Jordan Mitchell-King

They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.

AI's best use case will always be scams. It's scamtech, top to bottom. Everything about it is crooked. Its bedrock is theft and its legacy is the destruction of the environment, both physical and virtual.

Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying.
"I wrote this."
"I created this."

I don't think enough of a stink is being made about the naked dishonesty of Reeves and Starmer's crap about 'get people “trapped on benefits” back into work'.

PIP is *incapable of trapping anyone.* You still get it if you're in work. It is one of the few UK benefits offering no perverse incentives!

Weird that the ratio of genuine cases to 'fad' diagnoses & malingerers is exactly proportional to how much the government wants to save. & that Wes Streeting is able to determine who isn't & isn't ill based on his gut rather than evidence & actually being in a room with someone.

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This month, a handful of 30s catalogs are available! Hope you'll come join!

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Biden Brags Ceasefire Deal Is the One He Wrote — 7 Months and 10,000 Deaths Ago Since Biden introduced that deal on May 27, Israel has killed at least 10,000 Palestinians — and likely far, far more.

🧵 Here is a non-comprehensive list of some of the massacres that could have been avoided if Biden had forced Israel to adopt the ceasefire framework — which was swiftly accepted by Hamas officials — when the administration introduced it publicly on May 31.

A hand, mending a hand stitched mid nineteenth century hexagon quilt. A candle burns alongside.

Mending another woman’s hand sewn quilt from the mid nineteenth century. There is an affecting intimacy in looking closely at the characteristic stitched handwriting of another.

Yes it's a plagiarism machine meant to put us all out of work and enrich the worst people alive and yes one request expends more energy than it takes to power Buffalo for a week, but more than that anything to do with AI is just corny dork-made shit. It fucking sucks and so do you if you use it.

Cameron, Ariz. Living on one of the largest swaths of land in America without electrical power, Thomasina Nez's entire life is a scramble to complete basic tasks. To take a hot shower, she must wait for buckts of water to come to a boil on a small propane stove outside her wood framed roundhouse. To make meals, she relies mostly on canned goods because unfridgerated produce rots qucikly in the Arizona heat. Its a struggle to stay warm at night, because she refuses to use her coal-powered heate after its fumes killed her two dogs.

A fierce battle for electric power is being waged across the nation, and Nez is one of thousands of people who have wound up on the losing end. Amid a boom in data acenters, the energy intensive warehouses that run supercomputers for Big Tech companies, Arizona is racing to increase electricity production. In February, the state utility board approved an 8 percent rate hike to bolster power infrastructure throughout the state, where data centers are popping up faster than almost anywhere in the US But it rejected a plan to bring electricity to parts of the Navajo Nation land, concluding that electric consumers should not be asked to foot the nearly $4 million bill.

I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water.

Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?

Petition: An independent evaluation of the Cass review on child gender services We believe that trans healthcare should be based on unbiased research that is peer reviewed. We think that the Cass review's findings have led to restrictive practices that are being directly felt by ...

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like, not reading the outline after it has been made! Doesn't the knowledge come from doing the work!

I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?

Screenshot of a phone photo gallery with dozens of thumbnails of manuscript pages

Very glad to have used the Capturing the Past app when taking these archive photos- coming back to hundreds of them +2yrs later and they've got all the ref info saved in the file names 🗃

Timely reminder that as Israel continues to murder civilians with impunity, the UN has confirmed that yes, it is committing GENOCIDE.

Yet still this monstrous regime is backed to the hilt by the “civilised” Western powers.

Would love to be added, working on 18thc clothing!

Photograph of a book page showing a beige linen cropped top with polychrome embroidery featuring plants, rainbows and rainclouds. Four up close detail photos and one full image

16thc polychrome rainbows and rainclouds 🌧🌈 Going through old research pics and reminded of this fantastic embroidered smock in Patterns of Fashion. Poor photo on my part but the details are so fantastic if you zoom in. One to recreate on a shirt someday

History PhD students around London: the 'British History in the Long 18th Century’ seminar at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgraduate convenor for the academic year 2024/25. A stipend of £200 and a chance to get involved in a great seminar! Deadline 6 Sept. #18thCentury.
Apply below:

This is huge news. The microfilm (& OCR?) of EEBO and The Eighteenth Century (ie ECCO) is available via Internet Archive! I need to dig derper but I wonder about the reactions from libraries, Gale, and ProQuest. H/T to David Smith @dasmiq.bsky.social for sharing news. archive.org/details/bim_...

The process is where the learning happens. Take that away and what's the point? If faculty are using AI to create the lessson plan and assignments, students are ChatGPTing the essay, and faculty are using AI to grade it, what are we even doing? Where is the education happening?

Moon Lander Is Lying on Its Side but Still Functional, Officials Say

Moon Lander is all of us!

I think the fact that we did fix these things and it didn't make it into collective memory is a big part of the apathy toward climate change now. A lot of us remember being warned about all this stuff as kids only for it to go away without much discussion - *because we fixed it*.

No.
1. The environmental cost is not worth the gains.
2. The effort of making a thing, the repetition, the creative culs-de-sac, all serve to improve me, and I do definitely want to be better. It's a false economy to get AI to do all that for me.

Your brain and your soul need the reps.

✨Call for Papers✨Delighted to announce the CFP for Politicising Fashion and Fashioning Politics, a one-day symposium at De Montfort University exploring political dress and fashion! Keynote speaker: Eleri Lynn. 🚨Due Date 15th December 2023🚨

So fuckin sick of the prevention of access to trans healthcare being framed as something de facto good especially for kids

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#c18 friends. I am trying to find a copy of Richardson's Pamela, first edition (printed in 1740 but dated 1741), which should be estc.bl.uk/T111392. I know that the Bodleian has one, as does National Library of Scotland, and a whole host of others, but is there a scan anywhere? pls help #bookhistory

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A screencap of the first post by womensart1 (same account on Bluesky and Twitter)

Just a heads-up in case folks aren’t aware that the person who runs this account refuses to post art by trans women artists.

the hobbits reuniting with Frodo in Rivendell

reconnecting with mutuals from the blue bird site: