KT L☀️ Anderson

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

Again: Not hyperbole, misinterpretation, or a joke that Christian Dominionism is a strain of apocalyptic accelerationism which VERY LITERALLY SEEKS to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world, & the people who believe this have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power

False information about teacher salaries and workloads has to be among the most successful disinformation campaigns in US history

If you, as a social scientist, believe that AI is now a better social scientist than you, then (a) you’re probably right, and (b) sure sounds like a skill issue, y’know?

Exactly. First you let Platner in the door, then you get Neera Tanden retweeting Nick Fuentes, and then your big tent is a fucking Nazi hangout.

No fucking Nazi shit. Period.

“If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai.”

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A deeply underreported story. I know so many people struggling to pay their electric bills

Absolutely nuts. I fired up Google Gemini and asked it a bunch of questions about my own field — areas I know really well, that I write and publish in.

Literally the first paper that it told me about had a hallucinated author name

US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the ​issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning ‌away a case involving a computer scienti...

Something good: your AI slop is not a human creation, copyright requires a human, therefore you can't copyright it.

Get fucked.

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The issue here shouldn't be blaming the destitute 17 year old who joins the military seeking a better life and financial stability. It should be blaming the bastards who created the system where the only viable option for that 17 year old is joining the military.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art The highest court in the US declined to review a case about copyrighting artwork created with the help of AI.

And BOOM goes the dynamite. To all the AI Bros who have slid into my mentions to tell me that you CAN in fact copyright AI materials, the Supreme Court has told you to go suck rocks. A prompt is not authorship. And if there is no author, there is no valid copyright.

www.engadget.com/ai/the-supre...

RIP to hundreds of Iranians and one American vacation

Yesterday, The Sheriffs, MPD and law enforcement brutally put down a peaceful anti-ICE protest outside of the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis.

There has been little to no coverage of what is happening in Minneapolis since Trump's supposed stand down, which is why we need to spread the word.

in retrospect most of the country is a vampire squid relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money

its probably fine that gambling on news and tragedies is becoming ingrained into daily life

The official White House stance on Iran appears to be "we're doing regime change and also not doing regime change so we don't have to do regime change, while destroying their nuclear program which we already destroyed, so they can never use a nuke, which they were about to do, and also could not."

"We recognize the pitfalls of AI but we are going to use it anyway" is not exactly a critical approach to education...

Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

pretty confident that if our own government bombed, say, Philadelphia, we'd just kind forget about it after a couple more Rocky movies

It's genuinely insane that many of the newspaper columnists who cheered us into the war in Iraq are still employed at big legacy outlets cheering us into a new war with Iran.

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

Why Higher Education’s AI Backlash Reveals Some of Its Deepest Cracks In some ways, AI isn’t the real threat. It’s just the mirror.

Highly recommend @kylesaunders.bsky.social on why AI is so unsettling to higher ed - one of the best pieces I have read on this issue:

"[U]niversities don’t merely teach. Universities certify, sort, and signal. And AI interferes with all three at once."

kylesaunders.substack.com/p/why-higher...

Hooo boy. There we go. It was about domestic surveillance after all.

We are training undergrads (18-22) to digitize vcr tapes, cassettes, and vinyl. We introduce phrases like "rewind" into their vocab and made diagrams of what a tape looks like from 6 angles. And we get questions like "how do I rewind a record" which is understandable but turns my bones to dust.

This is truly offensive

They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.

We are really going to regret the technology we have built.

This is a devastating story. I don’t understand why there are still people who think this has potential for “partnership” in schools. It’s like saying cocaine should be adopted for optimizing learning, or leeches are partners for medical practice.