Excited to share our latest publication in Convergence: “Testing creativity: Towards a processual understanding of GenAI image-making tasks.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to share our latest publication in Convergence: “Testing creativity: Towards a processual understanding of GenAI image-making tasks.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

“…the character is being trained on the billionaire’s mannerisms, tone and publicly available statements, as well as his own recent thinking on company strategies, so that employees might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it.”

All your snaps come with metadata containing more information than you might realize.

SF writers: if you've ever been curious as to how one might terraform Mars, I'm happy to report that They Did The Math.

The extremely online journalist and content creator doesn’t believe in tech hygiene and yearns for a world where “inbox infinity” is celebrated. www.wired.com/story/user-b...

Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Editorial from our student newspaper: "In its tireless support for AI, the University has essentially endorsed shortcuts and the outsourcing of academic thinking"

Academic women on social media are routinely confronted by (usually) men who have no expertise in their fields but whose only goal is to challenge that expertise. ‘Why don’t you do this’ ‘Smile more’ We get it in conferences. And classrooms. We can smell the misogyny a mile off. Just saying.

I hate ChatGPT as much as anyone, but I don't actually think my students are using it that much. The majority of their papers are filled with the types of grammatical and stylistic errors that AI weeds out. Like most things related to this issue, I think the crisis might also be overblown.

X’s Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war. www.wired.com/story/fake-a...

As someone who watched the careful stewardship of grants over many years, the lack of care and the dismissal of the hard work of scholars and NEH program staff described here is devastating and shameful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

REGIONAL WAR HAS STARTED -US-Israel strategic attacks on Iranian leadership -US Navy attacking Iranian Navy. USAF attacking ballistic missile facilities Iran has retaliated with successful ballistic missile attacks against Israel, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Most Conservative Students Don’t Feel Persecuted on Campus A new survey of college students contradicts Republican rhetoric that campus culture is hostile to right-wing views. https://bit.ly/4styRX5 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky

I have tested claude and chat gpt and I can assure you they are not doing good lit reviews. They are making confident generalizations, and missing a lot. As of now, nothing can replace actually thinking i'm afraid

This too, is a form of social Darwinism; one that always accompanies fantasies about leaving the weak "behind." I encountered this eugenicist futurism in early primatology, when ppl speculated whether primates could be used to circumvent child labor and anti-slavery laws. bsky.app/profile/x2y....

After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.

Quit, cancel, never sign up.

Leslie Wexner, former CEO of Victoria's Secret, was the other man named by Ava Cordero as her rapist and abuser alongside Jeffrey Epstein in 2007, only to be mocked and degraded and dismissed as crazy because she's trans.

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

how dare you use karaoke for evil

Who is tracking the ratio of Super Bowl ads that are complete scams vs just regular capitalism?

Congress can begin viewing FULL Epstein files tomorrow at 9am in secure room at Justice Dept in DC Yes… there will likely be some who show up when doors open

As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused. So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

Would love to read a book on what this convergence represents. It’s funny how the description is always an inversion of what it is - as if the more it isn’t true the harder it has to be pressed home.

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

i wrote about mothership.blog for @theguardian.com today by the way. thanks so much to @mackeza.bsky.social for the opportunity to tell more people about mothership and what we are doing with the site <3 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

I'm surprised people didn't know this at this point. These are surveillance machines. "large language models (LLMs) behind them can infer things about you based on minor context clues you provide" futurism.com/the-byte/ai-...

In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.

first taste is always free

Canadian firm to boycott: Vancouver's Hootsuite. Social media firm wants to work w/ ICE to analyze social media sentiment. There's no way to "build trust" w/ ICE. ICE is a fascist organization terrorizing & abducting people. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

Just did some conference paper reviews and I’m pretty sure one was substantially AI written. Very clean and smooth but made no sense in parts. Cited real court cases but got them so wrong it’s hard to imagine a human who read the cases (or knew anything about them) writing those lines.

I’m looking for scholarship that connects Judith Butler’s work on performativity with propaganda. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Looks like live is (finally) coming to Bluesky!

'The truth is Musk and the tech sector simply do not prioritise safety or dignity in the products they create' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The news is a blow for Thinking Machines Lab. Two narratives are already emerging about what happened. www.wired.com/story/thinki...

"A WIRED review of hundreds of Telegram channels run by Proud Boy chapters across the country, as well as other far-right extremist and militia groups, reveals that there are no public calls for members to mobilize and defend ICE from the protesters." @davidgilbert.bsky.social reports:

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

The announcement comes weeks after Grok drew backlash for generating sexualized images of women and children, although the Department of Defense has not released official documentation confirming Hegseth’s timeline.

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

Syllabus help: Looking for an article about eugenics history that can help introduce students (especially upper level undergrads) to the history of eugenics in the 19th-20th c in the US. It’s for a class where students’ main competencies are mostly not humanities/social sciences. Suggestions?

somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work. lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply