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People have asked what I use for video, and I’ve always been reluctant to list everything I’ve got.

I’ve been participating in organizing around stopping an AI project in my community (namely a data center collaboration between the University of Michigan and Los Alamos National Labs), and I’ve been thinking a lot about how merely stopping these initiati…

I’ve got a longer draft in the works, but I don’t think that’s going to become a blog post, so I figure it might be useful to publish something here and solicit feedback, or just plant a flag in the ground that this was a thing I did.

Hi all, it sounds like there’s enthusiasm for a reading group.

I’ve been hinting for a little while on social media like Mona Lisa Vito hinting about her biological clock in My Cousin Vinny but I would be very open to participating in a reading group for certain works.

The main issue I have with a lot of work that tries to define AI is that the criteria they use to draw boundaries often turn out to be functionally useless for my needs; these definitions lead us to weird places, letting scholars fixate on strange, unwork…

I’ve been seeing this image floating around and I mentioned intending to provide alt text, which led me down a hole for a little while, including sifting through links that don’t work anymore, tweets that don’t exist anymore, twitter users who have deleted

I’ve been struggling to articulate this idea, and maybe the problem is that it’s actually kind of simple once you put it out there, and there’s really no good reason to unpack a whole case for it once you put the thought on paper.

I’ve been trying to dig myself out of a pretty deep depression for some time now, and while I still don’t feel like I’m out of it, I have at least found some sense of where some of this depression is coming from.

I’m not sure exactly what I’m waiting for (I mean, I know why I’m waiting, but that’s another post), but in the meantime between now and when I make the paper more publicly available, I’d like to unpack a few things that I didn’t find time to talk about in