Stuart Geiger
just a digital trace | Asst Prof at UC San Diego, Comm & Data Science | opaque sociotechnical systems, power, and publics | ethnographer of computation & computational ethnographer | humanities of the digital & digital humanities | https://stu.lu | he/they
- Android users, I want to only get app-level notifications from mentions, not likes. Does the Bluesky app really only give me the option of likes+mentions from everyone, likes+mentions from people I follow, or nothing? Am I missing something or did they really go all in on the dopamine machine here?
- Looks like @apnews.com is using AI to summarize articles without even checking for basic facts... Or are they really this ignorant about Canada? Either way, shameful.
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View full threadIt is unclear in the Google News UI where the summary text comes from, which gets attributed to the author, but probably is Google's AI. This is part of what Google News presents as a partnership with @apnews.com. No other disclaimer. I also have disabled every AI feature I can in my Google account.
- I'm pretty sure Jim Morris did nothing wrong here, but if I was Jim, I'd be talking to defamation lawyers.
- FYI this was from Google News, and the linked article correctly states it was Quebec that had referendums. So direct outrage to Google too. But does @apnews.com know Google News is summarizing their articles with lies and attributing that to an AP journalist's name?
- If I am remembering 20th c history right, when the fascists take power and start making illegal, unconscionable demands, all you have to do is appease them a little. Just give in to their initial demands, ignore how they call you the enemy of the people, and they will leave you alone. 🙄🙄🙄🤔🤨🙃🤥
- Also this is the plot of basically every coming of age movie and very special TV episode about bullying, the protagonist gives the bullies their lunch money and the bullies instantly respect them and leave them alone.
- Since AGI is in the news again (thanks Kevin), a reminder of my handy single serving site you can use to check if AGI has arrived: hasAGIarrived.com
- This flowchart just broke me. End. End. End. Of course it all makes me furious, but also I can't get over how bad this flowchart is on flowchart terms. Just unnecessary abstract formalization and complexity for absolutely no reason, other than trappings of technocracy. bsky.app/profile/darb...
- status: this is The Bad Place
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- this is literally week 1 of my data science / AI for humanities majors class
- status: overtaken by events
- The last time it rained in San Diego (more than 0.1 in / 0.25 cm in a day) was in March 2024. It finally started raining this morning and I realized I had forgotten what rain sounds like.
- Back in the last AI hype news cycle, when the grifters kept claiming they'd built Artificial General Intelligence, I made a single serving site so you can easily check if AGI has indeed arrived or not (spoiler alert: lol no): hasAGIarrived.com
- Looks like it is San Diego's turn for the wildfires. UCSD was so close from having to evacuate yesterday, with a fire that got a few blocks from campus. Now the border is literally on fire.
- What a week to be teaching Goffman
- Hello world! FYI it has been years since I've had a public profile on any social media platform. I'm out of practice, I'm already feeling the familiar context collapse anxiety, and I don't want to start a new app addiction. Not sure how much I'll be on here, but let's give it a go!
