"During our deliberations we have constructed and spun up an enormous flywheel with sufficient rotational inertia to send two adult males on a trajectory towards the sun. Our verdict is as follows..."

Always worth remembering that Insider Higher Ed is owned by Times Higher Education, a one-time industry publication which has been remade as a data-analytic consultancy AND which is itself owned by Inflexion Private Equity.

The UK continues to be stuck in the long 1970s politically speaking. Never able to move on the place that defined you then, regardless of your political ideology.

Two commencement speakers loudly & persistently booed for praising this current paradigm of "AI," most recently being Eric damn Schmidt, & he also looked fully stunned; which, y'know what? Good. Seems the only way these people are gonna learn is by facing a very large crowd clearly telling them "No"

Screaming into the void some thoughts on AI coding. androidessence.com/leave-me-beh...

This Day in Labor History: May 18, 1979. A jury found for Karen Silkwood’s estate in her plutonium exposure case. Unfortunately, she had died in a car accident five years earlier that was likely a murder orchestrated by her employer enraged by her exposing their toxic legacy!!!!

The Claude Pro ToS say it’s for non-commercial/business use. And yet one of the first things Claude will ask you to see house it can help is what kind of work do you do… I’ve asked Anthropic to clarify multiple times how but no response…

Ahahahahha… oh no.

again, staying completely silent on the actual merits of ai, the initial ai boosters basically campaigned on "this will eliminate your job, forever, and make me personally rich." it should not surprise *anyone* that this provoked a backlash.

this is it, this is exactly it, and all the 10x people in HN news comments talking about improved workflows is missing the point of this

AI devours itself.

my massage therapist said I was a tough chick, that male athletes cry when she applies that amount of pressure to their ad/abductors. I am going to get a good grade in massage therapy, which is both normal to want and possible to achieve.

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

"Rededicate 250" sounds like a milestone award handed out to evangelicals after they go forward at an altar-call for the 250th time. "Betsy Johnson joined the Rededicate 250 Club last Sunday evening when she came forward to re-re-re-re-dedicate her life to Jesus Christ yet again ..."

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

Good lord, don’t do this

This is, it should be perfectly clear, the antithesis of what “leadership” means. To destroy something that it was personally beneficial to you to destroy, pretend you had nothing to do with it while accruing the benefits, and then to foist the responsibility for it on to the victims.

This is nuts. Grads don't want to hear that you've got a 'rocket ship' taking off to colonize Mars and they've got to get on it. You're decimating their futures with your technofascist, climate killing project. Get a grip.

People are discussing this (related to #RustLang) on Mastodon: github.com/rust-lang/ru... An excerpt "We came to the conclusion that the people with ethical concerns will not be satisfied by anything less than a full ban, and we do not have a consensus to pass a full ban."

Teachers and schools are expected to fill every gap created by the evisceration of social services in this country, even as they're being fiscally strangled themselves. Schools are food banks, community clinics, de facto counseling ctrs..and then blamed when all those problems continue to worsen

It's a shame that I'm writing my next newsletter on the plane after negative six hours of sleep, because the theme of the links is a bombshell: Generative AI is not "the future" of software development, but the last dying gasp of its past. MOAR & FASTER can't shore up the crumbling foundations.

“the intelligentsia—salaried, educated professionals—had little by way of material investment in the economy and could express themselves in far more radical anti-colonial terms.” www.e-flux.com/journal/163/...

It has come to my attention that some attendees did not like that I mentioned “politics” in my keynote by talking about the context of what has been happening where I live. The talk was about the importance of people coming together to support one another for community resilience, and I am not sorry

there is a limit at which we are so clearly not in a democracy that you can't actually shame me into thinking I should be better than them, especially when being better than them is destroying civil rights. idk when that limit was but it is in the rearview mirror now. "fuck you, make me" is here.

This This and This ... are not 3 things... they are one thing

If electricity prices went up 76% to subsidize the solar industry, people would completely lose their shit. But doing it to subsidize the Slop Industry is apparently kosher.

important thread but all extremely past tense

Democratic attempts to re-gerrymander their states to offset losses in the South are proper and necessary. But they can’t stem the destruction of black political power. Here’s my latest @thenation.com newsletter:

ArXiv is going to ban researchers for a year if they are caught submitting AI slop. ArXiv told us it's a one strike rule: do it once, you're out. www.404media.co/new-arxiv-ru...

Casual reminder that you don't hate Reagan enough.

We are implementing a similar policy at @arxiv.bsky.social. If there is incontrovertible evidence of LLM slop in a paper, this means the authors did not take the time to read the LLM output and we can't trust anything else in the paper. Penalty is 1 year ban from arXiv followed by...

Academia relies on good faith. It cannot be done otherwise. This is precisely why plagiarists, people who fake data, people who deliberately ignore counter-evidence, and fascists need to be driven out. Full cordon sanitaire against this crap.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

"Fake-citation Matthew effect" has killed me, you're talking to my ghost now

I am re-sharing this because this is such a good joke. How is this not the most viral skeet of all time.

Here is the moderation section in the #arXiv policies pages that explicitly lays out clearly "authors are responsible for the products they submit" (about half way down). info.arxiv.org/help/moderat...

@bakerdphd.bsky.social noted that "uni's have funneled faculty into Canvas partly by invoking... FERPA — warning that emailing grades directly to students risks privacy violations + pointing to Canvas as the compliant alternative. Follow the rules, and you have no fallback when the platform fails."

"How are these men scared of us?... Let's do the thing that all men who are scared and have no actual facts do which is accuse women who have a fully formed thought of being the problem." 😆

NEW: A class action lawsuit is accusing OpenAI of sharing ChatGPT chat queries (!) + other personal data with Meta and Google. Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you. futurism.com/artificial-i...

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

This sentence is <chef’s kiss>.

2023 data for annual STICKER price at U.S. Colleges. Upper-bound on cost paid by students (because it does not consider aid and grants)

The best rational for getting off Canvas (or other PE-funded LMS) is forming solidarity with students. For years, several of my colleagues & I have opened each course emphasizing the surveillance & security risks of Canvas. Last week many students realized we weren't just a contingent of paranoids

You will be shocked to learn that me and some friends had thoughts about the whole canvas thing www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Then I guess it's not a financially sustainable organization. They'll have to close some locations or shorten their hours. Alternatively, we could end the public navy and let private navies provide this service.

Fuck yeah. I have done this. I encourage this. Especially if you have shit you need from the project!

All the "is Miliband popular/competent/acceptable after losing 11 years ago" is missing the most crucial point: that the most dramatically satisfying ending is that the guy who lost the election after which everything went wrong comes back and fixes it all. Ask Chekov. Ask Aristotle

Every time we see big tech do the “AI efficiency” layoff bullshit, think about the fact that they’re showing contempt for *paying customers* in addition to their workers. Why didn’t Google use the LLM dividend to bring back Google Reader? Why didn’t Meta finish connecting Threads to the fediverse?