I guess there wasn’t enough room to fit Greenland in the other claw?
on bot activity's disabling digital infrastructures
I didn't even know this was a category that existed outside the British Library. shame
Is there a good article on this lawsuit and this deposition?
On the one hand, this is massively dystopian, foretelling an end to all of our livelihoods. But on the other (more important) hand, I could not have invented a better anecdote to illustrate my book’s thesis.
NEWS: Grammarly tells me it will let "experts" like me opt out of having their names used against their will and for no compensation as part of its "expert review" feature www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
just ordered a copy of this and am excited to read
I see this attitude a lot among disabled people in the west, and I think the issue of gAI demands critical thinking and choice from disabled people, too. We aren’t exempt from doing so because of our access needs, all the more so because disability is so often used to justify tech monstrosities
textile mill worker (Providence RI) and police lieutenant (Manila PH)
As a professor, providing accommodations doesn’t impact me at all, and it helps students out. The fact that anyone cares about this is baffling to me.
But then I remember that the country is currently run by eugenicist freaks and they’ve just found a new group to hound.
grotesque
some no doubt problematic data but still a study on the train wreck I've been watching for the last couple years
wish I could listen to this talk. good luck!
Administration at DePaul in Chicago has unilaterally decided to permanently close the DePaul Museum as a cost-cutting measure. Please consider signing this letter opposing this short-sighted decision openletter.earth/letter-oppos...
jealous
Next month, the Earth will come between the sun and the moon, causing the moon to take on an eerie reddish hue.
its cool and reassuring how the only actual rule in the rules based international order is “get nukes as fast as possible”
almost unbearable, certainly more unbearable every time
my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
In utterly DELIGHTFUL news, Adwait Paliwal, the desi techbro behind the cheatbot Einstein AI which claimed it could log into Canvas and do/turn in your assignments for you has been forced to take down his website.
He'll likely be back, and there are others like him in abundance, sadly.
Phenomenal thread:
"The desire for signs of resistance can also be a form for resistance to hearing about racism. If we want to know how things can be different too quickly, then we might not hear anything at all."
– Sara Ahmed, “Phenomenology of Whiteness,” pg. 165
<The vast majority of college students [are] attending ... night classes in community colleges.... [O]nline learning has been an enormous boon for those students. “If there’s no credibility to that, then you’ve just ruined the[ir] investment...,” Mills said.>
2 ppl I love have gotten these degrees
this whole thread on the long turn away from thinking as deliberation in cognitive science is great.
here is the associated preprint (gril): osf.io/preprints/ps...
❤️ thank you tree
The HU Berlin is closing the department of archaeology to save money!! Please sign the petition if you have a spare moment!