@raewalker.bsky.social
Tired trans nurse who studies A.I. & power AAAS Invention Ambassador They/them, probably a 🐉 #NurseSky #STS #cat enthusiast Views always my own as a private citizen & not my employer’s (wild that I have to state this)
I love breakfast. 💜
Submitting A.I. slop to journals is a form of A.I. laundering.
And intellectual theft!
Stealing the time & expertise of actual experts who are forced to review the slop, in exchange for their editorial suggestions & free labor.
Manufacturing credibility for machine-assisted plagiarism.
IT SUCKS!
I think there’s a range of contexts that could require various approaches- but might be worth some brief outreach before exhausting yourself on a review!
I just don’t want to enable these folks any further - it’s a form of intellectual theft & time theft (from me) & I hate it.
i need the “llms are might be conscious” folx to read this
The last one I received like this had SO many critical flaws i just briefly summarized those & rejected it.
Then I saw that other reviewers had given the “authors” dozens of hyper-specific recommendations, sources, etc. & I was horrified.
So if it’s bad & you suspect, I’d message the editor.
I exhort my fellow peer reviewers:
If you receive genAI slop - DO NOT do their work for them!
A growing group of manuscript submitters just send their slop to journals, WAIT for actual experts to point out every flaw & provide every missing citation & then resubmit.
Don’t fall for their scam!!!
I teach this lesson *constantly*
“we conceptualise venture capital as effectively a form of ‘male-lens investing’, illustrating the limitations of the male-dominated and profit-driven VC investment model”
This paper is giving me LIFE.
I hate this man (& the surveillance empire he has championed) with the fire 🔥 of a thousand suns ☀️
I wager that the first ones to open a university where genAI is banned, surveillance culture thwarted, war profiteers shunned, & the humanities and fine arts are celebrated and valued *beyond* their capacity to teach “soft skills” or provide value to STEM fields, will be *overrun with applications*
Woke up to echoes of Mary Oliver
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
I cannot wait to see this
After revelations that companies like Ring have been selling home security footage to ICE, the most common defense of keeping a camera up seems to be, “But what if I’m stalked?”
And as a violence researcher, I’m just here to state for the record that police do not care about your security footage.
"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"
Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...
The jailbreak was done on the company’s public bot, not the one inside the state system, but researchers “were able to make the bot spread vaccine conspiracy theories, triple a patient's prescribed pain medication dosage, and recommend methamphetamine as treatment.”
The group Elevated Access can fly you for free to a provider that is further away. Help is out there, you’re not alone. There is still time.
www.elevatedaccess.org
The gall of old men with gold toilets telling young soldiers that probably many more will die in the needless war they started to distract the world from their crimes & pedophilia
My country’s government refuses to house, feed, or respect the human rights of its residents.
Health care & living wages are always a bridge too far.
But with a word, our commander-in-chief can start illegal wars overnight.
As such men have for decades-
Rule by terror, bloodshed & imperialism.
“We don’t have a government that’s properly staffed,” she said. “All of these things [federal workers do] are really part of making life a little fairer, a little safer for the public. We’ve lost that.”
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/26/n...
To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.
CW: transphobia.
See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤
This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did.
But it's not just similar. It's *identical*.
In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938.
Paragraph 175 and 183.
Has #HATM done Wargames?
Feels apt, given <gestures widely> 🙃
I cannot like this enough
AM I SUPPOSED TO BE SUPRISED? IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE WITH HALF A FUNCTIONING BRAINCELL AND A PULSE THAT'S SUPRISED??
fortune.com/2026/02/24/d...
A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.
“We, the people, have a right to be protected” from harm by #AI, @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social prof. Stuart Russell tells attendees of #IASEAI26 conference in Paris.
#AIEthics #safety
www.iaseai.org/iaseai26
