Nicole Holliday

Not just the phones, also wishful thinking. Conservatives want cities to be hellscapes because it justifies their racism, punitive policies, NIMBYism, etc. My grandma in Ohio lives down the street from a meth lab that exploded, but she’s convinced I’ll be stabbed on the street in Pasadena.

The Definition Of Hell For Each Myers-Briggs Personality They say that one man’s heaven is another man’s hell and that couldn’t be truer when it comes to the sixteen Myers-Briggs Personality Types. Each one is inspired, enraged and abso…

Lol our current government is actually hell for my “personality type” (ENTJ).

“Somebody is wrong, and they’re directing a large group of people! You can’t do anything about it and will have to obey whatever inefficient policies they decide to implement”
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Iran’s regime was atrocious, but even if you believed it was the U.S. president’s role to replace their government, you’d imagine that he would have an actual plan for doing so.

Trump has never given a damn about a single Iranian or a single American. This is all just a game to him.

The SAG awards are the best commercial for organized labor I’ve ever seen. More important now than ever, and it’s so nice to see this kind of messaging, even if it’s weirdly on Netflix.

In 2026, colleges must teach students that this is not the end of the world. We must teach hope. Current undergraduates can barely remember a time before the threats of climate change and authoritarianism loomed to catastrophic scale. Since 2010, the future depicted in TV, books, and games has been dystopian or apocalyptic, so for our current students the end of the world feels more familiar and realistic than a future with hope. Now we are asking them to choose majors and life paths when the desirability, indeed the very existence, of whole sectors of employment are in question, due to the overwhelming promises of LLMs and machine learning. As young people hear daily that vocation after vocation may vanish into automation’s maw, and that democracy, liberty, land, sea, and sky are all in jeopardy, despair is growing. Despair is very emotionally tempting. It means freedom from the responsibility to shape the future. This is a terrifying turning point, but many generations before us have faced such turning points, and met them. We can offer our students perspective. Only a few dozen institutions on Earth are more than 900 years old, and the vast majority are universities. The university system is not a house of straw to buckle in this storm: We are the rocks that have sheltered the knowledge, hope, and truth through tumults which have toppled kingdoms while classrooms endured. We can endure this, and be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse. Despair is how we lose. The classroom is where we battle it. All other battles flow from here. Ada Palmer is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago.

This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.

Operation Epic Fury

Every time this administration names an action, they choose something a 14-year old boy would call a video game. Cutesy names don’t cover up warmongering and terrorism, they just reveal a profound disrespect for human life.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

Unfortunately, Trump doesn’t care about Americans or Iranians and we’ve seen this script before. Venezuela didn’t get regime change; he didn’t care about them either, he just wanted a photo-op. And Iraq & Afghanistan certainly have some things to say about whether American “intervention” ever helped

I won’t tell anyone how to feel about developments in their country, and I certainly won’t stand up for Iran’s current regime. But as an American, I am against our president committing war crimes and taking actions that will get more Iranians and Americans killed.

the congressional authorization thing is bad but honestly for me the whole "the crime of aggression is the supreme international crime" thing is what keeps me up at night

Not a coincidence that the administration threw a fit about not having an AI-powered murder apparatus hours before they started killing civilians in Tehran.

If there is a hell, the people in this administration are campaigning hard to get into it.

Not the most important part, but I have never seen a faculty lounge, and I’ve worked at 3 fancy institutions. In my department, we don’t even have a kitchen!

Wild that they believe that military officers are such fragile flowers that hearing about the existence of slavery will irreparably break them.

By “radical left” he means Anthropic has a tiny bit of hesitation about letting the government use their systems to murder people without any human looking into it first. That’s how low the bar is. Literally, textbook fascism.

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

A major Pentagon–Anthropic showdown is underway. The Pentagon is pushing for Claude to enable mass AI surveillance + autonomous drones, threatening a supply-chain-risk label or a defense production act takeover if they don’t.

Ultimatum was issued for tomorrow.

Anthropic just refused.

Gahhhhhh. Algorithmic enforcement of politeness!?!?

100%. They don’t value expertise, and they’re not actually interested in reform. This is the “move fast and break things” paradigm applied to children.

Education isn’t busy work, just like lifting weights in the gym isn’t about getting weights from point A to point B. Education is about making you a better, more thoughtful human being who appreciates people, beauty, and science.

None of these guys have ever appreciated anything but money.

Just sent it to everyone I know! Excellent meme!

My (in-person, small class) students still do reading annotations, but I did warn them today that I can’t dock points for suspected AI use, but I can tell and so can their classmates. And that they’ll pay for it on the midterm because they won’t know as much.

It’s such a bummer! I used to have them watch TikTok videos on AAVE and critique the discourse in comments and public framing. I had to stop last semester after they started using ChatGPT for it. To critique TikToks 😔

I think a lot about Minnie Riperton, because of her beautiful voice and art, but also because she died too young (31) from breast cancer, which is so treatable now, but which still kills black women at higher rates.

I struggle to articulate why the dehumanizing speech AI systems I study are a dangerous threat, because it is SO clear to me that they are made by people who hate human beings. I can’t understand why I have to keep explaining that when this dude is out here saying these things every single day.

Yeah I’m not doing cop shit in my classes. But also, there’s so much grey area now…what about students who used Grammarly (a university-licensed tool) to “polish their grammar” and now it looks to me like AI? There’s usually no way to tell for sure, even when you have strong suspicious.

Goes hard!

Sounds like a good idea except that it’s not great for learning, doesn’t develop long-form writing skills, limits assignment design, and is an actual nightmare for accommodations. And that’s before we even get to online classes. I do give more tests than I used to but man all of this sucks.

Jesus, “spectral labor”. We can’t even rest once we’re dead anymore!?

It is bad for humans to never interact with people (or entities) that check our egos or force us to consider our own perspectives and desires. The widespread use of these technologies is an existential psychological and sociological threat.

Should AI tell you how to talk? - Across Acoustics With the development of automatic speech recognition has come a new type of technology, designed to give the user advice on how to speak better. In this episode, we talk with Nicole Holliday (Universi...

I spoke with Across Acoustics podcast about my recent paper and work on Socially Prescriptive Speech Technologies! Check it out if you want to learn more about how Speech AI is being weaponized against workers. www.buzzsprout.com/1537384/epis...

I don’t actually think they’re doing this particular thing to justify authoritarian take over, I think they want us to be mad at Dems and to shut up about ICE (and Iran, and Epstein, etc.). More a “beatings will continue until morale improves” type thing.