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glennstorm.bsky.social
If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel: 1-877-447-4487
May 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing everyone out there for tomorrow’s May Day protest!

We know the protests have been coming fast, but that’s because things in the U.S. are getting worse, and protests show the strength of our movement.
May 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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markguzdial.bsky.social
I donated to @lastmilefund.bsky.social because I believe in removing barriers for students who are almost at the finish line. Now they’re celebrating a major milestone—10,000 tech students supported since 2020. #LastMileImpact #LastMileMoment REGISTER HERE: www.lastmile-ed.org/events
Events — Last Mile Education Fund
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April 29, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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sagan.bsky.social
Does Neil deGrasse Tyson Believe in God?
April 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
danielrunningen.com
@governorwalz.mn.gov how much should we be worrying about this...?

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Strengthening and Unleashing America's Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1.  Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
April 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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mgoldstein1234.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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jtaylor27.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/gui...
April 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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politico.com
Exclusive: The Pentagon will resume gender-affirming care for transgender service members, according to a memo we obtained.
Pentagon to resume medical care for transgender troops
The move is another setback for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has made culture war issues a major part of his role.
www.politico.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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indivisible.org
ICE is detaining international students, visa holders, and green card residents over their First Amendment-protected speech. If you’re in a state with a Democratic attorney general, urge them to push back on Trump’s destruction of due process & protect the right to dissent: bluestatedefiance.org/ice
April 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Very good (technical) explainer answering "How has DeepSeek improved the Transformer architecture?". Aimed at readers already familiar with Transformers.

epoch.ai/gradient-upd...
How has DeepSeek improved the Transformer architecture?
This Gradient Updates issue goes over the major changes that went into DeepSeek’s most recent model.
epoch.ai
January 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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jamellebouie.net
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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roxiwheels.bsky.social
Today and in the coming days, remember
January 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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warren.senate.gov
This order is unconstitutional and un-American.
January 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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ptlproject.bsky.social
Hello BlueSky! We are a new, grassroots initiative honoring the Nazis’ #LGBTQ+ victims and fighting homophobia and transphobia today. Follow us for inspiring stories of #queer and #trans history, free educational resources, #internship opportunities, and more 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

pinktrianglelegacies.org
Home | Pink Triangle Legacies Project
History has shown how far homophobia can go. It's up to us to decide how far we let it go today.
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January 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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drewkadel.bsky.social
My daughter, who's an ivy leaguer who's well aware of the phenomenon of ivy leaguers spouting BS & who seriously studied computer science made the following observation.
(Basically for ChatGPT hallucinations are a major feature, not a bug:
"Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT which gets lost over and over again: When you inter text into it, you're asking "what would a response to this sound like?"...But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else.
December 4, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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elliemackinroberts.net
What if, and like hear me out right, universities *didn’t* run like businesses which need to turn a profit.
a man in a sweater is holding a piece of paper and making a face .
Alt: a man in a sweater is holding a piece of paper and making a face .
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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charleswlogan.bsky.social
"At some point, OpenAI will charge their actual costs" is a pretty good reason why educators and school administrators should refuse to institutionalize OpenAI's tools and the ed-tech products that use OpenAI - and other generative AI too!
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Dec 3
The AI boom - and the tech industry - has oriented itself around generative AI, a tech with diminishing returns that costs billions to run with no path to profitability. At some point, OpenAI will charge their actual costs and gut this entire industry.
wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it
So, let me summarize: The main technology behind the entire "artificial intelligence" boom is generative AI — transformer-based models like OpenAI's GPT-4 (and soon GPT-5) — and said technology has peaked, with diminishing returns from the only ways of making them "better" (feeding them training data and throwing tons of compute at them) suggesting that what we may have, as I've said before, reached Peak AI. Generative AI is incredibly unprofitable. OpenAI, the biggest player in the industry, is on course to lose more than $5 billion this year, with competitor Anthropic (which also makes its own transformer-based model, Claude) on course to lose more than $2.7 billion this year. Every single big tech company has thrown billions — as much as $75 billion in Amazon's case in 2024 alone — at building the data centers and acquiring the GPUs to populate said data centers specifically so they can train their models or other companies' models, or serve customers that would integrate generative AI into their businesses, something that does not appear to be happening at scale. Their investments could theoretically be used for other products, but these data centers are heavily focused on generative AI. Business Insider reports that Microsoft intends to amass 1.8 million GPUs by the end of 2024, costing it tens of billions of dollars. Worse still, many of the companies integrating generative AI do so by connecting to models made by either OpenAI or Anthropic, both of whom are running unprofitable businesses, and likely charging nowhere near enough to cover their costs. As I wrote in the Subprime AI Crisis in September, in the event that these companies start charging what they actually need to, I hypothesize it will multiply the costs of their customers to the point that they can't afford to run their businesses — or, at the very least, will have to remove or scale back generative AI functionality in their products. The entire tech industry has become oriented around a dead-end technology that requires burning billions of dollars to provide inessential products that cost them more money to serve than anybody would ever pay. Their big strategy was to throw even more money at the problem until one of these transformer-based models created a new, more useful product — despite the fact that every iteration of GPT and other models has been, well, iterative. There has never been any proof (other than benchmarks that are increasingly easier to game) that GPT or other models would become conscious, nor that these models would do more than they do today, or three months ago, or even a year ago.
December 3, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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markus-erdt-art.de
All countries should get behind this. It's not just some small artist, it's everyone. Your culture, data, everything. Big tech thinks they deserve everything for free and keep all the profit.
Stop this now. #AI #meta #amazone #google
A headline from The Guardian about AI. Amazon, google and meta are pillaging culture, data and creativity to train AI, Australian inquiry finds. Followed by a text about the recommendation to introduce legislation in Australia.
November 29, 2024 at 10:43 AM
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nhazevedo.bsky.social
What strategies have educators been using to reduce the use of AI in student assignments?

I’d love to hear thoughts and ideas🤞🏽

Also, any suggestions for addressing this issue in teacher training programs are very welcome 🫱🏻‍🫲🏽

#HigherEdu #TeacherTraining #academicSky
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
December 3, 2024 at 3:28 AM