If you choose to ignore the fact that many people are not learning from you, for all kinds of reasons, you're engaging in politics too. Ditto if you ignore the choices made about how the material is presented, and who that helps and hinders.
@jeremyphoward
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Teaching AI knowledge requires engaging with its political context
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Yes, but that doesn't mean "Teaching this knowledge requires you to engage with its politics" is incorrect. If you choose to ignore all the context and history behind an idea when teaching it, you *are* engaging in politics in that choice.
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Designers Resist Clear UI Affordance Markings Standards
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My attempts to get designers to ensure that affordances are clearly marked with well-understood identifiers (e.g underline links; add offsets/insets on buttons) are always treated with great scorn.
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Rethinking Luddite History in AI and Technology Debates
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jfc you really believe this? and you still think "luddite" is a phrase that can be bandied around like that? you should learn some history. and political science.
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Medicine and Technology Are Necessarily Political Issues
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These things are necessarily political — it's not a choice. E.g. consider medicine, as discussed here by @math_rachel (which also touches on science more generally):
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Why is Haiku 97% cheaper than other AI models?
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Why is haiku 97% cheaper? Is it not the same relative pricing across models?
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GitHub experiences major outage affecting developers worldwide
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Ouch now the whole of Github is down.
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GitHub Pages experiencing outage across multiple repositories
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It seems @github pages is down. Confirmed on two unrelated repos. Not shown on @githubstatus yet.
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Anthropic Model Performance Explained
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Ah apparently it's actually a @bfl_ml model, not an inhouse one — that explains why it seems to be so damn good.
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Diffusion Models Training Data Bias Analysis Explained
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It's a diffusion model. If the initial random noise it started from had a dark blob there, and there's lots of masked Kamala pics in the training data, then adding a mask would make sense.