Ann
@braithwaiteann.bsky.social
Professor of Diversity and Social Justice Studies, 3M National Teaching Fellow, leftie dog-loving vegan, mostly optimistic ranter, she / elle / they
woot... congrats, Bren!!
Bren Simmers wins the $60,000 #LatnerGriffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize, supported by The Albert and Temmy Latner Family Foundation and Scott Griffin. Congratulations! #WTAwards #canlit
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
woot... congrats, Bren!!
I think that every professor at Texas A&M should now plan a class on race and gender, and wouldn't it be too bad if there were 1000s of emails to the president suddenly looking for an ok... might be hard to get other presidential work done and all
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I think that every professor at Texas A&M should now plan a class on race and gender, and wouldn't it be too bad if there were 1000s of emails to the president suddenly looking for an ok... might be hard to get other presidential work done and all
what a friggin farce
This is absurd - the university president would have to pre approve any lesson plan involving race or gender? I would have such malicious compliance. www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...
Texas A&M to vote on banning “race and gender ideology”
The proposal appears to mark the first time a Texas university system offers definitions of what kind of instruction related to race and gender should not be permitted.
www.texastribune.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
what a friggin farce
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Why is the Trump administration so eager to strip people of food? Why do they want people to go hungry apnews.com/article/snap...
Trump administration seeks to block full SNAP payments for November
The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a judge’s order to distribute November’s full SNAP benefits during a U.S. government shutdown.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Why is the Trump administration so eager to strip people of food? Why do they want people to go hungry apnews.com/article/snap...
exactly
You don’t have to mourn war criminals. You don’t have to issue condolences to their families.
You don’t have to launder their legacies.
Save your grief for the innocents they killed, maimed or tortured without ever seeing justice served to their executioners.
You don’t have to launder their legacies.
Save your grief for the innocents they killed, maimed or tortured without ever seeing justice served to their executioners.
November 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
exactly
such a powerful piece...
“That space—the stutter, the pause, the gesture—is where the actual teaching happens.”
From "Human Error is the Point," a new original essay by @phlat-soda.bsky.social.
➡️ bit.ly/3VZ11Ld
From "Human Error is the Point," a new original essay by @phlat-soda.bsky.social.
➡️ bit.ly/3VZ11Ld
October 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
such a powerful piece...
everyone welcome! come to this and see some of what STLHE / SAPES does!
How do AI, academic integrity, and equity intersect? Join Heather Lawford & Toni Roberts for a thought-provoking session exploring justice, decolonization & inclusion in the age of generative AI.
Tuesday, October 28 | 1–2 pm ET
Register on the STLHE website: www.stlhe.ca/events/stlhe...
Tuesday, October 28 | 1–2 pm ET
Register on the STLHE website: www.stlhe.ca/events/stlhe...
October 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
everyone welcome! come to this and see some of what STLHE / SAPES does!
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I just think AI is so exciting bc it's a machine that you can get wrong answers from, that yields environmental devastation, and is being forced on all of us
October 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I just think AI is so exciting bc it's a machine that you can get wrong answers from, that yields environmental devastation, and is being forced on all of us
oh ffs
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
October 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
oh ffs
love this :)
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
love this :)
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You know how fascism requires a smaller and smaller ingroup as it develops?
Well so does neoliberalism.
Palestinians, trans people, disabled people...they become acceptable losses who must be sacrificed to "save democracy."
The only way to defeat fascism is to leave no one behind.
Well so does neoliberalism.
Palestinians, trans people, disabled people...they become acceptable losses who must be sacrificed to "save democracy."
The only way to defeat fascism is to leave no one behind.
September 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
You know how fascism requires a smaller and smaller ingroup as it develops?
Well so does neoliberalism.
Palestinians, trans people, disabled people...they become acceptable losses who must be sacrificed to "save democracy."
The only way to defeat fascism is to leave no one behind.
Well so does neoliberalism.
Palestinians, trans people, disabled people...they become acceptable losses who must be sacrificed to "save democracy."
The only way to defeat fascism is to leave no one behind.
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Ben Mulroney is blurring the lines between journalism, business, lobbying and partisan politics
The new host of Global News’ national political news show also works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted election events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives earlier this year
The new host of Global News’ national political news show also works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted election events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives earlier this year
Ben Mulroney is Blurring the Lines Between Journalism, Business, Lobbying and Partisan Politics
New host of Global News’ politics show works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
pressprogress.ca
September 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Ben Mulroney is blurring the lines between journalism, business, lobbying and partisan politics
The new host of Global News’ national political news show also works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted election events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives earlier this year
The new host of Global News’ national political news show also works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted election events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives earlier this year
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Breaking: Egyptian political activist and writer Alaa Abd El-Fattah was released from prison early Tuesday morning after being granted a pardon from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Monday.
September 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Breaking: Egyptian political activist and writer Alaa Abd El-Fattah was released from prison early Tuesday morning after being granted a pardon from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Monday.
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Three days after the UN inquiry declares "genocide" in Gaza the Carney government says they are still waiting for "all the evidence" before taking a stand.
What an epic moral failure.
What an epic moral failure.
September 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Three days after the UN inquiry declares "genocide" in Gaza the Carney government says they are still waiting for "all the evidence" before taking a stand.
What an epic moral failure.
What an epic moral failure.
funny but also so friggin appalling
Report: At this point we are just trying to figure who Canadian Parliament WON'T give a standing ovation to
Report: At this point we are just trying to figure who Canadian Parliament WON'T give a standing ovation to
OTTAWA - After members of the Canadian Parliament earlier today gave a standing ovation to recently deceased far-right agitator who touted white supremacist theories, Charlie Kirk, we here at The Beaverton are stuck trying to figure out if there’s literally anyone our elected officials won’t celebrate.
www.thebeaverton.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
funny but also so friggin appalling
the point being made so well... why memes are such fun :)
September 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
the point being made so well... why memes are such fun :)
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You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others?
David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC.
apnews.com/article/deka...
David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC.
apnews.com/article/deka...
Law enforcement officers remember police officer killed in CDC shooting in Atlanta
Weeks after David Rose was killed while responding to a shooting this month at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, officers are remembering the DeKalb County police officer as a courageous leader who pri...
apnews.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others?
David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC.
apnews.com/article/deka...
David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC.
apnews.com/article/deka...
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Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
September 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
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You can condemn murder and political violence without whitewashing Charlie Kirk's shameful history of hate, racism, white nationalism and promotion of dangerous conspiracies that radicalized Trump supporters to violence.
You can do both.
You can do both.
September 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
You can condemn murder and political violence without whitewashing Charlie Kirk's shameful history of hate, racism, white nationalism and promotion of dangerous conspiracies that radicalized Trump supporters to violence.
You can do both.
You can do both.
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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
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To put this another way: you can't stop it from making things up because *literally all it does is make things up*
It just generates likely text. Sometimes what's likely is also true. Sometimes it's not.
This means it has the same relationship to truth as a magic 8-ball. Literally.
It just generates likely text. Sometimes what's likely is also true. Sometimes it's not.
This means it has the same relationship to truth as a magic 8-ball. Literally.
How many times, in how many contexts, from how many internal and external researchers, or from how many CEO's are people going to have to receive this message before they believe it:
"Hallucinations" are an inherent part of the large language model architecture.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Hallucinations" are an inherent part of the large language model architecture.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Can researchers stop AI making up citations?
OpenAI’s GPT-5 hallucinates less than previous models do, but cutting hallucination completely might prove impossible.
www.nature.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
To put this another way: you can't stop it from making things up because *literally all it does is make things up*
It just generates likely text. Sometimes what's likely is also true. Sometimes it's not.
This means it has the same relationship to truth as a magic 8-ball. Literally.
It just generates likely text. Sometimes what's likely is also true. Sometimes it's not.
This means it has the same relationship to truth as a magic 8-ball. Literally.
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Look, I don’t know why this is so complicated for people
When a man says violence against women isn’t a crime, they told you who they are, and you can believe it or you can explain it away, but then you know who you are, too
The misogyny was always a core point
When a man says violence against women isn’t a crime, they told you who they are, and you can believe it or you can explain it away, but then you know who you are, too
The misogyny was always a core point
September 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Look, I don’t know why this is so complicated for people
When a man says violence against women isn’t a crime, they told you who they are, and you can believe it or you can explain it away, but then you know who you are, too
The misogyny was always a core point
When a man says violence against women isn’t a crime, they told you who they are, and you can believe it or you can explain it away, but then you know who you are, too
The misogyny was always a core point
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Okay now this is impressive!
Sound on!
Sound on!
September 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Okay now this is impressive!
Sound on!
Sound on!