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Azeen Ghorayshi built a career and a reputation on writing about sexual misconduct in astronomy and used that to pivot into destroying the lives of trans people at the NYT

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Computers were a mistake. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

#EduSky A must-read esp. if you use AI tools, are being made to "just try them" at school, or are having your students use them.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

“The correlation is clear, and not a coincidence: to date, not a single reported revocation and detention of an individual based on pro-Palestine activism occurred absent prior doxxing by one of these groups.”

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The Stanford community won’t back down from the fight for academic freedom. “You can’t stomp, you can’t stomp, you can’t stomp on me. We still have rights and we will fight for human dignity!”

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

Shame on MIT. I remember when I first got there I was blown away by the students and proud to work there in spite of its problems. Then after Epstein I didn’t even want to go, and now they’re banning their class president from commencement for opposition to genocide. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

2021: There is no AI, you're doing your own laundry. 2023: CEOs are saying that AI is coming and will do your laundry. 2025: There is AI. You're still doing your own laundry. 2027: You're doing the AI's laundry.

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

“I did not use ChatGPT or any other AI tool to write this piece. I’d rather gnaw off my own hand.” I feel like I should put this or a variation of it at the end of any article or book I’ll be writing from now on. Like Cato’s “ceterum censeo” for the AI age.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

"Separating the art from the artist" is for people like Picasso, who was a total bastard a very long time ago but also an artistic genius whose work is actually important to human culture It is not for a mid tier kids' author that is actively trying to eliminate a whole group of people right now

submitted 8 days ago • 54 comments

DO YOURSELF A FAVOR #art

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

From a friend who was there today: MIT class president denounced the MIT administration and said “we MIT students showed the world what we want is an end to Israeli military collaboration," the crowd erupted in chants of "free palestine," flags everywhere, they cut the livestream 🇵🇸

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

It’s hard to believe but I finished something that’s not (exactly) math today

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

“decoy” is an intriguing choice, I’ve been mulling over the less catchy “simulacrum”—either way crucial to note how LLMs especially (eg w RAG and “chain of reasoning”) increasingly stage ‘performances’ of cognitive tasks they are not capable of

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Meta is a defense contractor. "The company announced on Thursday that it will work with defense technology start-up Anduril to offer the U.S. military and its allies technology for soldiers involving augmented reality and artificial intelligence software."

submitted 7 days ago • 82 comments

Just upgraded to a new version of Acrobat, and... look. I am reading a friend's NOVEL. Something I WANT to read. For ENJOYMENT. Fuck off into the sun and take your designer with you.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

It used to be that surveillance tech would be developed for the military and eventually be used against consumers Now, tech developed for consumers is being adopted by the military Says something about consumer tech

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

NGL I'm not convinced of it ever actually having been savvy, but this is indeed how it came across

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

at some point in the last decade being an early adopter went from being a sign of savviness to a sign that you're a fucking mark, and most people haven't caught up to that yet

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

Depressing

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If you still have papers up on academia dot spam, this is a sign to take them down. This is the second such story in my feed - the other was “AI made a podcast of your work”. Did they ask you permission to train their bots on their work? Didn’t think so.

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I regret to inform you that Stephen Pinker is back on his bullshit

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

Steven Pinker has got to be pound for pound the worst public intellectual we have

submitted 13 days ago • 41 comments

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submitted 13 days ago • 31 comments

incredible lack of self-awareness from Pinker here

submitted 14 days ago • 47 comments

There’s the weaponization of open science y’all. Basically ripped from @cos.io’s website. The ROI for leaders speaking up is the highest it will be now, and only decline over time as these policies take shape and grow teeth.

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments