Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.
No wonder the tech bros think AI is superior of natural intelligence. This is their reference point. 😲
North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.
Michael Levin lab.
Unreviewable?!! What does that even mean?! Are the DOJ lawyers snorting cocaine off of toilet seats as well?
7/ In reality, my colleagues still inside NIH tell me that their assessments are largely ignored.
Once a grant or application is picked up by the tool, they are almost never able to move the grant forward as is - regardless of the scientific justification.
A photo of a California scrub jay (Aphelocoma californica), a medium-sized songbird with a vibrant blue head and wings and tail, pale gray underside, gray back, white throat, dark eyes, white eyebrows, and black beak. It is perched on a green plastic platform feeder with a peanut in its beak, facing toward the right of frame in diffuse cloudy day lighting.
This week's Thursjay offering has been accepted.
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A study in Nature shows that the single-celled form of a tiny, aquatic organism can turn into a multicellular version by three different routes. The discovery adds insight to the possible origins of multicellular life, suggesting a previously unrecognized degree of flexibility. 🧪
The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"
"The Trump administration on Monday abandoned its attempts to impose potentially crippling executive orders against law firms that refused to capitulate to the president, walking away from its appeal of victories the firms had won against the White House."
Actually yes I am saying that you shouldn’t dehumanize anyone
No exceptions to the rule
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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
The Iranian regime is oppressive and must fall but solidarity with Iranians also means refusing to let their pain be weaponised by other powers pursuing their own agendas.
If you only remember a people's suffering when it serves your geopolitics, you were never on their side.
#AcademicSky
Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet.
OpenAI: We'll do it
We all know what happens to prices when there’s demand, right?!
I am surely getting sick of the AI being shoved down our throats.
A solution in search of a problem.
Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.
I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries. Anthropic has therefore worked proactively to deploy our models to the Department of War and the intelligence community. We were the first frontier AI company to deploy our models in the US government’s classified networks, the first to deploy them at the National Laboratories, and the first to provide custom models for national security customers. Claude is extensively deployed across the Department of War and other national security agencies for mission-critical applications, such as intelligence analysis, modeling and simulation, operational planning, cyber operations, and more. Anthropic has also acted to defend America’s lead in AI, even when it is against the company’s short-term interest. We chose to forgo several hundred million dollars in revenue to cut off the use of Claude by firms linked to the Chinese Communist Party (some of whom have been designated by the Department of War as Chinese Military Companies), shut down CCP-sponsored cyberattacks that attempted to abuse Claude, and have advocated for strong export controls on chips to ensure a democratic advantage. Anthropic understands that the Department of War, not private companies, makes military decisions. We have never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner.
However, in a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values. Some uses are also simply outside the bounds of what today’s technology can safely and reliably do. Two such use cases have never been included in our contracts with the Department of War, and we believe they should not be included now: Mass domestic surveillance. We support the use of AI for lawful foreign intelligence and counterintelligence missions. But using these systems for mass domestic surveillance is incompatible with democratic values. AI-driven mass surveillance presents serious, novel risks to our fundamental liberties. To the extent that such surveillance is currently legal, this is only because the law has not yet caught up with the rapidly growing capabilities of AI. For example, under current law, the government can purchase detailed records of Americans’ movements, web browsing, and associations from public sources without obtaining a warrant, a practice the Intelligence Community has acknowledged raises privacy concerns and that has generated bipartisan opposition in Congress. Powerful AI makes it possible to assemble this scattered, individually innocuous data into a comprehensive picture of any person’s life—automatically and at massive scale. Fully autonomous weapons. Partially autonomous weapons, like those used today in Ukraine, are vital to the defense of democracy. Even fully autonomous weapons (those that take humans out of the loop entirely and automate selecting and engaging targets) may prove critical for our national defense. But today, frontier AI systems are simply not reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons. We will not knowingly provide a product that puts America’s warfighters and civilians at risk. We have offered to work directly with the Department of War on R&D to improve the reliability of these systems, but they have not accepted this offer. In addition, without proper oversight, fully autonomous weapons cannot b…
To our knowledge, these two exceptions have not been a barrier to accelerating the adoption and use of our models within our armed forces to date. The Department of War has stated they will only contract with AI companies who accede to “any lawful use” and remove safeguards in the cases mentioned above. They have threatened to remove us from their systems if we maintain these safeguards; they have also threatened to designate us a “supply chain risk”—a label reserved for US adversaries, never before applied to an American company—and to invoke the Defense Production Act to force the safeguards’ removal. These latter two threats are inherently contradictory: one labels us a security risk; the other labels Claude as essential to national security. Regardless, these threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request. It is the Department’s prerogative to select contractors most aligned with their vision. But given the substantial value that Anthropic’s technology provides to our armed forces, we hope they reconsider. Our strong preference is to continue to serve the Department and our warfighters—with our two requested safeguards in place. Should the Department choose to offboard Anthropic, we will work to enable a smooth transition to another provider, avoiding any disruption to ongoing military planning, operations, or other critical missions. Our models will be available on the expansive terms we have proposed for as long as required. We remain ready to continue our work to support the national security of the United States.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Anthropic CEO says AI company 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands to allow wider use of its tech.
In all fairness, he didn’t know sexual abuse of minors is something serious.
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Gift link from the NYT story about Axel and Epstein. When I was at Columbia he ran a lab where sexual harassment of women was business as usual. We all knew. We all warned each other.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/n...
Graph “If you exclude healthcare employment, the U.S. has actually lost jobs since 2024” Cumulative change in payroll employment by sector (Thousands of jobs) Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Healthcare & Private Ed. (Only increase, all the following sectors combined have seen decline:) Leisure and hospitality Construction Government Other services Utilities Financial activities Transportation and warehgusing Mining and logging Wholesale trade Retail trade All Non-Healthcare Jobs Professional and business services Manufacturing
If you exclude healthcare jobs, the US labor market has actually declined for the past 24 months straight. And the healthcare coverage cuts have only just barely started to kick in.
More than 1,000 American nurses have been approved to work in British Columbia in less than a year.
Some said they are leaving the U.S. for one reason: President Donald Trump.
Shingrix and Arexvy RSV vaccines show the same protection. They both use the same AS01 adjuvant. I would definitely do a study with just the adjuvant in younger individuals.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here's a story about his death www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
"Holy shit, did WE ever make the right decision" - The US Women's Hockey Team
At a Harvard lab in 2013, the Personal Genome Project had an odd request.
There was a push to fast-track one person's tissue sample for genome sequencing, ahead of some that had been waiting for years.
When the person's ID was revealed, uproar broke out:
“Fellow citizens: In the midst of an unprecedented attack on our democracy and our way of life, we can be grateful for the traditions that are enabling Americans to reclaim their democracy.” - @hcrichardson.bsky.social
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