Rebecca R Helm

Hmmm, but as one of the people who had their writing used as training for the model, why can’t I have a little piece of the model in exchange?

Prediction market trader 'Magamyman' made $553,000 on death of Iran's supreme leader It's the latest trade drawing scrutiny on the popular prediction market site for appearing to show an insider making profits on military secrets.

Wildly dystopian black mirror episode

www.npr.org/2026/03/01/n...

Look at those cells 😍

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

After reading the article, I’m a little confused about what the news actually is?

“Overall, the case report has a murky ending. It’s unclear how helpful the chatbot actually was in this case. Critically reviewing AI-generated answers can easily take as much time as simply researching the answer”

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Personal news: swallows are back in town 🪶

We should buddy up and make one

Secretary Hegseth announced this afternoon that DOD will cease ALL graduate study by military personnel at universities including MIT, all the Ivies, Stanford, etc because such schools teach "the enemy's wicked ideology" to officers.

thehill.com/policy/defen...

😭😭😭

Exactly!! This really looks like he doesn’t have anything else to do. Like he isn’t really running things.

Sorry you’re in that boat. But it sounds like Scouts wont back down. So it’s “Pentagon vs Scouts ,”and based on the current trend, Scouts is winning.

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

“[Republican] Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska has said of Hegseth's plans: "I've heard a lot of dumb stuff, but this is up there."”

Lololol like why are you picking on children’s organization??? this is so freaking funny:

“He detailed his many criticisms of the group, saying Scouts had "lost their way" by changing the organization's name and "watering down" what he called "the focus on God as the ruler of the universe."”

Pentagon puts Scouts 'on notice' over DEI and girl-centered policies After threatening to sever ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts, Defense Secretary Hegseth announced a 6-month reprieve

Does anyone else think the optics of this are hilarious?

www.npr.org/2026/02/27/n...

Meta's AI Patent to Simulate Dead People Shows the Dangers of 'Spectral Labor' Researchers say Meta’s patent for simulating dead users could be a “turning point” in “AI resurrections.”

Cool cool cool

"A Meta patent describing a system that would simulate a user’s social media activity after their death... and have a large language model simulate their posting or chatting behavior."

www.404media.co/metas-ai-pat...

Dang it! I want to learn about protists! I’ve become obsessed with the tiny beasts!

Any openings for mid-career folks ?

Absolutely unconscionable.

www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/02...

Thank you!

Link please. Or I literally can’t believe it. My brain won’t let me 🥲

Summers To Resign From Teaching Appointments, Relinquish University Professorship Over Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest...

Former Harvard University president, who once said that the lower rates of women in science may be due to ‘innate differences in mathematical ability,’ has resigned from all his appointments at Harvard following his ties with Epstein, Harvard newspaper says:

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Thanks!

Water! Interesting. Though did we know already? One of the ways to battle bedbugs is to put each leg of a bed into a bowl of water.

But what is it? 😅

Love this! But what do all the acronyms mean? 😅

Agree. I think this is a phenomenal opportunity to re-imagine education broadly. There are a lot of things that need fixing, and this is, in some ways, the reason we’ve been missing

Brain very sore all time. Brain need pancakes.

[7] So we shift, we re-tool, we even teach students where AI can and can't be used. We don't have to be swallowed by this wave: most educators know how to surface.

The trick is this: teachers need resources, including time and funding, to make this pivot. Institutions should plan accordingly.

[6] But internal landscape surveys done in my department (by the powerhouse Dr. Brian Griffiths) show that "Communication" is still top on the job boards as a desired skill that employers are looking for...