It is genuinely incomprehensible to me how people who have devoted their lives & careers to education can decide it no longer matters whether high school graduates are capable of reading an entire book.
Toronto: What we’re seeing now is that (police) are not even distinguishing between protests, academic events or cultural events. Any time there are Palestinians speaking about Palestine, they are viewed as potentially anti-semitic or promoting violence.” www.thegrindmag.ca/cops-keep-sh...
"Consider Sam Altman telling the world that he needed ChatGPT to tell him how to raise a baby. You exist. I exist. Our parents did not have LLMs, or even AI, and yet somehow we survived our childhoods"
Its a combo: intense hubris, contempt for other fields of knowledge, and lack of object permanence
Add to this, of course, the 100s of previously employed academics who are now out of work or whose jobs are at risk and the 100s of academics in fixed term positions trying to find permanent roles.
A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek), with the handle @magyarpeterMP. The post reads: "Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions. This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General. On 12 April, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation. If these officials do not step down voluntarily by 31 May, then — on the basis of the mandate received from millions of Hungarians — we will remove them from office." At the bottom, the timestamp reads "3:04 AM • Apr 21, 2026" alongside "19.9K Views".
Peter Magyar is not playing around at all. He's going to purge every single remnant of corrupt Orbanism. This is exactly how Dems need to be when they retake power.
Watch how swiftly fake quotes get attributed to “S. Drimmer” now.
Thing is, this is exactly what ChatGPT was designed to do. Namely, jackhammer the grounds of truth beneath our feet. Whether the product is “good” or not is irrelevant. Its purpose is to remove people from acts of discernment.
Ways for AI to kill you without you even using it. Yay
Truth
Three women out. Not a single dude
Tomorrow in my class on "Musicology, Aesthetics, and Cultural Theory" I am teaching work related to @robinjames.bsky.social – given that the students will come to her lecture next week.
Add universities to this list.
i have a hot take about "literacy" that's related to this thread (which i have nearly retweeted comprehensively already lol)
i think people understand AI plenty already. i think formal auditing tools & CS degrees are pathologically revered. i think you can understand automation as a worker!
I just keep thinking about this. Ford loves to pound people to shit and strut across their political bodies. All the name calling. The Lefties. Socialists. Cyclists. Gravy eaters.
But he whines like a high maintenance nepo when something doesn't go his way.
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dems created an expanded 'covid' welfare state under trump, republicans strangled it under biden
swing voters credited trump & blamed biden for that respectively
there's a moral here, of a sort
The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:
“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”
This timeline is cursed
Stacy Mitchell has the best command of this subject. She explains how Amazon's ability to match any discount absolutely shreds competitors trying to give you a lower price. To hide these powers from nosy reporters, Amazon shuts off the magic algorithm during holiday shopping season and Prime Day.
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Like, AI literacy in any form will not protect black and disabled folks from the algorithmic bias, and the violence that emerges from it, of spicy autocomplete. Full stop. No amount of AI literacy can protect us in the deployment of the system because it is tracking the wrong problem.
Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.
"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.
I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).
So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
“Another way to look at this is that billionaires have joined a war on professional administrative class of public servants precisely because of their proximity to formal mechanisms of accountability.”
That part! Everything from documentation to compliance mechanisms to whistleblowing is a threat.
This is an excellent read.
1. Amazon has built powerful pricing algorithms that have learned how to steer prices upward — not just on Amazon, but across the web. I have a new piece on how these algorithms work, and how they help sustain Amazon’s monopoly.
The Star threw in with the oligarch class years ago. Need to find legitimate news sources.
I'm sorry but this is hilarious & infuriating.
Here's my guess: Doug Ford overruled advisers smarter than him to buy this plane.
But they realized there was no spinning or massaging this.
Two days is *probably* too tight to privately poll. (Would need about three days, I think.) 1/2
#OnPoli
Animation as oppression
Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey have different visions for how to use AI for management purposes, but both imagine a system of heightened control. www.wired.com/story/tech-c...
Like I'm happy for people who didn't have a ton of stress during early COVID. That's nice for you to have been so lucky. But that's not the experience of many others who get conveniently forgotten in these "the pandemic was chill actually" takes.
