Nikko Osaka
@nosaka.xyz
data platform engineer with an MA in philosophy. feminist phil, disability, phil of tech. views very much my own, not of my employer. they/them
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The report “cites numerous disclosures from whistleblowers, including one who said a worst-case scenario could involve having to re-issue SSNs to everyone in the country.”
DOGE might be storing every American’s SSN on an insecure cloud server
DOGE can “directly manipulate” this information.
www.theverge.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The report “cites numerous disclosures from whistleblowers, including one who said a worst-case scenario could involve having to re-issue SSNs to everyone in the country.”
i got served an ad for Google’s Veo3 recently and the tagline was essentially “you can make your own entertainment with just a prompt.”
i don’t remember where but someone irl told me that chatgpt lets them make art because they’re not good at it.
super dark interpretation of what art ought to be
i don’t remember where but someone irl told me that chatgpt lets them make art because they’re not good at it.
super dark interpretation of what art ought to be
September 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
i got served an ad for Google’s Veo3 recently and the tagline was essentially “you can make your own entertainment with just a prompt.”
i don’t remember where but someone irl told me that chatgpt lets them make art because they’re not good at it.
super dark interpretation of what art ought to be
i don’t remember where but someone irl told me that chatgpt lets them make art because they’re not good at it.
super dark interpretation of what art ought to be
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If I see one more tech person, even a well meaning one, mistaking a problem of political will and community care for a technical problem I’m going to become jokerfied.
Tom Senya GIF
Alt: Mr Rogers puts on a clown mask
media.tenor.com
May 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
If I see one more tech person, even a well meaning one, mistaking a problem of political will and community care for a technical problem I’m going to become jokerfied.
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I am going to become the Joker
November 13, 2024 at 2:12 AM
I am going to become the Joker
made the very poor choice of reading comments on r/GenZ about the election :/
the manosphere stuff is wildly popular there
the manosphere stuff is wildly popular there
November 7, 2024 at 1:49 PM
made the very poor choice of reading comments on r/GenZ about the election :/
the manosphere stuff is wildly popular there
the manosphere stuff is wildly popular there
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You know how when they tell you not to think about something
November 6, 2023 at 9:20 PM
You know how when they tell you not to think about something
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The entire UNC system will only award Distinguished Professorships to faculty in STEM fields from now on.
www.wunc.org/education/20...
www.wunc.org/education/20...
UNC System is getting $3.7 billion from the state budget. Here’s where the money is going.
The UNC System Board of Governors allocated $3.7 billion from the General Assembly. This includes investments in faculty salary increases, athletics and rural healthcare.
www.wunc.org
October 27, 2023 at 2:00 AM
The entire UNC system will only award Distinguished Professorships to faculty in STEM fields from now on.
www.wunc.org/education/20...
www.wunc.org/education/20...
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i just want to be sure everyone knows that there is absolutely NO privacy on this fucking website. the firehose-- every post being made by everyone-- is publicly available by API. do not post anything on here you don't want scraped and used by bad actors
October 19, 2023 at 11:28 PM
i just want to be sure everyone knows that there is absolutely NO privacy on this fucking website. the firehose-- every post being made by everyone-- is publicly available by API. do not post anything on here you don't want scraped and used by bad actors
I’m presenting a paper comparing digital currencies through a hermeneutical lens (and specifically problems with crypto) this Friday at 3pm if you’re at SPEP!
October 12, 2023 at 12:06 AM
I’m presenting a paper comparing digital currencies through a hermeneutical lens (and specifically problems with crypto) this Friday at 3pm if you’re at SPEP!
at the airport and people are COUGHINGGGG 🥴
October 11, 2023 at 8:50 AM
at the airport and people are COUGHINGGGG 🥴
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“Secrecy is given top priority, not merely because of the proprietary research being conducted at the center, but also out of fear that the public will respond poorly—perhaps violently—to images of the macaques being experimented on.”
How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret
Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup conducted years of tests at UC Davis, a public university. A WIRED investigation reveals how Neuralink and the university keep the grisly images of test subjects hidde...
www.wired.com
October 8, 2023 at 11:11 PM
“Secrecy is given top priority, not merely because of the proprietary research being conducted at the center, but also out of fear that the public will respond poorly—perhaps violently—to images of the macaques being experimented on.”
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New paper from Pratyusha Ria Kalluri, William Agnew, Myra Cheng, Kentrell Owens, Luca Soldaini, & I!
The Surveillance AI Pipeline: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15084
We unearth how computer vision research powers Surveillance AI through analysis of 3 decades of CV papers from CVPR & downstream patents
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The Surveillance AI Pipeline: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15084
We unearth how computer vision research powers Surveillance AI through analysis of 3 decades of CV papers from CVPR & downstream patents
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The Surveillance AI Pipeline
A rapidly growing number of voices have argued that AI research, and computer vision in particular, is closely tied to mass surveillance. Yet the direct path from computer vision research to...
arxiv.org
September 29, 2023 at 9:35 AM
New paper from Pratyusha Ria Kalluri, William Agnew, Myra Cheng, Kentrell Owens, Luca Soldaini, & I!
The Surveillance AI Pipeline: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15084
We unearth how computer vision research powers Surveillance AI through analysis of 3 decades of CV papers from CVPR & downstream patents
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The Surveillance AI Pipeline: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15084
We unearth how computer vision research powers Surveillance AI through analysis of 3 decades of CV papers from CVPR & downstream patents
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i was invited by an instructor in a different department to give a guest lecture on something relevant to my research to her class (data science students). should this be put on a CV?
September 25, 2023 at 8:25 PM
i was invited by an instructor in a different department to give a guest lecture on something relevant to my research to her class (data science students). should this be put on a CV?
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PSA:
Beginning September 25, every U.S. household can again place an order to receive four more free COVID-19 rapid tests delivered directly to their home.
www.covid.gov/tests
Beginning September 25, every U.S. household can again place an order to receive four more free COVID-19 rapid tests delivered directly to their home.
www.covid.gov/tests
September 20, 2023 at 7:36 PM
PSA:
Beginning September 25, every U.S. household can again place an order to receive four more free COVID-19 rapid tests delivered directly to their home.
www.covid.gov/tests
Beginning September 25, every U.S. household can again place an order to receive four more free COVID-19 rapid tests delivered directly to their home.
www.covid.gov/tests
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I was deeply saddened to learn that David Golumbia died of cancer this week.
In the Disconnect Roundup, I wrote about him and his work with the hope he isn’t forgotten anytime soon. He’ll be missed, and we’re worse off without his critical perspective.
In the Disconnect Roundup, I wrote about him and his work with the hope he isn’t forgotten anytime soon. He’ll be missed, and we’re worse off without his critical perspective.
Roundup: Remembering David Golumbia
Read to the end for bad news for Sam Bankman-Fried
www.disconnect.blog
September 17, 2023 at 11:17 AM
I was deeply saddened to learn that David Golumbia died of cancer this week.
In the Disconnect Roundup, I wrote about him and his work with the hope he isn’t forgotten anytime soon. He’ll be missed, and we’re worse off without his critical perspective.
In the Disconnect Roundup, I wrote about him and his work with the hope he isn’t forgotten anytime soon. He’ll be missed, and we’re worse off without his critical perspective.
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in this essay i won’t
September 10, 2023 at 6:19 AM
in this essay i won’t
reorganizing bookshelf, making implicit statements on what belongs in what area of study by where i put my books
September 8, 2023 at 11:10 PM
reorganizing bookshelf, making implicit statements on what belongs in what area of study by where i put my books
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This is it, this is the definitive essay on WVU's current situation. It's written by the brilliant, furious, and clear-sighted Myya Helm, recent WVU graduate, first-gen student, Black West Virginian, and now Marshall Scholar.
I Graduated From West Virginia University. The Travesty Unfolding There Is Breaking My Heart.
The student population got smaller and smaller while fancy new buildings appeared.
slate.com
August 18, 2023 at 10:25 PM
This is it, this is the definitive essay on WVU's current situation. It's written by the brilliant, furious, and clear-sighted Myya Helm, recent WVU graduate, first-gen student, Black West Virginian, and now Marshall Scholar.
you wouldn’t download a kilometer
July 17, 2023 at 11:00 PM
you wouldn’t download a kilometer
engagement pics today, hoping the humidity won’t be tooooo bad!
July 7, 2023 at 2:21 PM
engagement pics today, hoping the humidity won’t be tooooo bad!
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threads is basically this scene but unironically
July 6, 2023 at 4:43 PM
threads is basically this scene but unironically