a group of people sitting in front of a screen that says tbs hd on it Alt: A modification of Oprah’s famed “you get a car” segment where instead of cars, everyone gets bees

If I had more energy id take the time to change bees to “LLMs” or “AI”. But yall get it

all of us are.

Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.

I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

Right.

I would be gunning for something bigger, like Secretary of War.

The misunderstanding of embodiment such that social and cultural groundings are excluded (in addition to the often narrowly invoked views of the physical/affective) remains so problematic and seems to only be getting worse at the uncritical expansion of systems such as LLMs

Data Engineer #00246 - Richmond, Virginia, United States Title: Data Engineer #00246 State Role Title: Information Tech Spec III Hiring Range: $100,000 - $125,000 Pay Band: 6 Agency: The Library of Virginia Location: Library of Virginia Building Agency Web...

The Library of Virginia in Richmond seeks a data engineer ($100k-$125k) to transform data practices at a 200-year-old cultural heritage org with an eye towards the future.

Looking for someone to imagine & collaboratively implement tomorrow's data infrastructure.

Apply by May 1! Tell your friends!

Chris Dancy, "A framework for the human in human-AI interaction"

Excited to go out to Cornell and talk with some folks tomorrow!

events.cornell.edu/event/chris-...

what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

Layout-Aware OCR for Black Digital Archives with Unsupervised Evaluation Despite their cultural and historical significance, Black digital archives continue to be a structurally underrepresented area in AI research and infrastructure. This is especially evident in efforts ...

Also see some earlier related work from us presented at IEEE ISTAS last year!
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112...

Q&A: Can humanities-driven AI reshape digital archive preservation and access? | Penn State University Penn State researcher Christopher Dancy is part of a multi-institutional team awarded $11 million through Schmidt Sciences’ 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute to develop new AI tools that expand...

We discuss current gaps in dev (eval) processes of OCR systems with a particular focus on historical Black digital archives. This is the beginning of our work with critically engaging with AI systems (various computer vision models/pipelines) for Black digital archives - www.psu.edu/news/enginee...

A Survey of OCR Evaluation Methods and Metrics and the Invisibility of Historical Documents Optical character recognition (OCR) and document understanding systems increasingly rely on large vision and vision-language models, yet evaluation remains centered on modern, Western, and institution...

Really excited for @digblk.bsky.social LibTech Scholar Fitsum Beyene to have an opportunity to talk about our ongoing work with OCR systems and Black Digital archives at @facct.bsky.social in June! Preprint - arxiv.org/abs/2603.25761

“CRITICAL AI literacy”, he yelled into the void…

Ice agents

1 Just passed through security at La Guardia. ICE entirely doing security! 100% of ID and identity checks done by ICE…Truly icky and dystopian. Some thoughts.

Graphic with logos for No Kings and STand Up for SCience, and an image of a laptop with protest imagery popping out, like a raised fit and American flag. Text reads: An online and inclusive rally for everyone, everywhere: March 28th, 12:30 - 2PM CT. Stand Up for Science presents the official No Kings 3 Accessible Rally Also a URL with details: tr.ee/nk3ar

We removed the barriers and created an accessible space because resistance is for everyone, everywhere.

The *official* No Kings Accessible Rally will be a virtual event to protect our health, defend our democracy, and say NO KINGS.

Details: zurl.co/TXWd7
#NoKings #NoKings3 #Democracy #NK3VR

1st two categories are associated in terms of info/knowledge production. Also considerations of control (e.g., “chatbots” is a dominated, centralized category) and related considerations of problems of a centralized (probabilistic, opaque) system (also TESCREAL associated control)

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

TRUMP: I did a mail in ballot for elections in Florida because I felt I should be here

REPORTER: You were in Palm Beach the last few weekends

TRUMP: Yeah. And I decided that I was going to vote by mail in ballot because I had a lot of different things

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

Something I didn’t anticipate about living under full Federal fascism is how quickly I would forget things. Things that happened a week ago are quickly memory-holed because we have to endure a daily firehose of bullshit.

Yesterday, I decided to watch/listen to Bruce’s Streets of Minneapolis again.

So prob needed reminder to folks to take of yourselves as you can out there.

Reading a Black Geographies convo and confronted with this reminder from McKittrick. “Part of what I am sharing here is animated by premature death and scholars of color in the academy doing a lot of heavy lifting and wearing out.” Which reminded me of a similar convo Bell Hooks had with Stuart Hall

I asked AI to explain my mother to me. It translated her worldview A chatbot won’t fix your family drama, but it might help you hear what someone’s really trying to say

The most consistently accurate frame to understand the appearance of articles like this is knowing that The Guardian and OpenAI have a partnership.

Israel Destroyed Gaza’s Roads and Transit. Now, We Walk Everywhere. Israeli bombing left cars in Gaza immobile and roads impassable. The assault on Iran has only spiked prices and worsened conditions.

Entire neighborhoods in Gaza remain effectively cut off, not by checkpoints but by devastation.

AI and Blackness: Towards moving beyond bias and representation In this paper, we argue that AI ethics must move beyond the concepts of race-based representation and bias, and towards those that probe the deeper relations that impact how these systems are designed...

“AI ethics must move beyond the concepts of race-based representation and bias, and towards those that probe the deeper relations that impact how these systems are designed, developed, and deployed.” Via @timnitgebru.blacksky.app — arxiv.org/abs/2111.03687

That FlyHouseParty has me vibin every time

Students say NC State cybersecurity course left them in debt and without prospects NC State offers an online cybersecurity bootcamp powered by a third-party company. Some students say it made false promises.

Etcetera etcetera we are all LowerEd

www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

normal caveats about wealth measures vs GSP aside, we should not be surprised that the elite impunity political environment has been good economically for the people on top, and that all of this is not solely about getting to say slurs during business hours

After Detention, Families Stranded in Border Town Face Harrowing Journey Home Parents and children from a detention center in Texas found themselves dropped at a border town shelter with few means to leave.

After detaining children and parents for weeks, or months, inside Dilley detention center, ICE is dumping them at a shelter in Laredo, TX. They are often thousands of miles away from where they were arrested, with no money to get back home. THREAD (1/)
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/02/i...

It's been a journey of nearly 3 years, but I'm very excited to announce the CNTR AISLE Portal! 🚀 cntr-aisle.org It’s a new way to review and evaluate the 1,000+ AI bills introduced in the U.S. over the last three years. Check out the Bill Library and our Profiles#AIPolicy #OpenData

This is fantastic, and it's something that we've been saying for years.

When companies say that are using "AI for climate change", they are referring to much smaller models used for doing things like climate modeling.

Massive generative AI models are NOT USEFUL for mitigating climate change.