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ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode Every Windows 11 PC is now an Al PC with Copilot at the center of it all. Here's how to get rid of Copilot completely from your computer (1/3)

ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 1/ Settings App > Personalization > Taskbar > Other System Tray Icons > Switch "Microsoft 365 Copilot App" Off This hides Copilot from your taskbar

(9) ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 2/ Press Win + R > Type in ‘regedit’ > Navigate to "HKEY _CURRENT_USER\ Software \ Policie s\Microsoft\ Windows" > Right-click on the "Windows" Key > New > Key > Name the new key "WindowsCopilot’ > Right-click on the new key EY > DWORD (32-bit) Value

@forgoodcode 3/ > Name the value "TurnOffWindowsCopilot’ > Double-click the name of the value > Set the "Value Data" to 1 > Restart your computer Congrats! Copilot is now completely gone from your computer. Hope this helps

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

Yeah, how dare you have human opinions?! As a professor, you are obviously not living in the world! 🤡🤡🤡

Skill issue. I wake up at midnight and have perfectly normal human relationships.

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

In order to keep myself accountable for my wrongdoings, I’m going to stop doing the things I hate but keep doing the things I love.

What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing

Epistemology is in, baby.

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

No, you were right initially. Now that Mamdani won, they renamed it.

Does this mean that the brits are subs? Checks out.

Graphic showing the relationship with cities shown as dots on a triangle.

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

People getting mad here about anyone saying it's good that MTG and Trump are fighting. I teach democratization every semester. The first slide says 'elite fracture.' That's always where it starts. It's good when people with bad politics are fighting one another.

What’s really cool is that while we know the silk road as such, the major commodity going in the other direction was glasswork such as this. Greek and Roman glasswork was the envy of the world back then.

Millikan’s selected effect function makes nonsense of actual evolutionary processes, which aren’t adaptationist. But more specifically with language, she asserts against all evidence that linguistic items (such as indexicals) can only have a single proper function, which is laughably far off.

As one Massachusetts school administrator recently said; this moment with AI is remarkably like the moment when we were introduced to asbestos. Yes, it had some remarkably promising characteristics – fireproofing! – and had some real utility in science, research, and industrial applications. But a profit-driven industry bullied us into inserting it everywhere; into our homes and schools and public spaces, before we really understood the risks. This resulted in decades, if not centuries, of illness, injuries, deaths, and the astronomical financial burden of trying to remove the stuff. As you, the leaders and policymakers in our schools, craft an AI policy for our district, we the undersigned call on you to: 1. Ban AI tools into the classroom, protect our students and teachers from de-skilling and allow them the space and time to engage in assignments themselves. 2. Resist any direct financial relationship or contracts with AI providers, as well as the “training” they might offer. 3. Provide a digital literacy curriculum to help students navigate the current digital landscape, and promote critical engagement with technology. 4. Guarantee that anywhere generative AI has already entered our classrooms or curriculum, an opt-out will allow students and teachers to refuse the use of these products at no risk to their grades, progress or employment.

Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...

I’m reading this right now. It’s great.

One reason the political influence of billonaires has been pernicious is that at certain levels of wealth, people will fawn over whatever inane brain diarrhea you emit as though they’ve just bumped into Socrates in the agora.

I’m asking the same thing. I just applied for a terrible job in French because, well, there’s not much else. My French is almost certainly not good enough.

You might get fewer with a good igloo! Snow is a very good insulator.

The thing about the "right to exist" attack is that it's not really a question and it's not about states existing. If it were, Palestinian statehood would be implied.
But it's about asserting Israel's "right to exist *as a Jewish state*" which is means its unique right to discriminatory policy.

Personally, I would refine my igloo technique.

For all you misinformed doctors, nurses, pharmacists, cancer technicians, politicians, bosses, teachers, caregivers, and average people on the street:

“There is no such thing as a COVID infection without consequence.”

— David Putrino, Long Covid researcher

r/ExpectationVsReality u/Additional-Simple858 • 3d Join Al 'doctor' said my back pain is depression, not a slipped disc. Now physical therapy won't get approved. Al Expectation We are reviewing claim #& submitted on 09/28/2025. Our records indicate the claim was filed under diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while the corresponding prescription and referral history list treatment for lumbar disc herniation (back pain).

Re: Incorrect Diagnosis in Record Hi Thank you for reaching out. We have reviewed your visit documentation and can confirm that the notes in question were generated using our Al scribe system. It appears the Al tool assigned diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while your visit notes and treatment plan reference lumbar disc herniation (back pain). Per compliance policy, certain Al-generated fields cannot be manually updated by clinic staff and require vendor correction. We have escalated this to our vendor support team and opened ticket # . We'll notify you once we receive confirmation or correction from the vendor.

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

Unironically based. 🤡

We all know that the current "crisis" at the BBC is because powerful people with strong opinions, chiefly around Israel and trans issues, simply cannot accept the representation of those who disagree with them or the presentation of evidence that contradicts them

In any case, the language is confused. I don’t know what I’m doing yet. I guess I’ll have to pull a Shakespeare and reinvent the English language.

Probably depends on what “minimally” means. I don’t think that there are good people, but there are bad people and then there are BAD people. Some people are good enough to live and become better with. Those people are minimally good by my lights. But there are others that are intolerably bad.

One thing Billie Eilish and Finneas and Olivia Rodrigo and so on have going for them is that it’s a lot easier to enjoy a song when you know that it’s creator is at least a minimally good person. Can’t quite say the same for Taylor or, like, Rammstein. Ethical critique truly is underrated.

we are going to win

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"

China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

We really need to stop pretending that AI is just a way to "free teachers" and "make school fun"...

AI is built on theft and exploitation
AI is speeding up climate change
AI is good at generating BS that looks meaningful
AI is convincing kids to talk to it rather than people

#NihilismAndTechnology

To be fair, I don’t know many utilitarians. A lot of the departments I’ve inhabited are crawling with intuitive Kantians or, like, Rossians, and so people often represent Sidgwick as some kind of naïve totalitarian.