I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon.
Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org
You are warmly invited to attend a public talk by Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths, University of London), jointly sponsored by the Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies and the FIMS Rogers Chair (as part of the Rogers Chair "New Fascism” theme from 2025-2027). Poster attached. Please share widely!! AI is a Morbid Symptom of the Interregnum Friday 20 March 2026 1:00pm – 2:30pm Online Lecture (Zoom) Please register here: https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ELGySAqNR6yYYgNaW3hLHQ#/registration
The @starlingcentre.bsky.social @westernufims.bsky.social is delighted to co-sponsor an online lecture by @danmcquillan.bsky.social next Friday, March 20 at 1pm ET. Registration is free, and you can tune in from anywhere on Al Gore's Internet! Register here: westernuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
It’s almost like they lack PhD level understanding of what social science is
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
Who could possibly have predicted that a company whose slogan is "cheat on everything" would cheat?
techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/c...
The state of the world really has me working on a conference proposal where I argue that we should ask whether the Housewives and not AI is the technology of our era.
How is this real??? Like it’s but also it’s nuts.
There is a Dr. Teals with Melatonin
I loved it! It came out around the same time and as a part of the same series as the Alanis one. It’s all about what we count as art as told through Kenny G’s music and cultural relevance.
Have you seen the one on Kenny G???
Hoping you all have a time for rest and recovery soon.
Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
Someone used image generators to make (and monetize) a fake OnlyFans account of this feminist content creator, and they’ll likely never see any consequences.
“Many of the people messaging her about the fake OnlyFans account were men trying to get access to it”
www.404media.co/grok-nudify-...
“Safety experts and tech critics have long condemned the Ring devices for security risks and privacy violations, not to mention their role in building the largest civilian surveillance network in US history.”
Yes and yes!!!
Black Doves
Grades are in which I think means I’m officially on sabbatical!!!
Is it just me or is grading final projects before sabbatical the worst???
Currently the only algorithms I’m cool with right now is the YouTube one that new my first time opening the app in months was to watch the Skarsgård on Skarsgård Variety actors on actors.
“In a time of purported crisis, the AI chatbots needlessly introduced friction at a moment experts say it is most dangerous to do so.”
NEVER CHANGE, ETHAN HAWKE
I thought the trailer was terrible but the show I ended up really enjoying the simulacrum of old VPR stories with new people.
I love Quentin Tarantino's movies, they're a vital part of my career and my life, and every time he does a podcast or gives in an interview it's a sharp reminder of the genuine intellectual danger of spending 30 years of your life with everyone around you treating you like a genius at all times
I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):
I co-edited an OA book on everyday misinformation and how we can use a governance framework to understand it better. The case studies are really fun and look at a wide variety of online and a few offline spaces. doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
Going to start asking men who claim that “ai is the defining technology of our age” how do we know it’s not the Real Housewives.
I LOVED Death by Lightning and it made me want more shows about long dead presidents and political figures I have never thought about.
