Ben Waber
@bwaber.bsky.social
MIT Researcher, he/him, Senior Visiting Researcher @ Ritsumeikan, Co-Founder of Humanyze, former Senior Researcher @ HBS, author of People Analytics. AI, management, law, corporate governance, psychology, anthropology, ethics, and similar topics
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Venn diagram of had friendly email correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein and argued that wokeness is a dire threat to civilization that must be stopped before it finishes destroying freedom.
January 31, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Venn diagram of had friendly email correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein and argued that wokeness is a dire threat to civilization that must be stopped before it finishes destroying freedom.
February 1, 2026 at 1:55 AM
It's still extremely cold in Boston, and while struggling to keep my digits warm I listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/10)
January 31, 2026 at 3:54 AM
It's still extremely cold in Boston, and while struggling to keep my digits warm I listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/10)
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I got to this post in the thread and I screamed
January 31, 2026 at 2:40 AM
I got to this post in the thread and I screamed
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DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:
January 30, 2026 at 6:28 PM
DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:
Meanwhile in Japan, the Keidanren, the large company industry group, says that companies must raise base salaries as a long term investment in their people news.ntv.co.jp/category/eco...
経団連「ベア実施検討」を呼びかけ 春闘本格化前に（2026年1月30日掲載）｜日テレNEWS NNN
経団連は、春季労使交渉の経営側の方針を周知するフォーラムを開催し、基本給の底上げとなるベースアップの検討を呼びかけました。
news.ntv.co.jp
January 30, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Meanwhile in Japan, the Keidanren, the large company industry group, says that companies must raise base salaries as a long term investment in their people news.ntv.co.jp/category/eco...
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Watching this Labour government try to kill UK universities is like watching an animal disembowel itself. You just sit there thinking ‘Why?? Why would you rip out something that has always kept you alive?’
Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
January 30, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Watching this Labour government try to kill UK universities is like watching an animal disembowel itself. You just sit there thinking ‘Why?? Why would you rip out something that has always kept you alive?’
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✨Also don’t forget that you can follow some of our wonderful speakers from 2024 and 2025 ⬇️⬇️⬇️
January 27, 2026 at 3:08 PM
✨Also don’t forget that you can follow some of our wonderful speakers from 2024 and 2025 ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Lots of interesting calls today, but I was also able to get out for a bit and observe this weird cluster of geese/ducks/swans on the Charles and listen to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/7)
January 30, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Lots of interesting calls today, but I was also able to get out for a bit and observe this weird cluster of geese/ducks/swans on the Charles and listen to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/7)
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From Massachusetts to Minnesota, the people demand accountability.
Abolish ICE.
Impeach Kristi Noem.
End qualified immunity.
Cut off funding for DHS.
Congress cannot keep sponsoring this campaign of cruelty.
Abolish ICE.
Impeach Kristi Noem.
End qualified immunity.
Cut off funding for DHS.
Congress cannot keep sponsoring this campaign of cruelty.
January 29, 2026 at 4:23 AM
From Massachusetts to Minnesota, the people demand accountability.
Abolish ICE.
Impeach Kristi Noem.
End qualified immunity.
Cut off funding for DHS.
Congress cannot keep sponsoring this campaign of cruelty.
Abolish ICE.
Impeach Kristi Noem.
End qualified immunity.
Cut off funding for DHS.
Congress cannot keep sponsoring this campaign of cruelty.
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Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”
January 30, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”
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Using a comprehensive dataset of posts from a major platform for anime- and manga-style artwork to study the impact of the launch of a prominent text-to-image generative AI, from Sueyoul Kim, Ginger Zhe Jin, and Eungik Lee www.nber.org/papers/w34733
January 29, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Using a comprehensive dataset of posts from a major platform for anime- and manga-style artwork to study the impact of the launch of a prominent text-to-image generative AI, from Sueyoul Kim, Ginger Zhe Jin, and Eungik Lee www.nber.org/papers/w34733
You can probably infer that the mercury has dropped fairly low up in Boston, and while staying layered up on my run I listened to talks and books for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/5)
January 29, 2026 at 3:18 AM
You can probably infer that the mercury has dropped fairly low up in Boston, and while staying layered up on my run I listened to talks and books for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/5)
Microsoft has just disclosed that they have 15 million copilot customers. That nets out to... approximately $5.4B/year (assuming everyone is paying the sticker price). Given that they spent $37.5B in capex last QUARTER (not all of it is AI obviously, but probably more than half)... Yikes
January 29, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Microsoft has just disclosed that they have 15 million copilot customers. That nets out to... approximately $5.4B/year (assuming everyone is paying the sticker price). Given that they spent $37.5B in capex last QUARTER (not all of it is AI obviously, but probably more than half)... Yikes
This event title www.uwo.ca/events/2026/...
Down to Puck: Hockey, Queer Desire, & Heated Rivalry - Events - Western University
Join three academics from three different disciplines as they discuss sport, masculinity, queer desire & nationalism. Jan 27. In person and via Zoom Webinar.
www.uwo.ca
January 28, 2026 at 7:55 PM
This event title www.uwo.ca/events/2026/...
lfg
Watertown kicks Flock cameras out of town
www.watertownmanews.com/2026/01/28/w...
www.watertownmanews.com/2026/01/28/w...
January 28, 2026 at 7:52 PM
lfg
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So initial experiments with Open AI's vibe-coding science tool Prism are going about as well as expected.
January 27, 2026 at 10:42 PM
So initial experiments with Open AI's vibe-coding science tool Prism are going about as well as expected.
BREAKING ANALYSIS: MEDIAN NET WORTH OF OPENING WEEK MELANIA VIEWERS TOPS $100M!
Plenty of good tickets still available for MELANIA on Friday night in Boston
January 28, 2026 at 3:18 AM
BREAKING ANALYSIS: MEDIAN NET WORTH OF OPENING WEEK MELANIA VIEWERS TOPS $100M!
We finally had a day without snow in Boston, and while resting my shoveling muscles I listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/6)
January 28, 2026 at 3:12 AM
We finally had a day without snow in Boston, and while resting my shoveling muscles I listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/6)
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Wow.
The front page of tomorrow’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.
The front page of tomorrow’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.
January 27, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Wow.
The front page of tomorrow’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.
The front page of tomorrow’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.
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“Kevin Weil, head of OpenAI for Science, pushes that analogy himself. “I think 2026 will be for AI and science what 2025 was for AI in software engineering,”
So, a very painful lesson in “oh shit it can’t actually do that after all?”
So, a very painful lesson in “oh shit it can’t actually do that after all?”
January 27, 2026 at 9:55 PM
“Kevin Weil, head of OpenAI for Science, pushes that analogy himself. “I think 2026 will be for AI and science what 2025 was for AI in software engineering,”
So, a very painful lesson in “oh shit it can’t actually do that after all?”
So, a very painful lesson in “oh shit it can’t actually do that after all?”
Everyone who uses this please pin to your profile so I know to ignore your papers
“The idea is to put ChatGPT front and center inside software that scientists use to write up their work in much the same way that chatbots are now embedded into popular programming editors.
It’s vibe coding, but for science.”
It’s vibe coding, but for science.”
OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science
Prism is a ChatGPT-powered text editor that automates much of the work involved in writing scientific papers.
www.technologyreview.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Everyone who uses this please pin to your profile so I know to ignore your papers
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"Fugitive slave catchers just need better training"--moderates in 1850, probably
Opinion | To Avoid More Tragic Deaths, ICE Needs Higher Education and Training Standards
Higher ed can play an important role in making federal immigration enforcement safer. https://bit.ly/4bRR5fx
#EDUSKy #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Higher ed can play an important role in making federal immigration enforcement safer. https://bit.ly/4bRR5fx
#EDUSKy #HigherEd #AcademicSky
January 27, 2026 at 9:03 PM
"Fugitive slave catchers just need better training"--moderates in 1850, probably
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good time for all of us to revisit this thread
It is hard to grasp but large masses of Americans are both racist/xenophobic AND not racist/xenophobic enough to applaud what Trump is doing. It's goldilocks shit, they want a level of racism/xenophobia calibrated exactly to their personal preferences, and you just can't make that policy. Don't try.
January 27, 2026 at 4:16 PM
good time for all of us to revisit this thread