Just wrapped up the second workshop session on epistemic injustice, oppression and ignorance and it's so so great meeting so many researchers around the world in all sorts of fields and doing all sorts of projects (all of which sound amazing and important) interested in these questions!
I get that budgets are tight and everyone is busy and tired but truly, sincerely, me and my team are fabulous at what we do and we’ll provide transcripts and captions substantially better than automated options or our competitors.
Pop us a message via the form on web here for a free quote 😄
Right beloveds, I am looking for just FIVE projects needing…
~ transcription support for qualitative data collection (interviews, workshops, memos etc)
~ transcripts for author dictated manuscripts
~ editing support for automated transcripts
~ closed captioning support for videos, vlogs, etc
most crucial tool: scaled tier of writer friends
sometimes you have to start by discussing your writing only with the people who will gas you up no matter what, and then work up to the ones who will bounce around ideas with you, and then finally to the ones who can say "you're overusing semicolons"
To be fair: that principle is well established in the UK for private equity owners of companies providing public services (e.g. water and sewage, children’s homes etc).
“It’s clear that AI companies’ initial promise to America — that first it would take their job, and eventually it might kill them — has not inspired a groundswell of public support.”
love bluesky because the replies to this post immediately descend into people fighting about whether the minions would have worked for stalin
The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:
“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”
love to hear it, would love to learn more about whatever you're working on too!
"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. "it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. "it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. "you simply must visit the monster—I always just ask the monster." there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn't mean it has no price "for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
But it is tho…chatting with ai should be considered like chatting with a malevolent demon that may seem like it can help you but you can never trust it and it may well drive you into madness
Also if you’re a social researcher interested in epistemic injustice as a conceptual framework but don’t know where to start, or what other frameworks might be useful, I’ve got a free webinar for that!
I get that budgets are tight and everyone is busy and tired but truly, sincerely, me and my team are fabulous at what we do and we’ll provide transcripts and captions substantially better than automated options or our competitors.
Pop us a message via the form on web here for a free quote 😄
Right beloveds, I am looking for just FIVE projects needing…
~ transcription support for qualitative data collection (interviews, workshops, memos etc)
~ transcripts for author dictated manuscripts
~ editing support for automated transcripts
~ closed captioning support for videos, vlogs, etc
This is tomorrow! You should come along and hangout with me and loads of other people from all over the world all working on epistemic injustice related research!
Did you miss yesterday's fab talk on bodily transformation and horror in British and Irish traditional songs?
Watch it here!
youtu.be/Yfw6wvTFvLI
Here it is!
More to come, but I just did a data analysis for someone who left substack for beehiiv some time ago and WOW, if your only motivation is money? Forget nazis, terfs, and pedos, just care about cash? You should get tf off substack now!
upside: I have found a way to make it be about the ideal vs non ideal theory distinction
downside: I have found a way to make it be about the ideal vs non ideal theory distinction
literally coming off some shit first drafting now for job application number one, reflecting on how cursed I am to be a “think through talking” person and for that to have meant waiting until partner had finished a work report at 1130 to be able to begin drilling down into what I meant
Make a post it/poster/sign that say “JUST WRITE THE SHIT FIRST DRAFT” above wherever you write, and then do that, including random questions to yourself, placeholders, everything (but avoid as much as possible starting a new document and discarding your first shit draft, that way doom lies)
GOTTA FIGHT
FOR THE RIGHT
TO
POT-t-t-t-TY!
I’ve been shouting about HowTheLightsGetIn for years, and yet philosophers I have respected or known have continued to present, headlining alongside the likes of Curtis Yarvin and extreme anti-trans propagandists. It’s a biannual reaction-normalisation machine
Has anyone written about white techbros in SV weaponising neurodivergence (Karp, Musk) to ward off any political or social critique of their obscene technofascism, just checking to see if I missed it, someone has to have written this
elder age beastie boys lyrics have really shifted focus hey
Authors!
It’s Autism Acceptance Month and I’d love to read and boost some books!
If you’re an autistic author and/or have a book or story with autism rep, please drop a link below with a description, mention the rep and I’ll repost.📚💙
If individuals spew racist eugenic talking points in public, something has gone very wrong if they feel like they can do so without social consequence. When companies feel safe positioning their entire org that way, things are catastrophically wrong on purpose.
My partner is locked outside but I can’t go let him in until this hard won bedtime completes and both kids fall asleep lolololol
One child wouldn’t brush their teeth properly so the other child had a 40 minute screaming tantrum about it?
bedtime is just the fucking worst invention ever istg