]any of the researchers who submitted those proposals had already been informed” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative

A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency struggles with a squeezed budget and a backlog of grant applications.

nature.com

drained a reservoir vibe-coding today, but it’s because i was eating almonds

Scholarly folks who have ever received federal funding: today is the deadline for public comment on proposed revisions that will decimate our national research capacity and replace expertise with political whim. Please consider throwing in your 2¢. See below for some useful links and encouragement.

open.substack.com/pub/michaeld...

The Platner Class

Those Who Brought Us the Disaster in Maine Should Never Be Allowed to Repeat It

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People always bitch about building IKEA furniture but I honestly love it because it allows me to feel like a master craftsman when I’m really just playing with a big girl Lego set

Thank you for clearly and patiently articulating something I've been feeling for a while.

Andy Masley@andymasley.bsky.social · 4w ago

I wrote a short post on how I think most of my commentary on AI and the environment is actually a normative rather than factual disagreement with the mainstream, and how that's ultimately rooted in the ethical philosophy of political liberalism. blog.andymasley.com/p/toward-env...

I wrote a short post on how I think most of my commentary on AI and the environment is actually a normative rather than factual disagreement with the mainstream, and how that's ultimately rooted in the ethical philosophy of political liberalism. blog.andymasley.com/p/toward-env...

Toward environmental liberalism

The underlying normative claim of my environmental writing

blog.andymasley.com

This is f**king crazy

New NSF policy would ban almost all collaborations with Chinese scientists

Agency drops attempt to mitigate risk in favor of outright prohibition on working with most Chinese research institutions

science.org

If someone brings up AIPAC within the first three sentences of speaking, and they weren't asked a question about Israel in particular, I would say that is a massive fucking red flag.

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 4w ago

this is the sort of thing i was getting at in my Glonzo article there is nothing wrong with disliking AIPAC or the causes/candidates it advances, but when it becomes a generic villain you throw out in random contexts it should start to raise some eyebrows

I personally don't think this guy's bluntly proclaiming that his anonymous female secretary was a delusional idiot is a great place to begin theory, especially clinical psychology theory.

M.J. Crockett@mjcrockett.bsky.social · last mo.

Weizenbaum was an MIT computer scientist who built one of the first chatbots, ELIZA. He wrote the book out of a growing sense of horror as he saw how “extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people” ...

UPDATE: We learned that the folks behind Project 2025, are encouraging their base to write comments in favor of the rule. This suggests our efforts are working and they are shaken. IT ALSO MEANS WE NEED TO GO OUT WITH A BANG. MAKE YOUR COMMENT TODAY!!!

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last mo.

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 11 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/R83IO

Good evening. Murdering a Jew in Colorado in response to Israel's actions in Gaza is an antisemitic act. Being unable to admit it is also an antisemitic act.

It was fun to show these students our lab!

GRASP Lab@grasplab.bsky.social · last mo.

We hope the students from the Glassman Penn Scholars and Penn Engineering High School Internship programs had a wonderful time touring the GRASP Lab and seeing the amazing work from our students! #GRASP #GRASPLab #GRASPTour #HIP #GPS

powerful essay. much to think about

The fall of the theorem economy

How AI could destroy mathematics and barely touch it

davidbessis.substack.com