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Jessie Slater PhD

@subbasegirl.bsky.social

Archaeologist straddling great divide between arts/science, UK/US, sanity/madness. Herding researchers, data, & integrity @science.org. Have own opinions, especially about fútbol. she/her ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3930-9190/

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Jessie Slater PhD@subbasegirl.bsky.social · 3d ago

'In 1953, the civil rights activist James Baldwin wrote that “people are trapped in history and history is trapped in them”...the greater the proportion of enslaved people in a county in 1860, the bigger the mortality gap between Black and white people in the 2010s.' 🧪🩺⚖️

Slavery linked to mortality gap between Black and white Americans today

New study is among the first to quantify and explain slavery’s influence in contemporary U.S. health disparities

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Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · last wk.

It's true that *at an individual level* you should be kind. Don't scream at your anti-vaxx neighbors or whatever. But when it comes to *public discourse* the most important message is that vaccines save lives and anti-vaxx beliefs kill children. If they feel attacked by that, it's not my problem.

Michael Truscello🏴@mtruscello.bsky.social · 7d ago

"Sadly, this shadow economy made headlines only because of the tragic suicide of Jason Arday, a disabled Black man who was the victim of a targeted witch hunt organized by a network of academic eugenicists affiliated with the famous techno-fascist Peter Thiel..."

How Much Dark Money Is in Professional Philosophy?

One of the purposes of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY is to expose eugenic principles and practices within professional philosophy. As Shelley Tremain has argued persistently since founding this blog, the…

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Greg Pak@gregpak.net · last wk.

Time and time again, generative "A.i." advocates reveal themselves to be focused on product over process. The PROCESS of creative and intellectual work is where everything happens. Writing is thinking. If you're not actually writing, you're cheating yourself of the real value of the process.

Jessie Slater PhD@subbasegirl.bsky.social · last wk.

'it does matter to me that AI data scientists at huge tech companies think that word choice doesn’t matter...That may be true for LLM garbage, but is not true for the human experience of writing, which is why human writing almost always feels different than AI writing.'

Anthropic’s Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About Writing

AI companies see words as interchangeable and have zero clue how to judge the “quality” of writing.

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Jessie Slater PhD@subbasegirl.bsky.social · last wk.

'digital preservation is not just about maintaining access. It is also about shaping the future historical record of scholarship. If preservation strategies prioritize efficiency and scale alone, they risk reproducing existing imbalances.'

Guest Post — Preserving the Record, Shaping the Future: Why Diversity Matters in Digital Preservation - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today's guest post argues that digital preservation is not just a technical problem, but a function that often ignores issues of social justice, quietly codifying existing imbalances in scholarly comm...

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John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last wk.

Oh, for fuck's sake. If you had an "AI" generate the text, then you're not the author. "Oh, but the ideas are mine." Motherfucker, ideas aren't copyrightable, and neither is the text if "AI" barfed it out. In neither a logistical nor legal sense does the term "author" convey to you.

Richard Van Noorden@richvn.bsky.social · last wk.

Dean of Science at Stellenbosch University writes that although AI generates almost all the words for his articles (including this one): "AI did almost all of the writing. I remain the expert and the thought leader behind the piece." www.nature.com/articles/d44...

Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · last wk.

We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · 2w ago

If you have a friend who has shared about suicidal ideation, follow up even if they "seem fine," even if the crisis appears to have passed. Ask about it directly. SI loves the darkness. It loves loneliness. It loves silence. Even asking about it is a service, even if after it's gone. /9

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2w ago

My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago. Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.

RA Walker@tchrgrrrl.bsky.social · 2w ago

When we digitize 100% of our history and then give 100% of our digitized history over to corporations, it takes less than a moment to lose everything. It's scary. We as people who live in this world ought to do better about hedging our bets. Safeguards. Something.

Stephanie Flynn@stephanieflynn.bsky.social · 2w ago

What a nightmare PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation | Tom's Hardware share.google/ExvNkuiN1bIl...