If people are mad about Ticketmaster and Livenation raising prices well beyond what the creators charge on something and profiting massively.... they're gonna be mad about, well, everything else

An hour after the house voted to condemn socialism Trump is charmed my Mamdani this is frying me

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

The drinking water fandom is dying. Like and share if you're still sipping that clear stuff in 2025

To me, the biggest tell that AI is massively overvalued is that Big Tech has to keep shoving it in our faces. I just noticed Chrome has a 'Gemini' button at the top of the browser, and I'm getting prompts all over the place, including Zoom, to 'try AI.'

Digital Ash in a Digital Urn I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning The Emancipation of Mimi Gimmie Fiction Make Believe Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 Move Along Plans Bullet in a Bible I was an emo baby what can I say

The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.

Amidst all the revelations I am incredibly pissed that this stuff was being sat on for all these years.

Not the point but Epstein's email writing style itself is horrific.

Oh you rich conspiring pedophiles & all your smug weaselly defenders, please lecture me again about how my trans kid is a threat to American family values

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Taxes on high earners are too low bsky.app/profile/popc...

I’m still so angry about this, OpenAI (judging from the chat) knows vulnerable users are engaging with the tech like this; they aggressively sell it to the education sector either way; they do not care to warn users/put in safeguards; because they can blame harm/deaths on already vulnerable people.

lol

score one for "the pundits are projecting their own preoccupations onto the electorate"

This man? Not actually related to the Tanners at all, yet they call him "Uncle Joey"

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

A $40 billion bailout from a foreign government is the “free market”—always a ruse to serve the rich—and these bobbleheads at The Atlantic are its shameless, brainless evangelists.

one thing you see in the discourse here is an effort to equate a recognition of the diversity of the working class with “neoliberal identity politics,” so as to make one of those options the only acceptable one

A great read to start the day. A few highlights: "That has not stopped tech CEOs, none of whom apparently understand what historians do or what history is, from dreaming of a world where humans don’t do any of the work that makes us human."

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

The fact that I now need to learn the name of *the guy* who is in charge of this site is PMO. How many times must I learn a tech man's name????? I'm 36 and fed up.

Google docs doesn't know a lot of words??? Comport is a real word! Comprise is a real word! WHYYYYYYY

thinking is a tankless job

I'm doing a longer-term writing project on the Haitian Revolution, and I keep finding myself writing about events on the same date, some 230ish years later. The best, of course, was writing about Bois Caïman in late August.

feminist analysis requires that you understand power relations and harms to marginalized communities, and fight to destroy those forces. to use AI is one of the most anti-feminist things you can do on many levels, and that’s why tech bros and AI boosters love it.

And getting to hear about the world from their perspectives is so goddamn cool.

ironically the education for its own sake, Enlightenment-coded, Great Books-ass liberal arts degree is one of the better employment bets you can make. learn how to read, write, think critically, develop curiosity so you can pick up new skills quickly, etc etc

You're so close

I’ve come to believe that making genocide a legal framework has allowed the intellectual class to distract people from the morality of things like “children starving to death” and “people being slaughtered at aid distribution site” and instead engage in endless legal nitpicking

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

OH HEY ITS THE EUGENICS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WE ALL TOLD YOU WAS COMING

So there's someone arguing about using people's requested pronouns with the sentence, "no one can compel or coerce me to use or not use certain words. I decide what I say and how I say it." Which... fine. That's a stance a person can take. I could even see there being some merit to it as a policy.

I simply think Hulu should work if they make me pay for it and 73586 other streaming services

Horror after horror.

I had a great day of curriculum review and lesson work with two friends and history teachers at my school. We read excerpts from Eric Foner's "Who Owns History," @naomiaklein.bsky.social Doppelganger, and used @cjdenial.bsky.social thoughtful blog to inspire us. #IBHistory #Historyteacher

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

You wake up with a start and look around your cave. The year is 10,000 BCE. It was just your recurring nightmare about preemptive strikes, a country named Ira- (Iraq? Iran? Hard to tell in a dream). The words manufactured consent drift away as you shake the sleep off and decide to gather berries

This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.

call me crazy but I don't think we should.

I refuse to give the NYT my eyeballs, so I can't speak to the specifics of this article. But any historians attempting to use AI for either writing or research should be run out of the field. AI is inherently unable to do anything we need it to do to understand and communicate history.

History requires deep, extensive research a lot of that research will end up not being directly relevant. You won't know that until you get in it. Research isn't just pulling a doc with all the answers, it's finding connections, it's understanding what's *not* being said, it's knowing context.

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

it is "inappropriate" for a senator to question an administration official when she announces the intent to nullify the government of his state this is where respectability politics gets us

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

I don’t like that the love island boys make the girls breakfast every day. It feels forced, not special, and I know they’re not gonna do it irl.

🗣️ saying something is inevitable is a cowardly way to absolve yourself of dealing with it!!!!

Please this is sending me

The U.S. cannot be a democracy without the schools, research funding, safety-net programs, & bureaucrats Republicans are eliminating. As the historical struggles of Black Americans have shown, rights without a material basis or enforcement are no rights at all.