Hubert Dreyfus' epigraph from Pascal for his 1965 paper on AI for the Rand Corporation.
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Hubert Dreyfus' epigraph from Pascal for his 1965 paper on AI for the Rand Corporation.
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Justin Joque offers a more radical critique of AI in this review, questioning both the intentional model of language and the liberal politics of Bender and Hanna's the AI Con:
olrsupplement.com/2026/02/17/t...
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
wait i don't understand how anything works i'm not supposed to be mr rhizomes
i have secured an incredibly obnoxious domain handle for myself
politics is when i do a crude utilitarian calculation about my yearly Drop in the Pond Decision. everyone else has to do it too, based on Reason, that’s how elections are won. not because of insane libidinal economy reasons or anything to do with affective investment
Figure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Con- ceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer. Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world. Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices. Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy practices. The lines between dimensions represent how they are interwoven both directly and indirectly.
New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"
Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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exactly
this one has killed me jon
[Obama voice]: if you like your humanist subject, you'll be able to keep your humanist subject
whenever a paper starts with something like "let P be..." or "assume that if X then Y, then..." I'm like, first of all do not speak to me that way
extremely funny that Sartre begrudgingly read all of Freud for a Hollywood screenplay that he ended up withdrawing his name from.
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
This site’s only good when my ten friends all come back to send a couple tweets onto my feed the same day. Unfortunately this only happens every three months.
Sorry for 216-texting you
Once my paper “Towards an Italian-American Existentialism” hits Nous, I’ll have my pick of endowed chairs in New Jersey.
Just saw a guy use dialectical materialism to blow someone’s head smoove off
try to set achievable goals (maybe start with 1 side salad and 30 seconds of cardio)
Flyer for event with QR code (main details all in the above post)
December 4 at 10am @ UMich and on Zoom, I'll be talking about the labor & environmental impacts of AI in historical context. Computing's long history of automation & pollution reframes how we understand capitalism in the digital age.
Register for free: sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/...
Adorno-Horkheimer didn’t get a copy of Benjamin’s “Theses” until mid-1941. Reading it they discovered not only remarkable coincidences with their most recent work but differences they couldn’t help but want to fight him over, hours without end, at a Parisian café open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
Maybe this place is alright
an image of bill clinton with the text "donald trump sucked me off??"
Finally reading Lukács and it’s pretty cool to read a robust account of something like alienation so early in the 20th century
i'm a deleuzean in the very specific sense that i spiritually align with the freaks but i really like hanging out at home
Ooh I’m curious about second; you know when that Northwestern book cover design is on that the book is going to be insane in some way.
Report back
happy wednesday what are we reading this week team?
I have but it gets hard when they scroll to the next one 10 seconds in
