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Tressie McMillan Cottom brilliantly connects the #GenAI Pivot in #HigherEd to Daniel Greene's #AccessDoctrine. Why are universities all in on AI? Money and Legitimacy. AI fills a perceived skills gap while currying economic and political favor without addressing underlying systemic inequalities.
Tressie McPhD on Instagram: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems."
3,060 likes, 125 comments - tressiemcphd on October 15, 2024: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems.".
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December 1, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Tressie McMillan Cottom brilliantly connects the #GenAI Pivot in #HigherEd to Daniel Greene's #AccessDoctrine. Why are universities all in on AI? Money and Legitimacy. AI fills a perceived skills gap while currying economic and political favor without addressing underlying systemic inequalities.
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“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
fortune.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
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For the New Yorker, I wrote about the latest in a long history of American antagonism toward Haitians. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Haitian Question
The history of Haitian immigration to the United States is that of politicians on both sides of the aisle fighting to keep Haitians out of the country, with equal cruelty.
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September 17, 2024 at 7:15 PM
For the New Yorker, I wrote about the latest in a long history of American antagonism toward Haitians. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Dionne Brand: One thing that marks the works that I’ve produced is an excavation of US from this THING, from these sets of relations that constantly occlude, bind, bury, or actively or violently prevent a certain kind of living.
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BOMB Magazine | Dionne Brand by Saidiya Hartman
At once an autobiography of the reading self and a blistering critique of the “great works” of Anglophone literature, Brand’s latest book builds on her…
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September 18, 2024 at 12:48 AM
Dionne Brand: One thing that marks the works that I’ve produced is an excavation of US from this THING, from these sets of relations that constantly occlude, bind, bury, or actively or violently prevent a certain kind of living.
bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
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Check out Christina Sharpe @hystericalblkns.bsky.social in the most recent issue of the Yale Review. This is a crucial piece for thinking of ourselves as living in times of perpetual grief, & provides particular ways for writers to think about what our role is now.
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yalereview.org/article/chri...
Christina Sharpe: "The Shapes of Grief"
An essay by Christina Sharpe on witnessing the unbearable.
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September 10, 2024 at 2:20 AM
Check out Christina Sharpe @hystericalblkns.bsky.social in the most recent issue of the Yale Review. This is a crucial piece for thinking of ourselves as living in times of perpetual grief, & provides particular ways for writers to think about what our role is now.
yalereview.org/article/chri...
yalereview.org/article/chri...