there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

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made me laugh out loud so hard that's how my Tuesday felt (also if you've never seen Cookie Monster on Bon Appetit- I highly recommend it. Made me laugh so much): www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wf2...

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Other Tech Worlds Are Possible. Comics project funded by the University of Toronto and SSHRC. The volume 1 was co-created with the Homeless Workers’ Movement in Brazil. The online launch will be available next week in Portuguese, English, and Spanish.

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Real talk

I hate how often this is relevant. 😡

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Literally the entire point of a tattoo is the human element and interaction. Working with your tattoo artist, personalizing your designs, its all so intimate and rightly so. Thats what its all about! Why do techbros try to ruin EVERYTHING?

Thanks for the shout out!!!

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"If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because 'violence' is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as 'peaceful' are, in reality, quite violent."

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Elon Musk is engaged in open chemical warfare and killing the people of Memphis and don't let people tell you this isn't a race thing. a white South African dumping toxic gasses onto a majority Black city isn't something that is happening by coincidence

“people with lower AI literacy are typically more receptive to AI," "people with lower AI literacy are more likely to perceive AI as magical and experience feelings of awe in the face of AI's execution of tasks that seem to require uniquely human attributes." futurism.com/more-people-...

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Your power bill is going up, your water is being poisoned, your air is polluted, and if you live near a data center you just get used to the non-stop humming of the place. But look on the bright side: AI is making a tiny handful of billionaires even richer so Google can get basic math wrong.

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

Hey Firefox users.

My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate. Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.

Internalize this and you will understand a lot more about our current moment.

Super looking forward to being a part of this.

this! and large platforms, genAI and the AI industry in general have been instrumental fuel powering authoritarianism

Most people who vote in jail do so using mail-in ballots. It's far from a perfect system, but mail-in voting is essential to making sure vulnerable voices behind bars are heard & counted.

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IT IS almost religious! If you deny their New AI God, they respond like you blasphemed, and you must be converted or shunned from all polite company

Such a good encapsulation of why you shouldn't outsource reading and writing to AI.

What a fantastic resource for teaching. I especially found the shared assignments helpful. Impressed by everyone’s pedagogical creativity and generosity to share it. #pedagogy #teaching #AI

Yes. Once you start seeing this (Institution X probably wanted do this conservative thing anyway but now can blame it on Trump), it's everywhere. It's not capitulation, it's agreement. "We can stop doing this thing we started doing from 2014-2020 because of woke/progressive/anti-racist pressure."

“.. DOGE increasingly looks like a giant joke as the initiative winds up saving essentially zero dollars for US taxpayers .” - Vital Knowledge @politico.com 🇺🇸 www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Because universities hate their faculty and staff and only pretend to care about students (Yes I have been in academia too long, and yes am completely burnt out)

GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so many feelings I can't even articulate them----

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This is maybe the worst part about being an educator in the AI era. AI companies are *stealing your time* by making you work around it/find it/adjudicate it. Time that, 4 years ago, you would have used to improve your materials, or stay up-to-date on some area of research.

Some good news!

Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.

When I see gAI defenders who are politically ‘liberal’ and/or progressive this is always my thought: how can you abstract this technology from the way it is being used to strip the earth of its resources and how it is destroying entire democracies/being used for some truly heinous purposes?

once again, @historians.org, how could you put out that guidance on AI that basically said "sure there are ethical issues but we cant ignore it so here is how you could use it?" It is trained and built on the theft of the works of thousands of historians. Millions of authors and artists.

"A.i." doesn't empower anyone. It strips them of belief in themselves and the power of their own minds and hands and abilities and stories. EVERY KID CAN DRAW. EVERY KID CAN TELL STORIES AND MAKE COMICS. Fuck "A.i." for telling kids lies and making them less-than.

I was just—again!!—getting infuriated this morning about how incredibly disrespectful the AHA is toward archivists and other caretakers of historical records. Making up fake images when there are people whose profession is to preserve and enable the use of real historical images? ffs AHA

AI isn't magic. AI is land, real estate, and energy.