Luke Stark
@lukestark.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
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Battle Hymn Of The Republic
YouTube video by Joan Baez - Topic
m.youtube.com
The Union anthem has always been understood as a call to freedom and against tyranny
m.youtube.com/watch?v=v4N2...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=v4N2...
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no one is even talking about the Medicaid cuts anymore
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
no one is even talking about the Medicaid cuts anymore
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I remain convinced that the thing that broke Congress was banning pork in the Obama era. Without a supermajority, you need something not aligned w party positions to get people to break ranks and giving Congresspeople goodies for their jurisdiction was it.
I guess we never really tried bribes tho
I guess we never really tried bribes tho
This hidden provision is so crooked and selfish, it doesn't even apply to US Representatives. Just US Senators.
Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I remain convinced that the thing that broke Congress was banning pork in the Obama era. Without a supermajority, you need something not aligned w party positions to get people to break ranks and giving Congresspeople goodies for their jurisdiction was it.
I guess we never really tried bribes tho
I guess we never really tried bribes tho
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A brilliant question to ask grad students in CS, HCI, etc, fields where all the money for their current paychecks and future faculty lines is tied to "AI" right now 👇
If so, why? Are you under pressure to do so? Where does that pressure come from? What would happen if you resist?
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November 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
A brilliant question to ask grad students in CS, HCI, etc, fields where all the money for their current paychecks and future faculty lines is tied to "AI" right now 👇
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JFC is this bad. Straight up cash transfer to the shadiest Republican senators and an assault on the rule of law.
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
JFC is this bad. Straight up cash transfer to the shadiest Republican senators and an assault on the rule of law.
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People suggesting that AI can help the loneliness epidemic aren't realized how dangerous becoming accustomed to a constant affirmation machine can be.
Real human interactions aren't universally positive and no one responds to everything with "what a brilliant suggestion you well hung genius"
Real human interactions aren't universally positive and no one responds to everything with "what a brilliant suggestion you well hung genius"
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
People suggesting that AI can help the loneliness epidemic aren't realized how dangerous becoming accustomed to a constant affirmation machine can be.
Real human interactions aren't universally positive and no one responds to everything with "what a brilliant suggestion you well hung genius"
Real human interactions aren't universally positive and no one responds to everything with "what a brilliant suggestion you well hung genius"
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This hidden provision is so crooked and selfish, it doesn't even apply to US Representatives. Just US Senators.
Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This hidden provision is so crooked and selfish, it doesn't even apply to US Representatives. Just US Senators.
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If you’re seeing this viral claim that Trump is working on 15-year car loans, it’s fake.
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
If you’re seeing this viral claim that Trump is working on 15-year car loans, it’s fake.
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Hospitals across Canada are closing their ERs because there aren't enough doctors to run them. Millions don’t have a doctor. Millions more can’t get an appointment.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
The doctor shortage isn’t an accident. It was policy. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/10/c... @codeblackamerica.bsky.social
Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident
It was policy.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Hospitals across Canada are closing their ERs because there aren't enough doctors to run them. Millions don’t have a doctor. Millions more can’t get an appointment.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
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Exactly how MANY emerging-market strongmen are we going to rescue? 🤡
@politico.com 🇭🇺
www.politico.eu/article/hung...
@politico.com 🇭🇺
www.politico.eu/article/hung...
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Exactly how MANY emerging-market strongmen are we going to rescue? 🤡
@politico.com 🇭🇺
www.politico.eu/article/hung...
@politico.com 🇭🇺
www.politico.eu/article/hung...
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Dawg what
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Dawg what
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I wrote about this too. Why isn’t Ontario hitting the barricades in rage? We’ve so little lake access. Entirely privatized shorelines. You could give the province away to oligarchs & people would be meh. Thx to Fatima for calling this early on.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I wrote about this too. Why isn’t Ontario hitting the barricades in rage? We’ve so little lake access. Entirely privatized shorelines. You could give the province away to oligarchs & people would be meh. Thx to Fatima for calling this early on.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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@hypervisible.blacksky.app
People who/companies that are out of their minds with their expectations for the capabilities of "chatbots." 1/2
1) www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
People who/companies that are out of their minds with their expectations for the capabilities of "chatbots." 1/2
1) www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
HMP Wandsworth gets ‘green light’ to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
@hypervisible.blacksky.app
People who/companies that are out of their minds with their expectations for the capabilities of "chatbots." 1/2
1) www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
People who/companies that are out of their minds with their expectations for the capabilities of "chatbots." 1/2
1) www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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So often in the emergency department, people ask why there aren’t enough doctors. It was by deliberate policy.
Underestimating future aging of the population and changing working conditions has lead to this gross deficit
Underestimating future aging of the population and changing working conditions has lead to this gross deficit
The doctor shortage isn’t an accident. It was policy. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/10/c... @codeblackamerica.bsky.social
Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident
It was policy.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
So often in the emergency department, people ask why there aren’t enough doctors. It was by deliberate policy.
Underestimating future aging of the population and changing working conditions has lead to this gross deficit
Underestimating future aging of the population and changing working conditions has lead to this gross deficit
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apparently the unprecedented wealth and inflcuence big tech is amassing at the cost of the most marginalised is not enough. big tech ceos are not that different from drug cartels
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
EU set to water down landmark AI Act after pressure from big tech
European Commission proposes pauses to provisions in digital rule book amid concerns over implications for EU competitiveness
www.irishtimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
apparently the unprecedented wealth and inflcuence big tech is amassing at the cost of the most marginalised is not enough. big tech ceos are not that different from drug cartels
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
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it's sort of interesting to me that the current debate on the New Right over on the other site is essentially how to co-opt the more radical wing of the movement without the bad optics
i don't think this is good, tbh
i don't think this is good, tbh
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
it's sort of interesting to me that the current debate on the New Right over on the other site is essentially how to co-opt the more radical wing of the movement without the bad optics
i don't think this is good, tbh
i don't think this is good, tbh
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this goes to the bigger issue of SenateBrain, that it's a rarefied club with rules and subtleties to complex for us non-senators to understand and what the senate should do is above voters and non-senators pay grade. that attitude is the kernel problem.
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
this goes to the bigger issue of SenateBrain, that it's a rarefied club with rules and subtleties to complex for us non-senators to understand and what the senate should do is above voters and non-senators pay grade. that attitude is the kernel problem.
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Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
a man with a mustache says there be whales here in a dark room
Alt: Scotty from Star Trek Original Series (played by Jimmy Doohan) says there be whales here in a Klingon vessel's cargo hold.
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
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Didnt even take 24 hours for the most basic truism of the second Trump administration to reassert itself: there is no actual deal to be has with Republicans bc Donald Trump will not honor or adhere to any deals
TRUMP OFFICIALS SAY SUPREME COURT SHOULD CONTINUE TEMPORARILY SUSPENDING FOOD AID PROGRAMS.
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Didnt even take 24 hours for the most basic truism of the second Trump administration to reassert itself: there is no actual deal to be has with Republicans bc Donald Trump will not honor or adhere to any deals
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It’s such a bad idea, when one of his crimes was calling forth an insurrection, that he’s actually forbidden from holding the office by a constitutional provision, which a unanimous Supreme Court invented a way to turn off.
To repeat: Maybe electing a life-long criminal to an office where he can pardon other criminals wasn't such a good idea.
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It’s such a bad idea, when one of his crimes was calling forth an insurrection, that he’s actually forbidden from holding the office by a constitutional provision, which a unanimous Supreme Court invented a way to turn off.
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Opinion | Doctors, Lawyers and Priests Keep Secrets. Why Not Your Chatbot?
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
🤔
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The surrender caucus secured yes votes from Democrats who aren't facing re-election this cycle, but four of them have Democratic governors who can pick their replacement.
If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.
If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.
Yup, and the damage isn’t so much in the story as in the proof of weakness. Trump now knows he has new torture tools to make Dems do what he wants. It’s why at least one of the 7 capitulators oughta be run out of office now, mid session. Get that number down to 6. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The surrender caucus secured yes votes from Democrats who aren't facing re-election this cycle, but four of them have Democratic governors who can pick their replacement.
If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.
If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
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The least most politically engaged people I know are texting me before 8am to say, “we won’t forget.”
So I don’t know man.
So I don’t know man.
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The least most politically engaged people I know are texting me before 8am to say, “we won’t forget.”
So I don’t know man.
So I don’t know man.