Neal Parikh
Teaching AI policy at Columbia (https://nparikh.org/sipa6545). Previously Director of AI for NYC. https://nparikh.org
- If you are in NYC the next two weeks, go!
- I’m not about to compliment these judges. This is all way too slow and way too small and just pathetic. This is a few individual people and they’ve still mostly failed and those people have been abused for months already. No one has faced consequences. And these are the *best* judges.
- This is one of the craziest AI episodes I’ve ever seen and I literally teach a whole class in part about when these things don’t work properly. None of the syllabus spent time on “well sometimes a deranged Afrikaner gets in there”
- Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It isn’t worth much else. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
- Nobody ever is explicit about this because the things they would suggest are inevitably meaningless ultra-wonky things no voter understands and don’t matter at all or things that are blatantly abhorrent like “I don’t care about illegally deporting or killing X people” which they don’t want to state.
- my kingdom for anyone on the “dems should take culturally moderate positions” to explain what this actually means in practice? www.thebulwark.com/p/hard-calls...
- Part of the problem with these trade deals is Trump’s palate is so poor we are unlikely to even get anything as funny and good as Bush’s “nuclear mango” deal, which got the US at least some decent mangoes in exchange for nuclear cooperation, hilariously. www.thejuggernaut.com/indian-mangos
- Do Afrikaners actually even want to come to the US? I don’t know what he’s doing here.
- I really hate this dude’s account. But again, not because of him.
- Kind of confused by this. What’s he talking about? I don’t really see a problem with media using excessively aggressive language?
- I experienced this many times as a startup founder (kind of an annoying term since it’s so negative to people now). But anyway, there were many times I felt, here is a place we would get more money if we were dicks. It’s terrible. I did fine but might have done financially better if I were meaner.
- Seems like a bunch of people so unqualified it would be comical if they weren’t so damaging to the United States. But it is good to have these people documented for later. projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...
- Reposted by Neal ParikhI was wondering who’s responsible for the ongoing demolition of NSF. Aside from Chief Management Officer Cheatham, whose resignation the staff union seeks, it appears to be 3 DOGE agents: Farritor (23), Terrell (25), and Riley (33). None appear to have any familiarity with scientific research.
- Reposted by Neal ParikhThe gutter racism at work in the Claudine Gay situation and the craven, wholly unforgivable complicity of the NYT in the stitch up I think will go down as a shining light example of how the liberal US establishment helped pave the way for Trump’s fascism.
- Princeton University’s student newspaper is reporting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plagiarized portions of his senior thesis. www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
- I’m not sure why anybody would still listen to any judge for any reason. They don’t have any actual power. Just ignore them until they accomplish something for once. Everyone should just start ignoring every judge and see what happens.
- Internal records show that the NIH axed grants for research about transgender people despite a court order barring the cuts. Agency officials also testified that DOGE was involved in directing grant terminations. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social
- I know I complain a lot about this paper, but it’s a really, really, really bad paper. It sounds insane that this paper would be this bad which is why I keep repeating it. It is one of the primary sources of misinformation and disinformation to the public.
- I was glad to see the NYT taking this seriously enough to write a story about it. But then I read it, and there's not one iota of pushback, or critical context, not even a "critics say". Pure stenography. Absolutely shameful for something this outrageous. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
