“It’s difficult to understand the scale of the problem, but OpenAI itself estimates that more than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT.”
Yup yup yup - coming down the line. This @techpolicypress.bsky.social piece by me from earlier this year sketches out what’s happening and why it’s an issue techpolicy.press/the-drive-fo...
“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.”
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
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Academic publishing is currently experiencing a viral spread of “zombie citations.” I tried following one to see how these references are infecting academic knowledge systems codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/t...
Inside the marketplace powering bespoke AI deepfakes of real women 🧵
I made this ASL video about the SALUTE/ACTUAR acronyms re: observing ICE, but @bsky.app won't let me post here because, best I can tell, hands are moving too much? Anyway, if you have a moment to share, many d/hh folks have 1st lang that's not English.
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The victim of today's ICE shooting in Minneapolis is the 5th person to be shot and killed by federal immigration agents since President Trump began his crackdown last year.
This is the 19th time they've opened fire.
We're tracking incidents here:
I'm on site where a federal agent shot a Minneapolis man this morning. It's bad.
Dozens of federal agents are facing off with hundreds of outraged residents. People being tear gassed, helicopters above, I keep hearing pops, and lots of loud BANGS.
This smoke is from tear gas:
Heads-up, several legitimately useful things with absolutely no reason to be related to google's gemini "AI"— e.g. Reply Nudges, Package Tracking, & Spell Check— are bundled under "smart features."
I'm not saying don't turn it off, I'm saying be aware of to what you may need to again pay attention.
Elon Musk’s XAI faced a huge backlash after its Grok chatbot generated and spread explicit & nonconsensual images all over the social network X… www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/m... (tw - discusses csam / ncii)
Last month, I wrote on all legislative races of 2025. There were still a few elections left in the year, however. But now, they're all done.
And so we've updated the analysis:
—Democrats flipped 25 legislative seats in 2025.
That's 21% of the 119 GOP-held seats at play.
—The GOP flipped 0.
Calls for papers Critical Studies Perspectives on AI’s Impact in Education
www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...
a poorly drawn wizard cat, wearing a pointed hat and holding a wand, floating diagonally
the wizard cat raises its wand as a magical burst begins to appear behind it, what could it be?
a magical cloud fills most of the frame, containing handwritten text that reads: “your 2026 will be awesome!”
the wizard cat appears very small and distant seen from behind with its little cape spread wide, creating a cheeky farewell after casting its spell
wizard cat has a very important message
🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
That’s right — and to make the metaphor explicit, like, we’ve all grown up as “automobile natives,” yet I think our average capacity to do basic car repair is probably lower than it was 70 years ago.
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
Headline from Forbes: 8 Ways The National Center For Atmospheric Research Helps You, By Marshall Shepherd
I've mostly been talking about the Trump regime's plan to dismantle NCAR, but you might be asking yourself, wtf is NCAR and why should I care? @drshepherd2013.bsky.social has got you covered here.
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“Knocking on a door, or even just walking in front of it, shouldn’t require abandoning your privacy,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @TechCrunch.com - state regulators must investigate, protect people’s privacy, and make use of their biometric privacy laws. techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/...
This is an underacknowledged phenomenon, IMO: Real events, even those with actual proof and documentation, being falsely depicted in the form of AI outputs.
When fake content is based on real info, the everyday social media user is left with no choice but to call every image into question
The Psychological Impact of Digital Isolation: How AI-Driven Social Interactions Shape Human Behavior and Mental Well-Being Felix Eling 3697-3705 Apr 30, 2025 Education The Psychological Impact of Digital Isolation: How AI-Driven Social Interactions Shape Human Behavior and Mental Well-Being Felix Eling Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Gulu College of Health Sciences, Gulu City, Northern Uganda DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.47772/IJRISS.2025.90400265 Received: 13 March 2025; Revised: 22 March 2025; Accepted: 25 March 2025; Published: 30 April 2025 ABSTRACT The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in social interactions has transformed how humans experience companionship, communication, and mental well-being. This review examines the psychological impact of AI-driven social interactions, focusing on virtual assistants, AI chatbots, and digital companions. It explores the benefits, risks, and ethical concerns associated with AI companionship. A systematic review methodology was employed, detailing inclusion criteria, databases searched, and analysis techniques. Findings suggest that while AI can offer emotional relief and support, over-reliance may disrupt real-world social bonding. Ethical concerns such as data privacy, emotional manipulation, and regulatory gaps are highlighted. The study underscores the need for balanced AI integration in human socialization. The study also addresses gaps in previous literature by examining AI’s influence on different demographic groups and cultural contexts.
Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist.
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today:
#SantaClara County en español
#NewHaven
#SouthCentralPA (Adams, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster & York counties)
#Ulster County, NY
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
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A piece of sheet music for a violin, where the musical notes have been replaced by numerous silhouettes of cats. The cats are depicted in various poses, climbing, tumbling, and napping along the musical staff lines.
The Symphony of the Cat, Moritz von Schwind, 1868. #Caturday
There's this form of behavioral engineering/coercion going on to use AI when you're not even trying to. Ex: Enterprise Google Slides replaced "Upload an Image", with "Generate an Image" (right?), requiring extra work +adaptation to sidestep the AI-as-default push. It drives me bonkers.
Cover of Capitalism and Disability by Marta Russell
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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