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joanne mcneil

@jomc.bsky.social

wrote a couple books including the novel WRONG WAY joannemcneil.com

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joanne mcneil@jomc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

genuinely charmed by the thermal printer photobooth boxes popping up around town. guess its been long enough for nyu itp circa 2011 geolocation/physical computing nostalgia.

Thermal printer image of me with QR code and laptop screen open to the color version of the photo of me
joanne mcneil@jomc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

never not blown away (almost to tears) by the creativity, vulnerability, openness, humor, and searching kindness that you can find trawling deep in old usenet archives. people really used to bare their souls through networked machines

screenshot of a list of posts from 3/99 from the usenet archive talk.bizarre from google groups "unread, Iris Murdoch memorial haiku, or two When Plato banished the artists, what then? They slipped right under the net. Rationality never 3/2/99 sho...@home.com's profile photo sho...@home.com, … Anthony Garcia6 unread, what's going on? What's going on? I am new here. Whatever you decide "here" means, will be accurate. 3/2/99 Rollin Thomas's profile photo Rollin Thomas unread, The First Candidate. This world is a red world, and it is red because of the iron, which is special, at the peak of the 3/2/99 Ward's profile photo Ward, AjD3 unread, Test - pls ignore Never mind me, just working out my .sig Ward wrote: > -- > ------------------------------------ 3/2/99 Andrea B. Previtera's profile photo Andrea B. Previtera unread, E^pi*i=-1, and a strong moisture on the bench. I remember those afternoons at the end of winter, when the coriander seeds increased the details of 3/2/99 Ken Johnson's profile photo Ken Johnson unread, Football Result After Lagos Rovers defeated Ogoni Wednesday by 73 goals to 2 in the Shell Oil Championship Quarter 3/2/99 Felix S. Gallo's profile photo Felix S. Gallo, Blair P. Houghton2 unread, the original celebrated curiously strong cthulhu this time we made it past the tiled wading pool. We did it by being careful to move our feet only 3/2/99 Pima's profile photo Pima, … Rollin Thomas24 unread, Alloy wheels Have you ever thought on how stupid are people buying alloy wheels just to have a nicer car? I mean 3/11/99 Unknown Quantity's profile photo Unknown Quantity unread, anchor escapement This one's for G, P and Ilana. 1 (thieves) on stolen time you met strangers with rough hands 3/2/99 Earle Jones's profile photo Earle Jones unread, Proof! In article <academias.neutronium.51@neutronium.unl.edu>, Academias Neutronium <academias. 3/1/99"
Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Three years into the AI era, educators say they face a major crisis. Bosses and clients replacing tutoring jobs with AI. Replacing *athletic coaching* with AI. Many students now cannot grasp why they would *not* use AI for schoolwork. And worse. The 5th installment of AI Killed My Job—educators:

"If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?" Education workers reveal a growing crisis on campus and off

AI Killed My Job: Educators.

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Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

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joanne mcneil@jomc.bsky.social · 7mo ago

surreal and infuriating to encounter my Grokipedia bio. Feels like a personal brand was forced upon me by generative AI, eg “low profile” as lifestyle trend rather than an inclination

Screenshot of Grokipedia text, “ Residence and Lifestyle McNeil, who grew up in the working-class city of Brockton, Massachusetts, later sublet an apartment in West Harlem, New York, as of 2020, reflecting a flexible, nomadic phase suited to freelance writing.[5] She has since relocated to Los Angeles, where she maintains her base as of 2024, enabling a remote lifestyle that aligns with the demands of independent journalism and book projects.[1] This shift from East Coast roots to the West Coast mirrors patterns of displacement common in precarious creative professions, informed by her Brockton upbringing in a community of modest means.[4] Her habits emphasize frugality and self-reliance, habits traceable to early experiences with limited resources, such as family use of dial-up internet in the 1990s, which fostered a cautious approach to technology and consumption persisting into her adult life in Los Angeles. Recent activities, including a 2023 interview with the Los Angeles Public Library, confirm her ongoing presence in the city, where she balances writing with minimal public disclosure of personal routines.[43] This low-profile lifestyle prioritizes productivity over ostentation, avoiding the excesses associated with tech hubs while leveraging LA's networks for occasional engagements.”
John Berry@aniccia.bsky.social · 8mo ago

PG&E is having a massive outage in San Francisco. Waymo robots aren't handling the traffic light outages well. Cell service is also out is some places. No surprise as Waymo robots & cell have repeatedly failed during power outages. CPUC regulates both Waymo and PG&E (Profit Greed & Explosions).

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e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 8mo ago

Everyone treats "autonomy" as a singular technological problem, that once "solved" will simply create a profit-generating machine, but the hard reality is that this technology is a constant negotiation between profits on one hand and the level of safety and behavior society will tolerate on the road

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies

Fascist Dem Tracker@fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 8mo ago

When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground. For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.

"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry

Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.

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joanne mcneil@jomc.bsky.social · 8mo ago

if you are among the few staff critics reviewing books, films, music, art, &c, it is your professional duty to take a chance on things. Attend a random screening, pick up a self-published book, follow whims and offer full-throated generous praise for anything that makes an impression on a shoestring

joanne mcneil@jomc.bsky.social · 8mo ago

thinking back to when Facebook launched its Oversight Board in 2020—a transparent move to defuse crises on its own terms, a fig leaf to evade external audits and appeal to the technocrats. "Self-regulating" trillion dollar company is now a model for AI firms to playact as their worst critics.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!

Heather Bryant@hbcompass.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

ali alkhatib@ali-alkhatib.com · 9mo ago

now listening to this @techwontsave.us episode with @jomc.bsky.social about autonomous vehicles and delivery robots, particularly relevant following the recent tragedy of a waymo taxi killing a locally beloved bodega cat

Silicon Valley Doesn’t Know What Makes a Good City w/ Joanne McNeil — Tech Won't Save Us

Paris Marx is joined by Joanne McNeil to discuss the proliferation of delivery bots and robotaxis and how they recycle disproven claims about how technology will improve transportation. Joanne McNeil ...

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