"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras

Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.

There is no way to use ChatGPT responsibly.

I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.

The reason elite consensus switched on net zero is that the elite realized: 1) Carbon capture doesn’t work, and carbon removal is really challenging. 2) The world is facing trillions of dollars in devalued assets if we actually do phase out fossil fuels. So they decided to let the world burn.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

@irisvanrooij.bsky.social just dropping truth bombs out there before most of this continent wakes up

The reason why it is essential to read IN BULK when studying history is not simply to amass empirical knowledge—though that is important, too, of course—but because *interpretation* requires thick contextual awareness, and there is NO SHORTCUT for building that up that awareness.

I dunno if this is offensive to say because I seem to upset people when I say this, but humanities people should consider joining us, or at least join us in decoupling from Word and other MS products where we can... and @acollierastro.bsky.social says it more convincingly than I can!

"Because it's the right thing to do", "Because human rights are not negotiable" and "Fuck you, make me" all cut right through the noise and yet so many find them impossible to say

Anyway read and watch this. It comes during the same week as the government is releasing a "tough on crime" Harper-era publicity campaign. Big Canada Day energy here.

I mean when the weather even includes fireworks, you know it's not going well

One more step on Carney's road to Davos.

LAWS DON'T MAKE UP REALITY, MILLER

He says it would be too expensive to meet our climate targets…so who is saving money when we don’t? The people whose houses burn down in forest fires? Those who lose homes to flooding? The people who die in heat domes?

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

Sometimes I think philosophy does more harm than good

Lol far left. This is barely left of centre. I mean, people do need all this. But come on. Barely even intervening in or entering the market. Of course this is all an indication of how far right the two US parties are.

Took this test just for fun. Not bad. Doesn't mix up answers too much and forgets a few possible answers on the critical side, but on the whole it's reasonable. Don't love the Doctorow thing but it's ok, I like many of his positions, the arguments just don't land.

“An Epic Research study published on Friday analyzing electronic health records found that gambling disorder diagnoses have risen more than 60 percent since 2018 in states that have legalized sports betting. The largest increase came from young people, aged 18 to 29, whose rate more than doubled.”

This is the backwards, upside-down version of Aristotle's idea of practical reason being greater when more people deliberate. Instead of finding the path for common action that will account for the most possibilities, it's figuring out where the most money can be made.

It's always aeon, isn't it. Those "philosophy" takes that serve the current order and follows orders.

Just google -ai'd "shrimp discourse and got: Peter Singer; Effective altruism forum; and yes you should save 10^100 shrimp instead of one human So I still don't know, but it can't be good.

So the Edmonton Police Chief is taking training from a rogue genocidal state. What do we think it will mean for people here?

I cannot stress the degree to which the Canadian government does NOT want immigrants. They don't even want tourists, in case they become immigrants.

“‘AI’ might not be good for xyz, but you can’t deny that it’s helpful for programming” -- sound familiar? In Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Ep 79 @alexhanna.bsky.social and I dig into that bullshit. www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...

Si jamais vous avez du temps et de l'envie, je propose un cours sur l'histoire globale de l'anarchisme à l'Université Ouverte à @upcite.bsky.social à partir de la mi-janvier! Inscriptions à partir du 8 juillet! u-paris.fr/universite-o...

Le portail lexical du CNRTL évolue et vous pouvez désormais le consulter sur le site www.portail-lexical.fr Le wiktionnaire est désormais inclus, ainsi que des statistiques d'usage des mots à travers le temps, issues de Gallica et du Monde !

Rewild the reflecting pool. Make it a wetland bird sanctuary. Fill it with endangered salamanders. Foster the fermentation of whatever it is that makes swamp gas. Put up little signs welcoming fairies. Let stray senators wander in never to be seen again. Elect a bog witch. Make America Moss Again

AI can't translate. It can give you the gist of a text, but not an accurate, well-written translation. Meanwhile, translators are being replaced by AI, and many are leaving the business. Language courses are closing down. So basically a whole profession and its skills are being wiped out.

A Choose Your Own Adventure but no matter what path you take, you end up hitting me in the face with a shovel.

Me, some thots about pomes

"Left behind" and an undemocratic mind? Happy to see that my article on the link between perceived marginalization and democratic orientations is now out in @ejprjournal.bsky.social 🧵👇 Read the article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Another reason not to commit malpractice in your research by relying on LLMs

A new chapbook, in response to bp Nichol's recorded sound poems, a sharing of the pure joy of sounding words out

This is just to say I have tossed the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for next week Forgive me they were deleterious so fuzzy and so spoiled

30% off "Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Writings"! Use code AUFLY30 on global.oup.com/academic

They removed CD/DVD drives from PCs. -Made physical media harder to buy and use. -Removed expandable storage from phones. -Pushed us into streaming subscriptions. -Made always-online normal. -Made unlimited internet necessary. -Slowly raised the price of everything. Ownership quietly became renting.

Oh, they took his name off a building, yay. Great, now can you fuckers stop his ass from making the political environment that's murdering at least two of my sisters per day, every day, for the last few weeks?

Quebec is the “eye of the storm” of Mark Carney’s deportation blitz. As @desaima.bsky.social & @desmondcole.bsky.social report, CBSA agents are increasingly confronting migrants in workplaces and schools and rushing deportations before legal options for asylum seekers have played out.

These are the real people of Belfast. Thousands of anti-fascists rally against the far-right at Belfast City Hall today. They sent a clear message that racism is not wanted in their city. Things you love to see ✊❤

Ugh. Now we're cosplaying as Europeans. Will Carney be buried in England like John A Macdonald? Or in Davos? Also there are thoughts around race here, and New World Order is NOT HELPING.

Oh no. That's NOT what's going on. The dictator is being stopped from amusing himself while a movement he did't organize, on which he depends, and isn't accountable to him continues to mobilize and strengthen its resources to completely change the legal, social, and economic fabric of the country.

Aerial PARTIAL view of the anti racist, anti fascist crowd in Belfast right now. City Hall to the left for scale. This - this is the real Belfast. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Is it morally permissible to break the law to share academic research? In our new paper @freeandequal.bsky.social, Himani Bhakuni and I explore this question and frame illegal sharing of academic research as a form of unilateral remedial action. Link below: freeandequaljournal.org/article/id/2...

Also there's a torment nexus issue, especially as AI is trained on stolen works that include evil tech companies that then suggest those schemes

FIFA has prohibited Haitian World Cup jerseys with a depiction of the Nov. 18, 1803, Bataille de Vertières aka the triumph of the Haitian Revolution against slavery. Depraved. amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

I think a lot of people (academic colleagues inclusive) have forgotten why some of us became academics. Unlike them we did not do it for the prestige and the chance to be a comprador for companies and other pathetic anti-intellectual vested interests, but because we wanted to do this actual job. 1/

Great thread on Anthropic, and I'm giving away the ending: