iamstarborn
@iamstarnord.bsky.social
he/him. Feeling the churn. Tramlines. "It's just a model."
JFC Just open censorship, siccing the cops on scientists, intimidation, and sycophantry. These aren't just signs of fascism, it's a goddamned neon explosion.
Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 2mo agoMembers of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were removed by police during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
“Are SAIC faculty expected to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their course materials? Are Arab Muslims unworthy of their own case studies?” Kapitan wrote.
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2mo agoSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago professor put under investigation after a student complained about a case study
NEW: Graduating humanities students were told that AI is the “next industrial revolution” in a speech. It was met with thousands of booing graduates.
Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
A commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida was booed, with graduating humanities students yelling out, "AI SUCKS!"
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"Rapid alcohol deliveries are causing harm across our society" - Dr Richard Piper, Alcohol Change UK. The charity is calling for the government to introduce a delay between order and delivery of alcohol, and restricting the time of delivery. www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/alcohol...
Alcohol harm group urges restricted hours and blocks on rapid booze deliveries
Alcohol Change UK is warning of the dangers of 'round-the-clock access' to drink offered by on-demand delivery
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"The AI Grad Student": A Harvard professor describes working with Claude. Early on, he describes misconduct that would cause any student to be terminated: "It faked results, hoping I wouldn't notice." But he ends the essay with "Now I'm doing 100% of my research with LLMs". Am I losing my mind?
Anthropic {bot}@anthropicbot.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe’re launching with two new posts. Can AI do theoretical physics? Harvard physicist Matthew Schwartz led Claude Opus 4.5 through a graduate-level calculation. AI can’t yet do original work autonomously, but it can vastly accelerate it. Read more: https://www.anthropic.com/research/vibe-physics
1/ Today, we overwhelmingly voted to authorize a STRIKE as we fight for a fair contract with @propublica.org.
Imagine a newspaper publisher refusing to let libraries keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s starting online, as big publishers block the Internet Archive from preserving news sites. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet
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"We show that optimal estimation performance corresponds to the maximal transmission of Fisher information ... This provides a model-free stopping criterion for network training—eliminating the need for a separate validation dataset." journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...
Fisher Information Flow in Artificial Neural Networks
A new algorithm tracks Fisher information through a neural network, revealing how information flows and transforms and offering guidance for designing more efficient networks.
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www.erininthemorning.com/p/florida-pa... "If signed, the bill takes effect January 1, 2027, at which point any existing local ordinances, resolutions, programs, or policies deemed to relate to LGBTQ+ people and other “DEI” activities would be immediately void."
Florida Passes Bill That Lets DeSantis Remove Local Elected Officials From Office For "Promoting" Pride
The bill could heavily impact LGBTQ+ activities throughout the state, and is the latest exercise in the erosion of democracy there.
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There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now
For the first time, we now know how many Black-owned bookstores exist in the U.S.
The National Association of Black Bookstores has released the “first comprehensive national report” on the state of America’s Black-owned bookstores.
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Colorado borders Kansas. Here is a Colorado non-profit that helps trans people relocate, Trans Continental Pipeline. Please share. tcpipeline.org
Trans Continental Pipeline
Queer Relocation Nonprofit in Denver, Colorado
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1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
Dustin Volz@dustinvolz.bsky.social · 5mo agoThree Chinese AI companies—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax—prompted Anthropic's Claude more than 16 million times, siphoning information from its system to train and improve their own products, Anthropic said in a blog post Monday. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
So is programming. Which is why "vibe coding" is bunk. You have to think through exactly what you want the program to do, and only writing the code will force you to actually think it through properly.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6mo agoWriting is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
Sam Adams@samadams.bsky.social · 6mo agoIt’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.
I wrote my PhD dissertation on the algorithmic risk profiling system Ryogens which was launched in several councils in England in 2003 (!) Goal of system was to alert schools, health, police and housing services of at-risk-children & improve communication www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) The rise of preemptive surveillance of children in England: Unintended social and ethical consequences
PDF | On Aug 16, 2016, Rosamunde Van Brakel published The rise of preemptive surveillance of children in England: Unintended social and ethical consequences | Find, read and cite all the research you ...
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Rosamunde Van Brakel@rosamundevb.bsky.social · 6mo agoHistory repeats itself "A programme launched by the Ministry of Justice last week will aim to develop a system that can alert schools, health staff, police and other professionals to individuals most likely to be drawn into crime." #ryogens #preemptivesurveillance www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6mo agoPosting about ICE on Instagram is now enough to get you an “administrative subpoena.” 👀 @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
“Amalia had been healthy before immigration officers arrested her family… Amalia’s health quickly deteriorated [in Dilley]. On Jan. 18, she was rushed to a children’s hospital where doctors treated her for pneumonia, Covid-19, RSV and severe respiratory distress.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication, lawsuit says
The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.
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The Montana secretary of state is a fascist handmaiden
Montana Free Press@montanafreepress.org · 6mo agoMontana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen has handed over confidential voter data to the U.S. Department of Justice, which has asked the state to remove, upon demand, any voters who may be deemed ineligible by federal officials.
Thanks so much to @mprnews.org for covering #Comics4Liam. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Comic community responds to ICE detention with art for Liam
Comic artists across the U.S. and beyond have launched the #Comics4Liam campaign, creating artwork inspired by 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos’s Spider-Man backpack to protest his detention by ICE and hi...
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Which idea doesn't have a long history? johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/s...
Sylvester and Clifford on Curved Space
Einstein realized that gravity is due to the curvature of spacetime, but let’s go back earlier: On the 18th of August 1869, the eminent mathematician Sylvester gave a speech arguing that geom…
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Our initial analysis is up. The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot. He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
Bellingcat@bellingcat.com · 6mo agoFederal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 7mo agoBREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.