Does anyone need a Thorns ticket for tomorrow?
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Does anyone need a Thorns ticket for tomorrow?
welllllllll, the kids do active shooter drills these days so I’m gonna go with infinity.
GPT-4 might be able to pass the bar exam, but that doesn’t mean it can practice law.
Listen to "AI Snake Oil" author Sayash Kapoor in conversation with legal scholar Kevin Frazier on the Future Knowledge #podcast, discussing his new paper with Arvind Narayanan.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).
Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.
Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Don’t love a horse shoe
It will also try to get you to delete a bunch of stuff you actually want tho, but you’d figure that out. I was happy to delete that thread
Thank you again, so much. Helped to not just put sugar in my body all day.
Fwiw, when I stated getting those I clocked the little cleanup button wondering what would happen and it found a years old email thread that was like a half GB, beca we basically emailed the same 20MB pdf file back and forth accidentally.
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God damnit
It's harsh but MLS has to crack down on this type of thing to drive fans to league-sponsored content like Extra Time Radio, Armchair Analyst columns and all the quality Apple TV programming between matches
FUCK ICE chant just broke out during the moment of silence at the start of the Loons game
Whoa, danke!
Noted for next week! Thanks for advice, for a first timer.
haha oh no
"It's time to put to rest the idea of a benevolent billionaire." @victorpickard.bsky.social @onthemedia.bsky.social @micahloewinger.bsky.social
Wednesday Lunch Ed., Portland Timbers 3-2 Columbus Crew, Plus #MLS Week 1 Notes/Theories/Bullshit
LINK: tinyurl.com/2e92v4vw
A quick wrap up of the Timbers season-opening win, plus a whip-around some results around the league.
Still working on timing for these posts. More... #rctid (1/3)
The most worrying thing about billionaires calling the rest of humanity “resource depletion” so publicly and advocating robots are better than humans as far as resources go is that they are justifying their reasoning to get rid of the rest of us.
www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2026/2/...
You should read it tho, fr fr
Think Out Loud on OPB radio at 8 pm tonight had a segment on "Black Infinity House," an art exhibit at Columbia Center for the Arts in Hood River until March 29, 2026. From the group Black in the Gorge, it features more than 30 Black artists in Oregon: www.opb.org/article/2026...
Que pasa gato
You probably heard about the recent death from colorectal cancer of James Van Der Beek, star of Dawson's Creek. We know some details, but there are missing pieces. He said he had Stage 3 cancer. Typically, this is highly treatable. It's possible he had ...
people.com/james-van-de...
I was promised cheaper groceries and tariff rebates and all I got was this lousy pogrom
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This is a landmark year in American soccer, and I don't think the Timbers have had a season with this much pressure and expectation since they entered MLS. #RCTID
Feb 17, 2023 tweet by Molly White: it's only a matter of time before a kid lets go of a mylar balloon at a birthday party and an F-22 comes roaring overhead to neutralize the threat
Oh no, it’s finally happening
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Everyone is ACES
New article on the duplicity of people like David Krueger who argue that ASI might cause "human extinction." In fact, human extinction is *built-into* the TESCREAL worldview they accept. If things *go well*, then humanity dies out. Don't be fooled by their dishonest rhetoric.
Pretty sure this happened a loooooooong time ago during occupy. Thanks Obama.
