At this point the AI grifters must be thanking their lucky stars that the education sector remains a dependable cash cow. Administrators buying into AI EdTech don't care about the errors because they will be dispersed among the frontline educators.

you will never actually "understand how oligarchs think" until you recognize that they very sincerely believe 99% of humans are NPCs and can't comprehend why the NPCs keep resisting the player character's commands, they do not have thoughts more complex than "I pushed button and nothing happen"

🚨Japanese convenience stores are endlessly fascinating. They are also precursors to platforms in Asia as I show in this newly published article. I've been researching this lineage for years and am thrilled to share -out in Social Media + Society now! 🚨 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Great piece on all the gender-affirming care required in MAGA

"for Elon Musk, the immediate utopia is the Mars colony, a project whose technological dependencies and challenges of extreme environments appear to mandate a highly selective society; tight, hierarchical organization; and total social and environmental surveillance as a foundation." 1/n

Instead of using ChatGPT, why not just get a family member to lie to you while they set fire to a tree?

If you like exercises in Doublespeak, you'd love the York University admin's statement about how their program suspensions will foster academic innovation as well as Truth and Reconciliation […]

Reminder that this is happening today at 15:00 EST!

Hoo boy let’s see how quickly Dougie cozies up to Trump again now that he doesn’t have to worry about the pesky electorate for another 4 years.

So curious if this i) shapes any of the other myriad copyright + AI cases in play, ii) sends a (much-needed) chill through the AI hype machine and iii) will mean anything given the scorn the tech industry has for anything so quaint as ‘the law’ www.wired.com/story/thomso...

Today in intro to media studies: a little demo in circumventing google’s horrid AI Overview. Thanks to @arstechnica.com for the tip.