I’m now getting calls from various Canadian locales about my loan approval and I really don’t need Canada involved in this nonsense.
Sarah T Roberts, PhD
@ubiquity75.xyz
Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film. Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
This cave is infuriating and a massive scandal that should haunt these administrators forever.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14h agoBREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.
this is actually worth listening to. not because it's that more insane than most other stuff. but it's a window into how he understands trade. and he understands in the sense of having no idea how anything works.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h agoTrump says the US would “save” $90 billion by cutting off trade with Canada 🥴
dragging the US into a shooting war with a nuclear armed power to protect OpenAI’s profitability is certainty a hot take
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 9h agothey're all just huffing the farts of their own madness the next 12 months of US AI policy is going to be bipartisan xenophobic incoherence
One way to understand Trump's trade views: In his private business, Trump got used to not paying for things—stiffing the granite-countertop contractor, or chandelier salesman—but still got the products anyway. So maybe he thinks America should just be getting the world's goods for free, too.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h ago“We could do tremendous good for ourselves by just not trading with countries” — Trump’s bonkers view of trade is that you become wealthy by not engaging in commerce
Want a story with a happy ending? A little over a month ago, I took a trip up to the Bay for an important meeting/conference. When flying back, the flight was delayed and we deplaned, and I never my stupid little quirky ereader on board. Right before a long trip abroad.
The White House stole kids book ‘The Magic School Bus’ last week to promote ICE deportations. ‘Magic Deportation Bus’ depicted brown men in shackles. Scholastic, publisher of MSB book series and co-producer of upcoming MSB movie starring Elizabeth Banks, has not responded to multiple inquires.
Good. It's a start. Too many school & college administrators can't see through the AI marketing hype. It's way past time to slow down — to stop — and think things through in partnership with teachers, professors, and education researchers.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 18h agoThe two largest public school systems in the country, New York and Los Angeles, are banning AI for at least some of their students this school year.
This is why most faculty cannot make sense of the 'woke' University trope. Our lived experiences bear little resemblance to it. This is far closer to the norm.
Chokely Carmichael🥋@stewartcoles.bsky.social · yesterdayUW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.
“Because writing, when it comes down to it, is a higher form of thinking. Writing takes time and editing and a deep level of commitment. Writing is a rigorous process to understand your own thoughts and then lay those thoughts out in a way that convinces or inspires or moves other people.”
Everyone’s Using This A.I. Dictation App That I Want to Murder With a Hammer (Gift Article)
Wispr Flow is supposed to make writing effortless and magical. So I “wrote” this column with it.
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“Each student said the university’s lengthy, opaque investigation left them questioning campus leaders’ commitment to preventing future misconduct.”
UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor
Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.
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I can self-host all the services I want, but I still haven't cracked the code on how to deal with being inundated by email all day every day.
Complete self-own that cost them a lot more than $100K. Guess they hate money
dame@dame.is · 2d agoinsane how much good will, longstanding trust, and real business 1Password is willing to destroy just so they can donate some money to a racist project — this is such a catastrophically dumb move that should’ve been a no brainer to walk back within the first 12 hours
There's a generation that has no idea how REVOLUTIONARY mifepristone has been and I think it's an issue. IMO MIFE is part of the reason the response to the fall of Roe has actually been so muted in many quarters in this country. www.reproductiveaccess.org/2023/04/hist...
The History of Mifepristone - Reproductive Health Access Project (RHAP)
Updated March 27, 2024 Nearly four years ago, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of mifepristone and looked back on the history of this medication and how it expanded the options available for those s...
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Friends, when I sent this message to my team laughing, I didn't know that this fairytale blog had been shared far & wide & that people actually believed it. I didn't know that until someone asked me for a good source debunking this nonsense. I'm not sure what planet we're living in at this point.
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Amazon, Destroyer of Books - town hall (09.02.26)
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Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 2d agoI have been told it will stream here via this very cool project called LA Community Radio lacommunityradio.com
Ok nearly 3yrs ago I upgraded my son's pc 32gb 3600 ddr4 - £65. The only matching spec from the same retailer today, albeit a different brand is £537. He just had to fork out £175 for a new 2tb M2 nvme drive.
It’s pretty blackpilling that Republicans are actively trying their best to destroy the world and the biggest media outlets in the U.S. (in some cases owned by said Republicans) are making shit up about progressives instead of covering it. We need to replace that whole media ecosystem
I am now doing everything I can to host services for myself and get out from other people’s computers. I find it incredibly rewarding. Nothing is exposed to the open net (I’m running tailscale) and things are working great.
I mean…we have a serious failure of government. Why aren’t these clowns in Congress talking about it? Are they really all on the make that hard?
