I actually get to do a lot more research now *because* it's my job and I'm supported in it. I have much more access to research partnerships than I did as a lonely prof trying to do everything myself with no big U name, startup money, grant infrastructure, etc.
I went into my PhD wanting to bridge ac & practitioner spaces, believed the messaging that academia was the only place I could pursue my research agenda, spent a decade in academia trying to support all my own research, & now work outside it.. in the job I remembered I actually wanted 😅
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“'If that bot were a person they’d be charged with a principal in first degree murder,' Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) said...
The shooter sought advice from ChatGPT on what weapon to use, what ammo to fire, and where he could find the most people to kill on campus, Uthmeier said."
A page from the intro to Kate Crawford's "Atlas of AI." An underlined section reads "and due to the capital required to build AI at scale and the ways of seeing that it optimizes AI systems are ultimately designed to serve existing dominant interests. In this sense, artificial intelligence is a registry of power."
Poolside reads.
“What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain… Because both Britain and the United States are confronting outbreaks, I am sharing my story. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”
This is glaringly obvious to everyone except for the faces of corporate media, who desperately want to walk a red carpet
A text from my stepdad that reads "Welcome to paradise! Mum and I are coming in to meet you upstairs and Dad will go park and meet us at baggage."
I won't say it was quick or easy, but getting to a point where my mum, dad, & dad's husband can all hang out (& pick us up at the airport!) is pretty rad. Broken families don't have to stay broken.
This is a lot slower than last time
An underrated 21st century skill is knowing what level of digital friendship you should have with somebody. Getting that Instagram request and being able to say, "no, LinkedIn mutuals is right for us." Tough when you realize belatedly that you don't actually want to know what your gym trainer thinks
A FB post. Text example: . This journey actually started back in 2018 as (redacted). But eventually, the universe gave me a nudge: my commercial kitchen space was no longer an option, and I found myself at a crossroads. I could either let the dream fade or build a permanent home for it. I chose the bridge. . The 2022 timeline that followed was a beautiful, hormonal, high-stakes fever dream. I welcomed my son on August 15th (sharing a birthday with my dad!), signed a three-year lease for my very own storefront just two weeks later, and opened our doors on December 2nd to catch the (redacted). . To some, it looked reckless. To me, it was the only way forward. My path has never been a straight line; it’s a collection of textures. I studied horticulture and floriculture, dreamed of florist shops, and even considered becoming a greenskeeper—partly for the love of the land, but mostly because I was told it was a “man’s world.” (Spoiler: I’ve always liked those odds.) . Whether I was nannying, earning my M.Ed., or studying the soil, I was always learning how to nurture growth. Today, all those pieces of me have merged. Instead of flowers or fairways, I’m landscaping boards for your date nights, weddings, and housewarmings (even though I don’t eat them myself). . I’m growing this business slowly, learning the art of being a boss, and doing pretty damn good—especially considering 2025 was the certified Year from Hell. I’m just now escaping the wreckage of that year, and while the start of 2026 has been pure, unadulterated chaos, I’m finally starting to see the light. . I pack a lot a living into a week—hence the impromptu adventures. I post a new blog every Sunday night. If you want to peer through the veil and vicariously live through my chaos, come join the journey! Ok BYE!
This, from a local business, is the most AI writing I have ever read. Is this what everything will sound like in the future? 🫠 Do people read this and actually think it's authentic or enjoyable?
It was hard to imagine what it would be like to be fully alone during this time because we had young kids. We couldn't be alone 😅 But I do remember feeling grateful we had each other, as hard as it all was.
Me to 10yo: "Do you want some gum? Don't swallow it though."
10yo, two minutes later, distraught: "I swallowed it. I can't be trusted with gum 😭"
I somehow do both: keep a "cuts" document AND never look at it again 😅
I am forever saying that if refusal isn't a live option in any decision making process about "AI", then no ethical practice is possible. You've got to be able to stop if the thing is unacceptable.
AI & robotics right now is mostly being touted as a way of decimating labor markets, or streamlining war and crowd control. Why would anyone be excited? Why wouldn’t people react to this as the threat they’re bragging it poses? I don’t distrust technology, I don’t trust corporations. Not the same.
It has been a long time since a new tech advancement made me think "Oh wow, that's so great!" and not "Ah fuck, how do I protect myself from this." And that's a tech industry and regulatory problem, not an individual mindset problem. People feel exposed to risks of tech & respond accordingly.
Obviously there are some good technological advancements that will really improve human lives - prosthetics, medicines, clean energy, etc. But right now people are largely experiencing tech advancement as a threat: policing & war tech, job-stealing tech, fraud & misinformation-spreading tech.
I saw someone getting mad about flippant or negative responses to this news item and I think folks mad about the response should think more deeply about it. At best, people find human robots unsettling - joking/mocking is a response to that. But ppl are also reasonably burned out on tech right now.
Even if I believed the prediction (I don't) - it is not incumbent upon any CEO to make this happen. Y'all could just keep hiring humans. Stop making this our problem when it's a YOU problem.
Many govts hope capturing carbon from power plants burning wood will cause "negative emissions." New Nature Sust. paper today finds this likely increases emissions for decades, generates no negative emissions within 150 years, and increase electricity costs ~3.5-fold.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It is a fantasy - and furthermore, a fantasy the tech companies have no intention of actually facilitating. If we proposed, say, taxing them more to fund all of this reskilling or perhaps UBI, they would lobby against it.
“Education and re-skilling workers” is what people talk about when they think they’re going to get people who have had good jobs in manufacturing to take bad desk jobs at a newly built data center or something instead, and *this doesn’t work*.
It's such a missed opportunity for this administration to have cut the public library budget in the preliminary budget rather than to have come right out of the gate making a significant commitment to libraries and using the library as a way to discuss public goods in the city.
shit I just accidentally read something about the Louisiana shooting and now I gotta go eat a brownie about it.
What's especially frustrating is these domestic homicides are among the most preventable — if we took violence against women seriously.
Nearly all family annihilators or wife killers have a history of violence against women. And yet, they so easily get guns.
Look at the Justin Fairfax case.
Good art makes you wanna touch it, I've decided.
I will absolutrly criticize people for attending. It’s a grotesque spectacle nobody who cares about press freedom should dignify with their presence.
oh my gosh, what a sweet tradition!
Yeah, I use terms like justice-involved or justice system-impacted people in my professional life, but it's not something I'm gonna like... not vote for someone over, because *I know* these terms haven't really spread into common language. idk, this shit is just exhausting.
