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Posts by Dr. Melissa Ocepek

One line has been running through my head the last few days, the juice isn’t worth the squeeze.

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I went all the time while in grad school. The events and themes felt so specific in the best way.

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Everyday this is sounding more and more like Elizabeth Holmes or Sam Bankman Fried.

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We have good timers already. ChatGPT is a word extruder not a timer or a calculator.

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it cant be said enough that all tech smart guys and billionaires thought this guy would be great and now the world economy is fucked we're like a week from gas rationing and their guy is threatening nukes.

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Postdoctoral Researcher and Doctoral Researcher, Science and Technology Studies (STS) and aquatic restoration in the Nordic and Arctic regions We are looking to hire highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher and Doctoral Researcher to join the Department of Anthropology, in the History, Culture and Communications Unit at the Faculty of Humani

We're hiring! Looking for a #postdoc (3 years) and #PhD (4 years) in #STS and aquatic restoration! Hired researchers will join University of @oulu.fi, the amazing SAFIRE multidisciplinary research programme, and a growing team of researchers interested in water and environment. Deadline 03.05.26.

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This is what baffles me the thinking is the work. How could a generic summary ever find the weird bits in a work that resonate with me and my perspective based on my years on this earth and decades of study?

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The world is feeling very terrible and I had terrible anxiety dreams all night last night but this week Ashley I. becomes a Housewife. Hope is a radically act and we need to find joy where we can!!!

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Did it last week

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All the evidence you need is right in front of you. Just because he fits into a larger narrative you find appealing doesn’t mean it’s real.

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Reading about Sam Altman right now feels like reading about Sam Bankman-Fried right before FTX crashed and he was arrested.

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Meta loses trial after arguing child exploitation was “inevitable” on its apps Meta plans to appeal as it faces down two other child safety trials.

“At trial, Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram chief Adam Mosseri testified that ‘harms to children, such as sexual exploitation and detriments to mental health, were inevitable on the company’s platforms due to their vast user bases…’”

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I have just discovered audio books with the amazing Lesley Manville reading and with how terrible things are this is what I need and other may enjoy them as well

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The deadline for Brown AI Policy Summer School is coming up soon: March 27!

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Reporting by Washington Post
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By Maxine Joselow Reporting by Washington Post Article linked below

This is insane.

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Not only do I need to need to deal with a tornado warning, then it’s supposed to snow, the storm coverage is blocking my Oscars telecast. Climate change sucks

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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

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This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon.

Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

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You are warmly invited to attend a public talk by Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths, University of London), jointly sponsored by the Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies and the FIMS Rogers Chair (as part of the Rogers Chair "New Fascism” theme from 2025-2027). Poster attached. Please share widely!!

AI is a Morbid Symptom of the Interregnum

Friday 20 March 2026
1:00pm – 2:30pm

Online Lecture (Zoom)

Please register here:
https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ELGySAqNR6yYYgNaW3hLHQ#/registration

You are warmly invited to attend a public talk by Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths, University of London), jointly sponsored by the Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies and the FIMS Rogers Chair (as part of the Rogers Chair "New Fascism” theme from 2025-2027). Poster attached. Please share widely!! AI is a Morbid Symptom of the Interregnum Friday 20 March 2026 1:00pm – 2:30pm Online Lecture (Zoom) Please register here: https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ELGySAqNR6yYYgNaW3hLHQ#/registration

The @starlingcentre.bsky.social @westernufims.bsky.social is delighted to co-sponsor an online lecture by @danmcquillan.bsky.social next Friday, March 20 at 1pm ET. Registration is free, and you can tune in from anywhere on Al Gore's Internet! Register here: westernuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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It’s almost like they lack PhD level understanding of what social science is

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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

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Cluely CEO Roy Lee admits to publicly lying about revenue numbers last year | TechCrunch The $7 million in annual recurring revenue that Cluely CEO Roy Lee shared last summer was a lie, its founder and CEO Roy Lee admitted on Thursday on X.

Who could possibly have predicted that a company whose slogan is "cheat on everything" would cheat?

techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/c...

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The state of the world really has me working on a conference proposal where I argue that we should ask whether the Housewives and not AI is the technology of our era.

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How is this real??? Like it’s but also it’s nuts.

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There is a Dr. Teals with Melatonin

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I loved it! It came out around the same time and as a part of the same series as the Alanis one. It’s all about what we count as art as told through Kenny G’s music and cultural relevance.

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Have you seen the one on Kenny G???

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Hoping you all have a time for rest and recovery soon.

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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

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