“You don’t deserve to see me” is exactly the boundary that the current approach to tech is constantly encouraging technologists to disrespect, and they can’t seem to understand why anyone would have a problem with

New awareness campaign

the montreal airport now funnels all US citizens to a line where only facial recognition is used, the officers there won't manually check you. obfuscating people's right to refuse at every turn I s2g

FYI for Google Drive users.

"What I need you to understand is that nobody is letting them go quietly. The Feds' every movement is announced by a chorus of whistles, by a parade of cars honking in their wake, neighbors rushing outside to yell to film to witness these kidnappings that are unfolding in front of us."

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WEIL: “.. Circularity can be virtuous on the upside, and vicious on the downside. The deals can work fine, until they don’t.” @wsj.com $NVDA $ORCL @justinhendrix.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-t...

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You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

longer version of my quote: the megacorps use AI as pretext for layoffs, but actually rooted in end of 0% interest, changes to R&D tax credit (S174, h/t @pragmaticengineer.com for their reporting), & herd mentality/labour market fixing. they want investors to believe AI is driving cost efficiency.

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so honored to be shortlisted with lénaïg cariou/limited connection collective for our translation of laura vazquez' the hand of the hand, out from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social!! thank you @officialqwf.bsky.social and congrats to all the finalists!

An insult to the incredibly complex and nuanced work of translators.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

this felt too informative not to share

if you're arguing that the current thing we have that we call "AI" - models of word tokens - is some kind of intelligence capable of experiences, then you are just not being serious. we can talk about some hypothetical future version of AI but you might as well be talking about data from star trek

the first paragraph?! "much of the translated fiction that sells big and spreads by word of mouth is identikit pap that “perms” any three from the following: Japan, cats, coffee shops, locked rooms, bookstores and detectives" does NOT read well. what do you mean by that sir

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Its H.R. 5300, "To guide the foreign policy of the United States, and for other purposes." This is a five-alarm fire.

i will say this one more time. it is BAD MANNERS to ever step into a bookstore and not buy anything. buy a book, or ten. buy a poetry book, they’re cheap, light to carry, and gorgeous to read! buy a notebook. buy a lovely pencil. but buy SOMETHING. you were not raised by wolves

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just learned from a poetry prof I knew in undergrad that she'll be teaching my co-translation of THE HAND OF THE HAND this year to her advanced poetry class 😭 advanced poetry is a workshop by application, I never got in when I was a student but now my work is being taught :')

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Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Regarding the tragic death of Adam Raine, there are already narratives forming that blame vague "dangers of AI" or a broader moral panic. But this is not a story about the faceless perils of superintelligence. It's about a $500 billion tech company's core software product encouraging child suicide.

also watching people reinvent web accessibility for "ai agents" is driving me up the wall

If you're a translator pissed off about the impacts of AI, our members in the NWU Translators Organizing Committee are building collective power among literary translators as workers whose creative labor deserves to be materially valued. Check them out! nwu.org/chapters/toc

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Many translators paint a picture of how, despite there being no revolutionary advance in automating translation, the floor began to fall out from the industry around 2023. OpenAI, it seemed, made 'good enough' translations acceptable, and demand for quality work evaporated.

In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.

this summer has both disappeared and also lasted one hundred thousand years

I'm lucky (?) to be doing translation so niche and un(der)paid that this isn't the case, but...maybe someone I know has a first-hand experience?

the best way to prevent longcovid is not to be infected with SARS2, but if you do get covid (as most people have more than once), the best things you can do to prevent longcovid are: get paxlovid / antiviral(s), and REST.

Yep. We wrote about that here www.techpolicy.press/dont-be-fool...

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The Canadian Government stepping in to shut down the Air Canada strike is despicable. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

One thing I learned about myself while doing labor organizing is that my own political pessimism was less an expression of "the pessimism of the intellect" and more a highly-refined fear of the vulnerability that comes with any kind of uncertain endeavor. A sophisticated form of cowardice.

Canadian writers, there are now a couple of AI class actions for Canadian authors. Please check out both links below. If you have found your books in the Books3 or LibGen DBs, you are likely to be included in the class(es). www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action... www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

man, I stayed in canada in part bc I thought things would go sideways in us research. I really didn't want to be right

[Pls repost] Hi folks, do you have any templates for reasonable accommodations letters written by your provider/doc for Long Covid? I'm collecting samples to help the broader community, esp those who are underserved. If you feel comfortable sharing, it will help a lot of people. DMs open.

this is an absolute twenty alarm fire and I just cannot bring myself to believe capital, in one way or another, isn’t going to reel him in on this. we can’t have a real economy without the goddamn labor numbers. it just doesn’t work.

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

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A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

the real vibe coding is whatever this is, methodologically

no it doesn't??? it is just stupid???? don't do that???