I had an energizing collaboration session with my State Representative Kim Schofield (District 63) this morning in #GrantPark, chatting about student internship programs (in/around Atlanta and for my students at #kennesawstateuniversity and #civicengagement in my neighborhood (#ThomasvilleHeights). All this came about from one cold email that I sent her seeking help securing a better polling location for people in my neighborhood. Thanks for you work, Rep. Kim :) #atlanta

just bookmarking this for my #cancer #recovery journey: three days ago i went on my first walk outside since treatment (1hr); yesterday i went on my second (40mins) and partially ate my first meal (bc im still using a feeding tube, mostly); today i //may// be going to my first movie in the theater :) .. taking big steps .. ive explained to everyone around me through getting back on my bike for a normal ride will symbolize my full return to post-treatment "normal".

I'm reading an advance copy of The AI Con by @emilymbender and @alex while I decide whether to use it as the main text in my two Composition/Academic Argument classes this summer. Exciting. Thanks to both of you and folks at Harper Collins for getting me to the right people last week.

@cogdog wow alan, that is really sweet .. thank you for remembering :) .. and yes, im gonna ring TF out of there bell today :) .. sending peace to you and your family.

@emilymbender @alex excited for your new book and have been using the podcast and other DAIR related materials in the "ethics in ai" class that i teach .. is there anywhere i can request a desk/review copy of the book? considering using it in my summer classes .. thank you :)

@wearenew_public I don't know about bleak; the "oblivion" part is not in an apocalyptic sense. It's used in a sense to describe the lives that we lead offline, away from screens. What we find there, and how it enriches us. I get that our first response to "oblivion" is bad, though :)

@wearenew_public I've been enjoying your steam the last couple of weeks. Here's a book that you might like to check out/feature. I'm contemplating teaching it in my classes this summer. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674260528

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hey fediverse friends .. just a reminder to anyone in my network and anyone coming to mastodon to look for #cancer resources .. i started blog about the cancer treatment im going through for the next four weeks (total of seven, im three weeks in) .. if you know anyone who would benefit from reading what my experience is like, here's the link: https://peterorabaugh.org/category/cancer-treatment/

This is an excerpt from what I wrote in 2015 when OpenAI was announced and all y'all journalists were lauding them as the benevolent souls who were going to save us from AI.

"A white tech tycoon born and raised in South Africa during apartheid, along with an all white all male set of investors and researchers is trying to stop AI from “taking over the world” and the only potential problem we see is that “all the researchers are working on deep learning?”

I'm getting a lot from this right now: "A Solarpunk Manifesto: Turning Imaginary into Reality", written in 2023 by William Joseph Gillam, that explains the ideological roots and priority systems of the #solarpunk movement. More specifically, it organizes the solarpunk "imaginary" into three "guilding principles": anarchism, ecology, and justice. https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/8/4/73?

Published several posts this morning on my first week of cancer treatment at Winship Emory in Midtown Atlanta. Day #1 and #2 down! On to #3 today, and then #32 remain :)

https://peterorabaugh.org/category/cancer-treatment/

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starting #treatment for throat #cancer next week at #WinshipCancerInstitute in midtown #atlanta .. i opened up a section of my blog to post updates and observations .. feel free to share w anyone in your networks going through a similar thing: https://peterorabaugh.org/category/cancer-treatment/

"The Future of Social Media" by Youtuber SolarpunkAlana, which lays out an efficient, clear, powerful argument 1) against corporate social media and 2) in support of finding alternatives that prioritize autonomy, federation, and anti-corporate activism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjK08O1yGUU&t=197s .. impressive and empowering work.

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@sam grr .. frustrations like these sometimes birth the best collective action/org ideas .. let us know what you come up with. and stay warm :)

@sam am i right in guessing this is somewhere in cobb? would be good to get a bike-friendly non-profit (like propel, if it were in atl) involved in putting some pressure on them .. or at least putting out a psa on this kind of thing .. i can imagine a business owner not really thinking about something like this until it happens.