You can read my study of 10 years of liberal body camera propaganda--The Body Camera: The Language of Our Dreams--here: campuspress.yale.edu/yjll/volume-...
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You can read my study of 10 years of liberal body camera propaganda--The Body Camera: The Language of Our Dreams--here: campuspress.yale.edu/yjll/volume-...
Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”
GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
To be clear: I teach with/about it sometimes, and there are for sure good access arguments for use. But context matters a lot?
I'm taking a university-run UDL course and it's a little disheartening to see that the CAST guidelines have become explicitly pro-AI.
AI does not enhance “efficiency.” AI is a permission structure for a totalizing regime of austerity and labor immiseration.
Time for our weekly reminder that there is only one ed tech investment that is proven to work, and it's hiring more teachers and paying them better.
I think describing the power of these videos as primarily evidentiary misunderstands how they actually function. We've known since at least the Rodney King trial that video doesn't guarantee consequences. Instead, we should think of them as political texts that galvanize the otherwise unengaged.
hey Bluesky por favor share your preferred local Venezuelan and Spanish-first news sources, I usually read El País pero necissito mas hoy porque this US coverage is basura
I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
truly influential definitions of AI 'systemic risks' may not come directly from regulators, but from insurers currently trying to figure out how to exclude losses related to AI tools (unreliable, widely used -> correlated risks, complex supply chains -> unclear liability)
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
2017: Officer shoots teen in the back of their shoulder
June 2021: Shooting ruled unjustified
Sept. 2021: Top cop disagrees
Nov. 2021: Police Board president orders full hearing
2019-24: 4 lawsuits naming officer settled for $590K
June 2025: Officer promoted to sergeant
Nov. 2025: Charges dropped
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
The most insidious slight of hand the AI industry has performed is getting everyone to conflate all forms of ML/AI with ChatGPT style LLM-based chatbots. Most people read this headline think “ChatGPT is making weather prediction more accurate.”
aside from Cloudflare and AWS what other internet-breaking single point of failure can we look forward to in the coming weeks
Student says he and a classmate talk about stuff from my Global Media Industries class while lifting together, and idk. Something about that is wonderfully wholesome.
I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me...
We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet.
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This is fair, and you're right.
The spacing around punctuation alone...
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
Oh hell yes.
This is like in a movie when two giant, comically inept, and heavily armed bad guys face off.
In retrospect, the time to fight back was when the tech industry started using us to train LLMs by making CAPTCHAs ubiquitous and required.
"You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledge and practice some exceedingly cruel rituals."
A whole lot of red states are actually just highly gerrymandered and/or voter suppressed states. Not all, of course -- places like North Dakota and Wyoming exist -- but enough that people should be more conscious of it than a lot are.
oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.
Another example of body cameras as technosolution. (Which isn't to say this order isn't meaningful, but maybe not quite as much in itself as one might want it to be.)
An add for flock raven with the title "safety you can see and now hear" with an alert for someone "screaming"
An add for flock raven with the title "safety you can see and now hear" with an alert that says "distress"
🚨 We wrote about Flock rolling out "distress detection" that monitored human voices on their gunshot detection devices & asked how it was lawful under eavesdropping laws.
Now, they've changed the ad to replace a "SCREAMING" alert with a "DISTRESS" alert. See below:
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
