Justin Raden

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

la la la la la la la la

🙉🙈🙊

As opposition party, there was no end to GOP complaints about speech policing, trigger warnings, and de-platforming. Now, they will literally beat and gas you for speech they dislike.

Fuck ICE

Uh oh they’ve automated provosts

“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”

@marketwatch.com
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look if you dont want hoards of students chasing nazis across campus for disrupting their class you can always make class sizes smaller

Academic Workers Will Defend Free Inquiry Who will defend the humanities? This summer, we witnessed a dramatic challenge for the humanities and arts at the University of Chicago. This challenge demanded faculty intervention. Since taking powe...

Representatives of three unions on campus—GSU, AAUP, FACULTY FORWARD—wrote about the proposed cuts at UChicago. I'm happy to see these finally in print, and proud to fight alongside so many who care deeply about the future of higher ed

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This means, of course, that WE are bailing out farmers by paying higher prices for goods while our tax money is ALSO subsidizing the Argentine economy, which has replaced us as a supplier of soy beans to China.

This, I guess, is what “winning” looks like.

Ah! The “opportunity cost school” of literacy!

I wonder how the proposed restrictions on imported lumber will impact new housing starts? 🤔

People keep saying this doesn’t mean anything. This is incorrect. What it means is that W&M will manage this “minor” and other “cross-disciplinary collaborations” outside of academic departments as a mechanism for further eroding shared governance.

Which “failed state” is he talking about? The US, or…?

This is a guess, but if I had any money I would bet it all that that revenue is not being diverted to red states at all, but simply into a handful of already wealthy pockets. It should not be lost on us that this admin is “nonpartisan” in its effort to fuck us all over to enrich a few.

This is bad. But it is also bad that many will perceive this as a coup and not what it is: an acceleration in tendencies already immanent in most American universities.

counterpoint: *all* LLMs are revanchist by definition

From the minds that brought you: “home prices are up bc illegal immigration” and “there’s no jobs bc illegal immigration” and “crime is up (even tho it’s down) bc illegal immigration” and…

So much of this administration’s actions are orchestrated around spectacle, and yet they can only manage to pull it off at the scale of the meme. They can’t pull it off at scale.

Huge loser shit from these clowns, prattling on about PT and submarines.

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI's Power Usage The carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into videos is far worse than we thought.

“researchers from the open-source AI platform Hugging Face found that the energy demands of text-to-video generators quadruple when the length of a generated video doubles — indicating that the power required for increasingly sophisticated generations doesn’t scale linearly.”

I try to find a way to sneak this into every course bc it kills 100% of the time!!

Saw this. Heartened to see push back from STEM.

Walks straight into the sea, muttering “but what if AI *is* absolute spirit?”

*AHEM*

(I know I’m posting into the void here, but still enjoying myself)

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

*Ahem*

I am actually going to die from repeated exposure to the abject stupidity of American political discourse. And I can’t even have Tylenol!

The entire AI industry is just GPU purchases and data center construction. That’s it. No productivity multipliers. No AGI. No singularity.

General strike in Italy for Palestine, here’s the amazing view from the top of Termini station in Rome. The people – not the government – stand for solidarity and justice
(da Matteo Pucciarelli)

The Robotic Imaginary Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor The word robot—introduced in Karel Čapek’s 19...

Sorry, should have linked!