Think of this as equivalent to removing the merit system from government employment. Your tax dollars deployed to serve the goals of a personalist authoritarian system. All the talk about banning DEI because of merit shown to be nonsense when they also remove merit-based processes.

Just another "Pro-LGBTQ" Democrat coming out very strongly against the trans community. Harris claims she can discriminate against trans girls without vilifying kids, while repeating incorrect transphobic ideas and vilifying kids.

yeah, i’d take an old school recipe card over this any day.

Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists. I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to. Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

also imagine being a graduate student and willingly degrading your own learning by using gAI; it is genuinely alarming to think of how it is going to impact generations of creativity and original thought

“You can have a verbal conversation like you would with a professor” We have office hours for this exact purpose.

I enjoyed it when the student said it doesn't damage her critical thinking skills, and then 2 paragraphs later says she uses it to summarise difficult topics. Students don't know how much this is going to ruin the key skills they're paying a premium at University to develop.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

good piece www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

look Charlie Kirk started, maintained, & promoted turning point usa’s professor watchlist I’ve been on it for over a decade and until this year I was the *only* UVM professor on it which means his life’s work = my death threats

Breaking: Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years in prison after being found guilty of plotting a military coup. This is the appropriate consequence and punishment for attempting to overthrow your own nation's democracy.

This also counts as political violence.

This is networked incitement. Vigilantes are using this moment to harass HBCUs and make threats that cause a shutdown. It is a patterned reaction. This is the aftermath of political violence streamed online for all to witness. Misinformation has been rampant.

My dad was in the first generation of his family that wasn't sharecroppers and my mom desegregated a school in Austin. They were born in 64 and 66 respectively.

Shoehorning "AI literacy" into every single class strikes me as the same way "AI" and "productivity" is justified in the workforce. "AI" may save time (which it doesn't by many empirical studies), but the time taken on new tasks (e.g., checking outputs) has added much more time to the task. 4/

Something I see often in defenders of "AI" in the classroom (especially those who discuss "responsible" uses) is that, in using LLMs and then "critiquing" its output, we can then teach students to become more AI literate. This irks me to no end. 1/

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there is some distance between education as "crush" your academics as quickly as possible and education as a meaningful experience that is worth discussing

It’s not that reality and history are being rewritten… but that they’re being essentially erased by a flood of bullshit that functions as a pervasive noise, rendering it harder and harder to find the signal.

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Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

Ever see an ICE abduction? Ever wonder what happens to the disappeared? As important an MSM article on what’s happening as I’ve seen…and ironically it happened by accident. www.cnn.com/2025/08/23/u...

This was planned for when the clock hit 51:00 (because DC should be the 51st state), and HUGE, HUGE respect for Mike Watts and Lianne Sanderson, who doubtless were told not to talk about it, and chose to not talk AT ALL so we could hear the chant clearly.

The biggest concern I have about this is most other courts have (correctly) interpreted that faculty classroom speech is protected which means this will move its way to scotus. Hooray.

An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me

Let's focus on qualifications: Antoni finished grad school 5 years ago at Northern Illinois with no distinction. Dissertation: No focus on labor or data collection. Zero publications. One lifetime citation (by a former colleague). This record would not earn you a job as junior economist at BLS.

‘We’ll use AI but a human will always have the final say’ - I don’t think anyone can make good decisions using slop and I don’t want anyone who uses slop making any decisions.

Welp, this Bangladeshi news website published an article with a totally made-up quote from me today! The report it cites presumably also doesn’t exist? Really cool media landscape we’ve got here, folks! inews.zoombangla.com/will-joe-rog...

The US Secretary of Defense endorses a call for “Christian Domination” on his personal X account:

Is there any other country in the world that works this hard to honor traitors? Not to mention enslavers and losers.

Reverse racism proves the existence of racism. Also, you know how soft you have to think a player is to ask for government intervention? If I'm CC, I'd rather just have all haters. These "fans" are racist and awful.

Important details from this story: 1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... 2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal." 3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

The White House has instructed NASA to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.

i really want everyone to read this because Dems are not going to win by default. new Republicans will run and they’ll say the right things to win. people will get fooled or maybe just agree. Dems need real candidates up and down the ticket or we never escape this mess.

new video shows the ICE agent who claimed he was randomly "assaulted" by this 4'11" US citizen on her way to work is shown literally picking her up and carrying her away.

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

AI boosters get mad when I describe LLMs as "Spicy Autocomplete." Sure, it's a bit reductionist ("stochastic parrot" is more precise), but it's far worse for people to see LLMs as "ineffable superintelligence," as WSJ did by claiming ChatGPT expressed "self reflection." No, it didn't.

NEW: Story from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and me based on interviews with families of the men returned to Venezuela tonight after Trump disappeared them to El Salvador in March. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One of the men @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and I wrote about is Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos. He came into the U.S. legally, through the CBP One app. His family has worked tirelessly to secure his release from CECOT. Tonight, they got to hug him again. His mother Ydalys shares this video:

CONFIRMED: Neri Alvarado, the Venezuelan man imprisoned by the Trump admin without due process for 4 months in El Salvador because of bureaucratic errors stemming from his autism awareness tattoo honoring his brother, is FREE.

Why the fuck is AI involved in the *peer*-review process?

A reminder that this represents all of the money we pay to the government in taxes for educational infrastructure just being straight up stolen from us. We aren’t getting it back and we’ll never stop paying for the services they destroy bc they aren’t lowering OUR taxes (only billionaires’ taxes).

This is like those treeless house developments where they clearcut all the trees and then name the roads after them. ChatGPT spits out these words because the stolen labor products it was trained on consisted in large part of academics’ writing.

Yeah this is the thing I'm told me and all my students need to uncritically embrace so they can get a job after college

I grew up reading sci-fi, some predicted post scarcity worlds where we’d cured diseases and aging while others predicted tech powered dystopias. Seeing a budget with $4B for cancer research and $170B for mass deportations and detentions, it’s clear which future America picked. Happy 4th of July.

weird that jamelle pointing out that the reporters didn't do their due diligence and were platforming a eugenicist violates social media standards

Japanese American National Museum reminding us that we’ve been here before: the government is creating concentration camps.

The one thing I really cannot get over is the cap on borrowing for students that want to be doctors and veterinarians. Given the cost of education and the fed borrow cap at something like $22000, they've just established the caste system. Unless you're born into wealth, you cannot make wealth.

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.