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Alli George
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#TeamMath #MTBoS #MTBoSNC #APStats #Alg2 #Alg1. I post about math ed and geek out about science & pop culture. Mother Dragon. Professional Mother Hen. She/Her.
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vgc1720.bsky.social
Get a HEPA purifier and plug it in and turn it on.

Guess what else it helps with? 🙃
September 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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cynthiapelayo.bsky.social
#CHICAGO PROUD
#CHICAGO PROUD
September 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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allidejong.bsky.social
Chicago forever
Hands off our city, jagoff
September 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
blizzardofmath.bsky.social
Holy hell. This is incredible! ❤️
July 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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qasimrashid.com
I'm a human rights lawyer. If you're exercising your human right to protest on June 14, here are 13 rules I recommend you follow.

No paywall. Free access. Please do read and share: www.qasimrashid.com/p/13-rules-t...
13 Rules to Protect Yourself While Protesting
Read & Share if you're joining the No Kings protest on June 14, or know anyone who is
www.qasimrashid.com
June 14, 2025 at 4:26 AM
blizzardofmath.bsky.social
I keep banging this drum at school.
lexmcmenamin.com Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · May 14
I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it
ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs?
One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search.
www.teenvogue.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
blizzardofmath.bsky.social
Just did this and it took maybe 5 minutes.
courtneymilan.com Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Feb 4
I logged into SSA.gov and downloaded the history of social security and Medicare payments associated with my account, because who knows what is going to happen to government security.
The United States Social Security Administration | SSA
Official website of the U.S. Social Security Administration.
SSA.gov
February 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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altcdc.altgov.info
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...
February 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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dansinker.com
I wrote about how, at a moment where so much insane shit is happening and so many people are trying to deny it, writing it down is a radical act: dansinker.com/posts/202…
February 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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infinitescream.bsky.social
AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
January 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
Photo of a small crab from NOAA’s social media. It’s covered in spikes
January 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
blizzardofmath.bsky.social
Half of the Adventure Kittens™️ reporting for duty as emotional support for my AP Stats kiddos on exam day.
Fluffiest kitten in the world, Merry (aka Meriadoc Brandybuck), greeted my AP Stats students on their way into the final exam.
December 11, 2024 at 10:20 PM
blizzardofmath.bsky.social
@juliethecranky.bsky.social I’m so happy to have found you over here! I’ve missed your posts these last few weeks since I left the bad place. ❤️
December 2, 2024 at 1:13 AM
blizzardofmath.bsky.social
Hi, friends! Finally found my way over here thanks to @bigmammallama5.bsky.social! <3
September 22, 2023 at 1:56 AM