Sanjay Raghavendra

This, right here, is so deeply confusing to me. How on earth is this legal? bsky.app/profile/matt...

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

‘If it wasn't for the Irish, the Americans and the Jamaicans, English literature wouldn't exist anymore’ We sat down for a quick chat with Marlon James, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2026 with The Disappearers.

Neil Bush, brother of George W. Bush and son of George H.W. Bush, has posted a political message on Facebook for the first time, saying he voted for James Talarico for US Senate over Ken Paxton. Bush says he isn't just opposing Paxton, he has come to admire Talarico.

‘Homeland Security claimed that 15,903 aliens were registered to vote in Nevada. Pressed by the state administration to identify these people, Mullin’s staff produced a list of 185 names. Nevada’s election authorities demonstrated that all were US citizens.’ Aziz Huq: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Elon Musk is trying to buy this Senate seat in Texas. He wants our land, he wants our water, and he wants his own personal U.S. senator. He’s trying to buy Texas. But on November 3rd, we’ll deliver a clear message to the world’s first trillionaire: Texas is not for sale.

Because it ends as a horror film, it's worth seeing in a theater with other people.

A talk for my fellow men in tech to watch. Yes, all of you.

While we're on the topic of the machine learning Michael Jordan and his interview calling this hysteria around fictional machine gods for what it is, let me share with you this essay he wrote in 2018 where he was similarly spot on. medium.com/@mijordan3/a...

We're thrilled to announce that DAIR's @timnitgebru.blacksky.app is a 2026 Right Livelihood Laureate! Thank you, @rightlivelihood.org, for spotlighting how we can challenge power within the AI industry and build tech futures rooted in justice, human needs, and human creativity.

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

TONIGHT! GHOST IN THE MACHINE is coming to @pbs.org and YouTube TONIGHT at 10pm ET / 7pm PT!

If you pre-order @timnitgebru.blacksky.app’s book right now maybe it will go to number one on the NYT best seller list and we might finally have a sensible AI conversation in the mainstream media for once in our lives www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...

If you read closely, it is clear that @chess.com indeed was referring to the game tree complexity, and not the positions, since they say "possible chess games". I assume M*sk used and LLM to, which ofc is unable to get pragmatics.

It's always grimly amusing to see some arrogant jack hanger bloviate about science or math in a way that demonstrates their high-school-survey-course level of understanding thereof. "You see? The numbers show I'm right!" Except, if you use the wrong numbers (leave aside "use the wrong numbers on

Just a reminder that there's a Will Shakespeare miniseries from the heyday of BBC historicals starring Tim Curry as Shakespeare and Ian McShane as Marlowe, and it's on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpxC...

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....

For many years, people didn’t randomly film others in public—not because we didn’t have the technology, but because the social contract said you didn’t do that. That’s why Meta is going full court press on their PR and celebrity endorsements. They remember how people ran google glass outta town.

‘Palantir’s first outside investor was the CIA’s private venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel. The agency was its first customer. Thiel once joked that “the CIA is a front for Palantir.”’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @lucasamin.bsky.social on Palantir and the NHS. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

New article on how many of Nick Bostrom's "best" ideas actually came from other people. I also discuss how Bostrom lied on his official CV by claiming that his undergrad performance set a "national record" in Sweden. If you think Bostrom is an original thinker, read this:

There's a reason Elon Musk rarely does interviews with real news outlets.

You gotta hand it to OpenAI, billing this as a *partnership* between OpenAI & Hugging Face when what actually happened was Hugging Face finding out that OpenAI was using a bunch of bots to exploit security vulnerabilities. Talk about good marketing or whatever you want to call it, by OpenAI.

Indian students cool on 'American Dream' as EU opens its doors reut.rs/4b1UEPe

Sonam Wangchuk: Indian activist on hunger strike for 20 days forcibly taken to hospital

Police said protesters tried to stop them from seizing Sonam Wangchuk, causing a 'slight commotion' https://aje.news/iyuxpm

Here are two shapes. If you had to assign the name "bouba" to one and "kiki" to the other, which name would you give to which? In this Lingthusiasm zine, @gretchenmcculloch.com gets enthusiastic about these two linguistically famous shapes Print it yourself here: lingthusiasm.com/post/8223518...

Stumbled across this rubbish while cleaning the library. Made me chuckle.

#controVARsy

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-CA, is calling for Elon Musk to be held accountable for possible deaths linked to funding cuts at the hands of his now-defunct Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Khanna is challenging Musk to a debate, and the trillionaire responded with... youtube.com/shorts/Qn92A...

Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. “It’s swampier than ever.” The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. 😂😂😂

I had missed it, this is brilliant from Iranian defender Ramin Rezaeian talking about Iranians booing national anthem. Also when someone says - "My English is not great & then roast the journalist in English." Is my favourite genre. 😂

@timnitgebru.blacksky.app was really generous with her time when i asked her for this interview for @sciam.bsky.social #sciamyoungscientists. she has a lot of prescient things to say here. take a look. www.scientificamerican.com/article/timn...

Powerful 💥 Stanford graduate Eva Jones speaks at the People's Commencement, after students walked out during Google CEO Sundar Pichai's speech.

‘Fifa’s remorseless commodification of the people’s game is set to result in a gated tournament confined to those few with the requisite income, visa status and social media history.’ Online early: Simon Skinner on the history of the World Cup. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Okay so I read the whole working paper behind this claim. I’m going to accept the causal analysis as-is and explain why I still don’t think this makes sense. Starting with: the comparison is between counties with vs. without lots of iPhone network coverage, NOT owning vs. not owning an iPhone 🧵

We at the Review mourn the loss of David Hockney, who died this week at the age of eighty-eight. In memory of his life and work, we’ve unlocked his early “Notes for Illustrations: Grimm’s Fairy Tales” from the archive.

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I want boos so loud that the ABC censors can’t control it. I want gestures so obscene that ABC would have to black out the game to cover them all. Do us proud, Knicks fans.

Everyone knows instinctively that Mike Johnson is a corrupt puppet of the Trump administration too, so can we just get rid of him on vague vibes?

Decision Desk HQ projects Nithya Raman wins the second of two spots in the CA Los Angeles Mayor Nonpartisan Primary #DecisionMade: 7:57 PM EDT

Also for non academics 🙂

he sleeps by day More than the wild-cat.

Today I ‘interviewed’ Facebook whistleblower on stage at Hay…& she couldn’t say a word. Facebook took legal action to prevent her speaking. What pathetic, pointless vindictiveness. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

📚 Now reading 📚 Mary Everest Boole (1909). Philosophy and Fun of Algebra. archive.org/details/phil... (h/t @olivia.science) 1/🧵

Well, with this official Vatican + Anthropic mandate, I guess it was only a matter of time when the religion of effective altruism, worshipping so-called artificial general intelligence, merged with entrenched religious institutions.