The Heat Will Kill You First
10.03.2026 14:16
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Wait, what?! Grammarly made an AI persona of me and all these other journalists?!!!!!
Thank you @caseynewton.bsky.social for shaming them into at least offering a paltry optout— although obviously that is not enough.
www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
Apropos of *waves at everything*, I have often been thinking about the "Men Against Fire" Black Mirror episode, and how humans never needed neural implants that alter their perceptions of reality to treat other human beings as "roaches"...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Aga...
An analysis of over 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada found that 87% of conspiratorial claims come from just 100 influencers.
This minority of users impacts politics, influencing what people view as normal and leads to self-censoring to avoid attacks from conspiracy theorists.
We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.
They are only cheese curds if they come from the Quebec region of Canada.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This remix has been living rent free in my head.
youtu.be/qItugh-fFgg?...
Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
Karpf: "If you think Claude Code is a better social scientist than you, then you’re probably right. But that means, at some point, you stopped trying to answer interesting/puzzling questions and started trying to win the publish-the-most-articles race." davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...
Surprised to see Canada scoring so well based on the politics of my (and other) province(s).
I wonder if "Corporate Bullshit Receptivity" correlates with AI (hype) receptivity... 🤔
oh wow! had to look her up on YT. incredible!
An intricate octopus cut from a single piece of paper
Japanese artist Masayo Fukuda hand-cut this life-sized octopus from one sheet of paper. Known as Kirie in Japanese (translated as “cut picture”), the art form involves cutting intricate forms from a single sheet of white paper and then contrasting it against a black background to reveal the design.
Paperback edition of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone
Today the paperback of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out.
It's arriving in a country once again waging war—a country that can spend tens of billions on bombs without blinking, while millions of Americans are one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from homelessness.
Let's take stock of where we are.
a good thing is when someone posts a picture of a cat, and then people reply with "great cat, here also is a picture of my cat." unsolicited cat pics aplenty. this could be the world we build
People overseas love their kids just as much as you love yours. Your kids aren’t more special just because they were born on US soil
Gosh tech bros are so lazy (under the guise of "optimization")!
I was going to say that going to Question Period sounds quite nerdy, but then I remembered you studied political sciences in undergrad. 😆
Criminally funny, but also I'm crying inside
Norway comes for the #TechBros
www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree
vimeo.com/1168468796?f...
Me too (though I won't be presenting about coffee 😆)!
It's been a while since I was there, but things used to be fairly quiet after office hours downtown, because civil servants didn't stick around after work.
"Within a trove of millions of pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, a notorious sex offender whose wealth and connections proved alluring to academics in search of money, women in higher ed are seeing evidence that supports a story they know all too well." www.chronicle.com/article/unma...
The creator of the AI agent “Einstein” wants to free humans from the burden of academic labor. Critics say that misses the point of education entirely.
lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider :
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*
Whoa-ohh, we're halfway there:
"This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby"
www.404media.co/this-app-war...
bsky.app/profile/wolv...
The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?
what even is the fucking point
several books stacked so their titles are visible: A Day at the Beach The Bathers Shark 1 Shark 2 Shark 3 Sudden Violence Silence
Does anyone else remember Nina Katchadourian's found poetry project where she photographed books to make poems.
My cohortmate came up through the PhD Project (a nonprofit that helps support underrepresented populations in business academia get doctorates). In my areas of research, I know lots of folks who came up through in the PhD Project.
It's an absolute travesty these THIRTYONE universities capitulated.
