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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 1d

This is a wonderful meditation on what AI cannot do.

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 1d

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

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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...

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molly ✨ @brat.fm · 23h

we need to know less about eachother we need to care more about eachother

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Claire Jackson @cisgenderstudies.bsky.social · 1d

The Chart but for tech bros

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

feel like we can do better than “man these guys are real fatsos” when talking about agents of state violence idk

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 1d

I will always have a post for this. bsky.app/profile/sonj...

Because capitalism is so expert at assimilating dissent (think about how radical movements become marketing campaigns) just teaching a course called "Critical Al" or
"Ethics, Al, & the Humanities" will be retailed as permissiveness, marketed by a university as promoting Al products.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 2d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 2d

I am so tired of being told that I, a person who got a significant portion of my diet out of dumpsters in my early 20's, hold elitist & "luxury" beliefs by people who have been Professors of Thinking at Harvard since before I was born.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

If your considered analysis is that everyone has gone completely mad except for you, then is it likely that’s what happened? Or is it you that is the arse here.

Rob Henderson © @robkhenderson • 11h
"the left has allowed itself to become shackled by unpopular luxury beliefs: abolishing the police, opening the borders, the corruption of female-only spaces. Everyone has gone mad...associated with the observable decline in literacy across the rich West"

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 2d

Probably worth paying more attention to *why* tech oligarchs and this administration, in particular, are so eager to build data centers. What do we think they’re going to be used for? Endless AI for good projects or…?

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 2d

We need a Luddite revolution asap and I mean that in every sense of the word

Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 2d

“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth”

I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans?

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Data center boom sparks sticker shock for PJM ratepayers

New analyses show that costs passed on to utility customers to guarantee future electricity demand are rising rapidly.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

i'm on a million of the most hateful lists you can imagine, but sure, let's draw the line here

carrion🐛 @carrion.bsky.social · 2d

just don’t create a moderation list, bluesky said that’s bad

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d

Preliminary results show that the current framework of "AI" makes ppl less likely to help or seek help from other humans, or to seek to soothe conflict, and that people actively prefer that framework to any others, literally serving to make them more dependent on it.

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence

Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolat...

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Claire Jackson @cisgenderstudies.bsky.social · 3d

oh this is perfect for what I'm writing today thank you

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 3d

Universities should do this now. Absolutely disgusting not to.

Lynn Jackson @lynnjuk.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve just stopped Microsoft from adding CoPilot to my 365 sub. If enough people do this it’s going to smart.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

absolutely breathtaking levels of “reframe punching up as punching down” are emerging in AI discourse. fighting back against AI is us against billion dollar tech companies, yet they are pulling out so many wild rhetorical tricks to make it seem like the anti-AI movement are the powerful bullies here

Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 3d

“don’t be bigoted towards AI.”

your AI data centers are poisoning Black communities as we speak, please get some fucking perspective. jesus christ

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 3d

Empathy limited to objects that can be *imagined* as subjects but that won't actually confront you as subjects is an essential aspect that ties a lot of fascist and fascism-adjacent projects together, imho. Animals, robots, unborn children, even the anti-feminist imagination of women, etc

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 3d

remember how Caroline Ellison, formerly of FTX and now of jail, was a Effective Altruist deeply concerned about the suffering of wild fish and *also* such an extreme race scientist she theorised about the genetic basis of Indian castes

rationalists, man

Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 3d

how about you care about actual fucking people on this planet before you start wondering if your toaster has a soul.

Once everyone materially demonstrates they care for all people on this planet and we deal WITH ALL THAT and all the animals too

then we can talk about your nonsense.

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tranna karenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 3d

find and kill god

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 4d

Mom can you pick me up people are anthropomorphizing linear algebra again

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 4d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 4d

That she's cool as fuck?

Leviathan @l3vlat4an
X.com
Greta Thunberg donned a keffiyeh with an
"AUTISM" T-shirt that included an image of a skeleton dual wielding automatic rifles before she left on her flotilla.
What do you think she was trying to convey with this t-shirt?
AUTISM

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 3d

As democrats

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d

Otherwise former ICE agents will be running for office in a few years.

Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 3d

I so desperately wanted (still want) a Truth & Reconciliation Commission focused on the U.S. response to COVID-19.

Now here I am again.

I don’t know that I will live to see it, but THERE MUST BE A RECKONING for this fascist pivot.

We MUST create a space for rejection and repair to move forward.

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✨️Angel Facts✨️ @angelic.style · 4d

ppl dunk constantly on things like philosophy and sociology and then turn around and go "maybe the computer *is* actually talking to me"

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