poritzj
@poritzj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Trying to work to make the world a little better in the ways I can; mostly in the open education and FLOSS movements at the moment. More at […]
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Reup: Marco Rubio Will Let 2.5 Million Children Die so Sarah Rogers Can Fund Far Right Extremists in Europe
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Marco Rubio Will Let 2.5 Million Children Die so Sarah Rogers Can Fund Far Right Extremists in Europe - emptywheel
The same week we got new figures of how many deaths -- 9.4 million, of which 2.5 million would be young children -- Marco Rubio's destruction of US foreign aid may cause, we got new details on the slu...
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February 7, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Reup: Marco Rubio Will Let 2.5 Million Children Die so Sarah Rogers Can Fund Far Right Extremists in Europe
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The net says today's min temp here will be 4F and the current temp is 3F. That happens sometimes, and I used to wonder why they didn't update the prediction, but recently I think it's extreme weather forecast honesty:
we have this model;
it produces outputs;
sometimes they correspond with […]
we have this model;
it produces outputs;
sometimes they correspond with […]
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mastodon.social
January 22, 2026 at 10:56 AM
The net says today's min temp here will be 4F and the current temp is 3F. That happens sometimes, and I used to wonder why they didn't update the prediction, but recently I think it's extreme weather forecast honesty:
we have this model;
it produces outputs;
sometimes they correspond with […]
we have this model;
it produces outputs;
sometimes they correspond with […]
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RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115832534415373032
keeping up to date with "AI" skills is extremely easy actually, the most sophisticated setup i've seen is just a bunch of markdown files begging the necrotic grooves left in the statistical skin of language to pretend like they are different […]
keeping up to date with "AI" skills is extremely easy actually, the most sophisticated setup i've seen is just a bunch of markdown files begging the necrotic grooves left in the statistical skin of language to pretend like they are different […]
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neuromatch.social
January 5, 2026 at 8:35 AM
RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115832534415373032
keeping up to date with "AI" skills is extremely easy actually, the most sophisticated setup i've seen is just a bunch of markdown files begging the necrotic grooves left in the statistical skin of language to pretend like they are different […]
keeping up to date with "AI" skills is extremely easy actually, the most sophisticated setup i've seen is just a bunch of markdown files begging the necrotic grooves left in the statistical skin of language to pretend like they are different […]
I am delighted to say that my darling wife Katherine Giuffre's new novel "Armadillo Massacre Number Three" just won the The 2025 Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction and will be published by Regal House Publishing! It's "A comedy about family, greed, fried catfish, good dogs, murder, and […]
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mastodon.social
September 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I am delighted to say that my darling wife Katherine Giuffre's new novel "Armadillo Massacre Number Three" just won the The 2025 Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction and will be published by Regal House Publishing! It's "A comedy about family, greed, fried catfish, good dogs, murder, and […]
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I'm rather astounded to educators embracing of the survelliance capitalist cloaking of LinkedIn, it's like a complete amnesia of Twitter.
August 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I'm rather astounded to educators embracing of the survelliance capitalist cloaking of LinkedIn, it's like a complete amnesia of Twitter.
OK, this is kind of fun: my "AI hype Tracking Project" AITRAP, https://poritz.net/j/aitrap , has just broken 6000 links to main-stream media stories, videos, podcasts, blogs, research articles, all the things #ai and #aiethics .
I have no idea if it's useful to anyone, but I have fun keeping the […]
I have no idea if it's useful to anyone, but I have fun keeping the […]
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mastodon.social
July 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
OK, this is kind of fun: my "AI hype Tracking Project" AITRAP, https://poritz.net/j/aitrap , has just broken 6000 links to main-stream media stories, videos, podcasts, blogs, research articles, all the things #ai and #aiethics .
I have no idea if it's useful to anyone, but I have fun keeping the […]
I have no idea if it's useful to anyone, but I have fun keeping the […]
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Sheila McNeil's reflection from #oer25 is a reminder that speaking openly together is the best antidote to enshittificiation
I'm pleased to know that @joewilson brought a punk vibe to the podium #openpunk
https://howsheilaseesit.net/oer/oer25-our-silence-will-not-save-us/
#oer25 #OpenPunk […]
I'm pleased to know that @joewilson brought a punk vibe to the podium #openpunk
https://howsheilaseesit.net/oer/oer25-our-silence-will-not-save-us/
#oer25 #OpenPunk […]
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mastodon.ie
June 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Sheila McNeil's reflection from #oer25 is a reminder that speaking openly together is the best antidote to enshittificiation
I'm pleased to know that @joewilson brought a punk vibe to the podium #openpunk
https://howsheilaseesit.net/oer/oer25-our-silence-will-not-save-us/
#oer25 #OpenPunk […]
I'm pleased to know that @joewilson brought a punk vibe to the podium #openpunk
https://howsheilaseesit.net/oer/oer25-our-silence-will-not-save-us/
#oer25 #OpenPunk […]
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Seeing usually smart folks getting rope-a-doped into arguing for LLM utility like there's a moral justice zero-sum trolley-problem slider between "useful" and "ethical" and we're just arguing about the best setting
But the real problem is even dumber
-is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes […]
But the real problem is even dumber
-is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes […]
Original post on dair-community.social
dair-community.social
June 18, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Seeing usually smart folks getting rope-a-doped into arguing for LLM utility like there's a moral justice zero-sum trolley-problem slider between "useful" and "ethical" and we're just arguing about the best setting
But the real problem is even dumber
-is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes […]
But the real problem is even dumber
-is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes […]
@xolotl you need to swoop in and come up with a better word for *this*:
I've seen more and more discussion from #ai folks talk about what users do with these statistical models after they've been trained, the "output highly probably - in the universe of the training data - sequences of tokens […]
I've seen more and more discussion from #ai folks talk about what users do with these statistical models after they've been trained, the "output highly probably - in the universe of the training data - sequences of tokens […]
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mastodon.social
May 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 11: Sustaining the Movement in the Long Haul https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode11 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT.
We are in this for the long haul. Key features of sustaining the […]
We are in this for the long haul. Key features of sustaining the […]
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mastodon.social
April 20, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 11: Sustaining the Movement in the Long Haul https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode11 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT.
We are in this for the long haul. Key features of sustaining the […]
We are in this for the long haul. Key features of sustaining the […]
1/3:
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 10: Open Education Under Fascism https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode10 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT.
Students in higher education in the United States are bearing more of the […]
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 10: Open Education Under Fascism https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode10 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT.
Students in higher education in the United States are bearing more of the […]
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mastodon.social
April 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
1/3:
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 10: Open Education Under Fascism https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode10 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT.
Students in higher education in the United States are bearing more of the […]
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 10: Open Education Under Fascism https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode10 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT.
Students in higher education in the United States are bearing more of the […]
Announcing
AITRAP,
The AI hype TRAcking Project
Here:
https://www.poritz.net/jonathan/aitrap/
What/why:
I keep a very random list of articles about AI, with a focus on hype, ethics, policy, teaching, IP law, some of the CS aspects, etc., now up to 1000s of entries.
I decided to share, in case […]
AITRAP,
The AI hype TRAcking Project
Here:
https://www.poritz.net/jonathan/aitrap/
What/why:
I keep a very random list of articles about AI, with a focus on hype, ethics, policy, teaching, IP law, some of the CS aspects, etc., now up to 1000s of entries.
I decided to share, in case […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
April 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Announcing
AITRAP,
The AI hype TRAcking Project
Here:
https://www.poritz.net/jonathan/aitrap/
What/why:
I keep a very random list of articles about AI, with a focus on hype, ethics, policy, teaching, IP law, some of the CS aspects, etc., now up to 1000s of entries.
I decided to share, in case […]
AITRAP,
The AI hype TRAcking Project
Here:
https://www.poritz.net/jonathan/aitrap/
What/why:
I keep a very random list of articles about AI, with a focus on hype, ethics, policy, teaching, IP law, some of the CS aspects, etc., now up to 1000s of entries.
I decided to share, in case […]
1/2:
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Resist-Ant 2: Bloc Recruitment: The Quicker Picker-Upper https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#resist-ant2 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT.
Fascism is coming in at an incredibly fast pace in the US […]
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Resist-Ant 2: Bloc Recruitment: The Quicker Picker-Upper https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#resist-ant2 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT.
Fascism is coming in at an incredibly fast pace in the US […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
April 6, 2025 at 7:07 AM
1/2:
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Resist-Ant 2: Bloc Recruitment: The Quicker Picker-Upper https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#resist-ant2 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT.
Fascism is coming in at an incredibly fast pace in the US […]
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Resist-Ant 2: Bloc Recruitment: The Quicker Picker-Upper https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#resist-ant2 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT.
Fascism is coming in at an incredibly fast pace in the US […]
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Resist-Ant 1: "Signalgate" https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#resist-ant1 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT.
Morons in the Trump administration recently misused the excellent secure communications tool […]
Morons in the Trump administration recently misused the excellent secure communications tool […]
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mastodon.social
March 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Resist-Ant 1: "Signalgate" https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#resist-ant1 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT.
Morons in the Trump administration recently misused the excellent secure communications tool […]
Morons in the Trump administration recently misused the excellent secure communications tool […]
We're adding an occasional, as-needed series to our channel The Revolution Will Not Be Televised https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net which we are calling "Resist-Ants."
These are smaller, mini-episodes which give a quick bit of timely information […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
These are smaller, mini-episodes which give a quick bit of timely information […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
March 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We're adding an occasional, as-needed series to our channel The Revolution Will Not Be Televised https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net which we are calling "Resist-Ants."
These are smaller, mini-episodes which give a quick bit of timely information […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
These are smaller, mini-episodes which give a quick bit of timely information […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
I was just in a great session run by @PaolaCorti on the amazing ENOEL Open Education Advocacy Toolkit - really amazing work of wide benefit to so many people, in many countries and languages!
There was a brief discussion at one point about the role of AI, and a nice perspective on it's […]
There was a brief discussion at one point about the role of AI, and a nice perspective on it's […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
March 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I was just in a great session run by @PaolaCorti on the amazing ENOEL Open Education Advocacy Toolkit - really amazing work of wide benefit to so many people, in many countries and languages!
There was a brief discussion at one point about the role of AI, and a nice perspective on it's […]
There was a brief discussion at one point about the role of AI, and a nice perspective on it's […]
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 9: Music and Mobilization https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode9 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT.
What role does music play in mobilizing resistance? Do protest songs actually matter? […]
What role does music play in mobilizing resistance? Do protest songs actually matter? […]
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mastodon.social
March 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 9: Music and Mobilization https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode9 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT.
What role does music play in mobilizing resistance? Do protest songs actually matter? […]
What role does music play in mobilizing resistance? Do protest songs actually matter? […]
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 8: Emigrating from the United States - 17 Useful Tips, Facts & FAQs https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode7 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT.
Leaving can be an act of resistance. This […]
Leaving can be an act of resistance. This […]
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mastodon.social
March 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 8: Emigrating from the United States - 17 Useful Tips, Facts & FAQs https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode7 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT.
Leaving can be an act of resistance. This […]
Leaving can be an act of resistance. This […]
[abortion]
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 7: Accessing Abortion When It Is Outlawed https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode7 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT
With abortion access limited, outlawed, or under attack all […]
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 7: Accessing Abortion When It Is Outlawed https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode7 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT
With abortion access limited, outlawed, or under attack all […]
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mastodon.social
March 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
[abortion]
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 7: Accessing Abortion When It Is Outlawed https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode7 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT
With abortion access limited, outlawed, or under attack all […]
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 7: Accessing Abortion When It Is Outlawed https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode7 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT
With abortion access limited, outlawed, or under attack all […]
As the fascism rises, it seems to me that erasing data is the book burning of the internet age... I keep thinking we need to update the famous Heinrich Heine quote ("Where they burn books, they will end in burning people" ... „Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen") […]
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mastodon.social
February 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
As the fascism rises, it seems to me that erasing data is the book burning of the internet age... I keep thinking we need to update the famous Heinrich Heine quote ("Where they burn books, they will end in burning people" ... „Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen") […]
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 6: How to Surf Safely https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode6 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT
We've talked about how to send encrypted email, but what if you want to surf the net, to get […]
We've talked about how to send encrypted email, but what if you want to surf the net, to get […]
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mastodon.social
February 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 6: How to Surf Safely https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode6 is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT
We've talked about how to send encrypted email, but what if you want to surf the net, to get […]
We've talked about how to send encrypted email, but what if you want to surf the net, to get […]