Professoring field notes, Fall '25: intro to AI lecture slide deck for Deep Learning starts with Transformers (sequence-to-sequence vs self/multi-attention) ends up with feminist standpoint theory and collapse of the minority (vs majority) voice and why LLMs are authoritarian machines.

Ooops?

As many in the Bard community are aware, a Bard College student was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after appearing for a scheduled interview at the New York Asylum Office.

For more information, including how you can help the detained student, please visit go.bard.edu/take-action.

Almost like data work is a highly skilled labor form that requires close attention to detail on top of computational expertise :-)

Interested in teaching data analytics (Assistant rank) or systems topics (Open Rank) at a liberal arts college? Bard is hiring in both! Happy to answer questions about life here generally. Good people, good place, genuinely interdisciplinary campus! Job postings: www.bard.edu/humanresourc...

How do you write an AI course policy for a course in...AI? I'm trying to figure that out right now, with a working draft here: annabelrothschild.com/2025/08/11/a.... I'd love feedback -- we'll be talking in depth about all the FACcT* issues around AI throughout the course, this is just a spoiler.

Tired: accidentally pushing to prod
Wired: vibe coding prod

Just solved a printer bug as Grace Hopper intended (dissembling entire unit to excavate stink bug carcass)

new level of bureaucratic clustersauce: petitioning my former institution to stop marking emails from my new institution as automatic spam so that I can continue to work with colleagues there

all this because one admin sent all our SSNs for a free pizza lunch a few years ago (/s)

Synthetic data and labels (to replace human production) is starting to feel like the NSDAP project to create butter from coal: Details are sketchy, nutritional value seems even more dubious, but we're full steam ahead?

www.nytimes.com/1936/02/28/a...

www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

Data centers are the new sacrifice zones

graduating on international workers' day from the university that always chooses whether phd students are students or workers based on what is most convenient for admin will never not be funny

I'm looking for a postdoc to work on justice-oriented audit frameworks. Closing date April 30, 2025. pls share widely

So if Unis are halting graduate admissions this year, are they going to refund applicants all those $100 admissions application fees?

AI is but a concept of a plan

🎉Microsoft Research New England is hiring a predoctoral research assistant to work with @nancybaym.bsky.social, Tarleton Gillespie, and @marylgray.bsky.social on issues related to the dynamics of technology and society. 🎉

socialmediacollective.org/2025/01/22/s...

''‘Well, suppose I would oppose this, what good would I do? I wouldn’t do very much good, I would just lose my influence. Then why should I oppose it?’ You see, the moral point of view was completely absent, or very weak.'' -- Leo Szilard, on anticipatory obedience ("His version of the facts", p 13)

The loss of jobs at CDC coupled with major job losses at Emory and GA Tech will devastate Atlanta.

About those (GT) emails: www.11alive.com/article/news...

Had a lot of conversations with soon-to-be BA/S CS graduates about SWE jobs outside FAANG. Considering recent news about Costco upholding DEI values, I'd like to point out there are 95 (!) open IT jobs, many of them in Seattle and similar cities! phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf02/ats/ca...