I hate ChatGPT as much as anyone, but I don't actually think my students are using it that much. The majority of their papers are filled with the types of grammatical and stylistic errors that AI weeds out. Like most things related to this issue, I think the crisis might also be overblown.
10.03.2026 14:28
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When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities
As someone who watched the careful stewardship of grants over many years, the lack of care and the dismissal of the hard work of scholars and NEH program staff described here is devastating and shameful.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
07.03.2026 21:06
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A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says βBREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.β
Literally as Iβm arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity
06.03.2026 15:04
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REGIONAL WAR HAS STARTED
-US-Israel strategic attacks on Iranian leadership
-US Navy attacking Iranian Navy. USAF attacking ballistic missile facilities
Iran has retaliated with successful ballistic missile attacks against Israel, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar.
28.02.2026 10:13
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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
The richest man owns X.
The second and third richest men control Google.
The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
26.02.2026 23:40
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Students that have a red or a blue color wash over them mingle around a campus plaza.
Most Conservative Students Donβt Feel Persecuted on Campus
A new survey of college students contradicts Republican rhetoric that campus culture is hostile to right-wing views. https://bit.ly/4styRX5
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky
24.02.2026 17:10
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This too, is a form of social Darwinism; one that always accompanies fantasies about leaving the weak "behind." I encountered this eugenicist futurism in early primatology, when ppl speculated whether primates could be used to circumvent child labor and anti-slavery laws.
bsky.app/profile/x2y....
21.02.2026 20:23
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After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.
18.02.2026 00:49
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Leslie Wexner, former CEO of Victoria's Secret, was the other man named by Ava Cordero as her rapist and abuser alongside Jeffrey Epstein in 2007, only to be mocked and degraded and dismissed as crazy because she's trans.
10.02.2026 20:48
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It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
09.02.2026 01:54
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how dare you use karaoke for evil
09.02.2026 01:02
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Who is tracking the ratio of Super Bowl ads that are complete scams vs just regular capitalism?
09.02.2026 01:02
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Congress can begin viewing FULL Epstein files tomorrow at 9am in secure room at Justice Dept in DC
Yes⦠there will likely be some who show up when doors open
09.02.2026 00:44
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7 Reasons Teens Say No to AI
Some young people only turn to artificial-intelligence chatbots as a last resort, citing concerns about relationships, creativity, the environment and more.
As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused.
So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.
01.02.2026 22:24
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Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
01.02.2026 21:44
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Would love to read a book on what this convergence represents. Itβs funny how the description is always an inversion of what it is - as if the more it isnβt true the harder it has to be pressed home.
01.02.2026 10:56
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Academics vying for a spot in Epsteinβs world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I donβt keep confusing them. 1/
31.01.2026 21:02
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Researchers Just Found Something Terrifying About Talking to AI Chatbots
AI chatbots may, as new research suggests, be able to infer information about you based on small things you mention to them.
I'm surprised people didn't know this at this point. These are surveillance machines.
"large language models (LLMs) behind them can infer things about you based on minor context clues you provide"
futurism.com/the-byte/ai-...
26.01.2026 10:52
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In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grokβs images β or 1.8 million β were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.
22.01.2026 15:01
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first taste is always free
22.01.2026 05:40
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Vancouver social-media company Hootsuite looking to work with ICE to βbuild trustβ
Company has secured a project with ICE that involves βsocial listeningβ after cancelling a contract in 2020 over employee backlash
Canadian firm to boycott: Vancouver's Hootsuite. Social media firm wants to work w/ ICE to analyze social media sentiment. There's no way to "build trust" w/ ICE. ICE is a fascist organization terrorizing & abducting people.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
22.01.2026 13:04
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AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.
21.01.2026 00:19
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Just did some conference paper reviews and Iβm pretty sure one was substantially AI written. Very clean and smooth but made no sense in parts. Cited real court cases but got them so wrong itβs hard to imagine a human who read the cases (or knew anything about them) writing those lines.
17.01.2026 14:54
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Iβm looking for scholarship that connects Judith Butlerβs work on performativity with propaganda. Does anyone have any recommendations?
17.01.2026 14:38
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Yeah, that would be less ideal.. π
17.01.2026 13:39
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