Nick Taylor

At this point the AI grifters must be thanking their lucky stars that the education sector remains a dependable cash cow. Administrators buying into AI EdTech don't care about the errors because they will be dispersed among the frontline educators.

It’ll either desensitize further, or resensitize?! Fun tho!

Have you played Stray?

you will never actually "understand how oligarchs think" until you recognize that they very sincerely believe 99% of humans are NPCs and can't comprehend why the NPCs keep resisting the player character's commands, they do not have thoughts more complex than "I pushed button and nothing happen"

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🚨Japanese convenience stores are endlessly fascinating. They are also precursors to platforms in Asia as I show in this newly published article.

I've been researching this lineage for years and am thrilled to share -out in Social Media + Society now! 🚨

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?

Great piece on all the gender-affirming care required in MAGA

Twin Gargoyles, from Elden Ring. My first Souls game and the moment when the combat system clicked for me.

"for Elon Musk, the immediate utopia is the Mars colony, a project whose technological dependencies and challenges of extreme environments appear to mandate a highly selective society; tight, hierarchical organization; and total social and environmental surveillance as a foundation." 1/n

You could do an Animalia BtB on Canada Geese. Peak avian bastardry. I *almost* pity the eagle.

Instead of using ChatGPT, why not just get a family member to lie to you while they set fire to a tree?

If you like exercises in Doublespeak, you'd love the York University admin's statement about how their program suspensions will foster academic innovation as well as Truth and Reconciliation […]

Reminder that this is happening today at 15:00 EST!

Hah! Wicked. Glad it still works.

Please may I join

Hoo boy let’s see how quickly Dougie cozies up to Trump again now that he doesn’t have to worry about the pesky electorate for another 4 years.

Hell yeah! And my 10 yo kid is playing on devices that are 3x his age.

Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rights holders.

So curious if this i) shapes any of the other myriad copyright + AI cases in play, ii) sends a (much-needed) chill through the AI hype machine and iii) will mean anything given the scorn the tech industry has for anything so quaint as ‘the law’

www.wired.com/story/thomso...

That’s what we did!

Today in intro to media studies: a little demo in circumventing google’s horrid AI Overview. Thanks to @arstechnica.com for the tip.

This means a whole heck of a lot, Alex. Thanks! There’s so much of Raleigh & of that grad program in the book. If any students want to reach out to chat about the book, I’m ntt at yorku dot ca.