Rey Rodriguez
@reyrodriguez.bsky.social
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On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
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AI is a plagiarism engine built on stolen data, exploited labour, and enviro harm. Marketed as “intelligent,” it erodes critical thinking, empathy, and causes psychological harm. Run by authoritarian billionaires, it’s used for surveillance, profiling, and genocide—whether it works or makes up shit.
can i ask my followers here perhaps too earnestly - if you hate AI or find it utterly worthless, why?
it's jolting how little AI skepticism has reached the general public. i've had many acquaintances ask whether i use AI for research and seem shocked when i tell them it's completely useless for that purpose. my wife recently told her colleagues about hallucinations and it was news to all of them.
May 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
AI is a plagiarism engine built on stolen data, exploited labour, and enviro harm. Marketed as “intelligent,” it erodes critical thinking, empathy, and causes psychological harm. Run by authoritarian billionaires, it’s used for surveillance, profiling, and genocide—whether it works or makes up shit.
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How does Radical Embodied Cognitive Science relate to Marxism?
In a recent preprint, I discuss this question at length, drawing on work by @tonychemero.bsky.social, @sorenmau.bsky.social, @edbaggs.bsky.social and many others.
In a recent preprint, I discuss this question at length, drawing on work by @tonychemero.bsky.social, @sorenmau.bsky.social, @edbaggs.bsky.social and many others.
July 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
How does Radical Embodied Cognitive Science relate to Marxism?
In a recent preprint, I discuss this question at length, drawing on work by @tonychemero.bsky.social, @sorenmau.bsky.social, @edbaggs.bsky.social and many others.
In a recent preprint, I discuss this question at length, drawing on work by @tonychemero.bsky.social, @sorenmau.bsky.social, @edbaggs.bsky.social and many others.
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The federal minimum wage is now officially a poverty wage, per @epi.org www.epi.org/blog/the-fed...
April 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The federal minimum wage is now officially a poverty wage, per @epi.org www.epi.org/blog/the-fed...
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The authors don't frame it this way but this is the best "AI is neoliberal" argument www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The emergence of economic rationality of GPT | PNAS
As large language models (LLMs) like GPT become increasingly prevalent, it is essential
that we assess their capabilities beyond language processin...
www.pnas.org
January 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The authors don't frame it this way but this is the best "AI is neoliberal" argument www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Revealed: Microsoft deepened ties with Israeli military to provide tech support during Gaza war
Revealed: Microsoft deepened ties with Israeli military to provide tech support during Gaza war
Leaked documents shed light on how Israel integrated the US tech giant into its war effort to meet growing demand for cloud and AI tools
The Israeli military’s reliance on Microsoft’s cloud technology and artificial intelligence systems surged during the…
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Revealed: Microsoft deepened ties with Israeli military to provide tech support during Gaza war
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Just an incredible, damning headline.
December 20, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Just an incredible, damning headline.
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A spill on a family farm in Oklahoma killed several acres of vegetation and contaminated drinking water. A judge ordered the farmers to pay when they went after the oil company.
(Published May 2024)
(Published May 2024)
Oil Companies Contaminated a Family Farm. The Courts and Regulators Let the Drillers Walk Away.
The oil and gas industry has reaped profits without ensuring there will be money to plug and clean up their wells. In Oklahoma, that work could cost more than $7 billion if it falls to the state.
propub.li
December 9, 2024 at 12:00 AM
A spill on a family farm in Oklahoma killed several acres of vegetation and contaminated drinking water. A judge ordered the farmers to pay when they went after the oil company.
(Published May 2024)
(Published May 2024)
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Never has a crime so obscene been so confessed to, so endlessly, so shamelessly, so proudly
November 18, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Never has a crime so obscene been so confessed to, so endlessly, so shamelessly, so proudly
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How OpenAI treats its African workers is how it would treat all of us if it could get away with it.
constantly amazed by the gulf between OpenAI's lofty promises about benefiting humankind and how it actually behaves toward individual humans
futurism.com/the-byte/afr...
futurism.com/the-byte/afr...
May 23, 2024 at 5:42 PM
How OpenAI treats its African workers is how it would treat all of us if it could get away with it.
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Today, the Guardian and other orgs co-released "Trafficking Inc": a massive investigation linking Amazon, McDonalds, the InterContinental Hotels Group and Chuck E. Cheese to labor trafficking and forced labor, particularly in the Persian Gulf
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Revealed: Amazon linked to trafficking of workers in Saudi Arabia
Dozens of contract workers at Amazon warehouses say they were tricked into toiling and living in grueling, squalid conditions
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2023 at 4:47 PM
Today, the Guardian and other orgs co-released "Trafficking Inc": a massive investigation linking Amazon, McDonalds, the InterContinental Hotels Group and Chuck E. Cheese to labor trafficking and forced labor, particularly in the Persian Gulf
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...