Love that this guy said this on camera

The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.

Why would a drunk with white supremacist tattoos and a fondness for war criminals want to make it harder to report racism in the military?

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

If academics & researchers in AI (like myself) don’t want the coming AI winter to destroy our field, we need to be accountable for how we allowed another hype cycle on our watch. We have the expertise to stop it. We need to speak truth to power in our own institutions!

There is absolutely no good faith reason to use the term “AI” for any technology one is selling. It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t. If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.

Bertrand Russell once received letters from Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, inviting him to a debate. Russell not only declined but replied quite generally that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

This is a great analysis of the value of moral standards and the power of shame as a deterent to uphold them. We need those norms and the social pressure to adhere to them. The alternative is violence and repression.

on today's episode of imperial decline

So in this very short period of time, we’ve seen the mass adoption of AI despite no one really knowing what it does for their business. While at the same time, they’ve abandoned any commitment to diversity because “DEI is bullshit” and all the receipts are now coming up short?

Academic job opening alert! Environmental Justice in the ISchool at CU Boulder! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is 200 today! @c19americanists.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social @ccp-org.bsky.social @blkgrlpoet.bsky.social @profgabrielle.bsky.social @npr.org She’s just as fabulous, relevant, and fiery now as she was in C19! For a sample, see commonplace.online/article/vol-...

America 2025. Please Don’t Offend The White Supremacists

A statue of Trump and Epstein was removed from the National Mall by U.S. Park Police, despite a permit allowing it to remain until Sept. 28

Did... did he just admit the government was involved in Jimmy Kimmel's firing...?

Eugenics deems all Others problematic. Even if attention affects the now they/we may perceive, these problems (as one becomes an object, objective) are necessitated by the Biocentric man.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

is this not just kidnapping?

To June Jordan, Toni Morrison said, “You know there's always been a fascist strain, here: It's not even political in the sense of this party or that. It's like a virus that can attach itself to Democrats or Republicans… And we know it's around. We can tell because black people are the nexus.”

Finally got around to getting THiCC lab principles (thicc-lab.org/principles/ ) and the Liberatory Tech Project principles up! (liberatorytech.org/principles/) Sites still a work in progress with more life needed. But we outchea, more comin

Frances Harper 200 call out (organized by @digblk.bsky.social)

Republican opposition to political violence still going strong on regime outlets bsky.app/profile/acyn...

who cares about material needs or solidarity when you can just fight the culture war forever

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

I'm not going to work harder for you than you work for yourself.

Last day to sign up for tomorrow's (9/20) Communiversity offerings. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversi... - the sessions are good and there's lunch.

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

The fascists have assessed that they have nothing to worry about from National Democratic elected politicians. In fact, if they were ever to retake nominal power, many of them will do what they can to destroy their own voters who insist on action against the fascists.

@geomblog.bsky.social talking at AI-SDM (CMU) tockify.com/aisdm/detail... (Half way through, but still good even if you're coming in late!)

I cannot stress this enough: do not use email for organizing. Set strict retention so emails delete after a short period of time. Assume every Big Tech company will rat you out to the gestapo without lifting a finger to protect your rights theintercept.com/2025/09/16/g...

I'm really proud to work at a media company that isn't made up of cowards, that can say All of This Is Really Fucking Bad over and over again because it is. defector.com/charlie-kirk...

Shout out to @mcsweeneys.net for letting me treat a certain kind of article with the level of respect it deserves. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Looks like I posted this a day too early.

I wake up every day and can’t believe that this is where I have spent a good portion of my life. The institution will never love you back. The boss is not your family.

Whatever you do, deliver your message gently, and endeavor to not offend. “Please, sir, can we have some shared governance, sir?” As far as I can tell, shared governance is effectively dead at my institution and, here’s the truth, doesn’t have any gravitas, anyway, when faculty remain unorganized.

adding "doctors" to the list of professions that, alongside judges and lawyers, have so far given a good account of themselves under authoritarianism

We must support our colleagues working in autocratic regimes

The Times will respond by firing Jamelle Bouie and Tressie McMillan Cottom as columnists and hiring Chris Rufo, liberals will be big mad about it for exactly 36 hours before they go back to reposting NYT links and playing Wordle

Just FYI: while CDC is no longer tracking much of anything, wastewater data is still being reported. COVID-19 levels have just been nationally upgraded to “high”

How much will it take for people to accept that Israel is committing a genocide, and how many reports need to be released for our governments to stop it?

Nav Pillay: "The Genocide Convention was born out of humanitys darkest chapters. Today we witness in real time how the promise of never again is broken and tested in the eyes of the world. The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a moral outrage and a legal emergency"

a friend and I went downtown this evening to scream in the streets with thousands of our neighbors. @theonion.com was also at the protest this evening and they were pulling no punches

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Well I guess at least the rename of the Dept is more honest

Well, new in-class engagement method possibility just in time!

TIL that Moms for America, Moms for Liberty, and Parents Defending Education have signed the White House's pledge to America's youth to invest in AI education, which further clarifies how this AI education initiative is a political project and whose vision of education is being prioritized.