Please repost this far and wide. We are looking for candidates with teaching backgrounds, but also other relevant backgrounds.

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Since we're re-litigating Ring's sins: How did they grow so fast? Until 2016, Ring gave out free/discounted cameras to police & giving cops perks if the public (including victims of crimes) used the officer's discount code to buy cameras--all of which meant Ring essentially made cops salespeople.

«What historians call the ‹perpetrator perspective,› evident in many Nazi photos and films, simply cannot be generated by AI. Instead, these images reveal the prompt behind them: visualizations of generic descriptions.» #GenericPastness www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...

Dette er altså selskapet som lager systemet ICE bruker til å arrestere toåringer. Tolletaten, PST (antar jeg), Forsvaret: Har dere virkelig tenkt over hva dere gjør? Var det ikke dette vi mente da vi sa «aldri igjen»?

This is, notably, why cyberpunk is fiction. It’s the make believe idea that a totalizing cybernetic libertarianism will also produce anything that is cool and good.

Not headline news. No real fuss by Democratic leaders. No calls to censure. No pushback. No questions asked of GOP leadership by the press. Just totally accepted anti-Muslim bigotry across the board.

I really admire Paris's efforts these past few years to provincialize the US tech sector such that we can begin to think around, beyond, and past it.

Confess I’m upping this at @techpolicypress.bsky.social one last time just for the lede: “Back last November, 87-year-old American novelist Joyce Carol Oates hurt the richest man in the world’s feelings by tweeting something mean about him.” techpolicy.press/grok-is-an-e...

NEW: I spoke with this bishop, who offered more context for his (entirely unprepared!) remarks. Turns out other bishops (e.g., in MN) agree with him, and he recalled the moment he told local priests to get their wills in order. “There was a little gasp,” he said. religionnews.com/2026/01/15/t...

This is important. I fell for the headlines.

Good morning

Congratulations to Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/ajco...

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That he chooses the "me or your lying eyes?" approach, in the full knowledge that there are multiple videos out there, is a striking commentary on the nature of propaganda in the modern information environment.

New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance. Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...

The most unsubtle, heavy-handed claims made by pomo academic types have turned out to all be true. Gender is a relation of domination that requires constant, affirming witness. Capitalism will require extractive colonial relations. There’s no subtlety. Every day is like a 101 seminar at Oberlin.

Huh www.ft.com/content/8816...

If you’re looking for an accessible and engaging history of American imperialism right now, I can’t recommend A People’s History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation more. Check it out.

Hei norske nobelkomité: hva tenker dere nå om valget dere gjorde, mon tro?

My weapons of choice for the evening

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Members of the corrupt regime we overthrew will be corrupt for us

A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Så sant som det er sagt

Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?

Omg shut up already, this is absolute bullshit and you should know better. Argh I’m so tired of this crap www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Liz Truss, who served 44 days as UK prime minister, goes full Curtis Yarvin. Interviewing Yarvin on her new podcast, she calls for overhauling UK government to fit his vision. “I agree with you, having spent 10 years in the system, you need to start from scratch,” Truss tells Yarvin.

legitimately amazing

Norsk RiksRagebait.

“Every Rose Has Its Porn: Optical Character Recognition and the Middle English Problem” is a title for an article that I don’t even need to write. Please cite this post.

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Sorry, doing research with humans is hard! There isn't going to be a magical technology that makes it easier. @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I recently published about the risks of AI Surrogates, and why they are so appealing... See thread on the paper: bsky.app/profile/lmes...

Apropos to a post I'm not going to quote: no, you are not fucking obliged to battle the fucking right on fucking social media, or go to where they are. Why make yourself miserable shouting at bots (who don't care) or trolls (who get off on your misery). Make your fucking social media enjoyable, FFS.

The cliche that ‘having an idea’ is the hard part of writing is persistent and pernicious. Realising the idea is the craft of it. That FAQ of…

I’m not a technopessimist but I am very much a tech bro pessimist

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Come research with us at the Max Planck Research Group for Machine Visual Culture — “Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing” positions open under Dr Leonardo Impett. We’ll get to hang out sometimes. www.biblhertz.it/3757971/0412...

in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company

Wrote about Deepak Chopra’s new AI model, AI guru slop, and how none of this is really shocking because we already turned spirituality into a commodity. houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/this-was-i...

I have a feeling this will be the most controversial FIFA Peace Prize since 1938 when they awarded it to Adolf Hitler

Calling it now: the weird American tradcaths are going to schism and unite behind a cyberpope powered by Grok

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Presis språkbruk i det minste.

I just opened a proton mail account. Not looking forward to migrating all my personal contacts and subscriptions from the gmail I have used for the last 25 years. But it’s got to be done

It's already so weird that the people obsessed with creating all-purpose AI to be their personal slave are also obsessed with said personal slave being conscious of its enslavement. But explicitly arguing that it'll be conscious but that shouldn't affect how you treat it is actually evil.

"Dear Sir, Your good name has been bought to my attention as a trustworthy man and a believer in God. I am the son of the late Queen Elizabeth II, ruler of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. My mother left me forty-five million pounds and the city of York but I am unable ..."