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Lauren Leffer

@lauren_leffer

Former Bug Scientist / Current Science Journalist/ Contributor @sciam and @PopSci / Bylines also @NatGeo @Gizmodo @AudubonMag

Also (at)laurenleffer.bsky.s

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Jake Offenhartz (@jangelooff) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Genuinely curious: if the argument is that transit riders don’t have 4th amendment rights on MTA property, does that also apply to drivers using MTA bridges and tunnels? Would the National Guard be able to search every car going over the Whitestone without reasonable suspicion?

Ben Welsh (@palewire) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Cool new OSINT tool: Internet Archive now offers a full text search of select domains. Here's a "Peter Thiel" search on the Gawker archive. web.archive.org/gawker.com/sea…

Cool new OSINT tool: <a href="/internetarchive/">Internet Archive</a> now offers a full text search of select domains.

Here's a "Peter Thiel" search on the Gawker archive. web.archive.org/gawker.com/sea…
Lauren Leffer (@lauren_leffer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"security theater" "a drop in the bucket" "more political drama than really effective legislation" Privacy policy analysts aren't mincing words when it comes to the potential TikTok ban. scientificamerican.com/article/tiktok…

Chris Stokel-Walker (@stokel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This, to me, remains the strongest argument against a TikTok ban. Even if you believe that China is using TikTok as a deep state plot (which as a reminder, there's no evidence of), it's futile to fix the pinhole leak in the wall if the ceiling is gushing water

This, to me, remains the strongest argument against a TikTok ban. Even if you believe that China is using TikTok as a deep state plot (which as a reminder, there's no evidence of), it's futile to fix the pinhole leak in the wall if the ceiling is gushing water
Krista Langlois (@cestmoilanglois) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Want to live on the beach? Late-stage capitalism and unchecked greed got you priced out of oceanfront living in the US? Wanna buy some cheap land in Mexico?? Locals would like you to think twice. I talked to some of them. hakaimagazine.com/features/buyin…

Robert Francis (@rbfrncs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm in awe of Palestinian birders who continue taking their binoculars and cameras out after their home became a war zone. Even when it means risking their lives, they keep going because knowing the birds have returned another year gives them hope. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

I'm in awe of Palestinian birders who continue taking their binoculars and cameras out after their home became a war zone.

Even when it means risking their lives, they keep going because knowing the birds have returned another year gives them hope.

theguardian.com/environment/ar…
POLITICO (@politico) 's Twitter Profile Photo

These trauma surgeons thought they’d seen the worst of the worst. But nothing they’d experienced prepared them for the horrors they found in Gaza, as civilians and children suffer under Israel’s bombing campaign. Two weeks inside a Gaza hospital👇 politico.com/news/magazine/…

Lauren Leffer (@lauren_leffer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A reminder that LLMs will never and can never stop "hallucinating" because that's literally their baseline function. Every output is a hallucination and sometimes they line up with fact. scientificamerican.com/article/chatbo…