Everyone who is basically competent with computers knows about grep. It's ridiculously fast. It'll have been used many many times in the production of training data sets for LLMs to produce a kinda shittier and slower and less reliable version of grep. Not that grep doesn't have its limitations too.
For comparison's sake, the entire National Park Service costs $3 billion - a year.
NEWS: It was never about the children.
Transgender adults now face care restrictions after the ruling of the federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia.
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Imagine all the good things we could do with this money.
This is so sad, Karl was rigorous, but took you seriously as a scientist even if you were merely a grad student from another place. I learned so much from his attention to details, despite meeting him only a handful of times at convenience.
Rest in peace Karl.
I have to admit, it is refreshing not to have to ask whether or not I am being invited for a project because they need more boobs on the table (pun intended).
Also, just because this is the internetssss, I have AI friends, I mean no disrespect, I am just making a joke. Please don't cancel me 😅
Is gen-AI research the new DEI?
Used to be folks would include "diverse" people on their proposals to get funded, now they have "gen-AI" learning in literally every proposal.
Just kidding. AI researchers don't have to deal with all the emotional trauma of being the unwanted member of the team!
Less than a quarter of Americans support the US-Israeli war in Iran, but legacy Jewish establishment groups like the ADL, AIPAC, and the Jewish Federations are throwing their weight behind this unpopular war, and they’re falsely claiming to speak in the name of all American Jews while doing so.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
A tomahawk missile costs the taxpayers the same amount of money as one five-year major NIH research grant. Remember that every time they tell us one of those missed the target, blew up paintings of enemy aircraft or tanks, or was the fifth and unnecessary hit on the same target.
The official statement from Grammarly is so typical of AI boosters/tech companies of late. ‘Sure, we’re resurrecting the dead to exploit them for a few dollars and the ‘experts’ have no idea we’re using their names and reputations, but we hoped to make more money before anyone really noticed’
A humanitarian catastrophe is cascading across Lebanon, where 700,000 people have been driven from their homes. (1/3)
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
Good words of warning here. AI models are generally designed to read and incorporate (and, in a sense, believe) virtually everything they find online, with very few guardrails. The information can get divorced from its original source, context, & rebuttals or retractions. That's a really big problem
Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken.
“I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold.
The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.
(Published Jan. 2026)
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol Building. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Sen. Martin Heinrich: “Remember when Republicans said we couldn't afford those tax credits for your healthcare?
Now they’re burning through almost a billion dollars a day on their Iran War”
Will Ogles be censured for his comments?
Because it's quite hard to read this as anything but a call for the expulsion (or worse) of 4.5 million people on the basis of their religion.
Total annual budget for NIGMS: 3.2 billion
Total (estimated) daily cost for war in Iran beyond the inestimable cost in human lives and suffering (and gasoline prices if that’s what you care more about, like many do): 900 million dollars (www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/p...)
Literally everything the Heritage Foundation suggests is nauseating
“The state’s proposed “trigger laws,” …are direct challenges to Plyler v. Doe, a narrowly decided 1982 Supreme Court case that enshrined the right to a free K–12 public education regardless of immigration status.”
We could forgive student loans, house unhoused people, feed the hungry, or we could extend this war to a year. Guess which one we will do?
In a few more days, the cost will exceed the annual US AID budget that they fully cut because it was "wasteful" to save lives in poor countries.
They are doing this while choking the Iranian people with toxic air and acid rains, claiming it's for our freedom. 🫠
Every hour of missiles killing kids in Iran and Lebanon, is equivalent to roughly 50 multi-year NSF grants that would fund a PhD student.
This is now more than the ANNUAL budget of NSF, funding basic science for the entire country. They wanted to cut because it was wasteful and now they refuse to allocate the money, out of spite, choking the entire scientific enterprise of this country.
It's never the money, it's the priorities.
“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."
Read every word.
Financial documents compiled by ProPublica reveal a myriad of relationships among Trump and his team that could create conflicts of interest — including ties between appointees and industries their agencies frequently interact with.
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It's official, we went from terrible, to a catastrophically bad outcome, that many of us had predicted would happen after an attack. 🤢😭🤬
They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175
Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...
They have one of the actual skylines behind their pay wall, but this is what they chose to show as the headline and that's still not ok.
On the bright side, they have finally learned not to use a passive headline. So, I guess, that's something.
