Je regrette un peu ne pas m’être offert davantage de souvenirs Migros lors de mon séjour en Suisse.

Perhaps the best demonstration yet of why we need to talk about epistemology when we talk about generative AI. Gift link. It turns out that it takes an awful lot of intervention to get Grok to be “maximally truth-seeking” and “neutral.”

Trop cool !

Je connaissais pas l’existence d’UniDistance Suisse, et maintenant j’ai envie d’en apprendre plus.

There are many worse things happening in our country right now, but also: this is petty and embarrassing.

Did not realize that dashcam surveillance was a thing. I hate that it is, and I hate that Flock is going here.

This is horrifying. Reading the headline is one thing, but reading some of the details is stomach-churning. I’m not a lawyer, and as disgusted as I am with this, I don’t know what legal liability should look like here. I feel more comfortable describing this as ethically bankrupt, though. I think I would have many fewer concerns about generative AI if it weren’t a platformized consumer product. Whatever the right legal response to this is, OpenAI has some moral responsibility for this sort of thing.

I don’t have the whole picture here, and I don’t like passing judgment without having the whole picture, but I don’t know if I like this.

I’m probably sticking with Day One for a while, but I think there are some good ideas in here.

Appreciate Josh’s eye for detail here.

Super interesting, but I prefer my numbers station content to be the fun kind of spooky.

Good article (here’s a gift link), and one worth adding to the right kind of syllabus.

Don’t need the NYTimes to say this to recognize that it’s happening, but it’s helpful to have all of these examples gathered in a single place. Gift link.

If this is so great for the community, why won’t the company even identify itself publicly?

Helpful reminder that data center problems are not just hypothetical—they’re potentially local.

Very interesting piece.

Some Ellulian vibes in here.

What a wild, depressing story. I feel like I ought to use this to teach the concept of platforms to my students—it neatly sums up the intervention in normal human activity by someone who thinks they have a buck to make.

Closing digital divides is good, and increasing diversity in tech fields as good, but I’ve been complaining for years about computer science ed that we stop at the nobility of those goals and don’t ask ourselves about the deeper motivations behind those initiatives. So it is with AI: A more diverse field more available to all is better than what we have, but we also have to ask whether AI education is actually a social good.

There’s always been a dark side to internet culture, but I don’t think it was naïve in my earlier work to argue for recognizing its value. Yet, it’s important as a scholar to call out the ugliness that’s happening here.

Been thinking for years that I should own a Fairphone one day.

Je ne connais pas hyper bien Mix & Remix, mais j’ai quelques livres qu’il a illustré, et je crois me souvenir d’un mécanicien à Renens dont il a illustré le logo.

Oof, hadn’t thought of this, but as much as I’d like to further reduce Google dependence, this would really hurt.

I genuinely think it’s useful to remember that non-AI datacenters are also contributing to the climate crisis, but that doesn’t let AI off the hook. It’s like saying “sure, we’re spending far beyond our means, but have you considered that we’re already in debt?

Bookmarking this so I can point to it if anyone asks why I’ve shifted my research from ed tech to right-wing Mormonism.