Jérôme Melançon

Crucial memory will soon be a memory itself as Micron abandons consumers in favor of AI data centers The RAM crisis is just getting started.

This is like if Tyson stopped selling consumer chicken. RAM is about to cost as much as a brand new pc. The cost of everything from tablets, to phones, to laptops will skyrocket. All because AI data centers are consuming all the available RAM they can get.

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I love it when people talk to me as if I neither am disabled nor actually study this in my own work. But let me pitch someone else's work here, Doron Dorfman's "Fear of the Disability Con."
Sharing it for everyone feeding the fear of the disability con right now:

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Jérôme Melançon : je me réclame du vertige, by Geneviève Dufour je me réclame du vertige , Geneviève Dufour Hashtag, 2023       In her debut collection, je me réclame du vertige (“I am of vertigo”), ...

newly posted: Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social : je me réclame du vertige, by Geneviève Dufour
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For anybody with a disability considering a PhD -

Trinity College Dublin is offering a new award/scholarship and it is very generous - the *dream* thing if you are ready to start your studies next year

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Arab Lit Quarterly is making all of their pdfs of works with Palestinian authors free for #ReadPalestine week. arablit.gumroad.com

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

the usual reminder that @periodicities.bsky.social is open to submissions of previously unpublished poetry-related reviews, interviews, essays and translations; yes, please!
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“Based on the available evidence, the skills that future graduates will most need in the AI era—creative thinking, the capacity to learn new things, flexible modes of analysis—are precisely those that are likely to be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.”

Selma Dabbagh | Rebranding Genocide The killing of Palestinians has continued, sometimes surpassing pre-ceasefire levels and accelerating viciously in the...

‘After two long years during which use of the word “ceasefire” was enough to put you at risk of losing your livelihood, “ceasefire” has become something we are expected to be grateful for, now that “ceasefire” means continued genocide.’

@selmadabbagh.bsky.social

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You were right about Sudan Archives (thanks, by the way!) so I'll have to trust you on this too

Thread on the impossibility of guardrails on LLMs: they would require cognition (which LLMs do NOT have) and they go against the function for whixh LLMs were designed.

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

AND this was on the for you feed (didn't realize I had switched), so clearly

Oh I escape into my fridge all the time, it's nice.

And this is how I find out?

Ça ne m'empêcherait pas de l'engloutir vite fait, mais on dirait deux serpents qui s'avalent l'un l'autre

What do these corporations have in common?

Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel

In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.

This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

This is marvelous. I can't stop staring at it. The incessant non-communication we find ourselves in.

AI is not a tool, and is barely a product. It's a speculation capture apparatus.

Dans la bande de Gaza, « le génocide se poursuit sans relâche » malgré la trêve, dénonce Amnesty International Dans un rapport publié jeudi, l’ONG met en garde contre « l’illusion d’un retour à la normale » depuis l’entrée en vigueur du cessez-le-feu, le 10 octobre, évoquant notamment les restrictions d’entrée...

Dans la bande de Gaza, «le génocide se poursuit sans relâche» malgré la trêve, dénonce Amnesty International www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’

Amnesty: Israel is still committing genocide in Gaza.

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Wow. Amazing lawyer brain.

Thoughts about “AI” Yes it’s: The slop The theft The brainrot The loss of work The crumbling of creator rights The destroying of the environment and infrastructure But it's also the destroying of trust in anything that you’re not seeing with your own eyes right in front of you. Wonder now turned to the narrowing of eyes in immediate scepticism seeing something magical. Questioning the realness of everything from a stilted written apology to profound works by students in school. It feels like a slow poison to creativity and humanity at large. [At the bottom is a doodle of me, mouth a thin line, looking at the viewer]

Morning thoughts about "AI".

Where do we go from here?

Changes in Suicidality among Transgender Adolescents Following Hormone Therapy: An Extended Study To examine changes in suicidality following hormone therapy (HT) among transgender and gender-diverse adolescents and young adults.A retrospective cha…

A very, very important peer-reviewed empirical study published in the academic journal Pediatrics shows that hormone treatment of young trans people decreases suicidality very significantly.

Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.

This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...

Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say

“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”

Tant qu'on ne reviendra pas à la base de la base sur les LLM à savoir: Outil fasciste appartenant à des fascistes qui les ont créé dans une optique fasciste, on ne va pas s'en sortir.
L'approche "c'est pas bon pour la cognition" abdique sur le terrain politique, sincèrement c'est catastrophique,

I ask this because I’ve seen multiple posts about friends just being overwhelmed trying to prepare for TDoR vigils and sermons and the pain that’s just around is heart wrenching to see.

Genuine question because I haven’t been plugged in today, has any legacy media done a TDoR story, and have they filtered it through the lens that trans Americans have much less rights or safety than they did one calendar year ago?

Thanks for sharing this. Good thing I'm not an urban planner!