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Career Quartermaster@cmiciek.bsky.social |
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Paid to do uni career dev, meddler in tech's impact on hiring, employment, and society at large.
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Alex Hanna
@alexhanna.bsky.social
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Thanks to @darakerr.bsky.social for talking with me about the high climate cost of generative AI, Google's reneging on its climate goals, and the real existential crisis facing us on NPR Morning Edition today.
www.npr.org/2024/07/10/n...
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Shannon Mattern
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
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Data & Society is hiring a rsch + ref librarian to help them "figure out better methods for making [their] rsch visible, discoverable, + durable" — and to create new methods of repository building to foreground the work of "lay experts, radical thinkers, community organizers, activist scholars"
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Jason Koebler
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
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There is a new genre of serious-seeming "scientific" research paper but the paper is like "we asked ChatGPT if AI could do your job and it said yes" and then news outlets cover them uncritically and they go viral
www.404media.co/ai-finds-tha...
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@danmcquillan.bsky.social
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"AI amplifies thoughtlessness and a lack of care...The logics of ranking and superiority are buried deep in the make up of artificial intelligence; married to populist politics, it becomes another vector for deciding who is disposable"
danmcquillan.org/ai_thatcheri...
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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Yup, and the love your enemy even more so. Those folks were, and are, the spiritual and theological descendants of those who created and propagated the slave Bible, i.e. they've not got a good grasp on the actual point of following Jesus.
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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They may already be laying that groundwork, even if unintentionally.
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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Hopefully there are no assignments writing about personal experiences.
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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Can you give me the quote?
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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Have you got the receipts for that?
freakonomics.com/podcast/amer...
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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I give you Kristin Kobes Du Mez
wwnorton.com/books/978163...
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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The US has to first break the duopoly.
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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So they don't know how to mail a ticket?
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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Automation Bias isn't new. Baking it into our education system and destroying expertise and trust is.
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John Breen
@acab.dad
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More context: bsky.app/profile/acab...
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Paris Marx
@parismarx.bsky.social
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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Well, there are very fine people on both sides. He's said that. Very fine. Very fine people.
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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Separate machine, two to the right of the ice, next to the propane rack.
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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You mean the people who whinge about govt overreach and are clueless about corp overreach? The ones all over social media driving alt-right algos? You are more generous to their ability to maintain logical consistency than I am. I hope you are right.
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Hypervisible
@hypervisible.bsky.social
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“The automated ammunition dispenser uses artificial intelligence technology to verify a buyer’s identification and age through card scanning and facial recognition software.” 💀
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Critical AI
@criticalai-journal.bsky.social
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#DESIGNJUSTICEAI opens Day 6 w/ an emerging scholar panel from Kingsley Owadara on Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Favour Borokini on Human Subjectivities Interact w/ Mediating Tech
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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SV had been building to this for a long time. I've been fighting MSoft authoupdates for years as they've pushed users towards more cloud based computing and erosion of control over one's hardware via their EULAs and software. Convenience as vector for control w/ diminishing opts to resist.
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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How can that be? They've been promising us more productivity and greater amounts of creative and human centered work.
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Hypervisible
@hypervisible.bsky.social
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🤷🏿♂️
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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They're going to keep letting the self driving cars hit people until you do.
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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My employer gave out stock options, but all I got was this lousy T-shirt.
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Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
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Wasn’t going to wade into discourse on here again yet but let me just say, the jokes and threats (or whatever they are) from U.S. folks of relative privilege about leaving the country give away a lot of how people locate themselves, or rather don’t, in relation to neighbors and community.
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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I'm not disagreeing with you, but characterizing the origins of Western cultural systems as philosophical crap and dismissing it means we just end up back here with another oppressive economic system. Swapping out who pulls the levers matters little if it's the levers that need destroying.
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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You're missing the point. Your logic of "transcending the need for labor" is the same logic as capitalists and tech bros. Without a fundamental challenge to the (de)valuation of people and work we will always end up back here. Capitalist. Marxist. Doesn't matter. Bad root.
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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Doesn't matter what you think, it's Western culture as shaped and defined by the ancient Greeks and absorbed and propagated down the generations. It justifies and undergirds the economic choices & values of the wealthy and the poor. A future w/o work is a hell same as one of pointless work.
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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As long as there are those who believe labor needs to be transcended, that work's a negative to avoid, we'll end up here. The problem isn't work, it's how we've structured it as cultures + relate to it as individuals. The artist griping on dishes and the capitalist hiring a laborer share a mindset.
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@cmiciek.bsky.social
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I was hoping Taylor might make an appearance, but we can't have everything, and this was a lot. Thank you.
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Ed Zitron
@zitron.bsky.social
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Newsletter: The Shareholder Supremacy has eaten the world, turning the tech industry into the playground of do-nothing management dictators that see human beings as assets and the customer as subordinate to growth - all inspired by GE’s Jack Welch. www.wheresyoured.at/tss/
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@cmiciek.bsky.social
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With the demographic cliff starting to hit? Most wouldn't consider it.
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@cmiciek.bsky.social
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Frodobots? Seriously? First Jackson, then Palantir, then Amazon, now this? Please keep money grubbing corporate hands off the legacy. At least stop naming things antithetical to the work's themes. It just makes the lot look illiterate.
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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This mindset is the (current) abso distillation of the ancient Greek despising of work, as something to avoid or put on the backs of lesser people while one enjoys leisure. Anything -reading, creating art, cooking/eating, etc - perceived as work must be made efficient or offloaded to lesser beings.
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Hypervisible
@hypervisible.bsky.social
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One of the most revealing things to come from the “ai” push is these bros’ limited vision of humanity. Saying “what are we, collectively, as an organism of humans, other than a knowledge, an intellectual production engine” isn’t profound, but it does explain why you think “ai” is the pinnacle.
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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In a culture so afraid of mortality that we warehouse our elderly and in unhealthy ways compartmentalize how we may grieve I cannot imagine how this could go awry. Oh, wait, yes I do and even the most benign of intents will quickly and cynically devolve into ways to milk profit.
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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The demise of Chevron is being widely interpreted as an expansion of judicial power. It is that, but it also and more profoundly an expansion of power of moneyed interests.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-money-...
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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Couple this with today's scotus ruling on Chevron and msoft probably is in the clear. Same with openai, anthropic, and the lot.
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Hypervisible
@hypervisible.bsky.social
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“The settlement between Robert Williams and the city of Detroit was filed in federal court on Friday and the case dismissed. In May, Detroit City Council approved paying Williams $300,000 for damages as part of the settlement.”
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Mar Hicks
@histoftech.bsky.social
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If you care about the way AI is steamrolling environmental concerns you might be interested in this (free, online) conference happening in July—program just posted, and link to register: uva.theopenscholar.com/rethinking-t...
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Hypervisible
@hypervisible.bsky.social
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The people who want you to believe that a particular tech is inevitable inevitably have something to sell you.
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The Onion
@theonion.com
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"I have the incompetence necessary to effortlessly transition into a role at any company that yields a seven-figure income."
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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From the Oxford Reuters Institute in 2018.
ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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Wrapping 2 days on the #NACE virtual conference. Disheartening to see so many desperate to adopt "AI" (they mean ChatGPT) but who prior to 12/22 had 0 interest in talking impact of algos. Now they're parroting nonsense & bromides w/ no research but an abundance of confidence. Cog bias list is long.
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kilgore trout
@kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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something I really enjoy about living through the junktech era is every day I get to log in and watch a heated competition between the worst products you’ve ever imagined to see who can embarrass themselves the most
t.co/ddXrEDWhu9
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Jon Bois
@jonbois.bsky.social
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some interesting numbers entering tonight's debate: 38% 33% 77% (+/- 3 points) 18% among likely voters and unlikely voters 31% among likely voters AND unlikely voters 54% among those surveyed (margin of error: %, source: 87%)
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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no, I don't want to scan a qr code or download an app to order food at your restaurant/cafe... really don't want to have to deal with cookies and trackers, especially not when I'm tired and grumpy. just give me the goddammed physical menu
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Mar Hicks
@histoftech.bsky.social
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Sit with this. Then restart anyway. We’re seeing a summer surge. If you’ve restarted let folks know—here and elsewhere. Let them know it is NEVER too late to start caring about people in an ongoing disaster. Be the cavalry as the front lines fall, not the quislings. We are fighting for our lives.
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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We're good. I'm to old to be thinned skinned and value community too much to ignore like minds.
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