Micah Corah
@micahcorah.bsky.social
Assistant Prof, CS@Mines
Aerial and multiple robots; autonomous filming, mapping, perception
Enjoys: 🧗♂️🚴♂️🎸🎶🤘
Ursula Le Guin stan. Call me on my ansible.
He/him pronouns 💖💜💙
Opinions my own.
https://www.micahcorah.com/
Aerial and multiple robots; autonomous filming, mapping, perception
Enjoys: 🧗♂️🚴♂️🎸🎶🤘
Ursula Le Guin stan. Call me on my ansible.
He/him pronouns 💖💜💙
Opinions my own.
https://www.micahcorah.com/
Please stop surveiling your neighbors 🙏
Probably the worst of them all is the Ring doorbell.
It’s sold as safety, but it’s much more about fear and paranoia in a box that turns you against your community. The more of them in the world, the worse our neighborhoods get. Don’t help the spiral continue.
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
It’s sold as safety, but it’s much more about fear and paranoia in a box that turns you against your community. The more of them in the world, the worse our neighborhoods get. Don’t help the spiral continue.
disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Please stop surveiling your neighbors 🙏
Just walked past a mile long line for Panda at the airport for no wait counter serve at Tocabe because airports make sense
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Just walked past a mile long line for Panda at the airport for no wait counter serve at Tocabe because airports make sense
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Pro tip: If the person providing a different interpretation is not speaking for Moneyed Interests and is an expert in their field, they’re an “independent scholar”—not just a “skeptic” (ffs!)
Okay, I hestitate to even share this link, because while I like NYMag I do not want to send this journalist in particular clicks, b ut:
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
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If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
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Is ChatGPT Conscious?
Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something.
nymag.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Pro tip: If the person providing a different interpretation is not speaking for Moneyed Interests and is an expert in their field, they’re an “independent scholar”—not just a “skeptic” (ffs!)
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Average electricity cost increase since Jan:
Missouri ⬆️ 37%
Iowa ⬆️ 30%
North Dakota ⬆️ 30%
Oklahoma ⬆️ 30%
New Jersey ⬆️ 27%
Nebraska ⬆️ 25%
Montana ⬆️ 25%
Wyoming ⬆️ 23%
NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11%
Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.
Missouri ⬆️ 37%
Iowa ⬆️ 30%
North Dakota ⬆️ 30%
Oklahoma ⬆️ 30%
New Jersey ⬆️ 27%
Nebraska ⬆️ 25%
Montana ⬆️ 25%
Wyoming ⬆️ 23%
NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11%
Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Average electricity cost increase since Jan:
Missouri ⬆️ 37%
Iowa ⬆️ 30%
North Dakota ⬆️ 30%
Oklahoma ⬆️ 30%
New Jersey ⬆️ 27%
Nebraska ⬆️ 25%
Montana ⬆️ 25%
Wyoming ⬆️ 23%
NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11%
Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.
Missouri ⬆️ 37%
Iowa ⬆️ 30%
North Dakota ⬆️ 30%
Oklahoma ⬆️ 30%
New Jersey ⬆️ 27%
Nebraska ⬆️ 25%
Montana ⬆️ 25%
Wyoming ⬆️ 23%
NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11%
Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.
Do they make Christmas sweaters?
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Do they make Christmas sweaters?
Excited! 🤖&👥 😃
It's unboxing day for DEGREES OF FREEDOM from @mitpress.bsky.social! :D
November 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Excited! 🤖&👥 😃
The Peter Thiel Antichrist lectures have been stuck in my head for too long, and I want to explain why I think a lot of people covering this are badly misunderstanding the obvious context of Christian community this is situated within and that supports these activities 🧵
Been seeing and hearing a lot of discourse about Peter Thiel's Antichrist lectures, and my hot take is that a lot of people are over-indexing on how bad and weird his theology or historicity is versus inspecting how he fits into the Non-Denominational and Evangelical milieu.
November 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The Peter Thiel Antichrist lectures have been stuck in my head for too long, and I want to explain why I think a lot of people covering this are badly misunderstanding the obvious context of Christian community this is situated within and that supports these activities 🧵
Gonna come in again late with a shitpost to say that lack of drone music discourse in response is disappointing.
Need more Sunn O))) fans on here 😩
Need more Sunn O))) fans on here 😩
pictured: four completely different weapon systems that we decided should all be called "drone" for some reason
November 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Gonna come in again late with a shitpost to say that lack of drone music discourse in response is disappointing.
Need more Sunn O))) fans on here 😩
Need more Sunn O))) fans on here 😩
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I had to get level 2 "research animal care and handling" certifications for this activity and all I did was fly drones close enough for them to maybe notice me
youtu.be/T0jvYnnnVtU?...
youtu.be/T0jvYnnnVtU?...
UAV Over Otters
YouTube video by FrontierScientists
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I had to get level 2 "research animal care and handling" certifications for this activity and all I did was fly drones close enough for them to maybe notice me
youtu.be/T0jvYnnnVtU?...
youtu.be/T0jvYnnnVtU?...
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The thing about directing your science teams to stop "all monkey research" is
Watching monkeys counts as "monkey research"
Watching monkeys counts as "monkey research"
EXCLUSIVE: CDC to end all monkey studies. Decision handed down by recent college grad and former DOGE employee who is now deputy chief of staff at the agency. Animals were being used in studies of HIV prevention. Some may be euthanized. My latest for @science.org
Exclusive: CDC to end all monkey research
Studies related to HIV and other infectious diseases will be phased out, sources say; fate of the agency's animals remains unclear
www.science.org
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The thing about directing your science teams to stop "all monkey research" is
Watching monkeys counts as "monkey research"
Watching monkeys counts as "monkey research"
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If you are looking for a postdoc, there's a lot of great algorithms/theory research (and in all parts of CS) happening at NYU!
Come work with the best, as @gautamkamath.com says!
Courant CS: apply.interfolio.com/175537
CDS: apply.interfolio.com/174686
Come work with the best, as @gautamkamath.com says!
Courant CS: apply.interfolio.com/175537
CDS: apply.interfolio.com/174686
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If you are looking for a postdoc, there's a lot of great algorithms/theory research (and in all parts of CS) happening at NYU!
Come work with the best, as @gautamkamath.com says!
Courant CS: apply.interfolio.com/175537
CDS: apply.interfolio.com/174686
Come work with the best, as @gautamkamath.com says!
Courant CS: apply.interfolio.com/175537
CDS: apply.interfolio.com/174686
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specifically, if I see one more article that doesn’t seem to grasp that Ukrainian FPV drone pilots are almost always on the frontline, in *extreme* danger, and are very regularly killed because their controller signals are easily detectable via electronic warfare methods
begging defense analysts to stop writing stuff that assumes that operating a MQ-9 Reaper and operating a $400 FPV drone is pretty much the same thing and works about the same way
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 AM
specifically, if I see one more article that doesn’t seem to grasp that Ukrainian FPV drone pilots are almost always on the frontline, in *extreme* danger, and are very regularly killed because their controller signals are easily detectable via electronic warfare methods
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New: Student journalists say they were banned from CU Boulder campus after covering pro-Palestine protest www.denverpost.com/2025/11/20/c... via @dailycamera.com
Student journalists say they were banned from CU Boulder campus after covering pro-Palestine protest
Sophomore Ašiihkionkonci Parker, one of the student journalists, was banned from campus for two weeks after covering a Students for Justice in Palestine protest against Lockheed Martin at a career …
www.denverpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
New: Student journalists say they were banned from CU Boulder campus after covering pro-Palestine protest www.denverpost.com/2025/11/20/c... via @dailycamera.com
Now do Denver!
So proud of my colleagues @fightforthefuture.org and the massive coalition of local folks that made this happen www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/19/o...
Oakland rejects $2 million contract with surveillance company over concerns of ICE spying
Flock Safety was shown the door after hundreds rallied against the company.
www.mercurynews.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Now do Denver!
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There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are:
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are:
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
That's just secret police. They're doing secret police.
NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE
“The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
That's just secret police. They're doing secret police.
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And that would be the part we really really wouldn’t want him doing.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 3:16 AM
And that would be the part we really really wouldn’t want him doing.
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THIS IS BIG
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
THIS IS BIG
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
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Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.
Been seeing and hearing a lot of discourse about Peter Thiel's Antichrist lectures, and my hot take is that a lot of people are over-indexing on how bad and weird his theology or historicity is versus inspecting how he fits into the Non-Denominational and Evangelical milieu.
November 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Been seeing and hearing a lot of discourse about Peter Thiel's Antichrist lectures, and my hot take is that a lot of people are over-indexing on how bad and weird his theology or historicity is versus inspecting how he fits into the Non-Denominational and Evangelical milieu.
Reposted by Micah Corah
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
No quarter for faculty and teachers who prey on their students.
Larry Summers needs to resign or be pushed out of Harvard. This is absolutely unacceptable.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
No quarter for faculty and teachers who prey on their students.
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If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.
November 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.