Weekend plans

If AI is inevitable then why does it need so much government support and why are they constantly worried Rhetorical RHETORICAL

Canada's Budget 2025 just dropped. It contains an admission that men and high-income people will benefit the most from the government's new AI funding

Weekend plans

Weekend plans

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

AI of a Thousand Faces. Such a neat project! "WIRED can’t tell the future, but we can try to make sense of it. Behold: 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age." www.wired.com/ai-issue/

We're in the "raping young teenage girls isn't pedophilia" part of the cope from MAGA. These people are evil.

if it’s automated that means there’s little human check and no system of time sensitivity AMD severity if it was an actual death threat that means it sat for a month

See and this is why I get saucy sometimes because I’ve worked : product/ moderation/ editorial/ systems and comms Product wise I want to know why your backend didn’t immediately flag this, moderation didn’t clock this before action , and how badly you rushed out this response

This question ? Should be the starting point for real discussions of moderation and the post Twitter internet It started then well it be what it be ( also I shall be quoting you)

This is why I crash out about “cultural competency” Here’s why . Article was about Johnny Cash . And it’s a prime non racialized example of why context matters and moderation that rewrites culture along power lines misss a critical facets Also AAVE Becoming “Gen z” slang

What if bluesky turns out to just be a catch and kill operation for twitter liberals & leftists.

flat out lies. these tech ceos take regulators and the masses for fools

If Copilot is what innovation looks like, I don't want it.

It is such a dumb and violent time to do a PhD.

How do the powers that be even have the audacity to say they care about the economy when "OpenAI burned $4.1 billion MORE THAN WE KNEW"

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If we don't fund it, they won't build it.

If we are not doing it for the economy, then what are we doing it for? The forever tech rationale.

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Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, a must watch.

In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.

"But there’s a place for businesses selling whiz-bang products at a ludicrous markup, or ones that simply don’t work: government contracts. OpenAI could join the likes of Palantir, TransDigm, Boeing, and all the rest fleecing the taxpayer in the name of national security."

I'm in the privileged and awkward position to be a full time student who is soon turning 40. I'm having a hard time making space for colleagues that continue to platform professors, administrators, and institutional excellence while terrorizing students for their support around Palestine.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, a must watch.

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anyway good night

Robert Filliou. Man Carrying his Own Sun on a String, 1973

ICYMI: On 2026 and how to subvert the status quo from within.

narrator: no, it cannot

No, no it cannot. Looks like we need to re-up our paper @jevan.bsky.social

okay, now let's hear from people who don't have millions of dollars in tech company stocks still vesting

Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, ”At stake is not only how we fight to win, but also how prepared we are for victories. Prepare to win means be ready for the morning after.” Stay ready for victories!

I will be advocating for a Digital Sanctuary City everywhere.

"Achieving algorithmic justice against a backdrop of state sponsored injustice will require coalitions that are polycentric, flexible, durable, and multifarious." 🎯🎯🎯

"The lesson for Canada is not smug exceptionalism but urgency. If a similar swing arrives here, procedural guarantees must be hard-wired into how AI is procured, deployed and contested. Build for the rainy day, not the sunny press conference." @vangeuns.bsky.social in the State of AI Ethics Report

Remember when people were looking forward to an AI commissioner? 😏

what if technology wasn't something that was done to us, but instead something that we do?

Things are grim but writing this piece forced me to think of a silver lining. "2026 is a year of honest reckoning of what technologies are needed for government to function properly. It is a chance to revisit all the unglamorous AI already embedded in government. AI without the generative part."

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

I most recently wrote about Palantir in Challenging Privatization in Governance by AI:

As an amateur birder and a Wikipedia lover, I am so in awe by the intersection of this work. Incredible!

It took me about three months to get here but... Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions. 10,151 species. #dataviz #birds #data