A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.” 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

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

I was interviewed by Kim for her @stopgenai.com Website about my criticism/approach. It was neat to think about how I approach things, maybe it's interesting to you, I enjoyed thinking about the questions a lot.

Taylorism’s final form.

Y’all.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

“Technology firms behind artificial intelligence–based note-taking software — marketed to therapists as a time-saving administrative tool — have quietly included provisions in their terms and conditions that allow patients’ therapy records to be sold and manipulated to train other AI applications.”

What could possibly go wrong? 🙃🙃🙃

To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.

Here is how they operationalized the term (from article): “The 1948 U.N. Genocide Convention, adopted in the wake of the mass murder of Jews by Nazi Germany, defines genocide as crimes committed ‘with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such’”

At least 50 National Guard with long guns around Audi field and Navy Yard metro station as I leave the Washington Spirit soccer game. Free DC.

I love breakfast. 💜

DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We! Are! Hiring! The Department of Africana Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Black Women’s Studies/Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 7/1/26 More info here: apply.interfolio.com/171572 #blackademia #academia #PhDSky

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Ah yes, because referring to my community, caring for ppl who are incarcerated or unhoused, making sure folks (including children!) are fed, reckoning with power & believing that men are not intrinsically superior to all other genders are famously ideas that should be excluded from government 💀💀💀

NEW: In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies. We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left. They refused to give us numbers. So we conducted our own analysis... 🧵 projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...

When a company wants to fake the undoing of some harm it is causing, it will choose technologies that are - Somewhat plausible-sounding to the average journalist - Not commercially available and not likely to ever be - Impossible to work at large scale but easy to demonstrate at tiny scale

The DOJ subpoenas to providers of gender affirming care wanted the therapy notes, social security numbers, and addresses of patients. This is an unprecedented and disgusting violation of medical privacy. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Another reason that using chat GPT is worse than simply not having a lawyer. If opposing counsel finds out you've been using chat gpt, they can request your logs and find out everything you've been saying. You get bad advice *and* you are creating discoverable evidence that can be used against you.

F*******************k this

New study by @nathanckim.bsky.social and @davidthewid.bsky.social on cloud investments of the Big Three.

Hi, just to let you know that as a historian I’m terrified. Like “this is going to get so much worse so much faster than most realize” terrified🙃

I lived in & around DC for more than a decade. I visit multiple times a year. The propaganda about rampant “crime” necessitating an unconstitutional occupation by Federal forces is just that: Propaganda Lies Deceit Designed to manufacture (white) consent for an authoritarian takeover F that

There needs to be a congressional investigation into ICE and its practices. The agency needs to be completely dissolved and its agents and officers need to be prosecuted for any and all crimes committed.

The fascist government hired fascist gang members and gave them the power of the state. Congrats to the "fund the police" people, you earned this one.

The Constitution protects your right to record law enforcement in public.

My take: They’re dismantling every agency that provides public info about the climate crisis (NOAA, NASA, FEMA, NSF, EPA) & data-sharing by gov satellites, so they can: 1. Control the narrative 2. Monetize forecasts $$$ 3. Pick winners & losers in this new market www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

Who could’ve seen this coming!? (Literally everyone who has ever researched “Speech AI”)

tired: in the future your therapist will be your superior at your corporate employer wired: in the future your therapist will be a computer program that extrudes therapy-shaped responses after being illegally trained on real therapists’ notes. you have no employer

This is really important & will likely impact the degree to which individual cities will be protected from unlawful usurpation of self-governance by the current administration

NEW: Judge Reyes has called a 2pm hearing on D.C.'s emergency bid to reclaim control of its police department. A restraining order could be in place within hours. w Nicole Markus www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

The nasal spray vaccine FluMist can now be ordered online and shipped to your door.

Oh hey look- now we can ‘accelerate’ application of the climate crisis-stoking, bias-amplifying, civil rights-crushing LLM machines by using *even more public funds* to further fuel Nvidia’s growth & market capture Can’t wait 🙃 www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-nvi...

I read the whole thing & can say, as an NIH-funded scientist (a status the author praises) that relies on my humanities training: For all their blustering about “heterodoxy” this is a very 1-sided argument A cautionary tale: Just because you *can* get something published doesn’t mean you *should*

Reading the chosen headline alone, you might never know that what really happened is a violent male partner shot a mother (his girlfriend) in the stomach, before taking his own life, while her 2 children were in the house. And that almost the same thing had happened in the same town 2 yrs earlier.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover

Challenge: post your last photo taken in D.C. to show what a hell hole it is

I remember the worst day for crime in Washington D.C.'s history and whose fault it was.

Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."

As someone who spent about a decade working alongside downtown DC residents who were living on the streets &/or chronically housing insecure, let me be one of many to say F*** you to this administration & its efforts to terrorize & displace unhoused communities through military occupation

Berger's three laws of chatbotics: 1) The bot should never express emotions. 2) The bot should never praise the user. 3) The bot should never say it understands the user's mental state. There's no use case for these things, and they're obviously problematic. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

There's still a lot of work to do to improve Bluetooth tracker detection, but for now, here's how to detect them automatically and search for them manually. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

RFK Jr is intentionally lying when he says mRNA vaccines aren’t effective. The data aren’t hard to understand, but he lies about them daily. The most parsimonious explanation for this behavior is that he wants people to die. To state the obvious, that’s disqualifying for the head of HHS.

The states are where it’s at these days. And local city councils. This fight is hyper-local.

1/ Yesterday the Am Acad of Nursing announced disbanding its Health Equity & Ethics expert panels, so those themes can be threaded throughout the org Here’s what I know about what happens when you dismantle a line item to make it a ‘cross-cutting theme’: No one is responsible for it & it gets lost

More footage of state-sanctioned criminals criming

This tech is & will be abused by DHS.

A more comprehensive analysis for @brennancenter.org of how the Trump administration's latest AI policy could leave us more divided and less informed: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...