Alex
@alexamarchives.bsky.social
librarian, health sciences;
genre fiction & films
genre fiction & films
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This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
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NEW: Your "end-to-end encrypted" poop pictures taken by this $599 (+ subscription) smart toilet camera are actually not end-to-end encrypted.
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techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...
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techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...
‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted | TechCrunch
Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers' data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.
techcrunch.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
NEW: Your "end-to-end encrypted" poop pictures taken by this $599 (+ subscription) smart toilet camera are actually not end-to-end encrypted.
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techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...
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techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...
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There should be an option to color the pasta emoji like the skin tone selector, so it can be red (marinara), green (pesto), white (Alfredo), or black (squid ink). 🍝
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
There should be an option to color the pasta emoji like the skin tone selector, so it can be red (marinara), green (pesto), white (Alfredo), or black (squid ink). 🍝
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h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
December 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
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A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work and relocate from their homes.
ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says
A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work and...
www.404media.co
December 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work and relocate from their homes.
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"Calculators expanded reasoning; the printing press spread knowledge. ChatGPT, by contrast, doesn’t extend cognition—it automates it, turning thinking itself into a service. Rather than democratizing learning, it privatizes the act of thinking under corporate control."
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"Calculators expanded reasoning; the printing press spread knowledge. ChatGPT, by contrast, doesn’t extend cognition—it automates it, turning thinking itself into a service. Rather than democratizing learning, it privatizes the act of thinking under corporate control."
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Just saw an ad for AI where the user talks about how he uses it to summarize long contracts. Yeah, what could possibly go wrong?
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Just saw an ad for AI where the user talks about how he uses it to summarize long contracts. Yeah, what could possibly go wrong?
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As all these Spotify Wrapped posts pop up I'd like to add that in the last calendar year their CEO invested $600 mil-plus in military AI drone technology, they ran ICE recruitment ads and refused to stop, and they've also done nothing to combat a huge influx of AI-generated music on the platform.
As all these Spotify Wrapped posts pop up I’d like to remind you that Spotify pays musicians about $0.003 to 0.005 per stream, they’ve demonetized 86% of the music on the platform, and their founder/ CEO has cashed out almost $400m in shares since last summer.
December 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
As all these Spotify Wrapped posts pop up I'd like to add that in the last calendar year their CEO invested $600 mil-plus in military AI drone technology, they ran ICE recruitment ads and refused to stop, and they've also done nothing to combat a huge influx of AI-generated music on the platform.
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Do you know Zoom & other companies are encouraging discrimination against employees for things like "pausing too long" or not sounding sufficiently "charismatic"? Read all about our dystopian present in my new paper, out today in JASA!
(Seriously, read it. It's important)
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
(Seriously, read it. It's important)
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
Socially prescriptive speech technologies: Linguistic, technical, and ethical issues
Speech technology tools can be powerful and transformative for individuals, businesses, and governments. Socially prescriptive speech technology (SPST) systems
doi.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Do you know Zoom & other companies are encouraging discrimination against employees for things like "pausing too long" or not sounding sufficiently "charismatic"? Read all about our dystopian present in my new paper, out today in JASA!
(Seriously, read it. It's important)
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
(Seriously, read it. It's important)
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
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"'We are both scamming each other, you and I, and I intend to win.' When a classroom becomes adversarial, of course, as cop shit presumes, then there must be a clear winner and loser."
- Jeffery Moro, Against Cop Shit
jeffreymoro.com/blog/2020-02...
- Jeffery Moro, Against Cop Shit
jeffreymoro.com/blog/2020-02...
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"'We are both scamming each other, you and I, and I intend to win.' When a classroom becomes adversarial, of course, as cop shit presumes, then there must be a clear winner and loser."
- Jeffery Moro, Against Cop Shit
jeffreymoro.com/blog/2020-02...
- Jeffery Moro, Against Cop Shit
jeffreymoro.com/blog/2020-02...
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The same way human beings stick googly eyes on objects and then develop an emotional attachment. The same way children love their stuffed animals. The same way readers make room in their hearts for imaginary people by reading their adventures by way of lines on paper. We are primed to do this!!!
December 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The same way human beings stick googly eyes on objects and then develop an emotional attachment. The same way children love their stuffed animals. The same way readers make room in their hearts for imaginary people by reading their adventures by way of lines on paper. We are primed to do this!!!
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🎯
December 2, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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“Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence structure over meaning when answering questions.”
i keep telling students ChatGPT writes word salad.
i keep telling students ChatGPT writes word salad.
December 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
“Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence structure over meaning when answering questions.”
i keep telling students ChatGPT writes word salad.
i keep telling students ChatGPT writes word salad.
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Ahoy, @gretchenmcc.bsky.social, after your recent cameo in xkcd #2381 nothing would do but that I go find & read "Because Internet". My excellent county librarian had my back on this & I finished it last evening. Terrific work; remains relevant and insightful. Everybody go read Gretchen's work!
December 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Ahoy, @gretchenmcc.bsky.social, after your recent cameo in xkcd #2381 nothing would do but that I go find & read "Because Internet". My excellent county librarian had my back on this & I finished it last evening. Terrific work; remains relevant and insightful. Everybody go read Gretchen's work!
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You see this a lot on the "remastered" Buffy, where crew members will just regularly be fully visible in shots. Glad our culture is in the hands of people who really care about it!
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
You see this a lot on the "remastered" Buffy, where crew members will just regularly be fully visible in shots. Glad our culture is in the hands of people who really care about it!
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Oh @rianjohnson.bsky.social played all innocent "I'm not doing a muppet thing with Knives Out" he knew HE KNEW
'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery | Wake Up Dead Man | Netflix
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December 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Oh @rianjohnson.bsky.social played all innocent "I'm not doing a muppet thing with Knives Out" he knew HE KNEW
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Holy shit
A methodology out of date since the FUCKING 1700S???
A methodology out of date since the FUCKING 1700S???
December 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Holy shit
A methodology out of date since the FUCKING 1700S???
A methodology out of date since the FUCKING 1700S???
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A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
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the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
October 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
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The TA is not a professor. I point this out because it’s relevant, there is a major legal difference. The TA is a student and is also entitled to the same privacy as the student who complained. This is a major FERPA violation, the university shouldn’t even be really commenting publicly on this
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The TA is not a professor. I point this out because it’s relevant, there is a major legal difference. The TA is a student and is also entitled to the same privacy as the student who complained. This is a major FERPA violation, the university shouldn’t even be really commenting publicly on this
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*taps mic* yes hello enshittification was coined to describe a specific pattern of extraction resulting in part from the VC funding model it is not a synonym for “thing got worse”
December 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
*taps mic* yes hello enshittification was coined to describe a specific pattern of extraction resulting in part from the VC funding model it is not a synonym for “thing got worse”
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If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
August 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
I named my fists Recall and Precision because as one goes up, the other comes down
I named my fists Stephen and Sondheim because they look delicate but they can knock you down very easily
I named my fists Lin Manuel and Miranda because they’re smaller than you’d expect but very quick.
December 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I named my fists Recall and Precision because as one goes up, the other comes down
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Grad student instructors/TAs have SO little power. There’s a lot of things OU is good at, but…this…isn’t one of them.
When I taught history of science at OU as a grad student it was just before the rise of the right-wing online outrage machine (2017-19) and I was terrified. I can’t imagine it now.
When I taught history of science at OU as a grad student it was just before the rise of the right-wing online outrage machine (2017-19) and I was terrified. I can’t imagine it now.
How am I supposed to keep working here? Students could just send me hate speech then claim discrimination if I rebuke them. What about the graduate student’s rights?
November 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Grad student instructors/TAs have SO little power. There’s a lot of things OU is good at, but…this…isn’t one of them.
When I taught history of science at OU as a grad student it was just before the rise of the right-wing online outrage machine (2017-19) and I was terrified. I can’t imagine it now.
When I taught history of science at OU as a grad student it was just before the rise of the right-wing online outrage machine (2017-19) and I was terrified. I can’t imagine it now.
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this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
this is quite the detail