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Leah Cole

@leahecole

Developer Tools @Googlecloud, @ApacheAirflow committer emeritus. Cat mom. she/her Opinions = own.

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"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men.

This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries."

"Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife"

abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

23.02.2026 12:52 👍 999 🔁 417 💬 28 📌 62

When you’re doom posting about how everything is inevitable and no one can stop them, you’re doing their work for them. Stop that

03.01.2026 19:52 👍 706 🔁 170 💬 10 📌 9
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Just recalling this for some reason.

08.07.2025 21:32 👍 121 🔁 12 💬 6 📌 0
16.06.2025 14:06 👍 99 🔁 34 💬 4 📌 2
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What You've Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective

Again I stand by what I said.

"I can't believe I even have to talk about these people. That's how ridiculous it s."

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

16.06.2025 10:05 👍 468 🔁 144 💬 6 📌 7

You could dismiss this episode as bad code and an old LLM. But it has lessons for AI use more broadly. Experts with subject matter expertise are needed to deploy and tweak AI. And even in those cases, the AI is not likely to understand the social world and how it is interconnected. It ain't magic.

06.06.2025 12:13 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to “Munch” Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health Experts who reviewed the code for ProPublica found numerous and troubling flaws in the system, providing a disturbing glimpse into how the Trump administration is allowing artificial intelligence to g...

I learned so much talking to ProPublica for this story. It's a telling window into how Trump/DOGE are using AI to shrink the government and the consequences. And even though this use is particularly ham-handed, it's a good example of the limitations of the technology more generally.🧵 @propublica.org

06.06.2025 11:54 👍 244 🔁 122 💬 3 📌 7

My coworkers who don't pay attention to politics are talking about this fight. This is an opportunity to get ppl who don't pay attention to budget bills & committee assignments to see the dysfunction. If they are going to make our govt a reality show, use that to expose the chaos to a new audience.

06.06.2025 13:03 👍 142 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 0

Do not rank Cuomo. Tell your friends.

09.05.2025 13:20 👍 188 🔁 64 💬 2 📌 3
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These Activists Are Right: The World Doesn’t Need Any More Private Jets Local activists in Massachusetts have taken on the private jet lobby—and they might just win.

The climate justice "shot heard round the world" -see my article in @thenation.com about the inspiring work of Stop Private Jet Expansion at Hanscom Field!
www.thenation.com/article/envi...

26.03.2025 16:42 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

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As Trump shuts down the suicide hotline, Canada has broadcasted their
national hotline which now has a toll-free American version:
1-877-330-6366

28.04.2025 11:23 👍 141 🔁 117 💬 13 📌 3
Google AI gives a terrible answer to a nonsens prompt

Google AI gives a terrible answer to a nonsens prompt

23.04.2025 10:27 👍 446 🔁 75 💬 8 📌 16
Fight Your Health Insurance Denial - Use AI to Generate Your Health Insurance Appeal | Fight Paperwork Fight Health Insurance is a generative AI tool to help you fight your health insurance denial. Just take a picture of your denial and it will generate an appeal for you to submit as the first part of ...

🌊 We’re launching Fight Paperwork
(AI appeal-writing for providers who are done getting steamrolled by insurers)

After helping folks generate 3,000+ appeals through Fight Health Insurance professionals asked: "Can I use this?"

And now they can use fightpaperwork.com to get paid for their work :D

17.04.2025 19:11 👍 15 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

16.04.2025 02:30 👍 68941 🔁 22532 💬 792 📌 886
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One Tech Tip: Locking down your device when crossing borders Travelers should prepare for extra scrutiny of devices when crossing borders, especially when entering the U.S.

Powering off your phone or laptop erases the key that unlocks its encryption, and so protects against unwanted searches, EFF’s Will Greenberg told @apnews.com. “This is why a border agent can’t simply turn a device on to use a tool like Cellebrite.”

10.04.2025 22:03 👍 345 🔁 177 💬 8 📌 11

(obligatory) that's because the matter of the HOT DARCY is settled

10.04.2025 19:17 👍 36 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 0

Men will literally start a trade war with every other nation on earth instead of going to therapy.

08.04.2025 00:27 👍 5061 🔁 779 💬 76 📌 30

A thread on literal thread

05.04.2025 05:07 👍 48 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0

The investigation I didn't know I needed - I also thought it was just me!

27.03.2025 21:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

White feminists against white feminism is my lane!

White feminism is carceral, girl boss CEO, transphobic bullshit. Intersectional feminism uplifts everyone.

08.03.2025 22:29 👍 74 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0

As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President.

I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH.

/1

28.02.2025 20:07 👍 4226 🔁 1710 💬 89 📌 195

Super easy form of protest - just don’t buy stuff today! Or if you must, do so from local businesses in your community

28.02.2025 15:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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11.02.2025 15:03 👍 31958 🔁 6288 💬 369 📌 318

OK y'all gotta admit that it's funny, not ha-ha funny but still funny, that there's a person at the NSA right now trying to figure out how to comply with an anti-woke order to delete any materials that contain the word "privilege" when so many computer security docs talk about "privilege escalation"

10.02.2025 16:07 👍 190 🔁 35 💬 9 📌 2

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

10.02.2025 01:36 👍 44200 🔁 7151 💬 218 📌 160

Is it just me or has WIRED been dogwalking the rest of the media on this story

07.02.2025 20:17 👍 8735 🔁 1411 💬 179 📌 69

Pushing live production code cooked up by some young coders over a week of sleepness nights in place of a legacy system that is fundamental to the operation of the US government is against every programming best practice.

04.02.2025 17:28 👍 3633 🔁 1172 💬 125 📌 129

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

02.02.2025 01:07 👍 33697 🔁 7909 💬 201 📌 173

I built a tool to help protect text against surveillance and fingerprinting.

It detects hidden markers, special characters, and patterns that could be used to track the writer.

02.02.2025 18:37 👍 304 🔁 143 💬 16 📌 10