NBC has pics of the plane ICE Barbie needs to run her gulag. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

When you've been programming for more than 25 years and still miss details like setting the mode to "write" instead of "read" when opening a file 🤦

Good! Shame on every institution that complied pre-emptively.

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and I can't afford steak. But at least now I know that they are defunding diversity programs at companies and schools that I have never heard of.

lent and ramadan kicking off on the same day

It's a Motte & Bailey strategy. Their broad desire is the elimination of trans people from public life, and they've decided the easiest issues to toxify are sports & youths. The consequences have already expanded beyond that, and poison the discourse about the veracity of trans people.

🚀 Launching Every Eval Ever: Toward a Common Language for AI Eval Reporting 🚀 A shared schema + crowdsourced repository so we can finally compare evals across frameworks and stop rerunning everything from scratch 🔧 A tale of broken AI evals 🧵👇 evalevalai.com/projects/eve...

it would be less infuriating if a) we had got any kind of salary raises in the last years b) we weren’t just told terrible things about PhD lines and c) our less-secure colleagues weren’t scared of losing their jobs semester by semester

Truly selling a product and having the users figure out what to even use it for is the scam of the century, and ofc university admins are all for it.

I do not care whether you are anonymous or pseudonymous. I do not care about your CV. I do not care about your Wikipedia article. I am not "interviewing" followers. I am declining the presumption that every social media poster must be open to endless tedious argument by virtue of existing online.

Bookmarking this video for the next time someone claims that science communication can’t be engaging unless it’s about an inherently exciting topic or made personally relevant to people’s lives

Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime: www.404media.co/leaked-email...

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

My Uni: “we are in dire budget times and more cuts might be coming” Also my Uni: “we just spent $$$ on an exciting ChatGptEDU plan, everyone should use it so we (?!?) can figure out what its purpose/use cases are” 🙃🙃🙃

Zotero. Tracker blockers. Translators. Reader viewers.

I just got my annual Public Lending Right cheque for Because Internet from the Canada Council for the Arts, so permit me a thread about what the public lending right is and why you should request books you love from public libraries!

deep daily sigh

The tech industry is *so* very fucked. Not only is employment fucked (see Baldur's thread), the hardware side is imploding. The AI industry has bought up so much memory that prices are spiking by 250-300%, if it's not sold out, that is. www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem... 1/

Getting a bit depressed as, no matter how I slice it, basic economics would seem to indicate that the software developer job market is largely fucked no matter what happens now. No matter whether the LLM tools work or not and no matter what happens to the bubble (short thread)

Multiple of my students are out sick while others are still trying to just work through while sick. Like, really really unwell. We live in this hell of our own making.

Curious if any data science or ML people could point me to some of the people doing real research on agentic AI. I'm only finding sources from companies trying to hype it.

Love the idea of Dropout 24/7, @samreich.bsky.social! I get the motivation for doing a big #Dimension20 marathon to start, but I also feel like that's going to be an annoying format, since you won't be able to watch a whole season through. Have you thought about scheduling the programming?

Fascinating chart with one outlier: Warren Buffett. At the low end, giving 0.06% of one's wealth is equivalent to: Net worth -> Lifetime Giving 50K->$30 100K->$60 500K->$300 $1M->$600 Most folks give far more by % in a *single year*. www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...

To put this in persepective, Elon Musk has given away .006% of his net worth in his lifetime. Assembling my taxes; I gave away 1.5% of my net worth *last year alone*. Tax the rich.

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

"isn't it great that you can just click a button to design a whole course and not even have to take a look at it?" I DON'T KNOW DARREN! IS IT GREAT? IS IT??

Been saying this for decades! I always thought I was somehow defective for being unable to enjoy the show at all. It was just so *mean*.

Experts seek to speed up at work all the time, and offloading certain aspects of tasks is a typical way to do this. However, when you're building understanding, you often need to slow down to speed up -- invest in the deliberate practice that will underlie later fluent automaticity

New post: LABOUR'S SECTION 28 IS HERE - ACT NOW. I explain how the Labour government's proposed revisions to the guidance on "keeping children in education" are designed to erase trans children in England. But it's not a done deal - there is plenty we can do to oppose this.

Btw, think about this then think about what free healthcare could do

Recently got some "old" Apple products that seem like they would still be pretty useful except for planned obsolesence meaning that none of the apps in the AppStore will install. Any tips for making an iPad Mini stuck on iOS 9.3.5 useful? (I'm primarily a Linux user and don't mind tinkering.)

CU Denver stole almost $6k of my scholarship award last year and said they had no student research funding (I only wanted $300 for my thesis). They also pulled transcription software from a friend (that was a disability accommodation), exacerbating their health issues and delaying their graduation.

The 3 forms of academic content assetization we explore are: - universities enclosing educators' content for use in platformized learning programs - edtech companies building databases of academic assignments and manuscripts - publishers licensing academic papers to AI companies for LLM training.

New OA article just out on "assetizing academic content" led by @jkom.bsky.social with me, @keanbirch.bsky.social & Klaus Beiter, exploring how academic materials are turned into value-generating digital assets by HE institutions, edtech platforms, and AI companies link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The anti-trans propaganda push is one of the best examples I know of real-world disinformation in action.

A book I highly recommend on electronic slot machines—which fully convinced me they should be illegal for how they systematically mislead our brains—is Natasha Dow Schüll‘s ADDICTION BY DESIGN Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous It will immiserate so many

It is important to remember that many problems are manufactured such as having the "wrong type" of accent.

I don't need to listen to true crime podcasts as such, because I'm getting plenty of lurid stories of criming from Maintenance Phase and @ifbookspod.bsky.social.

This is how you can compare groups in #tidyplots 🦊 #rstats #dataviz #phd

People who work in tech and have been interviewing candidates; how explicitly are you looking into AI coding assistant usage/knowledge *at interview time* (i.e. do you expect it during your coding interview? do you ignore it entirely?)

she's making these

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

People talk about "forgetting history" in relation to facts like this one, but it's important to note that this forgetting is no accident--it's a crucial part of the project of Whiteness

When Musk said the "cumulative sum of human knowledge has been exhausted" for training AI, what he was really saying is that he would not pay for digitisation, and had reached the limits of useful data he could scrape for free. The GenAI house is built on sand.

One of my former Sociolinguistics students (now a PG student at St Andrews) is co-organizing a student conference on 'Voice'. Submission details below! N.B. Student travel from Edinburgh to St Andrews will be reimbursed by the organisers!

The University of Essex Language & Linguistics dept was critical to my journey - part of the reason that I am in the field I am in and have the career I have now. If you can’t help be on the picket line, you can help by donating to the hardship fund (see links in Nina’s post below)

What feels insane is that our government is using our tax dollars to kidnap people & hold them in concentration camps & we‘re told WE have no say. or even that CONGRESS has no say? Dems reimagining themselves as an actual opposition party would be really fucking helpful -AND MORAL - right now.