Felicia Steele

All of these questions are equally applicable to academia? In addition, we can ask "what foundational skills in traditional text-based literacy do you presume students have that are required for successful use of AI tools?" If they don't have them, why are you setting them up for failure?

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

every big AI pitch is like “what if we took away your means of survival and devalued all your skills to make stonks go up temporarily? You’d like that wouldn’t you?”

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

Finally got to see Sinners (squeamish kid who hated horror movies in the house) and it really is one of the best movies in the last 20 years. Worth the wait.

It makes me think of demons...

Where's the car! I'm on my way, sweetie!

I'm so happy for you! I wish you continued opportunities for joy throughout the process!

Check the list and check with your publishers about whether you or they should file the claim.

I think this sums up how I am feeling today.

Every one of these characters is immediately recognizable.

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

This Wired essay is a chilling account of how Thiel has taken on the worldview of the first major apologist of German Fascism www.wired.com/story/the-re...

Note who was president the last time this crap happened.

Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 - Fascism! : Army Orientation Branch: Information and Education Division : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive March 24, 1945. Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 Fascism! A sheet printed and distributed by the United States War Department as an educational tool for...

Here's a link to the entire document. Like all primary sources, it is a product of its moment and does not voice timeless or universal truths. It is, however, interesting how insightful this particular analysis of American fascism, ca. 1945, looks in hindsight. archive.org/details/Army...

I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

Let's focus on "actual intelligence." It uses no electricity at all (except, perhaps, to make a cup of tea).

Wow.

Australian man encouraged to murder his father by AI chatbot Experts are calling for new regulations on artificial intelligence chatbots, after a triple j hack investigation uncovered a disturbing example of a chatbot encouraging a man to murder his father whil...

As most of my followers know, I'm not a fan of so-called AI. After 40 years in IT, I know what can go wrong.

Here's a very good example of why not.

'We should kill him': AI chatbot encourages Australian man to murder his father

2015 chart depicting the distribution of blood levels by birth year, showing Gen X to be particularly impacted.

I spend far too much time thinking about this chart and what is happening in US politics.

Probably a good time to revisit Manufacturing Consent.

when the germans are like “yo rein this shit in” maybe someone should listen

Best tomatoes and eggplant in the country.

My youngest kid spent some time at a pre-law program this summer and one of the other kids (during their mock trial day) was hideous, demeaning, and able it to another kid in the group. This kid was taught that such behavior was "good debating." I think that says a lot about how we perceive skill.

I guess this is a special subset of last words

A little solace for the Anti AI crowd. The greatest weakness of AI is its inability to say “I don’t know”.

Our ability to admit what we don’t know , will always govern humans an advantage.

I know a lot of people who have books in this database--it is important to register with the lawsuit.

I'd really recommend doing this, especially if you have the opportunity to visit a 19 Century graveyard. Not only will you be shocked at how many babies and young children are there, but there will also be a sad and surprising number of women of childbearing age.

What would be the best strategy for containment? Vaccination.