Aww, Barney Frank died. Other than always being a sharp commentator, I will always remember him for telling a woman who called the ACA "Nazi health care" that "Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table.” Online debaters could learn from that.

There are so many inaccuracies here that applying it to anything with the name "Scientific" is shambolic. The mothers of the Internet, including Sharla Perrine, deserve to have their legacies presented in ways that cannot be attacked for being false by MRA jerks and other idiots.

Considering the last century of U.S. foreign policy and the adversaries that it produced, this is a very interesting map.

This is the definitive argument against AIs that simulate human sentience. Anil Seth does it again and says everything I have taught my students this past year, just better. Materiality, AI reflections, etc. Not as impactful as the 2017 one that drove me to write my 2025 book, but still spot on.

This is exactly the WRONG way to use AI. Please, do NOT do this! Unless you are actively trying to reduce your cognitive ability, of course. Or you don't trust the consensus of neuroscientists and cognitive scientists who have shown cognitive offloading to cause severe damage.

It is worth remembering that AIs are just simulations of humans because they are trained on human data. So this is really a model of what humans SHOULD be doing. If these models were trained on bovine behavior, they would probably do something different.

I really wish Jean Baudrillard was alive to write about prediction markets. Prophesizing about media-presented events on a media platform and confirming they happened through other media outlets and then calling it reality is distinctly Baudrillardian.

If you want to really understand what late-stage capitalism is like, just head over to r/Linkedinlunatics.

This may be the worst incident yet of engineers buying into the delusion that humans are rational actors. What could possibly go wrong?

I had Gemini generate this image for a presentation. It really sums up how I think our approach to AI should be instead of the current one.

Again, the WaPo editorial board shows its detachment from the real world. It's true that national healthcare quality in Europe has declined in recent decades, but this is because of U.S.-inspired neoliberal economic policies that favor tax cuts over spending on healthcare! DO YOUR HOMEWORK, WAPO!

I have to say, it is almost too good that the author of this piece on The World Bank finally denouncing the core characteristic of neoliberal capitalism is named Karma. And that one of the main sources of wisdom in the piece is named Lovely. Can we please go back to Keynes now?

The only time I will observe Central Europe's affection for awful electronic music with joy and relief.

This is doing the rounds, which I don't mind. It is mainly an atheist anthem: "Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us, only sky Imagine all the people Livin' for today" "...And no religion, too" I always laugh when I see Christians singing or sharing this song...

Tomorrow, I will be teaching and discussing chapter 3 from @shannonvallor.bsky.social 's book 'The AI Mirror' with the students in my data/tech ethics course I am more excited about it than anyone should be about work.

@washingtonpost.com really is a tragic case. This editorial board opinion claims with incredible ignorance that consumer power in markets is a better mechanism for innovation than government spending. THERE WOULDN'T BE AN INTERNET, AI, OR COMPUTERS WERE IT NOT FOR THE GOVERNMENT, YOU IMBECILES!

In the early 90s, I saw that someone had written "Hab Hab Habermas" on a wall in Copenhagen. I had no idea what it meant. I later majored in philosophy in college and found out. And it changed my view of democracy for good. We need discourse ethics now more than ever. RIP. HAB! HAB! HABERMAS!

If the rest of us have to live with crosses and other public advertisements for the oppressive force that is organized religion, Batman can damn well live with public symbols of natural human love. Also, it's gotta suck to be named Batman when your sense of self is this fragile.

This is a really easy decision. Losing the DoD and its affiliated orgs as clients for two and a half years is a pittance in revenue loss compared to losing public trust long into the future. Public trust is an AI company's most valuable asset.

Once again it becomes clear that platforms are often run by people with engineering mindsets who know a lot about tech and nothing about life and reality. Engineers need to be led by non-engineers or we're all gonna die.

Googling "Gulf of Tonkin incident". wapo.st/4aOSsto

Michael Pollan argues that AIs will never be conscious because computers are not lime brains. Building on that, AIs will never be conscious because they don't have a reason to develop consciousness. Our survival drive cannot be simulated. Why not just let AIs be AIs and not human-like?

This is what happens when you buy your fascism on TEMU.

Twin Cities' horrors continue though media has moved on. Families are still in hiding (schools w/virtual options till April), ICE still abducting people w/disregard for law, ongoing need for rent relief. Here's one hyper-local effort from my trusted colleague. Please RT even if you can't donate.

Nope. She's teaching it to simulate moral capacity. Incidentally, simulating moral capacity is a sociopathic trait.

Imagine taking to the opinion pages of large news org to demonstrate how good you are at completely missing the point.

Time is a flatulent circle.

Cognitive deskilling in the wild. With almost no upside. 🤦

TACO!

Once again, @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy explains the current AI moment with a clarity I can only admire as an educator. This is going on my critical tech course syllabus.

Brief operational term of art 🧵 to help better define what we're experiencing. What we're experiencing is state terror. I've seen a lot of terms thrown around for what the Trump admin is doing w/ICE, CBP, & other federal law enforcement (LE). The now largely out of use term is state terror. 1/

"Watch what he does, not what he says", as Rachel Maddow often says. But one social media rant, and people can't look away from what he says. Sigh.

Just think: This man could have been our VP instead of a baby who accused the leader of a democratic nation under invasion by a despotic world power of not saying "thank you" enough.

protestors have painted what appears to be a tunnel on the side of the mountain, causing ICE agents to run into the mountain at full speed. disgusting.

I'm trying to find a good term for this. Temu Fascism? Retro-colonialism? But I know there's a better term for it ...hmm... it's something to do with a color and some kind of word akin to "superiority." It's right on the tip of my tongue. It will come to me in a second.

Danish media report that the Greenlandic-Danish delegation expressed relief after meeting w/ Rubio and Vance. As I have said all along, an invasion is not possible - the U.S. is already the biggest military force in Greenland. It's political theater on both sides to improve negotiating positions.

You can say what you want about those NATO troops, but their snow camo is really excellent!

FFS. It is technically impossible for the U.S. to invade Greenland, because the U.S. already has a larger military presence there than anyone. Personnel count: U.S. base, Pituffik: 150. Danish military: 94. While I appreciate Senator Murphy's video, I just wish people would remember this.

In case anyone is wondering how Greenlanders feel right now (credit: @andershemmingsendk.bsky.social on FB)

Former taxi drivers are walking past singing "It's like raaaaiiin on your wedding day..."

AI, like all computing, is electrons passing through silicon. Unlike humans, AIs need a steady current supply from humans to do the most basic processing. They will never be human-equivalent for that reason alone. Those of us who study AI in society need to keep insisting on this framing.

I'm binging Homeland as a way to take my mind off the doings of the Temu Fascists and reminisce about better days gone by. Only around season 5 have I realized how absurd the above sentence is.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "PHYSICAL AI" ALL AI IS PHYSICAL, MATERIAL AND A BURDEN ON NATURE. The level of industry gaslighting is just astonishing.

For those of us interested in how people's realities are constructed through media, it will be fascinating to watch how people will try to hold this together with the video footage and the fact that, theoretically, all of it could be synthetic and AI-generated. I hope people believe the video, tho.

Not all heroes, capes, etc. Good job, @danielsuitor.com .

I never ever want to hear anyone say that this is not America because people have been shot by law enforcement for nothing for YEARS. That being said , the woman in Minneapolis was murdered.. just like George Floyd.

I would prefer not to write positively about the GOP leaders of the House and the Senate. But they have both come out publicly against Millerlini's Greenland plans. That's at least something. time.com/7344316/repu...