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Researcher, Responsible AI, human-AI interaction, Microsoft, cats, yoga, 🌈Bramily, 💜Brandi Carlile💜. Opinions are my own. she/her
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mihaelav.bsky.social
I dated a guy in Romania whose father got sent to labor camp for saying, in a philosophy college class, that he read a book by Hemingway. He wrote a book about his experience. Title translates to “Torture for dummies” www.galeriile-cismigiu.ro/tortura-pe-i...
Tortura pe intelesul tuturor - Florin Constantin Pavlovici
Tortura pe intelesul tuturor - Florin Constantin Pavlovici
www.galeriile-cismigiu.ro
April 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
mihaelav.bsky.social
What a gift to watch geniuses at work youtu.be/g5zApLvfvPs?.... Brandi Carlile is a fucking angel
Elton John & Brandi Carlile - Who Believes In Angels? Stories From The Edge Of Creation
YouTube video by Elton John
youtu.be
April 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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altnih4science.bsky.social
Yes. The situation at NIH is worse than the public realizes.

The #NIH is on track to be effectively ended as a funder of evidence-based research within a year.

That is not an exaggeration. The firings and consolidation announced today will create a new, MUCH worse NIH.
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joshtpm.bsky.social Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Mar 27
The situation at the NIH and for all biomedical and cancer cure research in the United States is MUCH MUCH WORSE than you realize.
jeremymberg.bsky.social Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Mar 27
Ruining studies and potentially harming research subjects...

Abruptly terminating clinical trials...

Ignorant and evil

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
March 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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garymarcus.bsky.social
Five alarm fire: The State Department has effectively ended free speech for student visa holders.
March 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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besmiranushi.bsky.social
Wrong but cute #gpt4o #imagegeneration. Cats are humanity's last exam 🐈‍⬛
March 27, 2025 at 5:48 AM
mihaelav.bsky.social
Happy Caturday. Look at this diva
Fluffy white cat hanging out on the back of a couch, with one paw extended gracefully
March 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
mihaelav.bsky.social
Even though Zibalodis insists the cat is dark grey, not black :)
erikalyn.bsky.social Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · Mar 22
The power of on-screen representation 😻🐈‍⬛
Image of the black cat from Flow next to a photo of an adorable black cat tilting its head curiously at the camera. Text reads, "The global success of Academy Award-winning animation Flow has helped to increase the adoption rate of black cats." Not attributed but I fact checked it.
March 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
mihaelav.bsky.social
Tired: starting your research paper with "the rapid advancement of AI technologies." Wired: start in the middle.
March 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
mihaelav.bsky.social
So well explained!
March 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
mihaelav.bsky.social
I really wanted my mom to be with me in Seattle for my 50th birthday… I’m too scared now
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Mar 20
Please avoid travel to the U.S. unless you have no choice.
March 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
mihaelav.bsky.social
French researcher refused entry to the US because he expressed person opinions about research in the US that were critical of the current administration www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
March 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
mihaelav.bsky.social
This is a lovely text for teaching people fallacies in argumentation. How many can you spot? wildfirelabs.substack.com/p/the-100-tr...
The $100 Trillion Disruption: The Unforeseen Economic Earthquake
While Silicon Valley obsesses over AI, a weight-loss drug is quietly becoming the biggest economic disruptor since the internet. Here's why your job, investments, and future depend on understanding it
wildfirelabs.substack.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
what's funny about this is chatbots just scour language-based interactions and respond with a version of what seems to be the typical reply, right?

so what this tells us is not that a computer program has anxiety but that, in its dataset, the usual response to 'i'm freaking out' is 'girl, same!! 😬'
screenshot of article by Alexander Nazaryan, published on March 17, 2025, reading as follows Even chatbots get the blues. According to a new study, OpenAl's artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT shows signs of anxiety when its users share “traumatic narratives” about crime, war or car accidents. And when chatbots get stressed out, they are less likely to be useful in therapeutic settings with people. The bot's anxiety levels can be brought down, however, with the same mindfulness exercises that have been shown to work on humans.
March 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
mihaelav.bsky.social
Rubbish NYT writing. But yes, an AI chatbot will reflect yourself back to you - see examples of chatbots encouraging ppl in suicidal crisis to end their lives. It’s how very fancy autocomplete works.
March 18, 2025 at 12:25 AM
mihaelav.bsky.social
10 of the leading AI chatbots regurgitate Russian propaganda

www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-fun...
A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda
An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
mihaelav.bsky.social
Look at Romania www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Romanians rally to show support for Europe amid election tensions
Thousands of Romanians took to the streets of Bucharest on Saturday to show their support for the European Union, amid political disputes over a presidential election rerun scheduled for May.
www.reuters.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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garius.bsky.social
The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943.

Only one cat has ever received the award.

This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25
a slightly grumpy looking tuxedo kitty, lounging in a wood tray filled with straw, with a medal round his neck.
August 6, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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jjindc.bsky.social
The pages featured short biographies about the people buried in the cemetery, including Gen. Colin L. Powell, the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Hector Santa Anna, a B-17 bomber pilot, Berlin Airlift pilot, and members of the Tuskegee Airmen

wapo.st/4isEBv8
Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans
Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.
wapo.st
March 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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ezralevin.bsky.social
ALERT: I've heard from a high up source that Slotkin is against the GOP funding bill, but Gary Peters may vote for it. If you're in Michigan, please call both. Tell Slotkin thank you, and urge Peters to vote against cloture (not just against the bill).

Peters: 202-224-6221
Slotkin: 202-224-4822
March 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
mihaelav.bsky.social
Microsoft CEO saying that it’s good to get signals about demand/business value before investing like crazy. Finally.

www.linkedin.com/posts/kjaels...
#ai #entrepreneurship #business | Kjael Skaalerud
Just because an industry is hyped doesn't mean it's creating value. They're not the same thing. When Satya Nadella said, "You can go off rail when you are…
www.linkedin.com
March 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
mihaelav.bsky.social
NEW from my team: a framework that walks AI product teams step-by-step through understanding and mitigating the risk of overreliance on AI. This happens when ppl accept incorrect AI outputs, b/c we …

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/pla...
Overreliance on AI: Risk Identification and Mitigation Framework
This article describes a framework that helps product teams identify, assess, and mitigate overreliance risk in AI products.
learn.microsoft.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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adrianaguatame.bsky.social
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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hebagowayed.bsky.social
Breaking: ICE arrests a Palestinian student at Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, whose wife is 8 months pregnant. They revoked his student visa and his green card.

BOYCOTT COLUMBIA. WRITE & Demand answers.

This is fucking sickening.

zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
zeteo.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
mihaelav.bsky.social
This week, but not at work: went to dentist because a crown he had put in last week is uncomfortable. He told me I have mental issues. I walked out as he kept yelling at me in front of his staff. Unhappy international woman's day!
mihaelav.bsky.social mihaelav.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social · Mar 8
Think we’re over misogyny in the workplace? Things that happened at work in the past couple of days, done by kind men who in theory are feminists: meeting, white man asks the one brown woman in the room to take notes.
March 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM