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Cher Scarlett
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Software engineer and physics student; x-Apple, JPL, Caltech, EarthScope

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https://cher.dev
Our government illegally invaded Venezuela and captured their president and first lady to take over their resource production and to project power and control into South America, threatened to invade Greenland to do the same, and ICE agents harassed and executed an innocent US citizen.

Get angrier.
January 8, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Reposted by Cher Scarlett
Texas is banning Plato excerpts from philosophy courses. For context, Plato founded one of the first institutions of higher learning in all of Western civilization. 2,400+ years later, fragile conservatives are trying to censor him.
January 8, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Reposted by Cher Scarlett
Politicians & lobbying groups have been trying for years to prosecute the low-level dealers, plugs, and even just friends-who-use-together for homicide when someone dies from an overdose.

ChatGPT coached a kid to take drugs with it for months then gave medical advice that was so wrong it killed him
ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died
Detailed chat logs show how ChatGPT convinced a young man to take increasingly dangerous drug doses over an 18 month spiral.
futurism.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Reposted by Cher Scarlett
They are not buying the Trump administration's claim that the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good was somehow justified.
LGBTQ+ officials denounce ICE killing of Minneapolis woman, demand investigation
www.advocate.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Reposted by Cher Scarlett
Almost like despite proclamations to the contrary, they are getting the message that they can use “vehicle as a deadly weapon“ as an excuse to fire on people
“.. In the last four months alone, immigration officers have fired on at least nine people in five states and Washington, D.C. All of the individuals targeted in those shootings were, like the woman killed on Wednesday, fired on while in their vehicles.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
January 8, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Reposted by Cher Scarlett
Cartoon by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune
January 8, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Reposted by Cher Scarlett
Finally got my settings right
January 7, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Beep, bop, boop, boooopp, scrsssshh
January 6, 2026 at 5:08 PM
I’m sick of ads;
Tired of spam;
All of my classmates;
With their gen AI trash.

How many times;
Must I click unsubscribe?
When will our institutions;
Proclaim AI slop plagiarized?

Numb to that ding;
Emails lost and unseen;
Vapid Canvas discussions;
Nothing but robots whirring.
January 6, 2026 at 5:08 PM
“We want the humans to grind/ we want the engines to sing/ we want machines to be human/ we want humans to be machines… what will you drink when the screen goes black/ when there’s no more colors to get your dopamine back?”

Sofia Isella is a neo-Luddite lyricist queen
youtu.be/iyn08hoZdjY
SOFIA ISELLA - Crowd Caffeine (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by SOFIA ISELLA
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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BREAKING: "Trump launches $1m ‘gold card’ visa scheme amid immigration crackdown. Wealthy immigrants will be able to buy residency, and $5m ‘platinum card’ will exempt holders from some US taxes."
Trump launches $1m ‘gold card’ visa scheme amid immigration crackdown
Wealthy immigrants will be able to buy residency, and $5m ‘platinum card’ will exempt holders from some US taxes
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Biopic on HC so I can watch SC portraying HC
December 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
😍
December 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This is my emotional support calculator for calculus and differential equation exams
December 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
White is not even a color 😅
not to harp on the way this administration exerts undue pressure on corporate America to reflect its racist attitudes or anything but Pantone just announced that its Color of the Year for 2026 will be "white"
December 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
excellent work
December 4, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Reposted by Cher Scarlett
Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.
h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social

holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
December 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I was interviewed by @businessinsider.com in their "As-Told-To" series about people beginning second careers.

Thank you to Tess Martinelli for sharing my story and big changes since leaving Apple in 2021.

per ardua ad astra! 🌌

www.businessinsider.com/apple-engine...
I quit Apple 20 years into my career and became homeless. Hitting bottom led me to heal and find a new path.
An Apple engineer quit her job and couldn't get hired after several months, becoming homeless. She shares how school helped her start over and heal.
www.businessinsider.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I'm glad you made it
December 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
What a tragedy it would be for any other woman to spend more than 20 years believing she is unfixable with an incurable mental disorder that will never allow her to acclimate in society. We have to talk about all the aspects of diagnoses, not just symptomatology.

We are more than symptoms.
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It is so important for girls and women to have their dysfunctional behaviors properly assigned to what happened to them. While medication may work for some people to control this, it doesn't for everyone.

Counseling for my abuse literally changed how I experience life and relationships entirely.
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
For posterity, her discussion about childhood sexual assault is in her book The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing Up Bipolar and her discussion about adulthood sexual assault is in Manic: A Memoir.
December 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
And because Terri Cheney was also subjected to childhood AND adulthood sexual assault, though she argues that she had supportive parents so her symptoms and behavior are divorced from her traumatic experiences, Amazon and essentially everyone involved has some responsibility here to talk about this.
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I'm not saying Hathaway's performance was bad, but it did offer up some stereotypical bipolar behaviors and characteristics and didn't engage how those overlap with other issues, particularly among young women who have been abused.
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM