He/him | Langley Fellow @PittDietrich | I study lensed galaxies with space telescopes | ex@astrobites @UChicago @cambridge_astro @iitdelhi (personal account)
Pittsburgh, PA
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I'm always late on Twitter and it's been a tiring month, but I'm going to cherish this for a bit: Michael Florian (U.Arizona) and I will co-lead a 70-hour Cycle 2 JWST program to study the building blocks of galaxies: star forming regions magnified due to gravitational lensing!!
ALT Hubble imaging of a gravitationally lensed galaxy in the JWST sample -- SGAS1110 (blue) -- lensed by a foreground massive galaxy cluster (orange). Also shown is a zoomed-in picture of a model reconstruction of the galaxy, if it was unlensed (or not distorted by lensing).
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Columbia University, which is in this district, had her arrested for her activism against the genocide as a student. Now the district sent her to congress with overwhelming support.
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Sign this petition if you want a new speaker of the house.
change.org/p/house-democrats…
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Deb Haaland makes history!!! She is the first Native woman to be elected Governor of any U.S. state. The Laguna Pueblo citizen won her race for New Mexico’s Governor.
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There's no such thing as a "defensive strike" when you're illegally attacking another country.
BREAKING: The U.S. has conducted defensive strikes on some Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official says. apnews.com/article/iran-us-t…
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These student protests across Europe are fucking beautiful. And spare me the sanctimony about violence. These kids could riot til the end of time and still not come close to the violence the West inflicts daily on the global majority or, for that matter, on its own most vulnerable citizens.
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They told us to “go paperless to save the planet” and “go digital to save the trees.” Now we’re destroying 250,000 trees, wasting millions of gallons of water and wrecking ecosystems to build data centers that will damage the planet more than paper ever did.
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im four beers deep and i need everyone to understand that wikipedia is the last good thing. millions of strangers agreed to write down everything for free and then argue about citations forever. no ads. no paywall. this should not exist and it does and i'm crying about it
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Sam Altman thinks RAM sitting in personal computers is a waste when it could be put to better use in data centers.
Weird. I was just thinking that all those billions sitting in billionaires’ bank accounts could be put to much better use in our communities.
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People use the fact that Palestinians voted for Hamas in 2005 as a permanent indictment of the character of the population (despite the majority being under 20 and barely sentient in 2005) but never apply those standards to Israelis consistently voting for a genocidal maniac
🚨🇮🇱 UPDATE: Channel 14 has updated its exit poll, projecting Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc to reach 61 seats, securing a Knesset majority
Exit Poll Results:
🔵 Netanyahu bloc: 61 seats
🔴 Change bloc: 42 seats
🟢 Arab parties: 17 seats
61 seats needed for a majority
Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu has also fallen below the electoral threshold
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Truly embarrassing stuff.
Mikel Arteta defends Arsenal job cuts to allow club to “improve and evolve.” Redundancies announced just a week after Arteta’s new £20m-a-year deal mirror.co.uk/sport/football/…
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There’s something uniquely damning about these confessions. They make the allegations irrefutable. But it’s difficult to describe how infuriating it is to spend years documenting the slaughter of your people and still not be believed until their murderers confirm that, yes, it happened exactly as we’ve been saying all along.
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s ‘Naza’ is one of the most important films of our time. 24 different Israeli intelligence officers testify in this unflinching exposé of systematic Israeli war crimes in Gaza. vulture.com/article/review-n…
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Western media for 3 years: Israel says they’re targeting Hamas
Israeli soldier: We targeted everyone
IDF drone operator: "I asked to meet with the intelligence officer so I could enter targets into the computer, and he told me, ‘You have two million targets in Gaza.' The trigger was pulled extremely easily. People lost their humanity."
Testimony (Heb): haaretz.co.il/news/magazine/…
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does this report on “misuse” cover how your software was integrated into Palantir’s Maven system, used by the US military to generate target packages during its bombing campaign in Iran - including the campaign in which a U.S. strike killed 120 kids at a school in Minab?
We're publishing our most detailed threat intelligence report to date.
It covers how people tried to misuse Claude—for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology, and building weapons—and how we found and stopped them.
We disrupted every operation in the report, and used the lessons from them to strengthen our safeguards. Where appropriate, we also shared what we found with authorities and other AI companies.
These cases are not typical: we’re highlighting some of the most sophisticated misuse we’ve seen. But they’re especially important to discuss, because they show us where AI misuse is headed, where our safeguards work, and where they need to improve.
We’re publishing this report so others can spot the same activity on their own platforms, and so we can give the public a clearer view of how emerging threats develop.
Read the report: anthropic.com/threat-intelli…
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Oye, Sam Altman, hay rumores de que un científico de Anthropic está a punto de resolver el problema de la vivienda en España
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Imagine if the head of security at CERN came out to say that there is a >10% chance that a destructive black hole will be created in the next 10 years. What are we even doing here
