Dr. Christine H. Tran

EDI is a prerequisite for that coveted "generalizability" fawned over by objectivity fetishists.

Anyways, search the quoted names in this article to know your allies and enemies.

[David Lynch looking awesome in sunglasses] i hope you all are having a lot of fun working on your favorite projects

Reviewing a manuscript & I can't wait to cite a term it concocts when the final version comes out in 2036!

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

TRANS-portation 😶‍🌫️

My latest is on Sora's AI and why we should care about stolen art

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This is what happens when society tells techbros they're very very very special people

AI is a lack of consent machine

this attitude about creativity is descended from out attitudes about creativity and chattel slavery

we look at certain people's / professions work as a "right" It's public property so they don't deserve respect or credit

most of academia and policy agrees

inside every academic is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer podcast idea that would induce 1-2 divorces

guy from the “anti-groomer” party after his weak apology for publicly telling a child they should be assaulted on the rear:

Does anyone have $56 billion and know somebody at EA Games? I have an idea.

we need a Frankfurt School for girls + enbies who dreamed of being on the Computer a lot

It's good to see that Zach Woods has only become more powerful and based with time.

white supremacists and capitalists got so mad at one 18 month stretch of increased labor power that they've agreed to reverse the most complex economy in human history to an agrarian state

Canada nation built (and built and built and built) until the 1970s, then began the great dismantling. I'd pin it to Mulroney era when rails were ripped out across country & Chretien/Harris pulling out of housing funding/backstopping. Canada Post stuff is just another dismantling moment.

"Canada Post is on track to lose money" Hum. Duh. It cost less than a toonie to send a letter across Canada.

"Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.

Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

“‘Landlord’? I prefer to think of myself as a Land Artist/Cultural Organizer whose primary medium is unfixed windows.”

Even the landlords want their cut from livestreaming. Good example of how streaming relies on a background of domestic labor and social reproduction that is ripe for extracting data and money

my gyre: Wide
my falcon: Unhearing
my blood-dimm'd tide: Loosed

ROUGHBEASTCON: 1

Just got an email from a scam academic journal asking if I wanted to "explore new advances in White Psychodrama" and it's just got me like: buddy, I can watch the news myself.

This right here.

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now.

Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation.

i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Outlook asked if I want to ✨AI Summarize✨ a 3 paragraph email & I'm shaking crying throwing up etc.

Fashion’s Data Doubles In their research on how AI is reshaping modeling work, Alexandra Mateescu, Zoë West, and Sanjay Pinto find a situation ripe for labor exploitation.

Sharing a snapshot of a project I’ve been working on w/collaborators Zoe West & Sanjay Pinto at Cornell ILR School, looking at genAI in the fashion modeling industry. AI-generated models have been turning up a lot - H&M, a Guess ad, Luigi(!) in Shein’s catalog… datasociety.net/points/fashi...

Reading in the first week of Critical AI and Curation class:

🗒️ Bender and Hanna (2025) “Chapter 2: It’s Alive! The Hype of Thinking Machines In The AI Con
🗒️ Kotliar (2024) “Can't stop the hype: scrutinizing AI’s realities” www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/...

secretary of state for the CRA just said "the vibes..." on CBC. Is that good?

biggest adjustment to Calgary from Toronto is drivers wait until you finish crossing the street all the way before moving forward??!? 😱

What an indictment of Ontario and Canada that we can't open this stupid transit line. Dismal prospects for getting through this extremely tough era we're entering. A stupid transit line, and we can't open it. People went to the moon, once.