“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...
Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center.
Why the AI backlash has turned violent:
Well. When asked for my name I must have mumbled a bit. The cup came back with "arse" written all over it.
New season on Jan 2... so much real life inspiration to draw from!
No, that's so sad to hear! I miss a lot about MKE, and B & B is def one of those things.
@annekaun.bsky.social
Reminds me of Ceausescu’s Palace of the Parliament, incidentally not completed until long after he was gone.
Växte upp precis bredvid Hollywood. Då var det bara stora gräsängar runt byggnaderna och vi gick som barn runt och letade rester av filmremsor som spridits med vinden efter den stora branden 1950. Det här måste varit tidigt 80-tal, då remsorna låg kvar och gick att uttyda minst 30 år senare.
YOU GUYS. DAVID BOWIE WAS WRITING AN 18thc MUSICAL CALLED THE SPECTATOR WHEN HE DIED.
Between this and Hilary Mantel’s unfinished rewriting of Pride & Prejudice… I cannot.
David Bowie’s secret final project discovered locked in his study www.bbc.com/news/article...
(1/n) My new (edited) book is out! 'Cosmic Fragments: Dislocation and Discontent in the Global Space Age.' Out from @upittpress.bsky.social, the book has 18 scholars weigh in on aspects of space, esp deleterious phenomena, that rarely get foregrounded in celebratory narratives. Most critically..
Postdoc position for Digital Vulnerabilities in Södertörn university DL April 3.
The full job opening is available here
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Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it.
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
*glances up from mashing sweet potatoes*
Do you want children to be completely ill-prepared for understanding social media when they turn 16?
And you know how you enforce it, truly? You ID everyone. It’s totally age verification internet for everyone.
AI in schools is a huge market opportunity for the tech industry, but it's also a massive public problem and requires much better oversight. Our report on this for the National Education Policy Center tried to ring the alarm bell on AI in schools earlier this year nepc.colorado.edu/publication/ai
one of the best books in media studies this year! a tour de force in blue humanities
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Stephen Buono (Soc'y of Fellows, U of Chicago)’s rvw of Christine E. Evans (UW-Milwaukee) & @larsewlundgren.bsky.social (Södertörn Uni)’s bk _No Heavenly Bodies: A Hist of Satellite Communication Infrastructure_ 2023 @mitpress.bsky.social
Rvw avail @hnetreviews.bsky.social
