Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
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This is so good and I have been meaning to share it but have also been sick since October.
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Wild that institutions that have condemned generations of students to insurmountable debt don’t hesitate to do other unethical things for money!
“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.
WSJ Breaking News 2h ago The Trump administration is cancelling roughly $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University over allegations of antisemitism
You can have the cops come beat the shit out of your students to prove you’re not a filthy commie and they’ll still do this to you and all you’ll have done is show everyone what a pathetic little coward you are. Might as well do the right thing the first time
Tremendously honored that luminary writer and generous person, @paullisicky.bsky.social has included Sounds Like Titanic in his list about music as self-invention. If you have not yet ordered his new book on Joni Mitchell you are missing out!
Harvard Divinity School punished students for having a PRAYER-IN last semester. I absolutely understand why students have decided to change tactics.
When you tell people to stop protesting genocide, it absolutely impacts how they respond to your shouts about fascism. Everything is connected.
My students write about so many hard things they've lived through. We talk a lot in class about "bad for life, good for writing." I love this beautiful tribute to the opposite.
