@bringyourownsun.bsky.social
Excessive educator at Queen Mary University of London | Historiography of Art: women art historians, art history in/and translation | Fluent in Franglais | co-chair QMUCU Free Palestine 🍉
In honor of Habermas, a meme I made
They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.
For those of you wondering why all the nerds are pouring one out for this Habermas dude and wondering why he was so important. If you've ever heard or used the terms "public sphere" and "private sphere," you are using Habermas terms.
"First of all, I must thank the comb. And the brush! And my God, the bowl full of mush! My warriors. My champions. This award will be next to you on the bedside table VERY soon."
Rest in power Breonna Taylor. Today, we mourn six years without her, and six years without justice or accountability.
Today marks what would have been the 85th birthday of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, whose words continue to resonate across generations and borders.
Every day people get on here and try to make themselves feel okay about tacitly supporting a genocide and they’ll never actually know peace until they admit they were wrong.
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Disclosure of personal data is a serious breach of privacy law, right?
"High-level information about the private work of students and staff using ChatGPT Edu at several universities can be viewed by thousands of colleagues across their institutions ..."
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Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir
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Do you find it difficult to understand why LLMs — like ChatGPT and the like — are a form of ‘automated plagiarism’?
Take 3 min and listen to this excellent explanation by @gwenvarley.bsky.social
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In their lawsuit against NEH, ACLS, AHA, MLA, etc., include as an exhibit the AI-produced DOGE spreadsheet that determined if a project was too DEI for Trump. Here is the spreadsheet www.historians.org/wp-content/u...
These are the 4 things AI can do well:
•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday
You can see why we need to base our economy around it
NEW: A group of Hollywood execs are running a smear campaign against "The Voice of Hind Rajab" to stop it from winning an Oscar.
The group has ties to the Israeli government & received support from foundations of Russian oligarch Len Blavatnik & Casey Wasserman (both featured in the Epstein Files).
Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."
Reading someone else's text is sometimes hard. But reading LLM-text is actively adversarial. It is imposing cognitive work on me. I have to impute meaning where it either never existed, or where it has been obscured by numerous layers of matrix multiplication.
The very idea of the "target" has been rendered meaningless in the post-Gaza world. Targets are no longer encountered or searched, they are manufactured, industrially, digitally, with AI, as a means to hide the carpet bombing of civilians in war.
Mostly because it is not an attempt to automate teaching, but an attempt to automate surveillance and policing of students and to groom them early for a lifetime of surveillance and policing.
I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.
You know, there's the joke ("joke") that universities are real estate ventures with a side hustle in education. Turns out that the reality of that claim is even more horrifying because of whom they're selling their real estate to. /6
The Price Lab’s Critical Approaches to AI Working Group has released a white paper in which we advocate for AI-free instruction in reading, writing, & research. These are fundamental skills in the humanities (& in general), & with decisive action we can keep teaching them well in the age of AI!
I just can't get over what a bullshit thievery based scam all this is and there are still actual academics doing tra la la think pieces about how we need to embrace it or be left behind, I mean, look at the state of it. Look at it. It is bad, wrong, offensive, stupid and scuzzy.
What if there was a mindful way to steal people’s art, pollute Black neighborhoods, and raise everyone’s electric bill?
“We cannot say that the United States’ actions are against international law, but we condemn Iran’s retaliatory actions as against international law,” is neither a coherent nor a compelling position.
Too many “middle ground” AI arguments—“I have concerns, too, but we have to adapt”—proceed from what is to me a peculiar embrace of “inevitability” which seems to be magical thinking, a way of depoliticizing the political, of self-soothing in the face of an overwhelming challenge.
‘art-history scepticism is at odds with our age. The act of looking has become commodified as technology companies ‘mine and sell our attention like coal’’
if they were courageous they would quit. there's nothing brave about killing kids at the whim of an irrational old pedophile
