The entire US is ~5% of the world population and ~20% of world GDP. I still don’t understand why the rest of the world isn’t just doing a little coordination and stomping trump like the soggy worm he is

Bill Comeau 🇨🇦@bill-comeau.bsky.social · 17h ago

If Canada is forced into this full trade war then we should aim to win, not just reach some unsatisfactory stalemate. And let's be clear, the war is against Donald Trump and his supporters in a divided America. We are united and we will teach Trump a lesson that he will not soon forget.

I think the class of school administrators (not just in higher ed) who act fast to insulate core pedagogical functions from AI will reap major rewards for their trouble. In a few years, there will be an extremely stark difference between people who used AI in school and people who are competent

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d ago

cognitive sabotage, you can ban it extra credit to U Chicago for bans on professional AND undergrad programs; smart SLACs are going to market AI free campuses soon chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...

My standout favourite edited book chapter is: @juliapowles.bsky.social: The Corporate Culpability of Big Tech, in The Culpable Corporate Mind, edited by Elise Bant, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2023. Points the way to criminal culpability for Big Tech executives who know exactly what they're doing.

Kate Devlin@drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 4d ago

#Academics let's celebrate the edited book chapter! What is an edited book chapter that you're particularly proud of, or one you think deserves more readers? Mine is this one... Power in AI: Inequality Within and Without the Algorithm kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...

Sorry, but this is the market predicting that this cure will cost more than chemo

Isaiah Bishop@isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 6d ago

"if there was a cure to cancer they wouldnt sell it to you, to sell you chemo instead" (actual market): holy fuck these guys mightve cured melanoma BUY BUY BUY

This is my actual job (teaching machine learning)

mr. cannoli@boner.ink · 6d ago

i would torture and mutilate c3po in front of a bunch of children in a classroom setting, so they learn

Why are manufacturers legally allowed to sell cars that can go 120mph+? Regulate the industries and companies profiting from mass death (tobacco, guns, cars) before you tell me we need stricter policing and individual fines and should create a (private and for-profit!) panopticon

Sam@samd.bsky.social · last wk.

people should not be allowed to commit dangerous crimes just because they’re poor. sorry.

Statistician here. Harper is mostly correct, but with two deadly errors First, it’s not limited to social sciences. All academia is a drop in the bucket compared to “fake” analysis/research in the business world And second, it mostly doesn’t matter. Most research (and thought) is never acted upon

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last wk.

Erstwhile humanities scholar (I personally love the humanities) and current anti-higher ed propagandist for the right Tyler Austin Harper has now decided his position is that “entire fields of the social sciences” are “functionally fake” and “basically witchcraft with Data.”

There is a massive UK-US cultural difference in medicine In the US, people self-select out of seeing a doctor because they know it will cost them money (I did recently while visiting) In the UK, people pay via waiting times and, basically, being told to "walk it off" as a default treatment

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · last wk.

Had lunch with two friends, one British and the other American, last week. American’s child has severe ADHD, and the British guy was “does the medication *really* help” and she rather sharply bit his head off over it.

Not sure if it counts as an intuition, but I do "feel" that the following things are not mutually contradictory but actually hold or are real: - Actualism (or modal antirealism?) - Determinism - Free will

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · last wk.

Do you have any philosophical intuitions that seem extremely obvious to you, but are highly disagreed about? E.g. moral realism vs antirealism, separation of mind and matter, possibility of free will, objects being able to have moral standing, existence per se as a positive good for humans etc

In the UK, private individuals with random anonymous social media accounts can be visited by the police for "abuse and harassment," while the media can do this legally and be rewarded for it

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last wk.

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

Some especially wealthy, well connected, and incurious people

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w ago

Whatever else was wrong with the United States, we truly did have a higher education system that was the envy of the world. Now we’re lighting it on fire because some people are bored and racist.

Yes. And yet, (like democracy), it is still one of the best things humanity has going

noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am really committed to carrying the banner for ‘academia sucks and is stupid and embarrassing, but in an ordinary, unremarkable way, rather than in a nefarious, morally and intellectually bankrupt way’

Today I learned… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett...

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

The original "Tragedy of the Commons" paper was a racist hoax perpetrated by an academic fraud who wanted to make the case for the expulsion of black and Brown people from America and their mass extermination abroad: memex.craphound.com/2019/10/01/t... 85/

Wearing eclipse sunglasses is woke. ISO 12312-2 is basically socialism, to me

Can’t remember the last time I had to save an image from the TL to my phone

Writing "Don't worry about it" on tax form@gonebabygone.bsky.social · 2w ago

The obsession with making elections a referendum on Hassan Piker reminds me of this

This is more or less Schlick's position (though he frames it in terms of being young, of having a playful spirit) in a lovely essay of his that is a very underappreciated part of the logical positivist canon www.sweetstudy.com/files/partii...

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 2w ago

Oh this is a great piece from @add-hawk.bsky.social making the case that play and games are the meaning of life, drawing on The Grasshopper by Bernard Suits www.ft.com/content/7b95...

This is FANTASTIC news, of course-- For Raytheon and Lockheed Martin

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 3w ago

"US has used 'virtually all' PrSM and ATACM munitions" we are out of ammo www.reuters.com/world/us-has...

One of the reasons I don't find the underlying technology irredeemable (separate from the famous companies) It has the potential to make information on the internet more accessible to people who are bad at searching. But it should give the information sources credit!

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3w ago

A weird downstream effect of LLMs I predict will start having an impact soon is that they are very helpful for fixing a lot of stuff that would not have been worth fixing when information about how to fix them was harder to get.

"Is there not something evil in the act of blocking all future generations of mathematicians from the experience of discovery?" They aren't just stealing all of recorded human civilization, they are taking the future as well. Every pinnacle of human experience reduced to pressing a button, forever

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Dark Night of Mathematics What are we really doing? "thinking of this heartbreaking essay written by a mathematician last week, before this most recent news dropped" substack.com/home/post/p-...

I think something funny is about to happen in academic publishing, starting most prominently in the fields making AI (computer science) Basically, acceptance rates for publications are gonna go way up. Authors give their papers that LLM polish, and reviewers' LLMs are impressed by it

Despite what you may have heard about "lies, damned lies, and statistics," stats actually do make it harder to lie, easier for lying to get caught, etc. (this is an empirical observation, not a law of nature or mathematics)

Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEW: DHS’s top data-cruncher has resigned after getting worn down by the Trump admin’s “war on immigrants” and “war on feds,” per his LinkedIn. @noahshachtman.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/dhs-of...

My wife suggested the perfect actor for an Odysseus that would be true to the original, especially going by mood

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 4w ago

7. The film centers Odysseus's guilt over his war crimes, but never shows us the POV of his victims, and instead glorifies the perpetrator for feeling bad about himself. I found this unsatisfying ethically and worse, imaginatively, because Damon's character is given only one mood (Troubled).

“she appeals to those who want to live life as they please with no thought of the consequences of their actions on others” That’s one way to become popular

Michael Olesen@molesen.bsky.social · last mo.

Emily Oster just got a page on my wall of shame. icemsg.org/lies/people/...

It was fun giving this tutorial. If you missed it, check out calibration-tutorial.github.io where all of our materials are available, including slides, hundreds of pages of lecture notes, an interactive demo, and an annotated reading list.

Aaron Roth@aaroth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

On Monday @ncollina.bsky.social @iraglobusharris.bsky.social and I are giving a tutorial at ICML on (multi)calibration and its applications. You can find slides and an annotated bibliography on the website: calibration-tutorial.github.io as well as an interactive demo of online calibration algs.

It’s logical, since in the future humanity’s main purpose (the reason the AI gods will keep us around) is to serve as a source of randomness

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · last mo.

So it’s happened… the AI slush fund and the cult of the RCT have merged www.anthropic.com/news/economi...

Putting the Shia Labeouf “don’t let your dreams be dreams” hype speech into my LLM profile prompts

amos@fasterthanli.me · last mo.

“I should do a breakthrough”

The Odyssey (2026) was too non-linear. Hard to keep track of who is telling the story, and when. There were also too many distracting side stories that made the journey home into a 3 hour long film. Another classic example of art being ruined by fame-- nobody dares to edit Nolan

And sadly, not just America...

Nathan K. Hensley@nathankhensley.bsky.social · last mo.

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

I had the honor of giving a keynote at the International Conference on Machine Learning last week. I addressed the widespread anxiety about how we should adapt as AI capabilities increase. I was thrilled by the talk’s reception, so I have made my slides available www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/tal...

What will be left for us to work on?

ICML 2026 invited keynote — slides and edited transcript, presented click-by-click as delivered. Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University.

cs.princeton.edu

Debated claude into conceding that ADHD is fake