Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/27/number-of-ai-chatbots-ignoring-human-instructions-increasing-study-says?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Ok, so this is a problem—but not for the reason the headline claims. The AI […]

Any #brompton experts here? I was folding my (P line) Brompton the other day and heard a small "ping" sound. Then I saw this small, black, anodized, Phillips-head screw on the ground - but I can't find where it fell off from! Anyone have any ideas? The […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I just unsubscribed from the newsletter of @dajb . Recently I've felt that his writing has more followed the establishment's talking points -- e.g., I criticized a post of his which he said we have to update our mental models rather than, as I insisted, keep fighting for justice. It turns out […]

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442 The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever. It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation […]

Reup: Marco Rubio Will Let 2.5 Million Children Die so Sarah Rogers Can Fund Far Right Extremists in Europe emptywheel.net/marco-rubio-...

The net says today's min temp here will be 4F and the current temp is 3F. That happens sometimes, and I used to wonder why they didn't update the prediction, but recently I think it's extreme weather forecast honesty: we have this model; it produces outputs; sometimes they correspond with […]

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115832534415373032 keeping up to date with "AI" skills is extremely easy actually, the most sophisticated setup i've seen is just a bunch of markdown files begging the necrotic grooves left in the statistical skin of language to pretend like they are different […]

I am delighted to say that my darling wife Katherine Giuffre's new novel "Armadillo Massacre Number Three" just won the The 2025 Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction and will be published by Regal House Publishing! It's "A comedy about family, greed, fried catfish, good dogs, murder, and […]

I'm rather astounded to educators embracing of the survelliance capitalist cloaking of LinkedIn, it's like a complete amnesia of Twitter.

OK, this is kind of fun: my "AI hype Tracking Project" AITRAP, https://poritz.net/j/aitrap , has just broken 6000 links to main-stream media stories, videos, podcasts, blogs, research articles, all the things #ai and #aiethics . I have no idea if it's useful to anyone, but I have fun keeping the […]

Sheila McNeil's reflection from #oer25 is a reminder that speaking openly together is the best antidote to enshittificiation I'm pleased to know that @joewilson brought a punk vibe to the podium #openpunk https://howsheilaseesit.net/oer/oer25-our-silence-will-not-save-us/ #oer25 #OpenPunk […]

Seeing usually smart folks getting rope-a-doped into arguing for LLM utility like there's a moral justice zero-sum trolley-problem slider between "useful" and "ethical" and we're just arguing about the best setting But the real problem is even dumber -is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes […]

We should use the phrase "weaponized pareidolia" for current #ai more often, it is so fun to say!, and is oddly accurate, too!

@xolotl you need to swoop in and come up with a better word for *this*: I've seen more and more discussion from #ai folks talk about what users do with these statistical models after they've been trained, the "output highly probably - in the universe of the training data - sequences of tokens […]

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 11: Sustaining the Movement in the Long Haul https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode11 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT. We are in this for the long haul. Key features of sustaining the […]

1/3: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 10: Open Education Under Fascism https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode10 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT. Students in higher education in the United States are bearing more of the […]

Announcing AITRAP, The AI hype TRAcking Project Here: https://www.poritz.net/jonathan/aitrap/ What/why: I keep a very random list of articles about AI, with a focus on hype, ethics, policy, teaching, IP law, some of the CS aspects, etc., now up to 1000s of entries. I decided to share, in case […]

1/2: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Resist-Ant 2: Bloc Recruitment: The Quicker Picker-Upper https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#resist-ant2 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT. Fascism is coming in at an incredibly fast pace in the US […]

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Resist-Ant 1: "Signalgate" https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#resist-ant1 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT. Morons in the Trump administration recently misused the excellent secure communications tool […]

We're adding an occasional, as-needed series to our channel The Revolution Will Not Be Televised https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net which we are calling "Resist-Ants." These are smaller, mini-episodes which give a quick bit of timely information […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I was just in a great session run by @PaolaCorti on the amazing ENOEL Open Education Advocacy Toolkit - really amazing work of wide benefit to so many people, in many countries and languages! There was a brief discussion at one point about the role of AI, and a nice perspective on it's […]

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 9: Music and Mobilization https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode9 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT. What role does music play in mobilizing resistance? Do protest songs actually matter? […]

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 8: Emigrating from the United States - 17 Useful Tips, Facts & FAQs https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode7 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT. Leaving can be an act of resistance. This […]

[abortion] The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 7: Accessing Abortion When It Is Outlawed https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode7 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT With abortion access limited, outlawed, or under attack all […]

As the fascism rises, it seems to me that erasing data is the book burning of the internet age... I keep thinking we need to update the famous Heinrich Heine quote ("Where they burn books, they will end in burning people" ... „Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen") […]

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 6: How to Surf Safely https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode6 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT We've talked about how to send encrypted email, but what if you want to surf the net, to get […]

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 5: Weapons of the Weak - Everyday Resistance https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode5 is now live on the website, Peertube, & YT. The opposing side is incredibly well-funded. How can we hope to […]

@adapalmer tooted that somehow her author page on Amazon shows her as being the author of two volumes of lesbian porn (which she says she is not!). Reminded me that my Amazon page has an #oer that I never uploaded there! I did write the book, and put it on my personal website with a Creative […]

This type is called "peperone cornetto" (cornetto, literally "small horn," is also "croissant"). They're 27cm long. I should note that I got the peppers, a big bag of spinach, half a large head of cauliflower, a bag of small tomatoes, two oranges, three […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#resist #tomkrause #muskrat #Treason

Microsoft is one of the main companies pushing #ai assistants into business and education contexts. Let's ask Microsoft Research for the consequences: "Moreover, while GenAI can improve worker efficiency, it can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term […]

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 4: How to Send Messages Securely https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode4 is now live on the website, Peertube, & YT. This episode gives some background and tools for folks who need to communicate […]

The brilliant Dan Meyer of Mathworlds (maybe not on here? I can't find an account to @) described: "Khan Academy is stuck in hell, trying to approximate a human teacher with several LLM prompts stacked on top of each other in a trenchcoat." Fun!

Friends, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 3: Recruitment to High-Risk Activism https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode3 is now live on the website, Peertube, and YT. We're finding a huge number of echos in the vodcast of what is […]

The whole DeepSeek thing is so bizarre: The biggest emperor baby without clothes is having a hissy fit because another naked emperor is getting praise for his sense of style, so 100s of billions of $ of stock value disappear? Seems to point out how meaningless are those stock values ... which […]

Friends, Our second episode, The Birth of the Internet, is live at https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode2 ! We'll center sociology in the odd numbered episodes and tech/online security/privacy/community in odd numbered episodes - in fact, given how fast things are happening […]

First episode of our video podcast "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance" is live! This is joint work with my wife, Kathy Giuffre, a retired professor of sociology; I'm a retired professor of math and computer science. Our motivation for the series is to […]

Does anyone know a good PeerTube instance where I can post a weekly series of video blogpost on the theory and practice of resistance? "Good" here means things like stable, up-to-date, allows uploads from someone not already part of their organization, and doesn't have a lot of trollish nonsense?

I just gave a larger-than-ever-before year-end donation to the @eff, one of the best organizations fighting for digital rights on the planet. I encourage others to do so as well! Quick story about how amazing they are: I was unhappy a little while ago about a policy position of theirs, and […]

I've already read much of Higher Education for Good, @catherinecronin @czernie eds, but I've been rereading it and *it is so good*! I'm also listening to some bits in the audiobook when I'm on my bike, which is great fun - it's a blast to hear @econproph 's voice in this strange context, for […]

@jeffjarvis Excellent event at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center yesterday -- I definitely will be reading your new book as soon as my local bookseller can get me a copy!

I just subscribed (very reasonable fee) to @404mediaco ... they do really good work and I encourage others to support it as well!