I worked with students from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran to co-organize a conference back in 2010, and was incredibly impressed with them. Bombing universities is illegal unless there is direct evidence that they were producing military equipment. And it is counterproductive.

I've come around on the idea that there's basically nothing that policymakers can do to encourage an increase in marriage or birth rates other than "make the world a better place"

Det här var en genuin fråga. Jag har letat och svaret verkar vara nej.

Having no problem at all posting to the fediverse, just FYI.

Manufacturing the illusion of consent

What can be done? Junk those papers and ban the authors from submitting anything for at least a year.

"No serious scholar or scientist in their right mind would want LLMs to produce their texts” irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2022/12/29/a...

"This streamer is a Tankie" cool man anyway Trump and co. are waving nukes around

Visst kan man glädjas åt att det fortfarande finns kvar en och annan borgerlig antifascist. Men det viktiga för arbetarrörelsen och vänstern är ändå att fundera ut hur fascismen kan tryckas tillbaka och demokratin säkras, både idag och i framtiden…

Rubriken även typiskt exempel på hur vi använder massor med ord för att slippa säga "regeringen ljuger" trots att det är objektivt sant, kortare och tydligare. Dekorum gör jävligt tunga lyft åt fascisterna.

Be subcontractor to Israeli occupation, have land stolen anyway. Sign ceasefires with Israel, get attacked regularly anyway Be pro-Israel collaborator, get killed anyway Do literally nothing to Israel, get invaded anyway Be mediator trying to get Israeli hostages back, get bombed anyway.

I love this framing. Refusal works. We have agency when we refuse and it’s empowering to refuse. We strengthened our refusal muscles in MN against ICE and I’m going to keep using them. “And what’s particularly interesting to me is how the politics appear to be moving from rejection to refusal.”

how's that working out again

I have to admit it always struck me as a very strange word to use tbh.

Why support Distributed Denial of Secrets? @ddosecrets.org has published more than 250 publicly accessible leaks, totaling more than 75 **terabytes** of data. Another 101 datasets are currently restricted to journalists and researchers, typically because of large amounts of PII. And more TK.

Journalists have this habit to start defending their field instead of thinking critically about how it looks from the outside. Saying that paywalls are bad is not the same thing as saying journalists shouldn't get paid. It is possibly saying that good journalism requires public funding though.

Again, notice how nobody was ever wrong about what this is, and that instead they just… quit roaring abuse at people who recognised it, and stopped talking about it at all.

Brute force has taken on a new meaning in the current AI hype cycle

Thesis: LLMs enact for everyone a version of what some disabled people have called 'technoableism' - a redemptive forcing to the norm via technical means, even though the underling idea of 'normal' is an exclusionary, socially-constructed and based ultimately on 'productivity'

Klägget har denna helsideannons in DN idag.

I see my AI rant made it into the Times Higher Education--to be clear Im not worried about my students lazing in bed, Im worried about them losing out on learning because they're being lied to by their universities, by ed tech, and by too many profs www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/mass-c...

Nån som sett några reaktioner (utöver min) på att vi i detta läge, när USA skryter om krigsbrott, skickar försvarsministern och utrikesministern för att bilda allianser och besöka Trumprörelsens tankesmedja?

Konsekvenserna av att Kristerssons regeringsunderlag säger att praktiserande muslimer inte kan vara svenskar och att ramadan inte hör hemma i Sverige.

"AI literacy" in schools means knowing how to prompt ChatGPT. Not who owns the output. Not what it costs the planet. Not whose labor trained it. Consumers. Not citizens. #raisewages

I wrote about media rushing to turn Iran potentially capturing an American POW—who was bombing their country—as a “escalation” by Iran and Iran taking “hostages”, and the broader default setting of western media that turns everything our enemies do, no matter how defensive, into Sinister Terrorism

Lagen har inget stöd för att det måste finnas stöd för att godkänna en sjukskrivning och det finns numera en vägledande dom om detta, ändå fortsätter Försäkringskassan avslå med motiveringar innehållande det. Rättssäkert? Sällan.

“military aged males” got normalized as a viable target for war and it’s pretty much a racialized fiction meant to justify indiscriminate murder.

You're right, state militaries flagrantly violating the Geneva Conventions of 1949 after loudly, repeatedly and proudly signalling their intention to do so is 'something I don't like'.

The need for skilled technicians has not disappeared, but hospital corps now see an opportunity to reduce, threaten and minimize labor using the 'AI' propaganda maneuver

Den just nu viktigaste världshändelsen enligt DN. Västvärlden i ett nötskal.

Gräver man en bit bland DNs notiser så kan man hitta "mindre viktiga nyheter".

Jag är fortfarande aktiv på X och tänker stanna där ett halvår till för att göra reklam för @alexvoronov.bsky.social och min kommande bok. När jag läser inlägg på X slås jag på allvar av att man håller på att bygga upp förutsättningar för ett folkmord.

how come it’s only ok to describe MPs as out-of-touch when they’re not being racist enough?

I confess I do not have years of economics education, so this may be stupid. But wouldn’t that be fairer than “it doesn’t bother rich people at all but it completely fucks the poor”, which is the clear outcome of letting price determine behaviour. Just if we’re talking about what would be “fair”.

Am I being daft here, but I would’ve assumed that the most fair form of rationing a scarce resource probably isn’t “price goes up”, and it might be… rationing

the car analogy is actually perfect here though. we did build the entire country around cars and it did kill walkable cities and it took 60 years to even start fixing it. so yeah maybe the "just use it responsibly" crowd should sit with that for a second

When AI advocates say, 'oh we just need to use AI responsibly, it can help humanity and improve accessibility and lead to new discoveries!', one must remember that the motor vehicle, which is piloted by humans, is responsible for around 1.3 million deaths and over 40 million injuries per year.

Anybody who isn't cooked by hype and has worked with these systems knows the technicians do tons of preprocessing, that racism and sexism are built-in due to the datasets, and that a doctor in the loop is invaluable.

Israeli officials have openly stated that all Shia Lebanese are their enemy, and most of these are Shia-majority towns. It is a genocidal regime. And destroyed towns include Christian ones too.

We assume ‘postmodernism’ describes language — slippery words that, unlike hard numbers, have lost a fixed, absolute definition. But it is data that characterises the postmodern society: data that refers not to reality but more data (‘metadata’), and can only refer back to (‘pastiche’) the past.

Prescient 👀

Heads up GitHub users. You have less than a month left to opt out of "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training". "On April 24 we'll start using GitHub Copilot interaction data for AI model training unless you opt out." github.com/settings/cop...

People need to wake up about how the last moments left to reverse course on the climate change are being destroyed by neoliberals pretending to care

And the more trivial the issue is, the better it will be. Arguing intensely at incredible volume about absolutely nothing is best of all, because it doesn’t matter at all if you lose the argument.

Every moment that the entire bandwidth is clogged tight with witless screeching about nothing is another second where we aren’t discussing anything important, like who gets power and money and whether any important people need to be sent to jail for assisting war crimes.

Same in America as it is here: the right and the Sensible centre are 100% agreed that it’s far more congenial to relentlessly squeal in terror about some new bullshit, than it is to defend and justify their appalling behaviour and the world that they have built.

Det är inte fel av en rik person att sno mer pengar, men banne dig om du försöker något som normal löntagare, då jävlar finns det lagar, regler och förhållningssätt. Framförallt om du är sjukskriven eller arbetslös. I övrigt, kör bara, ingen bryr sig.

Jag är genuint trött på att vi låtsas som något annat. Har du ett företag inom vissa sektorer eller har biståndsorganisationer som SD så kan man bara lagligt stjäla pengar för att borgare tycker legitimt att det inte är brott.