wells

wells

@wells.bsky.social

critical (of) AI, critical race, queer/trans & AsAm studies, algorithmic justice at UMSI all about abolition, transformative justice, free palestine. SSBM (link main), anime, and indie art/zine fan. pan/bi enby 🇹🇼🇮🇩🏳️‍⚧️ she/her

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my health has been really bad lately and i've been really worried about the state of the world, so i'm telling myself now's the time to let go of my fears and pursue the things i always wanted to pursue

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Interested in doing a #phd about #vtubers? Then boy do I have the PhD fellowship for you. Join my @erc.europa.eu funded project on the creator economy, based in lovely Aarhus, Denmark. Link to the job description below, deadline 1 November.

serious question, if i got a minor revision in august with one reviewer signaling accept, but haven't heard from them since.... is that normal 😭 i feel like i've been holding my breath on this (my first paper) the entire time

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can my paper get accepted before the world ends lmao

after over two decades of wearing contacts, i'm going back to wearing glasses... how do y'all decide on what frames look best on you? do y'all have fave places to get glasses?

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Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

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My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

been telling folks i feel like things are gonna come crashing down around next week & i'm really hoping this gut feeling is wrong

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might line up with midterm elections, or folks getting worried before the holiday season, or a consequence of recent big mergers and deregulation (imagine warner-paramount being tied to this somehow).. in any case i think the time is finally here & it won't be AI speculation that blows up first

when i first moved to michigan i wondered why it felt like there were so few people here... and tonight i realized that new york *city* by itself is like 80% the population of the entire state of michigan 😭

wdym i used to live in a city with nearly the same amount of people of an entire state (10th largest by population and 11th largest by area, no less) ... no wonder nyc felt like there was always so much going on and so many people to meet

i have another idea for an app that i'd love to use but i don't have the capacity or facilities to build it and that makes me sad

i mean, to be fair, *a lot* of things got better up until the POS in charge came into office and fucked up a ton of services and funding. the last ten years really messed a lot of things up

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

(we're running these again next month cause nlr can be noisy, and yes, my ferritin levels are also very high lol)

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'While there has been plenty of community pushback to data centres and much focus on government regulation, there hasn’t been enough scrutiny at the level of purportedly clean higher education institutions doing dirty deals with methane-slurping chatslop peddlers.' www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/22/u...

crikey.com.auTop universities are embracing bloated, ravenous AI energy guzzlers. It's a betrayalDespite declaring itself a "global leader" in alternative energy sources, institutions like UNSW are teaming up with energy gluttons. You wouldn't know from its emissions.

this has to be satire and social commentary, right..? ...right...?

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The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

can't see anything and brain hurty from concussion (long story) so i can't work on my research, but it also means i also can't sit at my desk and play maplestory classic 😭 i can't wait to get past this

asked the universe to give me a sign and this is probably as much a sign as any and i've spent it not actually listening to what the sign has to say (get rest and stop looking at screens so much)

just heard about typhoon champi and now i'm really worried for my friends abd family in taiwan... all the weather phenomena this year has been really scary

brain updates today: it's like when you try to start the engine on your car and you hear the cranking sound but it just won't turn over

last week i was in such a daze that i metaphorically lost my keys and didn't remember how to use them this week i really want to get back into things but brain hurty

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Reading this really fucked me up last night. I suppose rape profiteering has been around as long as war profiteering. They’re siblings. That said, there’s something about the unapologetic attitude of betting on the implications of gang rape that bruised the inside of my soul last night.

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Polymarket allowed users to bet on whether any one of the 7 defendants in the Cornell rape case will be charged with a felony sex crime and the market did almost HALF A MILLION DOLLARS IN VOLUME

i really havent been fully functioning for the past two weeks (got sick, got a concussion, dealing with eyesight issues, for starters) and it makes me feel really guilty cause i had some key deadlines i needed to meet...

brain is finally starting to work again this week and it wants to WRITE !! which is good cause i have a lot of dissertation writing i'm very behind on and i feel terrible about it

there is a paper that i first drafted two years ago, that's been in review for this entire year, that i'm so desperately waiting to get the green light on, especially since it's right at the finish line, and i've got too much of my self-worth riding on it 😂

re:LRT; our disco cohort last year was thinking about writing a paper on "predatory inclusion" in terms of AI, race, and disability, and i'm kinda really sad it never panned out, cause i think we see claims to make AI more inclusive everywhere but really it's just a ploy for increased capture

guys isn't it wild that in 2026 the best thing we can do to recover from a concussion is just wait it out

yesterday i was trying to remember the word "muscle memory" when talking to my roommate and i genuinely felt brain activation when they reminded me of it lmao

as someone writing their dissertation on ai and the face, i must remind everyone that tech like this is nonsense at best and highly dangerous at worst

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currently happening: anime horsegirl concert gets cancelled because of stricter us visa restrictions, leading centrist/right wing fans of the anime horsegirl game to be radicalized ... just typical things for 2026