Savings = dead or disabled patients. They going to kill and/or harm patients under the guise of “savings”.

“The AI companies will receive a percentage of the savings the program generates.” “Savings”

The University Democrats at UT-Austin, a longstanding student group, has been told that no guests, candidates, or speakers can speak at their meetings unless the administration approves them. Submitted speakers' lists have been ignored or summarily denied. Please HMU if you know a good 1A attorney

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Rage Against the Machine Learning

In a world that made even a lick of sense, anybody w/ a degree in anything like social implications of tech should be able to write their own ticket rn. …But if we lived in a world that recognized, let alone properly valued that expertise, a whole lot of shit would already necessarily be different.

Suppose you tried to solve math problems by rolling dice to get the answer Sometimes, the dice will give the correct answer. Other times, not. If you were to insist that the wrong answers were the *dice* malfunctioning, people would rightly mock the shit out of you.

technologically advance a band. Rocket from the Crypto

PERL Jam

Gene Editing Loves Jezebel.

Technologically advance a band: Alice in Blockchains

What could go wrong.

Technologically advance a band: Pets.com Boys

technologically advance a band. Earth, Wind and Firefox

I wrote about who should get mad and why. aramzs.xyz/essays/i-wan...

A I B Sure.

technologically advance a band: mint condition laptop ready for the worldwide web

technologically advance a band. Deep Satellite Dish

“The downside of [an AI interaction] is how it continues to isolate us…I think having our everyday conversations with chatbots will be very detrimental in the long run.”

this is bad for all the data privacy and freedom of information reasons many have already noted but it's going to be fun to watch it fail!

My stalker is back. So, if you follow me or @louiseseamster.bsky.social and you get a creepy or suspicious follow, please block and report the account. It’s pretty exhausting to rehash this history. But here’s a primer on the nearly decade long stalking: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua

I was pretty late to covering AI but seemed to get it right in February 2023 www.wheresyoured.at/degenerative...

Elon Musk did this

Hi, Rhodes Scholar and Oxford grad here. This is trash.

i've been thinking about this off and on since last night and @tisjune.bsky.social got me thinking about like... why are we enamored with this? it genuinely is flummoxing me. @vortexegg.com asked a similar question as to why this is notable. it's just... disorienting to see this fanfare

it's not a statistical or a computational limitation, because that implies that if you have better statistical methods or bigger compute or bigger data you can get around these things the problem is that you're modeling word tokens; you can't get out from under that this isn't revelatory though

"the only way to get toward a more respectful, harmonious world is to try everything else first" is a profoundly immoral and ahistorical position.

*stares at the camera* We didn't need a study to tell us this?

what are your fav pop culture podcasts, video essays, non-academic writing, etc.? (my students are feeling meh to read some of the articles I assign, and I give them other things to engage with, but would love to give them more options :))

It must be a capitalist’s dream come true to keep employing a dead man but no longer needing to pay him, since he no longer needs food or shelter or autonomy.

Again…

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“But you sure should’ve seen the savings on those rockets.”

If you would like for me to come to your conference or convening and give a 45-minute rant about what makes good digital privacy trainings and guides, particularly for high-risk populations, hit me up.

Hey all, quick question: is it good that mark zuckerberg’s answer to “are we in a bubble” was “yeah, maybe, but don’t worry, it’s just like the dot com boom,” a point easily-disproved? Isn’t he meant to be the guy who has a real answer? Is this good? Hello?! www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...

This has flown under the radar with everything else going on but ice now is using the single most powerful surveillance tool ever created inside the United States against its own citizens. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

every time dems experiment with these ideas they don't just lose voters for a cycle; they burn bridges with people for an entire generation. dabbling in fascistic logics is a poison that will kill them slowly; they'll writhe in agony, wondering why their eventual deathbed conversions don't heal them

I hardly ever write a newsletter for my readers. I always worry that whatever I want to write about is uninteresting or intrusive or both. Intellectually I know that's not true, but still. I'm going to try to get a bit better at this, so if you'd like, here's the signup:

Dripping poison into your ears and bacteria-infused drops into your eyes equals the perfect description of the transformative power of AI and social media algorythms.

Altman is like "What if Dupont Chemical also made baby food?"

At the same time that it becomes common to see the toxic effects of forming a relationship with these technologies, the companies are becoming more dedicated to finding ways to perpetually drip poison into your ear.

#infinitedetail www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Our use of reaction gifs and images should tell you everything about how much and how well we can communicate without a single word. So much comes through with a simple visual alone, and techbros still believe the presence of language is the most important part if not the entirety of thinking.

AI intensifies commercial influence in education. Big tech companies have been charging into schools for years, but the normalization of AI in pedagogy means they are now not only pushing software services but reshaping teaching itself with new (un-)educational features bsky.app/profile/hype...

When you do things like post about where you and others will be or otherwise create a paper trail that can assist with them placing you at a scene of what they are going to call a crime, you’re simplifying the fascists’ jobs and it’s totally unnecessary

I just opened Zoom this morning and the gen ai feature popup only has the options "Show me how" or "Remind me later"

While people are suddenly and uncharacteristically paying attention to media regulation, please take a moment to notice all the massive harm Brendan Carr has done to consumer protection and public safety as well me, back in April:

Just a reminder that a staggering number of Black women have also lost their jobs due to capitulation to this administration. That deserves more outrage.