At UCSD?

Acting CDC director delayed release of study showing benefit of Covid vaccines An HHS spokesperson said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya had concerns about the paper’s methodology. Some current or former CDC employees worry about political interference.

Platforming people that are destroying our public scientific institutions and eroding trust in science should be met with even more vitriol, actually.
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Honored to have even been in the same room as the absolute legend that is Dolores Huerta. Solidarity on Dolores Huerta Day!

Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

This is catastrophic.

Direct Elections for Labor Leaders Make for More Militant Unions The labor movement is rightfully celebrating recent contract victories by the United Auto Workers, Teamsters, SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America, which together cover nearly 650,000 workers. A...

A major issue with the delegate system is that members aren't directly electing their top leadership (few unions have 1 member 1 vote for top leaders). Exec board members are shielded from rank and file members by a layer of delegates, and aren't directly accountable. labornotes.org/2024/01/dire...

I'm not sure if there are any challengers. My convention knowledge is mostly limited to the UAW, but I imagine AFT is similar. Delegates are members elected to represent locals at conventions. In a delegate system of elections, delegates nominate and vote for executive board candidates at convention

The painted piece of wood also didn't use an additional gallon of water every time a child used the bathroom

Randi is up for re-election by delegates at the AFT convention this July. www.aft.org/convention/c...

From AP News: "Microsoft is contributing $12.5 million to AFT over five years. OpenAI is providing $8 million in funding and $2 million in technical resources, and Anthropic has offered $500,000."

Looks like AFT is receiving $23 million from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to push AI onto educators via "trainings"

apnews.com/article/arti...

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south u has got to be nuts right now. kind of miss living in Ann Arbor 😅

heavy ratio

If you're not using your position as the leader of a teacher's union to fight back against the AI takeover of the education system and degradation of teaching jobs, get out of the way and let someone else lead

This is so utterly disappointing on so many levels. No one leading a teacher's union should be promoting technology that makes their jobs harder to do, or takes them entirely. Students aren't learning anything useful from the AI plagiarism machine. It's up to us to collectively push back

It's open season for refusing AI There's been a wave of successful efforts to ban, reject and shut down AI.

Movements to shut down or ban data centers are amassing power and notching victories. Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content in articles. Publishers and entertainment studios are being pushed to reject AI-produced content outright.

In other words: It's open season for refusing AI.

“the real change in treatment came as more women entered medicine and scientific research; the fact that they had their own experiences of menopause helped spur a meaningful re-evaluation of the science.”🧪

"hyperscale data centers could withdraw up to 150.4 billion gallons across the country over the next five years."
what the fuck are we even doing here. Fight back against your local data center before all of our water is guzzled by machines
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The more these AI tech losers keep forcing AI into everything, the more I despise it. I would rather use paper and pen to maintain my contacts at this point than use the gallon-of-water per prompt machine.

A screenshot from me.sh of a horribly AI generated out of date summary of my professional background with a blurry old photo of myself

Like it's not even remotely up to date either. I haven't been a doctoral candidate in 5 years.

Why is this site generating AI slop accounts for people without their permission? I didn't sign up for this or make an account, yet they AI-generated an account for me

If I can't trust you did the work to read and critically review the literature you're citing because you outsourced your thinking and literature search to AI, how can I trust you conducted your studies in a rigorous and reproducible manner? How can I trust you were the one that wrote this paper?

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

I get errors can happen while using citation management software (it's happened to me), but including completely fabricated citations to articles that do not exist is egregious and should be grounds for rejection
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

all hail Jonathan

Every assignment I read that is AI generated makes me want to burn down a data center

"Students are convinced that the AI cannot be detected, and they refuse to listen when you show them the tells, insisting that it was their own work."

When the references they provide are to articles that *do not exist* it's pretty easy to detect.

"If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?" Education workers reveal a growing crisis on campus and off AI Killed My Job: Educators.

Three years into the AI era, educators say they face a major crisis. Bosses and clients replacing tutoring jobs with AI. Replacing *athletic coaching* with AI. Many students now cannot grasp why they would *not* use AI for schoolwork. And worse.

The 5th installment of AI Killed My Job—educators:

These Haitian meatpacking workers face deportation. They voted to strike anyway. A JBS plant’s largely immigrant workforce is refusing to back down after they accuse their employer of poor working conditions.

3,800 workers at JBS's plant in Greeley, one of the largest meatpacking plants in the US, have officially gone on strike.

Red shouldered for sure

NIH Says It Will No Longer Recognize the Research Fellows’ Union NIH leadership said the union “should never have been certified,” in an email to the union’s leadership.

Union busting is DISGUSTING
Shame on you Jay Bhattacharya

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this, but make it dot grid paper

airtable outage during a phonebank 😭