Alex
@alexamarchives.bsky.social
librarian, health sciences;
genre fiction & films
genre fiction & films
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and to think, previous generations had to guess and extrapolate as to the depths of human stupidity. we're so privileged to get fresh case studies dropped on our porch like stray cat shit every day.
December 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
and to think, previous generations had to guess and extrapolate as to the depths of human stupidity. we're so privileged to get fresh case studies dropped on our porch like stray cat shit every day.
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I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being.
Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.
Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.
December 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being.
Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.
Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.
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The vetting process for H1B visa applications now check if people had worked in areas such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.
Archive of Reuters link: archive.ph/m8aR4
Archive of Reuters link: archive.ph/m8aR4
archive.ph
December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The vetting process for H1B visa applications now check if people had worked in areas such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.
Archive of Reuters link: archive.ph/m8aR4
Archive of Reuters link: archive.ph/m8aR4
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NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
December 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
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Well this is a bit on the nose
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Well this is a bit on the nose
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the wrong people are insecure
December 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
the wrong people are insecure
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I get so frustrated with the fact that study after study shows that having a strong social safety net for everyone (UBI, healthcare, modest housing, etc.) costs less than every single one of our current thoroughly broken for-profit systems.
But we persist in restricting who "counts" as everyone.
But we persist in restricting who "counts" as everyone.
December 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I get so frustrated with the fact that study after study shows that having a strong social safety net for everyone (UBI, healthcare, modest housing, etc.) costs less than every single one of our current thoroughly broken for-profit systems.
But we persist in restricting who "counts" as everyone.
But we persist in restricting who "counts" as everyone.
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It's insane to me that multiple gov'ts around the globe are trying to age gate app stores and the web but just pouring money into the AI ecosystem that produces items like these and far worse outcomes for kids.
Seems like the first part of the headline already provides the answer to the second part.
An AI toy meant for kids was happy to chat about sexual fetishes. Are these safe? | CBC Radio
Imagine your toddler playing with a soft teddy bear, but with ChatGPT baked in. These AI toys can chat to your kid, play games and even say, "I love you." But experts are warning that we don’t know th...
www.cbc.ca
December 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It's insane to me that multiple gov'ts around the globe are trying to age gate app stores and the web but just pouring money into the AI ecosystem that produces items like these and far worse outcomes for kids.
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This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.
For the last decade, the pervasive spread of bullshit & manipulation of online platforms have been widely recognized societal concerns. Now non US citizens studying those subjects can be labeled “censors” & denied visas or deported from the US. Censorship, indeed. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Exclusive: Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa
An internal State Department memo said that anyone involved in "censorship" of free speech should be considered for rejection.
www.reuters.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.
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I keep seeing people saying things like "I want an app to track emotions/health/etc" and it always takes everything in me not to infodump at them about how that information is not private and is used by data brokers/advertisers/social media platforms to game your behavior and extract value from you
December 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I keep seeing people saying things like "I want an app to track emotions/health/etc" and it always takes everything in me not to infodump at them about how that information is not private and is used by data brokers/advertisers/social media platforms to game your behavior and extract value from you
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Just finished going through interview transcripts for this project, and I was struck by a participant's recollection of how their oxygen tank was repossessed when they lost their job and lost their employer-sponsored insurance coverage. Lung cancer, post-op.
Inhumane.
Inhumane.
December 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Just finished going through interview transcripts for this project, and I was struck by a participant's recollection of how their oxygen tank was repossessed when they lost their job and lost their employer-sponsored insurance coverage. Lung cancer, post-op.
Inhumane.
Inhumane.
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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.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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!