The fact that so many US citizens have no idea Bad Bunny is also a US citizen (and don't believe he can be a US citizen) tells you that when they say "citizen," they really just mean white.
Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.
We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
I miss season 2 of the internet when Google actually worked and I didn't have to run baby animal pics through an Al checker and my washing machine wasn't texting me 2-factor auth codes
Helpful thread.
Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”
Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
It was people, so, you know.
I keep telling ya...
It was incredible to watch this disaster unfold over several years: site owners increasingly competed for Google search traffic and placement in SERPs, abandoning every other avenue of reader engagement and retention, making their sites and the web worse. Then Google did this
Opinion | The devil himself would be impressed by the terms the federal government managed to extort from Columbia. chroni.cl/46Wo3ca
Robert Worm Poop Kennedy is pushing these hard. I know that means I will never *ever* wear one. Ever.
The decrease of critical (or at least some) assessment of search results and scanning multiple potential sources are some of the outcomes of AI summaries I really worry about.
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
"In mid-2024, a study of 2,500 workers found that 77 percent reported decreased productivity and even higher workloads when using AI. Just under 40 percent of workers reported increased workloads caused explicitly by AI's sloppy mistakes."
#StudentSuccess | Student-Led Teaching Doesn’t Help Underprepared Students
Peer support can increase students’ engagement in a course, but one study found that peer instruction didn’t result in better grades or content knowledge for learners. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/465y8Dq
Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings:
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
User-generated videos of aggressive ICE raids remind Director of Research @alicetiara.bsky.social of how the Black Lives Matter mvmt used eyewitness video to reveal the reality of a problem. “These videos show this isn’t business as usual,” she tells @nbcnews.com. www.nbcnews.com/specials/tru...
The more times you watch it, the better its design gets.
Wish we had more like Kyle Clark. @kylec.bsky.social
This article is genuinely hopeful. It looks like green energy will displace fossil fuels by 2035 everywhere EXCEPT the USA. SMH.
while the mainstream new media shirks their responsibility, outlets like teen vogue, rolling stone, and wired have all been taking up the slack where independent media cannot.
The real lesson of the Grok meltdown yesterday is think of the unimaginable power of controlling one of these platform scale LLMs if you don't go as over-the-top as "I'm Hitler 2.0 let's hurry up and gas the remaining Jews". If it's even slightly more subtle immense possibilities for info dominance.
1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar
2025: ohhh ok
Wow, the film/media/comm list of AUP was sold to Taylor & Francis (huge conglom that makes $$$$ on research that we do on our own dime, submit for free, revise for free, review for free, and pay for OA)- a bunch of editors promptly quit & I suspect more are forthcoming. Good for them
Keen insights from @alicetiara.bsky.social and others on genAI supercharging scams - a great listen. I've always assumed I'm good at detecting scams, but the level of sophistication they can reach these days means I really need to be less sure and more vigilant.
Why is Elon Musk’s chatbot spewing anti-Semitic bile? @cwarzel.bsky.social and @matteowong.bsky.social report:
It’s almost like the opposite of woke always was…
Despite writing comics and science fiction, I am not concerned about "A.i." becoming sentient and destroying humanity. This technology remains a variation of fancy autocomplete; it's not becoming sentient.
But I AM concerned about the morality and ethics of the people who control it.
I'm flabbergasted. And disgusted. And not surprised. Not really. I mean, I read a lot of science fiction and this sort of thing generally doesn’t end well.