I'm just now reading @randomwalker.bsky.social's writeup of his ICML keynote. It is very insightful. Everyone thinking about the future of work in the age of AI should read this. www.normaltech.ai/p/what-will-...

What will be left for us to work on?

My keynote at ICML 2026

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Jeanne Gibson, one of the last surviving Rosie the Riveters, died on July 29, 2026. She was 100 Years old. Born in Minneapolis in 1926, she was only 18 when she moved to Seattle to weld U.S. Navy destroyers at Todd Pacific Shipyards. Rest in peace, Jeanne

Also spending more time with books again. Here's my three cents: - Read books on paper. - About two thirds of what I read is over 15 years old; consider books from other times. Used bookstores contain gems. - If you dropped a book some time ago, give it another look. You might like it better now.

Edwin Hayward@edwinhayward.com · last wk.

This may sound foolish, but if it resonates with even one person it's worth it. I used to love reading. Then life and a lack of time got in the way. Recently it dawned on me that I don't have to finish books. A quick yes/no after 25-30 pages. Continue only the ones I'm loving. I'm reading again.

Sat down to write about the Hugging Face/AI incident. Ended up drawing this instead.

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

Recommending the Laura Poitras documentary on Sy Hersh, for those who’d like to know about the relationship the New York Times has to the powerful, for one. www.netflix.com/us/title/821...

Watch Cover-Up | Netflix Official Site

He's devoted his career to uncovering stories the powerful want buried. From My Lai to Abu Ghraib, dig into the life's work of journalist Seymour Hersh.

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One way of seeing climate change in action is looking at 1200 year continuous data from Japan about cherry tree blossoming.

America and Iran should sort out their diaries and publish a schedule indicating which days a war is on and which days are a ceasefire. It would make everyone's admin so much easier.

#graphicdujour

Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · last mo.

Holes xkcd.com/3266/

Are you a computational scientist interested in applying AI and machine learning to support climate science research? The Research Computing Center is looking for an AI/ML Engineer to support faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students conducting computational and AI-driven research 🔗👇

People have lovely slides now thanks to AI but they all look similar. I remember when every speaker had their own style of handwritten slides. Like this 😀

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination

By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

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This book hits me right in the childhood. I found this at a local bookstore. I was on my way out the door and just happened to catch a glimpse of it in the corner of my eye. Everyone should read this book immediately.

Yes, it's the longest day of the year but luckily it's also the narrowest day, so don’t worry about the risk of awkward gaps in the space time continuum. It’s taken care of.

This is the legal defense fund for the 15 anti-ICE organizers who were recently arrested in Minneapolis. Please contribute generously. They are going to have millions of dollars worth of needs. chuffed.org/project/1865...

Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers

On the morning of June 16th 2026 fifteen anti-ICE organizers were indicted on federal conspiracy charges in Minnesota, 12 of whom were arrested in aggressive raids across the Twin Cities. This fundrai...

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Great recognition for the R development team at UoAuckland stats dept. Ross Ihaka & Robert Gentlemen changed the world.... phys.org/news/2026-06...

New Zealand scientists working on 'R' win major global award

Scientists working on the revolutionary 'R' programming language invented at the University of Auckland have won a top award intended to be a Nobel Prize for statisticians.

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What a fantastic idea! #BookSky

Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring. Gift link: nyti.ms/4oC3U25

For example see geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/06/25/v...

Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. wrongly demonizes the safe and effective HPV vaccine Gardasil

hile HHS Secretary Kennedy frets over food dye in Froot Loops, his 2023 attack on Gardasil — a vaccine proven to prevent deadly cancers — reveals a

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One thing I can never, ever forgive the MAHA leader RFK Jr for is him peddling the dangerous and deadly lie that women who get the HPV vaccine are at higher risk of cervical cancer He makes 💰💰💰 in law suits against the HPV vaccine maker

'The Traveller' is Book of the Week in 'Review of Reviews' in THE WEEK. Very exciting. And incidentally, there is also a mention of my review of Maggie O'Farrell's amazing "Land" (which I loved). Double whammy!

How can AI companies properly compensate content creators for training data? Raul Castro Fernandez and @glenweyl.bsky.social published an op-ed in @hbr.org exploring how to create a sustainable market that benefits creators, AI companies, and the public 🔗 hbr.org/2026/06/how-...

You're looking at the bird with the shortest beak in the world, but only on a technicality, as beak length is measured from nostrils ('nares') to tips. And the nostril of a kiwi bird is right on the very end of that long schnozzle. Let's talk about the kiwi's completely unique 'nose'.

Last spring I taught a graduate course built on the idea that 𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘐 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭, not a novelty: 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵—all the course materials are now public. Take it, use it, adapt it for your own students or your own research. barbagroup.github.io/mae6291-genai/

The SciFM conversation is shifting from models to systems. The interesting questions this year were increasingly about how to connect agents, instruments, data, simulations, and compute into effective discovery ecosystems. cs.uchicago.edu/news/scifm-2... @ramanathanlab.bsky.social

SciFM 2026 at UChicago: Inside the Premier Gathering of AI, Foundation Models, and the Future of Scientific Discovery - Department of Computer Science

Walking onto the University of Chicago campus this May, visitors to SciFM 2026 could sense the electric anticipation. As the third installment of the Scientific Foundation Models conference series unf...

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Life hack: Who can afford monogramed shirts these days? Simply get your initials tattooed on your chest and cut a little hole out of all your shirts in the appropriate spot.

It's always a treat to read Ted Chiang's thoughts on AI. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

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My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE