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techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/a... I’ve said it before: we should be highly skeptical of Silicon Valley AI and higher education. They need our revenue more than we need their low-quality products. Also, they know nothing about teaching and learning, just growth. This is an extractive industry.

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I have never stopped thinking about consent. Who asked for this? Who has the agency to really say no? digitalispeople.org/agency-and-c...

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We are just under two weeks out from the deadline (April 15). Please consider submitting! Happy to answer any questions you may have. #AcademicSky #EduSky #ELATE #NCTE

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As expected, got a canceled government contract because research doesn’t matter and data equity is a dirty terrible thing. What a country 🥺

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I'm looking for a postdoc to work on justice-oriented audit frameworks. Closing date April 30, 2025. pls share widely

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I told ChatGPT that I wanted to be a philosopher as a kid. And then it said that I was a DEI hire?!?!!?? God, we are fucked.

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The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers. AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege

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If you're planning to be in Baltimore next week for #4C25, come hang out with the Writing Assessment SIG! We have 3 sessions on the program, including our annual meeting on Friday 4/11 from 3:30-4:30 PM in Meeting Room 339.

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Come join the Alliance for Refusing Generative AI Discord server! We have over 130 members with channels to share resources and policies, news, pedagogy questions/thoughts, memes, and human crafting/art! Accept the invite, agree to community guidlelines, and join the server ❤️ discord.gg/fPpdr2fkBp

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I hope there are a million postmortems and they all go basically "at the end of the day everyone just hates Elon Musk and thinks he's a total creep" and Elon reads them all and cries a lot

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Education Department isn't being dismantled, it's being repurposed to destabilize public education so they can privatize much of it. This letter is serving that harm of diversion of public funds to private schools. Other harms of this project think: dysfunction, depletion, & discrimination.

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This is why they've spent decades selling the myth that wealth is a proxy for work-ethic. Because that myth makes it easy to treat poverty as proof that someone isn't deserving of sympathy or support.

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By eliminating USAID and gutting global humanitarian aid, the eugenics freaks who hide behind the veil of “long-termism” and “utilitarianism” are getting exactly what they want: the mass death of people they view as unnecessary. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

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If you haven’t already, it’s a good day to familiarize yourself with this work. This administration’s policies can be better understood with the realization that they are eugenicists.

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This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.

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I'll also be real: I don't care if these dem senators showing up are just cynically trying to score points. It has been WORRYING THE SHIT OUT OF ME that not one single dem seemed like they wanted to cash in on our desperation and pander to us. Pander harder, y'all.

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BREAKING: More journalists have died in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023 than in both World Wars and other major wars, combined. Our new report outlines the costs of war to journalists – and the journalism we all rely on. [THREAD, 1/8] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

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The CDC has been gutted www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...

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Google's AI overview is out here misspelling relevance & subbing the not-a-word "crency" for currency. I'm not really sure why folks keep telling me that this is a tool I should be teaching my students to use/rely upon...

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In thirteen years of teaching, there have been zero instances of an increase in productivity/efficiency leading to "more time" (and definitely not "more time to do the things that matter") Rather, in every single instance, it has led to "more tasks"—with no turning back from there

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OK, a lot of stuff happened last night. And yes, all DOGE-related. Let's get into it: First, DOGE is trying to gift itself at $500 million building, court filings show.

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The Impact Map or Federal Cuts Tracker Map is finally live‼️ Check the 🗺️ out theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m... Explore how federal cuts are affecting your state or community and share this WIDELY 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Reminder that LLMs are a dismal expensive prototype with a handful of potential applications, not a reliable general purpose technology. Researchers tried a couple on the 2025 USA Mathematical Olympiad, a high school competition. Best score was 2 out of 42. arxiv.org/abs/2503.219...

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It doesn’t have a “self” but also this tracks.

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Absolutely the worst idea.

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The worst people in the world are like "They must be getting paid to hate me" when in reality everyone is happy to hate them for free

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The same upstanding citizen that partners with Palantir and AWS to serve U.S. intelligence and defense agencies?

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don't post about what you did with ai. that shit is embarrassing

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trying to make this into a consumer product without figuring out what kind of need it serves for the consumer has been a big failure mode

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Please read the second chapter of my book about Hollywood misconduct & enabling, Burn It Down. I put the chapter on Rudin up front because .. this is a thing the media & Hollywood have done for 30+ years. Talk about how Rudin "has changed" & is "a different man" www.harpercollins.com/products/bur...

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bring woke back www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/u...

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AI's impact on working hours and leisure time cepr.org/voxeu/column...

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This is an enormous scam designed to get X’s dwindling value and collateralized debts (which likely are imperiled due to Tesla’s crashing stock price) off Musk’s personal books.

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Why am I seeing so much commentary about OpenAI's theft of Studio Ghibli's creative work illustrated with synthetic Studio Ghibli style images? Just because you're talking about the harm doesn't give you a free pass to do more of the harm....

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I think this is absolutely right. And it is fueled by the unending hype about what GenAI can do.

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This is so ridiculous. Until you realize it’s just an excuse to break the system and shift the blame. AI’s major function in cases like this will be to shield individuals from being held responsible for fixing the things they break, and for delaying that fix, perhaps indefinitely.

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Hi everyone, @unwinnable.com is happy to make very clear our stance on GenAI slop. That is to say, make no attempt to use it in your submission to us. We will ban you. unwinnable.com/2025/03/28/o...

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I know Silicon Valley wants to have people unskilled and dependant on paying for their products to do the most basic tasks, while also avoiding paying workers but what the fuck are universities getting out of the pivot to AI?

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The Trump administration ends funding for research on protecting pregnant women from domestic violence, classifying it as 'DEI': www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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We’re already there. We’re seeing students snatched off the street, schools being banned from discussing decolonization, and institutions across the board being targeted for valuing diversity. We blew past the thought police signs with a movement facilitated by free speech “absolutists”.

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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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Most of the comments on this thread recognize this can’t be done in the timeframe and way described & that the people trying to do this are going to break it, not fix it. One of the most lucrative things in the world is a government contract to build or repair a large, complex tech system.

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This is bad. Generative AI is bad at a lot, especially things that require precision. GenAI is bad for this, particularly given that the implication here is that they'll use GenAI, at least in part, because the people involved don't have the requisite level of coding experience/knowledge. BAD.

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I mean… Yeah. Yeah they do. For entirely known and warned-about reasons. Yes. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Dear “are you SURPRISED” reply guys: please shut the fuck up forever

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