The point of LLMs aren't even that it will accurately enforce the desired ideological conformity. The stochastic errors and subsequent penalization are the point.

People used to throw rocks at you until you died for this kind of stuff

you can tell these accounts are all bots because no real person would be claiming charlie kirk was pretty

In the Harvard Law Review, @kredburn.bsky.social has a new piece explaining what happened in Skrmetti, and what it means for trans rights and sex equality more broadly.

I also think GenAI summaries of conversations and personal emails are fucking wack and disrespectful Either you have time to genuinely engage with what someone said or you don’t

This week's Bitch Media reprint is so key to the archives we are trying to rebuild. Vanessa Willoughby writes on Black women's influence in punk culture--and the attempts to erase their influence over the years. the-flytrap.ghost.io/loud-and-cle...

TESOL's position statement on "AI" is, as usual, a day late and a dollar short. It fails to define its terms, nods vaguely to "limitations and biases", and presupposes that "AI can sharpen and enhance our learning experiences" despite all evidence to the contrary. www.tesol.org/media/myuncu...

Fluorescent lighting is ableist

"These generative AI systems give sometimes correct and sometimes wrong information. The errors are not bugs, but by design. They "predict" next words based on probabilities. Facts are not their forte." (Sigh)

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet: “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

i tweeted this when David Lynch passed and i just keep thinking about how there have been so many Lauras and how rare his kindness for her was.

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

Let me fix that for you: Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.

its different. its a bigger world. its harder, but the reward is a more full life. a life that wasnt prescribed to you by the circumstance of your body or birth. its true freedom and i wouldnt have it any other way

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

Also, I find people are baffled when they hear about how I was forced to quit my career due to lack of accommodation - "But what they did was illegal! You should have fought it!" Ah, you sweet summer child.

Frankenstein (2025)

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

The latest Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies is out, and it's a doozy: a special issue on "Dynamics of Transphobic Content and Disinformation". With topics including Youtube, Mumsnet, LGB Alliance, Chinese TERFs, and transvestigators, this is an vital read! bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org

I mean the Times spent two years manufacturing consent for a genocide, and ran a “did women ruin the workplace” editorial like a week ago. And now this. I think, if anything, we’re being too calm about it.

It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend.

And one of the first survivors to step forward to try to stop Epstein? A trans woman, who was promptly mocked and villified by the New York Post, New York Magazine, the courts and law enforcement.

hey have I told you guys that in my last year at holy cross they spent months trying to block some research I was doing on anti-trans legislation

“AI is a backlash. AI is anti-worker. I always feel the need to remind people that neither robots nor AI are coming for our jobs. But management probably is.” 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ai-grief-obs...

Holy Cross: Our ideals are grounded in Jesuit traditions that call us to care for one another's physical and mental well-being, seek justice for the marginalized, and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with those in need. Also Holy Cross: invites DHS & ICE to campus

yeah it's honestly so wild! to me that the new york times circa 2019 is writing articles about how the internet is making kids trans meanwhile their writers are emailing The World's Most Well Known Child Sex Trafficker like "heyyy buddy,,,, how's it goin friend!"

the students who work in my writing center all hate AI so fucking much and it's so encouraging

One would think that if you had a new & poorly-understood tool, about which nobody was prepared to offer any reliability or performance guarantees, you might try using it for low-stakes things for a good few years & take notes on how that was going before using it for obviously life-or-death stuff.

Let's not overregulate the doomsday machine we wouldn't want to stifle innovation

This is what comes of insisting on teaching kids how to use LLMs "responsibly" or "ethically."

If Copilot is what innovation looks like, I don't want it.

Gender affirming wage gap

"Of course, amidst all the critical momentum that’s been building over the last year, we’ve learned that it’s still not easy to refuse...Everyone should have the right to refuse to engage with technologies that harm them, their students, and the planet."

IT REALLY DOESN'T and I'm tired of people saying LLM output is anything but some words put together following certain syntactical and grammatical norms into sentences strung together following the faintest threads of content logic that unravel as quickly as the next thought ravels. Embarrassing

they literally didn’t have to find a reason for spock to never mention his sister…..true spockheads know he would just do this

“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!" 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical... There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness." ― Ursula K. Le Guin

"walking the path of the hater means knowing more about something than people who profess to like it" are words to live by

Cue the articles on discrimination against sloppers.

When you are using the "AI" framing, does the way you talk about "AI" carry water for the Sam Altmans of the world? That is, are you helping to paint a picture of their tech as inevitable, all powerful, and/or anything other than commercial products? >>

If you'll be in Albany next week, I'll try to connect threads on anti-democratic parents' rights groups, AI, democracy, and education at a talk I'm giving at SUNY-Albany on Thursday afternoon as part of the AI and Democracy: Critical Questions Speaker Series.

God I want to see a million “Dems demanding new leadership” articles today, I want it to be a narrative Schumer can’t escape

Adam et al also found biased AI outputs resulted in biased decisions by both experts and non-experts while study participants who did NOT use AI were unbiased, a finding Vicente 2023 confirmed and extended, showing people continued to perpetuate biases even when not using an AI tool.

Over these past decades, software has coached us into thinking like a computer. Not necessarily on purpose, but because the software wasn't designed to be usable by thinking like a human. This side effect was a net positive for libertarians, who leapt from anti-human software to an anti-human world

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement. @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @rocher.lc @danmcquillan.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com & many others have signed www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

Trump didn't need to get the filibuster nuked or his very own Enabling Act passed because Democrats have decided that they'll just become rubber stamps for fascism who hem and haw on social media once a week

Break up the Democratic Party, sell the parts for scrap, beat and harangue its architects and factotums out of public life, and then reform a New Deal rainbow coalition. It's done. It's goddamn done! Bunch of carpetbagging shitstains on our collective shoe.

We need an immediate recall election to oust Chuck Schumer

is it good when the dems in the house of representatives start calling for the senate to be abolished