David Marx
@digthatdata.bsky.social
I read a lot of research.
Currently reading: https://dmarx.github.io/papers-feed/
Statistical Learning
Information Theory
Ontic Structural Realism
Morality As Cooperation
Epistemic Justice
YIMBY, UBI
Research MLE, CRWV
Frmr FireFighter
Currently reading: https://dmarx.github.io/papers-feed/
Statistical Learning
Information Theory
Ontic Structural Realism
Morality As Cooperation
Epistemic Justice
YIMBY, UBI
Research MLE, CRWV
Frmr FireFighter
Pinned
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the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.
Genuinely insane we are living in a world where the Danish have to deploy a battlegroup to protect themselves against America. Makes my blood turn molten, honestly
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January 20, 2026 at 10:32 PM
the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.
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This order is a real doozy:
“In short, this charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading as the United States Attorney for this District in direct defiance of binding court orders must come to an end.”
“In short, this charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading as the United States Attorney for this District in direct defiance of binding court orders must come to an end.”
January 20, 2026 at 6:49 PM
This order is a real doozy:
“In short, this charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading as the United States Attorney for this District in direct defiance of binding court orders must come to an end.”
“In short, this charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading as the United States Attorney for this District in direct defiance of binding court orders must come to an end.”
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CMU's Philosophy department is doing a search for a new department head. If you are interested, definitely apply. ALSO, if you know anyone that we should consider, please let me know. I'm happy to reach out to anyone who might be interested. (Please repost for reach!)
www.cmu.edu/dietrich/phi...
www.cmu.edu/dietrich/phi...
Applications Open for Philosophy Department Head Position - Department of Philosophy - Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon’s Philosophy Department seeks a Department Head to provide academic leadership and shape the department’s strategic vision.
www.cmu.edu
January 20, 2026 at 6:41 PM
CMU's Philosophy department is doing a search for a new department head. If you are interested, definitely apply. ALSO, if you know anyone that we should consider, please let me know. I'm happy to reach out to anyone who might be interested. (Please repost for reach!)
www.cmu.edu/dietrich/phi...
www.cmu.edu/dietrich/phi...
sprinkling a little sweetness in your feed to counter-balance... the outside world.
get some rest. here's hoping tomorrow is a better day.
get some rest. here's hoping tomorrow is a better day.
Former Ballerina With Alzheimer's Performs 'Swan Lake' Dance
YouTube video by ALZHEIMER’S RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
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January 20, 2026 at 6:08 AM
sprinkling a little sweetness in your feed to counter-balance... the outside world.
get some rest. here's hoping tomorrow is a better day.
get some rest. here's hoping tomorrow is a better day.
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Reminder that all these lawsuits are going to be paid out with taxpayer dollars.
Today in St. Paul: A house is raided by ICE agents and other law enforcement officers in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S., days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, January 18, 2026. REUTERS/Leah Millis
January 20, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Reminder that all these lawsuits are going to be paid out with taxpayer dollars.
alabama as shameful as ever.
This is pure, unabashed bigotry.
If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party.
But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence.
A stain on our Congress.
If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party.
But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence.
A stain on our Congress.
January 20, 2026 at 5:49 AM
alabama as shameful as ever.
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We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland
January 19, 2026 at 10:59 PM
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
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Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
January 18, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
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science peeps.
ICE’s actions tear families apart, intimidate communities, & undermine the conditions that make education, research, healthcare, & public trust possible.
We’re calling on scientists to join the general anti-ICE strike in Minnesota on January 23rd.
We’re calling on scientists to join the general anti-ICE strike in Minnesota on January 23rd.
January 20, 2026 at 2:53 AM
science peeps.
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It's cool that these guys just use pepper spray casually now, against people who are wholly within their rights, without a moment's hesitation. Several shots of them using it as they climb into their cars and drive away, not even a pretense of urgency or need. Just a parting "fuck you" to them.
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
January 19, 2026 at 4:44 PM
It's cool that these guys just use pepper spray casually now, against people who are wholly within their rights, without a moment's hesitation. Several shots of them using it as they climb into their cars and drive away, not even a pretense of urgency or need. Just a parting "fuck you" to them.
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I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:37 AM
I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
@segyges.bsky.social @theophite.bsky.social @aelkus.bsky.social pedocon theory scoring points on the international stage
Danish parliamentarian Rasmus Jarlov speaking to MS NOW on Stephen Miller comments regarding Greenland: "I hope he’s kept away from young women, because that’s the mentality of a rapist. You can’t defend yourself, so I’m going to take you. That’s basically what he’s saying."
January 20, 2026 at 3:49 AM
@segyges.bsky.social @theophite.bsky.social @aelkus.bsky.social pedocon theory scoring points on the international stage
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Danish parliamentarian Rasmus Jarlov speaking to MS NOW on Stephen Miller comments regarding Greenland: "I hope he’s kept away from young women, because that’s the mentality of a rapist. You can’t defend yourself, so I’m going to take you. That’s basically what he’s saying."
January 19, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Danish parliamentarian Rasmus Jarlov speaking to MS NOW on Stephen Miller comments regarding Greenland: "I hope he’s kept away from young women, because that’s the mentality of a rapist. You can’t defend yourself, so I’m going to take you. That’s basically what he’s saying."
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A combat-wounded veteran's eight-hour detention by federal agents in Minneapolis raises concerns about due process in ICE facilities.
Army veteran says ICE agents detained him for hours without access to phone or his attorney
A combat-wounded veteran's eight-hour detention by federal agents in Minneapolis raises concerns about due process in ICE facilities.
www.kare11.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:14 AM
A combat-wounded veteran's eight-hour detention by federal agents in Minneapolis raises concerns about due process in ICE facilities.
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ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
January 19, 2026 at 5:41 AM
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
horrifying but totally on point unless we regulate the insane planned obsolescence and subscription economics we currently tolerate.
we used to own things.
we used to own things.
This is gonna be way funnier in 2035
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PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
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January 20, 2026 at 3:08 AM
horrifying but totally on point unless we regulate the insane planned obsolescence and subscription economics we currently tolerate.
we used to own things.
we used to own things.
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This is interesting for a lot of reasons, including explaining how model personality drift happens (& a way to mitigate that) as well as more exploration into the “Assistant” the key personality of basically every AI you work with, but which is not well understood. www.anthropic.com/research/ass...
The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of large language models
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:20 AM
This is interesting for a lot of reasons, including explaining how model personality drift happens (& a way to mitigate that) as well as more exploration into the “Assistant” the key personality of basically every AI you work with, but which is not well understood. www.anthropic.com/research/ass...
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She uses the bristled end of a deck brush on her back and hindquarters, using repeated place-and-pull motions. For more sensitive areas such as the belly flap, udder, and anal region, she switches to the stick end, using careful, repeated poke-and-lift movements. See video link: youtu.be/bAk4PFEuWKQ
Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow
YouTube video by Antonio Jose Osuna Mascaró
youtu.be
January 19, 2026 at 4:09 PM
She uses the bristled end of a deck brush on her back and hindquarters, using repeated place-and-pull motions. For more sensitive areas such as the belly flap, udder, and anal region, she switches to the stick end, using careful, repeated poke-and-lift movements. See video link: youtu.be/bAk4PFEuWKQ
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If you're hoping to show students evidence to support your tech rules/interactive pedagogical approach, here's what I use. Decidedly not comprehensive, but makes the key points.
January 19, 2026 at 5:28 PM
If you're hoping to show students evidence to support your tech rules/interactive pedagogical approach, here's what I use. Decidedly not comprehensive, but makes the key points.
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“No matter how loudly any one proclaims his Americanism, if he assumes that any one racial strain, any one component culture... is to furnish a pattern to which all other strains and cultures are to conform, he is a traitor to an American nationalism. Our unity cannot be a...
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![A photograph of John Dewey shaking hands with someone in front of an American Flag. Overlaid is text reading: “[Race] and color prejudice have never had such opportunity as they have now to poison the mind, while nationalism is elevated into a religion called patriotism.” Citation: “What I Believe: Living Philosophies–VII.” (1930, LW 5: 275).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qzxbt32q5k2p6tuiygwjkymy/bafkreibtejd4vanv4lvduzne7c7opmy2ctak4oanti53exul2zxc46izdi@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 4:49 PM
“No matter how loudly any one proclaims his Americanism, if he assumes that any one racial strain, any one component culture... is to furnish a pattern to which all other strains and cultures are to conform, he is a traitor to an American nationalism. Our unity cannot be a...
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📢 PhD Position in Human-Robot Interaction at King's College London!
🤖 Project
Neuro-Symbolic Architecture for Safe and Socially Compliant Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction
Supervisors: Dr Oya Celiktutan & Prof Mohammad Reza Mousavi
🗓️ Deadline: 2 March
👉 Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/sta...
🤖 Project
Neuro-Symbolic Architecture for Safe and Socially Compliant Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction
Supervisors: Dr Oya Celiktutan & Prof Mohammad Reza Mousavi
🗓️ Deadline: 2 March
👉 Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/sta...
January 19, 2026 at 7:59 PM
📢 PhD Position in Human-Robot Interaction at King's College London!
🤖 Project
Neuro-Symbolic Architecture for Safe and Socially Compliant Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction
Supervisors: Dr Oya Celiktutan & Prof Mohammad Reza Mousavi
🗓️ Deadline: 2 March
👉 Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/sta...
🤖 Project
Neuro-Symbolic Architecture for Safe and Socially Compliant Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction
Supervisors: Dr Oya Celiktutan & Prof Mohammad Reza Mousavi
🗓️ Deadline: 2 March
👉 Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/sta...
wild shit. that's enough internet for tonight. sheesh.
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:27 AM
wild shit. that's enough internet for tonight. sheesh.
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