Danielle Ronkos, PhD
@danielleronkos.bsky.social
PhD in Linguistics working in industry | neurodivergent | she/her | Beacon/NYC
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OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”
You can’t trust chatbots.
You can’t trust chatbots.
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:25 PM
OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”
You can’t trust chatbots.
You can’t trust chatbots.
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US Weekly COVID update: Feb 16, 2026
🔸1 in 71 Actively Infectious
🔸692,000 Daily Infections
🔸5,020,000 Infections In The Past Week
🔸40,000,000 Infections in 2026
🔸251,000 to 1,000,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases
🔸1,400 to 2,400 Weekly Excess Deaths
pmc19.com/data/
🔸1 in 71 Actively Infectious
🔸692,000 Daily Infections
🔸5,020,000 Infections In The Past Week
🔸40,000,000 Infections in 2026
🔸251,000 to 1,000,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases
🔸1,400 to 2,400 Weekly Excess Deaths
pmc19.com/data/
February 15, 2026 at 10:13 PM
US Weekly COVID update: Feb 16, 2026
🔸1 in 71 Actively Infectious
🔸692,000 Daily Infections
🔸5,020,000 Infections In The Past Week
🔸40,000,000 Infections in 2026
🔸251,000 to 1,000,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases
🔸1,400 to 2,400 Weekly Excess Deaths
pmc19.com/data/
🔸1 in 71 Actively Infectious
🔸692,000 Daily Infections
🔸5,020,000 Infections In The Past Week
🔸40,000,000 Infections in 2026
🔸251,000 to 1,000,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases
🔸1,400 to 2,400 Weekly Excess Deaths
pmc19.com/data/
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The SAVE Act failed to pass last year because of nationwide public opposition. Now it’s back, and Congress should reject it again. Add your voice: bit.ly/4tmVIor
February 14, 2026 at 9:30 PM
The SAVE Act failed to pass last year because of nationwide public opposition. Now it’s back, and Congress should reject it again. Add your voice: bit.ly/4tmVIor
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North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
Even without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. 💙💛 Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ...
TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance
www.tiktok.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:55 PM
North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
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There's a short video clip of Pinker and Epstein on the plane and a girls voice says "where are you taking me" and this is the still from it. So I don't know what he's talking about.
February 14, 2026 at 6:54 PM
There's a short video clip of Pinker and Epstein on the plane and a girls voice says "where are you taking me" and this is the still from it. So I don't know what he's talking about.
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The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
February 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
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State Senator John Kavanaugh's bill, SB 1635, creates a new state crime for: unlawfully alerting people to the presence of law enforcement
The language is so broad it could land you in jail for up to six months for sharing on social media where ICE is located, making a gesture, or blowing a whistle
The language is so broad it could land you in jail for up to six months for sharing on social media where ICE is located, making a gesture, or blowing a whistle
February 14, 2026 at 4:58 AM
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You didn’t think all those concentration camps they want to build are only for immigrants, did you? (Gift article)
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:23 PM
You didn’t think all those concentration camps they want to build are only for immigrants, did you? (Gift article)
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The reason that the evil fucks who run this world keep pulling evil shit is because…
Who’s going to stop them? It isn’t any elected official I can tell you that much right now. If they were going to, they would have. A long time ago.
Who’s going to stop them? It isn’t any elected official I can tell you that much right now. If they were going to, they would have. A long time ago.
‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations
Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:40 PM
The reason that the evil fucks who run this world keep pulling evil shit is because…
Who’s going to stop them? It isn’t any elected official I can tell you that much right now. If they were going to, they would have. A long time ago.
Who’s going to stop them? It isn’t any elected official I can tell you that much right now. If they were going to, they would have. A long time ago.
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A UK high court decision has implemented a full bathroom ban on trans employees. It does not apply to the public. So a trans woman working at tesco could be fired for using the bathroom at work that would be ok for her to use on her day off. Absurd.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/comp...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/comp...
"Completely incoherent": UK court says trans people can use the bathroom at pubs but not at work - LGBTQ Nation
The court found that workplaces have to separate bathrooms by sex assigned at birth other places don't have to.
www.lgbtqnation.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:54 AM
A UK high court decision has implemented a full bathroom ban on trans employees. It does not apply to the public. So a trans woman working at tesco could be fired for using the bathroom at work that would be ok for her to use on her day off. Absurd.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/comp...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/comp...
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The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:46 PM
The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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well, we almost cured cancer
February 13, 2026 at 3:32 AM
well, we almost cured cancer
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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Spectacular reporting by @wired.com
NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.
Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.
Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.
Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Spectacular reporting by @wired.com
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.
Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
February 10, 2026 at 3:45 AM
They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.
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Lawmakers renewed their push to pass the SAVE Act, which would block millions of Americans from voting. It failed before — and it must fail again. Tell your senators to stop this attack on the freedom to vote: bit.ly/4tmVIor
Tell Your Senators: Reject the SAVE Act
The SAVE Act could block millions of American citizens from voting.
secure.brennancenter.org
February 8, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Lawmakers renewed their push to pass the SAVE Act, which would block millions of Americans from voting. It failed before — and it must fail again. Tell your senators to stop this attack on the freedom to vote: bit.ly/4tmVIor
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"RESPECT OUR EXISTENCE
OR EXPECT OUR RESISTANCE"
Protesting ICE, kids walk out from J. Graham Brown School, a K-12 magnet school, and Manual High School, both in Louisville, Kentucky.
OR EXPECT OUR RESISTANCE"
Protesting ICE, kids walk out from J. Graham Brown School, a K-12 magnet school, and Manual High School, both in Louisville, Kentucky.
February 6, 2026 at 11:51 PM
"RESPECT OUR EXISTENCE
OR EXPECT OUR RESISTANCE"
Protesting ICE, kids walk out from J. Graham Brown School, a K-12 magnet school, and Manual High School, both in Louisville, Kentucky.
OR EXPECT OUR RESISTANCE"
Protesting ICE, kids walk out from J. Graham Brown School, a K-12 magnet school, and Manual High School, both in Louisville, Kentucky.
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BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨
Trump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project if Penn Station and Dulles Airport are renamed after him
The startling offer, which was described by two people familiar with the conversation, was swiftly rejected by Schumer.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/p...
Trump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project if Penn Station and Dulles Airport are renamed after him
The startling offer, which was described by two people familiar with the conversation, was swiftly rejected by Schumer.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/p...
Trump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project — if Penn Station and Dulles Airport are renamed after him | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last month that he was finally prepared to drop his freeze on billions of dollars in funding for a major New York infrastructure projec...
www.cnn.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:51 PM
BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨
Trump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project if Penn Station and Dulles Airport are renamed after him
The startling offer, which was described by two people familiar with the conversation, was swiftly rejected by Schumer.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/p...
Trump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project if Penn Station and Dulles Airport are renamed after him
The startling offer, which was described by two people familiar with the conversation, was swiftly rejected by Schumer.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/p...
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NEW MEXICO DID THE THING!! www.aclu-nm.org/press-releas...
Governor Signs Immigrant Safety Act into Law - ACLU of New Mexico
New Mexico Becomes National Leader in Protecting Immigrant Families
www.aclu-nm.org
February 5, 2026 at 8:08 PM
NEW MEXICO DID THE THING!! www.aclu-nm.org/press-releas...
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Hey MacKenzie, want to piss off your ex and also save democracy?
Let’s talk newspaper ☎️☎️☎️
Let’s talk newspaper ☎️☎️☎️
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
February 5, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Hey MacKenzie, want to piss off your ex and also save democracy?
Let’s talk newspaper ☎️☎️☎️
Let’s talk newspaper ☎️☎️☎️
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If you're feeling helpless and don't know what to do: Look for people out there who are already helping. I promise they're out there. And then ask how you can help and do it.
You're not alone. Community is out there and it's the way forward. ❤️👊
You're not alone. Community is out there and it's the way forward. ❤️👊
Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak.
But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.
But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.
February 4, 2026 at 1:42 PM
If you're feeling helpless and don't know what to do: Look for people out there who are already helping. I promise they're out there. And then ask how you can help and do it.
You're not alone. Community is out there and it's the way forward. ❤️👊
You're not alone. Community is out there and it's the way forward. ❤️👊
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It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.
February 3, 2026 at 11:34 PM
It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.