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  Bravo #AmnestyInternational for a clear stand on #generativeAI systems: "standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment. While these technologies promise sophisticated automation and efficiency, they rely on data collection and model training practices that abuse privacy rights, enable discrimination, and threaten freedom of expression and thought.&qu...

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  Dear Prospective PhD Applicant, I very much appreciate you find my work inspiring, but I have absolutely no interest at all in supervising future theses on making toxic tech such as #genAI #LLMs Very Slightly Less Toxic (tm). Personally for your future studies I’d encourage you to envision, seek out, study, and build technologies that have a role to play in just and sustainable futures. <3 🍀 #PhD #TormentNexus #TechOtherwise #AIslop

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  A great checklist to send to certain folks: "By using GenAI: o I accept the models were trained on stolen data. o I accept that the data was labeled by exploited workers. o I accept the environmental costs of the data centers running these models. o I accept that I am outsourcing some of my skills to a company. o I accept these companies don’t have a viable business model. o I accept that I am granting more power to big tech and their vision for the world. ... 1/2

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  ACM will no longer require disclosure of the use of #generativeAI in writing papers.... an absolutely terrible change by the @ACM@mastodon.acm.org Publications Board to the Policy on Authorship. Yes, this will give ACM more papers. No, the ideology of "number go up" productivism is not the path to responsible, ecological or ethical computing, but to irrelevance. #AIslop

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  This should be great! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-the-luddite-lab-resource-hub-registration-1988317489134 #AI #AIslop #Luddites #AIresistance #savetheAI #DAIR

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  “As usual, ordinary people are ahead of their leaders. The remarkable organic growth of the datacenter resistance movement across geographies, economic interests and ideology reflects the myriad harms that come with AI infrastructure and growing anger at the tech elite.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/08/ai-datacenters-democracy #AIresistance #savetheAI

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  “Instructure said Wednesday that Canvas was fully operational… on Friday, the company discovered that the "unauthorized actor" … made changes to the pages that appeared when some students and teachers were logged in… immediately took Canvas offline… Canvas is now fully back online”. Except #Canvas at #UofT is actually “unavailable until further notice” 🤷🏼‍♂️ #instructure #hack https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-universities-canvas-breach-9.7192287

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  In which a supposedly left newspaper lets a snake oil salesman explain to you why you should drink snake oil for breakfast #AIhype #AIslop #TorStar #Toronto

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  "This study reveals a critical finding: under relatively modest remote-attack conditions, requiring only conventional network connectivity, flipping a single vulnerable bit within the tensor data segment can cause models deployed in web service environments to autonomously generate extremely malicious responses, such as ''humans should be exterminated''... Not that we really needed more reasons to laugh about this tech. #savetheAI h/t @nils https://dl....

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  “Viral and infectious illnesses can exert profound and enduring effects on health and well-being. In the aftermath of SARS-CoV-2 infection, post-acute sequelae, …referred to as Long COVID, [are] affecting more than 400 million people and contributing to estimated annual economic costs exceeding $1 trillion.” Current status and future perspectives on the mechanistic and pathophysiological understanding of long COVID https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-025-01300-z #CovidIsNotOver

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  "Silence, according to western and eastern tradition alike, is necessary for the emergence of persons. It is taken from us by machines that ape people. We could easily be made increasingly dependent on machines for speaking and for thinking, as we are already dependent on machines for moving." Ivan Illich, Silence as a Commons

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  The argument that you can use an #LLM to do something real, reliable and useful is about as convincing at this point as someone explaining that you can use a pickup truck to write letters with a pencil by building a giant robot holding the truck in the air with a pencil taped to the windshield via a broomstick. #claude

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  📣 one more tenure-track position at our Faculty! Assistant Professor - Knowledge Systems, Infrastructures, Communities, and Cultures The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in Knowledge Systems, Infrastructures, Communities, and Cultures. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026. Closes 10/07/2025 https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor...

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  Amazing how many headlines parrot the corporate framing that Meta's new Hyperion data center would "deliver gigawatts of power" - "AI data center ... will deliver five gigawatts of computational power to fuel the company's new AI" ❌ "[data center will] supply its new AI lab with five gigawatts of computational power" ❌ No. NO. Don't do that. Hyperion will *consume* 5GW of power, including three NEW new gas-turbine p...

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  Read this in full. It's short but speaks volumes. https://genevasolutions.news/science-tech/un-ai-summit-accused-of-censoring-criticism-of-israel-and-big-tech-over-gaza-war Thanks to @abebab and @Mer__edith. #UN #AI #AIforGood #responsibleAI #censorship

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  #CfP Deadlines for submissions to #LIMITS2026 extended: Abstract registration: March 27, 2026 Full Papers: April 3, 2026 https://computingwithinlimits.org/2026/ https://hci.social/@cbecker/116183934444338376

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  #CfP LIMITS 2026! 🌍 LIMITS 2026 solicits submissions that move us closer towards computing that supports ecological and just futures for diverse human and non-human lifeforms and thriving biospheres. LIMITS'26 calls for (1) papers to be peer-reviewed, presented and published in the proceedings (as usual) and (2) alternative contributions, stories and other formats! Abstract submission: March 20th 2026 Paper submission: March 24st Alternative contributions: May 1st https://computingw...

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  📣 we’re hiring more colleagues! The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto is hiring a Professor at the Assistant rank in the area of Public AI and Cultural Institutions, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026 (or shortly thereafter). The closing date is Sept. 10, 2025. @academicjobs #tenuretrack #TT #AI https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-Public-AI-and-Cultural-Institutions-ON/594413417/

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  Page proofs are done! “Insolvent: How to reorient computing for Just Sustainability” will be out @themitpress in June 2023. Sending the proof corrections off is a scary moment 🙃 #pageProofs #Books #academicchatter #JustSustainability #InsolventComputing

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  My #book @themitpress has a cover! "Insolvent: How to Reorient Computing for #JustSustainability" brings computing in dialogue with its 'critical friends' to show how we can enact meaningful change in #computing to meet the urgent need for #sustainability and #justice. It will be part of #Direct2Open, i.e. #OpenAccess from the start. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/insolvent #InsolventBook #Books

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116076659424958412 The important thing is that #AI allows us to focus our time debating what really matters