Here I am on Democracy Now, talking about Platner and the Maine Senate race. #mepolitics www.democracynow.org/2026/7/8/pla...

I really hope Student 22 is on bluesky so they get to see how much all the profs love them.

"Retreat is a battlefield strategy" is a loser motto.

My conjecture is that no single organization has done more harm to education than OpenAI.

Louder for the people in the cheap seats: If you did not have to naturalize because you were born on US soil, you are a birthright citizen. Yes, you. Not only people of color gain citizenship that way. Most Americans here did too.

"[To heckler] Hey, I don’t come down to where you work and expose the bureaucratic machine in which you’re embedded as the dehumanizing monolith it is."

“I am willing to do absolutely everything possible in order to publish noteworthy research except do the work or do the research” — somehow actual people

i regret to inform everyone that sitting in a chair with your computer and your notes and setting a pomodoro timer is effective in getting shit done. this sucks. i'm sorry.

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Journals that have a "summarize this article" AI have no credibility. If they're willing to do that, there's no way to trust any other part of their editorial & review process.

A computer scientist recently told a group I was in that we shouldn't automate unless we can verify the accuracy of the output. You can't verify the accuracy of an "AI" summary unless you read the article (and likewise, you can't verify the accuracy of an "AI" lit review unless you review the lit).

Troy was first elected to the Maine state legislature in 2002 and has served as president of the Maine state senate, so vetting isn’t an issue here the way it is with a political newcomer like Platner. Jackson’s enemies have had a quarter century to dig up dirt on him.

Interesting fact about Troy Jackson that NYT isn’t covering yet: he’s *actually* from a working-class occupation. He was a logger with no health insurance when he got into politics (not a small business owner whose main customer was a parent).

After Platner withdraws, what next? #mepolitics open.substack.com/pub/amyfried...

Troy Jackson says Platner should drop out. #mepolitics

The occupational backgrounds of our elected officials matter.

data visualization is my passion.

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.

It's pretty wild that an entire industry's pitch for itself was predicated on its executives forgetting the connection between employment and access to the means of survival that exists for most working people. They really thought "you'll lose your job and have more free time!" was a slam dunk.

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

Universities better get to scrubbing websites and centers. 🤣 We live in stupid times.

Spent yesterday in 48°C (118°F) temperatures, with the humidex. It was brutal. Little kids in particular have a hard time with the heat because they can't cool down as easily. Climate change sucks. Maybe we should stop burning fossil fuels... soon?

Emotional photo by @joshsisk.bsky.social - who somehow wound up on Air Force One - of the President and his daughter upon sunrise over a very different America than the one we woke to 24 hours ago. #ID4

Is it possible that there’s more to being working class than having tattoos?

A message for the class of 2026: We need more friction!

P.S. This is not a criticism of DSA or any party. This applies to the Dems, Reps, and (probably) DSA as well. Almost no party in any democracy on earth has lots of working-class candidates. The question should be: can you really be a working-class party if you have very few worker candidates?

P.S. This is not a criticism of DSA or any party. This applies to the Dems, Reps, and (probably) DSA as well. Almost no party in any democracy on earth has lots of working-class candidates. The question should be: can you really be a working-class party if you have very few worker candidates?

Right before the buzzer for Pride month www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...

This fall we'll see lots of "how workers vote" stories that implicitly get away with saying a party is "a working-class party" even though almost none of its candidates or electeds come from working-class jobs. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... @noamlupu.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social

For fifty years, fans, critics, and scholars have debated the meaning of the Eagles’ acclaimed 1976 recording “Hotel California.” Our new paper uses advanced AI analysis to finally reveal the hidden truth: it’s about what if there was a spooky hotel

I look forward to reading the McKinsey report “Five Strategies to Reduce AI Usage and become AI-Lean” in a year or so

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Secret police secretly filming a regular citizen at a public space. This is what is looks like a totalitarian regime. This is not KGB action in Russia. This is USA on 23rd June 2026. Woman arrested for TOUCHING the water at Reflecting Pool.

. @noamlupu.bsky.social and I talked to @rorytruex.bsky.social about our new book, Keeping Workers Off the Ballot (out this October with @princetonupress.bsky.social) substack.com/@rorytruex/n...

. @noamlupu.bsky.social and I talked to @rorytruex.bsky.social about our new book, Keeping Workers Off the Ballot (out this October with @princetonupress.bsky.social) substack.com/@rorytruex/n...

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

Strong recommend. Best book I read in 2025.

When our technological future seemed bright.

How is Musk the first trillionaire when his companies, combined, lose money? Cult capitalism. The market prices the future he promises as if it already arrived. He’s a pitch-deck trillionaire holding his companies hostage: lose Musk, lose the premium, and the boards know it. Plus the corruption.

we can fix this. i believe in us.

Steve Gerber is my hero.

Translation.

For years I've tracked billionaire excess. Each year I show students a chart that blows their minds. This year I had to redraw it for a trillionaire: Elon Musk, $1.32T. Depressing that we're here. Silver lining: couldn't have happened to a less deserving person, proof that wealth ≠ merit.

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Really hope we see some dudes put some of Matthew's bangers like "I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me," or "Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of my brethren you did it to me," and ask Robby to pay up.