One line has been running through my head the last few days, the juice isn’t worth the squeeze.
Posts by Dr. Melissa Ocepek
I went all the time while in grad school. The events and themes felt so specific in the best way.
Everyday this is sounding more and more like Elizabeth Holmes or Sam Bankman Fried.
We have good timers already. ChatGPT is a word extruder not a timer or a calculator.
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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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?
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!!!
Did it last week
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.
Reading about Sam Altman right now feels like reading about Sam Bankman-Fried right before FTX crashed and he was arrested.
“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…’”
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
The deadline for Brown AI Policy Summer School is coming up soon: March 27!
By Maxine Joselow Reporting by Washington Post Article linked below
This is insane.
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
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...
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
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...
It’s almost like they lack PhD level understanding of what social science is
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...
Who could possibly have predicted that a company whose slogan is "cheat on everything" would cheat?
techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/c...
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.
How is this real??? Like it’s but also it’s nuts.
There is a Dr. Teals with Melatonin
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.
Have you seen the one on Kenny G???
Hoping you all have a time for rest and recovery soon.