The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

Bonnie Nozari is 🔥

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy! Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user ha...

#oopsie
Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

🤜🤛

University Senate passes vote of no confidence The Purdue University Senate passed a vote of no-confidence for Provost Wolfe during its April meeting. The document was initially brought up in February.

www.purdueexponent.org/campus/gener...

Looking forward to it!

Working on the final version of Reasonable Doubt after the positive reviews by @princetonupress.bsky.social

For tools and technologies that impact society and individual lives, govts historically implemented policy as guardrails to prevent excess harm.

We’ve done this for machines, automobiles, firearms, aerospace, agriculture, etc…

Why not AI? The AI corps themselves say that AI will change everything.

For a day. It's bizarre, every day feels like a gamble this year. Could be yeeehaw, could be aahhhhhrrghh. Not only for me. Everyone I talked to said the same. Flipping a mood coin each day. Is it something in the water...? Besides, IU will soon be able to fire us folks on a whim. Thanks Wham Pitten

“…the binding problem may be an artifact of theoretical assumptions rather than a real computational challenge for the brain…we propose a framework where the visual cortex represents naturally co-occurring patterns of information rather than processing isolated features that need binding.”

Have not been feeling that optimistic about academic work (and its future) in a while -- despite cutting down daily news intake, ahem. But this made me excited again. I recall when Gabe entered my lab and life -- he reignited my joy in research that got subdued during the pandemic.

locomondo - ska wedding march YouTube video by Dj Michalis Pitsios

Omg, laughing far too much. I can almost see it!
Is there.. also music...? If not, pull out your phone, secretly, and play 'the march' (ska version) for the next speaker!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-FB...

I have questions. But I am afraid to ask.

Beyond thrilled. I'll be working with 2 wonderful incoming grad students in the Fall (in cognitive neuroscience and the history & philosophy of neuroscience). Both seem pretty much driven by a desire to understand. Updates on their names & interests by the Fall on the lab website (needs updating).

Mathematische Annalen - GDZ - Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum

Noether noticed it too, but still from the strict Helmholtzian point of view.
gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN235181...

US lawmakers intensify scrutiny of scientific-publishing practices A congressional hearing covered the rise of paper mills and the costs of open-access publishing — but there was little agreement on what reform would entail.

In a rare show of unity, both R and D US lawmakers agree: the scientific publishing industry needs reform.

Lawmakers are worried about the literature being flooded with 'AI slop' and the high open-access fees that some publishers charge.

Read more @nature.com on this week's House Science hearing

Inventing Accuracy by Donald Mackenzie

Restarting "the thread to rule all other threads", my mega-meta-thread with years of literature recommendations history, technology and war on Twitter

(have a read through before Twitter dies for real)

twitter.com/M__Verbrugge...

Pictured is my favourite academic book

#PoliSky #IntSec #IRTheory

The Man Who Stole Infinity | Quanta Magazine In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism.

Infinity: would you like that in small, medium, or large?
Cantor. Dedekind. Noether. Interpretative dancing of chaos theory.
This essay has it all.
(The man who co-authored infinity would have been a fairer title, though.)
www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-...

"I’m sorry to Lena Dunham, but really, I feel worse for my younger self. I wish I could go back and tell him that all the things he craved in the world would come the minute he stopped wanting it so much"

So this is about how dude feels about his insecurities, not about growing moral balls. Really?

Ah, vanilla sky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdoY...

Le Spring has arrived!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwPa...

“If we are not careful, while we are cheering on genuinely brave astronauts taking their chances in space, some crass shit like an Applebee’s logo on the moon is gonna happen. We can only prevent this by talking now about plans that are already afoot.”

AI can design and run thousands of lab experiments without human hands. Humanity isn’t ready for the new risks this brings to biology Researchers have found that even people with limited experience in biology can use AI to help them create a dangerous pathogen.

AI can now autonomously design and run thousands of biological experiments, but the regulatory systems meant to oversee this capability have fallen dangerously behind.


The gap between what’s possible (like making a dangerous virus spread more easily) and what’s regulated is growing, and that’s a

Good (brutally honest) summary of what has been and is further happening at IU. And why tenure is in reality no more. Let alone integrity.
medium.com/@dncohn/a-ne...

TASH SULTANA - JUNGLE (LIVE BEDROOM RECORDING) YouTube video by Tash Sultana

What a performance.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn8p...

See, my love, my catastrophically cluttered workspace is *traditional*. There’s a heritage to maintain.

This "big-N quant research in Nature/Science journals" pattern is a direct manifestation of The Matthew Effect in scientific publishing (beyond misinformation lit). Groups with massive resources dominate glamor pubs burying complexity and nuance under size and impact. Metascience is a great example.

It has some of that reminiscence and feel. I may ask Andrew how he sees and thinks about that connection next time in the communal kitchen here - I think he'd have something very thoughtful to say or would like that thought!

In defense of social friction Sycophantic AI distorts social judgments and behaviors

"In defense of social friction
Sycophantic AI distorts social judgments and behaviors"

Much needed paper by my brilliant fellow @rad-institute.bsky.social fellow Anat Perry in @science.org:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...