Aaron Mauro

Feminist digital humanities book cover

Feminist Digital Humanities (open access) www.bibliopen.org/9780252048302

YouTube video by Brock University AI & Cybersecurity with Dr. Mauro

Check out @aaronmauro.bsky.social's lecture, "AI, Security, and the Future of Education," delivered as part of Brock's Homecoming events! #brocku #AI #cybersecurity #edtech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUlw...

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How people are using ChatGPT Largest study to date of consumer ChatGPT usage shows demographic gaps shrinking, economic value being created through both personal and professional use.

How people are using ChatGPT according to paid research from OpenAI openai.com/index/how-pe...

I'm Not a Robot Prove your humanity

neal.fun/not-a-robot/

David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel: "This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."

The Oligarchs' Coup Against the Free Press Is Happening Now The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley that includes Jef...

All they had to do to circumvent the 1st Amendment was outsource the censorship to the oligarchs.

The oligarchs have seized control of not only the media but the very platforms and algorithms used to disseminate information itself.

www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

Join us on September 19th at noon for @aaronmauro.bsky.social's webinar on AI, Security, and the Future of Education: brocku.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx... #brocku

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie it's not a distraction

stop calling everything a distraction youtube.com/shorts/yyFjN...

Apertus LLM - a swiss-ai Collection We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

you can run the new apertus LLMs fully locally on your (mac) laptop with just 2 lines of code:

pip install mlx-lm
mlx_lm.generate --model swiss-ai/Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509 --prompt "wer bisch du?"

(make sure you have done huggingface-cli login before)

‘Public and open with their hate’: Masked white nationalist group marches at popular Niagara monument A University of Winnipeg professor says Second Sons Canada was testing the waters with its military-style rally at Queenston Heights Park in Niagara, and that the choice do do so at Brock’s Monument w...

White nationalist group marches at popular Niagara monument www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news/niagara...

The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms Abstract. Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early

Margarita Vaysman & I have been working on this for the past 5 (!) years, but it's finally done- the online version is up and the hardcover should be out later this month! Welcome to the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, feat. 41 chapters and beautiful cover art: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 🎉

If you are a university administrator in Ontario, read this: www.caut.ca/bulletin/boo...

EPFL, ETH Zurich & CSCS just released Apertus, Switzerland’s first fully open-source large language model.
Trained on 15T tokens in 1,000+ languages, it’s built for transparency, responsibility & the public good.

Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...

Open Letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney

Open Letter: Standing on Guard for Canada’s Digital Sovereignty www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Oversight Committee Releases Epstein Records Provided by the Department of Justice - United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability

The Epstein Files released on Google Drive lmao oversight.house.gov/release/over...

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

How World War II scientists invented a data-driven approach to fighting fascism The F-scale personality test measured authoritarianism in US citizens.

After WWII, social scientists studied the personalities of fascists. What they found perfectly describes today’s Republicans: “ethnocentrism, superstition, aggression, cynicism, conservatism, and an inordinate interest in the private sex lives of others.”
(Story by @annaleen.bsky.social.)

"A culture of intimidation, retaliation and oppression": How Microsoft’s Gaza stance fuelled an industry-spanning boycott RPS meets a few of the developers participating in the BDS campaign against Microsoft's Israeli military ties, including an Xbox worker fired for his views.

www.rockpapershotgun.com/a-culture-of...

Rhetoric Without Reckoning A new wave of liberal Zionist criticism of the Israeli government rings hollow without accountability for the genocide.

A new wave of liberal Zionist criticism of the Israeli government rings hollow without accountability for the genocide,
@simonerzim.bsky.social writes. In this piece, she explores what real teshuva would look like within the Jewish world.

How Christian Zionism became a key force in U.S. politics Podcast Episode · Front Burner · 2025-08-21 · 39m

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...

AI Killed My Job: Translators Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

AI Killed My Job: Translators - by Brian Merchant www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...

Check out Distant Viewing Explorer. It’s a multimodal LLM powered analysis tool: distantviewing.org/dvexplorer/

GitHub - fmhy/FMHY: https://fmhy.net/ https://fmhy.net/. Contribute to fmhy/FMHY development by creating an account on GitHub.

Free Media Heck Yeah github.com/fmhy/FMHY

Google says its AI-based bug hunter found 20 security vulnerabilities | TechCrunch The discoveries by an AI-based bug hunter are significant, as it shows these tools are starting to get real results, even if they still need a human.

Google says its AI-based bug hunter found 20 security vulnerabilities techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/g...

Major Indie Marketplace Itch.io Shadowbans NSFW Content, Trans Authors Impacted A dangerous escalation against free speech and literary preservation from a longtime haven for transfeminine literature.

Major Indie Marketplace Itch.io Shadowbans NSFW Content, Trans Authors Impacted – The Transfeminine Review thetransfemininereview.com/2025/07/24/i...

I pledge that I will not provide any service to Columbia University. I will not speak at conferences held at or organized by Columbia. I will not publish with Columbia publications or provide peer reviews for them. I will not provide outside tenure evaluations for Columbia departments. I will not contribute in any way to the institution until everyone who is responsible for this week’s shameful decision has resigned, retired, or been fired, and until Columbia repudiates their catastrophic choice.

I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy.

This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading:

3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...

Award-winning grad student levels up accessibility in game design The best part of Adam Henderson’s (BA ’20) job as a game designer is knowing that children with disabilities are playing — and loving — his video games. The Brock Game Design graduate says he believes...

Award-winning grad student levels up accessibility in game design brocku.ca/brock-news/2... #brocku

The Techno-Fascist Soul of Marc Andreessen The uprising of 2020 didn't just challenge the systemic racism of American policing; they terrified the oligarchs of Silicon Valley. For Marc Andreessen, the billionaire venture capitalist, the sight ...

Part of how we got fascism in the United States is that a bunch of Silicon Valley oligarchs lost their collective mind in 2020 and radicalized into techno-fascists on group chats. Marc Andreesen is the epicenter of this shift.

www.thedissident.news/the-techno-f...