Just woke up from a Long Winter's Nap™ and I've gotta say I cannot recommend it enough

Since we're new over here, we've been re-posting some of our favorite episodes featuring friends & past guests we've had on the show who have found a home on BlueSky.

It's also a good starter pack for anyone new to the show!

Here's a master 🧵...

the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine

Everyone just keep blocking this garbage.

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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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The broligarchy is rushing to tear through the administration centers of our government. Their dream is to replace large amounts of administration with AI in the name of "efficiency". This is despite daily reminders that LLMs regularly make stupid, hard-to-detect errors.
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There is another issue that the broligarchy isn't attending to, or are deliberately ignoring: Accountability

There is a legal entity to whom errors can be attributed, penalties can be assigned if necessary, and corrections made.

AI systems cannot be held accountable.
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Ah memories

How hard is it to not dance on the graves of disabled people singing "told you so," and instead do some introspection on the real tragedy: that the opposition party wasn't able to mount a convincing argument that there was a reliable alternative?

One thing that hasn't changed is the rhetorical front of "national security" discourse that's being used to justify the ban, which we interpret as an attempt to obscure the realpolitik of consolidating tech & communications infrastructure within the US economy (and under its legal jurisdiction)

Hard to believe it's been over 4 years since @calvinpollak.bsky.social and I recorded this episode on the *first* attempt at a federal TikTok ban. Worth a re-listen whether this one goes through or not www.reverbcast.com/podcasts/202...

I really want to like and keep using this app, but I swear, reading through replies to popular posts, we're already reaching Facebook levels of out-of-touch-with-reality

Hard to believe it's been over 4 years since @calvinpollak.bsky.social and I recorded this episode on the *first* attempt at a federal TikTok ban. Worth a re-listen whether this one goes through or not www.reverbcast.com/podcasts/202...

Finding it interesting the all the "OF in bio" bots that are bombing BlueSky follows now spell their names with extra vowels like they're millennials subtly asking for a booty call

Breakfast of Neuromancers: or, Goodbye Cyber Monday by William "Kurt" Vonnegibson