Jim Hendler
@jahendler.bsky.social
Long-time AIer, lotsa random stuff… RPI professor
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With the issues with SNAP, I’ve seen a lot of “just get a job!”
For anyone like that, try this on for size:
1/8
For anyone like that, try this on for size:
1/8
October 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
With the issues with SNAP, I’ve seen a lot of “just get a job!”
For anyone like that, try this on for size:
1/8
For anyone like that, try this on for size:
1/8
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Harvey Milk served his country honorably — first in uniform, then in public office.
Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.
Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.
June 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Harvey Milk served his country honorably — first in uniform, then in public office.
Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.
Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.
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House Republicans just released their plan to kick 14 million Americans off health insurance, slashing hundreds of billions from Medicaid in order to give a massive tax cut to billionaires and big corporations. This isn’t “fiscal responsibility” — it’s cruelty, plain and simple.
May 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
House Republicans just released their plan to kick 14 million Americans off health insurance, slashing hundreds of billions from Medicaid in order to give a massive tax cut to billionaires and big corporations. This isn’t “fiscal responsibility” — it’s cruelty, plain and simple.
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Crockett debuts a new game called "Trump or trans," then displays a gigantic placard of Trump golfing
May 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Crockett debuts a new game called "Trump or trans," then displays a gigantic placard of Trump golfing
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I just got the official email from the NSF about the drastic cuts and I think the correct translation is "if you are a young researcher who still wants to do science strongly consider leaving the United States if you can." which, really, is not an ideal message to be sending.
May 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I just got the official email from the NSF about the drastic cuts and I think the correct translation is "if you are a young researcher who still wants to do science strongly consider leaving the United States if you can." which, really, is not an ideal message to be sending.
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We must fight to save PBS and NPR.
May 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
We must fight to save PBS and NPR.
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Gen Wojcik is awesome! She took some time to chat with me re: metabolism and genetics awhile back. Check out her article on the perennial rise of eugenics in Nature here: 🧪
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics
https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc
https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc
Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.
go.nature.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Gen Wojcik is awesome! She took some time to chat with me re: metabolism and genetics awhile back. Check out her article on the perennial rise of eugenics in Nature here: 🧪
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MAGA probably won’t even get this.
April 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
MAGA probably won’t even get this.
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Yesterday, the DNC, DSCC, DCCC, DGA and Leaders Schumer and Jeffries sued Trump to block his illegal and unconstitutional executive order targeting free and fair elections.
My firm and I are proud to represent them in this historic case.
My firm and I are proud to represent them in this historic case.
April 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Yesterday, the DNC, DSCC, DCCC, DGA and Leaders Schumer and Jeffries sued Trump to block his illegal and unconstitutional executive order targeting free and fair elections.
My firm and I are proud to represent them in this historic case.
My firm and I are proud to represent them in this historic case.
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I’ll be skipping April Fools this year
I mean
I usually skip it
But especially this year
This whole three months so far feels like a horrible practical joke
I mean
I usually skip it
But especially this year
This whole three months so far feels like a horrible practical joke
April 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I’ll be skipping April Fools this year
I mean
I usually skip it
But especially this year
This whole three months so far feels like a horrible practical joke
I mean
I usually skip it
But especially this year
This whole three months so far feels like a horrible practical joke
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While millions of Americans struggle to pay their bills, the GOP wants to let big banks exploit them further. Predatory overdraft fees hurt families that can least afford it, which is why I urge my colleagues to oppose this harmful legislation.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Vote to Let Banks Screw Over Working Americans
Senate Republicans voted 52-48 to advance a repeal of a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule capping bank and credit union overdraft fees at $5.
www.rollingstone.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
While millions of Americans struggle to pay their bills, the GOP wants to let big banks exploit them further. Predatory overdraft fees hurt families that can least afford it, which is why I urge my colleagues to oppose this harmful legislation.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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This is horrifyingly correct.
March 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This is horrifyingly correct.
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chatgpt has fully broken-through to every facet of the corporate environment. I'm spending a not-insignificant amount of my time every week now explaining to people that just because chatgpt told you that something was possible doesn't mean that it a) is or b) even exists
March 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
chatgpt has fully broken-through to every facet of the corporate environment. I'm spending a not-insignificant amount of my time every week now explaining to people that just because chatgpt told you that something was possible doesn't mean that it a) is or b) even exists
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An article on the Defense Department website devoted to Jackie Robinson’s military career disappeared and then reappeared, joining a series of government web pages on Black figures that have vanished under the Trump administration’s efforts to purge government websites of references to DEI.
Jackie Robinson’s Legacy Vanishes, Then Reappears, on Defense Department Site
A number of military pages focused on African American achievements have been lost amid the Trump administration’s effort to scrub references to diversity and inclusion. Some return. Others don’t.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 5:24 AM
An article on the Defense Department website devoted to Jackie Robinson’s military career disappeared and then reappeared, joining a series of government web pages on Black figures that have vanished under the Trump administration’s efforts to purge government websites of references to DEI.
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Every accusation is an intention.
March 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Every accusation is an intention.
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For WAMC: From scrapping diversity initiatives to pledges to eliminate the Education Department altogether, the Trump admin. has put many educators on edge. With funding on the line, leaders in Mass. say they're working closely with the state AG & remaining vigilant
www.wamc.org/news/2025-02...
www.wamc.org/news/2025-02...
Massachusetts education leaders watching Trump administration policies warily
From ultimatums to scrapping diversity initiatives to pledges to eliminate the Education Department altogether, the Trump administration has put educators across the Northeast on edge. With federal fu...
www.wamc.org
February 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
For WAMC: From scrapping diversity initiatives to pledges to eliminate the Education Department altogether, the Trump admin. has put many educators on edge. With funding on the line, leaders in Mass. say they're working closely with the state AG & remaining vigilant
www.wamc.org/news/2025-02...
www.wamc.org/news/2025-02...
I’m on three US non-profit boards: a public radio station, a community charity, and a synagogue - all three are being challenged by US budget cuts and/or challenges to programs … I’m on one UK non-profit charitable board supporting science - we’ve not been threatened by any party ever …
February 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I’m on three US non-profit boards: a public radio station, a community charity, and a synagogue - all three are being challenged by US budget cuts and/or challenges to programs … I’m on one UK non-profit charitable board supporting science - we’ve not been threatened by any party ever …
To anyone who listened to the round table on @wamcradio.bsky.social this morning you may be surprised at the language I used in excoriating Musk’s access to the personal data, it is because the words I really wanted to use are on a list prohibited from radio broadcasts…
February 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
To anyone who listened to the round table on @wamcradio.bsky.social this morning you may be surprised at the language I used in excoriating Musk’s access to the personal data, it is because the words I really wanted to use are on a list prohibited from radio broadcasts…
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I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.
February 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.
Well, that’s university research hearing a death knell, Ukraine being thrown to the wolves, and our personal information being sucked out of federal databases … wonder what the rest of the week will have in store…
February 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Well, that’s university research hearing a death knell, Ukraine being thrown to the wolves, and our personal information being sucked out of federal databases … wonder what the rest of the week will have in store…
Glad to be here … thanks for the invite … now just have to find lots of my friends from the old pre-X days
October 24, 2023 at 12:29 PM
Glad to be here … thanks for the invite … now just have to find lots of my friends from the old pre-X days