Mastodawn

I have heard a couple stories lately about faculty trying to replace their PhD students with LLMs to do research, and I regret to inform these people:
1) you are bad people who have misunderstood the concept of graduate students entirely.
2) I guarantee you that your students have already replaced you with LLMs because they provide more effective advising.

Michelle Porche 1d ago

Amy Diehl, Ph.D.1d ago

70.5% of Starbucks baristas are women. Starbucks now requires them to perform additional emotion labor by writing a personal message on customers' cups. If not sufficiently nice, they are disciplined. They must perform friendliness but make it look spontaneous. https://qz.com/emotional-labor-starbucks-baristas-green-apron-service-051926

Starbucks tests the limits of emotional labor

Arlie Hochschild coined the term in 1983 to describe a specific workplace cost. Starbucks' Green Apron Service is pushing it further than she imagined

Quartz

Michelle Porche 1d ago

Chris Kluwe 1d ago

WE COULD’VE HAD A TACO TRUCK ON EVERY CORNER

Michelle Porche 1d ago

Baldur Bjarnason 1d ago

“Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy”

https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/

> Generative AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert, and the failure arrives in two shapes. The first is when novices in a field are able to produce work that resembles what their seniors produce, faster or more advanced than their judgment. The second is when people generate artifacts in disciplines they were never trained in. The two failures look similar from a distance and are not the same

Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy

AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.

No One's Happy

Michelle Porche 1d ago

Associated Press 1d ago

AP Exclusive: Stop AAPI Hate launches a nonprofit to mobilize voters before midterms
https://apnews.com/article/stop-aapi-hate-asian-american-pacific-islander-3d6ed97aa14ff2cc70ef6b59e19a4c6b?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-AssociatedPress

Stop AAPI Hate launches nonprofit to rock the vote

Stop AAPI Hate is an organization that rose to national prominence for its meticulous reports on anti-Asian hate incidents at the height of the pandemic. The organization has announced Thursday it is launching a nonprofit called Stop AAPI Hate Action. It's a political and advocacy arm dedicated to getting more Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders registered to vote and mobilize current voters. Over the past six years, the organization has elevated conversations about racism, discrimination and allyship. The voter initiative was sparked in part in response to actions from President Donald Trump’s administration.

AP News

Michelle Porche 1d ago

Ketan Joshi 1d ago

"If data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026"

New IEA report confirms what we've been yelling about: this isn't a normal digital industry. It is a fossil-fuelled, high-polluting heavy industry producing socially corrosive products at massive climate cost.

https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/4fda38df-523c-46f5-ae75-49481abdc8fc/WorldEnergyInvestment2026.pdf

Michelle Porche 1d ago

sus 1d ago

There’s a story here

Michelle Porche 1d ago

Not with Stupid; I AM Stupid.2d ago

Canadian teens have made a version of Monopoly in a pentagonal shape and called it “American Dictator.” It retails for CD $50 with a proportion of the profits going to a local food bank. One of the spaces is called Supreme Justice. If you land on that you can buy the Justice and over-rule any other player’s move. Game cards are called “Questionable Decisions,” each one being an actual Trump decision. Unfortunately all stock has been sold out.

Michelle Porche 1d ago

Adam Shostack

1d ago

RE: https://ohai.social/@redsad/116647714053510184

I, too, was confused as to this being a metaphor or a statement of fact.

Michelle Porche 1d ago

Ricki Yasha Tarr 2d ago

The period blood that's been treated with fear and disgust is also the most easily and non-invasively available place to find Regenerative Adult Stem Cells. You know, the kind scientists are studying to potentially grow organs with. What's even crazier is they didn't realize this until the early 2000's.