Mercer Gary

It's not just you. If anyone in your FAMILY gave their DNA to 23&me, for all of your sakes, close your/their account now. This won't solve the issue, but they will (they claim) delete some of your data. And in the future avoid consumer DNA testing. customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/artic…

Biden admitted today that US special operations forces have been assisting Israel to locate and track Hamas leaders, an involvement in the Gaza war that goes far beyond what the government previously disclosed. kenklippenstein.com/p/with-sinwar-…

So important to recognize forced pregnancy as forced, involuntary servitude. I argue that it violates the 13th Amendment. Here's part of the order signed by Judge Robert C.I. McBurney recognizing it's "eerily reminiscent" history to slavery in the GA Court order:

Some other exciting trans philosophy now out! Jules Wong argues that recognition is an ambivalent norm for trans critique and struggle, but trans recognition practices can powerfully engage change and becoming, the body, and space and place. #article" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cambridge.org/core/journals/…

UPDATE: yesterday @routledgebooks @tandfonline told all staff that it's extra important to meet 2024 targets as they have promised the LLM companies a quota of books for them to digest to train their AIs. So if your editor is pushing you to meet that deadline, this is why!

📍Just now… The MIT Coalition for Palestine shares a major victory: #MIT Activists end the first American-Israeli weapons manufacturer partnership at a University. The Scientists Against Genocide Everywhere (SAGE) Movement at MIT continues 🕊️ More at mitsage.org

Anarchist collective teach people how to make pirated versions of expensive pharma drugs using precursor ingredients. "A course of Solvadi, the drug by Gilead that cures Hepatitis C, costs $83,000. We made it for $70." 404media.co/right-to-repai…

"The main use case for LLMs is writing text nobody wanted to read. The other use case is summarizing text nobody wanted to read. Except they don’t do that either" Touché 😅 @davidgerard ht @ahcastor 1/2 pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/04/don…

Very happy to share my interview with Melinda Cooper about her new book for @nplusonemag nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

Crikey! “AI worse than humans in every way at summarizing information … the technology might actually make more work for people, not less” @crikey_news

@RichardBGibson @AstonUniversity Congrats, Richard!!

Exciting news! I'm now a Lecturer at @AstonUniversity. Not bad given that a primary school teacher once described me as 'nice but a little slow'

@calebdward Majorly helpful for a current Butler project, ty!!

For feminist philosophy nerds out there, I just stumbled across Judith Butler's scathing 1984 review of Marilyn Frye's classic, The Politics of Reality. Basically Butler's critical of Frye's methodology of mainstreaming feminism into analytic philosophy jstor.org/stable/communi…

I respect the critiques of the academic professional development industry - no it won't save us. That said, I've found many a journal article in 12-weeks guidebook, NCFDD training, and professor is in book/article to be a crucial part of how I've gotten this far. A thread:

Coverage of yesterday’s hearing made it to Yahoo! Spread the word centredaily.com/news/local/cri…

@gsmetzer Unfortunately, no.

@mercgary Awesome to hear! Did they give a timeline for their decision?

More on Subu’s case and history from the Centre Daily Times—check it out, then visit freesubu.org #FairTrialForSubu centredaily.com/news/local/com…

@gsmetzer Packed courtroom of supporters, compelling and powerful arguments from the defense, but we have to wait for the judge’s final ruling

@mercgary Any news from today?