Katharine the Geek (Lesbian Bitch)
@katharinethegeek.bsky.social
Just your average queer scientist. Wife, mom, teacher, anti-fascist. Astrophysicist turned math professor. I solve nonlinear PDEs for food.
Yes. We have existed before words could describe us... Just like the Earth existed before we named it the “Earth” Existence precedes definition.
Planned Parenthood@ppfa.org · 6d agoLGBTQ+ folks have always been here. LGBTQ+ folks have always been here. LGBTQ+ folks have always been here. LGBTQ+ folks have always been here.
Artificial Intelligence is now Super Intelligence. Pedophile Trump is now Super Pedophile Trump.
Damn Yeah. We can love the promise of our country. We can love the good and build better. "I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually"—James Baldwin
The reason there is lower "ROI" from a college degree now than in 1970s is women made up about 40% of the college population in 1970 and over 60% now... and the five top fields women go into (teaching, nursing, social work, librarianship, arts/nonprofit administration) are all underpaid.
I'm all for ruining the lives of rapists. Who's with me on that?
"If you learn these four words you can become chair." "If you tell me what the words are, I will punch you."
Tech oligarchs agree calling AI "too dangerous" way cooler than just admitting it doesn't work
Tech oligarchs agree calling AI "too dangerous" way cooler than just admitting it doesn't work
SILICON VALLEY - The CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and GrokAI have released a statement agreeing that claiming artificial intelligence "could potentially kill all humans" sounds much more awesome than just admitting that they blew a fortune on glorified chatbots.
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Such assumptions are the equivalent of the medical GoFundMe - heartening at a distance, a symptom of the real disease up close.
Hannah Vardit@hannahvardit.bsky.social · 2d agoi worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
“ME TOO went too far” said the country that re-elected a rapist.
How many times must we say this? AI* software does not “go rogue” any more than your printer “got religion” when it stopped working Sunday. Software does not have intent or agency. People do. And this feels like some people might be exposed to liability. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t...
These precautions aren’t paranoia. They’re lessons passed from mothers to daughters about navigating a world where women can face harassment, stalking, assault, and violence simply for existing. The responsibility should be on all of us to challenge the behaviors that create that danger.
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
No true scientist will outsource the fun of the creative process to a machine. We must focus on finding and eradicating the science operators who will stop at nothing to get more recognition & power. The impostors can be identified. We need to rely more on the good old human interactions.
European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · yesterdayResearch evaluation faces growing pressure: demand for competitive research funding is rising, while AI is rapidly changing how proposals can be written and assessed. In this context, the ERC & Science Europe had a workshop with research funding and performing organisations from 5 continents.
Call it Trump intelligence - it’s loud, wrong, and stealing everything it can.
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
Deb@sailebed.bsky.social · 3d agoUpdate: abcnews.com/US/district-...
“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.
Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget
Sure, seems safe.
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This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
This Cornell gang r*ape case has me wanting to burn down everything. An ESSAY?! For drugging and r*aping a woman for SEVEN HOURS and advertising it on the fraternity group chat? And no one stopped it, called security, did a damn thing? ARE YOU FCKING KIDDING ME?
This also sums up the American healthcare experience pretty well. American healthcare is a travesty. This is the bad place.
MEN stand up and be men. Stop raping women & children. Stop your male friends & relatives from doing these things. Men: raise your sons not to rape. Teach them to intervene, to stop their friends from this behavior.
And to be honest, though the systems are so complex you can never prove causation, the fact that our descent into the dumbest politics follows on four decades of systematic, institutional disinvestment from the liberal arts seems almost too on the nose and yet here we are.
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
THE DEMS NEED TO OPPOSE AI! In a nutshell AI is about doing our thinking for us - that is a Fascist idea. Why go to university when you have AI? Why use the library when you have AI? Why read books when AI will do summaries for you? Teachers are already noticing our IQ and vocabulary are dropping.
I think we need a law assigning liability for the actions of agentic programs to the companies themselves. They're obviously trying to cement the idea that these programs aren't controllable or predictable.
