Micah Corah
@micahcorah.bsky.social
Assistant Prof, CS@Mines
Aerial and multiple robots; autonomous filming, mapping, perception
Enjoys: 🧗♂️🚴♂️🎸🎶🤘
Ursula Le Guin stan. Call me on my ansible.
He/him pronouns 💖💜💙
Opinions my own.
https://www.micahcorah.com/
Aerial and multiple robots; autonomous filming, mapping, perception
Enjoys: 🧗♂️🚴♂️🎸🎶🤘
Ursula Le Guin stan. Call me on my ansible.
He/him pronouns 💖💜💙
Opinions my own.
https://www.micahcorah.com/
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There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are:
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are:
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
That's just secret police. They're doing secret police.
NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE
“The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
That's just secret police. They're doing secret police.
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And that would be the part we really really wouldn’t want him doing.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 3:16 AM
And that would be the part we really really wouldn’t want him doing.
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THIS IS BIG
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
THIS IS BIG
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
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Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.
Been seeing and hearing a lot of discourse about Peter Thiel's Antichrist lectures, and my hot take is that a lot of people are over-indexing on how bad and weird his theology or historicity is versus inspecting how he fits into the Non-Denominational and Evangelical milieu.
November 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Been seeing and hearing a lot of discourse about Peter Thiel's Antichrist lectures, and my hot take is that a lot of people are over-indexing on how bad and weird his theology or historicity is versus inspecting how he fits into the Non-Denominational and Evangelical milieu.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
No quarter for faculty and teachers who prey on their students.
Larry Summers needs to resign or be pushed out of Harvard. This is absolutely unacceptable.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
No quarter for faculty and teachers who prey on their students.
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If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.
November 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
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Heather Knight is an Assistant Professor at @oregonstate.edu, where she runs the CHARISMA Robotics research group. She has previously worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, produced the Robot Film Festival, and performed robot comedy.
Listen to our chat here: www.robottalk.org/2025/11/14/e...
Listen to our chat here: www.robottalk.org/2025/11/14/e...
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Heather Knight is an Assistant Professor at @oregonstate.edu, where she runs the CHARISMA Robotics research group. She has previously worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, produced the Robot Film Festival, and performed robot comedy.
Listen to our chat here: www.robottalk.org/2025/11/14/e...
Listen to our chat here: www.robottalk.org/2025/11/14/e...
Reasons I'm not in Texas.
I teach courses on AI and a course involving robot sensing and perception.
But, technology has politics, and my teaching reflects that.
I teach courses on AI and a course involving robot sensing and perception.
But, technology has politics, and my teaching reflects that.
The new rules require presidential approval for courses that "advocate" race or gender ideology and ban material outside approved syllabi. Students can use a hotline to report course content. bit.ly/3XxszrC
November 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Reasons I'm not in Texas.
I teach courses on AI and a course involving robot sensing and perception.
But, technology has politics, and my teaching reflects that.
I teach courses on AI and a course involving robot sensing and perception.
But, technology has politics, and my teaching reflects that.
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A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
🤖 Robot people: I am looking at purchasing one or more mobile robot platforms for my lab.
Are there any alternatives to Clearpath products (e.g. Jackal) that I should consider?
Are there any alternatives to Clearpath products (e.g. Jackal) that I should consider?
November 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
🤖 Robot people: I am looking at purchasing one or more mobile robot platforms for my lab.
Are there any alternatives to Clearpath products (e.g. Jackal) that I should consider?
Are there any alternatives to Clearpath products (e.g. Jackal) that I should consider?
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New from 404 Media: ICE plans to spend as much as $180 million on bounty hunters to physically locate and stalk immigrants. I spoke to multiple private investigators/skip tracers. Some horrified. Others said they will do this work. "Money is money."
www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants
Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
New from 404 Media: ICE plans to spend as much as $180 million on bounty hunters to physically locate and stalk immigrants. I spoke to multiple private investigators/skip tracers. Some horrified. Others said they will do this work. "Money is money."
www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
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Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
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It’s wildly disingenuous for @aaron.bsky.team to reply to queries about Sarah Kendzior’s suspension about how they don’t comment publicly on individual users when he knows that we all know that they haven’t even told her privately what the basis for the suspension is
November 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It’s wildly disingenuous for @aaron.bsky.team to reply to queries about Sarah Kendzior’s suspension about how they don’t comment publicly on individual users when he knows that we all know that they haven’t even told her privately what the basis for the suspension is
If someone makes *one more* strained reference to Reynolds flocking with fantastical implications about intelligence, I swear I'm going to blow a gasket 😫
Make swarm intelligence cool again
My favorite comment on the FT story
November 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
If someone makes *one more* strained reference to Reynolds flocking with fantastical implications about intelligence, I swear I'm going to blow a gasket 😫
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AS AN EXAMPLE: Aurora, Colorado. Dominated by conservative politics for over a decade. All five city council seats last night? Won by Democrats.
And not like, the kind of milquetoast centrist Democrats we've been told are the only kind of people who can win.
And not like, the kind of milquetoast centrist Democrats we've been told are the only kind of people who can win.
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
AS AN EXAMPLE: Aurora, Colorado. Dominated by conservative politics for over a decade. All five city council seats last night? Won by Democrats.
And not like, the kind of milquetoast centrist Democrats we've been told are the only kind of people who can win.
And not like, the kind of milquetoast centrist Democrats we've been told are the only kind of people who can win.
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I'll add a little nuance to this, though I do understand this point: people don't often understand what they're doing when they subscribe to a blocklist. The mental model of how blocklists work is often fundamentally incorrect, and grants far more power to maintainers than they intend.
the anti blocklist discourse always devolves into people either yelling or passive aggressively hrmphing YOU SHOULD LET ME INTO YOUR HOUSE and
no?
i dont have to.
i dont have to explain why.
if i fuck up and miss something i would have liked to know that's on me! im an adult!
good talk!
no?
i dont have to.
i dont have to explain why.
if i fuck up and miss something i would have liked to know that's on me! im an adult!
good talk!
November 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I'll add a little nuance to this, though I do understand this point: people don't often understand what they're doing when they subscribe to a blocklist. The mental model of how blocklists work is often fundamentally incorrect, and grants far more power to maintainers than they intend.
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Just for those not aware, Margaret Mitchell is an AI ethicist who was fired by Google after co-authoring the famous "Stochastic Parrots" paper that criticized the entire project of ever-larger LLMs way before most of the people now blocking her had ever heard of them. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/t...
A second Google A.I. researcher says the company fired her. (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Just for those not aware, Margaret Mitchell is an AI ethicist who was fired by Google after co-authoring the famous "Stochastic Parrots" paper that criticized the entire project of ever-larger LLMs way before most of the people now blocking her had ever heard of them. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/t...
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And, for emphasis, Margaret Mitchell is a *central voice and essential figure* amongst people critical of AI, and these lists alienate her from her community and natural audience.
By pushing her away, these lists *impede their own apparently goals*
By pushing her away, these lists *impede their own apparently goals*
November 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
And, for emphasis, Margaret Mitchell is a *central voice and essential figure* amongst people critical of AI, and these lists alienate her from her community and natural audience.
By pushing her away, these lists *impede their own apparently goals*
By pushing her away, these lists *impede their own apparently goals*
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Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
November 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.