Rhetoric4people
@rhetelrick.bsky.social
Social media cynic, feminist ironist, and all around nice Midwesterner. Roasts cauliflower and journalists for fun. Views = own
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I am brimming with holiday spirit
December 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I am brimming with holiday spirit
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Some really unsavory figures hedging their bets.
When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.
December 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Some really unsavory figures hedging their bets.
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Most profound writing I read in 2026 was "The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy" by a Nairobi man who dreamed of working in air traffic control but instead winds up sexting & chatting w ppl who think they're talking to AI (while AI trains on him). 16 pages & free - READ IT data-workers.org/michael/
December 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Most profound writing I read in 2026 was "The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy" by a Nairobi man who dreamed of working in air traffic control but instead winds up sexting & chatting w ppl who think they're talking to AI (while AI trains on him). 16 pages & free - READ IT data-workers.org/michael/
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Historian focusing on early modern book culture here. I am not sure that feeding a private company with all our past handwritings from archives is a solution or a way forward. Google‘s AI studio is a data trap. #skystorians
Gemini’s ability to read handwritten archival documents has importance beyond the humanities. It opens new frontiers for scientific research and collaboration with the humanities.
foundhistory.org/seeing-old-s...
#ClimateScience #DataScience #Agriculture #Archives #Research #LandGrant #AI
foundhistory.org/seeing-old-s...
#ClimateScience #DataScience #Agriculture #Archives #Research #LandGrant #AI
Seeing Old Science
Gemini’s ability to read handwritten archival documents has importance beyond the humanities
foundhistory.org
December 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Historian focusing on early modern book culture here. I am not sure that feeding a private company with all our past handwritings from archives is a solution or a way forward. Google‘s AI studio is a data trap. #skystorians
coconut-nog and cafe du monde while webinaring with AAUP on AI.
December 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
coconut-nog and cafe du monde while webinaring with AAUP on AI.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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#owlishmonday Eye Poetry: Owl on a Maple Branch, Utagawa Hiroshige. 1892
December 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
#owlishmonday Eye Poetry: Owl on a Maple Branch, Utagawa Hiroshige. 1892
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“The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow;
The storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.”
(Emily Brontë)
🎨 Dandrey
#owlishmonday
Their bare boughs weighed with snow;
The storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.”
(Emily Brontë)
🎨 Dandrey
#owlishmonday
December 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
“The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow;
The storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.”
(Emily Brontë)
🎨 Dandrey
#owlishmonday
Their bare boughs weighed with snow;
The storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.”
(Emily Brontë)
🎨 Dandrey
#owlishmonday
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December 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Grocery gouging, not inflation - AI and Instacart www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...
Instacart’s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill, CR and Groundwork Collaborative Investigation Finds - Consumer Reports
Exclusive: Instacart’s AI pricing may be inflating your grocery bill.
www.consumerreports.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Grocery gouging, not inflation - AI and Instacart www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...
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“A specific risk is that generative AI tools always produce an answer, even when the historical sources are incomplete or silent. Because their purpose is to generate content, they cannot indicate that no information exists”
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“A specific risk is that generative AI tools always produce an answer, even when the historical sources are incomplete or silent. Because their purpose is to generate content, they cannot indicate that no information exists”
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December 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Use tunemymusic service to help you transfer your Spotify playlists and data somewhere else! It makes migration and leaving Spotify so much easier.
www.tunemymusic.com
www.tunemymusic.com
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Read more about the problem in
Barrow, J. T. “The Phantom Footnote: Misattribution in Early Modern Polemics.” Historical Textual Analysis 42, no. 3 (2018): 112–129.
Vance, A. “Recursive Fictionality: When Hypothetical Bibliographies Enter the Canon.” Review of Meta-Scholarship 5, (2022): 12–30.
Barrow, J. T. “The Phantom Footnote: Misattribution in Early Modern Polemics.” Historical Textual Analysis 42, no. 3 (2018): 112–129.
Vance, A. “Recursive Fictionality: When Hypothetical Bibliographies Enter the Canon.” Review of Meta-Scholarship 5, (2022): 12–30.
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Read more about the problem in
Barrow, J. T. “The Phantom Footnote: Misattribution in Early Modern Polemics.” Historical Textual Analysis 42, no. 3 (2018): 112–129.
Vance, A. “Recursive Fictionality: When Hypothetical Bibliographies Enter the Canon.” Review of Meta-Scholarship 5, (2022): 12–30.
Barrow, J. T. “The Phantom Footnote: Misattribution in Early Modern Polemics.” Historical Textual Analysis 42, no. 3 (2018): 112–129.
Vance, A. “Recursive Fictionality: When Hypothetical Bibliographies Enter the Canon.” Review of Meta-Scholarship 5, (2022): 12–30.
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#LegalEthics Tidbit: Should we stop using the word "Hallucination" to describe false legal citations generate by #AI?
An OR attorney filed a brief “littered with fabricated cases, a fabricated quotation, and fabricated substantive law.” A D. OR judge issued ...(cont.)
lnkd.in/eeT6i9E7
#lawsky #law
An OR attorney filed a brief “littered with fabricated cases, a fabricated quotation, and fabricated substantive law.” A D. OR judge issued ...(cont.)
lnkd.in/eeT6i9E7
#lawsky #law
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
#LegalEthics Tidbit: Should we stop using the word "Hallucination" to describe false legal citations generate by #AI?
An OR attorney filed a brief “littered with fabricated cases, a fabricated quotation, and fabricated substantive law.” A D. OR judge issued ...(cont.)
lnkd.in/eeT6i9E7
#lawsky #law
An OR attorney filed a brief “littered with fabricated cases, a fabricated quotation, and fabricated substantive law.” A D. OR judge issued ...(cont.)
lnkd.in/eeT6i9E7
#lawsky #law
Data centers are evil. They are the polluters. Fuck AI for steamrolling all their evil in everyone's shit.
December 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Data centers are evil. They are the polluters. Fuck AI for steamrolling all their evil in everyone's shit.
Kimchi soup+garlic bread+snowy sunday= comfort
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Kimchi soup+garlic bread+snowy sunday= comfort
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for anyone interested, @hammerandhope.bsky.social ran an article on exactly this: "An organized urban wing of the railroad called vigilance committees focused on protecting, supporting, and learning from fugitives. That education went in both directions..."
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
The Black People Who Fled Slavery Had a Lot to Teach Their Northern Allies
Black-led vigilance committees not only protected and aided fugitives but also learned from the formerly enslaved as they built a movement pedagogy together.
hammerandhope.org
December 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
for anyone interested, @hammerandhope.bsky.social ran an article on exactly this: "An organized urban wing of the railroad called vigilance committees focused on protecting, supporting, and learning from fugitives. That education went in both directions..."
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
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Tufted Titmouse #Kennebunk #Maine 12/25 #Sony a6700 #Sigma 16-300 @ 450mm Program #birds & wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #birdphotography #Point’nShootNature
December 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Tufted Titmouse #Kennebunk #Maine 12/25 #Sony a6700 #Sigma 16-300 @ 450mm Program #birds & wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #birdphotography #Point’nShootNature
Also, I think Christian conservatives are feeling envious of AI's algorithm dominance, they miss the days of Bush's propaganda
December 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Also, I think Christian conservatives are feeling envious of AI's algorithm dominance, they miss the days of Bush's propaganda
I will not repost the Oklahoma bit for the sake of saying real Christian apologetics would make mince meat out of that argument. That lawyer must have been using AI (or they weren't, they should say they were)
December 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I will not repost the Oklahoma bit for the sake of saying real Christian apologetics would make mince meat out of that argument. That lawyer must have been using AI (or they weren't, they should say they were)
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Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.