Irene Zhang

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Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. OS hacker. Cat wrangler. Shoe lover.
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This week:

"The Anti-AI Crowd", Open Weights and 1500 applications.

#opensource #AI

https://sunnydeveloper.com/the-anti-ai-crowd-open-weights-and-1500/

"The Anti-AI Crowd", Open Weights and 1500 applications

Three distinct things on my mind this week. Please allow me to process them, by writing here! As always, I share as thoughts and half-baked opinions. Things that made me happy this week. Honestly it was a slog of a week, so I am going to reach! * I won a

Emma's open notes
Me: Aw look you can see their different tails and different ears let me get a photo
Ten seconds later: NO STOP FIGHTING

I had a very sudden flashback to a childhood memory: having to do eye massage exercises at school (on a national level. As in. everybody did it for 15 min a day)

Guess it didn't work

https://healthcareasiamagazine.com/videos/singapore-ranks-first-globally-childhood-myopia-surges

#Singapore #TootSea

Singapore ranks first globally as childhood myopia surges

Healthcare Asia Magazine

This is just evil. I study food insecurity, so I know how vital the WIC programme is. Fresh fruit and vegetables have a huge positive impact on physical and psychological wellbeing.

From: @dell.bsky.social
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o4pdps2jkn7uhrdgadni7djk/post/3mnis3q2las26

dell cameron (@dell.bsky.social)

House Republicans joined by 4 Democrats vote to literally take food away from pregnant women and children https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/04/house-bill-rolls-back-food-aid-pregnant-women-children/

Bluesky Social
@dan This may look cute, but this behavior is a stress sign in 787 aircraft. Find it a comfortable box to rest in only slightly larger than it’s wingspan so it feels safe in its small space, and try to contact a volunteer rehabilitation or rescue organization in your area. If it can survive the night then the outlook is good for it to recover and eventually work its way back into the wild.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/116694096861121882

This is exactly the issue in academia and tech. It’s never going to change.

The enemy in feminism is the patriarchy and toxic masculinity.

Not men.

Read that again.

Men also suffer under patriarchy and plenty of women reinforce toxic masculinity in men.

Hating men is not in fact part of feminism.

sometimes airplanes just get exhausted and need a nap

(via https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1twkg45/lufthansa_dabpq_in_frankfurt/)

 "Ladies and gentlemen..."

 "Ladies, theydies, and mateys."