Columbia suspended, expelled, and retroactively revoked degrees in proceedings that were so arbitrary and capricious they were overturned by a NY state judge. Literally the only evidence Columbia submitted came from sealed records of dismissed arrests—records that Columbia shouldn't have even had.
good reminder to change your signal notification settings
Which only makes sense!
this recent article detailing SZA's anti-AI positions gives a very clear description of the many ways in which AI-generated music, along with other AI-generated media, is anti-Black (if anyone is curious about that)
www.nme.com/news/music/s...
While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.
image of city like digital infrastructure precariously balancing on post of random project maintained by one person.
Reminder. Trust and security are relative.
glad you went down the path you chose. and the digital humanities world is so much richer because of it.
SECRETARY RUBIO: Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Irans had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have had a much different country.
objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country
This has never, ever, ever worked in workers’ favor in the history of labor automation and it’s incredibly foolish and self-destructive to think you’ll be the exception.
Powerful stuff from our students:
"AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it.... With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship."
Just gonna leave this here for those who didn't realize right away why THESE particular scientists were hit hardest.
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Adding to this thread: it’s a common mistake (I’ve made it myself, many times) to think of the motivations of the capitalist elites as essentially mercantilist: that is, that they are largely still motivated *entirely* by profit and loss, selling product, etc. This has not been true for a while.
anyone else feel like it's in the FA part right now? I'm not looking forward to the FO part.
I have been waiting for this story (because it's the story of my region and the wealth inequality therein) and I'm so happy that Hammer and Hope did it. Not just as news, but as a broader story of why they sicced DOGE on the feds.
of course it did. I wonder if this is like a credit rating, wil it make it harder for the US to execute contracts and/or get loans? elpais.com/internaciona...
Facia AI “noted that it could send personalized follow-up emails or promotions to customers who browsed through a shop without buying anything, and could collect data including a customer’s facial features, visit history and shopping preferences.”
The possibility of control , of being “special” of having ownership over another being:
- destroys the self
- is ultimately an illusion
AI is just .. its explaining every moment of cultural psychosis seen during slavery
not that i know of — this came up at library presentation on AI tools at #nercomp26
i'm so much wiser now than i was a year ago. like whew... some of those lessons were hard.
I have suspected for awhile that we are already seeing the violence that runs downstream of (mostly) privileged (mostly) men with gambling addictions. And it will only get worse.
Everything will, in the end, have been about crypto and fossil fuels and we are mostly just casualties. Sigh.
better late than never. #recipes www.jamesbeard.org/discover/rec...
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I post this because Cuba is under severe circumstances and I don’t see it publicized anywhere. The administration has s basically daring Russia or China to do anything. Did anyone see the movie “My Bodyguard”?
O INIO ASANO É DOIDO E MARAVILHOSOOOOOOO
ISSO TUDO FOI FEITO COM CANETA NANQUIM, TA MALUCO
I did not see that sentence coming…
any experience with or thoughts on scispace.com #nercomp26 #datalibs
A Librarian's Guide: Balancing AI Efficiency, Accuracy, and Ethics in Literature Reviews presentation events.educause.edu/nercomp-annu... from the George Washington University at #nercomp26 [out of region ftw]