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Rachael Sullivan
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researches and teaches digital literacies, internet culture, materialities of writing | she/her | @[email protected] on Mastodon
Philadelphia Katılım Ocak 2009
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Rejecting the use of GenAI for qualitative research on the grounds of ethical concerns/social and environmental justice (not just methodological concerns) is valid and important.
That is why I like this letter written by qualitative researchers from 32 countries:
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There is only one woman in the top 20 Substack newsletters about technology (me lol)
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The answer is simple: Researchers found too many slaves. Harvard fears it will bankrupt the university
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Entire chapters of internet culture grew up in Flash. When it was switched off, most of it should have disappeared forever. But it didn't, thanks to the efforts of the software preservation community.
Flash is just part of the story of VANISHING CULTURE, a new book exploring the fight to preserve our fragile digital history.
Join us at the book launch. 📖
📅 Thu, April 23
🕠 5:30 PM: Doors open & entertainment
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/vanishing-cu…
#flash #SFevents #VanishingCulture @InternetArchive #BookTwitter @funcheapsf
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90% chance it was a woman with a spreadsheet job who made the meal train spreadsheet.
slimzim@jameszimmermann
A family from church has a boy in the hospital, my wife made them dinner to ease their suffering. I like being married to a woman who does stuff like this instead of typing numbers into a spreadsheet at a job she hates. Happy to work a little harder to make it happen.
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@Variety genuine question. by “learn to use AI tools” what does that mean? learning how to write prompts? what else is there to learn? it’s a black box.
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Reese Witherspoon is braving backlash and doubling down on urging women to learn how to use AI tools:
“The AI revolution has begun, and I need to learn as much as I possibly can about AI and share it with all of you. Also, FYI: the jobs women hold are 3x more likely to be automated by AI, yet women are using AI at a rate 25% lower than men on average. We don’t want to be left behind. So…do you want to learn with me?”
variety.com/2026/more/news…
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Social-media users are getting “so exhausted at having to parse what’s real and what’s fake that a lot of them are just saying, like, ‘If it makes me feel a certain way, that’s all I care about,’” Tiffany Hsu tells @cwarzel. They discuss how the flood of AI content online could be wearing people down: theatln.tc/zw7Ol2HD
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It really is time to start calling this out. AI may well have great benefits for science and medicine (let's hope so) but the arts, education, journalism and publishing sectors need to make clear that its application in these spheres is unacceptable.
theguardian.com/books/2026/apr…
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In case you were wondering who the corporate media serve:
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I’m on the record saying it will end up just being Edtech bullshit. What joy.
Reuters Open Interest (ROI)@ReutersOI
New research suggests AI may never be reliable enough for the high-stakes work that's helped to justify hundreds of billions of dollars in investment, argues Panmure Liberum's Joachim Klement reut.rs/41EzEJ0
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@oldmedia Mark Davis at the left (who create Tinkerbell as we know her) in the right, the irascible genius of Milt Kahl and in the middle, maybe is Reitherman.
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@daviddbangean @urvalequinn @IsThisA3DModel everything is consistent in your examples. nothing disrupts the narrative world or diegesis, if we want to use jargon! narrative isn’t about what is realistic or not, possible or not in the real world. when things are off in the AI example, it takes us out of the story world.
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@urvalequinn @IsThisA3DModel Ah yes. Pixar—known for their ‘true to life’ physics..
“What why are these toys talking?? And cars don’t have tongues!! That’s sooo unrealistic”
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no and this is nowhere close to "Pixar-grade"
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@vampire_weekday @destiny_thememe is this on iPhone? hate it.
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@destiny_thememe My phone replaced "select all" with "ai writer" and hid select all in the 3 dot menu
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loved her work but this is really disappointing. i hope she can clear this up
Benji@WrnrWrites
To confirm, this “100% AI generated” passage is the opening of chapter 5 from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
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The cost of your flight went up because you searched for it twice. Your rideshare costs more because your phone battery is dying.
This is surveillance pricing – corporations using your own data and behaviors against you.
In the US Senate, I’ve got a plan to ban it.
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Translation: I’m making money on this so you need to back off
(Virginia hosts the most data centers in the country)
NewsWire@NewsWire_US
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) calls AI data center moratorium championed by AOC "idiocy" — Axios
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AOC: Companies like Palantir are mining endlessly the data and privacy of the American people—keeping track of everything that they say and do. And sending it to a militarized government.
When you take the subway, when you share a TikTok, when you talk to your Alexa at home, they are collecting your data and figuring out new ways to weaponize it. Now, they are using AI tools to automate this so it is not only pervasive, but that it is effortless. We must sound the alarm now.
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