This is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...

my favorite thing about women's professional baseball so far is that the Boston team sucks

Quoting s'thing @cnygren.bsky.social & I are publishing soon: "the literacy argument is being made in advance of its necessity...it presumes a state in which those who are “AI illiterate” are disempowered, precisely in order to make an argument in favor of compulsory indoctrination in its use."

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h ago

“If it's this embedded in the world, then it needs to be embedded in the learning and in the coursework…”

The authors formalize the problem of hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) and show that their complete elimination is fundamentally impossible. arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817

Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models

Hallucination has been widely recognized to be a significant drawback for large language models (LLMs). There have been many works that attempt to reduce the extent of hallucination. These efforts hav...

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stop. making. people. feel like. chatbots. are "conversational" and their friends.

Mark Follman@markfollman.bsky.social · yesterday

My new investigation into a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT reveals numerous red flags—and some very disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before his attack on Florida State University www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 1x 🧵

Once again, its faculty protecting the university, the students, and the very idea of education FROM administrators and boards. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

AAUP@aaup.org · yesterday

BOOM. The AAUP is suing Texas A&M University System over their censorship policy that prohibits faculty from discussing topics & viewpoints related to race, sexual orientation, & gender. www.aclutx.org/app/uploads/... 1

I’ve said this often on here, but it continues to be extremely disheartening to hear colleagues proudly describe their research (or teaching!) process that includes AI and not see how what they do is not research. like it’s genuinely wild to me.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d ago

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

Great news for cinema & disability studies scholars! The Film & Media Studies Journal Cinéma & Cie just published a special issue on "Reimagining Access: Crip Media Aesthetics and Infrastructures," co-ed by the brilliant @p8ja.bsky.social. Best part? It's open access & y'all can enjoy it!

I wrote this 3 years ago for @pastemagazine.bsky.social, about reporting on transphobia in music without ever involved trans people, and you’ll be surprised (I’m not) how it continues to be extremely relevant www.pastemagazine.com/music/transp...

Always The Topic, Rarely The Voice

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

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I updated my fundraiser with more information about what I'm doing and why I need money. Help me keep Other Spaces going! Help support a free trans film series! Help me keep writing, playing music, and making art!

Donate to Help Keep a Small Trans Zine Press Going, organized by Isobel Bess

Hi! I’m Isobel. I run a small trans zine press and tape label called Other Spaces… Isobel Bess needs your support for Help Keep a Small Trans Zine Press Going

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Welcome to the resistance: meet the workers dodging (and sabotaging) their employer's AI mandates: aftermath.site/ai-resistance-...

He’s 100% correct. ‘I’m happy if I look silly in seventy years because I said you’re a brain dead fucking loser for making “art” with AI’

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

Periodic reminder: The integration of generative AI models into every sector of society is the installation of ideological and epistemic choke points, regardless of who made the model.

World Politics Review@wpr.bsky.social · 3d ago

The spread of Chinese AI models with built-in censorship mechanisms could quietly shape the global information environment for the worse.

If useful, here's my attempt to process my feelings about how I feel sadly kinda — or rather very — sick from all this AI fascist nonsense as an academic. 😶‍🌫️ I'd be pleased if even one person finds something useful because there's something to be said for processing this all together, so, um, enjoy?

Anxiety

Reasoning (and crying) my way through fascist AI-induced anxiety.

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Vershawn Ashanit Young has started a GoFundMe for the CCCC to help the leadership team secure legal representation. The hope is to keep the discipline united as CCCCs moves forward. gofund.me/28a7175ac

Donate to Help the Undefeated CCCC Chairs and Members Unite, organized by Vay Young

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No AI-positive institution is deploying responsibly. If they say they are, it means they aren't checking or are silencing the people who are. Read Nik Suresh (hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani...) or listen to this interview, then read the lawsuit from the Mayo Clinic's director of research operations 👇

Nik Suresh/Ludicity on surviving corporate AI psychosis

Today we have an interview! $5-and up patrons and YouTube members got the unedited version of this on Monday. Nik’s advice when your boss loves Claude a little too much: ‘Just let the money r…

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Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · 4w ago

This sums up the frantic and coerced deployment of "AI" throughout public and private sectors. Results of even cursory audits are horrifying every time, invariably paired with forced adoption and retaliation for asserting professional norms. Colonialism is a cherry on top.

IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."

404media.co

August as an academic

Fantastic paper demonstrating how LLM editing is gradually distorting our writing and the way we think to write: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161

How LLMs Distort Our Written Language

Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, b...

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and just like that.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

a bad habit is biting your nails. using the fascist misinformation pump when you could easily hire a research assistant is a weakness of character.

A. K. Venrinn@venrin.bsky.social · 6d ago

Omg not Hank Green using AI for research and calling to his “bad habit” 💀😭🤡

you should be able to buy weed at cvs

The AI project “talkie produces bigoted responses then frames them as a representation of 1930; an outcome of the project’s methodology. The hard work of expanding the archive is being subverted.” activehistory.ca/blog/2026/07...

The Archive is Not a Toy: The Hidden Problems of a ‘Vintage’ AI

talkie’s poor representation of history is a side effect of a larger problem. The model was conceptually built as an experimental tool to see if language models can accurately predict the future, a…

activehistory.ca

To scientists who say AI will revolutionise science, that it has a lot of potential for good and democratising knowledge - it doesnt but also tF are u talking about when THIS is happening. Curse your career and your paper in flattened English.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d ago

The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.

NCTE with the Google Grant. Anna Mills working as a consultant for OpenAI and then going on to usher in the GenAI adoption of writing studies. The list goes on in higher education 🫩

Tech Won’t Save Us@techwontsave.us · 6d ago

Cloud giants wield influence in so many ways that we don’t even consider — including shaping and capturing research. This week @ceciliarikap.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how major tech companies shape society and why we need to push back. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/339_...

There is no AI without stealing intellectual property. That's the business model. Take everyone's work, build AI tools, dismantle access to knowledge, force people to pay to use AI. www.reuters.com/world/german...

German court rules AI music firm Suno broke copyright rules

A German ​court ruled on Friday that AI music firm Suno violated ​copyrights and has to disclose illicit revenue, part of a wider ⁠legal battle by artists and publishers against technology firms.

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