It’s that time of year: what was the piece of writing about AI that stuck with you the most this year, pop press or academic? A few of mine in the thread. ⬇️

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Evil. 19thnews.org/2025/12/post...

I look forward to the honor of hearing @pauloffit.bsky.social in person in a week 👍

“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.” The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida. It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID. Free link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

A massive step back for the United States Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns @apoorvanyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

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This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.

Biden never slept through meetings but Jake Tapper wrote a whole book about how he was too old.

The cruelty is the point

Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist. I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵

Truly the stupidest cult. Obsessed with a drug that doesn't work against an infectious disease that they don't even think is real.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has permitted Texas to keep its newly redistricted, GOP-favorable congressional map in 2026. Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson dissent. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Hey America, if you were a Christian nation, you’d be feeding the poor, not yelling at them for using food stamps.

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

Dear NY, We'll will focus on Fetterman, but you got to take care of Schumer and this guy. Respectfully, PA

Some random guy on Substack should never be in a position to challenge essentially every fact presented on a 60 Minutes segment, and yet here we are... wessiler.substack.com/p/fact-check...

Now, the question to me is, "Will Jeffries one day need a pardon?" 🤦

"She can be heard screaming as agents attempt to handcuff her. 'I’m a U.S. citizen, please help me,' she shouted after agents forced her to the ground. 'This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?'” Gift link: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Major media hate to say Trump “lied.” Here's a thread on what they say instead. Trump is “inverting the facts” (NYT) … Because he has a “complicated relationship with the truth” (NBC) … With a “mix of bullish optimism and hyperbole” (Reuters) … And is “a master of the art of exaggeration” (AP) … 1/🧵

The system fails people with disabilities time & time again. After disproportionate contact with law enforcement, unaccommodating courts, and unequipped jails, thousands with disabilities are locked up in state prisons on any given day. #DisabilityDay

The one demographic group where we all might end up one day, so many too soon. #DisabilityDay social.desa.un.org/issues/disab...

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

NYT: Is the President tired? Ms. Leavitt: Would a weary President be able to deliver a racist rant like that one?

"This fall, I presented my paper, 'More of a Comment than a Question, ' at the main conference in my field. Because the college has eliminated travel funding for faculty, I covered the cost by selling off-season Girl Scout cookies to adults having panic attacks over the election."

I wish there was a precedent for what happens when a demagogue picks out a vulnerable minority group and labels them as subhuman. I wonder what the next step is and whether any innocent people get hurt. And I wonder whether the demagogue's followers go on trial when the whole thing is over.

Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.

Guess who suggested that illegal orders should be ignored when Obama was president?

Not SNL DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to Trump: You made it through the hurricane season without a hurricane. you kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that.

Alt-text: Santa in his workshop sadly looking over his lists posted on the board. The naughty list is short, the nice list is medium and the hungry list is uncomfortably long.

Can you power your computer by typing? What the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L44...

Simply add sunglasses and it's "Weekend at Bernie's."

One of the many reasons I am proud to teach at a SLAC.

For World AIDS Day, which is Dec. 1 and which is being ignored by the Trump administration because they dislike the World Health Organization, other countries, science, and queer people, I'm reposting a piece I wrote earlier this year. (They also hate history.) www.vulture.com/article/hiv-...

After World War II, 3 German U-boat crewmen were sentenced to death for machine-gunning Allied sailors who were clinging to life rafts after their boat was sunk. It's long been known in the military that this is a war crime. Pete Hegseth must be fired and prosecuted.

#WorldAIDSDay is today, whether Trump recognizes it, likes it, or not.

RT=Endorsement "A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon."

I taught composition and technical writing at OU for three years. This decision is a disgrace. If instructors are expected to treat personal beliefs as formal “evidence,” then why even bother offering courses?

From the crazed hyperbolic radical alarmists at… The Brennan Center: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

The fact that 12% of federal judges are Black shows the corruption of DEI. The fact that 67% of Supreme Court Justices belong to a small legal cult called the Federalist Society shows the power of meritocracy.

This is infuriating on so many levels, but partly because it ignores Congressional intent to penalize immigrants who followed the rules. And partly because these are people who have done nothing wrong beyond trying to negotiate a broken system. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

He doesn’t care about you.

I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...

Because, you know, there is nothing else that needs resources in Louisiana or Mississippi. 🫤

When a travelling doctor questioned why a patient had been receiving dangerous cancer treatments for 11 years, he set off a chain of events that would divide a city and implicate a beloved oncologist in a string of suspicious deaths. (Published Dec. 2024)

Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education - actual, real education in reading, writing, thinking, arguing, analyzing, & synthesizing by doing the actual hard work for which there is no substitute - is stronger than it’s ever been at any point in human history.