Nice chamber. Is it of commerce?

"Ruining the workplace" is such a funny premise, like asking did women ruin hell. Anyway, John Ford, Frederick Taylor, Elton Mayo et al. were all men as far as I know

Interesting to learn the guy who runs CC is both a massive liar and a total dipshit

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

I don't read EZ so I have no opinion of his work, but I'm confused by some of the defences I'm seeing. The sources for the Wired piece are bad, true. But doing PR and journalism in the same industry is a textbook conflict of interest, no? Doing both of those jobs at all is at least a little sketchy

Will be interested in your unbiased views about the recent events in Macclesfield.

I know DEI is dead, but this is a weird way to announce you don't employ or even know any South Asians

I don't care how many tattoos Platner gets, I'm seeing multiple non-US-based posters making fun of this doofus. I'm no campaign strategist, but "our guy is an international joke" seems like past time to fold

Down with all kings but

“An MIT Technology Review investigation finds that caste bias is rampant in OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT.”

One reason that the LLMs write like they do is that pre-GPT we filled up the internet with that kind of bland writing, and we did that partly because Google told people that clean, plentiful, SEO-optimised copy would improve rankings and because content meant traffic meant ad views

Read the long version here. www.artforum.com/features/gen...

That the Harris/Walz campaign made a huge deal out of Walz being a football coach—tackle football being a clear, well-documented threat to the health of young players—tells you all you need to know really

Congratulations! You invented SOLIPSISM!

Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai

After many requests, here are the files to print three different anonymous Chicago contractor-style flyers about ICE, as well my new zine of Tasks for the National Guard in Chicago. Print and resist, friends! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

This kind of scabware needs to be high on the agenda of all TA unions (faculty unions should be thinking twice about opening this door too, obviously) engaged in bargaining

I know Marche wrote a book with three (!) bots, but not enough people are noting that he also wrote a book with Andrew Yang

As stories of mental health crises and suicides continue to pile up, it needs to be said more vehemently than I said below: there is zero reason chatbots need to present as human. This should be treated as fraud AT BEST. The people who chose to design the software this way should be held liable

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

I was going to make a belaboured joke post about how I can never remember who Noah Smith is or why he matters, but Wikipedia beat me to it

I left 10+ years ago, but I worked in enrolment mgt at UO for three years. The uni's budget was totally dependent on higher intl and non-res tuition thanks to years of state gov disinvestment. They also spent money on stupid stuff of course, but blue states started this way before Trump was pres

“Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage”

I've never been a critic, but a huge trigger of old-internet nostalgia for me is when I watch a non-contemporary film or listen to an older album, feel like reading something about it after, but searching the title yields nothing but page after page of commercial sites, nothing human(ist) at all...

Yes conservatives have an understanding of ‘crime’ that diverges from what is technically true, but so do most people. ‘Crime’ is a deeply amorphous, regressive, ideological concept.

while tech bros and armchair philosophers contemplate rights for hypothetical conscious machines, the reality is that actual people (labourers) are treated worse than exiting machines

People on the left don't talk about men getting laid might be the straightest thing I've ever heard (hell, back in the late 90s/early 00s Dan Savage used to address this question regularly and earnestly). If straight boys don't want to listen to & learn from queer people, that's a different problem

so many responses to this very good point are "correct! every scene should either advance the plot or reveal something about the characters—there are two rules not one." even putting aside more unconventional filmmaking, this completely misses how much classic cinema consists of looking at stars

I haven't been following the news, is there any other context the NYT could add about the pre-existing health problems of an 18-month old born in Gaza?

From the new AFL-CIO executive paywatch report: The average American CEO got a 7% raise last year, meaning he now makes 285 times more than his median worker. aflcio.org/paywatch

can we make this pop up anytime someone tries to post a gif?

Obviously basic mental healthcare is the root problem here. Abstracting out, you could blame technology or capitalism, but I prefer my least empirically determined theory about the world: that the subtle dread and de-normalization of climate change is making everyone anxious and depressed

wow good thing none of the guys pulling levers at any other LLM concerns have troubling worldviews

Finally got around to checking out Terry Callier after noticing his albums in Dusty Groove about 20 years ago. He's fantastic it turns out, but maybe even better was then being led to Willie Wright: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH7P...

I can't possibly be the first person to see that "What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?" prompt and consider posting, with a level of smug satisfaction bordering on euphoria, "there's no such thing as 'common' knowledge lmao" — can I?

You think you've curated your feed well until one day you realize you know the names of at least 5 people running for mayor in a city you have never lived in

Call for Papers - The Politics of AI: Governance, Resistance, Alternatives www.criticalinfralab.net/preview/?id=... We invite proposals for our symposium that offer critical perspectives on AI & environment, AI & society, and the political economy of AI. Please share widely!

Cannot be overstated that the dominant project for people boosting this tech is to convince users that they can’t trust their own senses and they should give their body over to the machine.

A useful aspect of pushing the "it's not ~AI~ it's still just Big Data" line is that we can go back to making a case that not everything is or can be converted into data. Whatever human intelligence is (and I'm no expert on that), it isn't exclusively quantification and statistical reasoning

Favourite line from the original study: "However, self-assessment suffers from poor temporal resolution, intrusiveness to the ongoing task, and subjectivity."

"I knew, from the photographs that my father had taken and preserved, of sharply dressed men in bespoke suits and women in dresses that they had sewn themselves". Elli Michaela Young on why collecting garments from the Carribean turned into an archive of resistance. www.historyworkshop....

The Grok meltdown reminds me that two years ago I wrote about AI on Twitter (for a research report thing that was never published). Musk had only fairly recently acquired twitter, so I was concerned about how purpose-built partisan AI was under-acknowledged as a threat compared to unintended bias...

My fellow graduate students, if you need a reason to resist GenAI/AI and organize around the issue, I've got one for you: "Is there going to be a point in the foreseeable future that much of what graduate student teaching assistants do can be done by A.I.?" [a professor] said. "Yeah, absolutely.”

i remember this exists like once every year. one of the best vids on line, too me

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com