Prof Maja Korica

I should know better than be surprised by this.

Still, wow. Just wow, wow, wow.

I am absolutely baffled by the logic too. 'They will somehow hate us/wish we were more feeble and subservient less if we just cowtow to them earlier?' As if.

It’s not a great deal if you don’t need it. And especially this year, others really need support. So for all of us who have enough, let’s refuse to get sucked into the holiday shopping frenzy and share instead of shop. We don’t need more stuff, we need communities where all our neighbors are safe.

this is just gutter racism

Family Suing OpenAI Over Teen's Suicide Blasts 'Disturbing' Response From Company OpenAI has responded to a landmark wrongful death lawsuit, claiming that a teen who died by suicide after talking to ChatGPT misused the software.

OpenAI has responded to a landmark wrongful death lawsuit, claiming that a teen who died by suicide after talking to ChatGPT misused the software. More:
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This is true. It is the best email I got this year.

I'm sorry, isn't the first amendment about free speech? What the hell kind of free speech is use of algorithms? I know companies have personhood rights after Citizen United, but how is that extended to algorithms? Can someone please explain?

Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Hang in there Matthew (if I may). It's dire for so many people. Sending solidarity and my very best.

Stooooooop iiiiiiiit.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.

“Artificial intelligence, meet artificial accounting.” The guy who first pointed out Enron’s sketchy accounting is now scrutinizing AI accounting and it’s the same nonsense: www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...

Yuck. Just yuck.

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

I mean *they* did not write all of them. They more put their finishing touches on a good chunk. There's your answer.

Another—more accurate—description of “scientific orthodoxy” is “fact.” It's shameful that the country’s medical policy is being led by a worm-brained roadkill-eating cook. And it's shameful that the paper of record helps sanitize this.

Exactly. It's the speculative aspect of it that I find absolutely frightening about the cryto world and I feel X fuels that element massively through self-serving hype boosting. Number Go Up was incredibly insightful for me re that.

"Now I'm a full time digital capitalist". Of course he's on X. Sigh. Thank you for this video.

French authorities charge X over Holocaust-denial comments by AI chatbot Grok On Monday, Elon Musk's social media AI chatbot posted in French that the gas chambers in Nazi death camps were designed for 'disinfection' against typhus, rather than for mass executions.

This is what happens when you treat posts on X as in effect equivalent to what historians of the Shoah have to say.

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Iva imas kakvu preporuku sto se tice ICTY? Da ih ljudi masovno koordinirano downloadiraju pa da se barem tako ocuva? Moram priznati da ne znam puno o tome, ali mi se apsolutno cini razumnim da se takve stvari moraju ocuvati i biti javno dostupne... Pa evo pitam!

It's extraordinary that the man can say (in 2005!) that women are intellectually inferior and still be giving lectures at Harvard 20 years later, never mind all his other privileges. I find it far more extraordinary that it's taken as long and continues to take as much to see some accountability.

this is my surprised face

How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.

An incident in a locker room has always been key to Riley Gaines’ anti-trans fame.

But @msjpauly.bsky.social spoke to swimmers who were present at the same 2022 meet. They shared a very different narrative.

Sighs in yet another book to add to my list (joke of course, sincere congratulations!).

I kind of like Cara Hunter's Oxford ones? Not too much trauma for our main character, interesting cases.

The f-ing subjonctif. It haunts my dreams.

Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less." She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards. They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it. This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil. The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option. "We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents. "We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

Nussbaum's Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education?