Danya Glabau

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STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, she/her CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/ Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca

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"AI" has existed in its current form for barely four years and the fact that it's jammed up the cognitive development of an entire generation that fast (and that there's a specific overclass of techofascists who are deeply thrilled about this) is a big damn red flag. www.nytim…

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I also hear two versions of this story, three times in an hour. Silicon Valley investors are now recreating the social safety net using a new start up called Escalate as a pass through This written version offers a third version of the story www.npr.org/2026/08/17/n...

Missed shifts were costly to this McDonald's. An app has fixed the problem npr.org
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Escalate charges McDonald's franchisees $250 per store per month, plus roughly another $250 per store in Uber vouchers and gift cards.
  • Across seven Prince George's County restaurants, the franchise saved about $35,000 a month; over 80% of worker requests are for transportation.
  • The startup keeps costs down by employing overseas coaches and using AI to handle routine first requests, escalating to a human after three.
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The sentence, "only a few dozen institutions on Earth are more than 900 years old, and the vast majority are universities" has been my spell to ward off AI-induced despair since this was published in February, and closed out a talk I gave about feminist AI refusal www.chronicl…

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NPR sponsors are all removing promises about AI from their ads, replaced with pablum about human connection. The AI industry is so cooked lol

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Putting on my teacher hat for a couple hours today, and damn, pre-LLM professors didn't know how good they had it with the authentic undergrad writing

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