You truly have to be of very low self esteem (I think) to think that a machine is capable of intelligence like a human, and you also have to be a little racist…

The latest IBWTR EPI on Elizabeth Cady Stanton really reminds me of the mayor of Ams (!!!) giving a highly xenophobic and Islamophobic speech, which further proves to me that this woman is simply not liked, I am 100% there are gender experts in the NL who could have corrected her! Do better!!!

Still thinking about last week’s Pitt epi and me projecting on Robby and thinking he just can’t do his job because the system is inherently biased and bad by extension haha but we gotta keep on fighting babe!

More and more I am into the idea that perhaps a better construct for equality is institutional vulnerability, ie (my reading) we need to hold the more powerful party in a dispute with more responsibility and accountability

can’t say what i want to happen to these people for legal reasons

Still thinking about this and thinking how ot applies to work with chatbots and so much, not to go on a tangent here but my volleyball team uses an app to record who is coming to our games and I really feel like it’s a) making easier to cancel participation and b) diminishing our social interactions

This is my beef as well with this statement, and I cannot help but feel rooted in eugenics

why do I find it so wildly offensive and paternalistic when I see folks suggest that LLM use can help 'disadvantaged' people to 'write better' or 'save time'? because it is such a sad underestimation of people's abilities, a surrender to a thoughtless monoglot ideology, a celebration of ignorance

Stealing this from twitter because it’s great, article www.thekeymagazine.com/p/ta-nehisi-...

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

someone just poured lost of liquid sauce on a baking tray with baking paper on it and I just almost died … this is what a pan is for uugh

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

> Can we soon predict children’s intelligence? NO STOP IT www.ru.nl/en/services/...

God I love doing my job but I really need to figure out how to get paid. It’s hard out here for us in the humanitarian/dev sector

Another great thread!

Wonderful read! YOU HAVE TO DO THE WORK, no other way of learning new stuff. I feel like we consistently conflate updating our priors/knowledge with learning completely new info!

Lol i got 8 files or so described as very much reading on the topic I am studying now, and they all are prompt responses, whoever sent them didn’t even bother to fix the language, this is just so frustrating, like you really have to hate your job to not care about AI adoption

This is so, so well-articulated.

No one is more self entitled and positive than a white man, may we all one day experience that!

I hope I am wrong, but looking at these jobs numbers, I do wonder if we should be perhaps more cautious and not declare victory yet? With an ongoing war, I have yet to see what the response rate of firms and companies has been. (We’ve been through this before…) #jobsdata #lbs

Great read on the commodification of education that we’re currently witnessing (& have been for some time!) sad to see education, & by extension learning, something that makes us human and is a human right, be exploited & commodified, & “dummified”. Hate that for us!!!

”A realized Pahlavist dream would encounter the same problems every externally imposed regime change has ever encountered. A country that has been subject to a bombing campaign does not emerge as a liberal democracy. It emerges traumatized, fragmented, furious.” nymag.com/intelligence...

“Their vision of citizenship — which would plunge countless children into statelessness as a permanently subordinate class” great read as always by Jamelle Bouie, makes you wonder about the children of immigrants in Europe… www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

Honestly the US snapped with birthright citizenship!

I still don’t think we talk enough about how bad the labor market is, and I fear might only get worse.

The labor market can be "roughly steady" with a lotta hiring matched by a lotta firing, or few fires matched by few hires. The U.S. is moving into a low hire-low fire equilibrium, which really hurts folks—the young, those (re-)entering the job market—who need new opportunities

Before the shutdown news, OpenAI told Ghost in the Machine director Valerie Veatch it was "cringe" when she sounded the alarm about Sora’s racist and sexist outputs. Read more from @charlespulliam.bsky.social:

Women with an advanced degree are paid the same as men with just a bachelor's. And at every education level, women's hourly wages are about 20% lower than men's

You either have this sort of political juice or you don't. Cannot be taught.

Sharp and brilliant, I do feel hope for our institutions & future! (I also feel depressed by how stupid everything is now but you know… at least this helps me see concrete reasons for it)

"Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing—marketing for power." - Dr. Toni Morrison

Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

Cause of death: money and litigation pit. And thank goodness too.

"The story would be baffling, except that there’s an obvious explanation: Somebody close to Trump knew what he was about to do, and exploited that inside information to make huge, instant profits." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in...

Don’t ask me how it’s going.

"A new study out of Cornell Universit found workers most excited and impressed by corporate speak may be the least equipped to make effective, practical business decisions, and it can leave companies with dysfunctional leaders."

Lol why are AI generated emails always so badly written and long? Once again, begging for people to use their brains

We're still taking applications until April 13. We've received 240+ so far so maybe it isn't advisable for us to continue to open this position, since we read every single application. So no "AI" generated ones please, don't think we can't tell. Interested in applying but procrastinating? Do it!👇🏽

In Woke 2, anyone writing in a national publication will need to pass some basic history tests or face jail time. A desperately needed reform to prevent whatever this is.

the moment it clicked for me that eugenics is something we are still very much into, and it’s disgusting. the added layer is that money is spent on this already in a research field which is very much broke…

Deleted a post about possible forced sterilization in BGR because there have been no official reports. However the constant chatter that there should be more abortions among our Roma minority, as proven in other countries, the issue is never “not enough births“ but rather who is doing the “birthing”

This paper - on “The dysgenics objection to longtermism” & published by Elsevier - includes uncritical (& selective) citations of a who’s who of scientific racists & eugenicists, yet the author appears to have an ERC Starting Grant. Eugenics is no longer fringe www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

> The question is not whether Cofnas should be permitted to hold his views[. It's] whether a public research university in Belgium should be [granting] credibility to those views, funding their dissemination, and providing them the cover of academic legitimacy. www.brusselstimes.com/2020728/the-...

What is going to make university degrees worthless isn’t niche subjects like languages or the entire human past, it’s charging to teach people “content-creator” skills they can learn on the can

I describe it as such as a historian of disability because I want to remind scientists and the world that the history of science IS the history of eugenics, scientific racism and medical racism, and more. I’m not comforting them with the idea that it was a ‘pseudoscience.’ This is your history.

Elder millennial here. I killed notifications because they were making me crazy; I'm convinced that's a feature, not a bug. Tech oligarchs, like all authoritarians, benefit from chaos. They need us overwhelmed and destabilized so that we can be more easily conned into giving them power.

I’ve used this case study in STS courses. Student surveys break down into two response categories on the use of phone notifications. 1) what if my friends need me?! and 2) people will think I’m selfish. The self is inextricably tied to platform affordances. There is no boundary between it and self

When I disabled all the notifications on my smart phone, I felt such an enormous sense of relief. It took me a while to figure out why. It was because I wasn't being constantly interrupted New psychology research reveals the cognitive cost of smartphone notifications www.psypost.org/new-psycholo...

Rooster on HBO is delightful !