If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

I find this sickening, tbh. The claim that simply being in the presence of a trans woman creates a “a hostile, humiliating and degrading environment” for cis women could not be more transphobic* if it tried. *Literally: showing discrimination against, aversion to, or fear of, transgender people

Excerpt from Revolutionary Letter № 8 by Diane di Prima

I watch the bulk of ashleythebaroness videos, despite rarely sharing them. But this one hit today. And she's right! We're not dealing with some foreign ideology. We're dealing with a uniquely American phenomenon. fascism wrapped in our own flag

An urgent appeal to save the lives of Palestine Action hunger strikers. Former hunger strikers from Ireland, Palestine and Guantanamo Bay call on the UK government to take immediate action. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

All the noise about alignment from the advocates of 'AI Safety' is completely specious because AI already aligns with the hierarchical dualisms that shape our society at the deepest levels, especially misogyny, racism and a contempt for nature.

You can donate to Mahmoud’s family here: chuffed.org/project/mahm...

South Africa who took Israel to the ICJ on the crime of genocide.

Search: "Rector University of Ghent Sutter ChatGPT" DuckDuckGo: U Ghent Rector caught using ChatGPT hallucinated quotes Google, All and News tabs: Brave new U Ghent Rector overcomes resistance to introduce students to the AI future...

if the ICE officer is not swiftly arrested and charged with homicide, it will mean that American institutions have accepted that ICE can operate death squads on American soil

🚨 Breaking | Occupied West Bank 🇵🇸 Israeli occupation soldiers chase students with live gunfire and teargas during an incursion into the campus of Birzeit University, north of Ramallah.

“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote.

hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.

Today is Maha’s birthday. I would love to give her a gift… of knowing each month that her rent is covered. We already have 2 people who donate a small weekly amount . If you are in the position to do so could you join them by clicking ‘weekly’ on a small amount? Shares are also wanted & appreciated!

The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion. This is the aftermath in one area

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Is consuming this content going to help? Is it going to edify and clarify? Inform my future actions? Change anything? Is it a performance? Things I ask when everything is overwhelming.

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Mexico managing to have more spine than every western nation despite being in the immediate crosshairs, fuck every cowardly world leader that tries to play this safe

You cannot have “AI” without having “machine that almost solely exists to create nonconsensual sexually explicit images of mainly women and children.” The former exists in tandem with the latter. That’s how this industry has worked so far, and it has only gotten worse with zero accountability

‘This year will be harder than last year. On the other hand, it will be easier than next year.’ — Enver Hoxha, New Year’s Day Address, 1967

I choose to take this as a positive omen. (As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)

Keep hope alive: not a metaphor. For eight months, you've helped six families & a camp with crucial survival needs, dependably, every week. Don't look away today. Pledge and help them cope with mounting health emergencies and deadly cold. It matters. chuffed.org/project/hope...

I will not finish the novel I'm reading by the end of the year, and that's OK. I will not finish the novel I'm reading by the end of the year, and that's OK. I will not finish the novel I'm reading by the end of the year, and that's OK. (deep breaths.)

Enshittification with a difference. The thing was shit to begin with, too. One more ominous sign of how billionaires don't want the citizenry to be educated, to develop or use critical faculties of reasoning and analysis, or to understand the deep training and research behind expertise.

Calls to strip pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah of his British citizenship pile torment on top of torture. New piece by me on a dangerous and manufactured storm: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Another reason to not use AI. "With women, and the feminine generally, being both dislocated and erased from and by technology, AI is and has been (presented as) created mainly by privileged men, subserving capitalist patriarchal ends."

I can’t stand anybody who wants to tell me consumer-facing LLMs and/or genAI are good. You are trying to convince everyone that it’s actually better to use a knife with no handle. Your hand is bleeding as you tell me handleless knives are inevitable and we need to get used to them or fall behind.

I’m not going to give up on Palestinians. This platform can keep deleting their accounts but I’ll always boost their voices so long as I can.

Actress. I'll take it.

Reminder that The Guardian has a financial partnership with openAI so they have a vested interest in trying to paint this shit in a positive light. You can't trust a single thing they say about it whatsoever

AI isn't producing new information. AI isn't doing science. AI isn't adding to the frontiers of knowledge. It is simply regurgitating an aggregate of words and pretending that this constitutes things already known.

i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

WiFi is cut where Sama’a lives 😔 She walked a LONG way to ask me to write her next post. I’m sharing the 1st vid she ever sent me (9mo ago) Before 10/7, she was a schoolteacher. She misses her students. Some were martyred 💔 Now she teaches Julia 💞 Send her some love. tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily

One thing that I’ve become increasingly certain of over the course of this year: As an academic, I do not have (and never will have) a responsibility to teach students to use Gen AI ‘ethically’ (as if that were possible). The idea that academics should be doing this is a blight on the sector.

the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.

The deployment of “ai” is not a case study in diffusion of innovation or adoption of new technology. It is a case study in coerced implementation, it is social engineering by the elite class and it’s bad for people and bad for the planet

"We’re monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment. We have warned you." Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.

Our officials need to listen to experts like Jackie, who can clearly explain how the proliferation of hyperscale data centers is built on debt, how they're unsustainable, and what it means to her as a Marana resident who wants continue living here. From the Marana Planning Commission meeting 12/10

One of the largest arms shipments to israel since Oct 2023 is set to pass near Greece 24 Dec. This shipment can still be stopped. States are obliged to block weapons used in genocide. Dockworkers and civil society must refuse to load/unload. Disrupt the supply chain. #BlockTheBoat

second why are you citing something that you haven’t given the barest pretense of reading. citing a synopsis is fresher shit

The Bigfoot advent calendar is making each day feel special this December. Thank you @mooseallain.bsky.social!

I don't know how many times this needs to be said, but apparently a lot: If you are not in a position to verify the accuracy of some synthetic text, the synthetic text is not useful/has a high potential to be misleading. This is one of those cases.

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

honestly I think we specifically need to ban chatbots for this specific generation of extremely wealthy elderly academics

Open letter to UCL student Qesser Zuharh held at HMP Bronzefield.