Marguerite Mayhall

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.

As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.

Here's what happened:

AI doesn't actually take jobs; it is just used as an excuse to avoid backfilling them.

In addition to demolishing organizational knowledge, this also kills off opportunities for junior ICs *and* junior managers to get experience. Instead, all roles are reduced to mindless efficiency hunting.

ai is a rhetorical technology.

when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission

An Ohio newspaper has a new star writer. It isn’t human. At the 184-year-old Cleveland Plain Dealer, a top editor’s push to let AI draft news articles is boosting traffic — and spooking staffers.

The Plain Dealer has a new byline: “On recent articles about an ice carving festival, a medical research discovery and a roaming pack of chicken-slaying dogs, a reporter’s name is paired with the words ‘Advance Local Express Desk.’ It means: This article was drafted by artificial intelligence.”

Derfor vil jeg be dere pent og innstendig om å vurdere å fjerne bildet, og erstatte det med et som ikke viser de avrevne kroppsdelene til et ikke navngitt barn. Jeg føler meg sikker på at også barnets familie ville sette pris på det.

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

I know things are different now and much has changed already. But still trying to comprehend BILL KRISTOL of all people saying Congress should say no to war in Iran.

maybe putting conservative media personalities in charge of everything wasnt the best idea

A Turd in the Punchbowl: Initial Thoughts On Christoph Shuringa’s A Social History of Analytic Philosophy Or: An epigone Crashes the Party - 3:16 When I was first hired as a junior professor of philosophy in 1987, I joined a department (at Stony Brook University) that had three “wings” – one in continental philosophy, one in systematic philosop...

To distract myself from the increasingly disturbing reality, I’ll read this *long* (long!) essay by Peter Ludlow defending analytic philosophy against the charges of running cover for neoliberalism: www.3-16am.co.uk/articles/a-t...

Texas’ Newest Bounty-Hunter Abortion Law Reaches Across State Lines Dr. Remy Coeytaux of California became the first person to be sued in federal court under Texas' newly enacted House Bill 7 on abortion pills.

“Texas’ Newest Bounty-Hunter Abortion Law Reaches Across State Lines” … 2/26/26 msmagazine.com/2026/02/25/t...

NOW: We're rallying in New York City for an emergency mobilization in opposition to the US-Israel attacks on Iran which have already killed more than 200 people in Iran.

Cornyn on Trump's strikes on Iran: "I don't know what the-- what's, uh -- I'm learning like you are as the news unfolds exactly what's happening"

Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest.

In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you.

Bills that would classify abortion as homicide fizzle, while pill crackdowns advance Some Republican lawmakers have routinely proposed criminally prosecuting women for getting abortions since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, despite bipartisan condemnation and criticism ...

“[Republican] Bills that would classify abortion as homicide fizzle,” but Republican “[abortion] pill crackdowns advance” 2/27/26

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

The Government Just Made it Harder to See What Spy Tech it Buys On Wednesday, the government stopped supporting FPDS.gov, an indispensable resource for finding what ICE, the FBI, and every other agency is buying. Its replacement site completely sucks.

The U.S. government on Wednesday shut down a vital resource for keeping tabs on what powerful spying tools its agencies are buying, making it harder to reliably find out how agencies including ICE are spending taxpayers’ dollars. www.404media.co/the-governm...

Mississippi’s Black Voters Brace for SCOTUS to Gut Their Political Clout Black Mississippians won a key ruling last year in a case that challenges how the state elects supreme court justices. But the U.S. Supreme Court may soon weaken the Voting Rights Act and erase their victory.

The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to issue a ruling that could weaken or even eliminate a key part of the Voting Rights Act that’s critical to challenging racial discrimination in election maps. Here’s how this could upend Mississippi:

This was so obviously a big part of the grift for the “prediction markets.”

Congress better wake up before nobody notices it's gone.

Blanquitos Fiction by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez.

Helluva day to remind you it's the last day for Nebula nominations. If you're still choosing, please consider my short, "Blanquitos" in the short story category

Sam J. Miller: "...when weighed against U.S. imperialism, are eldritch abominations really so scary?"

www.typebarmagazine.com/blanquitos/

Number of students killed in Israeli attack on school in southern Iran rises to 24 We have reported earlier that an Israeli strike hit an elementary girl’s school in Minab, a city in the Hormozgan province of southern Iran, killing five people. Now, Iran’s Fars news agency is reporting that the number of students killed rose to 24.

No words.

Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

I'm furious at every single person who put this man back in office.

May everyone involved burn in hell

Do we still have a Congress or no?

fell for it again award

Reminder that now, when you use ChatGPT, you’ll be directly contributing to the deaths of anyone the US military kills not just those being poisoned by their data centers

Sam Altman tweet: Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

My goodness.

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.