Sanjay Raghavendra
@sanjayrag.bsky.social
How might we seriously get back to normal? From my PoV in California, other than voting, I don't see many practical options. This needs international cooperation....
Trump sees dollar signs with Venezuelan oil, has designs on other countries, and clearly sees himself as some kind of emperor of the world. I don’t think he has plans to leave in 2028. And he’s showing he’ll use the military however he wants
January 4, 2026 at 8:31 PM
How might we seriously get back to normal? From my PoV in California, other than voting, I don't see many practical options. This needs international cooperation....
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Spain's Sánchez did somewhat more.
Spain's PM Pedro Sanchez is 1st European leader to make a stronger statement following Trump's press conference where he said the US will run Venezuela and take its oil.
Sanchez has been ostracised by other 🇪🇺 leaders for his past criticism of Trump. Will they listen to him now?
Sanchez has been ostracised by other 🇪🇺 leaders for his past criticism of Trump. Will they listen to him now?
January 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Spain's Sánchez did somewhat more.
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Now Trump says "we" need Greenland.
Well done weak European leaders who tepidly criticized/welcomed Trump’s invasion of Venezuela yesterday.
You're next.
Well done weak European leaders who tepidly criticized/welcomed Trump’s invasion of Venezuela yesterday.
You're next.
January 4, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Now Trump says "we" need Greenland.
Well done weak European leaders who tepidly criticized/welcomed Trump’s invasion of Venezuela yesterday.
You're next.
Well done weak European leaders who tepidly criticized/welcomed Trump’s invasion of Venezuela yesterday.
You're next.
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India orders X to fix Grok to block the generation of obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing "safe harbor" immunity (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
January 2, 2026 at 6:45 PM
India orders X to fix Grok to block the generation of obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing "safe harbor" immunity (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Thank you!!!
Hey, I was asked to outline why I believe AI should not be embraced in schools in the below link (no one is voting "no" with me, so am trying to find ppl who agree with me to vote here, if u have a minute. Well my video maybe 15 mins)
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
Hey, I was asked to outline why I believe AI should not be embraced in schools in the below link (no one is voting "no" with me, so am trying to find ppl who agree with me to vote here, if u have a minute. Well my video maybe 15 mins)
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
Debate: Should schools embrace AI technology in education rather than forbid it? - Generative Revolution Insights
generativerevolution.ai
January 3, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Thank you!!!
Hey, I was asked to outline why I believe AI should not be embraced in schools in the below link (no one is voting "no" with me, so am trying to find ppl who agree with me to vote here, if u have a minute. Well my video maybe 15 mins)
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
Hey, I was asked to outline why I believe AI should not be embraced in schools in the below link (no one is voting "no" with me, so am trying to find ppl who agree with me to vote here, if u have a minute. Well my video maybe 15 mins)
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
Loved listening to this long, insightful, and entertaining critique of Turing's famous paper. pca.st/episode/d565...
Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Alan Turing (feat. Felienne Hermans)
pca.st
January 2, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Loved listening to this long, insightful, and entertaining critique of Turing's famous paper. pca.st/episode/d565...
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You empty little mops. Grok didn’t say “sorry”. It’s not sentient, has no guilt, has no feelings, has no moral compass.
Its owner Elon Musk also has no guilt, has no feelings, has no moral compass.
Its owner Elon Musk also has no guilt, has no feelings, has no moral compass.
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X reut.rs/498SoUk
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X
Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.
reut.rs
January 2, 2026 at 10:32 PM
You empty little mops. Grok didn’t say “sorry”. It’s not sentient, has no guilt, has no feelings, has no moral compass.
Its owner Elon Musk also has no guilt, has no feelings, has no moral compass.
Its owner Elon Musk also has no guilt, has no feelings, has no moral compass.
Something tells me that this easy comparison between how a compiler works vs. something output by an LLM -based bot (assuming that's what "AI-assisted" means) is fundamentally flawed, but I am unable to construct a proper argument....👇
January 1, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Something tells me that this easy comparison between how a compiler works vs. something output by an LLM -based bot (assuming that's what "AI-assisted" means) is fundamentally flawed, but I am unable to construct a proper argument....👇
Really enjoyed this conversation with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and @olivia.science! The "homogenization" discussion made me think of 'The Joining' in Pluribus. pca.st/episode/f442...
September 12, 2025 — Safeguarding Science from AI: An Interview with Olivia Guest and Iris van Rooij
pca.st
January 1, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Really enjoyed this conversation with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and @olivia.science! The "homogenization" discussion made me think of 'The Joining' in Pluribus. pca.st/episode/f442...
Time will tell whether the "...magnetism of America's promise...." is enduring or not, but in my 3+ decades here as an Indian American, I can say that the animosity seems to have surfaced only recently. Maybe people are feeling more licensed nowadays....
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
Opinion | One of America’s Most Successful Experiments Is Coming to a Shuddering Halt
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Time will tell whether the "...magnetism of America's promise...." is enduring or not, but in my 3+ decades here as an Indian American, I can say that the animosity seems to have surfaced only recently. Maybe people are feeling more licensed nowadays....
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
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This is called "freedom" and it's pissing off the new Commissars who believe that artists must perform at the State's command
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
December 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
This is called "freedom" and it's pissing off the new Commissars who believe that artists must perform at the State's command
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LA! Come draw with me and @sarahmackattack.bsky.social on Jan 15!
We just released tickets and I think they’ll go fast, so jump on it:
We just released tickets and I think they’ll go fast, so jump on it:
ATTN: Los Angeles!
@ologies.bsky.social & I are hosting an evening of ART & ACTIVISM. We're going to be creating art that communicates important messages & learning about work happening in your city.
RSVP here: luma.com/fp919u5x
Poster by the amazing @nicolegoux.bsky.social!
Please repost, LA!
@ologies.bsky.social & I are hosting an evening of ART & ACTIVISM. We're going to be creating art that communicates important messages & learning about work happening in your city.
RSVP here: luma.com/fp919u5x
Poster by the amazing @nicolegoux.bsky.social!
Please repost, LA!
December 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
LA! Come draw with me and @sarahmackattack.bsky.social on Jan 15!
We just released tickets and I think they’ll go fast, so jump on it:
We just released tickets and I think they’ll go fast, so jump on it:
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I mean for sure infinity migrants don't currently fit in America but I'll send you the blueprints for building Hilbert's Grand Hotel suuuper don't worry about it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert...
Love set theory. Hate fascism. Oh and also love housing people
Love set theory. Hate fascism. Oh and also love housing people
December 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I mean for sure infinity migrants don't currently fit in America but I'll send you the blueprints for building Hilbert's Grand Hotel suuuper don't worry about it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert...
Love set theory. Hate fascism. Oh and also love housing people
Love set theory. Hate fascism. Oh and also love housing people
Anybody know why I am seeing "sending information to analytics.tiktok.com...." in my browser's (Firefox) footer during an Alaska Airlines (their website) ticket purchase session?
December 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Anybody know why I am seeing "sending information to analytics.tiktok.com...." in my browser's (Firefox) footer during an Alaska Airlines (their website) ticket purchase session?
Fascinating! Don't know about links between inventiveness and being accident-prone (if true there's still hope for me 😉), but Dr. V S Ramachandran has studied synesthesia, which is far more common amongst "creative" people, it seems)
‘For Rimsky-Korsakov, the key of A was clear pink; for Scriabin, it was green. Duke Ellington read the flight patterns of birds as musical phrases and saw the D notes of his baritone saxophonist as dark blue hessian.’
Susannah Clapp reviews ‘The Madman’s Orchestra’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Susannah Clapp reviews ‘The Madman’s Orchestra’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Susannah Clapp · Not Quite Music
In The Madman’s Library, Edward Brooke-Hitching asked if a work of literature written on a shirt could be called a...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Fascinating! Don't know about links between inventiveness and being accident-prone (if true there's still hope for me 😉), but Dr. V S Ramachandran has studied synesthesia, which is far more common amongst "creative" people, it seems)
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Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Got this part right "AIs aren’t sentient, and can’t hallucinate, any more than a fridge or a toaster can. They also can’t lie, because that involves intention. What they can do is get things wrong."
‘Colossal amounts of money are pouring in. Is it a bubble? Of course it’s a bubble. The salient questions are how we got here, and what happens next.’
Online early: John Lanchester on the AI boom.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Online early: John Lanchester on the AI boom.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Lanchester · King of Cannibal Island
Nvidia shares are the purest bet you can make on the impact of AI. The leading firms are lending money to one another in...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Got this part right "AIs aren’t sentient, and can’t hallucinate, any more than a fridge or a toaster can. They also can’t lie, because that involves intention. What they can do is get things wrong."
Harassment by "AI companion" pop-ups offering to write, summarize, catch me up, or recommend other unwanted services reminds me of Bania trying to impress Seinfeld.
December 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Harassment by "AI companion" pop-ups offering to write, summarize, catch me up, or recommend other unwanted services reminds me of Bania trying to impress Seinfeld.
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Hello, we’re Ghost in the Machine, a landmark documentary that’s mandatory viewing for anyone thinking about or using AI.
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be premiering at #SundanceFilmFestival next month. We hope you’ll join us in person or online, and follow along here.
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be premiering at #SundanceFilmFestival next month. We hope you’ll join us in person or online, and follow along here.
December 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Hello, we’re Ghost in the Machine, a landmark documentary that’s mandatory viewing for anyone thinking about or using AI.
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be premiering at #SundanceFilmFestival next month. We hope you’ll join us in person or online, and follow along here.
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be premiering at #SundanceFilmFestival next month. We hope you’ll join us in person or online, and follow along here.
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To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.
December 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
Not mine at all, but a shameless plug on behalf of my 85yr old dad for whom this book was a pandemic project. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Not mine at all, but a shameless plug on behalf of my 85yr old dad for whom this book was a pandemic project. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
Not mine at all, but a shameless plug on behalf of my 85yr old dad for whom this book was a pandemic project. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Not mine at all, but a shameless plug on behalf of my 85yr old dad for whom this book was a pandemic project. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Reserving time this weekend to get through this nearly 2 hr podcast, and would love to hear the comments of @emilymbender.bsky.social, @olivia.science, and other bright minds on this
Henk's @henkderegt.bsky.social book Understanding Scientific Understanding (2017) helped elevate understanding in phil of sci, distinct from what it means to explain something.
We discuss where his ideas have taken him since, like how to assess machine understanding.
braininspired.co/podcast/225/
We discuss where his ideas have taken him since, like how to assess machine understanding.
braininspired.co/podcast/225/
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Reserving time this weekend to get through this nearly 2 hr podcast, and would love to hear the comments of @emilymbender.bsky.social, @olivia.science, and other bright minds on this
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Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!
‘GenAI for Nuclear Licensing’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW9l... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251118-vib... - podcast
time: 6 min 24 sec
‘GenAI for Nuclear Licensing’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW9l... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251118-vib... - podcast
time: 6 min 24 sec
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!
‘GenAI for Nuclear Licensing’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW9l... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251118-vib... - podcast
time: 6 min 24 sec
‘GenAI for Nuclear Licensing’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW9l... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251118-vib... - podcast
time: 6 min 24 sec
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Please believe me when I say that this meaningless, historically suspect slogan is being used to sell "AI." Here it is in the just-released November 2025 report on AI by Microsoft. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Please believe me when I say that this meaningless, historically suspect slogan is being used to sell "AI." Here it is in the just-released November 2025 report on AI by Microsoft. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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Behold: you can now see all 23 years of BYTE magazine in all its glory, all at once. Every issue on a single zoomable interface
www.404media.co/byte-magazin...
www.404media.co/byte-magazin...
Visualize All 23 Years of BYTE Magazine in All Its Glory, All at Once
Software engineer Hector Dearman built a zoomable map of every issue of BYTE magazine.
www.404media.co
November 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Behold: you can now see all 23 years of BYTE magazine in all its glory, all at once. Every issue on a single zoomable interface
www.404media.co/byte-magazin...
www.404media.co/byte-magazin...