@ireti.bsky.social
AI is parasitic on the human created web
17.10.2025 02:09 — 👍 36 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
Reasons to Live Through the Apocalypse Sunrises. People you have still to meet and laugh with. Songs about love, peace, anger, and revolution. Walks in the woods. The smile you exchange with a stranger when you experience beauty accidentally together. Butterflies. Seeing your grandparents again. The moon in all her forms, whether half or full. Dogs. Birthdays and half-birthdays. That feeling of floating in love. Watching birds eat from bird feeders. The waves of happiness that follow the end of sadness. Brown eyes. Watching a boat cross an empty sea. Sunsets. Dipping your feet in the river. Balconies. Cake. The wind in your face when you roll the car window down on an open highway. Falling asleep to the sound of a steady heartbeat. Warm cups of tea on cold days. Hugs. Night skies. Art museums. Books filled with everything you do not yet know. Long conversations. Long-lost friends. Poetry. - Nikita Gill
22.02.2025 23:32 — 👍 2564 🔁 680 💬 65 📌 31
Screenshot from r/Professors. Title: A colleague encountered this while renewing CITI training. Apparently the Belmont Report is woke DEI now. Rants/Vents "This module/webinar may contain content that is subject to interpretation under recent U.S. Executive Orders. Institutions should review the material in the context of their policies and regulatory obligations. If this module remains accessible to you, you may continue to complete it. For any questions, please contact your CITI Program Administrator." This was during the Social & Behavioral Research course training. Apparently basic research ethics and the Belmont principles of beneficence, respect for persons, and justice is now too woke.
Saw this on Reddit last night. Have any US academics heard of problems with CITI training (human-subjects ethics training required at universities) being inaccessible?
19.02.2025 15:41 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of the NYTimes open on a wood table. It’s a full page ad. The text reads Trump has called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza. Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing! And then lists 350 names
350 Rabbis took out a full page ad in the NYTimes today opposing Trump’s plan for Palestine and calling it ethnic cleansing.
13.02.2025 20:21 — 👍 3730 🔁 1131 💬 41 📌 44
“What’s happening at federal government agencies is, among other things, a stark portrait of why power seeks to automate — and why, in enterprise AI, it has found an ideal vessel for corporate and administrative automation,” @bcmerchant.bsky.social writes. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/government...
07.02.2025 20:56 — 👍 30 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 1
Text on an orange background with the details of Data & Society's new Points titled "Digital Infrastructures, Material Consequences."
A beautiful dispatch by D&S’s @livgar.bsky.social, @mwoluchem.bsky.social, and Joan Mukogosi about their recent research road trip through Pennsylvania, tracing the connection from the industrial past to our tech-dominated present — and uncertain future. datasociety.net/points/digit...
06.02.2025 15:03 — 👍 25 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 5
while I love the aesthetic quality of vinyl, cvs are significantly more practical alternatives/regressions for music listening. can artists start releasing CDs again for us to divest from these platforms?
harpers.org/archive/2025...
