Lizzie K.
@lizz-iek.bsky.social
ML + health equity research by day, tech critic when provoked. afflicted with pop culture brainrot. 📍 SF
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Lizzie K.
@lizz-iek.bsky.social
· Oct 3
idk what’s going on with bluesky. im just here bc the other one is owned by a cartoon villain
Galois Theory
Incompetence
Oceanography
The male body in contemporary art and culture
Elementary Hungarian
Incompetence
Oceanography
The male body in contemporary art and culture
Elementary Hungarian
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
Urban politics
Urban sociology
Mid 20th century U.S. History
Gender and Politics
World History (I'm sorry for sleeping through this at 8am, but the prof was so nice in office hours, I will always pay that forward)
Urban politics
Urban sociology
Mid 20th century U.S. History
Gender and Politics
World History (I'm sorry for sleeping through this at 8am, but the prof was so nice in office hours, I will always pay that forward)
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
Calc II
Irish drama
Bertolt Brecht auf deutsch
Poetry writing
Race in America
Calc II
Irish drama
Bertolt Brecht auf deutsch
Poetry writing
Race in America
January 31, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Galois Theory
Incompetence
Oceanography
The male body in contemporary art and culture
Elementary Hungarian
Incompetence
Oceanography
The male body in contemporary art and culture
Elementary Hungarian
it has been almost 10 years of “America is too polarized!! we have to reach across the aisle to these people” and imma be real, if anything i’m less tolerant of actual trump supporters today than I have ever been lol
January 29, 2026 at 11:41 PM
it has been almost 10 years of “America is too polarized!! we have to reach across the aisle to these people” and imma be real, if anything i’m less tolerant of actual trump supporters today than I have ever been lol
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My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
January 27, 2026 at 6:48 PM
My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
He thought he was going to die.
Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.
And a mob of agents killed him.
i know there are lots of ways to Help right now but while everyone's riled up i want to share this gofundme for my longtime hairdresser. she got in an altercation with ICE outside a courthouse during an immigration arrest a couple months ago, (1/n)
www.gofundme.com/f/help-betha...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-betha...
Donate to Help Bethany Secure Legal Defense and Peace, organized by Bethany Terrill
Hey guys<3
My name is Bethany. I've been getting stalked and haras… Bethany Terrill needs your support for Help Bethany Secure Legal Defense and Peace
www.gofundme.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:18 PM
i know there are lots of ways to Help right now but while everyone's riled up i want to share this gofundme for my longtime hairdresser. she got in an altercation with ICE outside a courthouse during an immigration arrest a couple months ago, (1/n)
www.gofundme.com/f/help-betha...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-betha...
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now - especially now - a reminder that we are going to win. and this is why
I attempted to go to an ICE patrol training here in LA this morning and they had to turn most of us away because of capacity issues and even as I was leaving I saw a ton more folks showing up
so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder
so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder
January 24, 2026 at 7:50 PM
now - especially now - a reminder that we are going to win. and this is why
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Chatbots have been an incredible loss for scientists and an incredible win for the people who send scientists 5,000 word emails about anti-gravity engines and CIA microchips.
January 24, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Chatbots have been an incredible loss for scientists and an incredible win for the people who send scientists 5,000 word emails about anti-gravity engines and CIA microchips.
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Doesn’t it make you crazy? Doesn’t it turn your blood to fucking gasoline?
People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie
January 24, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Doesn’t it make you crazy? Doesn’t it turn your blood to fucking gasoline?
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What is wild to me is the defense, BY THE NEURIPS BOARD, that fabricated citations do not mean "the content of the papers themselves [is] necessarily invalidated"
It does. It very much does. What do you think citing other work is for? What do you think writing a paper is for? What do you *think*?
It does. It very much does. What do you think citing other work is for? What do you think writing a paper is for? What do you *think*?
NEW: NeurIPS,one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims
fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...
fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...
NeurIPS papers contained 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims | Fortune
An analysis of NeurIPS 2025 papers by startup GPTZero reveals how AI-generated citations are slipping into elite academic research.
fortune.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:34 PM
What is wild to me is the defense, BY THE NEURIPS BOARD, that fabricated citations do not mean "the content of the papers themselves [is] necessarily invalidated"
It does. It very much does. What do you think citing other work is for? What do you think writing a paper is for? What do you *think*?
It does. It very much does. What do you think citing other work is for? What do you think writing a paper is for? What do you *think*?
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respect for the academic enterprise constitutively involves being disdainful of bad arguments. literally the whole point is to distinguish good arguments from bad arguments
I want to address my friend Ilan who says here that he has been subject to “a lot of hate” from academics who “should know better” and haven’t respected the “academic enterprise.”
I don’t dislike Ilan. I also think his paper is fundamentally wrong and not scholarly.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=pFge...
I don’t dislike Ilan. I also think his paper is fundamentally wrong and not scholarly.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=pFge...
The Sanity Interview: Ilan Wurman
YouTube video by The New York Sun
m.youtube.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM
respect for the academic enterprise constitutively involves being disdainful of bad arguments. literally the whole point is to distinguish good arguments from bad arguments
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Dropkick Murphys are releasing a new song called "Citizen I.C.E."
The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop."
consequence.net/2026/01/drop...
The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop."
consequence.net/2026/01/drop...
Dropkick Murphys' Unveil Anti-ICE Song: "Too Scared to Join the Military, Too Dumb to Be a Cop"
Dropkick Murphys are releasing an anti-I.C.E. song, "Citizen I.C.E.," as part of their tour-only split LP with Haywire. Learn more.
consequence.net
January 15, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Dropkick Murphys are releasing a new song called "Citizen I.C.E."
The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop."
consequence.net/2026/01/drop...
The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop."
consequence.net/2026/01/drop...
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This is reminiscent of how collecting demographic data in order to test for fairness increases legal risk for banks, so they'd rather not collect it and instead try to guess your demographics in various ways.
I have an op-ed in the NYT today about the Grok scandal, sharing my research from last year finding that legal risk hinders AI companies from making their models safer against CSAM - an echo of the years where white-hat hackers were chilled from good-faith research. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...
Opinion | There’s One Easy Solution to the A.I. Porn Problem
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:09 AM
This is reminiscent of how collecting demographic data in order to test for fairness increases legal risk for banks, so they'd rather not collect it and instead try to guess your demographics in various ways.
as a cyclist I almost get hit by a car every day and I’ve never shot somebody
January 9, 2026 at 8:10 PM
as a cyclist I almost get hit by a car every day and I’ve never shot somebody
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FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE UNIVERSE
PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
But it’s ‘not intended for diagnosis or treatment.’
www.theverge.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:55 PM
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE UNIVERSE
PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
we are not on target for this so far
here’s hoping 2026 is just one year
January 7, 2026 at 12:39 AM
we are not on target for this so far
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I’m literally going to move to New York City
Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.
January 6, 2026 at 8:24 PM
I’m literally going to move to New York City
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if you work on "AI" and are concerned with social issues, you should apply to be the new director of the Tufts AI Institute: apply.interfolio.com/178311 (Need to be tenureable in one of our engineering departments, but it's explicitly open to people who work on human-oriented stuff.)
December 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
if you work on "AI" and are concerned with social issues, you should apply to be the new director of the Tufts AI Institute: apply.interfolio.com/178311 (Need to be tenureable in one of our engineering departments, but it's explicitly open to people who work on human-oriented stuff.)
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Driverless cars are very ineffective at getting bad drivers off the road. Multiple studies have shown that TNCs are mainly replacing public transit, walking, and biking trips — not human drivers.
January 5, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Driverless cars are very ineffective at getting bad drivers off the road. Multiple studies have shown that TNCs are mainly replacing public transit, walking, and biking trips — not human drivers.
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don't get the sense the people who are complaining about others not complaining about dems and reps in the optimal ratio are applying that analysis to their own complaints
January 4, 2026 at 2:41 PM
don't get the sense the people who are complaining about others not complaining about dems and reps in the optimal ratio are applying that analysis to their own complaints
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January 3, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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I didn’t read as many books in 2025 as I did in 2024 but they were mostly older and slightly more “challenging” (in terms of my reading pace). my favorites were the house of mirth and Giovanni’s room
im recommitting myself to literacy in 2025. ive had it with video essays, podcasts, twitter/bluesky/threads threads, I barely care for blogs anymore, even the substacks of good writers are borderline (full of typos), i am going to be consuming proper TEXTS!!!!
December 23, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I didn’t read as many books in 2025 as I did in 2024 but they were mostly older and slightly more “challenging” (in terms of my reading pace). my favorites were the house of mirth and Giovanni’s room
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New post by @michelleding.bsky.social on resources for the Brown community in the aftermath of the shooting. open.substack.com/pub/michelle...
Caring for yourself and each other
Resources for the Brown community, friends, family, loved ones and how to support us
open.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
New post by @michelleding.bsky.social on resources for the Brown community in the aftermath of the shooting. open.substack.com/pub/michelle...
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Elaine’s dating a guy who’s addicted to using it in increasingly inappropriate situations. Jerry tries to use it to make small decisions for him in everyday life but its advice leads to comically bad outcomes like the magic conch
June 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Elaine’s dating a guy who’s addicted to using it in increasingly inappropriate situations. Jerry tries to use it to make small decisions for him in everyday life but its advice leads to comically bad outcomes like the magic conch
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seinfeld episode about AI: George uses it to woo a girl but she falls for the AI instead a la Cyrano de Bergerac. Kramer is initially skeptical but soon experiences spiritual delusions/ thinks he is talking to god
June 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
seinfeld episode about AI: George uses it to woo a girl but she falls for the AI instead a la Cyrano de Bergerac. Kramer is initially skeptical but soon experiences spiritual delusions/ thinks he is talking to god