I can’t find the right words for how this story makes me feel.

C’est bien inquiétant, cette idée de social scoring. Jacques Ellul trouverair beaucoup à critiquer. Et ce n’est pas le seul—j’ai beaucoup aimé ce resumé des critiques d’Adam Knight, à l’Université de Leyden: En réduisant les personnes à des profils algorithmiques, cela menacerait la vie privée, l’égalité et les procédures régulières. Ce n’est pas juste la surveillance qui est à craindre, mais également une “discrimination automatisée”, estime le chercheur.

Cet été, j’ai beaucoup réfléchi sur combien mon travail de prof rend bien plus facile la vie de parent pendant les vacances scolaires.

This problem makes me so angry, and while I appreciate this article’s exploration of different policy solutions, they also feel overwhelming to me because so many of them come with problems of their own.

J’avoue que je fais partie du problème, vu que j’ai souvent loué des Airbnb, y compris lors de mon dernier déplacement en Europe. Pourtant, vu les bêtises qui se déroulent actuellement aux É.-U., il m’est arrivé récemment de regarder les loyers à Genève, et j’ai pu voir combien la pénurie des logements pose un problème pour les locataires. Je dois revoir ma relation avec les Airbnb…

Well dammit.

Quelle horreur.

Reddit is a really interesting example of digital labor issues as they relate to both social media and AI. I wonder how things will go over the next few years.

Good overview of backlash to AI.

Bon, je comprends ces soucis, mais je ne suis pas sûr que de telles interdictions soient la bonne réponse. Pourtant, vu que je suis plus ouvert à une interdiction de l’IA à l’école, il faut que je développe un peu plus ma philosophie ici.

What. The. Hell. Is. This. Nonsense.

The Onion has once again done what only The Onion can do.

I dislike how true this rings.

Fanfiction is one of the most compelling examples of the labor issues related to generative AI.

The Mike Lee banner picture is perfect.

This is a big story, and I’m surprised it hasn’t gotten more news, even if it is a recent development.

Bookmarked this a while ago and am finally reading it. So infuriating.

Finally read the full quote from Noem and it’s so bad. Scary times.

So scary, so gross. Lexington needs to ditch Flock now.

Lots of interesting ideas in here. Certainly a different approach to “Sabbath” than the one I grew up with.

Beautiful read.

Flock sucks, and I’m so mad that Lexington drank the Kool-Aid instead of resisting local surveillance. Just wrote my city council representative, the vice mayor, and the two at-large representatives.

Lots of good observations in here, and I need to think through the implications for digital methods research.

The sheer hubris of this attitude! The AI industry must exist, even if it means that it will put others out of business, and therefore any moral standard that would put the AI industry out of business must be abandoned. Very Ellulian.

Beautiful story!

I somehow missed a lot of this history, so I’m bookmarking this for future reference.

What’s happening at the NSF is a tragedy, and I’m upset about all of these cuts. That said, I’ve long been skeptical about how the NSF has been used to promote STEM education at the expense of other worthy (but less economically productive) causes in schools. If Trump’s petty—and often cruel—cuts are a warning sign about how government can distort research priorities, there’s a deeper issue lurking in the background that we also need to wrestle with.

I confess that I would have found this interesting in an earlier part of my career. Now, though, I’m reminded that I built that career on a methodological approach that’s uncomfortable close to surveillance, and I don’t love that.

After seeing a few headlines, this is the first thing I’ve read on this fiasco. What a mess.

I hate everything in this article.

We live in a dumb future.

Depressingly illuminating.

There are some critical perspectives in this piece, but certainly not enough in my book. [gift link]

Data centers are coming to Kentucky, and that has me worried.

The “You do not blindly defer to mainstream authority or media” system prompt is raising questions already answered by the system prompt. Also, lol that they have to explicitly tell Grok not to call it “Twitter.”

Aside from the headline-grabbing parts of Grok’s recent freakout, this story does a really good job of emphasizing that AIs don’t “think”… and that “truth” isn’t really a valid concept either, no matter Musk’s marketing.