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. [gift link]

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]