Brandolini

pro-science; pro-knowledge

[Brandolini @profferisms]

@davetroy thank you for adding the bookshop links! also, I'm surprised to not see any of Sarah Kendzior's books (eg Hiding in Plain Sight and They Knew)

[Brandolini @profferisms]

@GosiaGasperoPhD try this link: https://t.co/USHS3MUIa1

[⚜️Sovereign⚜️ @sauvamemte]

This is my disability studies library it contains a plethora of information about disability, eugenics, and the relation of disability through a wide sociopolitical lens. So, here it is for anyone interested in learning & reading 📚

https://t.co/G07Z7iKJjS

[🌸Bibi🌸♿ @BibiBlossoms]

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[zellie @zellieimani]

For the “I don’t see color” people.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.

A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.

Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.

The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable.

The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust.

Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.

The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.

The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.

[Stop the Forever Wars @DoctorFishbones]

All the scientists and math nerds were fine with OpenAI violating copyright by artists and only got up in arms when OpenAI stole the data on a math proof

[... @tamaranopper]

I still appreciate this from Ta-Nehisi Coates.

“I want to be a really decent person and a great writer. That’s what I want out of my life. And that’s not small… Like, being a decent person is not a small thing and it’s not an easy thing, by the way. It really, really isn’t.”

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Please NEVER take for granted the privilege of having clean water, hot showers, Wi-Fi, and a safe home.

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

It is entirely within the grasp of humanity to stop global catastrophe driven by climate and ecological crisis.

All we need to do, is to:

1) Rapidly phase out fossil fuel burning.

2) Move away from mass livestock farming and other unsustainable agricultural practise.

3) Stop systematically destroying natural habitat and biodiversity.

4) Move away from artificially enforced competitiveness, as humans are an innately cooperative species, and have to be coerced to be competitive, and work towards the common good, as you'd expect in a planetary emergency.

This isn't really any sort of secret and was well known at the time of the 1972 UN Environment Conference, and certainly by the time of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.

Absolutely the only reason we haven't changed business as usual, is the richest and most powerful people on earth, are making massive amounts of money from business as usual.

The usual excuse is this is impossible as civilized society depends on the burning of fossil fuels. Let me put this into perspective. Yet less than 18% of the global population own a car, and over 80% have never flown at all, or hardly ever. So clearly over 80% of the global population don't find these activities necessary. Finally, the top 1% have higher emissions, than the bottom 66%, which really explains why we're carrying on with business as usual, on a suicidal path. The top 1% need to keep on burning fossil fuels to fuel their extravagant lifestyles, that 99% of the population don't have.

So when the oligarch owned media, tell us we need to keep burning fossil fuels to maintain civilization. What they actually mean, is that they and the owners of the media they work for, need to maintain their wealth and luxury lifestyles. If most of you end up starving to death, so be it. Because they have the moral consciences of psychopaths.
https://t.co/22QL3Lw6Sj

[How To Prompt @HowToPrompt__]

Researchers mathematically proved that AI will cause something worse than mass unemployment.

It’s called “The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons."

For the last three years, everyone has obsessed over a single question: Will AI steal our jobs?

That’s the wrong question.

A breakthrough research paper just exposed a much darker reality.

The real danger is that AI will quietly destroy the human capacity to do anything well.

Here is how the it works.

Every industry relies on what researchers call the "Cognitive Commons”, a shared pool of deep professional expertise that regenerates itself generation after generation.

How is that expertise built?

Through friction. Through doing the boring, difficult, junior-level work. Through manual trial and error.

That is how you build "Internalized Mastery."

When companies adopt AI to automate entry-level work, the logic looks airtight on a quarterly balance sheet. Cut costs. Speed up output. Skip the grunt work.

Every individual company is making a rational choice. But collectively, they are draining the pool dry.

When you eliminate junior roles, you destroy the pipeline that creates senior experts.

The researchers call the result the Validation Tether.

Effective human oversight of AI depends entirely on deep domain expertise.

As professionals increasingly delegate thinking to machines, they lose the mastery required to spot when the AI is wrong.

The experts validating AI outputs today look competent.

The terrifying question is: Who comes after them?

When the current generation of veterans retires, who will be left with the skills to audit the systems running our economy?

Nobody.

We are trading our long-term intellectual independence for short-term productivity boosts.

Every time you let AI bypass the struggle, you are borrowing expertise from the future.

And the interest rate is your profession's ability to think for itself.

[Brandolini @profferisms]

@starshipTARDIS when i broke a toe, i was surprised at how much it didn't hurt (at all) and that I could still move it. anyway, doc straightened my obviously broken toe and taped it to a buddy toe. swelling happened eventually but nothing else could be done. still a little wonky but fine

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

That young man is the REAL winner‼️

[bawbagstauner @bawbagstauner]

What really fucking boils my piss is that we had the opportunity to change the world after Covid. The pandemic produced a fascinating real-world experiment. It demonstrated that human activity can alter emissions and local environmental conditions extraordinarily quickly

[Sam Long Covid Since March 2020 @CounsellingSam]

Wear a mask anywhere you believe disabled people should be able to exist safely.

[Yondaime @iamjadebrieanne]

This is why I want to be rich. I’d hire a team to go out once a month and hit like 10-15 grocery stores in low income neighborhoods. Food delivery to places with food deserts. This gets my blood moving.

[Brandolini @profferisms]

@fuckyouiquit

[Brandolini @profferisms]

@DrAshLukes @brownecfm mild heart attack!? that's a new one but i shouldn't be surprised. hope he's ok!

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