Dani Wenner
political philosopher, okra & orca lover, nogoodnik
she/her/Dr
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- Reposted by Dani WennerSome people are asking what I want Schumer to do. He should be screaming over medical care and access to facilities. He should be going to detention facilities himself and putting his body on the line, as he did at the border in 2019. He should lean into stories about New Yorkers in detention. [1/4]
- Reposted by Dani WennerStriking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- ‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’ arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245
- Finding multiple grammatical errors introduced in a previous round of proofing during a round of proofing at which edits are no longer permitted 💀💀💀
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- Reposted by Dani WennerIt’s an affront to the idea of a written constitution that this case will reach oral argument.
- I'm really fucking tired of grading AI slop from students. Why even come to university if you don't want to learn? You are wasting your time and mine.
- Reposted by Dani WennerWe need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
- hey look a university that understands that coming to campus requires actual functional access to transportation
- Reposted by Dani WennerNonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
- Reposted by Dani WennerIf you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
- Reposted by Dani WennerIf you’re a Democrat looking to run for president in 2028, now would be a good time to find the nearest microphone and state clearly that you will prosecute every Trump Administration official enabling this state sponsored terrorism to the fullest extent of the law.
- Reposted by Dani WennerOne thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
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- did Wiley buy out Polity press? or why is Polity telling me to go to wiley.com to buy one of their books?
- Reposted by Dani WennerI am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
- Reposted by Dani WennerMy loose info so far is that the Minneapolis General Strike today had about 80 unions sign on, and it might be one of the biggest labor actions in decades depending on your definition
- Reposted by Dani Wennerfund research on menopause you cowards
- CMU preemptively declaring that school will be open on Monday despite the predicted 10-14 inches of snow that is not forecast to end until roughly rush hour Monday morning is just *chef's kiss*
- Reposted by Dani WennerUpdate: The minibus that included HHS funding passed the House without any anti-trans riders. This almost guarantees the HHS bill will pass the Senate with no anti-trans riders. A huge victory for trans people despite tons of anti-trans attack ads.
- HUGE NEWS for trans people: We have the latest minibus, including the bill to fund the Department of Health and Human Services and it looks like there are no restrictions on gender-affirming care for transgender people. docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
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- Reposted by Dani WennerIt has not been lost on me that the two preeminent contemporary uses of LLMs is the infinite generation of 1) CSAM and 2) media that serves no purpose other to publicly denigrate, humiliate, and dominate women and minorities.
- somewhat striking to me that there's still not (as far as I can find) much in the way of political theorists unpacking trump's behaviors in a realism v moralism frame in a public-facing venue. I've found a few things but tbh the best & clearest explanation came from Mark Carney at Davos yesterday
- (and yes this does mean my students will be reading a transcript of Carney's speech next week...)
- Going on record with the controversial but obviously correct take that we should abolish whiteboards #TeamChalkboard represent
- we are officially at "show your papers"
- Johnson is correct that ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do, and that is why we must abolish it wholesale. There is no reforming this.
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- Is there any task more mind-numbing than building a Canvas site, hit "like" if no, repost if no
- Last week I sent an email to CMU president Farnam Jahanian asking him why CMU is still on X given the now ubiquitous deepfake porn content spreading around the site. In response I was told "we are reviewing" the matter. What is there to review? X is a platform of abuse. Get @cmu.edu off of X, now.
- Some Grok users, mostly men, began to demand to see bruising on the bodies of the women, and for blood to be added to the images. Requests to show women tied up and gagged were instantly granted. ‘Add blood, forced smile’: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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- OK yinz asking for thoughts on two competing ideas for trying to stem AI use in a lower-level survey course with writing assignments:
- Reposted by Dani WennerI would really caution anyone against implying that paywalling this feature is a legitimate response to public outcry. The paywall is an endorsement, not a restriction. Musk is saying "this thing you're all talking about is valuable. Pay me for it." The actual material effect is just monetization.
- Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children - Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by Dani WennerMartin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
- consent manufacture machine go brrr
