this is a start…. i didnt even know the ai books had infiltrated the lib circulation in the first place 🤮 but

I have embraced my persona of being the AI killjoy in my little corner of academia.
Yes, Becky, I think your AI "art" is shite.
No, Bob, Im not interested in using my students as guinea pigs for your LLM projects.
No, I will not be allowing the group to use ChatGPT to come up with survey questions.

Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer

please include alt text on your pictures of american politicians so everyone can participate in yelling at them. including me, i cannot tell 200 separate 85 year old white guys apart

lmao

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗

write a strongly worded letter against the machine

Economists have to go to school for so long because it is a very difficult field.

It takes a lot of time and energy to figure out a reason why paying poor people more money is bad for them.

i don't want to shop for healthcare, bargain hunt for produce, or any other stupid overcomplication of getting necessities that's forced on us by capitalist freaks who squeeze more cash out of every step in the process, including steps they just make up!

and, yeah, sure you can absolutely argue this about our very real, very human overlords too, and hey the system is systeming (derogatory). really what it comes down to is i just dont trust techbros to make ethical decisions lmaoo

half-baked thought that’s been cooking a while, but i’ll say it anyway. the issue is that in uncritically accepting this, we accept mediocrity. ai is already as mediocre as its input. to say humans arent perfect either and to just give it a life/death power on a platter is just 🙃

“…over time, my beliefs will be changed by exposing myself to the responses of others. This is the process of communication and conversation, processes that are not a capacity of large language models given they have no intention working underneath the hood of their algorithm.”

switching to tidal was very easy. and i think i like the interface better anyhow.

Spotify Hosts Trump Inauguration Brunch and Makes $150,000 Donation to Ceremony The company, which hosted Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, and others, called the event “business as usual”

Spotify is drawing attention after the company hosted a Trump inauguration brunch featuring Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro, among others.

The streaming giant also made a $150,000 donation to the new president's inauguration ceremony.

pitchfork.com/news/spotify...

Ive always thought the wonderful thing about an education is that it gives you something that no one can take away from you; that it opens your eyes to the world around you. And finding teachers/admins who think that doesnt matter as much as getting on the AI bandwagon is so disheartening.