hence: arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/w...

I am absolutely adding this to my AI is bad actually PowerPoint

like his complaint is literally that there are people who believe in things, believe those things are right, and believe in those things regardless of whether they are popular.

Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all): whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...

This holiday I am in addition to avoiding Amazon, trying to shop AI-free. This ideally includes companies that do not use chatbots for any customer service. Any resources on AI-free shopping?

Google is on record denying this story, but we all know the question is not if but when, and also, if anything is going to make me less inclined to use "AI" than I already am, it'll be the attempt to shove ads into it www.adweek.com/media/google...

I searched "instagram" and my username in Google and discovered the same thing. It's absolutely trying to generate SEO titles and even long descriptions and summaries that I didn't write for www.instagram.com/reel/DSCxo40... They even added keywords I didn't put in 'cos I'm limited to 5 tags. WOW.

“These companies are dealing in murky science in an emotionally fraught context.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

It took 2+ minutes for my results to load on the Bluesky stats analyzer ( jyc.dev/at ) and @jyc.dev had to fix a bug for it to even work for me (thanks JYC!), but I have never seen a more perfect accidental depiction of my sleep disorder than this

It’s kind of wild to me that I haven’t seen a school do this yet. But then I remember that administrators, as a general rule, are selected on status quo conformity, not ability to innovate.

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

This is horrible news. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep

Obama wore a tan suit that one time, Trump is tearing down East Wing of White House

It should be a 2028 promise all nominees take to bulldoze the ball room addition and faithfully restore the East Wing. And hell, boast about how you'll make those same donors financing this atrocity pay to undo their damage.

You will have people from all 50 states willing to drive/fly/walk out to Washington DC just for the privilege of laying down one new brick apiece, no compensation required. Inscribe each brick with a patriotic message, make a family photo opportunity out of it.

Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

FYI :“Destruction of federal property is a federal crime. 18 U.S. Code § 1361 defines the crime as willfully injuring or committing any depredation against U.S. government property. If the damage exceeds $1k it is a felony with a fine, up to ten years in prison or both.” Awaiting law enforcement.

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

BY AN ICE AGENT. PUT IT IN THE HEADLINE.

This is actually a perfect meme. Send this to anyone, at any time, for any reason!

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Folks at other universities dependent on Canvas, what kind of message has your admin sent? At Rutgers it has been silence.

@wired.com help us! Canvas is down due to AWS failure and most of my students basically can’t do most of their schoolwork. Rutgers has sent no email even acknowledging the issue! I need the Wired take and explainer on the outage.

Today the Rutgers University Senate passed a resolution supporting academic freedom

Brown rejected the compact! www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

We are in the final hours before our strike begins on Oct. 14th at 7am, and we have been getting trained on how to run a picket line and how to share our story with the public. But we will need your support! Click here and sign up for a picket shift: form.jotform.com/251634890806...

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

Your grandfathers didn’t storm Normandy so you could be afraid of the word antifascist or “antifa”

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters. And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

youtu.be/tEGFPqYprEs the unipiper has reported to the front in war ravaged Portland joining TACO chicken man and frog dude # 1 it would appear. I knew this summers rose parade was an antifa drill.

Please keep making podcasts about how democrats need to stop being so condescending about red states

Our plane to Spain is in the air! 🙌🙌 Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

Yes! I think that the fact that the rich actors in SAG and their broke peers have aligned interests despite their disparate circumstances is an important and illustrative truth.

Doing politics the right way is when the far-right regime in power memorializes a fallen influencer by terrorizing an academic that the influencer's McCarthyist organization once baselessly singled out for abuse.

2a) Apart from featuring his definition of fascism (which he offers reluctantly), Paxton observes how the fascist relation to ideas is merely tactical and not grounded in intellectual consistency. Useful for today's world to remember how fascists dont feel the need to "justify" changes in position.

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

Thank you for your solidarity, fellow members of @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social !!

Mark Bray is my Rutgers colleague. He is a scholar of anti-fascism. (My comments here are as a private citizen but I discuss my identity as a scholar and professor at Rutgers) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...