Given his unjust banning, I am taking up Link's charge and doing Fund Me Fridays in his stead. If you have funding needs, drop them in the thread below. I'll also be grabbing links that I've missed from previous threads and reposting them. Today is a good day to meet some people's needs.

Hi! Have you had something high-protein today, drank a glass of water or gone outside? Many things are bad, but you still matter, and are someone worth taking care of. I know how hard you are trying. One thing at a time.

I just keep coming back to this, the most obvious lacunae in every conversation about “incorporating AI” into our classrooms: no one—literally NO ONE—can explain how it improves the work of learning & knowledge-making. There is, in fact, overwhelming evidence to the contrary. This whole thread.

I'm the receiver for Doaa's fundraiser, we chat almost every day. Doaa and her three children have just been displaced to the south. As the situation grows more desperate each day any support you can provide helps, including sharing Doaa's posts! 🙏

This isn't a "why can't we all get along" kumbaya moment. Its a moment to understand all the ways in which the people who created OpenAI, Anthropic etc claiming that their machine god will bring utopia, are the actual "existential risks" to humanity. Raising billions of dollars to "save humanity."

Pre-op done. Bc of my chronic respiratory failure, I'll likely remain intubated in the ICU for a bit after surgery. Also pretty high risk for rebound pulmonary emboli & hemorrhage. But! I need the surgery🤷‍♀️ At $4149/$6K with $1851 remaining. Surgery is Oct. 23rd. Any continued help is appreciated!

Fascists are desperate for violent disruption they can use an excuse for state violence and power grabs. They have trouble with mockery, goofiness, and fun. That holds across just about every type of authoritarianism. They like being feared for cruelty. They hate being laughed at and humiliated.

They gave the physics prize to the dude who said that ChatGPT is the world's butterfly and GPT3 was a caterpillar. The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.

The moderation decisions that this team is making are infested with transphobia and anti-Blackness and that can be taken seriously as an engineering problem or ... not.

And I just want to reiterate this ( from a thread deep in replies). I started doing this work before any of these tools existed. The number of my contemporaries in the field who have died by suicide is NOT A SMALL NUMBER. The work is incredibly traumatizing.

"consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam" The always brilliant The Oatmeal on the emptiness and sadness of AI art theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Shout out to all the mansplainers who have never won any science writing awards telling me how communication works

for those of you who are serious about understanding the eugenic lineage of the whole AGI movement, on the other hand, you can peruse some of the resources at www.dair-institute.org/projects/tes...

The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations --stealing data --exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought --killing the environment, and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

Every quarter, in every undergrad class, I talk with students about what should be included in our LLM AI policy. For the first time, most of the class decided that we should not allow AI at all. Here's how we got there . . .

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“The Khalidi Library represents everything the settlers cannot abide. It is a monument to, and repository of, the history and heritage of a culture they claim should not exist.” Ryan Byrnes chronicles the fight to save a medieval Palestinian library.

Bluesky keeps deleting Abo Jameel's fundraiser so you should definitely donate or share today

These are profoundly anti social tools that erode the social fabric. Their main purposes are harassment, abuse, demolishing consent and furthering an authoritarian project. Any uses outside of that are incidental.

8 million people in Sudan are facing emergency levels of hunger, part of a strategy of deliberate starvation.

Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.

AAG members: This is tomorrow 9am PST/12pm EST. Given the anti-democratic structure of this webinar (which is also *not* what members asked for w/ the BDS vote petition over 10% of membership signed this march), we will also be holding a "People's Special Meeting" on October 17th at 12:00 PM EST

we anticipate that AAG's "authoritative history" will attempt to diminish the importance and meaning of a history of member-driven advocacy within the organization. though not every member vote was successful, we think it's important to note member opinion *was* important enough to be consulted - !!

While Goodall received her PhD in the 1960s, it was not until the 2000s that Ugandan Emily Otali became the first African woman to complete a PhD on chimpanzee behavior. The networks that facilitated European and North Americans researchers impeded the same opportunities for Africans (9/10)

What the narrative leaves out is the contributions of the local Tanzanians who assisted and facilitated Goodall's early research, as well as preceding and concurrent research. Nat Geo created a story about a lone white woman alone with chimpanzees, erasing the Africans that were beside her (3/10)

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Israeli pirates have just kidnapped Irish, Spanish, British, American, Turkish, and Dutch citizens, among others, sailing peacefully in international waters where the state of Israel has absolutely no jurisdiction whatsoever. Demand a response from your politicians and governments to this outrage.

Update: At $3697/$6K with $2303 remaining for out of pocket medical expenses for my third urgent revision spinal fusion on **October 24th.** Thank you all for the ongoing support. I am a very complicated patient & this improves my chances of survival + uneventful recovery in a very tangible way.

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

one of my coworkers confessed to using ChatGPT to help her when she was down & I took her by the shoulders & said "GIRL YOU LITERALLY COULD HAVE TEXTED ~ME~" and her eyes grew wide & she started crying I'm literally real & I'll help you make the WORST decisions while telling you you're beautiful

the lesson of the kimmel thing is that a corporation that previously caved to trump was forced by its audience to defy him. they're afraid of him but they're more afraid of you.

"I can tell you the one thing that people haven't been talking about—that I think is actually the most significant factor in having an autistic child—is having autistic traits yourself or being autistic yourself.” From my interview on @cnn.com's OneThing podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists. www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...

Also not coincidence that these people are singling out a disability discursively linked to queerness

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

I saw that an acquaintance on FedBook has personally gotten over 55 people to cancel their Disney subscriptions. This is a homebound person and she found her lane and is absolutely kicking ass at the moment. People are doing things.

My 3rd non-elective revision spinal fusion is Oct 24th. I have until then to try to raise the remaining $4,333 for out of pocket medical expenses such as medical home care, catheters, rehab, equipment, meds, supplemental O2 bills, medical travel & more. Please share/quote for visibility. Thank you.💖

Raised almost a whole trip for 16 people since I shared yesterday- would love to raise another one today- they have 80 families on their list and it’s been by far the cheapest way to get people moved out of Gaza City which has become so so dangerous

Sigh. Disney+ has been on the BDS targeted consumer boycott list for over a year now: bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS... Suggestion to US consumers that you *may* have a personal interest in paying attention to this (pretty short) list of companies before their pro-g*noc*de politics affect you here.

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

This does not mean that there aren't brave individuals [there are]. It means that most people aren't brave individually and that's why there's strength in numbers.

If you have put your name down saying that you will be somewhere at a specific time, that becomes evidence in court that you were in fact there, even if actually it turns out you didn’t go bsky.app/profile/chan...

Gonna say this very very very slowly The main issue with putting your name on a protest list is not whether the government has your name It is you providing information about where you are/will be That is *legally* actionable

I can’t believe today’s discourse has been dominated by people (in the US) insisting that the only way you can protest is by signing up for said protest like it’s a frequent fucking flyer program.

If you're considering RSVPing to a demonstration to protest the regime that is currently asserting it's about to crack down on "leftist groups" I encourage you to just not fucking do that. Go to the protest, yes. Put your name on a list, absolutely the fuck not.

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