Mar Hicks retweeted
It's a good point but labor historians are way ahead of you on this--the only difference being that they call it "degradation." It's the thesis of Jason Resnikoff's excellent book "Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work." x.com/jasonfurman/st…
Intriguing.
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The book "Programmed Inequality" by Mar Hicks (@histoftech) is also good on this topic. Hicks looks at the deskilling of clerical and computer work as it became more automated in the postwar UK, with a specific emphasis on gender mitpress.mit.edu/9780262535182/…
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But still important for everyone to fly from everywhere to meet in one location to share AI crap.
Conference presentations are fundamentally different now, lots of AI generated slides with a "flavor" and often too much info. Also first time I saw a truly vibe-researched project, which was effectively hallucinated, the authors were not familiar with the subject to realize.
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“an adult death is perhaps 2 or 3 times worse than an infant’s death” says Amodei. Whole 'ethics' at Anthropic is based on such vulgar utilitarianism & not much deeper than MIT's infamous Moral Machine. The difference? Anthropic is making billions with it nytimes.com/2026/11/05/tec…
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As a non-AI user, a disturbing pattern is emerging among AI-using friends. They argue with everything, including personal opinions & facts I know by heart. I cite official sources, & they present walls of disjointed AI text as “proof.” You can’t argue, because AI is the ultimate authority. It is always right. Attempting to discuss current events is a nightmare, as it seems to take time for the AI to update. You end up ceding the argument because it’s easier than arguing with an AI human proxy. If you are somehow able to convince them the AI is wrong, the entire cycle repeats with the next topic. I hate all of this so much.
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Google is trying to use its monopoly power to force AI into our public schools.
No corporation should have the power to dictate how we teach our children.
Our public schools exist to serve students, not to grow the profit margins of Big Tech.
nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/…
No corporation should have the power to dictate how we teach our children.
Our public schools exist to serve students, not to grow the profit margins of Big Tech.
nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/…
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Mamdani: no one would let a pharmaceutical company help write a science curriculum. AI companies are out here building whole campuses.
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“The tech industry wants us to believe that AI-powered early education is not only inevitable, but necessary.* We do not see it that way.”
—Mayor Mamdani @NYCMayor
*Beware of foxes campaigning for free range chickens.
@AlexBores @linamkhan @rweingarten
fortune.com/2026/09/19/the…
—Mayor Mamdani @NYCMayor
*Beware of foxes campaigning for free range chickens.
@AlexBores @linamkhan @rweingarten
fortune.com/2026/09/19/the…
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Mar Hicks retweeted
I think feeding materials that are not yours into AI without permission should be penalized by expulsion in whatever forms that can take across all parts of academia.
I think it’s a greater violation than passing off AI output as your own.
I think it’s a greater violation than passing off AI output as your own.
Found out students have been feeding my lecture content, which includes speaker scripts for accessibility, into AI to spit out midterm notes. Increasingly feeling like I have to play police which is not what I imagined teaching to be. 1/6
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I would never use a machine owned by billionaires to tell me what to think about history! I have a PhD and ample archival training to help me do that work. Im more than capable of reading and forming my own opinion! Concerning yall would let yourself be influenced so easily
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Found out students have been feeding my lecture content, which includes speaker scripts for accessibility, into AI to spit out midterm notes. Increasingly feeling like I have to play police which is not what I imagined teaching to be. 1/6
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The people who are pro-AI in education but are not themselves AI researchers imagine that a technology designed to invite human passivity and, worse, subjection can be used entirely differently w/proper education.
These same people ignore that students are fine w/passive use.
These same people ignore that students are fine w/passive use.
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Yes. Incredible timing on this article supporting your point:
latimes.com/environment/st…
Non-paywalled version: archive.ph/kPNMq
latimes.com/environment/st…
Non-paywalled version: archive.ph/kPNMq
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“The research from scientists at Columbia Univ shows that when water is exposed to tiny microplastic it releases highly reactive chemicals. These chemicals, known as reactive oxygen species, are known to contribute to heart disease, cancer & neurological diseases like Alzheimers”
A devastating finding. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
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Mar Hicks retweeted
When people start to write postmortems of the GenAI crash, this will be a popular statistic:
venturebeat.com/infrastructure…
venturebeat.com/infrastructure…
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The guy who directed the killing of 250.000 trees in Finland for Google now with a nopology + "We don't think it would be useful to start debating this publicly."
Finns are seething after Google illegally toppled 250,000 trees for a data center motherjones.com/politics/2026/…
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Mar Hicks retweeted
Covid is a vascular disease. It's why so many people are having heart attacks and strokes at such at a young age. The next infection could be the one that does you in, is it worth the risk? Mask up 😷
Former Texas A&M Football Star Toya Jones Dead at 49 After Suffering Heart Attack
According to the Houston Chronicle, Jones died on Thursday after being placed in hospice care one day earlier having suffered a heart attack last weekend
usmagazine.com/celebrity-news…
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So if I purchase a DVD and digitize it, that’s copyright infringement. But if an AI company buys my book and scans it to train their system, that’s perfectly fine? Once again, corporations are allowed to play by their own rules. I’m so sick of the hypocrisy.
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“The models were trained on creative works from writers, artists & others who frequently weren’t compensated (& who didn’t give consent)…Meanwhile, the development of the systems has empowered & enriched a small number of people leading, working or investing in these companies.”
Shake in your shoes, doomer oligarchs! "AI skeptics dubious slowdown will solve technology’s real harms" (quotes Emily Bender, Damien P. Williams and myself). sfexaminer.com/news/technolog…
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