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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 3h

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 "Ghost Town / Why?" the Randalls @ryanpatrickrandall.com · 6h

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 · 7h

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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 · 4h

Knowing who to be mad at truly is praxis.

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 6h

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

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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 · 6h

Good day for marching tomorrow in Cork #speirgorm

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 13h

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

Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 14h

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 · 17h

Even better, in the subject line

Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

David Simon gets it

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 2d

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 · 2d

“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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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 2d

The contradiction resolving itself into the fact that both capital and the state largely view artistic LABOR as worthless

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 2d

one thing I learned during 2020 is that "less than lethal" munitions are explicitly designed to be shot into the ground so they lose velocity and bounce up into people and the reason I didn't know that before is literally NO ONE has ever deployed them that way.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 2d

I've been thinking about this a lot lately and not that I have any great insight here but it does boil my blood that so many people in power today have just drained the intrinsic value of any kind of human joy, connection, creativity, cognition, you name it. I mean, what's it all for then?

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 2d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 3d

10/10 treat

Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 3d

Does adding one of those actually alter the flavor of the marinara or bolognese, or just kind of deepen it? Like it is different or just more umami-ish?

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 4d

"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 4d

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

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