The original Earthrise photo is arguably one of the most important things to have come from the Apollo mission, changing the way we see the world. Incredibly moving to finally have a new shot of our small blue dot.
Women having to prove they are female is not a win for women.
“To streamline future projects, the city’s Dept of Environmental Protection, which is responsible for fresh water supply as well as sewage + stormwater mgmt, has formed a Bureau of Coastal Resilience to lead responses to coastal flooding as well as spikes in stormwater volumes...”
"Venture capital (VC) is fuelling the boom in artificial intelligence (AI). Yet analysis of a UK dataset reveals that VC is dominated by men... we argue that the homogeneity of the VC ecosystem is key to perpetuating the gender gap in innovation." academic.oup.com/cje/advance-...
“Overall, the study participants who saw the biased AI text shifted their positions toward those espoused by the AI.”
Shoutout to every writer out there writing the kind of books fascists keep trying to ban.
I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change
I've been saying for almost 2 decades now that it should the current paradigm of "AI" acting as a helpmeet to fascism should be no surprise, when the drivers of fascism— militarism, capitalism, carcerality, white supremacy, &c— are the soil, the water, & roots from which this idea of "AI" was grown.
These fields of study are empowering and liberatory; they offer tools to understand, dismantle, and rethink societal structures. In a just world they would be acknowledged as essential fundamentals.
More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
Did you know that a famous math reference – most physicists have owned a copy at some point – is the result of a New Deal project to employ scientists and mathematicians?
Thread incoming.
While the struggle to defend the university will be fought over many years, the fight to reinvent the university—and to build the ideas necessary for escaping our public crisis—starts now.
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Some tools for thinking about AI in a time when the companies making them are trying to destroy teaching and learning itself...
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"we tend to focus on new, high-tech, and material interventions. But what if we adopted a more expansive approach that takes low-tech and even incremental solutions seriously, including those developed by members of the communities surrounding our campuses?"
Let's imagine together, @shobitap.org.
CHARLES RAFFERTY The Problem with Early Warnings People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres. How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives. Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.
This hit so fucking hard today.
Use the anger you’re feeling now to get caught up and keep fighting it.
Chuffed as heck to have my story Sand Dollars up now in The Eckleburg Review -- check it out here: www.eckleburg.org/sand-dollars...
How was #NYC's transit system desegregated? In 1854, Elizabeth Jennings Graham, a 24-year-old Black school teacher, stood her ground on a NYC streetcar. Jennings was ordered to get off the car and wait for a car that served African American passengers.
YES: "interdisciplinarity is never just the meeting of two pre-existing disciplines, disciplines are made and remade through the interaction"
Fostering curiosity and community, libraries are a social good -- "Importantly, these are not ad hoc exchanges but robust sociotechnical infrastructures, with nation-building effects." Ever on point, Shannon Mattern:
You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
“‘The uncritical adoption of AI can lead to students not developing essential academic skills such as critical thinking and writing. If students are taught to learn through automation, without learning about how & why things work, they won’t be able to solve problems when something actually breaks’”
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
And as @drandrewthaler.bsky.social points out:
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last freighter to be lost in the Great Lakes.
"Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA."
Data monitoring to guide weather prediction and response, for the common good.
