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I’m a poet. Roses are red, rainwater’s wet/ why don’t we have universal healthcare yet?

If you read this as "yet you live in society," I urge you to pause, reflect for a little longer, and generally do those important intellectual tasks that techbros don't want you to do. 'Cause Josh isn't simping for capital here, he's reflecting on how powerfully sneaky it is.

Josh Shepperd@joshshepperd.bsky.social · 5h ago

I think at this point one would be hard pressed to find someone who critiques AI who hasn’t used AI within the last week, even if just to find a restaurant menu. It’s through these subtle semi-connected matrices that we will weaken our concepts of citation and triangulation.

I hate how accurate this is, I hate how I am becoming burned out on AI *as an AI researcher* because it is inescapable. I hate how much I use it and I hate how insidious it is. This thread is bang on.

Josh Shepperd@joshshepperd.bsky.social · 5h ago

I think at this point one would be hard pressed to find someone who critiques AI who hasn’t used AI within the last week, even if just to find a restaurant menu. It’s through these subtle semi-connected matrices that we will weaken our concepts of citation and triangulation.

This is right. It’s almost impossible not to and lots of people are wilfully misunderstanding this point. I don’t remember to write ‘-ai’ most of the time in searches, and frankly it’s too tiring to remember.

Josh Shepperd@joshshepperd.bsky.social · 5h ago

I think at this point one would be hard pressed to find someone who critiques AI who hasn’t used AI within the last week, even if just to find a restaurant menu. It’s through these subtle semi-connected matrices that we will weaken our concepts of citation and triangulation.

yeah that's why they are forcing it into everything even things that worked fine or better without it; it's called manufacturing consent, dipshit, which you might have known about if you learned with your brain instead of asking environmentally catastrophic Clippy to do your thinning for you

Josh Shepperd@joshshepperd.bsky.social · 5h ago

I think at this point one would be hard pressed to find someone who critiques AI who hasn’t used AI within the last week, even if just to find a restaurant menu. It’s through these subtle semi-connected matrices that we will weaken our concepts of citation and triangulation.

If you use the internet, you use AI, where AI has replaced search and we should stop pretending it hasn't. but you can make choices. I wrote/published this with an old photo we have used before instead of a one the Air Force put out, that was clearly AI. taskandpurpose.com/news/air-for...

Air Force authorizes new berets for explosive ordnance techs

The new rust-colored headgear for explosive ordnance disposal techs will be the service's seventh distinctive beret.

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Josh Shepperd@joshshepperd.bsky.social · 5h ago

I think at this point one would be hard pressed to find someone who critiques AI who hasn’t used AI within the last week, even if just to find a restaurant menu. It’s through these subtle semi-connected matrices that we will weaken our concepts of citation and triangulation.

Librarians, start your engines.... 📚

You know AI is a big problem when two completely unrelated Reddit subs have posts back-to-back about AI issues. #AiIsTheProblem #TechLiteracy

I am on fall break & out here eschewing info lit. You can take the school librarian out of school...

Texas also banned my book Occulted, which is how finding a hidden library full of banned books is what helped my friend Amy Rose escape a UFO death cult. Books save lives. They save countries. They save the world. #BannedBooksWeek

Occulted

"Insightful and riveting." -- KIRKUS "A tense, thrilling account of escaping a cult." -- FOREWORD "This inspiring tale of bravery and rebellion is just what readers need right now." -- SCHOOL LIBRARY ...

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Ironically, folks keep banning Banned Book Club, the true story of my wife Kim Hyun Sook reading banned books under a dictator. Why? Hard to say. I asked every time, and every book banner says "oh, I haven't read it." #BannedBooksWeek

Banned Book Club: Color Edition

A Junior Library Guild Selection "Highly recommended for readers passionate about activism." -- SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, Starred Review "Sure to inspire today's youthful generation of tenacious change...

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This is also true of Black creators, who were subject to the first wave of attacks in 2020. bookshop.org/p/books/a-go... bookshop.org/p/books/hoop... bookshop.org/p/books/when...

A Good Kind of Trouble

From debut author Lisa Moore Ramée comes this funny and big-hearted debut middle grade novel about friendship, family, and standing up for what’s right, perfect for fans of Angie Thomas’s The Hate U G...

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No banned book list is accurate if it doesn't feature a lot of work from trans authors, unfortunately. It's been a line of attack that's been effective, which is why I'm not tagging creators. some goodies: bookshop.org/p/books/vict... bookshop.org/p/books/sir-... bookshop.org/p/books/a-wo...

Victories Greater Than Death

Outsmart Your Enemies. Outrun the Galaxy.“Just please, remember what I told you. Run. Don’t stop running for anything.”Buckle up your seatbelt for Victories Greater Than Death, a thrilling YA sci-fi a...

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We all know that Telegraph Club gets banned, but @malindalo.bsky.social's debut ASH gets banned all the time, too for the crime of being gay: bookshop.org/p/books/ash-...

Ash

"This lyrically retold Cinderella tale is not just a beautifully updated fable, but an ode to the transformative power of love."--Cassandra Clare, bestselling author of The Mortal Instruments series T...

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PRETTY PERFECT KITTY-CORN by @shannonhale.bsky.social and LeUyen Pham got banned in TX for showing a unicorn's heinie, and also having a boy with eyelashes: bookshop.org/p/books/pret...

Pretty Perfect Kitty-Corn: A Picture Book

This positively delightful kitty and unicorn picture-book story celebrates the magic of friendship--and the beauty of imperfection. The magical, bestselling team of Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham put t...

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everyone is being shy, so I'm going to add a few to get us rolling that I know get banned, and I don't see on lists often enough: DAMSEL by @elanakarnold.bsky.social is banned from every public school in Utah and is also a masterpiece in feminist YA fiction: bookshop.org/p/books/dams...

Damsel

*A 2019 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book*A dark, twisted, unforgettable fairy tale from Elana K. Arnold, author of the National Book Award finalist What Girls Are Made OfThe rite has existed for as ...

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For example: My books The Mermaid The Witch and The Sea and Squad both get banned frequently. One is a high fantasy with a sapphic romance. Once is a SA revenge fantasy. bookshop.org/p/books/the-... bookshop.org/p/books/squa...

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

In a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic, a desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial lady find a connection on the high seas.The pirate Florian, born Flora, has always...

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Here's the thing: most books that are banned don't make the lists that get circulated each #BannedBooksWeek. If you're a book creator and your book gets banned, please respond to this post with your book and its buy link on bookshop.org. That way we can support indies and banned books 💛

We are supposed to feel a heightened sense of discomfort all the time... ...or ignore what is being done to us... BOTH are BAD.

Rain@simplyrain.bsky.social · 2h ago

The discussions about gAI and more invasive technologies (think cameras everywhere) cannot be separated from discussing & understanding consent. They do not need or want your consent. Sit with that.

not sure if i can blame ai for most of the replies being completely unable or unwilling to understand what josh is getting at here

Josh Shepperd@joshshepperd.bsky.social · 5h ago

I think at this point one would be hard pressed to find someone who critiques AI who hasn’t used AI within the last week, even if just to find a restaurant menu. It’s through these subtle semi-connected matrices that we will weaken our concepts of citation and triangulation.

a significant challenge is to articulate why *this* form of "semi-connected matrices" is different from/worse than earlier such forms - the price of not so differentiating is driving the subject of critique backwards into pure individual transcendence

Josh Shepperd@joshshepperd.bsky.social · 5h ago

I think at this point one would be hard pressed to find someone who critiques AI who hasn’t used AI within the last week, even if just to find a restaurant menu. It’s through these subtle semi-connected matrices that we will weaken our concepts of citation and triangulation.

I think a lot of people jumping on this don’t know Josh’s area of expertise or background, this post is not about devaluing your critiques, or a “you participate in society” thing, it’s about how insidious ai is, it’s in so much of our tech that it’s becoming embedded in our information systems.

Josh Shepperd@joshshepperd.bsky.social · 5h ago

I think at this point one would be hard pressed to find someone who critiques AI who hasn’t used AI within the last week, even if just to find a restaurant menu. It’s through these subtle semi-connected matrices that we will weaken our concepts of citation and triangulation.

Borden Park is still beautiful in the fall, even with the fence for the fucking pumpkins after dark festival.

The discussions about gAI and more invasive technologies (think cameras everywhere) cannot be separated from discussing & understanding consent. They do not need or want your consent. Sit with that.

gAI is so baked into everything, that each one of us is using it without consent on the daily--even if you are not "digital." It is phone bots. It is flyers & advertisements. It is TV commercials. It is books, audiobooks, and magazines. It is the news. It is your medical records.

Josh Shepperd@joshshepperd.bsky.social · 5h ago

I think at this point one would be hard pressed to find someone who critiques AI who hasn’t used AI within the last week, even if just to find a restaurant menu. It’s through these subtle semi-connected matrices that we will weaken our concepts of citation and triangulation.

I wouldn’t say “used” so much as “was exposed to.” Like, I don’t seek it out. I type things into Google as I’ve always done, and then an AI summary pops up. I’m sure it’s embedded in a of other things that I’m not even aware of too. Like when I call customer service numbers, etc.

Josh Shepperd@joshshepperd.bsky.social · 5h ago

I think at this point one would be hard pressed to find someone who critiques AI who hasn’t used AI within the last week, even if just to find a restaurant menu. It’s through these subtle semi-connected matrices that we will weaken our concepts of citation and triangulation.

It’s not really a bad faith argument, is it? It’s precisely about how insidious it is that this technology has its tendrils in almost every part of what we do Meaning, precisely, that even those Google AI summaries are part of the broader apparatus whereby AI gets its hooks in us

The internet was and in some places still is great because people love interacting and making art and sharing what they just saw in their home town or on their travels and scribing elaborate rants and playing games and making friends and meeting new people and inventing personae and collaborating an