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There have been a few open letters. I published one to our Minister of 'AI' because the Canadian gov seems to have joined the great con game and ignored the research; there is also this one in case you are looking for inspiration: openletter.earth/open-letter-...

The average prisoner in Alcatraz had more literacy than the average economist reader.

Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on?

Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.

i think that people who use headphones in public places like trains are selfish. keeping all your cool music and podcasts to yourself is genuinely sociopathic and deranged behavior. play it on your phone's speaker and let everyone enjoy it, or don't play it at all

people fall into all kinds of dangerous fads, particularly in the current info age. Mozilla shouldn’t be encouraging users to engage with a technology that is just not ready or safe. They’re lending their credibility to a technology they simply can’t control in the way you’re implying.

The problem is that the tool is inherently unsafe and cannot be made safe in the foreseeable future. We are barely in the infancy stage of mechanistic interpretability so no one can guarantee that they understand their model enough to regulate it to not have it go off telling kids to kts.

Kinda sad. This is one of the few journal groups who really told evopsych to fuck off. I’m mildly disappointed.

Small purple froggy on a teeny tiny empty and white world.

The answer is present in the images. There are too many people in humanities (those who might have major concerns of our collective future and political capabilities) and not enough people building us the utopian future (advancing the billionaire dreams of silicon slaves and mass unemployment).

Beauty repeats itself. like a fractal.

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Also by increasing the scope of behaviour that is considered criminal.

I’m saying your stuff is interesting and we should get that blog setup going so we can be two mentally ill friends blogging at each other.

Get a real blog. there's limit to how many times I'm willing to click read more.

Guess I’ll be trying it out then. Thank you.

Would you say it’s easier and less frustrating than using git? I appreciate the need for version control but gits commands can sometimes be unintuitive (to me) and using it sometimes leaves me stressed and baffled.

Pigs deserve better.

now sees itself expressed by mostly neutered senate (representing teaching and research staff) and an overly empowered board (representing business interests). I bang this drum weekly but the best time to get organized was 30 years ago, the second best time is now.

with broader proletariat struggles (this is also part of why many non-academics express such aggressive anti-intellectual tendencies) to ensure that they maintained control of these institutions for and with the broadest segments of the population. This intellectual flight from labour and politics

the red scare policies birthed in America and culturally inherited by the rest of us. It’s part and parcel with the conflation of objectivity and apoliticality. As a result they did not leverage their collective pressure on institutions to stem or reverse their privatization; nor coordinate

The deskilling was a political education and praxis deskilling. Faculty for a while now has viewed itself as a distinct “professional” class and not as labourers. This was in part a strategy to justify political separation from the rest of the proletariat class and in part a response to the

I think this is true in a deep and troubling way. I have been observing this too. I am getting old & maybe I’m wrong, but I really feel basic academic, critical and intellectual, attitudes that were normal and prominent 20 years ago seem to have eroded. I agree, we need to understand how and why.

sherman, for the love of god!

Every neuroscience lecture ever, summarized in one dog video.

Presumptuous to think this was about you (it was ❤️)

He’s so real for this.

The five stages of bestie not texting back in the chat:

1. Wow she must be busy
2. Did I do something wrong?
3. Send a meme like a fisherman casting a bait line
4. omfg how dare she after all I did and do for her I swear to god I-
5. wOw she must be biiiiiizzzzy 😏

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real estate model of academia. But there is the possibility of victory here if we use our animus productively. And even if we lose the battle, it will give us the connections and knowledge of how to win the war (and build our own better institutions).

massive boards consisting of non-educator or researcher parties interested more in the real estate profitability of institutions than the educational or research output. Gen AI is a pocket nuke in their arsenal, a gamble to delegitimize the work we do in favour of an increasingly profit oriented