Sun King
@louistxiv.bsky.social
"Don't mind being lonely, so spare me the brimstone
Acting all holy, when you know I'm full of holes
Don't mind being lonely, don't need to be told
Stop acting so holy,
I know I'm full of holes, full of holes" - frightened rabbit
Acting all holy, when you know I'm full of holes
Don't mind being lonely, don't need to be told
Stop acting so holy,
I know I'm full of holes, full of holes" - frightened rabbit
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Ravi Coutinho needed mental health and addiction care. Getting it through his insurance network was nearly impossible. He texted his friends:
“Therapists have been 0-4.”
“Called ten places and nothing.”
“The insurance portal doesn’t know shit.”
(Published Sept. 2024)
“Therapists have been 0-4.”
“Called ten places and nothing.”
“The insurance portal doesn’t know shit.”
(Published Sept. 2024)
“I Don’t Want to Die”: Needing Mental Health Care, He Got Trapped in His Insurer’s Ghost Network
Ravi Coutinho bought a health insurance plan thinking it would deliver on its promise of access to mental health providers. But even after 21 phone calls and multiple hospitalizations, no one could fi...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Ravi Coutinho needed mental health and addiction care. Getting it through his insurance network was nearly impossible. He texted his friends:
“Therapists have been 0-4.”
“Called ten places and nothing.”
“The insurance portal doesn’t know shit.”
(Published Sept. 2024)
“Therapists have been 0-4.”
“Called ten places and nothing.”
“The insurance portal doesn’t know shit.”
(Published Sept. 2024)
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Please help Bryan, a decent and hardworking person who was just kidnapped off the street in DC. He has been in this country since he was a child. He has a business and a family. He does not deserve such shameful cruelty. Please share.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bryan...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bryan...
Donate to Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom, organized by Kira Tewalt
Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom
My name is Kira, and I’m asking for your help on… Kira Tewalt needs your support for Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom
www.gofundme.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Please help Bryan, a decent and hardworking person who was just kidnapped off the street in DC. He has been in this country since he was a child. He has a business and a family. He does not deserve such shameful cruelty. Please share.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bryan...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bryan...
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Of all my posts, this is the one that I wish would be shared widely. I hope people will donate to Bryan's legal defense, but even if you don't, it's important to be aware of the human rights horrors that are going on around us on a daily basis.
Please help Bryan, a decent and hardworking person who was just kidnapped off the street in DC. He has been in this country since he was a child. He has a business and a family. He does not deserve such shameful cruelty. Please share.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bryan...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-bryan...
Donate to Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom, organized by Kira Tewalt
Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom
My name is Kira, and I’m asking for your help on… Kira Tewalt needs your support for Help Bryan Fight for His Freedom
www.gofundme.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Of all my posts, this is the one that I wish would be shared widely. I hope people will donate to Bryan's legal defense, but even if you don't, it's important to be aware of the human rights horrors that are going on around us on a daily basis.
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this is going to be such a test imo...
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
this is going to be such a test imo...
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"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
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everything feels so scammy.
November 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
everything feels so scammy.
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JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
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In case you need a reason not to be a Google-certified educator:
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
In case you need a reason not to be a Google-certified educator:
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Stop Gen AI Christmas Shopping Guide 2025!
Support the fight against Gen AI, and support human artists and writers. Items are labelled either from or outside of the US, to help you avoid tariffs!
stopgenai.com/stop-gen-ai-...
Who's included? See following post...
Share!
Support the fight against Gen AI, and support human artists and writers. Items are labelled either from or outside of the US, to help you avoid tariffs!
stopgenai.com/stop-gen-ai-...
Who's included? See following post...
Share!
November 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Stop Gen AI Christmas Shopping Guide 2025!
Support the fight against Gen AI, and support human artists and writers. Items are labelled either from or outside of the US, to help you avoid tariffs!
stopgenai.com/stop-gen-ai-...
Who's included? See following post...
Share!
Support the fight against Gen AI, and support human artists and writers. Items are labelled either from or outside of the US, to help you avoid tariffs!
stopgenai.com/stop-gen-ai-...
Who's included? See following post...
Share!
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win. Please do repeat this insight.
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win. Please do repeat this insight.
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Indigenous activists from Brazil’s lower Tapajós region and Tupinambá tribes, joined by other activists stormed the Global Climate Summit (COP30) in Brazil demanding land rights and real climate action, not fancy summits full of all talk.
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Indigenous activists from Brazil’s lower Tapajós region and Tupinambá tribes, joined by other activists stormed the Global Climate Summit (COP30) in Brazil demanding land rights and real climate action, not fancy summits full of all talk.
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Reposting this…for reasons.
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Reposting this…for reasons.
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Buy secondhand goods.
Use Marketplace and thrift stores and eBay to buy the things you need.
It'll save you money and it doesn't support the online and big box stores that have been backing Donald Trump.
Put money directly into another person's hands instead of giving it to a corporation.
Use Marketplace and thrift stores and eBay to buy the things you need.
It'll save you money and it doesn't support the online and big box stores that have been backing Donald Trump.
Put money directly into another person's hands instead of giving it to a corporation.
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Buy secondhand goods.
Use Marketplace and thrift stores and eBay to buy the things you need.
It'll save you money and it doesn't support the online and big box stores that have been backing Donald Trump.
Put money directly into another person's hands instead of giving it to a corporation.
Use Marketplace and thrift stores and eBay to buy the things you need.
It'll save you money and it doesn't support the online and big box stores that have been backing Donald Trump.
Put money directly into another person's hands instead of giving it to a corporation.
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If we want our students to be skeptical about LLM output, it's important, IMO, to demonstrate just how *badly* it gets things wrong. Especially in ways that are obvious to people with less than an hour's experience in doing that thing.
November 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If we want our students to be skeptical about LLM output, it's important, IMO, to demonstrate just how *badly* it gets things wrong. Especially in ways that are obvious to people with less than an hour's experience in doing that thing.
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Ethical, I argue, use of AI in a classroom: 🧪
Today in one of my intro lecture courses, I got into the basics of community ecology. Essentially how populations (groups of a particular species in a given space and time) interact with other populations (primarily of other species).
Today in one of my intro lecture courses, I got into the basics of community ecology. Essentially how populations (groups of a particular species in a given space and time) interact with other populations (primarily of other species).
November 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Ethical, I argue, use of AI in a classroom: 🧪
Today in one of my intro lecture courses, I got into the basics of community ecology. Essentially how populations (groups of a particular species in a given space and time) interact with other populations (primarily of other species).
Today in one of my intro lecture courses, I got into the basics of community ecology. Essentially how populations (groups of a particular species in a given space and time) interact with other populations (primarily of other species).
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The Chat-GPT screenshot:
Cue: fairly substantial laughter from the class
And then they got to work in their groups pointing out many of the errors (nothing's labeled; if we assume these arrows are predation we're missing some obvious ones and have others here don't belong, etc)
Cue: fairly substantial laughter from the class
And then they got to work in their groups pointing out many of the errors (nothing's labeled; if we assume these arrows are predation we're missing some obvious ones and have others here don't belong, etc)
November 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The Chat-GPT screenshot:
Cue: fairly substantial laughter from the class
And then they got to work in their groups pointing out many of the errors (nothing's labeled; if we assume these arrows are predation we're missing some obvious ones and have others here don't belong, etc)
Cue: fairly substantial laughter from the class
And then they got to work in their groups pointing out many of the errors (nothing's labeled; if we assume these arrows are predation we're missing some obvious ones and have others here don't belong, etc)
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I showed them how to map out interaction networks, and we worked a few examples -- first me demoing, then them doing it in small groups and me going over the answers.
Then I posted a slide with the title "At the start of the term, I asked Chat-GPT to make a food web. What did it get wrong?"
Then I posted a slide with the title "At the start of the term, I asked Chat-GPT to make a food web. What did it get wrong?"
November 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I showed them how to map out interaction networks, and we worked a few examples -- first me demoing, then them doing it in small groups and me going over the answers.
Then I posted a slide with the title "At the start of the term, I asked Chat-GPT to make a food web. What did it get wrong?"
Then I posted a slide with the title "At the start of the term, I asked Chat-GPT to make a food web. What did it get wrong?"
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Investor angst over Big Tech’s AI spending spills into bond market on.ft.com/4p3frWX
Investor angst over Big Tech’s AI spending spills into bond market
Debt issued by groups building data centres has been hit in recent weeks
on.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Investor angst over Big Tech’s AI spending spills into bond market on.ft.com/4p3frWX
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It was great to chat with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social. Her work is an important part of the fight to save academia from being destroyed by Gen AI... a very real threat.
van Rooij shared academic citatons too!
Share, share!
stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-...
van Rooij shared academic citatons too!
Share, share!
stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-...
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It was great to chat with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social. Her work is an important part of the fight to save academia from being destroyed by Gen AI... a very real threat.
van Rooij shared academic citatons too!
Share, share!
stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-...
van Rooij shared academic citatons too!
Share, share!
stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-...
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To be a U.S. Senator is to be an institutionalist. Even Bernie Sanders cares more about his role and friendships in the senate than he does about his ideological project. If ideology came first he would lead the charge on ousting Schumer. But that’s his friend.
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
To be a U.S. Senator is to be an institutionalist. Even Bernie Sanders cares more about his role and friendships in the senate than he does about his ideological project. If ideology came first he would lead the charge on ousting Schumer. But that’s his friend.
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My God, what a horrible, pitiful, defeatist, tone deaf, and just plain…WRONG thing to say. Retire now @SenAngusKing if that’s how you feel. Retire now and put someone else in your place who will stand up to the fascist in the White House.
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
My God, what a horrible, pitiful, defeatist, tone deaf, and just plain…WRONG thing to say. Retire now @SenAngusKing if that’s how you feel. Retire now and put someone else in your place who will stand up to the fascist in the White House.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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the thing that upsets me about this the most is that Dems had all the momentum, republicans were reeling, and we were getting intra-GOP fighting over the filibuster, all while voters were blaming republicans for their incompetence
this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch
this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM
the thing that upsets me about this the most is that Dems had all the momentum, republicans were reeling, and we were getting intra-GOP fighting over the filibuster, all while voters were blaming republicans for their incompetence
this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch
this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch
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Some recommended reading for the people rightfully pissed at Dems this evening
Howie Hawkins wrote an analysis of what it would take to build a new left wing workers' party before his 2020 election bid. Still holds up imo
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howiehawkins.us
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Some recommended reading for the people rightfully pissed at Dems this evening