What if you spent massive amounts of other people’s money on a parade and almost no one came?

@amyjko Thank you --- especially for the end about finding our own place, i.e., validating leveraging each of our particular strengths, positions and passions. Any individual action won't change an outcome by itself, but collectively it is meaningful and not ineffective.

How's fascism going for you? https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/letters-from-the-fascist-front-e9433a7fc38c

"Two final considerations include (1) the necessity of being both deliberate and strategic and (2) the importance of being flexible and even whimsical about your future."

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003089

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Pete Hegseth orders that a ship named for Harvey Milk be renamed, and intentionally does this at the beginning of Pride Month. What a bigot. https://archive.ph/2025.06.03-171503/https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/03/hegseth-orders-navy-strip-name-of-gay-rights-icon-harvey-milk-ship.html

Very good points, a reply to a CEO who wondered why his engineers were resistant to using LLMs for coding:

making a list of tricks for making static sites (just HTML/CSS/JS) that do cool or useful things

so far I have:

- store all the state in the URL
- use localStorage for state
- make a client for an API that supports cross-origin requests (like the mastodon API)
- load a bunch of data from a static JSON file

some things I've seen but haven't done myself:

- use github as your data storage (like what Decap CMS does)
- use SQLite from a static website with no backend

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When lawyers first started getting yelled at by judges for citing hallucinated case law two years ago I naively assumed word would get around and they would all quickly learn not to

This new database has 116 cases from 12 countries where this happened, and 20 of them were from just this month!

https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/ai-hallucination-cases/

A month later, independent journalist Marisa Kabas is still the only one I've seen naming the "new lavender scare" in our government.

She's correct: I've seen this form of McCarthyism first hand 🧵

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/queer-trans-intel-chat-leak-chris-rufo/

We #StandWithUkraine and its researchers.

We have published a €10 million call to select a new consortium under #MSCA4Ukraine – providing vital support to displaced Ukrainian researchers.

The call will help doctoral and postdoctoral researchers continue their academic work at institutions across the EU and Horizon Europe-associated countries.

Learn more → https://europa.eu/!jfJkGf

The newspaper insert “contained AI-generated misinformation and reading lists full of books that don’t exist”

(musings downthread)

https://www.404media.co/viral-ai-generated-summer-guide-printed-by-chicago-sun-times-was-made-by-magazine-giant-hearst/

A colleague misheard a patient listing their medical history. They then searched for the nonexistent acronym they misheard. Their search engine's 'AI assistant' dutifully made up* a matching condition. They did not realise the result was from the 'AI' and brought it to a meeting......

Use of LLMs as the default first item for search is dangerous.

(Yes this was a teaching moment)

*A conflation of real conditions in a trenchcoat

It sounds WAY cooler in the original Japanese, you just gotta trust me on this one. :neocat_googly_blep:

Following oral argument at the US Court of Appeals for DC this afternoon in National #Treasury Employees #Union v. #RussVought, a case in which the court is considering whether the #Trump admin’s efforts to unilaterally shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (#CFPB) are constitutional, Constitutional Accountability Center Equal Justice Works Fellow Anna Jessurun issued this:

#law #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #Congress
https://www.theusconstitution.org/news/cac-release-at-the-d-c-circuit-everyone-agrees-that-the-constitution-does-not-permit-the-president-to-unilaterally-shutter-the-cfpb/

@krismicinski Thank you, Kristopher! I appreciate your kind words.

My largest remaining NSF grant, which was awarded by a competitive process on the recommendation of national experts, was terminated yesterday. The money would have paid for PhD students to invent better AI systems for everyday people who need programs written for them but can't or won't write them themselves. I'm sad that the rate of progress we make will slow down significantly, because all our progress is made public for everyone to benefit from. That's what #publiclyFunded research is.

Hi everyone, I'm currently having an extremely hard time finding reviewers for a paper at @jovi which relates to visualization, simulation, and orbital dynamics. The review version is public at https://www.journalovi.org/2024-rein-rebound/ and the reviews will be public and (optionally) attributed as well. Please ping me if interested, and RT for reach!

#academia #visualization #space #Astrodon

Springer is running a deep discount on the electronic edition of our text book on design and development of Domain-Specific Languages (together with Thorsten Berger). At least from a Danish IP address, the ebook is now available for 18.99 EUR, less than half of the normal price.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-23669-3