I love how Zuck tees this up casually, "I don't know, what do you think? Maybe let's make an...I don't know...Korean style steak sauce?" as if they hadn't run through this exact scenario a million times before. And it still failed. AND THE AUDIENCE STILL CLAPPED. Ridiculous.

Hot off the press: Chris J Young, Daniel J Joseph and @nieborg.bsky.social trace a platform historiography of #Unity to discuss how workflows create dexterous corporate lockins in cultural production journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... enjoy!

"Duality" of course has many appearances in physics. If you're interested, here is the book for you! "The Philosophy and Physics of Duality" by de Haro and Butterfield. Available for free, just 592 pages. arxiv.org/abs/2508.01616

I condemn political violence. That's not demanding anyone mourn strangers they dislike. That's not condemning violence used in self-defense/wartime. That's not denying that pre-WWII Nazism was dangerous, just as some MAGAs' emulations of pre-WWII Nazism are. It means condemning political violence.

Glorifying violence or harm violates Bluesky’s Community Guidelines. We review reports and take action on content that celebrates harm against anyone. Violence has no place in healthy public discourse, and we’re committed to fostering healthy, open conversations

Amazon’s goal is to transform all public and private space into the Amazon warehouse, and it’s never been more clear.

I can’t help but notice huge parallels between the AI and metaverse hype cycles: - This is going to change the world - It will transform how you live and work - This is worth trillions of dollars - If you don’t get in early you’ll be left behind - It will get better really fast - This is inevitable

no shit

4. This line of morality and ethics drawn by who what is doing 'good surveillance' and who does 'bad surveillance' is worth our close attention. We see it now with how Google got away with the lawcase against its adtech monopoly, despite Google being one of the biggest spyware companies.

Cite each other. Cite your friends. Cite your friends' friends. Cite each others' students. Cite the paper you like at that conference last year. Cite the person you met who's going up for tenure next year. Our bibliographies should push the limits of every journal's page limits.

So you will get an automated message from OpenAI that your child is in danger? What could go wrong.

There are 79 working days left in 2025. If you write 1 1/2 pages a day, every working day, you can finish a script before New Years. If you write 3 pages a day, you could complete a novel. 1000 words a day, roughly 4 pages, and you could write three scripts. A page at a time comes together quickly

"chatGPT 5 is like having a bunch of phds in your pocket" here's ten trillion dollars "bluesky is having an *actual* bunch of phds in your pocket" dying platform. it disgusts me

Looking at this collection of words and wondering how this company still exists.

NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY. We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration. I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

Still impossible being a woman in academia, can confirm

In late-stage platform capitalism, trolling has become the dominant cultural technique: politics, journalism, marketing, even art have, to some extent, turned into some form of trolling

Note to self - the first week of classes is stressful for all. Small boo-boos seem like big pains. Minor changes feel like big obstacles. Little things can trigger us to melt down. A little kindness, understanding, and flexibility can go a long way. #commsky #academicsky

The hits keep coming. “The departments that won’t be accepting Ph.D. students now include art history, cinema and media studies, classics, comparative literature, East Asian languages and civilizations, English language and literature, Germanic studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern studies…”

Bluesky has chosen to block access in the state rather than risk potential fines of up to $10,000 per violation. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

BREAKING: BlueSky is blocking access to Mississippi. This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org. We ditched X for BlueSky early this year. And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof. I don't know what we'll do next. Keep up with us using our newsletter at mfp.ms/subscribe.

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

No interviews with anyone who knows anything about LLMs. No indication the author understands that LLMs are designed to tell you what you want to hear, not necessarily what you need to hear. If you substituted "tarot cards" for "ChatGPT" you'd end up with the exact same story, beat for beat.

I've been hearing this stuff from tech CEOs for literally my entire adult life and all that's happened is everything that was cool about tech in the year 2000 has been systematically burned to the ground and replaced with a hostile techopticon with increasingly shitty UI

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

[noise from pocket]: "I have more of a comment than a question"

Tulane University will not let its faculty and staff upset donors and big LA interests. This is not how a free society works. www.chronicle.com/article/cens...

I spent a few days in Chicago talking to the brightest minds in the nuclear weapons game and I heard some pretty disturbing stuff.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

You ever just think about how much it sucks that Musk bought Twitter and absolutely destroyed it? Like man, that used to be where I'd meet new people, make real life friends, etc. Now, whenever I glance over there to check something, it's just unrecognizable.

Video games still can’t render Black hair properly, but ok.

AI's immense requirements for data, computation, and talent entrench the power of existing tech monopolies. Our podcast of the week frames AI as a general-purpose technology whose primary role is consolidating capital. With @nsrnicek.bsky.social on @smartcookies.bsky.social buff.ly/Nzoi8um

Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world. OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts. But they can’t make us use their trashware. Boycott. Luddify. Open source. Don’t let them have your work or your students.

“…faculty members will be able to click an icon that connects them with various AI features…, like a grading tool, a discussion-post summarizer… Canvas’s parent company, Instructure, is also in partnership w/ OpenAI… so instructors can use generative-AI technology as part of their assignments.”

Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'

Can't believe I had to issue a request like this, but apparently news outlets are printing completely fabricated quotes now

These companies are embracing an intense schedule, first popularized in mainland China, known as “996,” or 9 am to 9 pm, six days a week. That’s a 72-hour work week, in case you’re doing the math.

Epstein files? A "false flag." Texas floods? A "false flag." Welcome to the era of the "false flag," where every single major news event is now being labeled as fake. What could possibly go wrong...

Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19  LLMs, 707 political issues. We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more!  🧵:

The Columbia hack is one of several attacks on university systems, including one on Ole Miss where the hacker displayed a Confederate flag on screens and played a midi of Dixie. Framing the Columbia hack as an attack on affirmative action has the effect of soft-pedaling what this is all about.

You've heard of Elon Musk's Neuralink. But there's another company that's allowing paralyzed people to control computers with their thoughts without the need for invasive brain surgery. Read my deep dive on Synchron for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/synchr...

And considering that expertise is something that’s maintained through practice, its use by experts will tend to reduce the long-run quality of their expertise.

stop 👏 anthropomorphizing 👏 the 👏 chatbot 👏

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

really don't care if you disagree with me, i think constantly filming everything everywhere is bad, i think the widespread deployment of facial recognition is bad, i think the fact there are cameras everywhere inside of arenas & that increasingly you have to use your face to buy a hot dog is bad

Roblox is becoming more like Discord and leveraging the kind of "age recognition" technology that's likely to be all over the internet soon. The latest details on the new safety features that Roblox is pitching: www.crossplay.news/p/new-roblox...