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My book, "Reparations and Redress for Historical Injustice," has been published by Cambridge University Press! It is free for download until June 24. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

I mean. They’d be innocent even if they WERE related, because that’s not how guilt works.

Afroman jury: Yep. Ok exactly. Uh huh. Yeah that sounds good too. Ooh I didn’t even think of that yeah good let’s have that.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

NEW on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson explores the growing evidence that AI isn't just changing what students produce – it's changing what their brains are ready to do, and asks whether HE can redesign itself around a question it has been avoiding for decades buff.ly/uHtisNU

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

Finally, a workable plan.

There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff. This should be headline news. x.com/uaw7902/stat...

What every kid wants this Christmas.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

finally the usual starter pack to find outlets that may be nearer to you: go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

Just a reminder that the people who run AI companies talk like this when amongst themselves and when you ask me if I'm anti-AI, well, I'm anti whatever the fuck this is

Interesting. I wonder about the field/area if digital humanities (which came before ChatGPT) feels about so-called AI?

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

Who does this benefit other than the major airline CEOs?

Larry Summers cozied up to the rich and powerful — including a convicted sex offender. He cannot be trusted in positions of influence.

The Washington Post, everyone!

Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.

Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …

What does "applied liberal arts" mean?

Why not dislike both?

Caligula's unorthodox style raises eyebrows among some liberal Romans. -New York Times, 39 AD

Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper? Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.

On a deadly serious note, the President cannot rely on external, private sources to fund spending as an end-run around Congress’ constitutional power of the purse. If he can, we no longer have a republic.

To anyone who I said, midway through seeing the episodes, that the latest season of love is blind is worth sticking with - ummm. I'm sorry

Omg. These people on 'love is blind' are exhausting (right now Annie makes Nick look good in comparison!)

The official album for Love is Blind

Pretty accurate, no?

The one LLM I love!

We know that She-Ra is not doing well when Adora loses her hair poof.

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

Political scientists! Scholars of international relations! We are updating the Garand and Giles journal ranking survey. If you would like to participate, please self-enroll at eppr.study .

I cancelled my account (even though I still had a half year of premium subscription left)

I like this -- they fed AITA posts where the humans voted "asshole" to LLMs and found that the bots would almost always tell you that you're not an asshole. ^^; No wonder they're so popular! www.businessinsider.com/reddit-aita-...

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

I eagerly await young people in the 2040s mocking zoomers for being old using the expression "ok millennial."

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

The environmental toll of AI is obscene, especially when things like Google's AI search don't create real social benefits. prospect.org/environment/...

This is exactly what the NYC subway is like, and it's beautiful (trimmed video by Ian O'Connor via instagram.com/p/DAbHW7txiiv)

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

"but he's so pretty how could he be wrong" lemme introduce you to this guy named Alcibiades

Did you know that Oliver Cromwell banned work emails at Christmas, claiming they were a hangover from paganism? They were only brought back at the Restoration in 1660.

I was not aware this custom dates back to the Byzantine era, based on the photo that Wikipedia highlights with its “Jewish Patronage of Chinese Restaurants” page en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish-...

As an Olympic athlete medical doctor with an active hobby life, marriage prospects in the nobility, and a dedication to continuing the family plumbing business, Mario is best understood as a representation of what every immigrant family wants from their child.

If a hardback has endnotes it should come with a ribbon so you can keep your place there. This should be the law.

OpenAI right now