Once again the latest tech innovation is a new way of avoiding labour regulations.
12.03.2026 17:31
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Once again the latest tech innovation is a new way of avoiding labour regulations.
Quite often I feel compelled to explain why law matters even if it isn't functioning in a present scenario: this does a handy job of articulating why it's still always important to keep it as an aspirational moral framework.
This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.
It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever
Glad to see the mask is off and someone is openly offering a cheating app rather than being coy about it.
I cannot emphasize this enough: The AI doomer narrative (it’s going to wake up and kill us all) is, whether its adherents intend it or not, pure marketing for AI companies
It’s one reason their CEOs have even, on occasion, leaned into it
So, S2 to see if any of these theories pay off?
So, after several failed attempts of doing weird BG decks with flash or artefact shenanigans, turns out I should draft stuff I actually know how to play. #mtgarena
The thing about Casablanca being the greatest film of all time is people don't believe you and then they watch it
Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
I hate this. I hate that scholars and teachers are supposed to be digital fraud experts. I hate that this part of their job description is becoming larger and larger. I hate the widening distrust. I hate a culture that aggressively devalues the curiosity and humility required for ongoing learning.
Me, increasingly wild-eyed, to my students:
I think a lot about Parmy Olson's observation that AI companies actively push everyone to talk about existential risk, because it distracts from more prosaic current day concerns like copyright theft, conditions for data workers, energy & water use, and their financial situation
Which is a good job, cos I've been hating limited.
We're back in standard babyyyyy. #mtgarena
If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week
Called shot with the name, and turns out yes, yes it is. #mtgarena
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
It speaks to how broken MPs' media diet is that all parties didn't collectively go "pedophilia bad" at the first possible opportunity here
I cannot stress how distrubing it is to find out just how many peoples’ perfect partner is anything that can never disagree with them
Again, "I only make CSAM for money" would not help an ordinary person's defence, but would aggravate their sentencing.
Every piece of reporting I've seen on this is drastically understating the scale. These are from Grok's replies within a single minute. Time-to-reply is degrading because it has such a backlog of NCII/CSAM requests to fulfill. Conservatively I estimate it is producing more than 5000 of these per day
2026: scrolling past the AI generated CSAM on the nazi pedophile app to see my favorite politicians' public anti-war statements
The case of the Twitter purchase shows the bad media strategy from Biden-era top Democrats.
They were “indifferent” to a far-right billionaire oligarch buying a key element of our information infrastructure.
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Unbelievably bleak to see journalists quoting an LLM bot's output as if it's an agent capable of making statements that mean something.
The crossover I never knew I needed.
New, from me: Time for something fun - I wrote about themes and fashions of the Knives Out Universe (KOU). 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/exploring-...
We talked about running these numbers at UM soc when it became so obvious that women TAs got more complaints for the same classes. Glad someone tested it formally.