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On Canada Book Day, I am waiting for the courier to bring copies of my new book, The Art of Looking Back, and I am filled with quiet excitement. I have letterpress keepsakes to send to those who buy copies (order from any bookstore!). Send me a message...

We're calling this kind of language "controversial," are we, @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social? Because there's no controversy: it's Nazi rhetoric. #bcpoli

This kind of sentiment is one of the things behind my increasingly slow pace of grading student work.

Man fuck off those aren’t even words

Using“blood and soil,” Nazi rhetoric, to demonize Indigenous people is disgusting and dangerous.

I got time today, so let's dig into why this article is a crock of shit. There is no ethical use of genAI and any librarian arguing otherwise is lying to you, so ignorant they should be ignored, or drifting. 1/ www.choice360.org/libtech-insi...

Notice: If you are an environmentalist or environmental organization using AI to generate a "Happy Earth Day" graphics, I will be billing you for injuries I receive as a result of how hard I am side-eyeing you.

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Deeply disappointed not to have been on this list.

This is the thing, if "academia" wanted to stop this, we could easily tomorrow. Over 3 incorrect references? Rejected and forbidden to submit next year. The purpose of a system is what it does!

This is horrific. I feel physically ill. (Reposted with ALT text)

please join us on May 13 if you're free and share widely - The Land Remembers: Anti-Colonial Resistance from Gitxsan to Gaza, register here: actionnetwork.org/events/the-l...

Bookmarking this one for later! Maybe for use in classes next term, even....

This Day in History, 1986: Olaf Solheim's tragic death after being evicted for Expo 86 tourists The retired logger had lived at the Patricia Hotel in the Downtown Eastside for six decades before he was evicted. Then the 2010 Olympics evictions, now FIFA.. vancouversun.com/news/this-da... #vanpoli

This still makes me so furious. Facing climate catastrophe and we are doubling down on the worst, most backwards industries.

remember when celebrities seemingly randomly started coming out talking about how much they loved NFTs and thought it was super valuable and the future?

Every time they say something like this, the Chinese EV quota should go up.

Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough

You cannot stop this with guardrails, it just has to be shut down. Anything else is lying.

When pursuing a reference today on the @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social site, I stumbled across one of the great book titles, and you all need to know about it! #inclusion www.bloomsbury.com/ca/designing...

More higher ed discourse like this please

Oh no, what did I do to get that many notifications... #resistAI

Great thread, but as a man over 50, I'd be remiss not to point out that lots of us in this demographic are ALSO among LLMs' resisters, critics, opponents, and antagonists.

Mark Carney’s newly won Liberal majority government secures his mandate to transfer public money from the public sector to oil and gas, AI, and the military. The NDP have to do a much better job of letting people know what that means for the disadvantaged, the environment and our collective future.

Striking that the Liberals and Conservatives offer the same response to pain at the pump: siphon money out of the public purse instead of Big Oil’s profits.

I regret to inform all of my fellow West Coasters that I've gone more westy coasty than any of you, and possibly more hipster as well. This week, I made pickled spruce tips sourdough, and it was phenomenal (though also, admittedly, a little weird!) forestfordinner.ca/product/pick... #eatlocal

if you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh

Educators and researchers are urging a pivot away from computers and tablets while industry and misguided school leaders push more AI use. Something is going to have to give.

It'll be the large (and the shady) academic publishers using AI in this way. AVOID THEM. These giant publishers, and their sketchy imitators, have never prioritized wisdom or academic principles. Publish somewhere else, ffs. #resistAI #highered

Well, that's interesting. I posted a reply to someone, but it's not in my main feed (ie, Following): it's in my profile, so clearly it did post, but somehow the algorithm doesn't want me to see it? Huh.

"I am thinking again of the line between story and scandal, a line drawn with charcoal and smudged at times..."

Trying my best to wrap my brain around the idea of labelling AI error as "creativity" rather than, you know, error, but the whole discourse feels more like a schism than viewpoint diversity. When the marking is done (ha! it's never done), maybe I'll do some more focused reading.

"Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what an AI tells them without question, with one report finding that only 8 percent of users actually double checked an AI’s answer." 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

I can't even tell you how much I've been anticipating this book, and that was before I knew how beautiful the physical book itself was going to be! Very excited. #booksky #mustread

This isn’t a lamentable side effect of these products. It’s the actual reason they exist.

Like… We cannot go ahead and have the World Cup now like nothing is going on. Regardless of what does or doesn’t happen tonight. Countries should simply refuse to send teams. The rest of the world cannot treat us as a remotely normal country after this

you have to get him out of office and you have to do it today even if it gets blocked you force an impeachment vote right now how else can you live with yourself if he follows through with this and you didn’t do everything you could to stop it

Hi USAmericans - Canadian here. If "evil empire" isn't your goal, today might be your last chance to escape that label. We're all watching. And you all know the monstrous thing that your orange despot said. It's about you, now, not only about him.

Americans: you do have streets, yes? Streets that you could fill in protest today?

"we need kids to get an early start operating machines that are routinely wrong and may try to coax them into suicide and/or psychosis" is a fun education perspective i disagree with actually

People winging and whining about so-called AI shaming need to take a break from social media, touch grass, sleep, take a bath, eat, rest. This is pure nonsense. Saying cheating at things, harming the environment, etc, is bad isn't shaming in the normal sense. It's factual that AI use is immoral.

Speaking as a college instructor, these kids are NOT being prepared for college. Corporations are interested in profit-taking, and they see schools as a revenue stream. #resistAI #noAI

Notice how they never cite a study or statistic that justifies AI use in the classroom. Why? Bc there is basically no evidence that AI improves student learning outcomes (and they know it). Politicians are putting corporate profit ahead of student needs—a corporate-backed science experiment on kids

"I’ll quit before I go AI because I’m a writer, and if there’s no way to be a writer anymore, I’ll go do something else": lots of clear-eyed analysis here, from @biblioracle.bsky.social #resistAI #noAI

And this great article contains a great quote from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, too: "The proposal for a post-human future is one where there will be human beings, they’ll just be treated inhumanely.” A practical AND inspiring piece, this, which makes it both a real treat and an enrager. #resistAI

This descriptive, thoroughly reported and very troubling essay about the separatist movement in Alberta by @marcellodicintio.bsky.social is critical reading for Albertans. Great journalism in the public interest. Among the Separatists via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Hey @royalbcmuseum.bsky.social - why are you using an AI generated image when you have a wealth of digitized images and paintings from the gold rush that you could use?

The wholesale failure of the mainstream so-called "AI ethics" project is because it is instead a successful process of creating industry stooges, who walk amongst us, hollowing out future colleagues and posturing provocatively about the inevitability of the future theintercept.com/2019/12/20/m...

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL