Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

This has literally been a part of deep reinforcement learning algorithms since at least 2016/2018ish, and maybe earlier. These folks (OpenAI/Anthropic) are BAD researchers in part because they have no idea what’s actually going on in their own field outside of LLMs.

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

normalize 👏 telling 👏 tech 👏 companies 👏 to 👏 keep 👏 their 👏 grubby 👏 mitts 👏 out 👏 of 👏 schools 👏

Honestly, macOS is built on Unix. And Unix is basically just Linux. As someone who uses both, I actually like my Linux computer more. And the same logic I use to navigate my macOS files and interface apply to my Ubuntu kernel. TLDR; they’re basically the same.

NOW WAIT JUST A DAMN MINUTE... The @nationalacademies.org gave ILYA SUTSKEVER an award last week?? Co-founder of OpenAI and founder of Safe Superintellecence Inc. (funded by Andreessen, among others)...that is now valued at $34b yet does not have a product? Are you kidding me????

I unironically told a student today while talking about an upcoming midterm “don’t believe in yourself, believe in me! Believe in the me that believes in you!” And while they laughed at the excessive amount of cringe in that anime quote, I hope they also understood how much faith I have in them.

~Autism and epistemic injustice~ Most autistic people, despite everything, actually like being autistic. A thread 🧵 1/12 (refs at the end) #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (from my partner actually but I love this picture)

@schiff.senate.gov and @padilla.senate.gov 🙏

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, Chuck Shumer, @padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov and @congressmin.bsky.social. Not a single person cares about your re-election. Do your job or get tf out of the way for someone who will.

People should read this in the context of the MULTI-YEAR campaign led mostly by young Black people in Chicago to INSIST that U Chicago open a level 1 trauma center on the Southside. blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/26/a...

What kills me about this too is that under no circumstances would I call this “AI education”. Teach them the math and objective function AIs are trained on. If they can do algebra 1, they can understand it. All this is is “training” new consumers for companies like OAI and anthropic.

I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.

Hey @aflcio.org ask Tegmark how he feels about replacing human workers. Then ask him (after he says he feels positively/that it’s inevitable) whether he supports union members opting not to use tech that employers use to justify paying them less. Go ahead. Corporate sell outs.

I keep getting notifications about courses on AI for my adjunct job, put on by my school. Mother f*cker, I don’t want your AI courses. If I thought I had a use for it, I’d do it myself. As someone who does AI research, I know more about it than the marketing goons teaching your “training” course. 🧵

i need the “llms are might be conscious” folx to read this

My thoughts every time Sam Altman speaks: f*ck you Sam. No one needs more SAS bloatware. Least of all from you. Because if you know how these systems work under the hood all the woo woo business-idiot slop just disappears. Heck, here are all the papers that went into developing them.

This is gross on so many levels, and turning it off for good probably means putting pressure on Grammarly and whatever journal publisher Grammarly bought publication rights from to build this.

Made it up until 1300 without having to relive learning Old English in college. And my OE brain is clearly toast past 1100. Super, super cool!

I'm gonna be in Tucson for #ICLASP19 and if folks know cool hikes out there while I'm in town please show me!

I’d never thought of it like this but oh my god now I can’t unsee it.

I actually think exams might be dead. I'm grading about 150 bluebook exams right now. And it's striking to me that the reason I'm doing this is because we're now afraid of folks cheating via AI in any other medium. And... y'all class sizes are only increasing. This quarter its 150 exams. Next 🧵

"Model to Meaning" just received a super generous review in JASA. Check it out! (I'm blushing 😊) Reminder: You can get the paper copy from CRC, and the full **free** version will remain online forever at marginaleffects.com www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Chip Berlet, who worked to take on everything from COINTELPRO to neo-Nazis, will be remembered for helping to inform, inspire, challenge and strengthen generations of anti-racist movements on the Left. We were lucky to speak with him in 2020. itsgoingdown.org/from-souther...

Science is currently deciphering whale language, once we learn enough of it the first words out of our mouths should be something along the lines of; "we're sorry".

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

Gonna do the exact opposite. @kirbyconrod.bsky.social is a fucking badass linguist and if you want to read some cool work on pronoun usage and gender you should go grab any one of these articles and give 'em a read. scholar.google.com/citations?us...

I defended my prospectus yesterday and am now officially ABD :). I don't deserve that karma I have, but I recognize that I am extremely lucky to have advisors and collaborators who are incredibly supportive. Not every PhD student has that, and it's not lost on me at all that I'm

Nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri ~ Horace Seems pertinent to remember (and rally around) at this point in time.

Small things I’m stoked on: I shoot traditional #archery. Mostly because I have zero coordination and suck at any sport that has a “don’t trip on your own feet” requirement. But today I was shooting a target at 40yds WELL. It’s just been a lot of practice and it’s something I’m actually proud of.

Sidebar and bringing this up for folks: Check out the Libby app if you haven’t already, because if you’ve got an ebook reader or drive in traffic like I do (and thus burn through audiobooks) it allows you to borrow media from your local library! :)

Barnes and Noble was the second job I ever had. And while it wasn't perfect, I loved being able to stop and talk with folks about books I'd read, what they'd read, and use that as a moment to engage with my community on ground that I was actually comfortable with. More of this!

So this next semester I’m going to radically change my illustrative activities for the concepts I teach. Rather than having students just write about their experiences I’m going to have them do a fleet of social experiments on their peers. Old school early 2000s style see how ppl react.

People should apply for it. OpenAI is going to waste that money otherwise. That also doesn’t mean they have to kiss Sam Altman’s huckster a** with the outcomes of their work. Take the money AND THEN STILL STICK IT TO ALTMAN. The grant is absolutely insincere and folks should exploit it bc of that.

a good and necessary read for many

Shehecheyanu, people.

you do not need a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun. you just need very restrictive gun laws and proper enforcement to get rid of the guns.

Do not go and harass the OP. But there will 100% be more posts like the one the not OP (the person I’m quoting) is commenting on. Bc one of the functions of antisemitic hate speech is to manipulate/consolidate the speech of folks’ ingroup and you can do that easily on social media.

History majors have lower unemployment than computer science majors. Folks with humanities graduate degrees are more sought after by corporate recruiters than those with MBAs. Study history! Get a job!

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

this

This.

I'm just gonna say, if folks want to keep sending me cool corpora that make them happy (and especially corpora that include task-based dialog . . . for a friend . . .) I just might squee. #linguistics research is my happy place.

Super cool!

My feed on LinkedIn reads like an endless stream of AI company pitches. I know the site was always more marketing-talk oriented than I liked, but it's practically intolerable now.

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