The "etc." in the subhead cracks me up. "Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc."

Try listening to these episodes in a row without getting a headache. player.captivate.fm/episode/225c...

It's Ethics Bowl time www.appe-ethics.org/northeastieb/

Invite David Perry to your campus to teach faculty and graduate students the nuts and bolts of writing for the general public.

⚠️ How are workers led movements against AI shaping climate action in the tech industry? Join us for a book presentation on worker led movements by Tamara Kneese (Data & Society) with Sana Ahmad (Weizenbaum-Institute). Register now: buff.ly/SnAZkHi @tamigraoh.bsky.social, @datasociety.bsky.social

Residents, businesses, food pantries to try to ensure nobody starves because of President Golden Ballroom (tried to list some resources; if you know of others, let me know) www.universalhub.com/2025/residen... #Boston #SNAP

"The state of our surveillance dystopia is such that a major glasses retailer is advertising anti-facial recognition features as a selling point as if it was normal." www.404media.co/zennis-anti-...

My county has a median household income of $84,000 and just shy of 17% of people here rely on SNAP. Most people have no idea just how widespread the need for food assistance is.

One of the protester's signs yesterday read, "Facism relies on silence", and I had to think really hard about whether to say something.

ALTMAN, 10 months ago: "I'm proud that we don't do sexbots to juice profits." www.reddit.com/r/artificial...

It's time. chasingmailboxes.com/2025/09/29/c...

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.

(This webpage contains information about violence related to the Indian residential school system, which may be distressing to some readers.) sencanada.ca/en/info-page...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

At a time of profound public confusion over vaccine policy and access, the City of Boston will host free vaccine clinics throughout the city through Dec. 15.

oof www.thenerdreich.com/libertariani...

Oh. My. God. www.popsci.com/environment/...

🟠 Orange Line closure: the MBTA has announced there will be no train service between Forest Hills and North Station this Saturday, September 27 through Sunday, September 28. Use shuttle buses between Forest Hills and Back Bay. Use the Green Line between Copley and North Station. mbta.com/orangeline

So many of the half-baked AI implementations are happening in professional arenas that have been hollowed out by extraction and divestment. No journalist needs a writing aid unless they’re being paid too little to write too much, no teacher needs a commenting tool unless they’re overextended.

If I'd known ahead of time that @imaniperry.bsky.social would be the emcee and interlocutor with Justice KBJ tonight, I would have paid double.

Do you love public transit and science fiction? Of course you do! Now you can have them at the same time! Next Tues, 9/16, at 6pm, an astonishing panel of activists and creators are coming together to talk about the future of transit. Seriously do not miss this one-of-a-kind event. luma.com/0olo6szj

WATCH: Tonight on public television across the nation, the premiere of the new documentary “Becoming Thurgood.” It’s so good. Check your PBS and public television schedules. It is part of #HBCUWeek on PBS.

The "using AI for completing assignments is like using a forklift at the weight room" analogy leads me to notice that most gyms I visit have many weight machines and comparatively few free weights. Extending the analogy - if gen AI is the forklift, then is the instructor the weight machine?

Overheard on the first day of my "responsible AI" course: "I thought this was going to be another one of those 'rah-rah AI' classes until I saw that he has us spending the first month reading the print edition of @karenhao.bsky.social's _Empire of AI_".

Win the battle, lose the war? www.wired.com/story/anthro...

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I was doing some random research and I found out Jamaica Plain High, Hyde Park High, Mario Umana Harbor School/Tech & the Charles E. Mackey School were all closed in 1989… No one has laid eyes on a letterman’s jacket, basketball, football or baseball jersey or even a t shirt from them all since.

Always-on recording with notification by a giant corporation such as Meta = bad. Always-on recording *without* notification by a "smaller, underdog startup" = sure; why not?

I wasn't prepared for the conversation with a recent graduate who was going to apply to medical school but decided that they could have a bigger effect, on more people, by..."pivoting" to work on solving the existential risks posed by AI.

What? It doesn't accept "Luddite"??

"AI fluency frameworks in higher education advocate for teaching responsible usage of AI, but none of them talk about the impossibility of our current situation." substack.com/@marcwatkins...

i think a lot about how zotero is actually one of the technologies academia actually should be pushing on students and faculty versus the lake-guzzling, town poisoning, and labor exploiting chatbots

This fall, I'll teach from/with @karenhao.bsky.social 's _Empire of AI_ in an undergrad/grad course on "responsible AI". @hchoi.bsky.social is also going to teach that book in one of her courses. If you will, too, then let's talk: we'd like to compare notes! +

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”― Zora Neale Hurston

"When Ms. Morris said she was afraid to cook with the tap water because of the sediment, the Meta employee suggested that she try boiling the water before using it. The company has denied that its employee said that." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

"Asked how he sees the impasse between content creators and AI companies being resolved, Zhao said these tools were not designed to be the ultimate solution." www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/d...

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