That sounds like a lot of power. I hope we’re doing useful things with ChatGPT. 🙃

Le Canada et Israël mènent des génocides. Il faut dire le mot qui unit ces violences et déshumanisations pour l'appropriation du territoire.

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

i wouldn't call myself an expert on capitalism or anything but this does indeed seem like something of a problem

So being against racism and fascism and standing with one’s community for self-defense is now considered a crime? Shame on UNC. This is Dwayne Dixon. I know Dwayne and the students testifying to how great of a professor he is in the comments on Instagram are as shocked as I am.

Israeli Defense Minister Katz: "Those who remain in Gaza City will be terrorists and terror supporters." In other words, Israel declares its intention to exterminate everyone in Gaza City who could not move south. That is what calling everyone 'terrorists and terror supporters' means.

I have a genuine legal question- do you think there is a colorable claim for an author to go after an individual who uses a LLM to make a piece of writing that was trained without their permission on their work? Clearly there is for the LLM but what about for the users?

This is quite a fall. Wow. Also reminds me I have a few of these to review - not to mention my own coming out in French next week!

Baldwin: A change, real change is brought about when the people make a change. The poet or the revolutionary can articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it nothing can happen. When the people have taken the necessity, when the movement starts moving, then the world moves.

The Global Sumud Flotilla is nearing what the Israeli military has designated a combat zone as its members attempt to break Israel's siege of Gaza. Mandla Mandela, the grandson of Nelson Mandela, speaks to us from abroad the flotilla.

Every Child is a Universe Christi Belcourt ~ Métis 2025

My splendid translator in France, Mikael Cabon, asked me to support an urgent campaign, launching today, opposing AI being used instead of people. I do so willingly, and feel same on behalf of audiobook readers and bookworld artists. I hope readers worldwide will show their agreement.

Hi, please invent in my new AI startup! It’s on track to lose about $100 million this year, it does nothing useful, and everyone who’s been exposed to it despises it. We are asking for TEN BILLION DOLLARS.

The University of Alberta (where I used to teach) placed a professor on leave without legitimate reason, and indeed likely to intimidate them.

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

May every woman Searle harrassed and assaulted find some peace.

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

This piece by Elizabeth Costello in @periodicities.bsky.social is so incredibly precise and soft, so intricately circular in its acknowledgement of what haunts us and what we keep with us. It leaves room for our own ghosts and for our breath. Beautiful periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/07/proc...

A clean, quick thread educators need to read

Établir des relations avec la communauté et obtenir la confiance ce n'est pas pour être gentil, c'est pour mieux surveiller et mieux cibler

O Saskatchewan! Israel is an apartheid state committing genocide & ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Ambassador Moed denies this & denies his government deliberately starves Palestinians. Instead of rolling out the red carpet for Israel, Saskatchewan should treat it like South Africa was in the 1980s.

L'audience vient d'être levée, et voici la Une de @mediapart.fr après le jugement historique rendu dans l'affaire Sarkozy-Kadhafi.

⚖️ Procès libyen: Nicolas Sarkozy est condamné à 5 ans de prison ferme avec mandat de dépôt différé.

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

“We are facing a planetary emergency. The breach of the Ocean Acidification boundary is a stark scientific warning and a moral call to action. Without healthy oceans, peace, prosperity & stability are at risk everywhere. We must act now...to safeguard this life-support system for future generations"

Marc Bloch will be admitted to the Pantheon in Paris! The date for the "Panthéonisation" is set for 16 June 2026. Meanwhile, @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social has launched a website to keep track of the many conferences to celebrate the event. Some of them start this month. marcbloch.pantheonsorbonne.fr

They've lost the 9yos

This is persecution.

ATTENTION PARENTS: is your child texting about the Rapture? KNOW THE SIGNS: LOL: left on land WTF: where’s the family ROFL: rapture only for losers OMG: oh ma geddon

Excited to see this in print with Cambridge University Press. A fantastic new volume on Anticolonialism and Social thought (Ed’s): Julian Go and Anaheed Al-Hardan. My contribution includes an intellectual history of Zweledinga Pallo Jordan drawing from archival work and an oral history interview.

Ben Mulroney is blurring the lines between journalism, business, lobbying and partisan politics The new host of Global News’ national political news show also works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted election events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives earlier this year

A 🧵 on Saskatchewan’s Safe Public Spaces Act (Safety of Public Urban Spaces CR25-113) vote to take place at Regina's City Council meeting on Wednesday. I urge councillors to vote against this act. This act further criminalizes poverty & homelessness through the arbitrary power given to police 1/

The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further. Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.

“The Canadian Medical Association calls on the Alberta government to refrain from invoking the notwithstanding clause to enact legislation that directly interferes in the clinical care of patients.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.cma.ca/about-us/wha...

LLM responses which do not reflect consensus reality & facts are produced via the Same Process which generate responses which *Do* broadly conform to consensus reality & facts. The Same Processes. The Same Ones. "Hallucination" is just a word to distance yourself from the outputs you don't like.

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

Oh this looks amazing

. @olivia.science and I had the honour to speak with Kent Anderson and Joy Moore on @disruptedscience.bsky.social 🧪 💫 🎬 🍿 Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9w0... 🎶👂 Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/082h... 1/🧵

Simplicity over accuracy. There you go. You're better off skimming a paper, which is a very important skill.

Yesterday we learned that Trump micromanages the prosecution of his enemies and that the head of his secret police was filmed accepting a $50k bribe in a paper bag. Still, for the editors of NYT, the sanctification of Charlie Kirk, saint and martyr is a bigger news story. This paper is soulless.

Yall that last thread is full of typos! I need my keyboard! (Or just to revise each post I suppose.)

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

My very limited understanding of the technology had me believing that hallucinations were the wrong concept because (1) everything LLMs do is repeat statistical probabilities, and so have no grounding in reality or truth, and (2) LLMs are not beings and do not perceive and so do not hallucinate. 1/

4pm on Friday is totally the moment to post the news you're proudest about. Could it be Oxford is as embarrassed about this as it should be? They're burning their most valuable asset, that centuries' old reputation, & offering legitimacy to a cognitive-power-&-resources-destructing plagiarism tool.

The widely accepted narrative that Trump "chickened out" on Chicago is completely incorrect. ICE's incursions are getting worse here every day.

Given the pretense of fighting drugs given for sanctions (tariffs) on Canada, this is quite concerning

This is a travesty. Honestly, McGill should be censured by CAUT for this decision and the changes it is making to the student code of conduct that will compromise student academic freedom and undermine the very conditions of the institution’s accreditation. Solidarity, @marxinhell.bsky.social

This is a dishonest and harmful use of "conflict of interest" that turns a well-established concept into a weapon for political suppression. www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

I used academia.edu for years because, though flawed, it was a way for scholars outside of EU and NA to access my papers. However, using my signature without my consent seems a bit too much even for me…

To delete your academia edu account