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Oh god, the picture invokes some very mousetrap-adjacent vibes, in the @… sense of the word. https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114440131512138899

if you haven't, time to read this book: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/#zdgaf

Mi opinias ke ĉiu politikisto kaj aktivisto devus legi ĉi tiun. Ne haveblas ia perfekta sistemo, kiu havas ian utilan funkcion. Kiel la rubriko diras: "Ĉiu komplika ekosistemo havas parazitojn." Estas pli praktike permesi iom da difektoj kaj misuzoj, ol celi perfektecon. La argumentoj temu pri kiom je kia kosto.
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There are many parallels between the changes happening in academia and those in tech laid out by @….
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/some-animals/#are-more-equal-than-others
Join your faculty union. If you don't have a local union (or even if you do) join the AAUP. Together we can work to make academia what it should be.

P.S. Hat tip to @… for the radium reference. He was talking about other things (https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction), but the whole vibe of that “Radium will magically restore you to health!” era is by far the best historical comparison I’ve found for the current froth-mouthed AI hype.

And from the [not] #freemarket annals: 
"And of course, patients don't get to merge to monopoly (that's what governments are for, and we know how Blue Cross feels about single payer care). Workers don't get to merge to monopoly either (that's what unions are for, and no one hates a union more than a health care monopolist)."
PS: CEO says "authorization never sa…

P.S. Hat tip to @… for the radium reference. He was talking about other things (https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction), but the whole vibe of that “Radium will magically restore you to health!” era is by far the best historical comparison I’ve found for the current froth-mouthed AI hype.

“JK Galbraith’s observation that “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”“
Read “The meritocracy to eugenics pipeline“ by Cory Doctorow on Medium: https://…

The meritocracy to eugenics pipeline - Cory Doctorow - Medium
I’m on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel Picks and Shovels. Catch me in PDX at Barnes and Noble with BUNNIE HUANG on June 20. The last two stops are in London (Jul 1) and Manchester (Jul 2). It’s…

What I really like to see is that 35% of visitors to Sunset Dunes Park are from adjacent neighborhoods! (That is a plurality, by the way.)

What I really like to see is that 35% of visitors to Sunset Dunes Park are from adjacent neighborhoods! (That is a plurality, by the way.)