This thing that AZ does where a percentage of license plate feeds go to organizations is bananas.
07.03.2026 02:41
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This thing that AZ does where a percentage of license plate feeds go to organizations is bananas.
Yeah, they just speak so powerfully to my inner child. Those and Bit-O-Honey. Two objectively terrible treats that I was conditioned to love early in life.
I can’t lie. I love those chalky little discs.
OpenAI, Google and Microsoft are all laying claims to expertise in educational research. They're appealing to their own AI, data, and scale capacities to do this, and wrapping it in the language of learning and cognitive sciences. It's a big tech takeover of educational research imo 🥶
It’s tiring that we are increasingly stuck organizing our intellectual lives around arguing for the value of having an intellectual life
Google is working hard to be an educational research authority on AI in education too. It's "learning science" to put chatbots in classrooms according to their own studies blog.google/products-and...
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...
(as always, the typos are evidence that these posts are fully organic artisanal human produced random thoughts.)
Lots of people from historically exploited and disempowered groups find ways to use the imperfect (or even harmful) things available to them to their own ends. That’s a testament to the creativity and survival skills of those people, not evidence of the broad value of the technology.
When we talk about tech, need to remember that people are clever and adaptable. Just because some users figured out ways to benefit from the plagiarism machines or the pervert glasses does not mean that the tech itself is broadly beneficial and should be embraced is it is.
LLMs as contrast dye for where resources are missing.
These people will take everything from you, even your own voice, before and after death, and consent is irrelevant. Without meaningful guardrails AI companies lobby to prevent, everything about you will be stolen and co-opted for profit or political agendas the real you would never support.
No Oxford comma?
we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The lesson from the "Tom Cruise/Brad Pitt AI Video" reveal is twofold, old, and evergreen:
1) Slow Down
and 2) always start from the ground position that any claims made by an "AI" corporation— any for-profit corporation, really— is them lying to you to hype their product.
I missed this year’s March Mammal Madness bracket drop! I love MMM.
I also can’t find anything about this company online outside of their website and an app with 8 reviews on the Apple App Store.
How does Einstein access my Canvas? You link your Canvas account once during setup. Einstein uses your credentials to log in, view assignments, and submit work on your behalf.
I’m more worried about this than about students automating their coursework. Students have to give over their university log in credentials. (To cheat with a technology that probably doesn’t actually work, if it even exists.)
Ok, going to point out that this is literally one 22-year-old, super solipsistic dude who confesses to stealing his father's credit card on his professional website.
He doesn't even have an actual company or product beyond hypo. It's just him and at most a couple of other dudes.
If you can do this to someone, you don’t see them as a person. You’ve let their illness strip their humanity from your perception of them. And you probably don’t even realize that’s the case, because we live in such an ableist society that dehumanizes people so easily.
What bothers me about this is that dementia takes who you are from you. You forget your life. You forget your loved ones. It’s tragic. And I have someone take advantage of that to rewrite your life, even in this small way, because you’re helpless to stop them, is heartbreaking to see.
This is heinous. As someone who has had a lot of experience with family members with dementia, I fully support ‘therapeutic fabulation.’ Sometimes you have to fib for their safety and comfort. But rewriting parts of people’s lives is a horrible thing to do (esp. for internet clout).
Well, this is bad.
“Think of all the sensitive materials donated to archives — letters, personal items,” Lo said “Academics care about citation and evidence. Archivists care about context. If we do not set enforceable boundaries for AI use in cultural heritage archives now, we will lose provenance and then lose trust”
We have until March 6 to comment on whether there should be one million more satellites in orbit or thousands of mirrors that reflect light back at Earth Jesus Fucking H Christ on a Pogostick
The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
Quick PSA for all mid-career academics and above: people may be citing articles with your name on them that don't exist.