Really difficult to overstate the fury one should feel that the GOP and institutions like the New York Times went all in on transphobia as some mortal threat to women and girls while covering up something like this.

Proposal: instead of pouring resources into AI, tech companies first figure out a way for people to be able to copy slides from one PowerPoint presentation to another without the formatting getting all fucked up

training data is literally the most important ‘ingredient’ that can reveal so much about model behaviour but again, opening up your training data is like putting your dirty laundry out and can bring an entire company down

Good news! Training data - the #1 place people have identified where bias and toxicity gets imported into ML/AI models - is actually not important at all! So relieved the tech guys let us know that literally countless experts and studies can be ignored!

I study tech’s capture of government data, and this is a new low even for me.

This seems bad. Bankrupting the folks who provide some of the core infrastructure of the internet seems bad.

Some thoughts about the power we have as academics and the impact of our choices around the framing of our work.

It’s just paying rent, but you’re responsible for maintaining and fixing everything.

I don’t think the Dems have any strategy here. Just that cancelled flights affected them and their donors. But I am very curious to see what Johnson is going to do when this officially gets out of the Senate.

I need to just go a head an log off of here for the sake of my blood pressure.

These tech guys really read all dystopian sci-fi as a how-to manual rather than a cautionary tale.

The Dems shouldn't cave. But, if they do, then Mike Johnson will have to bring the House back to vote & be forced to swear in AZ Rep Grijalva (who has said she will be the final vote needed to force a vote about releasing the Epstein files). Or he will have to single-handedly continue the shutdown.

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Yesterday, I went to the gym and also got my flu and Covid vaccines. I’m wondering when I’m going to be able to use my arms again.

And there it is. Public funds has always been the goal.

Because, as I have said, it’s only good universal use case is disciplining labor.

Breaking: someone reinvents phenology, again.

Africana Studies is going to have one hell of an update to their "what our majors have done with their degree after graduation" page.

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

Horrifying.

As someone raised Evangelical Christian - a belief system focused on hierarchy, obedience, and the End TimesTM - AI boosterism is looking real familiar right now. The resonances are eerie.

This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true. _This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/

Oh wow. What a shocking turn of events. Who could have ever seen that coming?

I don't think we understand just how bad the decline of the Internet is to knowledge. 3 years ago, I could perform a very basic search in any engine and get an absurd number of relevant links, research articles, etc. Today, I can perform the same search and find absolutely nothing.

This is the future liberals want.

People are opening up Meta AI Ray Ban glasses and modding out the LED recording light, then selling them on eBay. There is huge interest in disabling this functionality, which means basically you cannot trust anyone wearing these (i'm sure you already weren't) www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR: Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor, intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility. Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...

Well, this is horrifying.

Same firm that crashed 1/3 of the internet 2 days ago? Mkay? 🙄 #aws #cloud

I’m glad so many major universities are credulously reorganizing everything they do around products marketed with this acronym.

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

This is so sad.

I’m gonna keep saying it. These tech billionaires are kooks, and we should refer to them as such. They are not serious people.

It’s been so effectively made the norm that I don’t think students would acquiesce to life without it. I can’t imagine my students keeping track of paper copies of syllabi or printing papers to submit. They balk at taking exams in person anymore.

Seems like an opportune moment to re-up our paper about AWS seeking infrastructural dominance in education through a range of operations that include platforming the edtech industry on its cloud services codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/h...

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

In the same article it says that Microsoft executes believe OpenAI would fail www.theinformation.com/articles/mic...

I’ve been sick, and I have so much work to catch up on. But my cat is zonked out so hard on my lap, I don’t have the heart to move him.

Someone explain to be like I’m a child how migrating something from Google Docs to LaTeX inserts fake citations into your paper. I don’t use LaTeX. But it’s been around for a while, and I’ve never heard of this ‘glitch’ where it inserts random things into your bibliography.

The viral "Definition of AGI" paper tells you to read fake references which do not exist! Proof: different articles present at the specified journal/volume/page number, and their titles exist nowhere on any searchable repository. Take this as a warning to not use LMs to generate your references!

I still can’t believe that they banned Link and haven’t restored his account.

“People [in tech jobs] worry that not being seen as uncritical AI cheerleaders will be a career-limiting move…for those who aren't insiders in the tech industry, it's vital that you understand that you've been presented with an extremely distorted view about what tech workers really think about AI”

I’m not sure an AI company and private donors collaborating to give people (presumably temporary) access to Workday-owned products constitutes “democratizing AI.” Seems more like the rebranding of a marketing strategy as a public benefit initiative.

"My neighbors die of heat...homes become uninsurable, as the sea rises ever faster...hurricanes...But the AI overlords tell us with a straight face that their products, which cannot draw an accurate map of the United States, will somehow solve this crisis, if only we let them make it worse first.."

It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

The tech billionaires charting our future right now are kooks. And we should really start acknowledging and discussing them as such.

I feel like regulating data centers' energy grid impacts is such a layup for state legislators. These costs should be borne by tech companies, who can then pass them on to their users. There is no reason why local residents should be paying increased energy bills. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

Now, this can’t be right. Because I just read this amazing article about how universities are in crisis because experts are “obsolete” because AI can provide instant expertise at your fingertips. So everything AI models output must be accurate and insightful.