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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1h

This is the thing about ai. The benefits are nebulous hypotheticals but the costs are very high and immediate

The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 6h

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16h

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 16h

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 19h

It's a huge part of your total compensation. Just enormous.

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 20h

The reason people THINK employer coverage is significantly less expensive than ACA coverage is because around 75% of the premium cost is typically PAID BY THE EMPLOYER.

ACA tax credits effectively take the place of the employer's share of ESI premiums.

KFF.org: Avg. annual worker & employer premium contributions

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D is tired, but there is coffee @grrlintersect.bsky.social · 19h

I just saw the phrase,”people who identify as marginalized” and y’all I do not have patience for whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean today.

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Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 21h

FYI, if you're in academia, this is why "keeping your calendar up to date" and other timekeeping measures from boards of governors and other appointed, political governing bodies should be refused outright

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 22h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 21h

I so appreciate @keeganlannon.bsky.social's reflections on assessment, including citing @rcmeg.bsky.social @nobugsnous.bsky.social & me on the complexities of calling grading 'alternative' at all. More discussions of doing things, please!

Keegan Lannon @keeganlannon.bsky.social · 22h

It’s up! @biblioracle.bsky.social asked me to contribute a guest column to Inside Higher Education on alternative grading and studying it’s efficacy.

How Will We Know Alternative Grading Reduces Harm?

A guest post from University of Illinois at Chicago lecturer Keegan Lannon on wrestling with alternative grading.

www.insidehighered.com

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · May 26

Saying that chatgpt can be used as a disability aid for ADHD is pretty much saying you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about, and don't particularly give a shit whether people get harmed.

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Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 1d

Buena Vista, VA

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:

(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education

(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.

Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

It is also remarkable how far what is essentially advertising copy has penetrated into ostensibly neutral, scholarly contextualizations even of critical studies — rote invocations of AI’s “power,” “potential,” and ubiquity, untethered to any specific sources or data, are just background noise now.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 1d

Universities are going to destroy learning and critical thinking if they keep making deals with AI companies that put these tools in front of students who have nothing to lose. Faculty across the nation are now wasting hours trying to curb AI use that their university manufactures and promotes.

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Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 2d

Also — this is the fiftieth most important point here — who still has a pension. (I do, because I’m a state employee. But like — is this talking point from 1973??)

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2d

"Reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct" and "we should tax women who refuse to breed" are not in fact mutually compatible statements.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d

My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

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Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 2d

ALMOST posted my family’s business on Facebook but instead I went to therapy.

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 2d

hey man, cool book, mind if I steal it to generate a shittier book by yelling prompts at my phone?

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daria argento @mommywiseau.bsky.social · 2d

*having a moment of brilliance & clarity* have we tried feeding the LLMs Finnegan's Wake? is there a Finnegan's Wake slider we can use to just fuck everyones shit up finally

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2d

Free healthcare to all residents of the US regardless of immigration status would rule, actually. Universal benefits for universal problems (having a body that can get sick or hurt)

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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 2d

economy of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2d

A disturbingly easy way to get yelled at is to say that women should be in the paid workforce.

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Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 2d

I HIGHLY recommend you mute these hashtags if you are not an agent or editor lol.

Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder, friends...

Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Hey, friends. You'll see a lot of people using these hashtags and participating in this today. Some of these pitches will be pretty awesome sounding. Please do not like or repost if you are not an editor or agent. You can support us by commenting or quote-reposting though! We appreciate you!

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Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 3d

I recently texted my friends “this is the kind of greed they warned about in the Bible” & I’m soooo glad the Swifties are picking up on it!!

Defector @defector.com · 3d

"'The Life of a Showgirl' is the weakest and least interesting album Swift has ever made. It has no heart, no purpose, no emotional core." defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…

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makana yamaghosto @makana-yama.bsky.social · Oct 8

it's anti-Prime day on Bookshop, which means FREE SHIPPING!!! interested in reading about a crew of scrappy lesbian thieves taking down a trillionaire tech mogul with superhuman aspirations? HAMMAJANG LUCK is available to preorder with free shipping!!!

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Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 3d

toddlers think all other living beings are NPCs. they can't understand that you even HAVE feelings to manipulate.

Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 3d

learning basic facts about childhood brain development makes other people sound insane. toddlers don't even know you have feelings and knowledge different than them my dude. what do you mean they're being manipulative.

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