Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/10/2026So whenever I see these takes, I know they don't actually want to know what academics actually say — you wanna know how I know this? They would read the papers and not (just) the social media posts. 612220
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialArrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 16hNon-consensual, hard-to-avoid "use" of GenAI (like asbestos shoved into every crevice) does not invalidate critique of GenAI (primarily, its political economy of resource extraction, labor exploitation, &c) 219639
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialDavid Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026 25105693409
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialwilliam light @wrl.sh · 18hok so I'm hearing both that I don't know how good ai is now because I refuse to use it and that invalidates my critiques but also apparently I'm a fake critic because I inadvertently use ai even when I'd rather not because the providers are shoving it anywhere and everywhere which is it? 3546
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialAlicia @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 13hYou know, little things like being able to afford food, housing, healthcare, transportation, and a future for your kids. The real priorities are the “big things” — like making billionaires richer. Two years of Republican control: is your life better, or did only the billionaires get the upgrade?independent.co.ukVance tells Americans not to ‘gripe about all the little things’ as prices soarVance tells Sean Hannity that Democratic ‘arsonists’ will reverse Trump’s successes even as he admits his own administration needs more time 28323
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21hCountry rube stuff 101: if they talk fast, they got their hands in your pocket. 61090182
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 20hif only this wasn't true 🥲 1191
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 20hAlso, we need to talk about how "Treat immigrants and people who have no money with respect!" is considered political but "Let's portray a sanitized version of the Confederacy" is not. 2505
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint. 286112052041
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialblair @blairaf.com · 22hSome marginalia from my full reading of the Pope's Encyclical on AI this morning: - AI does not love - AI does not intrinsically value truth or justice - AI does not experience hunger - AI does not experience communion with the natural world or any sort of higher power 47027
rainypoesia.bsky.social @rainypoesia.bsky.social · 20h💯💯💯 And white reporters should be doing this loudly 000
rainypoesia.bsky.social @rainypoesia.bsky.social · 20hImportant film and accessible— And it’s also available on YouTube. 0226
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialBrant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It’s not nearly as advanced as they want you to think…. 18840081269
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 22h"If you set up a machine such that any question you put in will lead to an answer coming back out…you are setting up a view of the world and of knowledge that says, 'All questions have a discrete, knowable, objective answer,' and that's just not true and has no place in education." ❤️😍💯 14817
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialemily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 22hthe first time i had to secure the death certificate, it was like 13 days after my mom died & i had to wait for a fresh one? took me another month to find 3 non-relatives who knew my family. anyways, all said & done i’ll be done with these loans ~35 years after taking them. 1371
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22h“Every act of art is an act of resistance” -Tom Morello 553888655
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialTyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026Basically using LLMs and agentic ai is a massive security risk and no one should do so basically ever and these companies should be prosecuted for hacking. Also two-party consent should extend to all electronic communications. 2664151
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 23hSix Charts That Show Just How Much We Need Improv Comedy Groups 1206
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22hFact that despite the fact that someone qualifying for student loans pretty clearly shows they don’t come from generational wealth people have still been able to be negatively polarized against student loan holders because in general we have a large population of petty vituperative people. 744546
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialAnil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT. 511537293
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22hMore Democrats need to be telling the online casino owners behind Polymarket to shut the fuck up 433664715
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 22hAgain, journalists, what are you doing?👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 The most mind blowing thing about these people is that they are so out in the open with their eugenics & predatory cults. Epstein wasn't as out in the open (at least from what I see now). Everything is right there for you to expose them once & for all! 418261
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I think what I find really depressing about AI in higher education is how so many people didn't even wait for the evidence/research before we decided on telling students "how to use AI responsibly" which often includes things like checking grammar, and obviously, we shouldn't have been 181101301
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities 7559159
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialmollypeonies @mollypeonies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Wow, @startribune.com. This is absolutely irresponsible and needs an immediate retraction. Refuting your own headline right in the story. 48123
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialPaul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Dems REALLY need to get their shit together pushing back against this. Bullies ALWAYS attack who they see as the weakest, the easiest to attack. Standing up to bullies is a core part of the social contract. If you don't do that, you have nothing. It's as simple & fundamental as that. 03617
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026Columnist Stephen Rattner probably got screwed over by the headline writer, but I'm seriously floored at how poor a job these six charts do at showing that we need AI.nytimes.comOpinion | Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I. (Gift Article)All the worry about artificial intelligence should not obscure this key point: If we don’t develop it, we’ll be a lot worse off. 2136271
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialYan Basque @yanbasque.com · 30/09/2026This part especially. It sums up not only what's going on, psychologically, but also how futile it is to attempt to disprove something that is not a theory but a description. It's kind of like if I was trying to disprove the horsepower metaphor in relation to the combustion engine. 093
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such. 9833211
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 28/01/2026tl;dr2: The AI Doc is a vehicle for hype, of the doomer-booster variety, presented through a very naive lens w/high production values. The style is also frenetic, with too much to focus on visually for much of the time and rapid cuts (even mid-sentence) btw speakers. bsky.app/profile/emil... >> 37713
rainypoesia.bsky.social @rainypoesia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026🧵 “tl;dr: Ghost in the Machine is a rich, historically grounded, well-researched exploration of what is going on in the name of "AI". It presents a lot of information, but also gives you time to sit with it, and ultimately leaves viewers better informed.” 000
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 28/01/2026I was interviewed for two documentaries about "AI" that both premiered at Sundance this year: @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social ("Ghost in the Machine") and "The AI Doc: How I Became an Apocaloptimist". As a pair, these films are a study in contrasts. Another long 🧵>> 518272
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Incarcerated women report rampant sexual abuse by guards and the guards retaliate by spraying them with chemical agents and sending them to the hospital as a warning. Rape culture and brazen misogyny from the highest institution to the lowest. 4651296
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026That’s the thing, I make them write in class and even then (some) students insist on using it. I’m so fed up with the environment our institutions have created where any of us who think AI in the classroom is a hindrance are left to flail in the wind 1302
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I have students write out and sign a no-AI agreement. They draw my AI policy. I tell them every class not to use it. And STILL I found a student using it in class, fucking hell, it is disheartening to teach these days. Just want to thank our institutions and politicians for abandoning us wholesale 717220
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialJason Tracy @jason.tracys.org · 03/10/2026The imaginary AI that uses no resources, 100% renewable energy, closed loop cooling, and *actively pays royalties to the creators it was trained on* is so far from reality that it isn’t worth pondering. 326836
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialRacheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This type of rhetoric is familiar to and possibly therefore less alarming to anyone who has been active to protect abortion choice in America. This is also an alarming escalation from an unhinged conartist our criminal administration likes to listen to 35521
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 02/10/2026Every single AI innovation is "what if your imagination was real and you were dumb as shit about it."techcrunch.comAudible's new features let you explore book worlds — and use AI to talk to characters | TechCrunchAudible is rolling out new features that help listeners keep track of characters, explore places and imagery mentioned in books, and even interact with characters using generative AI. 310113
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialDr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 02/10/2026We absolutely do not have to fall over ourselves saying that we want to hug and kiss technological progress. The onus is on AI bros to explain to us why we should be excited about new corporate-owned tech while there are microplastics in every mother's breast milk and our rivers are drying up.hilaryagro.comWe cannot have a rational debate about technology.As long as we rely on screens rather than on forests and sunsets to soothe our pain, we will fight to defend the screens, not the forests. 0436
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity against hyped claims about “AI” capabilities." irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/09/12/c...irisvanrooijcogsci.comComputational complexity for hype immunityUsing some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity… 918269
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialAhana the Sun Goddess ☀️ 🌞 @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Damn, being in middle school in this digital era must absolutely suck 0405
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/10/2026!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... 3372127
Reposted by @rainypoesia.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list. 1042659736
