Enjoyed writing this short but sweet [altho not necessarily in message] piece for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social w @irisvanrooij.bsky.social: > While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype & stolen intellectual labor 🧵

Tech companies want us to outsource all cognitive labor to their models. Instead, academics must defend universities by barring toxic, addictive AI technologies from classrooms, argue @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social . bit.ly/48FNcJj

“How can we expect our students & mentees to navigate AI slop if we do not take a clear stand against it as teachers, researchers, and academic institutions? How can we prevent the destruction of knowledge, violations of scientific integrity, scientific deskilling & displacement by AI technologies?”

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

we need to talk more about which specific people are on which boards and also which other boards those specific people are on.

This ongoing observation of atmospheric CO2 concentrations, started in 1950 and continuous ever since, is one of the best things the US government has ever done. Trump, Elon, and DOGE are shutting it down.

I know I have almost zero followers so I’m sure this will reach almost no one but friends frenemies, countrymen and humans of fabricated enemy states, it might be time to start moving our actual conversations off the platforms. Even this one.

This pride flag made out of NASA imagery was, for several weeks, the most-liked image on Bluesky. Then the Trump administration made NASA take it down.

Publication klaxon! Please head over to Analog Game Studies to check out our article in the latest issue: "It's All Fun and Games 'Till Someone Loses an I: Ethnomethods of Bleed." @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social and I learned a lot about one anothers' fields (and minds!) writing this together.

Really proud of this essay with @saklein.bsky.social theorizing bleed as not only an effect but also tactic of play and identifying some culturally situated practices around/for/against bleed play in ttrpgs analoggamestudies.org/2024/12/its-...

It's a beautiful day in the 'neural neighborhood'. Getting ready to teach about objectivities in scientific visualization and saw this just out. Is the scientific atlas being revived? Did it ever really disappear? alleninstitute.org/news/scienti...

Scientists unveil first complete cellular map of adult mouse brain High-resolution atlas charts neural neighborhoods for more than 5,300 cell types #neuroskyence alleninstitute.org/news/scienti...

Tough one, but I believe I am a bog. Girlmoss over girlboss for sure