AKA NickleDave
I'm interested in how animals communicate with sound and I try to make that easier for everyone to study: vocalpy.org
Cat & dog dad, cold brew addict, video gamer, Florida boy, #altac, podcast fan, occasional espanglish. nicholdav.info
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- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveNew, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants. The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...
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- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveThe public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveOne reason Minneapolis remains in the world's eye is we have one of the most robust & independent media ecosystems remaining in the country. You all need this...and more! @mprnews.org @startribune.com @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com etc.
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- wish I had a thinking box
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- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveNEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveA Hagerstown resident is challenging the ICE facility over a wrong address in the federal review, exposing how DHS may have bypassed required public consultation. Under federal law, when agencies skip required procedures, communities have the right to object and demand the process be done properly.
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveOne of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.
- Reposted by AKA NickleDavesomething I remember from the big tech layoffs of a couple years ago is seeing coworkers with excellent performance reviews - even some who had literally just been promoted - getting thrown overboard for completely opaque reasons and realizing that was part of the point
- At the same time, the extent of the Washington Post layoffs highlight how it didn't matter how hardworking, loyal, smart, collaborative, award-winning, competitive, knowledgeable and devoted so many of the staff were. It wasn't enough to prevent being laid off by one of the richest men in the world.
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View full threadReposted by AKA NickleDaveI forget who first coined it but “the revolt of the bosses” sums it up perfectly the power that labor held in the remote work era was existentially terrifying to them and every move they have made since has been designed to crush it and instill fear across the workforce
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveAfter four months, the journal has not found a single reviewer for my PhD student's manuscript. The academic peer review system is broken. I think we all should: 1. Review three papers for every one that we submit. 2. Promptly declined to review a paper when the request arrives. #AcademicChatter
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveThis is what I meant by saying the wheels were going to come off of any pretension of having a society. The propagandists to the powerful are saying to others in power (who are the audience), but openly where the rest of us can see them say it, that pedophile sex trafficking is good and normal now.
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveanother week before the application portal closes (and no extension, unfortunately) so please apply and/or help circulate this ad
- I’m looking for my right-hand person to come help me run the @aial.ie - Job Title: Lab Coordinator, AI Accountability Lab (0.8 FTE) - Pay Scale: (€58,999 - €69,325 per annum pro-rata) - Closing Date: 11-Feb-2026 12:00 Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui... Main Responsibilities👇🏾
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- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveit’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
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- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveI wanna keep doing this work, in any form (podcast! newsletter! movie? AI literacy class!). Pls msg me on Signal at nitasha.10 if you need someone who’s well-sourced in AI & SV, worked hard to understand the technology + ideas + players, cares about getting it right and informing the public
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveMy story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
- Free press? More like private equity press amirite
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveUpdate: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveThe Tech Elites in the Epstein Files: -Reid Hoffman (2,658 Files) -Bill Gates (2,592 Files) -Peter Thiel (2,281 Files) -Elon Musk (1,116 Files) -Larry Page (314 Files), Sergey Brin (294 Files) -Mark Zuckerberg (282 Files) -Jeff Bezos (196 Files) -Eric Schmidt (193 Files)
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveSecure your own squid first before helping others. (I'm disproportionately proud of this drawing.)
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveNews from central Jersey: I'm running to represent New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come! samwang.substack.com/p/entering-t...
- No new pictures. Where are you at mentally
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveThe coordinates of Epstein's island are about 18.300, -64.821. JK Rowling has owned the yacht Samsara (MMSI #319068100) since sometime in 2023. The table below shows when her yacht visited the area. Thank you for your attention to this matter, and remember: There's always another secret :)
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveThis is another one of the reasons I’m so deeply troubled by the fabulous new plan to just pivot to private philanthropy. Billionaires will not save science
- From 2019: Jeffrey Epstein liked to describe himself as a “science philanthropist,” and academics liked to take his money. As more of Epstein’s enablers are uncovered, it’s worth asking why it was so easy for him to infiltrate science in the first place. Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social:
- IFL Ontologies!
- Reposted by AKA NickleDave"Nearby, a six-year-old wondered if the unicorn she saw marching earlier was ok. "
- Reposted by AKA NickleDave"The French offices of the social network X, owned by Elon Musk, were raided on Tuesday, February 3, the Paris prosecutor's office announced." www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveThe administrators of Columbia, Penn, Brown will do their best one day to gaslight us into believing they did the best they could, but it’s harder when others made different choices.
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveTime to kick off a (year-long) commemoration of one of THE OLDEST video games known to history! 🎊 It’s “Bouncing Ball” — a candidate for the first-ever video game — celebrating its (75th) Diamond Anniversary this year! 🧵👇
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveBREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveI am upping my game as I draw my next graphical abstract, as you can see (still using the "freeform scribble" tool in PowerPoint with a mouse, of course)
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Fighting wins! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u... - Reposted by AKA NickleDaveReminder here’s some adobe alternatives, Because FUCK ADOBE….
- No Hot Honey for Old Men
- I'd like to start by thanking the last 3 speakers for being incredibly boring compared to me,
- vaporwear
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- It's so cold that I'm drinking Nepalese yak butter tea
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveThis is the direct result of a judicial order. Law isn’t magic but it can be powerful stuff.
- Reposted by AKA NickleDavewe said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
- Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveThis race was such a massive swing blowout that Democrat Taylor Rehmet literally won a city called White Settlement
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveThis thread by @timnitgebru.bsky.social deserves a lot more attention. Really we need to be looking through all the TESCREAL, Edge Foundation connections. John Brockman was the literary agent for Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Jared Diamond, he was a key Epstein nexus.
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveI’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveMarvin Minsky, computer scientist. 13/ bsky.app/profile/robe... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_...
- The tangled web becomes even more tangled. Turns out frequent Epstein island guests were AI pioneers Marvin Minsky and Roger Shank. It's worse than that. Shank had closer ties to Epstein than just professional. He frequently defended this monster. slate.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveBoy it would be a real shame if [redacted] went to this and [redacted] [redacted] [redacted]
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveJoscha Bach, cognitive scientist. 11/ bsky.app/profile/cudb... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joscha_...
- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveNoam Chomsky, linguist. 7/ bsky.app/profile/perf... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Ch...
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- Reposted by AKA NickleDaveMarc Hauser, biologist. 3/ bsky.app/profile/adri... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Ha...
