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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 1h

We had a term for them in grad school: "theory boys." You know, the guy who sat next to you in seminar and could spout off Habermas quotes all semester but couldn't (or wouldn't) acknowledge that theory detached from the texture of real lives is little more than abstraction pretending to be meaning

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15h

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 20h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

They should make a game that is woke.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 5d

if you were to teach a class on the pre/history of AI in terms of key concepts ideas, what would they be? the mind/body problem? abstraction vs materialism? history of the database? automation?

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 1d

Today was really good #cork #corkcity #spiergorm

An anti-racist and Palestine solidarity march in Cork City, Ireland. Palestinian and Irish flags wave over a crowd gathered in an open square; autumnal trees and a national monument make up the background

A banner held by two people reads "Siamo Tutti Antifascisti, frith faisisteach go deo". Irish and Palestinian flags fly in the background.

A sign read "Hot People Oppose Fascism!!"

A sign reads "Ireland Isn't Full, You're Full of Shit"

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Racist, fascist billionaires control consumer-facing "A.i." Do not use this propaganda tech.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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anticiv anarchist hellfire and brimstone preacher @freeprincessluigi.bsky.social · 2d

Fact: Chatgpt has killed more people than Luigi Mangione

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 2d

If they invested hundreds of billions of dollars into it, as they have done with genAI, I bet they could develop robots that would do at least some household tasks. But I guess they just assume that housework is already done for free

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I’m aware building robots that can do your chores is insanely hard, as compared to making a genAI tool that can make pictures of five-boobed-ladies - which is why all those techbros who constantly masturbate to their own genius should stop fucking around and do something actually impressive

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Ryan "Spirit Halloween of '76" Randall @ryanpatrickrandall.com · 2d

Not only are the highly addictive, truth-agnostic output generators polluting our information ecosystems and degrading our knowledge practices, they're also materially exacerbating the ongoing effects of climate change in order to accomplish the above at scale.

Heck of a job.

Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 2d

theconversation.com/openais-newl...

OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore

As AI shifts from text to video, its appetite for power and water soars, presenting a climate-policy issue.

theconversation.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Knowing who to be mad at truly is praxis.

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 2d

It would rule so hard if Democrats did the stuff Republicans say they want to do

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 2d

Good day for marching tomorrow in Cork #speirgorm

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 2d

Activists have been warning this was exactly where it was going to go but it’s a sad day to see come home.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 3d

The regime is actually saying a bunch of Jews are funding and orchestrating violence from behind the scenes.

Not just Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow. Indivisible, founded and led by Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg. George Soros’s Open Society Foundation. Reid Hoffman.

Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 3d

JVP and IfNotNow are included in a list of only 9 progressive groups being investigated by the Trump admin, alongside major donors like Ford and Open Society Foundation and the amorphous 'antifa'/ www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 3d

AI is only for bullshit work bsky.app/profile/brke...

Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 3d

I still think the most accurate and consistent way to think about generative AI is that, in every instance, people exclusively use it for tasks that they don't have any respect for or give a shit about.

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 3d

In my classroom, there is always a delay. Between question and answer. That space—the stutter, the pause, the gesture—is where actual teaching happens. Not in the bullet points or the Google Doc comments, but in the moment someone says, “I don’t know if this makes sense, but—” and suddenly it does.

Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

therumpus.net

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 3d

Even better, in the subject line

Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 4d

It has been said: start an email with normal human pleasantries and only later get to your request for work.

But I say unto you: no, get your request into the first line so I can see it in the preview without having to click anything.

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 3d

This was such a great show. Or at least it was c. 2004 when I would smoke bowls after work, I dunno if it would hit the same now

Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 3d

Did you ever get breakfast at a high school cafeteria? The only thing I regarded as edible in mine were hashbrowns that were more grease than potato

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 3d

A deep problem, and a deep pattern evident for decades now, is the ability of the right to constantly shift the terrain of political contestation: previous examples include the Brooks Bros Riot and the post-2010 gerrymander. Now I guess they'll just straight up own the election machinery

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

Nothing to worry about here, no sir.

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 3d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 3d

David Simon gets it

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 3d

Ok friends, it's your time to shine: What visual metaphors are out there for LLM/AI resistance and refusal? Making slides for a thing!

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4d

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4d

It is hard not to connect these observable features of “academic” work on AI to the collapse of faculty governance in universities. Even academics in the midst of *doing* academic work *about* their academic work write as if they have no real choices about the material context in which it occurs.

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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 4d

Don't threaten us with a good time, Daily Express.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 4d

this is not a bug, it is a feature

all of these companies have a fucking platform. that's because they are trying to replace direct human-human relationships with mediated human-platform-human transactions

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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