A screenshot of part of a subject line reading "Dr. Shira" (Shira is nowhere near being a Doctor)

I love spam

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bartov teaches a 19th-20th-century history class on israel/palestine and I took it as a first year in college. it was the first step of many for me in understanding the real history of the region after lots of propaganda and that is exactly why this book must be translated into hebrew.

Bothered by bright headlights? Your time to tell Transport Canada is running out | CBC News Transport Canada's survey on headline brightness is open to drivers, pedestrians and cyclists, and includes questions about travelling at night, driver behaviour and possible changes.

A good reminder to go tell the Canadian government to do something about those bright headlights blinding people who drive at night.

I just paid my taxes to the great state of Massachusetts and they better not be doing this nonsense with all that money I just gave them.

fellow massholes: call!

this is one of my favorite Deaf stories.

humans are extraordinary creatures, each of us with gifts no one else possesses. we don't value our differences enough, celebrate our singular strengths enough.

the Gaulledett Eleven could handle their shit better than the brawniest man's man astronaut.

To date, HCI researchers have had no support on signaling their paper's relevance to AI, esp. when that connection is tenuous at best. We introduce a systematic framework to ensure LLMs are mentioned at every stage of paper reporting—from framing, to evaluation, to implications.

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

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Text of "Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)" by Muriel Rukeyser. Text is online at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/poem-i-lived-in-the-first-century-of-world-wars

Muriel Rukeyser, always but especially today. Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...

Professor of the Practice in Computer Science with a Focus on Artificial Intelligence - Providence, Rhode Island job with Computer Science | 37970844 The Department of Computer Science at Brown University is seeking applicants for a Professor of the Practice position at the assistant, associate, ...

My department is looking to hire a professor of practice in CS, with a focus on AI. Job posting below. If you have questions I'll do my best to answer them, else find someone who can! We are in Providence, easy commute access from Boston.
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*poor wording, everything has changed. but not microsoft office I suspect

the whole US government ran on microsoft office in 2021 and I suspect nothing has changed today. extremely embarrassing

A variation of the "Epic Handshake" meme from the 1987 sci-fi movie Predator, showing a close-up of four men (instead of the original 2) greeting each other with an arm-wrestle handshake. Each arm is labeled with the following text: - Blind and vision-impaired people - People with temporarily impaired vision - People with slow internet connection - People wondering WTF they're looking at The words "alt text" are shown in the center where all four hands meet.

i’m one of those “People wondering WTF they're looking at”.

source: Alt Text Hall of Fame @alttexthalloffame@mastodon.social

this is a beautiful meditation on the difference between producing knowledge and developing the capacity to understand, and the danger AI poses to the latter by speeding the processes for the former

Picture of a colorful bilingual ice cream shop sign with pricing. Menu: Tasses • Cups Taille/Size: Mini/Mini (1 scoop, $3) Bébé/Baby (2 scoops, $4) Chub/Chub (3 scoops, $4.50) Pablo (4 scoops, $5) It is not clear from the signage who Pablo is.

today in untranslatable: Pablo

she also thought the odyssey was originally written in english, which I guess is a testament to @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social's translation but ???? !!!!!!

"you mean you do that by hand?" I —

today a MASTER'S STUDENT came up to me and said "I have a question. what is translation?"

turns out she thought all translated books she'd ever read were done by google translate ????

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

My latest:

at my first job at least a third of our engineering team was (ex-)mormons

said by an excellent editor yourself! congratulations!!!

the default to focus on “positive” & “improvement-oriendted (even of harmful & shitty systems)” research in academia is not only a pathology but a real obstacle to actual accountability research that tries to shine light on broken systems, names responsible actors & confronts harmful practices

just writing my silly little arts based workshop proposals as the world collapses around me

Books, plants and playgrounds: Montreal creates a place to come together The Sanaaq Centre is a library, community hub and gathering place designed by professionals after much local consultation

Montreal makes an extraordinary public building. Sanaaq Centre is a place to read, rest, and eat together.

My rave review:

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To anyone submitting an Anthropic claim: I filled mine out weeks ago on their terrible site. It took an hour and a half. I submitted it, but just got a notice saying I haven't. EVERYBODY CHECK! Check that yours is really in!

As of now, you have just under 10 hours!

living in french canada for the last 2.5 years, I have only ever referred to claude as "clode"

Kill Chain On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children

New, from me.

Idk man, between the constant rise of actual antisemitism in public conversation & *claims* of antisemitism as an excuse by the worst people in the world (including some Jews!) to obliterate countries & babies, i am feeling a little peculiar