Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI. This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

Paired texts: bsky.app/profile/hype...

surely the "medical assistant" tasked with mediating / being the human in the loop likely held the most responsible for the patient-LLM-physician communication pipeline will have totally chill and equitable and well-paid working conditions that def put them in a position to lend a "sympathetic ear"

yeah, i've been thinking about this fixation on Authoritative People using Math to tell us something already collectively understood. it has a conspicuously similar structure as the weird investments, shared even by ostensibly "critical" people, in the idea of Artificial Intelligence

it's not a statistical or a computational limitation, because that implies that if you have better statistical methods or bigger compute or bigger data you can get around these things the problem is that you're modeling word tokens; you can't get out from under that this isn't revelatory though

Who is Really Fueling your #AI? Join us on September 17 to discuss precarization and resistance in #datawork, with the @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social, @milamiceli.bsky.social and @superrrnetwork.bsky.social. Don't miss your chance to meet some of the shadow workforce behind AI. buff.ly/dHMHXPV

Please donate to support the work of the brave volunteers helping our immigrant community in NJ. They need money for gas, food, vests, to print flyers and to cover basic needs of families facing abduction and deportation. Anything helps. Please donate.

Fuck, gonna lose my job at the anxiety factory now

"AI for education" shills like the Khanmigo guy turning McCarthyism into a market growth opportunity is a pretty straightforward tell re the industry's actual bottom line

Who could’ve seen this coming!? (Literally everyone who has ever researched “Speech AI”)

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

Threatening people with internment in *checks notes* Little Tokyo near the Japanese American Museum is *really* dirty work.

Bumping this. If you work on disability, museums, and/or access, please consider submitting! Lmk if u have any questions!

ITV were interviewing a guy who was holding a white flag in the street in early 2024. As soon as the cameraman switched off his camera and they started to walk away, an IDF sniper shot the white guy flag through the heart. The problem here has not been a failure of understanding.

Any of my Bluesky friends fluent in asl? Looking for someone to interpret a seven min presentation! Will pay.

AHA is actually short for "AHAHAHAahahahahah" because this shit must be a joke

very measured take on what much of the "LLMs can do diagnosis better than humans" hype misunderstands regarding the way diagnosis operates in situated/institutional context (i.e. how it actually functions on the ground vs in an idealized experimental set-up) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

If you’ll recall, the “antisemitism” at UCLA involved primarily campus police allowing Zionist counter protesters to attack the pro-Palestinian camps (incl. many Jewish participants) while they did nothing, and arresting the anti-genocide students & faculty afterwards.

Trump's new executive order about AI states that companies' models must not incorporate the idea that trans people exist as a concept. Seems bad.

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

"Under this definition of antisemitism, which absurdly conflates criticism of a nation-state & political ideology with the ancient evil of Jew-hatred, it is impossible with any honesty to teach about topics such as the history of the creation of Israel" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

(got money FROM him, not for him. he gave $850,000 total to various institute stakeholders including faculty it's all in here news.mit.edu/2020/mit-rel...)

are we going to not talk about the mit media lab/joi ito/n*ri oxm*n thing ever again or

never anti doctor to spread the good (bad) word about satan's steroid

In light of the Columbia and Brown deals, I’m bumping these slides again about the Nazi takeover of German science, which includes discussion about how they took over academia, in a manner very similar to the Brown and Columbia deals

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring. Read it for yourself here: www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Hearing in groupchats that the language here on gender is much worse than the Columbia settlement

They don’t want the world to see the truth. That’s why they ban journalists from entering Gaza, and now they threaten to stop the aid drops if anyone films from the sky. Why? Because the destruction is beyond imagination. We are not just starving we are being silenced, erased, hidden from the world

A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me: “Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”

getting my phrenology checked by my laptop camera before I can listen to WAP, a future I always wanted www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...

The Israeli Defense Forces surrounded, beat, and choked American labor leader Chris Smalls, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced

Who has written the essay that talks about ai in terms of Blackness, literacy, and access to knowledge? Part of why I hate these systems so much is because I know the hard-fought battles just to use the library or learn to read. Now folks are telling us their machine has all the answers. 🤷🏿‍♂️

this is sicking on a deep, visceral and spiritual level that i'm no longer able to put into words. blood on all of our hands. but especially on any person or politician too concerned about respectability politics or losing a sliver of their pathetic influence to say or do anything to prevent this

This summer, across a vast stretch of the eastern United States, monthly home electric bills jumped. Trenton, NJ: $26 Philadelphia: $17 Pittsburgh: $10 Columbus, OH: $27 Why? Big Tech's data centers. AI's destruction isn't free — we're paying for it. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The thing I gleaned most from being raised Jewish is the importance of education and I find it abhorrent that majors US Jewish orgs would rather quietly side w/ fascists against pro-Palestinian activists than be on the front lines against this historic assault on education, where they should be.

This is me. I don’t have the words anymore.Just bones and breath, trying to stay alive In Gaza, more than 80 children have died from hunger People collapse in the streets searching for bread. We wait for food, for aid, for peace but nothing comes Even hope feels like a luxury now gofund.me/f116bf44

accepted (!) as not one but two panels (!!!) see you there #AAA2025

I watch my family grow thinner, quieter, more distant by the day. The world says it’s watching. But we are vanishing. Kindly don’t look away. My family is all I have. I entrust them to you. Don’t leave us alone in this. 🙏🏽

Trump's forthcoming AI action plan will inevitably center industry & lead to the unrestrained, unaccountable rollout of AI into every part of our lives. @dairinstitute.bsky.social is among the 90+ orgs demanding an AI policy agenda that puts the interests of people first. peoplesaiaction.com

It’s Abu Ghraib all over again. But inside our borders.

hey hey it's a job! 📣 🙌 The American Studies department at Wesleyan is hiring TT in Ethnic Studies! We're a pretty nice department, all things considered lol. Please apply & share with your people!

No, a LOT of them think that. Science may be one of the most social forms of knowledge production we have. Arguably it’s at least as social as creative writing. Actual scientists will tell you this. Yet, millions of people think they can do science alone with an LLM.

Today, I made a donation to support Alaa and her children in Gaza. Alaa is a mother I've been in contact with for some time, and her family is facing immense hardship. Her children are in poor health and urgently need support. If you're able to contribute, it could make a real difference for them.

“For a long time — and especially the last year and a half — there have been plenty of reasons why people who have engaged in pro-Palestinian speech and advocacy may have felt chilled, particularly on college campuses,” says @georgewang.bsky.social in @theverge.com. www.theverge.com/policy/70772...

When @zeerak.bsky.social shared this I thought it was satire like RocketAI @ NeurIPS 2016. I recognize some names listed as organizers. This can't be real. Right? "The 1st open conference where AI serves as both primary authors & reviewers of research papers" agents4science.stanford.edu/index.html

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 😂

This is truly wild: @josephcox.bsky.social got the user manual for ICE's new facial recognition app, which appears to be one of the most powerful face rec systems ever because it is connected to tons of different government databases and surveillance systems www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

More details: - Volunteers work a 2-3 hour shift per week - We’re especially seeking volunteers who speak Haitian Kreyol, French, Russian, Arabic, or Vietnamese - Volunteers should be able to project their empathy and understanding over the phone in order to calm and reassure people in detention