The largest ever settlement or jury award for government violations of constitutional rights to a single person is $100 million, or 1 percent of what Trump demanding for the leak of his tax returns. That case -- a killing by police -- was reduced to $1 million on appeal.

Rutgers Engineering Dean censured, must be replaced “The meeting was part of an attempt by Cuitiño and some engineering department heads to “circle the wagons,” www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

In his 2nd Inaugural, Abraham Lincoln delivered what might be the most devastating rebuttal to the Both Sides lie in history. "Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came."

My daughter sent me this point-and-shoot film photo. I love it because the dog's physiology, the dog's behavior, and the framing are all minimally dynamic. What dog looks like that, let alone stands still on a beach? What photographer frames something so statically centered? It all fits.

We are better when there are scientists specializing on all the different questions, much appreciation for this

I've also ditched *all* Microsoft products for pretty much the same reason—sneaky mandatory AI opt-ins with no heed given for "customers" who might have good reasons for *not* wanting that shit anywhere near their computers.

(the answer coming from on high is: conformity, obedience, subservience, lack of independent and critical thinking skills, apathy…and probably most of all, ignorance)

A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This paper was retracted from the @nejm.org because the images of bronchial branching after smoke inhalation were obviously and transparently manipulated by generative AI. Look at the ruler. I don't even know what lesson to draw from this. www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

Just to reiterate something that @ali-alkhatib.com says continuously -- to reframe AI as a political project and not as a technology.

It’s not a security breach that he didn’t sleep in a sterile area; it just wasn’t the security plan. And the designed security did in fact stop the attack without it. The demand embedded in this piece that it become the plan is exactly how the one way ratchet of a burdensome security state works.

So many choices.

i just filled out an accessibility survey and it asked me if i use an mobility device and i said, yes — benches

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz

Grew up in Montana. This rocks and is the kind of thing that could totally pass in Montana.

Experiments in Blackboard Ally & Title II: this process is 1 part CYA & 2 parts meaningless busywork. Documents a screen reader can't read score 100% if you give them a citation. Making one line in a document heading-format can get to 100%. Documents screen readers do fine with will get a 2%.

Every other politician in the United States RN

i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content

astronauts on the moon. affordable college for everybody. building a ton of housing for families. vaccines to end cancers. we can have all this cool stuff if you just vote for the people that want to do it. we can do so much great stuff. put down your anger. great things are right there.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

House Judiciary Ranking Member Jamie Raskin is demanding the White House physician perform a cognitive test on Trump in light of his recent comments on Iran. tinyurl.com/3xpptf8u

Absolute banger from @samforstag.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DW7Z2ym...

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Just because a President announces he’s agreed to a two week ceasefire moments before he threatened to commit war crimes, does not mean he is suddenly fit to serve. #25thAmendment

We won't last 33 more months of this. This must stop. We must make it stop.

Really happy to see that Mayor Mamdani has taken his team's social media skills and used it to publicize what good government looks like. This is good politics and good policy at once.

honestly more songs should be about this specific narrative

1. The largest medical organization in the United States, the American Medical Association, has reaffirmed that gender affirming care for trans youth is medically necessary. It disavowed the New York Times reporting. Incredible development for trans youth. Subscribe to support our journalism.

FYI, I've donated to the Texas Library Association, which among other things operates the Texans for the Right to Read coalition. Oppose book bans! Vote out politicians and school boards who vote for them! texansfortherighttoread.com

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

Good vaccination news. 'A new study of more than 140,000 infants confirms the protection that COVID vaccination during pregnancy offers babies in their first few months of life.' #COVID #vaccines #pregnancy #babies

On that last point, @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social has good stuff to say here (and my thanks to @sibyllacumae.bsky.social for sending it to me and pointing it out): sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

#lrt it's just a typo but I love the idea that there are many readers who are "19th-century Americans" and thus all too familiar with the pathologies of the present. Time is a flat circle.

For the record, this is my comment to the journalist on Colossal’s dire wolf.

This is how to make change. Primary challenges are a win-win. Maybe we get a great new person to make change or we bend an incumbent to at least get out of the way of change.

Giving up two weekend days is a small price to pay in order to put the fear of primaries from the left into politicians. I hope that Julie will win. She will be better than Hick, and I believe in her. But whatever happens in this election, she is forcing Hick to be slightly better.

My email is an endless stream of “upgrade to get access to—“ I don’t want it. I want to downgrade. I want to get less access. I want the opposite of what you’re selling.

Important reporting, read the whole thing to see Epstein world connect with Murdaugh world, but my god Epstein, Trump and associates just wrecked lives

The proper way to translate this, if you want to assimilate the value of America's higher education sector into brute economic terms, is: "Exports of one of America's world-leading industries dropped by more than a third this year." Where's that headline in the business press?

My dad: you can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose Markwayne: Challenge accepted.

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

"Nobody questions the success of the military operations" is a profoundly idiotic thing to say. This fucking nightmare is obviously not a "success" to anyone with half a sense of strategic planning.

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Ousts Noem as Homeland Security Secretary www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03... So obviously, ALL Democratic Senators must refuse confirmation votes for any replacement without enforceable guarantee that ICE will follow the law

Tragic. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

If you, as a social scientist, believe that AI is now a better social scientist than you, then (a) you’re probably right, and (b) sure sounds like a skill issue, y’know?

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for: - Who takes over; - Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation; - How to defend US bases in the region; - Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and - How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

Read the whole thread, can’t believe I’d forgotten this