Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”

a ‘human in the loop’ protocol is now a guardrail made of swiss cheese

what

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Opinion: Unless handed back to communities for the express purpose of reparations, supporting health & community care, “profits” generated from U.S. health care are blood money🩸

I do not know the author, but this really chaps my hide. It reads like a blended smoothie made of the work of everyone in my field (myself included - ‘AI is a mirror’, okay) without attribution or even any mention of the field, nor a single one of us who have built it for the past decade. WTF

As a Susan G. Komen Fellow & former VA employee who has studied cis men with breast cancer (who already face numerous challenges vis-a-vis screening & treatment), let me tell you that this is some bullsh*t. 😡

1/ Having recently been in conversation with some bio fam down in deep red TX (lifelong Republican/Southern Baptist/homesteading & homeschooling “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” type folks)- I learned 2 things about attitudes towards single payer health care on which we can build:

In the “richest country in the world”, agreeing that everyone (babies, pregnant people, youth, adults, older folks, etc) should have access to food, shelter, clean water, public education, health care, dental care & a living wage should be the *moderate* position. Like - the basement-level bar.

“In reality, because targeting is so easy, we have seen governments use surveillance malware to spy on a broad range of people, including relatively minor political opponents, activists, and journalists…”

“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”

So this is, uhhhhh, quite the take.

Should a man who has managed to extract & hoard more wealth than *anyone else on the planet* be compensated for these behaviors (in any amount)? www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/b...

This thread is quite the ride…

Remember, folks. We took one for the team. "affect recognition" is so bad it's beyond the realm of wrong and you might give yourself an ulcer having to debate it. SO WE MDE SURE YOU DON'T HAVE TO! Here's that link to our piece once again. hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

Truly a remarkable photo. I hope the person who collapsed got the care they needed. (Unlike so many who are currently being violently and unnecessarily denied their health, liberty or access to basic resources).

Excessive force. PERIOD! They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor. 📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

One wonders how many of these anonymous armed men in balaclavas & full battle rattle, busting into daycares and schools in broad daylight to kidnap & terrorize women and children, also have histories of domestic violence & SA, and/or prior restraining orders against them.

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

How NDAs keep AI data center details hidden from Americans: Big Tech companies use secrecy agreements with local governments to keep communities from knowing who is building in their backyards. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

You know it’s already *really* bad when even a media outlet that has uncritically & relentlessly cheered on the current A.I.stravaganza starts noticing that maybe aLL tHiS sHInY iNnoVaTiOn comes at a cost… 🙃

Holy sh*t!!!!!!?!?!???!!!

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

As a lawyer and democracy expert I cannot overstate how rock-solid the presidential term limit is. Thread.

Turn off Gemini in Google! It's been turned on by default. Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

For so many reasons, I positively HATE this timeline.

A.I.-washing & invisible labor case #794572303564

Thinking of Jamaica, the DR, Haiti, & everyone in the path of #Melissa 💜

This enrages me & I see it ALL the time…

I love breakfast 💜👻

It’s spooky season! 🎃 Tell me a SUPERNATURAL TALE OF HORROR, WOE & HUMAN FOLLY with a single (real) presentation title*. I’ll start: “Using Machine Learning to Predict Childhood BMI from the First 1,000 Days of Life”* <insert screaming> 👻 *actually this is a keynote from a public health ctr

Universities across the world seeing this: "its only wrong 45% of the time!! Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!! Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"

The cozy alliance between Washington and Silicon Valley is creating an unprecedented concentration of power. In this new landscape, Europe’s bid for digital sovereignty is a bid for democracy itself, writes Open Market Institute's Courtney C. Radsch.

Oh www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.

This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/

Thissssssss

Congrats to all the soon-to-be-inducted Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing (including my colleague Dr. Lisa Duffy!) & awardees. Sorry I can’t dance with you all this year - but I hope you can celebrate the milestone. And my heart goes out to those who can’t be present 💜 #FAAN #HPC2025

This. Is. Very. Illegal. That’s not stopping the abuses of power, but it remains important context.

"Responsible adults involved in working with young people would do well to expand investments in practices of social innovation within systems of care rather than invent new methods of surveillance, punishment, and social control." Hear, hear!

There are lessons here (if anyone is paying attention)

when I was researching it for an article, I actually learned how to run it, train models, how prompting works, all that shit, exploring it very thoroughly and uh: futurism.com/the-byte/ai-...

THIS is what I mean when Ive been saying that nearly all big tech companies, even consumer focused ones that have nothing to do with surveillance, see the easy money to be made with practically all federal funding going exclusively to deportation and wanting in on it by making tools for ICE.

Even a single person at home can now do what once took buildings of trolls. Open models run on high-end PCs or small clusters. No provider-side safety system may see or stop it. AI Safety is missing the point here.

📣My analytical op-ed in @ForeignPolicy on AI-powered information warfare. Is the window for combating AI-driven propaganda is closing? Local, open-weight models let State, non-state and micro-operators run industrial-scale influence ops with no central points. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/18/a...

The wild thing about genA.I.-based “personalization” is how it tailors a unique plan (built just for you!) by… copy/pasting from others whose data look just like you* *to the computer, at least

This is an all hands on deck moment

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