Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Because everyone deserves to read this:

To be clear since the headline isn't: a study that claimed GenAI was good for learning, actually, turns out to have been bullshit.

In my version, the goddess Aphrodite automatically morphs into the ideal physical type of the most important person currently looking at her. My protagonist is most uncomfortable being alone with her - she had barely asked herself the question before getting her answer.

The ballroom and the “shooting attempt” are akin to the Reichstag fire that Timothy Snyder talked about in On Tyranny. Don’t be fooled. Everyone should read this book. #WHCD #OnTyranny

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Tech companies: that is not how laws work. If your products do not follow laws, they don’t get to be a thing. And since you insist on robots, you can’t blame your “independent contractor” drivers. This is why we needed Lina Khan.

it is devastating to notice how few benches there are in the world and how some benches have been replaced by weird "leaning" things. the world is incredibly cruel to disabled, elderly, poor, pregnant, tired, homeless, and all people. there should be benches fucking everywhere for everyone

AI makes people so weird. Presented my poster at a GenAI in Research conference yesterday. The poster’s title was “Don’t.” Almost everyone talked to me and agreed it was horrifically unethical and even more unreliable than they knew. Then they spent all day arguing for ways to use it anyway.

Listening to Season 2 of “The Future of Our Former Democracy” is emotional in a lot of ways, but, of all the highlighted and quiet parallels between pre-WW2 Germany and right now in the US, the one hitting me hardest is, “There were just…so many off ramps.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

It makes my job infinitely worse and most other actual employees (not management and/or “founders”) say the same, it has encouraged teen suicides, poisons fact-checking and the basic tools for living in a shared reality, and oh yeah is propping up fascism by creating an economic bubble!

First rule of effective resistance against fascism: you do not abandon the most vulnerable. You do not abandon those targeted by the regime for dehumanization and attack. Establishment Dems/ neoliberals never learn that ethical/moral positions are winning positions.

“I reject the lie that deporting my neighbor is how I win better pay and working conditions. We’re fighting for a country where families stay together without living in terror, so we’re ALL better off!”

Democrats should propose amendments to the SAVE act that require the government to furnish free IDs to all eligible voters before requiring them, automatically register all people to vote, expand mail-in voting, and create a national voting holiday. Then watch republicans block them.

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Seriously, why fumble this on a dud?

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h... No, it is not inevitable. No, there is no compromise position. No, I’m not ignorant or unfamiliar with AI. I am a hater because I am thoroughly informed on its origins, abuses, outputs, resource-hogging, and messaging. No, I won’t be polite about it.

In the last hour, dozens of GOP lawmakers began to denounce Trump's racist meme. Minutes ago, the White House capitulated and deleted the post. If those same lawmakers showed that same level of moral clarity when it comes to the Constitution & fair elections, the White House would capitulate. /1

My favorite part is that it’s in tetrameter - a more singsong meter. This man does not deserve the dignity of pentameter.

Trying to figure out if there’s a way to explain to Democrats and median “center right” Trump voters are never going to vote for them, no matter how moderated their ask or their tone. Currently workshopping: The Yankees don’t plan season strategy based on what would make Red Sox fans happy.

Everybody in higher ed has questions these days. For example, admins ask "how can we get faculty to incorporate AI into their classes?" while faculty ask "can I come in to campus to teach my classes without being abducted by an unlawful paramilitary force?"

Snow is nature's urban planner: It can show us what parts of the roadway drivers don't use — and what can be reclaimed for pedestrians. Post your photos and videos of all the #sneckdowns you see and tag us and @mayor.nyc.gov so today's winter wonderland can inspire better streets year-round!

Nuanced take: I think it's really important to give *normal citizens* who supported Trump and off-ramp and *professional writers, pundits and politicians* who supported Trump should have to wear it like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives

I post this intermittently because, frankly, there isn't nearly enough reporting on the abusive food and nutrition conditions that exist within prisons in the United States. Given the carceral climate we're living through, I think it's important to circulate again. boston.eater.com/22153678/foo...

This is incredibly disappointing Libby. You're aware of the environmental impact and yet. You want to support choice but AI takes the that away from authors whose work was stolen to train AI. This is embarrassing and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Advocates say Mayor Mamdani can’t change state law, but he can halt NYPD crackdowns like Operation Restore Roosevelt, work with DAs to curb sex worker arrests, and openly back full decriminalization to protect migrant sex workers.

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

Black Lives Matter folks are showing up to demand justice for Renee Nicole Good. All Lives Matter folks are defending the man and celebrating the bullet that killed her. Maybe now you can understand what we’d been saying all along.

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:

Controversial but I think I enjoyed Wicked For Good so much less than the first one not so much because of filmmaking skill (I had some notes for the first one I remember and roughly equal praise for the way that introducing Glinda to “Wonderful” and the expansion of the Nessa/Boq arc filled out…

Frans Halsstraat , Amsterdam in 1982 and today. Remove through motor traffic and car parking, replace with greenery, bike parking, café seating, and kids playing football in the street

In a workshop to help professors catch AI cheating, I prompted Gemini to write me a bleeding heart emotional appeal on a topic. It spit out a lecture about rationality and how I should argue based on logic. My one and only use of AI was enough to convince me of that.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

And Trump nixed the free option. Fantastic.

Underpaid traumatized workers who are often children

No, YOU’RE stress quilting!

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

Portland State University AAUP won their arbitration regarding the layoffs of 10 non-tenure track faculty!✊ An arbitrator ruled the university bypassed shared governance protocols required by the Collective Bargaining Agreement. All 10 laid-off faculty must be reinstated! @psuaaup.bsky.social

Found out today that my op-ed has made the opposite side of the union bargaining table Big Mad. Thanks for the reminder that I didn’t post it here: ctmirror.org/2025/11/04/f... And for the record, it violates zero of the bargaining rules but it’s nice to vex them with the truth #aaup #csu-aaup

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

My university ran a workshop to detect AI cheating that asked us to use it multiple times, so technically I have but Lordy it felt queasy. Also, would have refused if I realized then how garbage detection systems are anyway. AI labeling AI…I’m so tired.

Already run into kids who, when seeing my wildlife photos, exclaim 'that's AI'

AI is a cancer

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Just unlocked a new political fear. Been calling to get Connecticut Gov to spend the rainy day fund and end unnecessary austerity — was reminded that where the Gov wants all those billions to be is with Wall Street— meaning that CT’s savings could be lost when the AI bubble bursts.

In their attempt to blame it on the childcare worker, they admit that their presence there inherently endangered the children. But, of course, the cruelty is the point.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...