I so appreciate this because "AI" enthusiast coders have a profound misunderstanding of what it means to be part of a community of practice. I think that's a really helpful starting point when I decide whether to engage, resist, or dunk (all of which can be appropriate depending on the situation)
I love this, because it's a discussion about meeting people where they're at which (crucially!) isn't a defense of the Having Conversations Industrial Complex
got inspired by some questions from phd students the other day — and also really irritated by senior academics who seem to refuse to get the issues and continue to blame students; hope useful for you! 🩷
olivia.science/cheating
I find relitigation of past elections mostly unproductive.
But with VP Harris she said that it’s her intention to run again. So for people that support her, I think that in order to strengthen her as a candidate it is necessary to hold her accountable for her past failures rather than deflecting.
I remember back in 2017 when "explainable AI" was the rage, and some people asked "isn't there a risk that plausible-sounding but incorrect explanations will deceive and distract people from the important questions of whether automation is appropriate for a given task?"
I think about that a lot
Sometimes we talk about them working as market actors who are following the logics of accumulation.
But so much of the time... it's the depravity.
(and, to be clear, the former is also a depraved condition)
We are currently outside the ICE Broadview concentration camp where Sunny Naqvi’s family believes her to be held after being detained in O’Hare by federal authorities.
Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo
They say that most humans only use 10% of their keyboards!
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
What coders lose by relying on AI. From our event with the University of Washington Office of Public Lectures.
(with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
Kind of tangential, but it has been fascinating to see the meaning of "power user" drift from "someone who uses advanced features of software" to "someone who uses the same janky overpriced enterprise product for everything, whether it's appropriate to the task or not"
anyway, maybe some people should be reading Frantz Fanon's Medicine and Colonialism chapter in a Dying Colonialism.
Feels relevant.
abahlali.org/wp-content/u...
Already seeing EA responses along the lines of "2 million gallons isn't a lot when you think about it in terms of people or crops". Which like OK but we're not talking about it in terms of people and crops? We're talking about it in terms of surveillance, theft, deception, and exploitation
Part of me was like "ooooh I wonder if I can get enough listeners to suggest The Revolution Will Not Be Funded next"
I continue to be impressed that we have managed to use social media platforms to build community (however fleetingly) despite the best efforts of the people who built and own those platforms
Yep. “Knowing who to be mad at is praxis” is Mariame Kaba’s quote and it is wisdom for these times. (1/2)
Oh hey this came up in my feed just as I've finally gotten to the point where I am familiar with the imagery and interpretations of a lot of the most popular decks, and looking to expand in more radical directions. Just bought "78 Acts of Liberation" and I can't wait to read it!
Congratulations! Your voucher for one (1) internet is in the mail
If software developers are experts in anything, it's in adding "engineering" to whatever they're doing to make it sound more rigorous and important than it actually is
Yeah this is the key for me thank you! I am all in favor of dunking on people who deserve it, which specifically and crucially does *not* include people who I want to develop relationships and work in solidarity with
Im a historian of vaccination.
Every semester/year since 2015, I teach the histories of smallpox vaccination.
And every semester/year, I have had anti-vaxxers/vaccine hesitant people in my classes.
If I want to change their minds, telling them how evil or stupid they are isn't going to cut it.
Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process.
The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail.
So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.
Seeing all the money that's been set on fire for the sake of the bullshit slot machine, I never want to hear "but how will we pay for it?" for any actual radical proposal for positive change ever again
Target is in a death spiral of their own making
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
idk I just think it's weird for a government official to do PR for a luxury surveillance company
By @tante.cc who is on point as always.
"So there is a new declaration in town called the “The Pro-Human AI Declaration“...before we go into the details, let’s look at who is pushing this for a second because the declaration keeps talking about how broad their coalition is"
tante.cc/2026/03/05/n...
