Adrienne Goss

“People tell chatbots about their medical fears, their relationship problems, their beliefs about God and the afterlife. Advertising built on that archive creates a potential for manipulating users in ways we don’t have the tools to understand, let alone prevent”

My 11-year-old was like, "who is he? Is he famous?" 😭

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

Georgia companies poised to bring in $10 billion from ICE and Border Patrol contracts As public outrage mounts over federal immigration operations, new analysis shows a key Southern state is home to companies that could bring in more than $10 billion to assist Border Patrol and ICE.

Hey Georgia folks, is your employer on this list of firms with ICE/CBP contracts?

Happy Black History month to my beautiful blackity black Black people 🤎 I think I’ma do a thread of this month highlighting a Black person every day, like I do on IG.

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there.

I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

Happy Black History Month
#BlackAF #BlackSky #BlackHistory365

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That said, I do have a section of lo…

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Sound up. This is beautiful, bringing me to tears and also reminding me of the promise of a new song in Psalm 40, which many Christians heard read in church yesterday. Having lived in Minnesota, I know how cold it is there. Brrr. ❄️⚓

📷: Courtney Cushing Kiernat (who noted this isn't an insurrection)

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.

And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”

Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

We literally don’t need ICE for anything

Trump Administration Live Updates: Noem Says ‘Hundreds More’ Agents Will Be Sent to Minnesota Over ‘Corruption’

We have cleaned up the crime scene and blocked a local investigation and hidden the perpetrator and invaded the state and that is how you know that we are acting in good faith and that everything was the victim’s fault.
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recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

Interesting!

a man in a striped suit says i know what i 'm doing Alt: a man in a striped suit says i know what i'm doing

Whether or not to use first person is discipline-specific. It is absolutely appropriate for academic writing, and more than that, it is expected in qualitative work. Don't let anyone tell you differently!

Finally took a moment to read reviews of my submission to an upcoming conference. One reviewer said, "the use of first person throughout the paper is inappropriate for academic writing and should be revised." Really? #AcademicSky

The NYT has numbers on the cuts at the Dept of Education.
Almost 800 people have been cut at Federal Student Aid. That's a lot larger than I expected. And IES has been gutted.

Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.

Heat map of CDC data and PMC prevalence estimate

The U.S. is in the middle of a 12th wave of COVID. Career scientists at the CDC summarized this week in JAMA Internal Medicine that COVID continues to directly cause >100,000 deaths/year, with many excess deaths on top of that.

More at pmc19.com/data

What resources does Venezuela have — apart from the world's most oil? Venezuela has the largest oil reserves, the ninth-largest natural gas reserves, and vast untapped minerals such as gold.

Venezuela has the largest oil reserves, the ninth-largest natural gas reserves, and vast untapped minerals such as gold.

I am going to kindly share, as a Black person used to dodging these types of things, if you have your settings set to autoplay video, today is a great day to turn them off. You can be very informed without having to witness murder.

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As a child I went on a lot of road trips with my grandparents so this is, in part, a map of where all my people are.

My Open Letter To That Open Letter About AI In Writing And Publishing The tl;dr before you get into this post is this: the SFWA came out, said that some AI usage was okay enough in books for the authors of those books to not to be disqualified from winning a Nebula a…

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice.

Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

YouTube video by Juice & Toya 20 Minute Step To The Beat Workout [Low Impact & Motivating]

I try to start every Sunday with a quick workout. No matter what the rest of the week brings, at least I can say I started off strong! @marloreeves.com

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