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If you just happened to pick this week to start yelling about the importance of academic freedom, I sure hope you did more than watch silently for the past 18 months as the Trump administration assaulted everything from mRNA vaccine resear…
All these white people doing mental gymnastics to tell us that they think a mediocre fraud doing pseudoscience & lynching a Black man because, in his OWN words, he wanted to start a revolution against Black people & head the race science &…
This guy is peddling the same tired “it’s just like the dot com bubble” talking points that you only draw on if you have no real interest in reality. He’s also the guy who wrote the infamous “advice to a poor black kid” blog. Legendary dip…
Said it before: there’s no such thing as “mass surveillance, but with guardrails.”
“With the rise of gen AI tools, offices have had to contend with a new scourge: ‘workslop’ or low-effort, AI-generated work that looks plausibly polished, but ends up wasting time and effort as it offloads cognitive work onto the recipient…
I think the degree to which is true is frequently overstated, but it is hard not to see it as a the product of a bipartisan, 75+ year-long effort to insulate foreign policy from democratic accountability.
ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people. www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
Strong contender for most Orwellian headline of the year.
when i say canada shouldn’t try to catch silicon valley on ai, that doesn’t mean we should just jump on a different hype train. it means rejecting the silicon valley model and building tech for the public good, not to maximize shareholder…
Oh my GOD this essay is good.
The potential downside of the focus on Flock is that people don’t recognize it as a singular entity within an entire landscape of companies creating the surveillance state.
"But something different is happening this time in schools: pushback. A groundswell of teachers, parents, researchers and local government leaders say they aren’t buying the idea of new, and educationally unproven, A.I. tools as the next f…
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