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You, me, and anyone with internet access do unpaid, uncredited data work to feed AI models. What is data work, and why does it matter? I discuss this in this interview with DW. I also cover labor exploitation, classification and bias, and power concentration in the AI industry: p.dw.com/p/5O0Mm

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more on data centers outside the US: - Latin America globalvoices.org/2026/04/29/t... - Asia globalvoices.org/2026/04/30/t...

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🥹 My novella is out today!!!

About 7 years ago I went on a campaign to convince people that the CIO role was about to become the most powerful de facto academic officer at the university; should be subsumed to faculty governance. The LMS was their opening gambit, then brand cohesion & centralized syllabus databases. Now AI.

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This is my favorite crossover since the Phineas & Ferb/Avengers episode! 🦸🎢🤩

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

People mention LLMs a lot in terms of "increasing accessibility" And as someone with intermittent cognitive disabilities, I *really* want to highlight how much work it is to sort through AI slop to try to find accurate information

I haven’t been following the discourse too closely but I basically agree that GLP-1s are conscious

Silly me, I didn't know there was a #MushroomDay lmao but it's the perfect day to tease my new poem about a bored mushroom peeking at the secrets of the corpses in the graveyard 🍄 💀 🖤 This is a mushroom-shaped game poem when you can make your own ending by playing with the hyphae of the mycelium!!!!

[emotion] to be a data point on this one! I still think about leaving academia at least a few times/year. And that's with a prophylactic amount of awesome collaborators!

Absolutely what this student says. One of the most profoundly sad things about AI boosters is that they seem not to understand that the journey is more important than the destination, the thinking, the understanding, the revelation that comes along the journey is what matters, not the end product.

one of my primary influences in this project is Anni Albers, particularly her weavings. i love her combination of minimalism, detail, and and organic textures. it's wonderful the way she draws one into seeing process as motion, and invites people to imagine how processes work internally.

Scientific publication venues - journals, conferences, preprint servers - should offer authors transparency, consent, and *choice* without prejudice in the options for avoiding LLM use in the process. AHM Journals Working Group Recommendation: www.ahmath.org/recommendati... #🧮 #AcademicSky

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period

It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

For @wired.com, I spoke with workers about the quiet push to experiment with AI tools from book publishing executives at the Big Five. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

We're excited to share this discussion about how publishers are handling the question of human authorship, the different solutions on offer, and mythbusting for writers anxious about submissions!

The optimism dividend: wow South–South solidarity could shape African AI sovereignty www.globalcenter.ai/the-algorith...

the "adapt or die" people failed to consider the secret third option of forming a neoluddite community where I'm selling my latest video game on usb sticks in a little lemonade stand

David Byrne is no stranger to bringing extraordinary ideas to life. But what about ideas that are ahead of their time? How do we reawaken them? Flora chatted with David about his new book “Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up,” and which ideas resonated with him most.

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

Most TV is just this now.

Yeah it’s not lost on me that it was a man who suggested family meal planning is rote. Research and loved experience shows that women structure their invisible labor to make the labor the men in their lives are willing to do predictable, ergo suitable to routinize.

Happy birthday Effie!! And thank you for doing this! This year I had my translations of a Ñuu Savi poet, Kalu Tatyisavi, come out in Latin American Literature Today. His work reckons with colonialism & language loss in Oaxaca latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/2026/09/four...

Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.

Each one worthy of your dollars and your reading pleasure.

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

I already told my kids I will find a way to come back to haunt them if they try anything like this. Haunt them. With prejudice. Forever!

📣 Scholarship programme for applications by graduates in the Netherlands with a non-Western migration background and/or a recent asylum background. If interested to do PhD research in Computational Cognitive Science, feel free to reach out! Info about research lines in our lab in thread below. 🧵

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I needed this today 🥰

Has a commercial edtech company or school chain ever had the press attention of Alpha School? Getting in Scientific American seems like a big win for Alpha School PR. Reckon it's also a clear sign of its strategy to claim *scientific* legitimacy. www.scientificamerican.com/article/alph...