Just standing here eating cheese

Read this, liked, and now I am closing the app 😄

The more I read about AI, the more I think about the Marxist idea of the dialectical change of quantity into quality: most of the problems with AI are already present where it's used. But it pushes them so far that they effectively become a different problem altogether. Not just a matter of degree.

There's a web of threads here about use of LLMs in research, it's worth starting here and going back through the rest!

As someone who has Done Okay at this contest in the past but hasn't written a poem in months or more, I certainly picked the right year to not take part. I 100% look forward to all the attempts though!

#TalkAboutHumanities We need scholars across the humanities, because these are the fields where we study what it is to be human, to inhabit different identities, and to connect with each other, to be human together. youtu.be/T7Lc6QNxolQ...

Yes. The brain doesn’t work like AI. It’s not a computer. We use metaphors for it from technology b/c it’s really hard to understand how the brain works and we don’t entirely understand how a pile of electrified jello does all this. But it’s definitely much cooler than AI.

Do you live near a data center? Do you know anyone who lives near a data center? I want to talk to you! [email protected]

“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.

Vance is schismatic

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Pope Leo knew what he was in for when he put on that big ass hat. FIGHTING CRIME. but all he does is pope stuff. he does not deserve to hang out with the Justice League

This looks very interesting. Wednesday, April 15, 2026 — 1 pm ET / 10 am PT w @triofrancos.bsky.social, Jordan Kinder of NYU, Krystal Two Bulls & Vivek Bharathan of the No Desert Data Center Coalition RSVP for Zoom link 👇 thenaturalhistorymuseum.org/events/the-d...

Three chests full of Merleau-Ponty's manuscripts donated to @labnf.bsky.social! Nothing major, from the looks of it, but lots of interesting things, including conferences (and, I assume, the working notes that weren't published with The Visible and the Invisible).

good news! hungary has replaced its authoritarian racist leader with a liberal racist

Regina, today! Ready to share some of my reading and thinking about AI, how it captures our attention, our labour, intellectual productions, capital, and public funds - and so why as intellectual workers we need to fight it.

"Luddites" is a good term for those who oppose AI because the Luddites weren't against *all* technology, just forms of technology that they knew would pay workers less and turn out a shittier product

My review of Goose by Melanie Dennis Unrau - in which I look at various aspects of this astonishing book, from the political to the pictural

Les Québécoises et Québecois : voter allègrement et le cœur léger pour le moindre mal même s'il est complice de génocide. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 Les Québécoises et Québecois : voter pour un parti qui veut sincèrement le bien public, mais le chef maîtrise encore mal le français. 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐

Sérieusement, toute l'affaire avec le manque de français à la course à la chefferie du NPD, y compris la "réflexion" de Boulerice, montre comment mettre la langue devant la solidarité (ou comme sa condition) ne peut avoir que des conséquences réactionnaires et garder la droite de Carney au pouvoir

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

my troubles are over

My son and I watched a bunch of the videos back to back. They do not disappoint. There's also something nice looking back at people having a good time in high school, and looking forward to it from elementary school

There's a deep, awful misogyny that imagines that any second tier man would dominate the women's sphere to the point where anyone who seriously believes that also believes the women's medals to be a kind of participation trophy for the ladies. They woudn't want one.

One of the underrated downsides of social media like Bluesky and Twitter IMO is that they make you feel like you need to have an opinion on every topic that comes across the TL when you really don't. For example, I've seen dozens of posts today about Josh Shapiro pushing cursive.

despicable. fuck this.

Apparently this is mostly a repost account these days. But why try to say things and get credit for it when others are saying it so well already?

CBAs can't do everything, and not everyone has them, but they can be useful tools in pushing back against AI in higher ed. Here we offer a short review of the CBA landscape in education on tech/AI 🧵👇

The EU justification for opposing the UN statement on slavery is a must-read. Their first argument is that "All lives matter". Second is that the statement "risks creating divisions" rather than unity. Enormous eye roll. Third is that they don't want to be on the hook for reparations.

The (heinous) International Olympic Committee has just (fucking) formally banned trans participation in sport. stillmed.olympics.com/media/Docume...

1) yes absolutely 2) that's one way to deal with structural concussion expectation 3) the premiums and costs on sports leagues and teams (and esp. football and hockey) might become so expensive that they would have to review the rules and how they are applied to limit the risks 4) yes absolutely

March 24-30, 2026: readings + performances in English and French (and Polish)! 2 new Hall of Honour inductees! workshops by Sheri-D Wilson + Paul Vermeersch! & a free reading at Carleton University by Karen Solie! check out the full schedule and ticket information at verseottawa.ca/en/versefest

Saw the numbers and thought “that can’t be right” but no, 498 schools hit by US/Israeli bombs in Iran. 281 hospitals. sourced to the Red Crescent by Al Jazeera. Unspeakable

The thing I am continuously yelling

I will not stop yelling this at my university

"Look, don't judge the entire AI industry by the conduct, speech, or stated goals of anyone at Palantir. Or OpenAI. Or Perplexity. Or Grammarly. Or-"

When your position is indefensible, you WILL come up with the worst arguments

Gotta love a decent idea presented in a proto-fascist framing

A reminder (again and not the last) that I will ve reading in Ottawa on Friday night and that you can catch it online and also ce sera en français ok merci

the 16th annual VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival begins tonight (with livestream options as well); & if you pre-purchase tickets, there's less fiddling at the door, yes? lots of exciting readings this week! verseottawa.ca/en/events

"this is actually a huge reason i have decided not to jump into LLM and AI agent-related development. the ecosystem is (...) run and maintained by people who are all-in on vibe coding, so a package you might like and include in your project could easily become a dangerous, unmaintainable mess"

For the Hegelians in the room

This whole thread - please take a minute to see what grammarly is up to with their feature of having LLM editing done "in the style of" authors, without their participation, in a way that misrepresents them... and makes them talk as if they were selling LLMs

If you're a tech worker who's interested in reading Marx's Capital with other tech workers, there's a free online course that's starting later this month cftw.ohrg.org

Voici l'un des articles dont je suis le plus fier en carrière. Un flot de remerciements à Eftihia Mihelakis et Dominique Hétu pour leur patience et leur accompagnement, et pour le thème, et pour un si beau numéro!

the US is having people die in completely avoidable incidents because it is run by people who have made a wholesale abdication of any notion of doing anything right or the public good

And this is why it's transphobia all the way down. Gender-criticals have taken their absurd position that "self-ID" doesn't work for trans people and are now applying it to all mental health conditions. They think the entire field of psychology is a woke conspiracy against innocent kids.

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