Excellent by @jamellebouie.net. "There are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand." (Which also describes The Times; Bouie is the welcome exception.) Gift. Democrats Are Teaching Trump the Wrong Lesson www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

Panoramic View of the Northern Lights last night over the Chicago Skyline.

If you're bleeding internally you just uhh call around and compare health care plans. Make a budget spreadsheet and see what you can afford. Do I have to spell it out for you. I have a ballroom to build

Whew. Australia is *really* entering into an actual data centre boom archive.ph/zHNw2

“Travelers and anyone else who was at the airport’s terminals A and B between 8:50 a.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday may have been exposed to the highly contagious disease, according to a news release from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health”

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people" Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->

As we learn more and more about the costs associated with GenAI, I continue to wonder how institutions and their leadership decide that yes, incorporating anything OpenAI produces into the lives of educators and students is worth the harms.

Please have a listen to my conversation with @justinhendrix.bsky.social shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...

Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.

This is really well done. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

What was the purpose of the iconic Andean monument of Monte Sierpe (aka Band of Holes)? New research supports a new interpretation: it was a barter marketplace, later developing into a monumental system of accounting under #Inca rule. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology @sydney.edu.au

in any case it is wild that voters just sent a huge message and a bunch of senate democrats are all, “it doesn’t look like anything to me”

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I can’t support this bill. It doesn’t meet the urgency of the moment and deliver actual relief that can pass both chambers of Congress. I’ve been clear that we need real action to stop the devastating health care cost increases that are hurting millions of families. 1/2

If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?

Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.

@booker.senate.gov did you put all these people through all this to get nothing?? DO NOT CAVE

John Fetterman, Angus King, Maggie Hassan, Dick Durbin, Jon Ossoff, Jeanne Shaheen, Kirsten Gillibrand, Catherine Cortez Masto, Mark Warner, Cory Booker, and of course Chuck Schumer. Maybe others not top of mind. Not all responsible will publicly vote for the cave - that's not how this works.

ICE pours large canister of pepper spray directly into family car, hitting 1-year-old baby. "They were simply shopping at Sam's Club," said Matt, who filmed this video. "ICE agents drove by and sprayed pepper spray directly inside, where their baby and 16-year-old sister sat." #BlueCrew #ProudBlue

Facial prosthesis, c.1917. THREAD for #RemembranceSunday🧵 From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1

A newsletter by and for New Jersey South Asians serves the state’s sprawling Desi communities www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/a-ne...

I've been working for many months on this article on Silicon Valley's under-the-radar role in bringing AI into schools across the US. I really hope you'll read it — here's a gift link — but I'll tell you some of the highlights in this thread. (1/x)

Trying to think of a worse idea but I'm coming up short

The Roman Empire’s Vast Road Network—186,000 Miles of It—Has Just Been Mapped in a New Digital Atlas

Three children were killed by lawn darts in the 70’s and they were banned in the US. ChatGPT has caused how many deaths at this point? If corporations are people, why aren’t we holding them criminally liable?

Is anyone still doubting who wants this generative AI bullshit, and what they want it for?

“When Sora finished generating those videos it sent us notifications like ‘Your choke scene just went live, brace for chaos,’ and ‘Yikes, intense choke scene, watch responsibly.’”

Join us, @ndbooks.bsky.social, Krithika Varagur, Zain Khalid, Sloane Crosley, and Rob Franklin, on November 18 to celebrate the publication of the newest installment of Solvej Balle’s series “On the Calculation of Volume.” www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/calcul...

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I said this recently @pfrazee.com but it’s worth repeating. These auto-moderated replies are *putting people in danger*. When you’re someone who receives death threats (like me) or has a stalker (like @regretagarbo.rip), the site automatically hiding replies from us puts us at EXTREME risk.

what are we doing here?

Apparently you may need to change these settings on both the app and desktop, so check that if you use both. bsky.app/profile/unas...

Given how Twitter filters worked, I also unchecked "misleading" content or "conspiracies" because again, these are flags conservatives use to spam legitimate news reporting, thus keeping you from seeing it if you have these filters on.

Omg. Ok folks. You need to do this—big feeds, please amplify ( @kevinmkruse.bsky.social maybe you can too)

That's what is so crazy about all this. It doesn't matter what any of us want. It's been decided and it's coming just like the data centers that are driving electric bills through the roof. Until citizens united is addressed corporations will always be put above citizens.

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Another person who started down this path from the most “innocuous” advertised uses of ChatGPT: homework help. I have been struck by the cases of people getting lost in delusions after using this product for work or school: ie the use cases we are supposed to encourage as faculty.

Dear @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org: Please cancel your partnership with this evil company and stop pushing “A.i.” on teachers and students.

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

It is so nice to see the reaction here! (and at the talk, to be honest) I think there is a big appetite out there for pushback on the "AI is great and inevitable" narrative, especially when the pushback comes from people who can't easily be painted as Luddites who just don't understand the tech.

🚨BREAKING: Democrat Marisa Sweeney has won her race for State Assembly in the 25th district in New Jersey, flipping the Morris County-based seat for the first time since 1977.

For @inthesetimes.com I argued that "New Yorkers will only win the campaign promises Mamdani ran on  if they keep the movement that elected him alive." I am so happy to see the 104,000 volunteers are not going home.... inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

The key thing to watch here: they fired a Wired political reporter. That’s the title doing the most effective, pointed work. Teen Vogue’s stuff was culturally impactful, but less focused on investigating the administration. Within the Condé portfolio, Wired and the New Yorker are the canaries.

bro are you fucking kidding me

A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality