i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake 1/

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Complicity of liberal institutions with the crackdown on student protest paved the way for the crisis of academia. To defend our work we must sever the link with the security state. Come join us at U of C tomorrow, where we will discuss how to confront the hiring of the inveterate liar John Kirby.

This would be a great team to work with! and a project that potentially integrates ecosystem ecology, grassland restoration, and community ecology (unless I'm misunderstanding). Reach out to @hennhouse.bsky.social @schwilk.org et al. learn more.

U.S Army officer Col. Steve Gabavics has gone public on his participation in the Biden Administration's "investigation" into the Israeli assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh, alleging that the USG softened its conclusions about the murder of the Palestinian American journalist to please Israel.

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

This whole thing is incredible, but look how his hand is shaking when he points at the guys who are being hassled. He's scared, he's angry, he's pounding with adrenaline, but he's maintaining control of himself and not backing down. He's taking a stand, whatever the cost.

Tell me again that it's all in the past and there's no real anti-Irish sentiment in Britain anymore as they shield this monster from justice, because sure who were his victims only a few Paddies villagemagazine.ie/soldier-f-na...

If you don't know John Moreland's music yet, there is no better place to start. If you do already, wait until you see this new EP / video set!

The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources: 1. Federal grants 2. Private gifts/endowments 3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students) 4. State $ For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.

I am really, really, really heartbroken by the murder of the vet Dr. Muath. He'd gone to his destroyed house to try to retrieve some belongings as they had abandoned it in terror. Having examined the map, he'd thought his house was in a safe zone. But the IOF shot him dead. Bloodthirsty pigs.

For a progressive city, Santa Fe continues to adopt inhumane policies targeting the most vulnerable in our city... "Keeping animals in medians could soon be illegal in Santa Fe" This follows a law passed last year restricting people from sitting or standing in medians less than 3 ft wide

You can now watch Oscar Award winning documentary No Other Land in the United States of America. Link below.

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Compare the number of deaths in detention. The horror of the SA apartheid police pales in comparison to Israeli apartheid. This was true long before the current outright genocide.

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame. tinyurl.se/crR

#OtD 19 Oct 1989 after 15 years in prison, a UK judge quashed the convictions of the Guildford Four calling them unreliable and based on confessions extracted by police through violence and threats against family members stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9144...

An Ohio University professor was removed from teaching a MFA class a day after returning home from an Israeli prison where he was detained upon being illegally abducted from the flotilla. His students [solidarity!] walked out on the replacement prof in protest. www.dispatch.com/story/news/s...

GHOST DAYS is a synthesis of Appalachian folklore and history, a mosaic of short stories that -- taken together -- traces a larger emotional tale. It's got a heroine I loved writing, and some of @tiffanyturrill.bsky.social's gnarliest monsters. www.asherelbein.com/store/ghost-...

“I had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic...Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most.” futurism.com/future-socie...

It’s Domestic Violence Awareness month. As a survivor of DV, I never thought to call a hotline for help because of so many reasons. To this day, I wish that I had and maybe i would’ve been able to get out years sooner. www.thehotline.org/get-help/nat...

This extraordinary piece from Gaza by Ali Skaik about the ceasefire made me cry. It contains so much—joy, grief, determination, love, sorrow, hope. Very proud to run it in @thenation.com today. Please read it. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The thing is, to be able to determine whether AI-generated code is “legit”, you need to know both statistics and coding yourself. If we no longer teach students to learn, think, and struggle—without the help of AI—the next generation will have no clue what is and isn’t legit.

It's clear that when the US wants a ceasefire deal, one miraculously occurs. Makes the "working tirelessly for a ceasefire" stuff from last year even more disgusting.

I’ve also heard instances of this at UVa: well-qualified faculty members who want to teach topics of great current interest and importance are being discouraged from doing so because it feels risky. It’s truly a shame.

“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth” I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans? www.eenews.net/articles/dat...

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity. msf.org/msf-denounce...

This is a truly hopeful story on the data center front, and I hope folks will give this and our episode from last week a listen to understand the data center playbook and what is becoming a community organizing blueprint.

University of Texas leaping to the top of the rankings of higher ed institutions most eager to cozy up to the authoritarian, taking over the top spot from previous leader, Columbia University. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Let’s not forget the nectar-feeding bats! 🦇 Ipomoea ampullacea is a night-blooming, bat-pollinated species from western Mexico. 🦇 📷: Efraín Octavio Aguilar Pérez CCBYNC4 #Convolvulaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Who is furloughed, and who isn’t, remains uncertain, according to agency employees and observers interviewed by High Country News; it is not being carried out in an orderly or consistent fashion across the agency.

The University of Arizona faculty are slamming the deal offered by the Trump administration and demanding that it be rejected. tucson.com/news/local/e...

I had to sign in to office365/outlook/whatever recently while on a classroom computer and was immediately assaulted by intrusive "AI" help. I've never been so happy that I run linux for everything in the lab and use emacs and plain text for everything from lecture presentations to email.

Whatever happens, this is more proof that if you want the world to be better you just have to make it so. Take a risk and put yourself in the situation you want to improve. Whether or not this flotilla reaches Gaza, there will need to be another even larger. I hope to God I can join it

Many vessels of the Samud flotilla still sailing in international waters despite ongoing piracy attempts. www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

Rima Hassan on the Captain Nikos is urging people to contact their political leadership and protest in the streets to put pressure on our governments for Gaza and the flotilla.

Today in @thenation.com: Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi, a 19-year-old in Gaza, describes what it's like to be so scarred by genocide that you lose your very ability to speak. Taqwa is brilliant and profound and deserves to be listened to. Please read her words. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Worth reading the decision and summary of discovery in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio knightcolumbia.org/documents/ah...

They're getting close globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/

Adorable IG Babies of Gaza Page Is Now a Haunting War Memorial A photography studio in Gaza—dedicated to creating portraits of newborn babies—is posting stunning images of the babies who have died in this war. From Jan of 2024 on Yahia, who is no more. 💔 www.thedailybeast.com/baby-photogr...

Fascinating essay by @martinebotany.bsky.social on spiny solanums (tomato et al. relatives) as an example of all the important natural history research left to be done. Great observations on pollination and symbiosis... A very inspiring Sunday morning read! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Texas Tech isn't the only university system handing down chilling, verbal-only directives banning discussions about transgender identity. If this is happening at your institution, I want to know about it--reach me on Signal at emmawhitford.96 www.insidehighered.com/node/192421/...

The continued lack of mainstream media coverage, or more important, analysis of whether this is legal, is driving me up a wall. Even political podcasts barely mention the impending lay offs or dig in to legality. bsky.app/profile/dend...

First time tragedy, second time farce and so on…

Trump officials shut off funding for climate adaptation centers - Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Cornell carrying out the goals of foreign intelligence op should result a mass resignations of everyone involved.

Kamala Harris’s election memoir shows just how deluded the Democrats still are | Nesrine Malik

They were ready, apparently. In the worst way possible. This is from 9 months ago.

what anil said. also, two things are true: 1. america has a horrific, brutal facist and authoritarian tradition which has prepared for this moment; 2. that is not the only american tradition, and pretending it is helps the fascists.