Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

The AI industry is deeply dependent on exponential growth to justify the colossal investments being made into it. To say AI is small now so it’s not a huge part of the story has about the wisdom of ignoring the family of mice that just moved into your grain cellar because there’s only a few of them.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."

Listen to filmmaker Laura Poitras discuss her new documentary "Cover Up" and the greatest threats to investigative journalism on the latest episode of On the Media: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

I felt like I was losing my mind watching this person's remarks and had to write about how disgusting they are.

It's irritating that they describe the effects of his racism as limited to causing controversy within science and reputational consequences for himself rather than giving an immeasurable boost, false veneer of legitimacy, and idiot-friendly prestige to modern scientific racism and eugenics.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

she was just the best, every time I read something she wrote I'm like 'oh wow somehow I think *even more* highly of her'

more of this

Something doesn't compute between their claims of the energy efficiency of their models and their ever growing demand for new power generation to feed their data centers. I think probably a lot is hidden by their choice to cite only median and not the mean energy use per query.

Jesse Welles wrote an ice recruitment jingle. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6PpvUBk/

Scholars have invented a machine that allows you to generate more bullshit, faster, no effort, but totally professional looking in order to punish future scholars. They are saying it's an astounding breakthrough.

"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT. I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up." Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!

“We are going to cure cancer and create limitless energy, but first we have to fire a whole lot of people.”

For what it's worth: borders aren't real. If you need proof, look no further than climate change. What happens in one place affects every single acre of this planet.

Add Altman saying AI will “solve all of physics” & Hassabis saying AI will help “cure all disease within a decade”. IMO they suffer from messianic AI fantasies: seeing science as a vending machine for solutions/profit, instead of a human culture of knowledge & public reason. bsky.app/profile/neur...

So literally the first chat I tried, asking about the first fire incident listed on the front page, and the AI instantly bombed. Probably fine.

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Look at this video: a *huge* crowd of Vermonters swaying alongside Mohsen right after he was freed, singing "We Shall Overcome" Signs reading "Hands off our students" & "free speech" are peppered in between large Palestine flags

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

We’re eliminating programs that save millions of people from disease And ending a lot of research that has cured diseases and will cure more Because we need to funnel resources into AI Because someday it may be able to figure out cures for disease Do I have that right?

A generation of infants are being born HIV+ today who should have been born HIV-free because one of the principal propagandists of AI bullshit in the world dismantled PEPFAR and USAID.

Manipulation and mass disinfo would probably top the list of my most serious potential harms from AI. “One has to wonder whether OpenAI is simply focused on chasing revenues with minimal regard for societal impact.” If they can't effectively address a risk, just ignore it and full speed ahead.

Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family. I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

An excellent editorial from Masha Gessen on how universities can go beyond simply forming a unified front to fight Trump by refocusing on serving the public. Hard to make a scapegoat out of an institution that is clearly there for the common good.

De-extinction is the carbon removal of biodiversity world Promises to magically undo the harm that in reality can only be prevented before it occurs.

If you ever have the opportunity to fly Avelo Airlines—don’t.

The courts *should* put an immediate and unequivocal halt to all use of the CECOT prison in El Salvador, with or without due process. They may not do that. But the *people* of the US still can. Don't lose of sight of this atrocity amidst the other outrages. Make this a key focus of resistance.

I cannot understate how appalling and helpless it feels as a Jew that this is being done under the guise of fighting antisemitism.

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Mr @Elonmusk We are hearing that the great Andrew Cuomo could use your support to stand up against the radical left . Please consider offering your powerful support

Most women in Sub-Saharan Africa have no access to modern contraception. The US is cutting funds for family planning in developing countries. 50 million women won't have access to contraception, leading to more maternal deaths and an overall increase in poverty. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...

First we have to tell them.

France’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law. South Korea’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law. Brazil’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law. Only America’s decided a criminal must be allowed to break its laws and destroy its democracy.

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

Feel free to cancel the visits. Then organize around protecting science in your country as though what is happening in the US were happening to you. Don't wait until it's too late!

Ah, I see we're doing a Lysenko www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/h...

This is so ridiculous. Until you realize it’s just an excuse to break the system and shift the blame. AI’s major function in cases like this will be to shield individuals from being held responsible for fixing the things they break, and for delaying that fix, perhaps indefinitely.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Folks in countries with infrastructure to support disabled people -- yes Canada and Europe that includes you -- must lobby your governments to end these eugenicist immigration policies. I've seen the impact they have on families in real time, and it's fucking terrible.

Yes, that's part of why. But saying it's the "entire point" is one more example of media folks forgetting that facists genuinely want to hurt people and impose iron will. It is performative *and* genuine. Saying it's only to make content downplays the hate & *actual* fascism.

Jason Stanley and I never especially got along so this isn’t me defending a friend but he is a Jewish man whose parents are Jews who barely escaped the Holocaust and you guys look how you look for talking smack about him trying to not relive that and protecting his children from having to know it