“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.”
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.
I simply cannot get over Kash Patel sending in UFC fighters to train the FBI. What's next, the local high school mean girls teaching homeland security interrogation techniques? Angry geese hosting a seminar for the Air Force? actually never mind, that would be dope, you can have that one kash
Eleven years! Can't believe it.
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I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money
holy shit
Happy Monday! This is your friendly reminder that Leary Resource Development Grant applications are due this coming Sunday, March 15! Leary Grants offer up to $27,500 USD to support new tools, repositories, datasets, + other projects that deepen our engagement with the #19thC press.
Also, it's almost that time of year ... For my stance on daylight savings time:
We don't need it anymore. Like many 19thC ideas, it no longer applies and there's no good reason to keep doing it.
Yeah sorry, "Toronto" but this ... Is one of the weirdest ideas I've heard recently, and it's been a whoooole lotta stupid out there
A densely packed design filled with floral delight. Influenced by the composition of medieval woodcuts, William Morris designed Bower in 1877 as a vibrant tribute to the forest walks and flowers he so adored. Bower returns to the Morris & Co. collection for the first time after many years, echoing the beautiful garden lovingly maintained by Dorothy Walker.
The danger that the present course of civilisation will destroy the beauty of life--these are hard words, and I wish I could mend them, but I cannot, while I speak what I believe to be the truth.
-William Morris, Hopes and Fears for Art
academic publishing is a scam
Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio's "Reuniting with Strangers". Beautiful, distressing, sometimes hopeful interlocking stories of family bonds across the Filipinx diaspora.
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/
In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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Today's challenge: stop rewriting the cover letter* for the first perfectly suited job posting I've seen in 2 years.
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*Because I also need a statement of teaching philosophy and inclusionary practice
Writing is thinking.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
@marthawells.com
When Murderbot is the anxiety role model
The concept of a woman not wanting to have a baby for reasons unrelated to the state of the world or finances or support systems or rent prices is so unthinkable to so many people in power that they just...don't consider it. It must be *something* they can fix.
Articles like this drive me fucking nuts, because how can you post a stat like "50% of Canadian women say they don't want kids" and state that they would if Canada became a place that "reveres motherhood," but never once consider they just...don't want to?
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
The Soviet-Chinese propaganda posters seem to be the story of a beautiful interracial gay couple who met in a metallurgical and got married and had beautiful children and a farm
Happy Cold War Valentine's Day!
Hey Canadian media ... "born as a biological male" is not the move when you're reporting on what happened in Tumbler Ridge.
Here's is the @transjournalists.org Style Guide if you are covering this story today
styleguide.transjournalists.org
In all the fakeness being forced on us, the high levels of effort (human intention + direction if not actual creation) put into fakery is the most disheartening aspect.
+ it means established companies will continue to profit despite themselves, while legit new initiatives will fail in the mire.
I think there’s a difference worth pointing out between a person you know changing their mind (welcome) & a pundit feeling the wind shift on their spit-slicked finger as they declare it’s now correct to call something fascist (fuck off into the sun).
One of them will never fight alongside you.
People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.
Screenshot of DJT's social media post disinviting Mark Carney from his imaginary friends party, in one of the most pettily juvenile responses the world will ever see from an alleged "political leader"
Surely the best possible response @mark-carney.bsky.social could make is:
New world order
Who dis?
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though
Not virtue posting, just reminding myself I'm not in the minority when I next feel like cranky old lady ranting about these gdamn "tools"
USE YOUR BRAIN
HONE YOUR OWN RESEARCH + WRITING SKILLS
for the love of sanity, just stop with the generative AI
Hey, remember that period of time when the most distressing thing in the news was finding out that random objects were secretly cakes? Was it a dog? Nope. Cake. Was it a glass of wine? Nope, cake again. Anyways, that is the level of stress that I would be comfortable returning to. Thank you.
