Annie
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science but could be misleading or incorrect 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
such a shame that academic publication, supposedly the guardian of knowledge production, is giving up what's at it's core - trustworthy, accurate, independent, verifiable knowledge - just so academics & publishers alike can get on the genai bandwagon
such a shame that academic publication, supposedly the guardian of knowledge production, is giving up what's at it's core - trustworthy, accurate, independent, verifiable knowledge - just so academics & publishers alike can get on the genai bandwagon
November 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
science but could be misleading or incorrect 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
such a shame that academic publication, supposedly the guardian of knowledge production, is giving up what's at it's core - trustworthy, accurate, independent, verifiable knowledge - just so academics & publishers alike can get on the genai bandwagon
such a shame that academic publication, supposedly the guardian of knowledge production, is giving up what's at it's core - trustworthy, accurate, independent, verifiable knowledge - just so academics & publishers alike can get on the genai bandwagon
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In case you needed another reason to sign the letter by @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social against "uncritical adoption of AI in academia"...
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
October 24, 2025 at 7:12 AM
In case you needed another reason to sign the letter by @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social against "uncritical adoption of AI in academia"...
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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noting grimly that with the boating drone strikes we have definitively arrived at "how bad is extrajudicial killing, really?" but I continue to find it really strange that they did "children having cancer and communicable diseases is fine actually" first
I expected the hardliners in the early days of the administration to try to slow walk people from "why do we need to know about Harriet Tubman?" to "how bad is extrajudicial killing really?" but they have opened the bidding at "how bad is cancer really?"
September 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
noting grimly that with the boating drone strikes we have definitively arrived at "how bad is extrajudicial killing, really?" but I continue to find it really strange that they did "children having cancer and communicable diseases is fine actually" first
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All these years Ivy League universities have argued that the reason why they need the massive endowments is so that they can guarantee their intellectual freedom. Yet, in this moment, three Ivy League unis have capitulated before power and made their student bodies less safe. So what is the truth?
March 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
All these years Ivy League universities have argued that the reason why they need the massive endowments is so that they can guarantee their intellectual freedom. Yet, in this moment, three Ivy League unis have capitulated before power and made their student bodies less safe. So what is the truth?
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(WIRED) - A 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies, has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government, three sources tell WIRED.
@wired.com
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
@wired.com
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A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls So...
www.wired.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
(WIRED) - A 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies, has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government, three sources tell WIRED.
@wired.com
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
@wired.com
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
January 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
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New: Meta employees are furious about a new policy that allows users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill." Some have resigned in protest. Some LGBTQ+ employees have started saying they if they are 'mentally ill' they should get leave of absences from work
www.404media.co/its-total-ch...
www.404media.co/its-total-ch...
‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes
Meta's decision to specifically allow users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" has sparked widespread backlash at the company.
www.404media.co
January 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
New: Meta employees are furious about a new policy that allows users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill." Some have resigned in protest. Some LGBTQ+ employees have started saying they if they are 'mentally ill' they should get leave of absences from work
www.404media.co/its-total-ch...
www.404media.co/its-total-ch...
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If you're new to RFK Jr studies, you may know about the vaccine & fluoride denial, but not that he's another pro-Kremlin voice in the incoming Trump administration. In business, I believe this is called a takeover.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Trump announces RFK Jr as his pick to lead US health department
A scion of Democratic dynasty, RFK Jr is known for embrace of anti-vaccine beliefs and other conspiracy theories
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2024 at 10:55 AM
If you're new to RFK Jr studies, you may know about the vaccine & fluoride denial, but not that he's another pro-Kremlin voice in the incoming Trump administration. In business, I believe this is called a takeover.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...