is growing up finally realizing that people I knew in college wore A WHOLE CAR around their necks all the time?!?!

my partner got a Sonos Roam as a gift from work and while I love the form factor of that thing…the fact that you have to download the app, sign up, give it precise location + local network + mic access just to CHECK THE BATTERY LEVEL is fucking wild

I must also point out that this show’s portrayal of masculinity is top notch. I always hated the bumbling husband trope in basically every form but it’s mostly highly competent, emotionally intelligent, and loving kings from here on out 👑

my god if you need a clean shot right in the feels may I recommend the absolute masterpiece that is “When Life Gives You Tangerines”

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

absolutely iconic introduction

i … um … what?? pure nightmare fuel

This is such a beautiful piece by @liao.shen-yi.org abt media portrayals of Taiwan + how Taiwan is constructed in political / intellectual discourse. Pocketing it to periodically send to people, esp those who want to talk to me about Thailand :) liao.shen-yi.org/posts/stop-m...

it’s going to be 9 degrees FAHRENHEIT on Friday???? NOT OK, Boston, NOT OK.

EVERYONE GO TO BED (its me im everyone)

I recently read a piece in The Atlantic casting aspersions on the rising # of disability accommodation requests, arguing that too many students are abusing the system. Even if that is true, I still don’t think that malingerers are the real problem — our approach to pedagogy is. A few thoughts:

did i get anything done today? no. but did i relax? also no.

this hits so hard it's painful

My department @cuboulder.info is hiring a TT assistant professor in the area of environmental justice! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Please share and encourage candidates to apply!

my dog energetically playing in the background of my zooms has so much only child energy

Disappointing but unsurprising to see an argument not about why Taiwan and Palestine should stand in solidarity and seek to amplify each other's self-determination struggles, but an assertion that Taiwan deserves statehood while Palestine does not

I went back on Twitter for 10 minutes and INSTANTLY I felt the brain worms coming for me

So we’re ending wage theft?

Me not writing a paper:

GPT-5 is like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.” Man, have you ever tried to get a PhD to follow instructions? It’s virtually impossible.

I'm re-reading some truly fantastic work from Ron Eglash and have discovered that his dissertation has the best title ever (also be a great band name): "The Cybernetics of Chaos"

after ripping apart my kitchen and spending a small fortune on airtight containers...I thought I was finally done. moths, a couple months later: hold my beer

days since we’ve had no technofascist developments: 0

I hate having most kinds of AI assistance for any kind of writing but my god having Co-pilot write a detailed draft of a commit message is life-changing

really don't care if you disagree with me, i think constantly filming everything everywhere is bad, i think the widespread deployment of facial recognition is bad, i think the fact there are cameras everywhere inside of arenas & that increasingly you have to use your face to buy a hot dog is bad

My university has announced a fund to essentially poach doctoral students from US institutions. DM me if you do work on the history/social impacts of AI and are interested in being poached 😂

is it too much to ask for one (1) day without seeing yet another horrific development in this tech dystopia

ah, the gleeful exhaustion that comes from a great day of yak-shaving (and a little writing)

pov: you just finished your PhD

Cats are and always have been cyberpunks

I came for the intersectional crop science; I stayed for these incredible threads dismantling myths about agriculture and labor 🤩

last person out the door at the Department of Education needs to rm -rf * the student loan database, please

it's truly remarkable how much *other* writing I can get done when I'm trying to avoid The Book™

"States and districts will lose their ability to compare education data as a result of the administration’s decimation of NCES, [Peggy Carr] said. With the lack of data, the nation will also be unable to measure whether education policy changes are effective." www.k12dive.com/news/peggy-c...

Being asked to conserve water while it’s being pumped through data centres to keep the AI cool is the most dystopian shit

There's a trend going around TikTok to have ChatGPT create visual alphabets (because the output is always full of ridiculous mistakes). I generated this one to use an example to help explain WHY AI image generators make these kinds of mistakes. It turned out even better/worse than expected.

just heard someone compare AI-assisted work similar to a (wait for it) a calculator. give me your spiciest clapbacks to this horrible analogy. winner gets a cutest cat pic.

every time I use a red light mask and see myself in the mirror I can think of nothing else but the fact that I look like a Nazgûl witch king

I reread this golden piece of satire every now and again when I’m about to embark on an Ottolenghi recipe journey and can do nothing other than cackle the entire way through www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-...

Unfortunately for Americans who want to not experience things like "bubonic plague," we also can't write NIH or NSF grants about this kind of thing anymore. I dunno, seems important

This is an attack on all immigrants. As if immigrants aren't the backbone of doctoring, nursing, x-raying, healing, cleaning, sanitizing, and caring in American hospitals.

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frying a sunny side up egg in chili crisp instead of normal oil has changed my life

Update: Atlas of AI has indeed been translated into Chinese!! For those who are also looking in this little niche: www.books.com.tw/products/001...

Hive mind: My dad wants to read one (1) book about AI. What would you recommend? I thought about “AI Snake Oil” or “Atlas of AI,” but neither have been translated to Chinese afaik (this is where I’m tripping up). God help me if he decides to pick up Kissinger’s book instead 😵‍💫😳 Suggestions?

honestly, MIT announcing a 3.25% raise for graduate students along with a TWENTY SEVEN PERCENT (27%) increase in health care premiums is nothing short of appalling

I've also been reflecting upon the trap of "neutrality" in our current political and media ecosystem, where some parties are bound to neutrality and others are not. Also the relationship between the word *neutral* and the word *neutralized*.

Sadly, I think we've been teaching digital/media literacy all wrong. Instead of focusing on teaching people how to be skeptical and spot manipulation, we should focus on teaching people how these systems work so they can effectively use them to share their messages and promote their values.

amazing how many pairs of scissors you can find around the house precisely at a time when you do not need them