I think about this a lot.
😬 and also 🫠
I feel like it should be more widely unpopular that in the past year we’ve witnessed the creation of an American Stasi required to meet arrest quotas who utilize an AI technology created by a company run by a sweaty raisin of a billionaire who thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.
"The government...showed the jury zines and reading lists with incendiary titles [like] The satanic death cult is real. The zine is an essay analyzing the films Hereditary and Midsommar."
Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia
On today's episode of "Instantly Believeable"...
Good liberal government is about building positive sum relationships between individuals and society. It needs collective trust and buy in. A world where everyone digs into maximum individualism is not one where progressive liberalism can thrive.
It’s not all that difficult to imagine a dystopia where people (employers?) could buy background checks that include “health profiles” if these data remain unregulated
Fake references make Waite’s job as a librarian “so much harder,” she added.
“I expect this on the wider internet, but not in reputable scientific journals,” she told us. “…It’s really worrying.” retractionwatch.com/2026/03/06/l... #medlibs
Ugh. Study shows use of AI can nudge our beliefs...
Are we moving toward a corporate controlled and (given who owns AI) an increasingly conservative hive mind?
Study: Biased AI writing assistants shift users’ attitudes on societal issues www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
There's also a connection to the culture of denial around wellness, I suppose. When all of the ways of being a little bad are denied to you out of a puritanical sense of preserving the self, you're going to start considering more esoteric things and all of those are worse for society somehow.
This resonates. I deeply miss the pasta counter from the old Royal Vic.
Here’s my (frighteningly vulnerable!!) follow up on my reporting that exposed a white nationalist active club.
On the professional and personal costs of this work:
Please write a book of this.
Folks, the use of AI to write reviews is a clear violation of peer review ethics + it endangers the authors' intellectual property rights. Don't do it.
Pitching an unnecessary sequel :
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Unbelievable that antiretroviral drugs during pregnancy could cost over $4,000, or could be completely free, depending on what province you happen to live in. Yet another reason we need universal, comprehensive, national pharmacare ASAP. www.jogc.com/article/S170...
I'm using Google Translate a lot to work out how to say certain things in French and sometimes when a sentence involves the second person it chooses the wrong form for what I need (tu vs vous) but it turns out I can get it to use the desired form by ending the sentence with either "buddy" or "sir" 🙃
!["What ultimately broke me and my Blizzard career was I got called into the CFO's office and he sits me down and he says—he gives me a date which at the time was 2020 and was going to slip to 2021, but at the time it was 2020—and he said: 'Overwatch has to make [redacted] in 2020, and then every year after that it needs a recurring revenue of [redacted]' and then he says to me 'if it doesn't do [redacted] we're going to lay off 1,000 people, and that's going to be on you.' And that was the biggest fuck you moment I've had in my career, it felt surreal to be in that condition."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6kfv4l2wkabpwgw3v6k2vwx2/bafkreigxhkst43oa76yvbsaeoupzkdmles6drmfitfymosj3mty5gjzreu)
This is a deranged thing to say to someone wtf. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ov...
Looking forward to the heat death of the big bang theory fictional shared universe
I just had an awful thought—what if it’s like Videodrome, where the ones in charge are seeing it as getting rid of “undesirables”.
… I have a weird feeling that this might turn out to actually be something wrong with the salsa.
Karl Weick (organizational psychologist, foundational work on sensemaking) had a great refrain: “How can I know what I think until I see what I say?” I often think about this in relation to how AI can interfere w/ thinking by substituting its words for ours. This experimental study offers evidence.
Oh, and look, here's that class action suit! That anyone with half a brain would have seen coming! From, like, a million miles away!
Just because you work in tech doesn't mean you're smart.
The reason I want students to have to struggle with difficult texts is because I want them to have the capacity to make meaning in and of the world on their own.
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
Part of the "decline of reading" may have something to do with the forms of these readings we are (or are not) making available to possible readers
These are the same "book"
Worth forever reiterating that most of the "long" novels of the 19th century were not received as long at the time, but generally as subdivided shorter works, sometimes something we would consider more like a comic book than a terrifying doorstop.
