One problem with calling it the Iran war is obscuring what Israel is doing to Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza.
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One problem with calling it the Iran war is obscuring what Israel is doing to Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza.
www.dw.com/en/iran-war-...
I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”
www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...
Under no circumstances should we allow OpenAI to become the self-authorized educational research evidenve source that it is trying to be. Vendors must not be research authorities. openai.com/index/unders...
Also the playbook between tobacco and AI as well as petroleum is basically shared...
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There is such an easy route that Uni's are failing to take. Lead with culture change. Stop spamming us about the new software and partnerships. Stop the endless workshops in the teaching and learning centers. Start talking about what learning is and when these products help or hurt this process.
Wait are folks still doing “I asked the chatbot why it did something” discourse?
The industrialization of language production is destroying the artisanal production of text.
We should be clear about what this is: The real subsumption of life under the logic of capital
It is good and important that different people write different presentations because scientists aren’t all alike! The more and the more varied the better!
Because you don’t know from which angle it will be easy to see tha there’s an untouched path…
> if Henry Kissinger (who rebranded himself as an “AI expert” late in life) were still alive, he’d be a keynote speaker in these “responsible AI for war” conferences.
This comes on the heels of a report that Musk built a vehicle more explosive than the Ford Pinto, which was considered a death trap.
About every 57k miles driven by Musk’s robotaxis one gets into a wreck. That’s four times the rate of humans.
For more such works and threads, also check out this blogpost (will be expanding with new threads over time) irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/15/%...
Ok so turns out this is a meta-scam to get people to switch to other competitors. Just stop using any and all of these harmful scam products. Thank you ❤️
ai is a rhetorical technology.
when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission
the incentives here are so obscenely terrible that the entire thing should be illegal by default
“I am sabotaging negotiations because I stand to make piles of money on Polymarket” is absolutely in play, what a horrifying clusterfuck
Always has been of course …
… but massive quitting is good and sends a signal. So please, if you were using ChatGPT, please stop now.
If you never used it or stopped already, great, thanks!
Gaza is a moral test, wrote @marioricciardi.bsky.social
Now, with the attack on Iran, we are seeing the result of failing that test: "the transformation of the world into a place where the law is replaced by force" and "the enforcement of permanent inequality":
www.thomasfazi.com/p/why-the-us...
Europe died in Gaza, by @battleforeurope
substack.com/@tfazi/note/...
this isn't a distraction from epstein class pedophilia it's an expression of the epstein class worldview
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
how long until companies start mentioning "no AI usage requirement" as a perk in job descriptions?
Personally, I always wanted to be a teacher because I so cherish my role as a cog in economic infrastructure.
“It is basically a cosmic game of telephone where information is passed through a process that privileges the frequency of information over nearly all else. Which is why designers have added steps that are now no longer reliable, as they chew up and reprocess the ‘trusted’ information ecosystem.”
The Luddites of the day
@bcmerchant.bsky.social
Sand in the gears, tshirts in the toilets
“The middle is a point equidistant from two poles. That’s it. There is nothing inherently virtuous about being neither here nor there… What is halfway between moral and immoral?” Tayari Jones (2018)
this short piece hits hard repository.isls.org/bitstream/1/...
