Aimee Knupsky

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Cognitive humanities collaborator; queer, disabled bibliophile and coal-patch kid; mum of fur babies; pencil sniffer.

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Read this and listen to people from Appalachia on how to fight back against grifters like JD Vance

Hillbillies Need No Elegy — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERbittersoutherner.com In the new book “Appalachian Reckoning,” dozens of mountain voices combine to talk back to J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” arguments. Today, an exclusive story from its co-editor and a powerful essay...

Lester Holt asking Biden if he's done "soul searching" about his "rhetoric"? Are you kidding? What soul searching has Trump done?

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Just going to continue to say it's impossible to take in the scale of bullshit in the world at this time. No one should try because it's simply not possible. Attention is a limited, non-renewable resource. I feel no guilt for focusing on a few things so that I can make a small impact on those.

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we need a total and complete shutdown of the op-ed industrial complex until we can figure out what's going on

After Biden's debate performance, the presidential race is unchangedwww.npr.org The poll also found that, at this point, no other mainstream Democrat who has been mentioned as a replacement for the president on the ticket does better than President Biden.

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It took 50 years for the Dept of Labor to update its federal standard to better protect coal miners from the deadly silica dust that’s driving an epidemic of black lung across Appalachia. Now, the Republicans are trying to kill it: t.co/lTtAzS5Vq4

House committee advances reckless bill that blocks life-saving silica standardt.co Today, the House Appropriations Committee approved a dangerous appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. Among other disastrous provisions, the bill w...

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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future. www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

Pop Culturewww.wheresyoured.at A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. ...

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‘The Declaration of Independence includes a long list of indictments against King George… “He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries”, and “He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us.”’

Amid the Trump-Biden chaos, Americans should not forget their historyon.ft.com The indictments against King George in the Declaration of Independence could just as easily be applied to Trump

It's hot.

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six million dollars that could have actually gone to support kids

“ai” edtech company collapses after taking six million dollars from the Los Angeles school district to develop an “educational friend” platform.

A.I. ‘Friend’ for Public School Students Falls Flatwww.nytimes.com Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.

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Gift link, share share share www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/u...

Large Grocers Took Advantage of Pandemic Supply Chain Disruptions, F.T.C. Findswww.nytimes.com A report found that large firms pressured suppliers to favor them over competitors. It also concluded that some retailers “seem to have used rising costs as an opportunity to further hike prices.”

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on the very day the Supreme Court's conservatives said 'we know best' and put themselves in charge of complicated agency decisions one of the geniuses confused nitrous oxide and nitrogen oxide. So they had to have a do over. Not exactly an auspicious start. www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

Supreme Court Corrects EPA Opinion After Gorsuch Confuses Laughing Gas With Air Pollutantwww.forbes.com The error came in an opinion blocking an EPA policy meant to improve air pollution.

Second viewing of Good Grief in a week. Such a good movie.

My second hand embarrassment fever will not allow me to watch this. I'll wait for the recap.

Progress on a story...finally.

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“Perceiving less inequality is one effective way that people can justify the system.” Daniela Goya-Tocchetto et al. (2024): doi.org/10.1016/j.je... #SocialPsyc #Psychology 🧪

Link to one of my scientific heroines (Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett) talking about myths we believe about emotion. I loved teaching and engaging with this work.

Pufendorf Lectures 2024 Lisa Feldman Barrett - Day 1 - Constructing Emotionyoutu.be

"Training artificial intelligence models and using AI to execute even simple tasks involves ever more complicated, faster and voluminous computations that are straining the electricity system."

Get ready to boycott a lot of major product releases or resolve yourself to wiping out all of the good you’ve ever done recycling and reducing your carbon footprint in one fell swoop.

First night with cpap machine. So begins the transition...

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Ursula K. Le Guin's home will become a writers residencyapnews.com The former home of the late Ursula K. Le Guin is being readied to become a base for contemporary authors.

My latest obsession. Thanks Brokenwood! open.spotify.com/track/1ebcUy...

Ten Tonne Truckopen.spotify.com Tami Neilson · Song · 2020

Listening to baseball game on radio. Go Bucs. ⚾️

Today I looked for a four leaf clover ☘

Dead Boy Dectectives 👻💞

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How to turn off DuckDuckGo AI Features duckduckgo.com/settings#aif... How to get plain google results without AI bsky.app/profile/inte... www.tomsguide.com/ai/how-to-bl...

If you want to avoid draining a mid-sized pond every time you google to see what hours walgreens is open, may I suggest www.tomsguide.com/ai/how-to-bl...

How to block Google AI Overviews from appearing in your search resultswww.tomsguide.com And no, it doesn't require a Chrome extension

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To repeat: generative "A.I." is not inevitable. It's a derivative, boring bullshit generator. It wallows in mediocrity and fails by design and definition. Just say no.

Living through history is hard. I guess that's the most important thing I've learned about being human.

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Read this, share this, write your representatives and senators to demand they back this.

Gift link: Jamie Raskin. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/o...

Opinion | Jamie Raskin: How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Caseswww.nytimes.com Can they really decide for themselves whether they can be impartial?

I'm blocking every Democrat fundraising text number until ceasefire. And unsubscribing every time I get an email. No joke. I have nothing to talk to you about until you do something. youtu.be/PuO-JODMfCQ?...

Israel kills dozens of Palestinians sheltering at a displacement camp in Rafahyoutu.be At least 28 people have been killed in an Israeli strike in northwestern Rafah. The tents of displaced people sheltering in the city near United Nations reli...

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"How do you regulate a fever dream? …[Because] it *can* be regulated." @alondra.bsky.social spittin straight 🔥🔥🔥, as usual, on this week's Moral Repair podcast with Annanda Barclay and Keisha McKenzie

Moral Repair: A Black Exploration of Tech | Government Regulation: Afrofuturism and Equity in Techplay.prx.org What do we need to know about recent regulatory guidelines on AI trust and safety? What does one recent federal regulator think still needs attention? How could critical Black digital perspectives res...