@mikeogden.bsky.social
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Do the eleventy thousand public school systems that rely on Google (Gmail, docs, Classroom, etc) know that the company, with the flick of a switch and with no notice, is now training its plagiarism machine on child student data?
This could quite possibly be running afoul of some state laws.
This could quite possibly be running afoul of some state laws.
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Do the eleventy thousand public school systems that rely on Google (Gmail, docs, Classroom, etc) know that the company, with the flick of a switch and with no notice, is now training its plagiarism machine on child student data?
This could quite possibly be running afoul of some state laws.
This could quite possibly be running afoul of some state laws.
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The Netflix miniseries Death By Lightning turns a historical footnote — Charles Guiteau's assassination of President James Garfield — into a grand entertainment, with wonderful performances by Matthew Macfadyen, Michael Shannon, Betty Gilpin, and, especially, Nick Offerman. My review:
Review: Netflix's 'Death By Lightning' gives a historical footnote a jolt
Michael Shannon, Matthew Macfadyen, and Nick Offerman lead a rollicking retelling of the assassination of President James Garfield
www.whatsalanwatching.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The Netflix miniseries Death By Lightning turns a historical footnote — Charles Guiteau's assassination of President James Garfield — into a grand entertainment, with wonderful performances by Matthew Macfadyen, Michael Shannon, Betty Gilpin, and, especially, Nick Offerman. My review:
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Smart people are asking questions about societal upheavals.
Unless you have a plan to transition proverbial "saddle makers" into "car upholstery" makers, wiping out a majority of your employment opportunities in a society where human value is predicated on work, will lead to catastrophe.
Unless you have a plan to transition proverbial "saddle makers" into "car upholstery" makers, wiping out a majority of your employment opportunities in a society where human value is predicated on work, will lead to catastrophe.
It's kind of amazing how, at the last tech conference I went to, far too many dudes were boasting about how "easy" their jobs were thanks to "the AI doing all the work"
They really didn't like me asking why a company would keep paying them six figures if "the AI" was doing their jobs for them.
They really didn't like me asking why a company would keep paying them six figures if "the AI" was doing their jobs for them.
A key failure state of Straight Guy In Tech Brain seems to be "total confidence that I am an irreplaceable genius"
August 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Smart people are asking questions about societal upheavals.
Unless you have a plan to transition proverbial "saddle makers" into "car upholstery" makers, wiping out a majority of your employment opportunities in a society where human value is predicated on work, will lead to catastrophe.
Unless you have a plan to transition proverbial "saddle makers" into "car upholstery" makers, wiping out a majority of your employment opportunities in a society where human value is predicated on work, will lead to catastrophe.
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hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social
July 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social
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While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle.
https://trib.al/W6lqYEu
https://trib.al/W6lqYEu
July 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle.
https://trib.al/W6lqYEu
https://trib.al/W6lqYEu
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Unless they run it the same way they run charter schools and have taxpayers pay them. Only now, we’re not just paying for the service, we have to pay for their profit too.
There is no magical efficiency in the private sector. When they do find efficiency, it goes to profit, not price reduction.
There is no magical efficiency in the private sector. When they do find efficiency, it goes to profit, not price reduction.
July 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Unless they run it the same way they run charter schools and have taxpayers pay them. Only now, we’re not just paying for the service, we have to pay for their profit too.
There is no magical efficiency in the private sector. When they do find efficiency, it goes to profit, not price reduction.
There is no magical efficiency in the private sector. When they do find efficiency, it goes to profit, not price reduction.
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The Cuyahoga River fire(s) and subsequent rehabilitation is one of my go-to stories for why environmental regulation is both effective and necessary. Now I (and you!) can sing this river's praises to a catchy tune. 🎵
since “Sewer Star” popped back up in our mentions today, let’s revisit our classic “Like a Sturgeon”
July 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The Cuyahoga River fire(s) and subsequent rehabilitation is one of my go-to stories for why environmental regulation is both effective and necessary. Now I (and you!) can sing this river's praises to a catchy tune. 🎵
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A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”
July 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”
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Americans have really got to unlearn the propagandist indoctrination that socialism is bad.
It means that everyone has what they need, resources are shared, and we care for the earth & those around us.
We've been taught to hate it so capitalists can keep exploiting us and working us to death.
It means that everyone has what they need, resources are shared, and we care for the earth & those around us.
We've been taught to hate it so capitalists can keep exploiting us and working us to death.
July 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Americans have really got to unlearn the propagandist indoctrination that socialism is bad.
It means that everyone has what they need, resources are shared, and we care for the earth & those around us.
We've been taught to hate it so capitalists can keep exploiting us and working us to death.
It means that everyone has what they need, resources are shared, and we care for the earth & those around us.
We've been taught to hate it so capitalists can keep exploiting us and working us to death.
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they’re not gonna build the camps and then leave them empty. they’ve already telegraphed using the insurrection and the military to round people up. and it won’t just be immigrants, documented or otherwise. the EO on birthright is just the first step on the road to stripping people of citizenship
June 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
they’re not gonna build the camps and then leave them empty. they’ve already telegraphed using the insurrection and the military to round people up. and it won’t just be immigrants, documented or otherwise. the EO on birthright is just the first step on the road to stripping people of citizenship
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Horrific political assassinations took place in America, & we’ve totally erased it from the National Conversation™️ because they happened in the Midwest instead of Manhattan & we’re not a serious country. Incredibly depressing on so many deep, pathetic levels. May their memories be a blessing.
This broke me from the first paragraph
"For Melissa Hortman’s last day at work, they draped her coffin with pink flowers and filled the cold marble under the Minnesota Capitol dome with the green and growing things that she loved."
Thank you, @stribrooks.bsky.social
"For Melissa Hortman’s last day at work, they draped her coffin with pink flowers and filled the cold marble under the Minnesota Capitol dome with the green and growing things that she loved."
Thank you, @stribrooks.bsky.social
Brooks: Minnesota’s greatest honor for a family’s great loss
Former President Joe Biden paid his respects in person, and mourners waited in long lines to honor Melissa and Mark Hortman, and their dog Gilbert, as they lay in state at the Capitol.
www.startribune.com
June 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Horrific political assassinations took place in America, & we’ve totally erased it from the National Conversation™️ because they happened in the Midwest instead of Manhattan & we’re not a serious country. Incredibly depressing on so many deep, pathetic levels. May their memories be a blessing.
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Something the Mamdani win demonstrates is the extent to which the reigning cadre of ancient, establishment, centrist Dems think it’s more important to be on good terms with their GOP colleagues than it is to represent their own voters, and how thoroughly sick of this literally everyone is.
June 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Something the Mamdani win demonstrates is the extent to which the reigning cadre of ancient, establishment, centrist Dems think it’s more important to be on good terms with their GOP colleagues than it is to represent their own voters, and how thoroughly sick of this literally everyone is.
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Surprisingly effective things Zohran Mamdani ran on:
-free buses
-rent freeze
-halal cart for $8 instead of $10
-taxing the 1%
-no cost childcare
-city-owned grocery stores
-a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response
-building affordable housing
-why Cuomo sucks
-free buses
-rent freeze
-halal cart for $8 instead of $10
-taxing the 1%
-no cost childcare
-city-owned grocery stores
-a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response
-building affordable housing
-why Cuomo sucks
June 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Surprisingly effective things Zohran Mamdani ran on:
-free buses
-rent freeze
-halal cart for $8 instead of $10
-taxing the 1%
-no cost childcare
-city-owned grocery stores
-a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response
-building affordable housing
-why Cuomo sucks
-free buses
-rent freeze
-halal cart for $8 instead of $10
-taxing the 1%
-no cost childcare
-city-owned grocery stores
-a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response
-building affordable housing
-why Cuomo sucks
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The heatwaves next week are literally going to kill people even if the grids don’t go down; meanwhile, tech billionaires are trying to convince us that using the fake answer machines will solve all our problems.
June 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The heatwaves next week are literally going to kill people even if the grids don’t go down; meanwhile, tech billionaires are trying to convince us that using the fake answer machines will solve all our problems.
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Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
June 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
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Telling me "the subway is so dangerous now" is my immediate sign that you need your TV taken away and your news algorithm adjusted www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...?
The Subway Is Not Scary
Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
June 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Telling me "the subway is so dangerous now" is my immediate sign that you need your TV taken away and your news algorithm adjusted www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...?
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ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
AI was trained on my books (without my permission and against my will) so this annoys me. I never use AI. Not for research, not for images, not for writing. AI used me.
I keep seeing reports of non-AI users being told that an AI detector has dubbed their work AI generated, and it makes me insane because:
1) AI detection tools *are themselves AI* and thus entirely bullshit; and
2) if an AI was trained on your works, of COURSE it’ll flag you as sounding “like” AI!
1) AI detection tools *are themselves AI* and thus entirely bullshit; and
2) if an AI was trained on your works, of COURSE it’ll flag you as sounding “like” AI!
June 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
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There a reason the protests are being covered differently from the Tea Party
The Tea Party was a front for the wealth class that owns the media and were used to demonize necessary reform
These protests were democratic and populist, which the wealth class and its media opposes
Hope that helps
The Tea Party was a front for the wealth class that owns the media and were used to demonize necessary reform
These protests were democratic and populist, which the wealth class and its media opposes
Hope that helps
June 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
There a reason the protests are being covered differently from the Tea Party
The Tea Party was a front for the wealth class that owns the media and were used to demonize necessary reform
These protests were democratic and populist, which the wealth class and its media opposes
Hope that helps
The Tea Party was a front for the wealth class that owns the media and were used to demonize necessary reform
These protests were democratic and populist, which the wealth class and its media opposes
Hope that helps
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This. We need to face who we are and have been as a nation if we ever want to change it.
Two phrases that need to be retired:
“We are better than this.” (We’re not.)
The U.S. president is “the leader of the free world.” (He’s not.)
“We are better than this.” (We’re not.)
The U.S. president is “the leader of the free world.” (He’s not.)
June 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This. We need to face who we are and have been as a nation if we ever want to change it.
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In the 42 years since the start of the Reagan revolution, bought-off politicians have so altered our tax code that fully $51 trillion has moved from the homes and savings of working-class Americans into the money bins of the morbidly rich money hoarders.
https://trib.al/O1jiyie
https://trib.al/O1jiyie
The Billionaire Hoarders: How the Wealthy Became Our Biggest Threat
How a sick obsession is killing workers, democracy, and our planet.
trib.al
June 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
In the 42 years since the start of the Reagan revolution, bought-off politicians have so altered our tax code that fully $51 trillion has moved from the homes and savings of working-class Americans into the money bins of the morbidly rich money hoarders.
https://trib.al/O1jiyie
https://trib.al/O1jiyie
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As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.
June 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.
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Everything that was promoted by the “Alt-Right” in 2016 is now mainstream Republican policy.
Just to put into perspective how far the Overton window has shifted.
Just to put into perspective how far the Overton window has shifted.
May 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Everything that was promoted by the “Alt-Right” in 2016 is now mainstream Republican policy.
Just to put into perspective how far the Overton window has shifted.
Just to put into perspective how far the Overton window has shifted.
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Do not come in my mentions claiming that the public isn’t engaging in widespread pandemic denialism when you’re referring to Covid in the past tense.
WHO leader says COVID-19 is "still a pandemic"
A World Health Organization leader says she is worried people are still too eager to move on from COVID
www.salon.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Do not come in my mentions claiming that the public isn’t engaging in widespread pandemic denialism when you’re referring to Covid in the past tense.
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Get news from multiple sources and trust nobody (not even me). But skip tv news.
How I Get The News www.oliverexplains.com/p/how-i-get-...
How I Get The News www.oliverexplains.com/p/how-i-get-...
April 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Get news from multiple sources and trust nobody (not even me). But skip tv news.
How I Get The News www.oliverexplains.com/p/how-i-get-...
How I Get The News www.oliverexplains.com/p/how-i-get-...
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I'll just say again that I do not believe that people *know* their own motivations, and that very often people are making up a story on the spot, a story about motivations that flatters their self-conception, which tells you *something*, but not their "real" or "actual" motivations.
April 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I'll just say again that I do not believe that people *know* their own motivations, and that very often people are making up a story on the spot, a story about motivations that flatters their self-conception, which tells you *something*, but not their "real" or "actual" motivations.