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Information Retrieval Researcher ✊🏽🍉🕊️ | Pronouns: He/him Homepage: https://bhaskar-mitra.github.io/

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Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @bmitra.bsky.social · Jul 17

A personal update.

Why I am leaving big tech…

After spending almost two decades in big tech, I was notified last month that I am being laid off.There have been massive waves of layoffs across the industry recently, and I am just one of the many t...

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 4h

New era of shanties has arrived @erinbiba.bsky.social

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 9h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 10h

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12h

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 11h

Fuck ICE, say it back

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 12h

Its the modern day version of the white man's burden. Colonialism and empire building at its best, using the same arguments of empires of yore as Karen Hao so eloquently put it in her book, Empire of AI.

This IS the side to fight against, not the side to join in service of some larger goal.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 12h

This isn't a "why can't we all get along" kumbaya moment. Its a moment to understand all the ways in which the people who created OpenAI, Anthropic etc claiming that their machine god will bring utopia, are the actual "existential risks" to humanity.

Raising billions of dollars to "save humanity."

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 12h

One side, "AI 2027" is led by a bunch of privileged white people working at the companies causing the other side (AI con/Empire of AI).

One side, the "AI is gonna be so powerful if you don't let US be the AGI builders" is making money from stealing data, killing the environment & exploiting labor.

Elinor🎗️ @ COLM 🍁 @elinorpd.bsky.social · 15h

bsky.app/profile/mari...

Slide with “we are here” in bottom left with an arrow pointing top right towards two groups of words: “AI2027” & “everyone dies” and then “AI con” “AI snake oil” “Empire of AI”

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12h

If this stuff would end up on the news it would absolutely motivate voters. Plenty of people who don't give a shit about politics would absolutely give af about this.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 15h

I would vote without question for anyone with the fucking stones to do this while refusing to 1) throw trans people under the bus and 2) fund Israel's genocide

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 16h

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @bmitra.bsky.social · 13h

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 14h

If your invited keynote speaker works for a company started because OpenAI wasn't basing its work enough on science fiction and said speaker uncritically cites TESCREAList, fictional work masquerading as science, you might not have organized a serious academic gathering.

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Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h

This is Week 6 of my "Radboud against Microsoft" protest. I added a few links to mentions of the protest in the media. Thank you, everyone who joined the protest. #gazagenocide, #microsoft, #noazureforapartheid

https://www.cs.ru.nl/~hiemstra/radboud-against-microsoft/

Radboud against Microsoft

Radboud against the genocide in Gaza

www.cs.ru.nl

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Phil Höfer @phoefer.suma-ev.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

Looking back to years of fantastic work. Let's hope we get to continue after funding runs out in March.

A banner with the logos of the OpenWebSearch EU project and its partners.

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Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @bmitra.bsky.social · 15h

⏰ Gentle reminder @ecir2026.eu IR-for-Good track abstracts due: Oct 21, papers due: Oct 28

This year, we're revamping the #IR4Good track as a core conference track to highlight top societally-motivated IR research

CFP: ecir2026.eu/calls/call-f...

Blog post: bhaskar-mitra.github.io/posts/2025/0...

Call for IR for Good Papers

call for ir for good papers

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19h

The war is not over, however. Now we move to the European Council, where the issue is unresolved. We expect closed-door negotiations to engage in rhetorical arbitrage--claiming to support privacy via word games and bespoke definitions--while in practice undermining it. Tedious & dangerous stuff. 3/

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19h

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Pathetic. bsky.app/profile/step...

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

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Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5d

New WaPo poll —
61% of American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes against Palestinians.
39% say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly, when the financial press starts printing diagrams like this, isn't it time for a regulator to step in?

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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 19h

As AI makes it significantly cheaper and easier to produce and disseminate content, the use of AI for political propaganda is emerging as a major concern in contemporary democratic societies.

AI and visual propaganda are being used to stoke tensions as Ethiopia eyes Eritrea's Red Sea Port

As AI makes it significantly cheaper and easier to produce and disseminate content, the use of AI for political propaganda is emerging as a major concern in contemporary democratic societies.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 21h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 1d

"Chicago isnt licking boots! No Trump no ICE no troops!"

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Cynthia 🐈 @cynthia.dev · 14d

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 1d

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2d

how did we get here?

What 'n Tarnation 🤠🏛️
@watn_tarnation · Oct 3
LMAO Gavin Newsom has personal beef with Benjamin Netanyahu

Cen @DsmpUncensored · Oct 3
The gasp I guspéd at the end 😭
"Bibi" is Benjamin Netanyahu
Speaking are Gavin Newsom (Governor of California) and …

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Ryan Radia
@RyanRadia · Oct 3
Wait, is the Governor of California actually discussing his relationship with the Prime Minister of Israel on a livestream while playing Fortnite with a Twitch streamer who goes by ConnorEatsPants?

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Governor Newsom Press Office
@GovPressOffice
yes

10:30 PM · Oct 3, 2025 · 7,802 Views

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