Assume an angry (angery?) sphere 🎢
06.03.2026 16:56
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Assume an angry (angery?) sphere 🎢
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Making America Great Again
We call upon you to: • Resist the introduction of AI in our own software systems, from Microsoft to OpenAI to Apple. It is not in our interests to let our processes be corrupted and give away our data to be used to train models that are not only useless to us, but also harmful. • Ban AI use in the classroom for student assignments, in the same way we ban essay mills and other forms of plagiarism. Students must be protected from de-skilling and allowed space and time to perform their assignments themselves.
• Cease normalising the AI hype and the lies which are prevalent in the technology industry's framing of these technologies. The technologies do not have the advertised capacities and their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, and safety. • Fortify our academic freedom as university staff to enforce these principles and standards in our classrooms and our research as well as on the computer systems we are obliged to use as part of our work. We as academics have the right to our own spaces. • Sustain critical thinking on AI and promote critical engagement with technology on a firm academic footing. Scholarly discussion must be free from the conflicts of interest caused by industry funding, and reasoned resistance must always be an option.
More people need to make these open letters to find their local allies (feel free to sign ours too ofc)
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Yep. It's getting old.
Because they spent it on a pointless war?
Some people just don't listen to experts any more, at least that's the way it feels.
Mine was associated with Fermilab, not my university. I still remember when our office got one computer that allowed multiple "windows". I would get to work early so I could be the first one to use it.
We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.
Yep.
My first email address was on a VAX too. I don't remember what it was.
I played space invaders on one of those in high school.
(Note, that's not me in the video.)
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A fucked up answer
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I think I may have seen a couple more give talks, but I didn’t speak with them.
A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”
Screaming
Photo of a small Scottish town (Kirkcudbright) with houses nestled together amongst green hills next to the sea.
I could totally see living here:
"The position as a Lise Meitner Group Leader will be advertised to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists... The Lise Meitner Groups are furnished with their own resources for their entire duration." Sounds like a great opportunity. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩🏻🔬
This is so awful.
Soap operas and game shows on TV followed by the 4:30 movie. When I was younger, I would read Nancy Drew books.
I think I might know which one that is. Are they making wine in California?
CBC does a good job of discussing the science about switching to all daylight-savings-time here. 🇨🇦 @davidebybc.bsky.social
Would anyone like to work in Scotland? Very tempting. 🧪👩🏻🔬 ⚛️
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I'm sure she did, or one of her staff did on her behalf.
ai:du This makes me so angry and sad. 😡😢
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