Judging from the quotes in here, university admins are some of the least “ai literate” people in existence. No wonder they think students need to be taught how to use it.

Why ask an ai to interview a student and then watch the video of the interview when you could just talk to the student directly? This is bananas.

Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +

There is a certain type of person who is only able to answer the last question you ask them. So if you put two questions in a text message, because you're trying to speed up communication, you will get an answer to the last question and they will just pretend the first question wasn't asked.

As a former marketing manager I have to say: marketing managers are not ok

Yes!

Am I losing my mind?

This is one of the most depressing threads I’ve read lately.

Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

Evolutionary biologists are stupid.

Lets face it, this is a good day for oil companies, businesses, and those in the oil sector. Its a bad day for the environment and for reconciliation with Indigenous nations whose lands this thing will go over. As Blanchet stated, this is the official end of Canada's climate commitments.

Stood in the shower for 15 minutes thinking about organizing systems, then got out and realized I forgot to wash myself. This is what information studies is doing to me. (I went back in and used the soap.)

Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.

Canadian weapons, mining interests, and refugee policies are leaving fingerprints on the ongoing genocide in Sudan. @nisrinelamin.bsky.social, @policingblack.bsky.social and Ismail Adam write about Canada’s role in Sudan’s brutal and escalating war. breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...

REALLY chuffed to be invited to @parismarx.com's incredible @techwontsave.us pod to talk about not just the climate harms we face from an uncontrolled data centre expansion but the way companies enacting it seem to think they're cape-wearing climate superheroes -->>> techwontsave.us/episode/304_...

I would totally be eating snacks during a deposition lol

“Garbage in, garbage out” has become my most hated phrase of the year.

Funny how the victims of theft don’t like it and the perpetrators like it.

Sometimes I wish I had more followers and then a 100K account reposts a random thing I said and I realize that, no, it's probably better to be a nobody on social media.

Ring doorbells are horrible. Suburban neighbourhoods Facebook groups are full of paranoid narcissists posting screenshots of “suspicious” people who happened to walk in front of their house. Truly a community-destroying invention.

My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

Some of the replies to this post are unhinged!

Please make it stop

It's insane to me that there are people I respect who still cling to that website. I can't wrap my head around it.

Literally the stupidest thing I've read all year. (It's by Matt Stoller.)

If we're gonna go to bat for works of fiction written by "problematic" authors, I'm much more inclined to defend the early books in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series than the Harry Potter franchise. Card's views are so thoroughly fucked up, it's impossible to defend them on any level. And yet!

'Death Of The Author' isn't "i will pretend the author is dead so i can enjoy this slop" That framing is to grapple with works that had ambiguous meaning or provide value as products of their time. Joanne has made sure to clarify that she's exactly the bigot who wrote the problematic content in HP

I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world And by design LLMs destroy shared context

"No hallucinations." Forgive me if I have doubts.

Watched this recently and had similar (less coherently articulated) thoughts and feelings.

Obsessed with this interview with Oneohtrix Point Never, in which casually mentions of Derrida's Archive Fever. (Didn't know Lopatin has a degree in archival studies.) "I wanted to capture the emotional register of an era where everything is archived but perpetually slipping away." Hell yeah!!

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

"Which left me wondering: what is the point of activism that celebrates hypocrisy? Or of journalism that doesn't tell the whole truth?" Excellent question.

Given that the words "information integrity" were followed by, effectively, science denial in the #COP30 text, that is not a win but rather a co-opting of the language folks are trying to use to fight climate disinfo. drilled.ghost.io/there-can-be...

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Exposing this information on X is such an incredible self-own. Wonder how long before they catch on and revert back on this feature.

Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive. www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...

Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray! www.bl.uk/stories/news...

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Yes!!

ACAB includes me. ACAB includes all of us.

I think what I hate the most about ride-share/delivery apps is the way it turns us all into little surveillance cops. It's impossible not to stare at the little map and not get angry at your driver for taking too long, or not moving for 10 minutes, or taking a weird detour. When did I become a cop?!

Watched two movies today. Didn’t like either of them. This was the first one. boxd.it/bLRxZX

Huge win for Missouri and for all libraries. Thank you to MASL, MLA, the ACLU, and everyone involved! @la-cac.org #FReadom www.stlpr.org/government-p...

A sample of some do the stuff I got at Expozine today.

Watched this last night with my partner and it was so boring and such a disappointment. Cool concept but appallingly bad script.

A very important episode of a very important podcast about a very important movie. Also, I cackled when @alexstrook.bsky.social said "I'm sure the Dewey Decimal System is problematic in some way." Alex, if you decide to go down that rabbit hole, you're in for quite a journey.

This is really fascinating work. Check the whole thread for more.

Tooltips are the bane of my existence. One of the worst inventions in all of UX. I wish there was a way to universally turn them off. I don't want random ship popping up all over my screen every time I move the cursor.