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tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.
“If you think they’re lying, go there, meet them, turn on the water, and drink it yourself. If this is so necessary a technology, put it in your neighborhood" wapo.st/4wVjTvN
“You are trying to delegitimize people who you’ve never met in communities you’ve never visited, so that you can continue to exploit the lives of people that you don’t give a damn about,” @justinjpearson.bsky.social
🎁 link wapo.st/4wVjTvN
Good reporting from @nitasha.bsky.social & others on the byzantine patterns of dark money funding for midterm candidates from the tech sector where apparent opponents often share an underlying material interest—keep the genAI boom going by whatever means necessary.
wapo.st/4ukkLb3
As far as I know, this is the first mainstream news article to let readers use a live LLM as part of the story. Happy to see other examples if it's been done before!
such a great (free!!) event and journalism project from @oaklandside.org for East Bay folks or anyone who cares about public school & education www.eventbrite.com/e/the-studen...
The booming AI industry, flush with investor cash, is mounting an expansive, but largely opaque campaign to influence midterm races around the country.
Excellent analysis of how to think about AI as a social technology (rather than as an individual intelligent agent)
AI part of this aside: This is not how anyone learns! This is why MOOCs never amounted to anything. It's very easy to create a simulacra of a university course but almost no one actually completes them because the social aspect of actual classes is totally missing
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Claims by a billionaire TV star and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that China and overseas propaganda drive American protests against data centers are based on scant evidence.
Claims by a billionaire TV star and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that China and overseas propaganda drive American protests against data centers are based on scant evidence.
New from me: See the hidden rules behind AI. Then use them to rewrite this article.
I hooked this article up to an LLM to help explain system prompts. Give it a try -> www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s
knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a... Now up at @knightcolumbia.org - Cosma Shalizi and myself on "AI as Social Technology." It says that AI models are really a technology of social mediation that allow humans to connect with thoughts of other humans. Short-ish thread with major points follows.
A Princeton professor thinks students would be better off learning from Claude than from him.
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees
