This is why the AFT partnership with OpenAI, etc., is so &^$%# dangerous.

Survey finds higher use of Gen AI in schools correlates with:

data breaches
deepfakes used to bully and sexually harass
inappropriate relationships
less social connection
student surveillance

www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

Grandmaster Flash has been adopted!

His new family named him "Stilgar" because he has strong Javier Bardem energy*

*please accept this brief moment of silliness to help modulate the authoritarianism in plain sight. We need you in the fight. Find joy wherever you can to keep your spirits up

1/10 There are very abstract concepts that must be taken as truth in order to subjugate humans to technology and its owners.One of the most powerful is the idea that computation is consciousness and life is information,the core belief behind what philosophers call computational functionalism.
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One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

Recently gave a colleague feedback on a paper that was partly written with ChatGPT. What did I learn from this and how should we deal with cases like this? Here are some thoughts 🧵(1/x)

On the AI bubble, from the latest @garbageday.email newsletter

I’m unbothered by those who have no moral core. History and the law will respond to their dead souls in due time. My aim is to engage the still uninformed and encourage them to act, vote, and resist in any way they can.

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It’s well past time to organize white Boomers and Gen X to show up at the front of the protests. Video of ICE beating/gassing elderly and middle age people wearing suits and scrubs and other workwear will create iconic images that are hard to ignore and harder to justify.

Reminder that @theguardian.com has a partnership with OpenAI, and has of late published a spate of asinine articles that are uncritical in framing, and just read as press releases for the company and for "AI" in general.
The headline/implicit framing of this article seems consistent with its biases.

Should we all lay claim to such a life well lived. You inspired legions of women to pursue a career in science, including me.

Rest in power, Dr. Goodall

www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

In our book Real Intelligence, we talk about the need to rethink grading and assignments in the era of generative AI. Here's another resource for exploring alternative approaches to grading.

gradingforgrowth.com/p/using-coll...

I shared this tidbit with my data science students yesterday. The look of shock on their faces was priceless.

We had an incredible conversation about how long one would expect to remain employed if they had a 43% error rate in their work.

This wasn't even posted 6 weeks ago.

Microsoft: Don't use our AI agent in regulated industries or you'll get boinked by the feds

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It feels like the technical equivalent of huffing paint.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

A fantastic guide to the current terminology & thinking of the Silicon Valley bros, who are riding high at the moment.

(I really can not exaggerate how aesthetically & morally repulsive I find every bit of this.)

A missing element of the discussion is how far right commentary is very purposefully and expertly subdivided, then repackaged to target specific conservative audiences. The entire propaganda enterprise cuts across multiple channels to claim plausible deniability about the whole authoritarian aim.

Sometimes I wonder if the sad little titans of Silicon Valley understand that their sad little surveillance fetishes are sad little remixes of works described long ago by a gay French philosopher who was a militant intellectual. Nothing they propose is new or innovative.

Jacob Soboroff of NBC News has done very good work in immigration issues for many years. Well-sourced and based in LA.

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Starting a new thread to collect critical perspectives on AI, as they are articulated dozens of times every day and appear repeatedly on my timeline. I can't read everything right away, but if, like me, you want to stay up to date, then this might help a bit:

#RochesterNY friends, meet life of the party Grandmaster Flash. This funny, chatty, OG record-scratching stray boy is fully vetted and ready for his forever home. A kitty-shaped hip hop legend loves cats and dogs too.

#Caturday

What, exactly, does this string of words mean? Why does everyone who stands to profit from selling "AI" love to repeat it? And what's the value of slogans that masquerade as history?

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