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Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI.

This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing.

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surely the "medical assistant" tasked with mediating / being the human in the loop likely held the most responsible for the patient-LLM-physician communication pipeline will have totally chill and equitable and well-paid working conditions that def put them in a position to lend a "sympathetic ear"

yeah, i've been thinking about this fixation on Authoritative People using Math to tell us something already collectively understood. it has a conspicuously similar structure as the weird investments, shared even by ostensibly "critical" people, in the idea of Artificial Intelligence

it's not a statistical or a computational limitation, because that implies that if you have better statistical methods or bigger compute or bigger data you can get around these things

the problem is that you're modeling word tokens; you can't get out from under that

this isn't revelatory though

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Fuck, gonna lose my job at the anxiety factory now

Who could’ve seen this coming!?

(Literally everyone who has ever researched “Speech AI”)

teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com

Threatening people with internment in *checks notes* Little Tokyo near the Japanese American Museum is *really* dirty work.

Bumping this. If you work on disability, museums, and/or access, please consider submitting! Lmk if u have any questions!

ITV were interviewing a guy who was holding a white flag in the street in early 2024. As soon as the cameraman switched off his camera and they started to walk away, an IDF sniper shot the white guy flag through the heart. The problem here has not been a failure of understanding.

Any of my Bluesky friends fluent in asl? Looking for someone to interpret a seven min presentation! Will pay.

AHA is actually short for "AHAHAHAahahahahah" because this shit must be a joke

lfg

i'm, in a word, very tired of critiques of "diagnostic AI" being framed as "AI denialism" when evidence of it's so-called benefits are vastly oversold (and impoverished), and voiced almost entirely by people who have limited knowledge of or experience with the incredibly complex nature of diagnosis

very measured take on what much of the "LLMs can do diagnosis better than humans" hype misunderstands regarding the way diagnosis operates in situated/institutional context (i.e. how it actually functions on the ground vs in an idealized experimental set-up) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

If you’ll recall, the “antisemitism” at UCLA involved primarily campus police allowing Zionist counter protesters to attack the pro-Palestinian camps (incl. many Jewish participants) while they did nothing, and arresting the anti-genocide students & faculty afterwards.

Trump's new executive order about AI states that companies' models must not incorporate the idea that trans people exist as a concept. Seems bad.

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

interesting that as an 81-year-old psychologist this man has also witnessed the rise and fall of funding for psychotherapeutic efficacy research which, maybe if we didn't fall off that funding cliff in the late 80s, people wouldn't be trying to do therapy with a world-burning plagiarism machine