Nazi shit: “By mandating sex testing & excluding transgender & intersex women from competition, the International Olympic Committee is embracing a policy that invites confusion, stigma and invasive scrutiny rather than clarity or safety” Everyone loses to this bigotry. Now everyone is a specimen.

if you work at the NYT and want to share anything with me about the internal reaction to this piece — I heard there’s been some — find me on Signal, details in my bio!

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@skypeascientist.bsky.social is right there, folks

i am a multiple award nominated disabled writer who has never once used an LLM. don't even know where to get one (and am not interested in finding out). folks who say this are just mad they're not good. skill issues abound.

I feel so seen! 🥹

Need a break from all the madness? I really enjoyed this thoughtful series on how reading made us, with excellent contributions from @naomialderman.bsky.social and @jburnmurdoch.ft.com (amongst others) Available on BBC iPlayer, and for those out the UK: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u... 🎙️📚

Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...

Wow! I cannot wait to start using AI for all my summarizing needs. 30 years in the field and I was never able to understand what AI summarized so confidently. Clearly is it so much smarter than me. I should give an AI agent control over my bank account and medical info 🙃 grok, am I hungry?

the Metaverse and Sora in one week is a devastating moment for pointless bullshit

I’m seeing this all the time: People who are struggling with the weaknesses of LLMs, or deeply afraid of their capabilities, and yet THEY CONTINUE TO USE THEM FOR EVERYTHING. When challenged, they say that LLMs will improve or that they’re here to stay, both of which are very likely not true.

"The AI Grad Student": A Harvard professor describes working with Claude. Early on, he describes misconduct that would cause any student to be terminated: "It faked results, hoping I wouldn't notice." But he ends the essay with "Now I'm doing 100% of my research with LLMs". Am I losing my mind?

The worst part is that AI and LLMs *could* have been used to do some amazing things to make people’s lives easier. Instead it’s been systematically used to cheapen labour, muddy the truth, flood entire markets with crap, and make computers prohibitively expensive for the first time since the 1980s.

Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/edinbur...

The shipment also includes 73 solar panels, along with batteries and flashlights to help deal with ongoing electricity shortages. Dozens of volunteers took part, along with around 30 international participants from Latin America, Europe, and the United States.

If this is you, I want you to know that the amount per work is very likely to be > $3000. Half that if you're splitting with your publisher.

You can also pre-order the paperback of Meet Me at the Crossroads (out on the packed June 2nd pub day!): www.barnesandnoble.com/w/meet-me-at...

So it seems that Muñeca is -- corrected from earlier error -- 25% off if you pre-order through Barnes and Noble!

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Emilia Cantor.

I just finished (re)reading The Dispossessed (just the balm I needed this past few days 🥹), updating my goodreads I found this description. Did I completely misunderstand the story?! Is this how people read it? (If so, I think you may be missing out 🥰)

Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

For years, when we had conversations about intersectionality, I attempted to include the experiences of children & was dismissed. This is changing. Which is good. What would be GREAT is more people, adults really, being able to hear how much sense it all makes when a child says the same thing.

Lovely! Math/Art/Structure www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldxF...

Do not wait until March 31st to do this. (1) Some website that have run just fine until the deadline crash under the excess load right before the deadline passes. Will that happen with this site? idk. (2) You may need to go digging for info that will be easier to find with a week to do it in.

The Cheshire cat in this tree was watching me when I went out to set up my telescope 🔭

“Children's entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention” “Wearing her signature pink headband, Rachel Accurso spoke with two children being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. She described the conversations as devastating.”

Re-upping this for Saturday morning: looking for a stamp designer :)

Such a good episode! Alex is right; ridicule is the way. Also, @adambecker.bsky.social 's "More Everything Forever" kept me (and the ppl who have to hear me scream "For why? For why?!?" every time AGI is mentioned) sane for weeks. (It's a fast read, just lastingly soothing :) )

"But mostly, I'd argue, when Andreessen proudly states that he rejects introspection what he really means to say is that he eschews accountability."

Oh this is a really important win. So you know people who use AI generated images and then copy that as a physical painting? This means that as it has no copyright protection (because AI does not), if it's too similar to the existing art AI ripped off, it is easier to fight back legally.

Another must-read on the non-inevitability of AI, why you aren’t crazy for resisting, and why that matters.

listen up readers, my first short story collection is coming out and look at this cover (and lol I like the spine so much I had to include it)

Bernie bros came for me on Muskrat's platform when I quote tweeted this Calude ad saying, "at this point, Bernie’s job seems to be lobbying for Anthropic." So let me elaborate. Bernie has been repeating, almost verbatim, Dario Amodei's talking points, for a while now, even quote tweeting him.🧵

So a great thing about contracts is that they usually have and end date and/or means of ending them. If your university or other organization bent the knee to OpenAI or any of the other chatbot providers, when a contract is up, there is an opportunity for pressure: forms.gle/ZGn5brEGU4t9...

One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...

Me too!

If we don't build a sexy suicide coach first, our adversaries will do it and we will be subject to their sexy suicide coach!

At the root of so many of the world's ills is the bizarre belief that some individuals are so good -- their cause so righteous, their work so vital, their genius so irreplaceable -- that any harm they cause and any people they trample can be justified. That is never the case, though.

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

long story but i just founded an AI education platform. if you want to join the board or contribute to the blog, hit me up. just submitted a conference talk on "surveillance as care" to ELO. wish me luck!!!! puregenius.education

I think a lot about @alexhanna.bsky.social's ridicule as praxis when it comes to critiquing "AI" systems - and PureGenius is such a good example. Also has me excited to consider how I might bring more satire into my classroom and invite students to create similar kinds of projects.

Watching this was so cathartic. I'm more hopeful for the future now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1tJ...

Why should anybody trust a man with the mind of a goldfish?

Gonna hold on to this croissant metaphor for the rest of my creative life

Why use AI when you can larp as AI? 😈🤩https://youraislopbores.me

The joy in this gorgeous cover! 🥹

My absolutely brilliant friend T.T. Gibran has a story in this issue that I CANNOT WAIT for you to read.

bravely listened back to my own voice, but thankfully @melhogan.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social also spoke! > why it’s important to the overall purpose and significance of the university to resist the uncritical adoption of AI link: shows.acast.com/63997541ed12...

We do have a choice. We can choose to remember what matters and act accordingly.

This is amazing!! Everyone go take the quiz right now. So much fun!