Prof Maja Korica

I am utterly baffled by fellow educators - a fundamentally public service for a public good - failing to see education as exactly that. He is not in private equity, for god's sake.

Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”

www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

But are you not working and also feeling trapped by existentialist dread of wasted productivity so that you neither work nor rest ad nauseum? If not, can you even call yourself an academic?

Just sent the draft Introduction of my book on Elites, Business and Society to my editor. It's a small start, but if feels huge to me!

It’s very hard to pick a single passage to give you a sense of just how fucked up this is.

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com

To strike 1,000 targets in 24 hours in Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced AI it’s ever used in warfare.

Anthropic’s Claude partnered with the military’s Maven Smart System, suggesting targets and issuing precise location coordinates. https://wapo.st/46BFe1T

FYI bsky.app/profile/wash...

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

Fuqua should focus on preparing students, not surveilling them Transcripts are fed to an in-house AI system that "objectively" grades participation by assessing comment relevance and whether statements spur conversation. While framed as innovation, this transform...

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but (wait for it) Panopto already exists: dukechronicle.com/article/fuqu...

Horrifying. Jesus Lord in heaven.

The rich “really value the ability to move and work wherever they want, when they want, and when something like the Iran war disrupts it, they don’t like it”.

I study & write about elite escape for a living, but this quote tells it better than I ever will. The mindset at display here is astounding.

SpaceX: the final frontier of IPOs Can Elon Musk’s moonshot deliver the mooted $1.75tn valuation?

SpaceX probably has revenues of less than $20bn and loses money after the merger with xAI, but is targeting a $1.75 TRILLION IPO.

So Alphaville got two experts to go through how Musk will probably try to pull off what could be the biggest bagholder operation in history. www.ft.com/content/5bf1...

Colleagues the link does not work, i.e. it says the DOI doesn't exist 😶‍🌫️

PS Also, to stress, I was very clear when I spoke to the journo that I originally saw this story via @hpsvanessa.bsky.social and @ceaubin.com, and indeed reposted @hpsvanessa.bsky.social's LinkedIn post about it, which was the reaction she originally saw. She chose not to include this in the piece.

When You’re an ‘Expert’ Reviewing Students’ Work on Grammarly — But You Didn’t Know It The platform offers users AI-generated feedback under the names of scholars by drawing on their accessible publications. Some academics are unsettled.

I stand by what I said in this article: "Look, nobody enters academia to get rich, but I think business models that are built on basically extracting other people’s work without attribution or consent are fundamentally predatory".

cc @janerosenzweig.bsky.social @hpsvanessa.bsky.social @ceaubin.com

Sve potpisujem.

I think it is entirely a black box of what the LLM thinks!

I think it's clearly the latter. It's the personification, including of dead people, and the use of their name seemingly without permission that grates.

Oh 100% with you. Sorry, to be bio sarkazam kojeg ocito nisam dobro izrazila. Zgrozio me tekst.

They dared to include Timnit as one of the experts!? I mean, seriously. This is just maddening.

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. Set in space but basically the best of humanity. The whole series is a marvel.

Amen.

Academics Need to Wake Up on AI Ten theses for folks who haven't noticed the ground shifting under their feet

Have you seen this gem? Sjedi pet, no notes. alexanderkustov.substack.com/p/academics-...

Polish doctors jailed for denying woman abortion A Polish court on Tuesday sentenced three doctors to prison sentences over the 2021 death of a pregnant woman, which sparked nationwide protests and renewed scrutiny of the country's restrictive abort...

Justice for Izabela! A Polish court has sentenced three doctors to prison over the 2021 death of Izabela from sepsis during a 22-week miscarriage, after doctors refused to help. "This was a case involving extraordinary negligence, a pure disregard for the most basic and fundamental medical duties."

New from Picketty's lab: The world can raise incomes toward global equity & stabilize the climate under "under very strict conditions"

—reduction of work hours
—consumption shift toward immaterial sectors
—major change in food habits
—a fast energy transition requiring massive low-carbon investment

Most Reform members believe non-white UK citizens born abroad should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds Nigel Farage’s attempts to appeal to centre-ground voters may cause tension in his party, according to Hope Not Hate

More than half of Reform UK members believe non-white British citizens born abroad should be deported or encouraged to leave.

No different to the old BNP or National Front voters.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

China’s high-rise hog farms go international Livestock producers tout benefits of rearing pigs in multistorey buildings

In China, there are 26-storey towers - filled with hundreds of thousands of pigs. Now other countries are adopting the same type of "farming" 🤮 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

It's lights out for WA Legislature's effort to regulate data centers • Washington State Standard Big technology companies scored a win in Olympia on Monday, as a sweeping bill to regulate data centers lapsed in the Washington state Legislature. House Bill 2515 would have required data centers to ...

Big technology companies scored a win in Olympia on Monday, as a sweeping bill to regulate data centers lapsed in the Washington state Legislature. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/03/02/i...

not the most important thing going on rn by a wide margin and not something that is new information to me but nonetheless my mind keeps drifting back to the absolutely confounding idea of going on vacation to dubai