@aazzuy2.bsky.social
I don't know I'm just hiding lime here, trying to enjoy limited time.
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· Sep 14
I'm sure this person has a lot of positive things to contribute to the academy, the world of ideas, and teaching. FIND HIM WORK!!!! (I'd do it myself except I am in the same boat.) bsky.app/profile/thra...
He seems to have merely re-posted “a 2023 headline, ‘Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment.’ The headline was from an April 2023 article in Newsweek.” And for that, he will lose his job and be expelled from the American workforce
I love this thread and it's something I want to do as a jobless person who is disabled but how do we make jobs? How do we become the change that we want to see when we don't have much or what do we say to the people that have enough to make much but I have no ideas?
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What a tribute to an Italian legend
February 14, 2026 at 4:19 PM
What a tribute to an Italian legend
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"I called on the youth to change their messages. We are nation of fighters. We have persevered, continue to destroy Kremlin's imperial ambitions, and today we are the shield of democratic Europe. We are not asking for alms, but demand justice and tools to protect the civilized world,"
February 14, 2026 at 2:49 PM
"I called on the youth to change their messages. We are nation of fighters. We have persevered, continue to destroy Kremlin's imperial ambitions, and today we are the shield of democratic Europe. We are not asking for alms, but demand justice and tools to protect the civilized world,"
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🇺🇦 Budanov held an online meeting with leaders of the Ukrainian youth movement - the Ukrainian diaspora. During the conversation, the parties discussed preparations for actions in support of Ukraine, which will be held around the world on February 24.
February 14, 2026 at 2:49 PM
🇺🇦 Budanov held an online meeting with leaders of the Ukrainian youth movement - the Ukrainian diaspora. During the conversation, the parties discussed preparations for actions in support of Ukraine, which will be held around the world on February 24.
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THEY PUT MY GIRL IN 2XKO
WITH MY SKIN?! AAAAAAAAAA
WITH MY SKIN?! AAAAAAAAAA
February 13, 2026 at 10:40 PM
THEY PUT MY GIRL IN 2XKO
WITH MY SKIN?! AAAAAAAAAA
WITH MY SKIN?! AAAAAAAAAA
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Good question.
Are any members of Congress making money from these concentration camps?
February 13, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Good question.
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I am genuinely impressed with CBC coverage of the Tumbler Ridge shooting. They've been reporting just the facts plus interviews with the families, focusing on the actual situation and people affected.
Also they've noted the attempts to use it for anti-trans propaganda.
Also they've noted the attempts to use it for anti-trans propaganda.
This X account looked like it belonged to the Tumbler Ridge shooter. It was a hoax | CBC News
A social media account that some initially believed belonged to the Tumbler Ridge shooter turned out to be a fraud — and even briefly fooled a prominent non-profit organization. Disinformation researc...
www.cbc.ca
February 13, 2026 at 6:34 PM
I am genuinely impressed with CBC coverage of the Tumbler Ridge shooting. They've been reporting just the facts plus interviews with the families, focusing on the actual situation and people affected.
Also they've noted the attempts to use it for anti-trans propaganda.
Also they've noted the attempts to use it for anti-trans propaganda.
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My latest research paper got featured in Popular Mechanics!
Scientists Think Asteroids May Have Provided the Ingredients for Life on Earth
A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped kickstart life.
www.popularmechanics.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:55 PM
My latest research paper got featured in Popular Mechanics!
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they are playing vampire hunter d at the trylon tonight, yay! trying to get my brain and body to cooperate so i can get those scarfs listed in my kofi shop before we go. this is false spring, gonna get cold again!
also making so many more fleece headbands. found another stash of good fleece prints
also making so many more fleece headbands. found another stash of good fleece prints
February 13, 2026 at 7:45 PM
they are playing vampire hunter d at the trylon tonight, yay! trying to get my brain and body to cooperate so i can get those scarfs listed in my kofi shop before we go. this is false spring, gonna get cold again!
also making so many more fleece headbands. found another stash of good fleece prints
also making so many more fleece headbands. found another stash of good fleece prints
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📣 #ALABAMA Democrats need your help!
🚨 This is an #UnlikelyHeroes page *deliberately* featuring Dems running in RED districts to boost statewide turnout & force Republicans to defend their turf.
Donate today! #Blue26
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February 13, 2026 at 7:46 PM
📣 #ALABAMA Democrats need your help!
🚨 This is an #UnlikelyHeroes page *deliberately* featuring Dems running in RED districts to boost statewide turnout & force Republicans to defend their turf.
Donate today! #Blue26
secure.actblue.com/donate/al26h...
🚨 This is an #UnlikelyHeroes page *deliberately* featuring Dems running in RED districts to boost statewide turnout & force Republicans to defend their turf.
Donate today! #Blue26
secure.actblue.com/donate/al26h...
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Watch Rep. Al Green live on YouTube now: youtube.com/live/R0rqYo7...
Congressman Al Green Secures $500,000 in Fed. Funds to Combat Human Trafficking in Harris Co. Pct. 7
YouTube video by Rep. Al Green
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February 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Watch Rep. Al Green live on YouTube now: youtube.com/live/R0rqYo7...
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Stanford CS researchers just got a huge payday for promising AI agents that can simulate the real world. @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I wrote about these researcher's vision. Screen shotting quite a lengthy part of our paper, because we spent A LOT of time thinking about the paucity of this promise
![A proposed solution is to build generative agents that represent specific individuals (Box 1). One
such study [6] recruited a sample of ~1000 US participants nationally representative for age, gender,
race, region, education, and political ideology; programmed an LLM chatbot to interview each
participant for 2 h; and asked the participants to complete a battery of questionnaires and tasks.
They then used the interview transcripts to prompt ~1000 LLM agents to role-play each of the
human participants on the same questionnaires and tasks. Observing a high correspondence between
the responses of the generative agents and their human counterparts, the researchers concluded
that LLMs prompted in this way can capture the ‘idiosyncratic nature’ of real people across
a range of situations [57]. Some researchers propose making generative agents even more representative
by training them on their human counterparts’ ‘emails, messages and social media
posts’, aswell as ‘text generated by friends, family or coworkers’ [23]. (We note this raises critical
questions about informed consent; see Outstanding questions.) The logic here is that, because
generative agents are built to represent a diverse sample of specific individuals, researchers
could then run thousands of experiments on the generative agents and feel confident that the resultant
data are faithful to the original samples. Researchers could even populate virtual worlds with
generative agents, running large-scale simulations to test interventions and policies (Box 2).
Nevertheless, the generative agents paradigm faces hard limits to its potential representativeness.
By design, generative agents can only represent individuals who consent to sharing sensitive
data with scientists, which carries substantial privacy risks [6,58]. Given these risks, people](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5blrrzktebvkslsnxwlicxji/bafkreibwgg4xqtlffuiwi5f25g3qmto2rhu3ravloedgkaaycmqahvp4ea@jpeg)
![with stronger privacy concerns are less likely to consent to such studies. Members of marginalized
groups in the USA, including women, gender minorities, people of color, and disabled people,
have heightened privacy concerns and more negative attitudes about AI [59,60]ii–iv. These
groups have historically faced disproportionate surveillance [61,62] and theft of their biometric
and behavioral data for scientific research [63–65], including training machine learning models
[66]. Regimes of digital surveillance spread globally [67], creating frictions where global north ideologies
touch down in the global south [68]. These entrenched and repeating patterns raise cascading
problems for the generative agents approach: first, members of marginalized groups are
less likely to participate and, second, those who do will be less representative of their groups. Any
attempt to build AI Surrogates that are truly representative of diverse populations will likely face a
hard limit that marginalized people are (justifiably) less willing to entrust their data to scientists.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5blrrzktebvkslsnxwlicxji/bafkreicg277bpxm5wh6u4sgmfao4j3a6waza7k4q7uo444zhs4t47mywya@jpeg)
![Box 2. Generative agents and simulated worlds
Researchers note that ‘many of themost interesting research questions, such as the psychology ofworld leaders, the effects
of large-scale policy change, or the effects of large-scale events on the general public’ are ‘logistically infeasible’ to study in
the laboratory ‘with any realistic amount of resources’ [23]. In response, generative agents populating simulated worlds are
seen as promising research paths. For example, researchers could create generative agents based on the profiles of Palo
Alto residents and simulate how the community would respond to different pandemic interventionsv. Much of the technical
research on artificial agents acting in simulated worlds originates in fields beyond cognitive science, including computer science,
sociology, economics, political science, computational social science, as well as private industry [9,112–116].
Developers of these agent architectures have lofty ambitions. They believe that this technology can ‘test interventions and
theories and gain real-world insights’ [58], serving as ‘a high-fidelity platformfor policy outcome evaluation’ to enable ‘datadriven
policy selection’ [115]. Given these ambitions, validating that these models can generalize to the real world is imperative
[116], and some researchers caution that ‘current architectures must cover some distance before their use is reliable’
[58]. Yet, such validation faces a paradox: these models can only be validated against the ground truth of real-world data,
but their appeal lies in simulating scenarios where ground truth is not available. Some researchers [22] propose to meet this
challenge by identifying ‘the most proximal cases for which ground-truth data from human subjects is available’ and using
those cases to validate the simulation’s predictions ‘before turning the model to a domain in which no ground truth exists’.
However, there is currently ‘no consensus’ around how proximal is proximal enough [116].
Imp…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5blrrzktebvkslsnxwlicxji/bafkreic3vp2uqan3apjzkzc4soubhzq47qtnzzpcwqncwbb566hprb4gma@jpeg)
February 13, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Stanford CS researchers just got a huge payday for promising AI agents that can simulate the real world. @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I wrote about these researcher's vision. Screen shotting quite a lengthy part of our paper, because we spent A LOT of time thinking about the paucity of this promise
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Great thread reflecting upon the use of LLM-based simulations to run experiments that inform science, systems, and policy. Here’s the final post in the thread.
anyway, what really matters here is that a lot of big companies will stop doing user testing with real humans and instead depend on these AI simulations. The machine will dictate the market and, should we conform to the market, we will ourselves become more like the machine. Unsubscribe.
February 13, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Great thread reflecting upon the use of LLM-based simulations to run experiments that inform science, systems, and policy. Here’s the final post in the thread.
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Dude regularly works for Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix and CN so speculate away. But this sucks no matter which studio is doing it, and gross to think some major movie this year is running with a plagiarized image from ChatGPT.
February 13, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Dude regularly works for Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix and CN so speculate away. But this sucks no matter which studio is doing it, and gross to think some major movie this year is running with a plagiarized image from ChatGPT.
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Examples of "the best government that money can buy" are becoming more depressing. Ohio Republican Senator Jon Husted accepted more than $115,000 in campaign contributions from Les Wexner, one of 6 people listed as Epstein's co-conspirators, and then voted against releasing the Epstein files.
Husted took donations from Epstein co-conspirator Les Wexner, then voted to block file release
Campaign records show Sen. Jon Husted took $116,892 from Les Wexner since 2001, including months before voting to block release of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents.
tiffinohio.net
February 13, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Examples of "the best government that money can buy" are becoming more depressing. Ohio Republican Senator Jon Husted accepted more than $115,000 in campaign contributions from Les Wexner, one of 6 people listed as Epstein's co-conspirators, and then voted against releasing the Epstein files.
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Protect Democracy's experts have testified three times in recent months in support of Oregon’s bipartisan bill to guard against faithless presidential electors. Our own Jermall Keels, breaks it all down ⬇️
Today, our team gave expert testimony to the Oregon State Senate on updating rules governing presidential electors. Because electors are increasingly vulnerable to attempted coercion, bribery etc. to cast a faithless vote in a nat'l election, common sense changes are key. Jermall Keels explains:
February 12, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Protect Democracy's experts have testified three times in recent months in support of Oregon’s bipartisan bill to guard against faithless presidential electors. Our own Jermall Keels, breaks it all down ⬇️
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And here's tonight's drawing, and it's the first one in my new sketchbook. 😄
My friend @bleppindrago.bsky.social suggested that I draw a kobold walking a pet moss bug, like the one that the artist Unravy drew a few days ago. 😊
(I hope it looks ok without a background... 😅)
My friend @bleppindrago.bsky.social suggested that I draw a kobold walking a pet moss bug, like the one that the artist Unravy drew a few days ago. 😊
(I hope it looks ok without a background... 😅)
February 12, 2026 at 8:34 AM
And here's tonight's drawing, and it's the first one in my new sketchbook. 😄
My friend @bleppindrago.bsky.social suggested that I draw a kobold walking a pet moss bug, like the one that the artist Unravy drew a few days ago. 😊
(I hope it looks ok without a background... 😅)
My friend @bleppindrago.bsky.social suggested that I draw a kobold walking a pet moss bug, like the one that the artist Unravy drew a few days ago. 😊
(I hope it looks ok without a background... 😅)
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This is important. The head of CBP says here that his agency did NOT provide the assessment that led DHS to label Alex Pretti a terrorist looking to inflict mass casualties.
That appears to contradict Stephen Miller's claim that the initial assessment was based on CBP reports:
That appears to contradict Stephen Miller's claim that the initial assessment was based on CBP reports:
February 12, 2026 at 5:37 PM
This is important. The head of CBP says here that his agency did NOT provide the assessment that led DHS to label Alex Pretti a terrorist looking to inflict mass casualties.
That appears to contradict Stephen Miller's claim that the initial assessment was based on CBP reports:
That appears to contradict Stephen Miller's claim that the initial assessment was based on CBP reports:
Don't forget this, yo
This is just unconscionable man
February 13, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Don't forget this, yo
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Are there any librarians with time to read a piece of literary fiction?
I looked for a setting to make sure my DMs are open to anyone, but I can't find it.
I looked for a setting to make sure my DMs are open to anyone, but I can't find it.
December 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Are there any librarians with time to read a piece of literary fiction?
I looked for a setting to make sure my DMs are open to anyone, but I can't find it.
I looked for a setting to make sure my DMs are open to anyone, but I can't find it.
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People, I'm BEGGING you:
If you are going to share that leaked 60 minutes segment, INCLUDE SOME COMMENTARY in your post that makes it necessary for readers to have access to the full video to understand the commentary. CBS has a deep black eye over this and the odds that they'll look to punish ppl
If you are going to share that leaked 60 minutes segment, INCLUDE SOME COMMENTARY in your post that makes it necessary for readers to have access to the full video to understand the commentary. CBS has a deep black eye over this and the odds that they'll look to punish ppl
December 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
People, I'm BEGGING you:
If you are going to share that leaked 60 minutes segment, INCLUDE SOME COMMENTARY in your post that makes it necessary for readers to have access to the full video to understand the commentary. CBS has a deep black eye over this and the odds that they'll look to punish ppl
If you are going to share that leaked 60 minutes segment, INCLUDE SOME COMMENTARY in your post that makes it necessary for readers to have access to the full video to understand the commentary. CBS has a deep black eye over this and the odds that they'll look to punish ppl
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Amazon Prime, but for gulags.
"This administration is actively aspiring to a system of [the] magnitude [of the Soviet gulag, Nazi concentration camps, and Chinese labor camps] to reshape society, to its racial, political, and cultural preferences for generations to come."
"This administration is actively aspiring to a system of [the] magnitude [of the Soviet gulag, Nazi concentration camps, and Chinese labor camps] to reshape society, to its racial, political, and cultural preferences for generations to come."
February 13, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Amazon Prime, but for gulags.
"This administration is actively aspiring to a system of [the] magnitude [of the Soviet gulag, Nazi concentration camps, and Chinese labor camps] to reshape society, to its racial, political, and cultural preferences for generations to come."
"This administration is actively aspiring to a system of [the] magnitude [of the Soviet gulag, Nazi concentration camps, and Chinese labor camps] to reshape society, to its racial, political, and cultural preferences for generations to come."
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2026 presents Democrats with a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make long overdue inroads with rural voters.
It's going to require time, investment, and perhaps most importantly Democratic candidates who fit their electorates and can actually win.
www.notus.org/2026-electio...
It's going to require time, investment, and perhaps most importantly Democratic candidates who fit their electorates and can actually win.
www.notus.org/2026-electio...
Democrats Are Trying to Court Rural America, Once Again
Will this time be different?
www.notus.org
February 12, 2026 at 5:04 PM
2026 presents Democrats with a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make long overdue inroads with rural voters.
It's going to require time, investment, and perhaps most importantly Democratic candidates who fit their electorates and can actually win.
www.notus.org/2026-electio...
It's going to require time, investment, and perhaps most importantly Democratic candidates who fit their electorates and can actually win.
www.notus.org/2026-electio...
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To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like:
The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/
Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate
Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!
The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/
Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate
Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!
February 12, 2026 at 12:29 AM
To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like:
The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/
Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate
Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!
The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/
Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate
Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!