Speaking only for me and not my employer, I would have expected a much more unequivocal statement supporting keeping NCAR together, especially given how much volunteer work NCAR staff do to make AMS function. Calling for a thorough review makes it sound like NCAR did something wrong.
The Inspector General for NSF must launch an investigation into the Trump administration’s alleged attempt to sell-off parts of NCAR — immediately!
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We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.
Countries that do not use Fritos as currency could be "left behind," says Frito-Lay CEO Ken Biddleman
I wish more AI-enthusiast software developers would ask themselves why exactly their bosses seem so fine with paying them a lot of money to do their jobs badly
When they said AI was coming for programming jobs, I didn't think they meant creating stupid, conflict-driven drama too: github.com/matplotlib/m...
Seriously, launch all this AI-driven bullshit into the sun. Or give us a way to hold those behind these agents and their generated idiocy accountable.
The second, though, is that able-bodied people often think of someone being "wheelchair bound."
For most who use them, the wheelchair is not the issue. The frailty of the body is an issue - the wheelchair is a solution. The disability is what binds you, but the wheelchair provides *freedom.*
NSF just posted their Dear Colleague Letter regarding the restructuring of NCAR. www.nsf.gov/funding/info...
Sure, Flock is fundamentally unserious about security and makes false statements about who has access and sure, they're able to read what's on your phone when you walk near their cameras, but they also have patents to automate racial profiling.
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Articles talking about climate change don't use AI art challenge.
No I'm not going to reskeet it. Fuck that shit.
LLMs are not "grown" or remotely like "a biological entity" and quoting a description of them as such defects the responsibility of their consequences away from the companies that make them available.
This type of output isn't an anomaly, it's how they were designed to work.
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Also, in an article describing the incredibly foreseeable consequences of LLMs, describing them as "weird and alien" misses the mark. LLMs are not "weird and alien", they're just incomprehensibly massive in the content they steal to create.
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I don’t know who is ready to hear this but people don’t have to add value
Like people should also be allowed to exist for free
This is the lighter flavor of how existential risk AI operates as AI hype. Espionage and hacking campaigns the have the feel of being "autonomous" and yet executed by a state actor are one step removed from "the system ran away from us and now we're all fucked."
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
A brief history of artificial intelligence and what it can teach us 2nd Workshop on Correctness and Reproducibility for Earth System Software Anissa Zacharias November 7, 2025
I'm giving a talk today called "A brief history of artificial intelligence and what it can teach us"
You can find the slides and supplemental reading suggestions at github.com/anissa111/history-of-ai
A close up from the red tin of the front most cabin. It had two sets of wood stairs leading to two front doors. The door on the right has a window on top that matches a window on the left of the other door, but a handle and paneling. The paneling on the door also creates a weird continuation of the railing, with the top of the stairs, porch railing, and door paneling all meeting at the same place.
My wife pointed out that the cabin has two front doors that are also part of the porch railing
Close up from the blue cookie tin with two windmills. One windmill had four arms all on one side and the other further in the background only vaguely resembles a windmill silhouette on closer inspection.
A close up from the blue tin of the most prominent, clear windmill that only has two fully formed arms, both oriented upward. Another arm actually becomes a support beam and the fourth melts into a shadow instead of becoming a fully formed arm.
Literally none of the windmills make sense
A close up on the children from the red cookie tin, where the middle child is seeming facing the viewer, but her feet and arms obviously extend outward as if her body was facing away from the viewer
Her feet and arms are going the wrong direction for her face??
A red tin of kelsen brand butter cookies on a blanket. The lid of the tin has an AI image of cabins and children in a snowy setting surrounded by trees.
A blue tin of kelsen brand butter cookies. The lid of the tin has an AI image showing ice skating figures in front of some houses, malformed windmills, and giant puffy clouds.
I got tins of butter cookies from Costco without looking too closely and the pictures are ai and ugh I'm so mad.
I wanted to keep the tins for craft supplies, but I'll need to do something about the lids because I can't not see how ai they are
your timely reminder that AGI is neither clearly defined/described nor amenable to scientific or engineering principles... it remains an ideology that is rooted in white supremacy, racism and eugenics
“People [in tech jobs] worry that not being seen as uncritical AI cheerleaders will be a career-limiting move…for those who aren't insiders in the tech industry, it's vital that you understand that you've been presented with an extremely distorted view about what tech workers really think about AI”
I really think somebody needs to sit the tech bros down and explain to them that they talked to the computer in Star Trek because that made for better tv than typing, not because it's actually a good UI strategy
Responsible AI is also becoming a lucrative industry. The Big 5 consultancies are now offering (and monetising) Ethical AI audits, alongside a cottage industry of start-ups. Responsible AI has produced a slew of frameworks and checklists, many of which have never been meaningfully tested.
This story unfolded alongside a growing trend: “Responsible AI”, a constellation of think tanks, academics, non-profits, and multinational institutions purporting to make algorithmic systems fair, accountable and transparent.
Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.
A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.
Anthropomorphizing a computer demonstrates how little you care for your own and other people’s humanity. You have taken a thing and put it ahead of dehumanized peoples.
