Suresh Venkatasubramanian
@geomblog.bsky.social
Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.
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This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
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AI in education is obviously not just a technology but something that different groups interpret and construct in various ways. I thought I'd have a go at characterizing them:
November 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
AI in education is obviously not just a technology but something that different groups interpret and construct in various ways. I thought I'd have a go at characterizing them:
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Well, it works in theory...
Cryptology Group Held an Election, but Can’t Decrypt the Results
A global group of researchers was unable to read the vote tally, after an official lost one of three secret code keys needed to unlock a hyper-secure election system.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Well, it works in theory...
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I wrote a bit about my first MozFest, moments of rupture, narratives we don't control, and trans justice
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November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I wrote a bit about my first MozFest, moments of rupture, narratives we don't control, and trans justice
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
Worth stopping the doom scrolll and reading this.
November 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Worth stopping the doom scrolll and reading this.
This is a math life hack at the same level as "if the kth Fibonacci number measures miles, the (k+1)th is the conversion to km"
8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This is a math life hack at the same level as "if the kth Fibonacci number measures miles, the (k+1)th is the conversion to km"
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8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
States should not be allowed to require modification of the always truthful outputs of LLMs, sez leaked Trump EO
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
States should not be allowed to require modification of the always truthful outputs of LLMs, sez leaked Trump EO
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I think we do better!!! I even think if we look in the right places (survey science, demography, computational social sciences), we already know how to do better.
Serena Booth (@reniebird.bsky.social) reflects on the challenge of collecting human preferences to steer AI systems and wonders if we are doing it all wrong. cntr.brown.edu/news/2025-11...
This is part 1 of 3 of CNTR researcher reflections on COLM 2025.
This is part 1 of 3 of CNTR researcher reflections on COLM 2025.
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I think we do better!!! I even think if we look in the right places (survey science, demography, computational social sciences), we already know how to do better.
Serena Booth (@reniebird.bsky.social) reflects on the challenge of collecting human preferences to steer AI systems and wonders if we are doing it all wrong. cntr.brown.edu/news/2025-11...
This is part 1 of 3 of CNTR researcher reflections on COLM 2025.
This is part 1 of 3 of CNTR researcher reflections on COLM 2025.
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Serena Booth (@reniebird.bsky.social) reflects on the challenge of collecting human preferences to steer AI systems and wonders if we are doing it all wrong. cntr.brown.edu/news/2025-11...
This is part 1 of 3 of CNTR researcher reflections on COLM 2025.
This is part 1 of 3 of CNTR researcher reflections on COLM 2025.
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This has to be an elaborate joke. It has to be.
TIL that I can add another to the surveillance collection that includes palantir and anduril. Meet ..... SAURON
share.google/jqLXiVwEzte5...
I'm just disappointed that there isn't a mobile version called Nazgul
share.google/jqLXiVwEzte5...
I'm just disappointed that there isn't a mobile version called Nazgul
Sauron
Our home security platform reliably identifies, understands, and deters threats. With Sauron, you always know that everything is under control.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This has to be an elaborate joke. It has to be.
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Joke's on them, the whole system goes down if you cast the integrated Ring® Camera into the fire.
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Joke's on them, the whole system goes down if you cast the integrated Ring® Camera into the fire.
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Next up, WITCH KING OF ANGMAR, a drone system
TIL that I can add another to the surveillance collection that includes palantir and anduril. Meet ..... SAURON
share.google/jqLXiVwEzte5...
I'm just disappointed that there isn't a mobile version called Nazgul
share.google/jqLXiVwEzte5...
I'm just disappointed that there isn't a mobile version called Nazgul
Sauron
Our home security platform reliably identifies, understands, and deters threats. With Sauron, you always know that everything is under control.
share.google
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Next up, WITCH KING OF ANGMAR, a drone system
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The Nazgûl mobile app provides a wireless backup solution, because no LAN can defeat them.
November 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The Nazgûl mobile app provides a wireless backup solution, because no LAN can defeat them.
TIL that I can add another to the surveillance collection that includes palantir and anduril. Meet ..... SAURON
share.google/jqLXiVwEzte5...
I'm just disappointed that there isn't a mobile version called Nazgul
share.google/jqLXiVwEzte5...
I'm just disappointed that there isn't a mobile version called Nazgul
Sauron
Our home security platform reliably identifies, understands, and deters threats. With Sauron, you always know that everything is under control.
share.google
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
TIL that I can add another to the surveillance collection that includes palantir and anduril. Meet ..... SAURON
share.google/jqLXiVwEzte5...
I'm just disappointed that there isn't a mobile version called Nazgul
share.google/jqLXiVwEzte5...
I'm just disappointed that there isn't a mobile version called Nazgul
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A proposed federal moratorium on enforcement of state AI laws failed in the US Senate during budget negotiations in July, but lawmakers have resurrected the idea and may seek to advance it inside the National Defense Authorization Act before the end of the year, writes Cristiano-Lima Strong.
It’s Back. Congress Gears Up for Year-End Fight Over Moratorium on AI Laws. | TechPolicy.Press
A proposed federal moratorium on enforcement of state AI laws failed last summer, but lawmakers have resurrected the idea, writes Cristiano-Lima Strong.
www.techpolicy.press
November 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
A proposed federal moratorium on enforcement of state AI laws failed in the US Senate during budget negotiations in July, but lawmakers have resurrected the idea and may seek to advance it inside the National Defense Authorization Act before the end of the year, writes Cristiano-Lima Strong.
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New at PB: Stephanie Wong interviews Seth Rockman (@sethrockman.bsky.social) about his latest book, "Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) and his experience learning to work on a late 18th-century loom.
Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
www.publicbooks.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
New at PB: Stephanie Wong interviews Seth Rockman (@sethrockman.bsky.social) about his latest book, "Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) and his experience learning to work on a late 18th-century loom.
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Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
A terrific oped in the Globe by @sramach.bsky.social and @cbo.bsky.social on the tarnished legacy of Watson. They go beyond the retrospectives to point out how wrong he was on the science of genetics itself, and how dangerous (and deadly!) his opinions were. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
What James Watson got wrong about DNA - The Boston Globe
The science he helped pioneer consistently undermines his view that genes determine everything about us.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A terrific oped in the Globe by @sramach.bsky.social and @cbo.bsky.social on the tarnished legacy of Watson. They go beyond the retrospectives to point out how wrong he was on the science of genetics itself, and how dangerous (and deadly!) his opinions were. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
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NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
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I’m starting a new series of interviews with all the leading open model labs around the world to show why people are doing this, how people train great models, and where the ecosystem is going.
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I’m starting a new series of interviews with all the leading open model labs around the world to show why people are doing this, how people train great models, and where the ecosystem is going.
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The blog here is an enlightening piece on the EO, from one of the key architects behind it. The whole thing is worth reading, but some particularly notable points are:
www.hyperdimensional.co/p/dont-overt...
www.hyperdimensional.co/p/dont-overt...
Don't Overthink "The AI Stack"
Reflections on the Export Promotion Executive Order
www.hyperdimensional.co
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The blog here is an enlightening piece on the EO, from one of the key architects behind it. The whole thing is worth reading, but some particularly notable points are:
www.hyperdimensional.co/p/dont-overt...
www.hyperdimensional.co/p/dont-overt...
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Hopefullly they also include test of space awards.
Computational Complexity Conference launches its first test of time award. Nominations due by March 2.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Hopefullly they also include test of space awards.
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I read The Double Helix as an undergraduate. I was a science major at a women’s college taking molecular biology. Our professor taught us that Watson & Crick screwed Rosalind Franklin over.
So I read the book to learn more. I’ll never forget how reading this passage made me feel.
So I read the book to learn more. I’ll never forget how reading this passage made me feel.
![“By choice [Rosalind Franklin] did not emphasize her feminine qualities.. There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black her, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents. So it was quite easy to imagine her the product of an unsatisfied mother who unduly stressed the desirability of professional careers that could save bright girls from marriages to dull men.. Clearly Rosy had to go or be put in her place. The former was obviously preferable because given her belligerent moods, it would be very difficult for Maurice [Wilkins] to maintain a dominant position that would allow him to think unhindered about DNA.. The thought could not be avoided that the best home for a feminist was another person’s lab”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:opitzjj6oapo6y3cr5ipwfdu/bafkreibj5i6hdhoinpdbtx5ij7e56lz5v6zg6d6aompkuvrxrdnmkfvj2m@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I read The Double Helix as an undergraduate. I was a science major at a women’s college taking molecular biology. Our professor taught us that Watson & Crick screwed Rosalind Franklin over.
So I read the book to learn more. I’ll never forget how reading this passage made me feel.
So I read the book to learn more. I’ll never forget how reading this passage made me feel.
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I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.