Eric Koski
@ekoski1.bsky.social
#rstats, climate policy, wireless, science, justice, human rights, 日本語, vegan ice cream. He/him
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This is indistinguishable from a post by The Onion.
December 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is indistinguishable from a post by The Onion.
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One of the many problems with the term "AI" is that it doens't refer to a coherent set of technologies, rather lumping together different types of automation.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
One of the many problems with the term "AI" is that it doens't refer to a coherent set of technologies, rather lumping together different types of automation.
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Reading "Stop Treating ‘AGI’ as the North-star Goal of AI Research" by Blili-Hamelin et al and particularly struck by this passage:
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December 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Reading "Stop Treating ‘AGI’ as the North-star Goal of AI Research" by Blili-Hamelin et al and particularly struck by this passage:
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Yes @oniblackstock.bsky.social Dr. Bassett’s legacy is secure. She has been a public health hero for decades. Small minded men like Andrea Baccarelli will be forgotten except for their moral cowardice in these times.
Dr. Mary T. Bassett is one of the bravest people I have met in my lifetime - her moral compass and commitment to justice are unmatched. Shame, shame, shame on Harvard. Her ouster is shocking yet unsurprising and on brand for the University.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Dismisses Director of FXB Center for Health and Human Rights | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard forced out the director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights — another shakeup at a center whose programming on the Israel-Palestine conflict has been a flashpoint...
www.thecrimson.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Yes @oniblackstock.bsky.social Dr. Bassett’s legacy is secure. She has been a public health hero for decades. Small minded men like Andrea Baccarelli will be forgotten except for their moral cowardice in these times.
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just going to reiterate this.
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
If Immigrants Don’t Have Due Process, No One Has Due Process
How do you prove you’re a citizen?
www.everythingishorrible.net
December 11, 2025 at 4:43 AM
just going to reiterate this.
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
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I had my doubts about Trump, but then he yelled incoherently at me for 20 minutes
Trump's ridiculous primetime address was yet another sign that his presidency is failing www.vox.com/politics/472...
The revealing pointlessness of Trump’s primetime speech
The president is a desperate man.
www.vox.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I had my doubts about Trump, but then he yelled incoherently at me for 20 minutes
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In February, J.D. Vance had the audacity to warn Europe that "free speech, I fear, is in retreat". What has his government been up to since? Censorship.
A reminder of the "banned words list" that will e.g. dictate which research is not funded: pen.org/banned-words...
A reminder of the "banned words list" that will e.g. dictate which research is not funded: pen.org/banned-words...
Federal Government's Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship
Banned words list 2025: The federal government is banning a growing number of words to comply with executive orders from President Trump.
pen.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
In February, J.D. Vance had the audacity to warn Europe that "free speech, I fear, is in retreat". What has his government been up to since? Censorship.
A reminder of the "banned words list" that will e.g. dictate which research is not funded: pen.org/banned-words...
A reminder of the "banned words list" that will e.g. dictate which research is not funded: pen.org/banned-words...
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AOC: Trump has been saying the economy is booming, but it’s really only seven tech companies. They’re driving this growth in just one sector: AI.
So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion…
So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion…
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
AOC: Trump has been saying the economy is booming, but it’s really only seven tech companies. They’re driving this growth in just one sector: AI.
So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion…
So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion…
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I have been a part of two committees from other countries that are searching for US science talent after they tried hiring me. And just last week, I discussed at a meeting with colleagues efforts to recruit yet another colleague on my recommendation.
We warned everyone. It's happening now...
We warned everyone. It's happening now...
The U.S. no longer wants the smartest & hardest working people from other countries www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/r... #braindrain
Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave U.S. behind
“A large part of what we loved about the United States is no longer there”: Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave the U.S. behind.
www.statnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I have been a part of two committees from other countries that are searching for US science talent after they tried hiring me. And just last week, I discussed at a meeting with colleagues efforts to recruit yet another colleague on my recommendation.
We warned everyone. It's happening now...
We warned everyone. It's happening now...
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but I think there’s something really important in the message that American Christianity practiced the way these people practiced it is actively destroying the world, and the work of both defeating and repairing will require both people inside it and people outside it
December 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
but I think there’s something really important in the message that American Christianity practiced the way these people practiced it is actively destroying the world, and the work of both defeating and repairing will require both people inside it and people outside it
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I’ve been seeing this cover over and over and I just…
In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I’ve been seeing this cover over and over and I just…
In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
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'Chris Parkes, a senior lecturer in history education at King’s College London, told Times Higher Education that “to be a trans person in the UK right now is to be exhausted and terrified”.' 1/3
Trans scholars being ‘pushed out of academia’, researchers warn
Universities ‘afraid to be trans inclusive’ after Supreme Court ruling and OfS Sussex fine, leaving staff fearing ‘hostile environment’
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:17 AM
'Chris Parkes, a senior lecturer in history education at King’s College London, told Times Higher Education that “to be a trans person in the UK right now is to be exhausted and terrified”.' 1/3
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"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman at Brown, had a condition as a child that required brain surgery. The experience created an unshakable ambition to become a brain surgeon, his sister said.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
Brown shooting victim was pursuing dream of becoming brain surgeon
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, was one of two people killed at Brown University on Saturday.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."
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This is the PR strategy fb and google have played us (and our elected officials) with since the turn of the century. And it’s worked really well for them and their shareholders. Especially Zuckerberg. Altman is now following the same playbook.
December 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This is the PR strategy fb and google have played us (and our elected officials) with since the turn of the century. And it’s worked really well for them and their shareholders. Especially Zuckerberg. Altman is now following the same playbook.
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I said “let’s clean the air, wear masks and other prevention stuff to protect people from bugs”…
Society said. “We prefer dead kids.”
Mainly because dark money convinced people that going back to “normal” was important, no matter how bad it was.
Society said. “We prefer dead kids.”
Mainly because dark money convinced people that going back to “normal” was important, no matter how bad it was.
December 16, 2025 at 4:46 AM
I said “let’s clean the air, wear masks and other prevention stuff to protect people from bugs”…
Society said. “We prefer dead kids.”
Mainly because dark money convinced people that going back to “normal” was important, no matter how bad it was.
Society said. “We prefer dead kids.”
Mainly because dark money convinced people that going back to “normal” was important, no matter how bad it was.
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I won’t have what she’s having.
December 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I won’t have what she’s having.
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People are going to die
BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.
December 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
People are going to die
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They’re so emotional lol. There is a very popular restaurant in town here & the chef has been posting anti-ICE stuff on the socials. The MAGAts are having a conniption fit and vowing to boycott. He’s just like, lemme be clear: I’m going to keep doing it. So guess where I’m having dinner tomorrow? 😎
October 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM
They’re so emotional lol. There is a very popular restaurant in town here & the chef has been posting anti-ICE stuff on the socials. The MAGAts are having a conniption fit and vowing to boycott. He’s just like, lemme be clear: I’m going to keep doing it. So guess where I’m having dinner tomorrow? 😎
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Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:
When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.
When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.
October 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:
When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.
When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.
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for a decade I have struggled to understand why Musk is rewarded, rather than destroyed, for unabated racism and misogyny
On a daily basis Musk claims Western civilization’s success or failure can be determined by skin pigment. He is a gutter racist.
Please see my pinned post.
Please see my pinned post.
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
for a decade I have struggled to understand why Musk is rewarded, rather than destroyed, for unabated racism and misogyny
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appears to
fuck you you fucking cowards
fuck you you fucking cowards
President Donald Trump ridiculed Rob Reiner in a social media post Monday morning after the death of the Hollywood director and his wife.
Trump Appears to Mock Rob Reiner Death In Social Media Post
President Donald Trump ridiculed Rob Reiner in a social media post Monday morning after the death of the Hollywood director and his wife.
bloom.bg
December 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
appears to
fuck you you fucking cowards
fuck you you fucking cowards
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Every time a young person dies in a school shooting a Heritage Institute intern gets their pocket square
December 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Every time a young person dies in a school shooting a Heritage Institute intern gets their pocket square
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Average Finnish Green Party voter (once again)
December 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Average Finnish Green Party voter (once again)
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Because it's never been about "jobs jobs jobs."
It's always been about power, and maintaining a class system between individuals and between nation-states.
It's always been about power, and maintaining a class system between individuals and between nation-states.
Fossil Fuels Fall Below 1% of Canadian Employment While Global Clean Energy Jobs Surge
Fossil fuel employment has fallen to less than 1% of the Canadian work force, while growth in global energy jobs outpaced the wider economy for the third year in a row, according to two reports releas...
www.theenergymix.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Because it's never been about "jobs jobs jobs."
It's always been about power, and maintaining a class system between individuals and between nation-states.
It's always been about power, and maintaining a class system between individuals and between nation-states.