“Big Tech is an organized crime family” 🤬

“convenient to assume” 🤬🤬🤬 bsky.app/profile/theg...

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Jessie Thind’s essay is enlightening on this issue. “Artificial Impartiality: The Insidious Role of AI in Reinforcing White Supremacy in Canada” mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/server/api/c... bsky.app/profile/brea...

This is a great question. Historians who study Frederick Douglass often talk about his King James Bible-influenced rhetorical style—

Reminder that the 13th amendment was designed to allow for this kind of slavery 🤬🤬🤬

This 🧵 shows how frustrating it is for people who like language (and read professionally) to read AI-generated words. The student papers I read on the regular (at least >60% of submissions) aren’t nearly so consistent, but they ARE consistently heart-breakingly boring 😑

The epic investigation in the New Yorker by Heidi Blake seems to have lit a fire under UK criminal justice bureaucrats, who'd messed up last time they had a chance to prosecute the Tates (including some pretty horrendous victim blaming Blake recounts). Journalism matters for justice.

“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”

Nonsense. Scientific integrity is part of academic pedagogy! zenodo.org/records/2008...

> core logics of AI are the same as racism and sexism, which is why these issues pop up again and again in these systems: it involves taking the simple shallow features of things we see [&] moving to very flawed conclusions. There is something addictive to this form of sheer intellectual laziness.

“The important part is to do all this by looking like one is not against the organisation's goal (i.e. knowledge production and education) or even more insidiously by looking like one is staunchly anti AI explicitly.”

James Joyce and Collum McCann. Portrait of the Artist, The Dead, and Let the Great World Spin opened the floodgates to more beauty 💚

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“Dangerous unselfishness” 🔥

Human.

This is a politician who understands that this is not an indulgence, it's an investment. Every public space where you can have fun and not spend any money is probably more of a crimebuster than 100 cops.

“This is a major problem at a time when policymakers, educational specialists and the public alike are all eager for evidence of whether AI helps improve educational outcomes or not.” Spoiler: learning does not happen without critical thinking. AI does not think, critically or not.

Surveillance state.

We’ve always known we were the biggest polluters 😢

When we have fires in the US, Canada sent help. When Canada has fires, Trump threatens them with tariffs. What an asshole.

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Already tired of tracking the level of cremated forests in my air supply and parasite-egg-bearing human shit in my food supply. And by tired I mean given to brawling.

“Or to put it more bluntly: stop running around talking about revolution and then treating women like shit. We’ve had it. We see it. And we want it to stop.”

People like to act as of I do not know what I am talking about, but Intractability and Cognition is my experise for more than 25 years, and the truth will bite them whether they believe me or not

It’s almost as if we should take violence against women seriously. How many times have men shown us exactly who they are but we haven’t believed it because of misogyny?

This isn't accessibility. It's a form of distributed delusion. Automations absolutely can be an accessibility tool that are good and useful for cognitive offloading. But not an LLM-based "AI agent", which is dangerous to cognitively offload onto because it is built to convince you that it can think.

Canadian firefighters hauled ass to get down here when half of Los Angeles was on fire last year. What a characteristically classy way to repay that favor.

«AI slop lets the right simultaneously annoy anti-AI liberals, animate divisive stereotypes, and boost tech companies embracing anti-democratic principles, all while increasing social media engagement.» #Slopaganda www.thebulwark.com/p/the-slop-d...

"Across democracies, the central dynamic is not two poles drifting apart but the transformation of the political right into authoritarianism, norm breaking, and openness to political violence." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Fascists are obsessed with the idea that sex is a biologically determined feature. That's why they're threatening testosterone supplementation for military men. It's not "gender affirming care," it's a government forcing people to make their bodies conform to a social construct.

Osters describing a form of panic, it's just unintentionally her own elite panic.

"air quality" was a mistake. I think we should go back to talking about air pollution wildfires aren't "lowering air quality" they're increasing pollution and filling the air with smoke

Abusers often seek legitimate spaces to practice. ICE has always offered this space 😢

"Ultimately, all AI implicates human cognition; no matter what. Obfuscation of cognition in the AI context — from clocks to artificial neural networks — results in distortion, in slowing critical engagement... To begin to de-fetishise AI, we must look the human-in-the-loop in the eyes." *alt-text

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This is what text-based meaning-making looks like 👏

Misogynistic language advances fascism 🤬

I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf

“earlier technologies never forced culture to be endlessly reshaped across various mediums at a global scale. They did not summarize, regenerate and rank cultural products millions of times per day, guided by the same built-in assumptions about what is “typical.” theconversation.com/ai-induced-c...

“earlier technologies never forced culture to be endlessly reshaped across various mediums at a global scale. They did not summarize, regenerate and rank cultural products millions of times per day, guided by the same built-in assumptions about what is “typical.” theconversation.com/ai-induced-c...

"Hundreds of federal food-safety staff have been cut, and last July the CDC narrowed FoodNet — the sentinel network that provides early warnings of foodborne illness — from eight pathogens to two, dropping cyclospora altogether."

Good news.

In addition to this being a blatant and easily refutable lie, insurance costs are up dramatically, what even is the mechanism by which the president would have an impact on local car theft? They think you are stupid

I drink tea regularly, but I wonder how universal this analogy is—

If almost every person on Earth did nothing but make cups of tea, day and night, one every second, and poured every single one into the ocean, that's how much heat the ocean is absorbing. This heat absorption, driven by our CO₂ emissions, causes sea level rise, marine heatwaves, and polar ice melt.

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