Spent some time this morning reading about the Justice Department's decision to delay the Title II Accessibility rule for one year. You can find it here:

www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

God bless you @colsonwhitehead.com

"Do you realize how much water and power it’d take to replicate the average writer’s narcissism, self-loathing and despair? It’d drain the Indian Ocean. You could light up Times Square for a year. We can’t afford it."

Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...

can AI go poo poo in the potty like a big boy?

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Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

NASA’s Artemis II Crew Flies Around the Moon (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

I love that almost 700,000 people are watching this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-j1...

Key Takeaways. AI is a useful assistant that can help you with research, writing, productivity, and more. However, AI should adhere to all existing policies and practices regarding data security, ethical technology use, academic and research integrity, and avoiding bias. When Using AI: Follow all recommendations and policies regarding ethical and secure technology use. Protect university information and all sensitive data. Maintain oversight by reveiwing AI outputs and being mindful about when and how AI use is disclosed. Report issues to your campus IT help desk. Use AI thoughtfully, balancing benefits with responsible resource use.

Well... my university system might have signed a $2mil deal for ChatGPT access with zero faculty input, but at least there's "training" required to access it that takes 30 seconds to click through.

"what the hap is fuckening" in WordArt 2003 text, featuring a crab wearing a Phillies hat

a man with long hair is sitting in front of a laptop computer Alt: Antonio Bandaras responds in a very pleased way to something he has read on a computer

someone following up to let you know about a good thing that happened to them is like straight intravenous drugs

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Two ceramic pigs labeled "pigs with no specific duties"

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

It feels like the world is falling apart.

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I don’t think we talk enough about how the foundational, most aspirational premise of the AI industry is “what if there was a human-level intelligence that didn’t have human rights.” Like. Exploitation is literally the whole point! Of COURSE they hold human life, intelligence and labour in contempt!

We've all been trained by our worlds!!

We continue to have the same taste in everything 😍

They all look like buttholes to some degree

It seems to me that the foundational 'wrong turn' in education was the increasing rhetoric from universities themselves and their supporters that the primary value of a university education was increased earning power.

That leads pretty directly to this place we're in now.

The snow is finally (FINALLY!) starting to melt and I want to go outside and hug the ground

Sarah McLachlan: Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

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Not a great look that so many university libraries are promoting AI. Libraries have always been a space for valuing authors' work and showing how to locate and properly cite sources--not encouraging tech that steals from authors and produces slop.

visenyaism on tumblr: "Honestly fuck A1 for making me have to go on and on defending the dignity of toil like I'm some kind of protestant"

I think this is a really important point. When folks say "no AI" they often don’t mean "I can conceive of no possible use for AI"—they mean "the use cases I’ve been shown do not begin to justify the harms"—that’s not something you respond to by offering another narrow use case

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

From my own niche: institutions of higher education should stop chasing trends, work internally to assert a set of values, and then build curriculum around those values.

Bedlington Terrier looks like the Eraserhead baby

The Macy’s parade performers are like
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ELLIE GROPPER!
DWEK CRUMBO!
BINGO X!
FROMP SHREK! and
BUSTA RHYMES!