If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question
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If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question
Somehow grocery store cantaloupe was just fine when I was growing up in California in the 80s and 90s, it just all turned to garbage at some point while I was in college
hands down the absolute *strangest* “on background” sourcing I have ever seen in the NYT. Completely bonkers stuff www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
A big white cat is laying on a grey body pillow in a window, looking out at the exurb at dawn
Goob morgning habby Caturday
It's critical through all of this to remember that people who are doing the work of persuasion can't fly into a rage at anti-vaxxers. Contempt and rage from healthcare providers, from city or state or federal public health officials - that gets us nowhere.
These clocks can't stop me because they can't read!
Wait that doesn't sound so safe to me
If we survive this, I really hope parents take a long look at how they are teaching empathy to their children. It's so obvious that that is the missing ingredient in huge chunks of the population, amplified by social media algorithms and cultural rewards for reactions rather than thoughtfulness.
If Grammarly's CEO bails, just build an AI tool to represent him and let *it* answer the questions.
Though not active, and already on some labelers. That's not the case for this automated account.
Offering the opportunity for people to believe, "you are a good parent who has made some mistakes and can correct them" and "you can understand why you made those mistakes so you don't again" is pretty much one of the most effective intervention strategies that we have for things like this
This ties into the nature of our belief structures and threat responses. People do not learn well and encounter new information well when being labeled as a "bad" identity (like "bad parent"). This is extremely well known. The OP is doing clear, good, informed scicomm.
In fact, good behavior change research expressly finds that helping people to believe that they are "good parents" and that part of being a good parent can include changing their minds about things like health choices is far more effective than shaming and tying messages to "you are a bad parent"
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Jordan Lasker is an infamous race scientist, and someone's mirroring his posts from X
Okay but have you tried having a really stressful job and also planning a wedding
Panel #66: Engaging Policy in STS Research and Practice Abstract: Throughout its history, the STS community has engaged with the important policy questions of the day, showing how public issues are constructed in tandem with evidenceand expertise, and how technological infrastructures are inseparable from social systems. STS scholars have worked to have their insights recognized by policy makers and have used their direct policy engagements to advance knowledge of policy processes. The past decade, however, has seen massive shifts in the policy landscape–including in the ways that research is funded, evidence is valued, and expertise is constructed–as well as new substantive issues at the intersection of science, technology, and policy. This panel asks what STS scholars are bringing to, and taking away from, their engagements with evolving policy processes. What STS tools best help us understand policy issues, and where do new circumstances require new theories and analytical methods? How can STS analysis not only advance knowledge but shape effective political action? And how does engagement with policy function as an intellectual project in its own right? This open panel invites submissions from across sectors (e.g., environment, innovation, health, criminal justice), and with historical and global perspectives (particularly outside the United States and Europe).
Thinking about, or engaging in, politics and public policy with an #STS lens? Apply to present your work in the open panels (#66) I am organizing with Gwen Ottinger and Jason Delborne
@4sweb.bsky.social in Toronto in October! (Paper abstracts due April 30th!) www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...
Hey, great news gang! Vinay Prasad is out at the FDA.
Again.
Let’s hope it sticks this time.
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
When I said I wanted Gen Z to change the world, I did not mean these two clowns, and I did not mean this
Can an AI procrastinate???? How clean is an AI house when a column is almost due?
It's hilarious that "working class" now applies exclusively to the racist failsons of regional car dealership owners but every unemployed trans person is an "elite".
Imagine viewing this and concluding that academic Gender Studies is no longer relevant as a field of inquiry.
As an AI ethics researcher, one major concern I have is whether the models being used to help governments drop bombs are doing so fairly and without subtle biases against certain groups
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There are roughly 5000 residents of Deep Lake, NM, but only 4200 followers on the campaign so far. Give it a follow and help us get to 5000! You don't even have to move to a strange, isolated town in the desert! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...
a yawning egyptian gosling, portrait view, backlit.
There's so much bad news out there I'm so glad there's good baby bird news. 🪶 🐣
Killing people should not be something we do quicker than the speed of thought
Philosophy Should Be Among the Most Diverse Disciplines, Not the Least
The productive engine of philosophy depends on novelty and difference. A fair and flourishing discipline would treasure rather than repel those who have historically been excluded.
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Grading papers is the mind-killer. Grading papers is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my papers to be graded. I will permit them to pass over me and through me.
Noooo never question Pseudo, only give pets and attentions and treats
Tufted titmouse showing off his peanut
Everything sucks. Here's a bird with a peanut.