A New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to several licensed professions like medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, and more.
The companies would be liable if the chatbots give “substantive responses” in these areas.
An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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I’ve been notified about another death in ICE custody.
This marks a stunning 40 deaths during the second Trump administration.
This cannot continue. There must be real accountability for ICE and DHS.
"I want to be clear: I am not anti-AI. I use AI tools in my work every day. This is not about rejecting technology. It is about rejecting the idea that we have no choice but to fund a company that’s bankrolling authoritarianism."
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But since we are there, having some uses for accessibility does not make it accessibility tech because accessibility includes thoughtful, transparent affordances for safety, wellbeing, privacy, and autonomy.
okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.
In our latest, we speak with Cassius Adair @cassiusa.bsky.social about Kansas’s new law stripping trans people of their driver’s licenses overnight, and the long history of state identification documents being used as tools of administrative violence
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“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.
And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
The extent to which 'AI' is robbing writers, academics and artists of their work just got even worse - now they want to steal our reputations too, putting words into our mouths after we've died. Just think for a second about the horrendous ways that could be exploited, intellectually and politically
Across the United States, landlords file an average of seven evictions *every minute.*
In some cities, for every one person who secures housing, an estimated four more are pushed into homelessness.
Nearly eight years ago, when I began reporting on the "working homeless," it was treated as an edge case, a tragedy at the margins.
That fiction has collapsed.
Housing insecurity is now an ever-widening sinkhole, swallowing not only the poor and working class but entire swaths of the middle class.
Paperback edition of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone
Today the paperback of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out.
It's arriving in a country once again waging war—a country that can spend tens of billions on bombs without blinking, while millions of Americans are one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from homelessness.
Let's take stock of where we are.
I can only imagine it will do the opposite. Kids with less academic support at home turn to AI for help -> AI does their homework -> they never build the skills that doing the work themselves would give them -> major disadvantage later in life
Daily Memo: ICE Detains U.S. Citizen With Infant As Kavanaugh Stops Continue
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Citing reporting by @propublica.org and others, nearly 4,000 doctors, nurses and health professionals sent a letter to DHS Sec Kristi Noem calling for the immediate release of all children currently in immigration detention. Full letter: tinyurl.com/yz2amueb 1/
just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production.
you have until March 23rd to comment.
i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.
🧪Frances Arnold was a single mom of 3.
That didn’t stop her from doing pioneering work that would eventually change biotechnology.
Her method of directed evolution created enzymes that
had broad implications in industry.
She was the first American woman to win the Nobel in Chemistry in 2018.
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
In the midst of terribleness, a spot of good news!
Delighted to report that my son accepted a spot in the PhD program at Colorado State! He is most excited about studying mycobacterial immunity 🥹 but may (as we all know!) end up in something different entirely. Tough cycle, sooo relieved for him!
The point is to destroy the administrative state, centers of knowledge and all civic institutions that stand in the way of Russell Vought’s vision of an authoritarian theocracy. It sounds insane and something out of Atwood. But this is where we are. Under his eye.
guys I’m literally ten days into Lent, and this is the SECOND person on the list who appears to have died after experiencing seizures in ICE custody when they’d never had seizures before
so many cases where ICE never releases an official cause of death. what tf is happening behind closed doors
I’m in the camp that believes that AI is a destructive force & that it’s being rammed down our throats by billionaire dudes (“I can’t imagine raising a child without ChatGPT”) & we should be putting in guardrails BEFORE unleashing it but, well, tragically, the train has left the station hasn’t it?
Obama negotiated an effective nuclear deal with Iran that Trump abrogated during his first term. Every piece of U.S. news coverage should make that clear.
JUST IN: A federal judge in Oregon has barred ICE from conducting warrantless arrests without probable cause in the state, saying the agency's "dragnets" have flouted "clear and undisputed" law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
i’m tired of every paper (even critical ones) on societal impact of AI starting by both-siding the “benefits” and risks/harms of AI
in academia, i would like us to arrive at a collective reckoning that we don’t need to play both sides. it's totally legit to clearly state just the harms. period
Netflix won't counter Ellison's offer.
Ladies and gentleman, the full right wing power grab is here and will now be beamed into every home on CBS, CNN, HBO, movies from Warner and Paramount.
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“Company towns, exploitative working contracts, things like that have always been what sparked the biggest progressions in labor rights,” Jetson told me. “And really, that is what’s happening here, in the realest tradition of the American labor movement.”
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PSA: if you have chronic fatigue and have never had your ferritin checked, please do so.
And look at the actual value because the reference range is likely trash. It should be at minimum 30 and ideally 50+
Thank you for your attention.
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
