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5. (These feel like notes for myself.) It is mute about what is probably the biggest concern people have about AI, which is its impact on labor issues. Robot comes from a Czech word that means compulsory labor or forced worker.

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4. Many of the questions center on the director’s wife being pregnant. He asks again and again, Would you bring a child into a world made by AI? What this brings home for me is how much Silicon Valley is obsessed with sexual reproduction and gender.

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3. It ends with interviews with Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis (representing Google), explicitly representing them as having special insight. All of this shows its investment in access and personality, and less substance.

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2. It talks about environmental issue, labor abuse, and cognitive decline after establishing its doom-utopia framework, so it ends up being an after thought. I felt especially bad at how little Emily Bender is featured, and Karen Hao is more personality than critic.

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1. It’s devoted to the doom-utopia framing, which basically accepts that AGI is around the corner. What it doesn’t do, then, is have any critical idea about the meaning of intelligence (which is v hard to divorce from a long history of eugenics thinking).

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Clearly no one cares about this documentary, which may be good because it’s so obviously a product of Silicon Valley and a booster of its tech. Maybe it’s worth watching to see what such boosterism entails…

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TX in particular really feels like Lucy holding the football.

Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I saw “The AI Doc” on Netflix and I would like to reclaim my time.

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I reposted an old interview I did with Bong Joon Ho about PARASITE from 2019 today and this quote hit like a wrecking ball: "I think maybe there is no borderline between countries now because we all live in the same country, it’s called capitalism."

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Someone was talking about EM Forster’s “The Machine Stops,” and it piqued my interest enough that I read it. GD! Is it worth reading.

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Rowling’s mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing.” This could also be said of AI-extruded text.

Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Random question: Is there a translation of the Phaedrus that you would recommend?

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yay Layli Long Soldier! The MacArthur is well deserved.

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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 28/09/2026

The mayor of Ithaca (my friend and former fellow PhD candidate in Government at Cornell) announces a moratorium on permitting Greek Life activities until Cornell produces new standards of addressing sexual assault.

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It really should tell us something how many of these institutions will tolerate abuse, but not activism.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship.” Insightful.

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

He doesn’t know his address because he doesn’t need to. This is untrue for the rest of us because we need to know a lot of things that one of the wealthiest people in the world doesn’t.

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Only the Irish see through his ruse. “If you mean about the gentleman you murdered, I believe that it were better for you if you were dead.”

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Frankenstein really is the original tech bro. Breaks everything and flees from consequences, all while casting himself as some kind of Miltonic hero, all the while everyone goes on and on about how wonder he is despite all evidence to the contrary.

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Finished rereading Frankenstein, and struck this time by how much of an ass Victor is. Let’s make life for no reason. Let’s abandon what I created. Let’s make a promise about making a partner without thinking about any consequences. Let’s destroy that partner Let’s…

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Stretching after being in a defensive crouch all weekend, I came across this post…

Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This passage from Bora Chung's short story "Cursed Sheep" is haunting: "[The sheep] only wished to be free from pain, to have a life free from suffering where they could graze in some meadow. It struck the deputy director that this was more or less the life that most humans wanted as well."

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thinking about this again after reading Jill Lepore ask, citing the MIT AI report, “what is it that we are all here together to do?” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

On the other hand, the blowback is so intense that even Kraft is feeling the need to do damage control. He is apparently not invulnerable.

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m also 100% suffering from FOMO at not being able to attend this event!

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You and @nathankhensley.bsky.social in a cage-match debate is certainly something to be excited about.

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nice! (As it so happens, my department is also in the process of revising its learning outcomes. There's much here to take inspiration from...)

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"More than anything, what stood out to me about the process of photographing these devices was geography: they exist at the boundaries of rich neighborhoods like Piedmont to track who enters; they exist embedded in poor neighborhoods to track the people who live there. Place exposes their purpose."

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cara esten hurtle

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sometimes it seems to me that a great challenge for the humanities is that it doesn’t cost very much to do our work. What capital loves, because there is so much capital in the world that needs to be invested or it ceases to be capital, is super expensive endeavors.

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We recommended this for all of our English courses--started last year and it's now a routine part of how we advise instructors. Everyone is reporting that it's great policy.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“The Times interviewed 8 people Mr. Marshall sued between 2003 &2015. Most described themselves as living paycheck to paycheck, often deciding between paying medical bills or buying groceries. Two said that the bills Mr. Marshall pursued in court stemmed from late miscarriages that required surgery”

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Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator.

Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.

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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Someone just offered to turn my academic book into a movie, in case you want to hear about another AI-generated grift.