Lori Emerson

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/w…

She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals. businessinsider.com

University of California IT employees form biggest tech worker union in the US! www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/they-just-...

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"Imagine you purchase bread for a sandwich but then discover that your toaster refuses to work because the bread is ‘unauthorised’. You read the toaster’s terms and conditions and find that it had lots of ‘rules’ on what you could or couldn’t do with the toaster, [1/2]

[2603.18964] Terms of (Ab)Use: An Analysis of GenAI Services arxiv.org

"vibe citing" is so 2026 www.cityam.com/kpmg-report-...

KPMG report on AI found riddled with AI hallucinations cityam.com

I know very little about Lacan--but nonetheless a bit floored by this tidbit from 1954-55 #cybernetics #ai

and some days you get to read a dissertation on corporate AI that is so richly and smartly funny and fine-tuned: "Like a disappointing husband, the corporation weaponizes its incompetence."

I was on KGNU radio this morning (long time community radio station in Boulder) to talk CU x AI and damn it's fun being on the radio, especially w/a host who describes himself as "a paranoid old Jew" & likes to quote from Marx. also, taking live phone calls on the air? yes please! #othernetworks

whereupon one awakes to notifications about payments one in fact never authorized on Paypal and one discovers, after an hour of dead-end emails and searching, that Paypal seems to have simply replaced all customer support with AI bots who, within minutes, deny one's requests for reimbursement.