Tessa J. Brown
@tessajbrown.bsky.social
PhD student cultural studies
Co-editor heliotropejournal.net
Profile photo by Ana Jovmir
Co-editor heliotropejournal.net
Profile photo by Ana Jovmir
The lad, so cozy
November 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The lad, so cozy
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🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
I'm eating granola in bed and SHE WANTS THE GRAN
November 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I'm eating granola in bed and SHE WANTS THE GRAN
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I mean, why should toddlers be excluded from the AI extractionist project?
So much $ thrown at AI booster academics, meanwhile those critiquing AI are institutionally alienated and must pin hopes in funding competitions that maybe one critical study will be tokenized as an alternative viewpoint.
So much $ thrown at AI booster academics, meanwhile those critiquing AI are institutionally alienated and must pin hopes in funding competitions that maybe one critical study will be tokenized as an alternative viewpoint.
“This study is trying to understand how we can leverage AI and machine-learning principles to improve recognition for toddlers and preschoolers.”
Canadian researchers look into how AI can better understand toddler talk like 'doodidees' | CBC News
Two researchers at Western University in London, Ont., are studying how to improve the way artificial intelligence understands toddlers' speaking patterns. They're recruiting preschool-age children to...
www.cbc.ca
November 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I mean, why should toddlers be excluded from the AI extractionist project?
So much $ thrown at AI booster academics, meanwhile those critiquing AI are institutionally alienated and must pin hopes in funding competitions that maybe one critical study will be tokenized as an alternative viewpoint.
So much $ thrown at AI booster academics, meanwhile those critiquing AI are institutionally alienated and must pin hopes in funding competitions that maybe one critical study will be tokenized as an alternative viewpoint.
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Reposted by Tessa J. Brown
do i have this about right?
university admins claim that they know (somehow) that AI is “the future” and that we have to train students to have the skills to work in environments that (will) require AI, but ...
university admins claim that they know (somehow) that AI is “the future” and that we have to train students to have the skills to work in environments that (will) require AI, but ...
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
do i have this about right?
university admins claim that they know (somehow) that AI is “the future” and that we have to train students to have the skills to work in environments that (will) require AI, but ...
university admins claim that they know (somehow) that AI is “the future” and that we have to train students to have the skills to work in environments that (will) require AI, but ...
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Machines of automated Holocaust denial
“A Grok X post on Monday in French said the gas chambers at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau were "designed for disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus”
Shut this crap down
www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...
“A Grok X post on Monday in French said the gas chambers at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau were "designed for disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus”
Shut this crap down
www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...
French authorities charges X over Holocaust-denial comments by AI chatbot Grok
On Monday, Elon Musk's social media AI chatbot posted in French that the gas chambers in Nazi death camps were designed for 'disinfection' against typhus, rather than for mass executions.
www.lemonde.fr
November 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Machines of automated Holocaust denial
“A Grok X post on Monday in French said the gas chambers at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau were "designed for disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus”
Shut this crap down
www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...
“A Grok X post on Monday in French said the gas chambers at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau were "designed for disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus”
Shut this crap down
www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...
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Reposted by Tessa J. Brown
The Republican Party is a Nazi-allied party.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The Republican Party is a Nazi-allied party.
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Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
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“LLMs aren’t going away” statements are wishes, not predictions, that they’re trying to make happen. Treat them as advocacy for a specific future, not observations of inevitability
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“LLMs aren’t going away” statements are wishes, not predictions, that they’re trying to make happen. Treat them as advocacy for a specific future, not observations of inevitability
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Thanks to @melhogan.bsky.social and @tessajbrown.bsky.social for the opportunity to publish in www.heliotropejournal.net
HELIOTROPE
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November 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Thanks to @melhogan.bsky.social and @tessajbrown.bsky.social for the opportunity to publish in www.heliotropejournal.net