Maria Teresa Maza

PhD student @DSNLab @UNC studying the impact of biosocial factors and technology on the developing brain

[Paul Röttger @paul_rottger]

New paper w/ @AISecurityInst: AI writing assistance distorts how others perceive AI users and their opinions.

Millions of people now use AI to help them write and communicate. In three large experiments (14k participants, 3m+ human ratings) we show that AI writing assistance systematically distorts writer personas – their perceived beliefs, personality, and identity. These distortions are consistent across AI models and persist even under realistic conditions of human oversight.

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[Havana Seoul @miyungYUMM]

This is how it should be. Synchronized systems set to help children succeed.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Chewy. He loves to help his grandma garden. She can’t kneel down to dig holes anymore, but that’s his favorite part, so they're a perfect team. 14/10 (TT: chewythenewfie)

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

In a ​new paper​, researchers argue that:

“a primary cause of the rise in mental disorders [in youth] is a decline over decades in opportunities for children and teens to play, roam, and engage in other activities independent of direct oversight and control by adults.”

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

The media will call today “a few hundred protesters.”

Don’t buy it.

Minnesota shut down. Georgia walked out. Maine rose up.

People marched in brutal conditions, less than 24 hours before a major winter storm, and still flooded the streets to reject ICE raids and Trump’s crackdown.

These clips are just a small sample of what’s happening right now.

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

Watching kids mobilize against this regime is my favorite 😍😍😍

[Iris Seraphina  @iris_seraphina]

Gotta love the elderly!! 🥹 Cute & Silly!! 🤪

[James Zou @james_y_zou]

We found a troubling emergent behavior in LLM.

💬When LLMs compete for social media likes, they start making things up
🗳️When they compete for votes, they turn inflammatory/populist

When optimized for audiences, LLMs inadvertently become misaligned—we call this Moloch’s Bargain

[Sam Biederman @Biedersam]

Imagine being eight years old and having to translate your parents’ arrest to masked feds. Cruel and disgusting spectacle organized for the entertainment of the wealthiest people on earth.

[uYintongaYosimelela @Qwabekazi]

like toni morrison said,“sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. but the grandeur of life is that attempt. it’s not about that solution. it is about being as fearless as one can & behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances.”

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

[kaz y/dsa @lqvekanthony]

THE TREVOR PROJECT CAN BE REACHED DIRECTLY AT 1-866-488-7386, EVEN WHEN THIS IS GOING TO BE GONE. PLEASE SHARE TO POSSIBLY SAVE SOMEONE’S LIFE.

[trash jones @jzux]

getting a ton of hateful DMs for siding with the LA protestors, so let me make this super clear ❤️

i will never empathize with ICE. i would rather see 1 million torched Waymos than see another person dragged away in an unmarked car

immigrants make America great

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

There’s something radically symbolic in these videos. Federal agents pulled from protecting against external threats to focusing inward against our own people, while long lines of armored vehicles head towards our nation’s capitol. The dark midnight of authoritarianism is here.

[Jackie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌹 @KaoticLeftist]

Zohran Mamdani explaining how he will achieve his policies.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I have a brief story I want to tell about the Tech Right, the Trump administration, and immigration.

In June 2024, Trump went on the All In podcast and said we should make it easier for international students who graduate from top US colleges to become citizens.

"It's so sad when we lose people from Harvard" after they graduate, he said. "I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country. That is going to end on day one."

This was huge. Day one! Wow. The All In guys ate it up. Chamath goes: "That's fantastic." David Sacks: "That's great." Tech folks proclaimed Trump to be fully high-skill-immigration-pilled.

Well, he's president now. And stapling green cards to diplomas isn't happening.

What's happening instead?

1. Today, the Trump administration announced that it's illegal for Harvard to enroll foreign students and existing students have to transfer or face deportation.

2. The nominee for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services director said he wants to end the US's single largest high-skill recruitment program, OPT, which is critical for helping foreign-born students stay in the country.

3. NIH funding YTD is down more than 50%, and more AI scientists are leaving the country than coming in.

[trash jones @jzux]

“the bottom 60%” is so funny to me. i believe the word you’re looking for is “most”

[Eric Blanc @_ericblanc]

Need this every time