It didn't get a ton of air time today what with the tariff stuff, but this is good and important.

we need a rom-com that unites the people in revolutionary struggle

Today our provost announced an initiative where we can get paid $4000 to integrate AI into one of our classes Last week when I said we used to pay FYW faculty to attend PD she said acted shocked and said what do you mean we paid them, that should just be part of their job

Love that people are finally waking up en masse to the fact that they don’t need or want a lot of the stuff that’s been marketed for the past 25 years as “the future” and “making all our lives better”

the ideal future is one with lots of old trans women in it

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ChatGPT conversations from the Tumbler Ridge teenager who carried out a horrific school shooting were flagged by employees at OpenAI. They raised their concerns but the company ultimately did nothing, according to the reporting. archive.is/GUweE#select...

"is there a technology the left are actually excited about?"

This is why the phrase comes up in so many of the things I've written about AI. AI does three main things: 1) dismantle the institutions necessary for democratic society to thrive 2) transfer wealth upwards 3) create the permission structure for (1) and (2)

the operative part of "hey, try your best not to use or support evil stuff" is "try your best".

“Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm.”

I hadn't talked about AI with my therapist before but I wanted to complain about some bullshit with the AI boosters on campus this week so I first asked "how do you feel about AI?" and she immediately groaned and said "I hate it"

god I love a perfect analogy

“Some 100 school districts across the country have contracted with Flock, according to government procurement records.”

we found it

DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’ Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characters—that they were…

Look at my lawyer dawg I'm going to jail

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power." The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited

"From a strategic perspective, in efforts to resist data centers, we need to be principled about including the supply chain as part of our political analysis as we raise the profile of this issue," write Hannah Lipstein and @tamigraph.bsky.social.

A reporter to me: but AI people are saying this tech will help address the climate disaster. Me: I think we already know, after many decades of research, how we need to deal with that and a resource-intensive industry that uses fiction as propaganda is not it.

I only started reading about AI because my school literally told me my program had to address AI literacy but now they all get mad at me for talking about what I know about AI

Fuck Grok

Well, this is a bit of a plot twist.

everyone mentioning ICE/war/prisons/healthcare/insurance as if those things aren't all the prime sites of AI adoption

we should have a third industry besides AI and gambling

Nice piece by @ambersinha07.bsky.social about how the rhetoric of “democratization” in connection with AI can—& does—mask conduct that has nothing to do with democracy or addressing asymmetrical power. In my experience, “democratization” is almost always a huge red flag. Let’s build a better world.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Venmo: @Omi-k

I forget that people who didn't grow up in New England aren't always aware that everything in New England is underwhelming.

I'm gonna repeat my comment. Talking about nonexistent "super intelligent" machines is like talking about the Cookie Monster rather than corporations creating real things causing harm. A non existent machine god bringing apocalypse or utopia is a framing that is harmful. Period.

This aged pretty well.

pathetic that I'm wishing for a week off so I can just finally have a time to write for an extended time

I'm sure that's fine

Q: is there a technology that "the left" is excited about? A:

The vennn diagram in my campus between the people who complain about having to teach writing and the people who dismiss everything I tell them about how to teach writing is a circle

I totally missed that today is Ash Wednesday not being at a Catholic school has changed me

Imagine being a teacher and telling the news you don't want to interact with your students

You really owe it to yourself to go through this thread where TMC is giving a masterclass on how the AI push is showing up in politics.

the correlation is that if you undergo trans medical care the state is more likely to perform acts of violence against you

Wow, this sucks.

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this is why we can't have an HIV vaccine btw

this is my entire reply to the guy who was like "the left isn't happy with AI"

its homophobic that Cs scheduled the queer caucus sponsored panel at 8am

the AI junk that nobody - including the people making it - have enough real uses or profitable demand for is screwing up all the things that have real uses and decades of profitable demand p.s. added alt text for the quoted post's screenshot into my alt text

Another thought: while I appreciate all the reporting on Alpha School, I also think it's important that the takeaway isn't, "Oh, well, at least we're not Alpha School," but instead consider how the same logics of privatization, surveillance, and datafication are and have been shaping all schools.

it's really damning for academia that the president of Bard College hasn't stepped down yet

was hoping to get some writing done today but so far i've mostly just been on hold with medical offices and insurance companies

Save some of that hate in your heart you have for Palantir and direct it towards Microsoft.

It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life