Dmitri

> the man in the household was essentially eliminated, however technology only created more responsibilities for women Email — it feels to me — is the same. It's mostly women writing emails, actually reading them, AND being punished for not taking them seriously. While men mostly don't or use LLMs.

Email did to white collar work what the washing machine did to housework: creating as many problems as it solved. See, as Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows in More Work for Mother, washing machines made washing clothes much easier, but in the process, it also shifted cultural norms...

how does ohio boy vance keep walking right into the buzzsaw of one of the midwest's most Ancient Tribal Hatreds. dog no one in michigan cares what your OSU ass has to say

I will be eternally grateful to have been born in a literate culture where literacy was valued and expected and I still had the time, attention, and freedom to develop a literacy practice. Understanding context, inference, vocabulary, perspective, affect — all powerful, useful skills and values.

The destruction of a major Russian data center has sent X traffic plummeting, including accounts designed to prop up Justin Herbert as a good NFL quarterback. The truth will prevail!

In a world of machine intelligence, the humanities are more vital than ever and I think I've not said enough about that. I work in cybersecurity for my day job. I'm a professional hacker and most people understand that as being really good at coding and understanding computers which is true.

“I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the US economy & our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable… that bet isn't looking good. The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more than you spend…“

More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.

Scientists have found when bees are forced into isolation, they exhibit trauma responses similar to incarcerated people subjected to solitary confinement, Carolyn Bick reports. Could new research on bees end solitary confinement in Washington state?

Joke answer but not really: Lavinia, by Ursula Le Guin! It’s fantastic and I’m surprised it’s seemingly not as widely known as her science fiction works.

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

The computer may have been the bicycle for the mind, but the iPhone is the car. Everything the car did to the built environment, the smartphone did to the social/relational sphere.

Anti-intellectualism is a bipartisan project and in both cases it’s basically market protectionism for one’s artisanal shoddy, boring ideas that cannot find an audience.

despite Vanilla Ice’s clear desire to collaborate, he listened and stopped

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

if youre not on the race riot app you are living in a bubble, you have to contribute financially and provide free labor to the race riot generator or else you are in a bubble

Nobody asked for this but I've done it anyway - on the Odyssey and why this sort of thing is particularly annoying. A few key points will follow in the thread.

Meowie Antoinette

New post alert. The University Will Never Love You indigiqueerconfidential.ghost.io/the-universi...

Getting a PhD is a lot like the Odyssey except you’re one of the suitors and the throne of Ithaca is the only job in your field.

i've been thinking about the work we're doing at varying levels to organize against AI, and maybe i've also been in the headspace of gardening and getting rid of weeds. i can't shake the feeling that AI takes up space opportunistically where people's needs are not being met. a little like weeds.

academics trying to normalize acceptance of AI hallucinated citations in their field: do you seriously expect me to show my work and check my work me, baffled, a naïf, a fool: yes that’s why it’s called *your* *work*

There’s a point in every enterprising graduate student’s life when he or she realizes that a lot of the senior academics hate reading and writing. As in, they chose a career defined by written communication and they are livid to discover that they’ll be expected to conform. Blows your mind.

one of the most interesting things to me about the current political moment is that it's essentially a conflict over who gets a stake in the settler-colonialist plunder the 2010s Dem/liberal platform is more or less that settler colonialism is an ideological project, the GOP sees it as racial

“The reviewer’s job is to assess whether a piece of work makes a genuine contribution to the field and has been conducted ethically and rigorously. Checking whether the references exist is arguably quality control which ought to sit with the organisation that profits from the work.”

THE WOKE MOB WANTS EVERYONE TO BE BLACK: HOT SWAN EGG GOD KIDS, MERMAIDS, AT LEAST ONE STORMTROOPER, I THINK AN ELF OR HOBBITS OR SOMETHING, THAT GUY GARY MY MOM SAYS IS “SERIOUS BUT NOT REAL SERIOUS” WITH, THEY DO THIS TO POISON OUR CULTURE AND HURT US

OUR CULTURE IS BEING DESSICATED BECAUSE THAT GIRL WHO GOT HATCHED FROM A SWAN EGG IS A BLACK BUT GREEKS ARE WHITE EVEN IF THEY ARE FROM SWAN EGGS THAT’S JUST SCIENCE AND THE BATMAN GUY HATES CULTURE AND WHITES AND SCIENCE

Every time I open Bluesky,

billionaires repeatedly buy and destroy communications platforms to dominate information flow this week's 🙄 Bluesky silo redux discourse downplays that people of sense and empathy were chased here unwillingly and are focused on survival and connection, not revolution

Once again, I am not the Cat Czar of bluesky. I do not control how many cats you see. I’m afraid you’re just going to have to learn how to use this incredibly simple platform instead of whining at me.

I have metastasized breast cancer that resulted in two brain tumors, since removed. I've lost vision and get chronic migraines. All my books are written solely by me, with 10 fingers and 85% of a brain. No AI needed. The answer to disability isn't AI, it's community.

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

Gonna save this for my grad students doing capstone presentations and oral defenses.

What happened at the Supreme Court is about anti-Blackness and curtailing Black political power. Trump as a corrective to Obama. Anti CRT/ DEI as a corrective to Black Lives Matter and Black progress in education and the workforce. Anti-Blackness is America’s favorite manner of self-harm.

Acronyms are pronounced as words. -scuba -laser -NASA Initialisms are pronounced as individual letters. -NFL -TSA -TGIF 'Acronym' is frequently used for both kinds of abbreviations, so it's ok to call an initialism an acronym.

Being into cats feels so debasing. You give everything over to this animal — time, labor, money — but when you want them to sit next to you, they refuse and jump away. When they finally sit on your lap, you sit motionless to the point of physical pain, afraid to disturb them. Humiliating.