AI is a fascist project

I have yeeted the LMS my uni has paid for and which you were probably thinking helps you teach Forgive me it was surveillant so mid and so broke

Love how file sharing was framed as stealing but a comparable situation where the only meaningful difference is that tech industrialists get rich is not supposed to be stealing. So it's only individual consumers who steal, and who they steal from is not artists but in fact tech industrialists.

Over and over again, establishment journalists just refuse to describe Republican policies and beliefs in plain language to mislead the public. The GOP says it is purging liberals from academia and journalists reframe it as “rebuilding trust.” That is not journalism, it is regime propaganda.

absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

I’ve said since LowerEd is that neoliberal credential expansion usually starts by producing a degree to solve a short term employment bottleneck, for example in nursing in 2000s. The degrees get predatory once demand is met The AI labor market doesn’t even have the short term labor market demand!

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

My middle school had a fully kitted out print shop because I am old enough to remember when California public schools were well-funded.

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).

I had this intense moment of grief today for young people, specifically those in their 20s, who have spent the entirety of it living under the specter of Trump, Covid, or both.

They think they’re doing confederates shelling Fort Sumpter or something— how you gonna live fire on a military base in the pacific theater and assume they’ll just be chill with it after you aren’t paying them?

Boston #NoKings @npr.org @wbur.org @wgbh.org

Same energy

As you would expect for a nation that worships a document

Found the paid protester

There are seemingly multiple waves of people crossing the Hawthorne Bridge by the thousands. I thought the group was maybe petering out but no…there’s still tons of people downtown waiting to cross to the east side.

MSNBC Reports NY No Kings Rally Draws 300,000 Marking 50% Increase Over Previous Anti-Trump Protest

I really love how in England they have modified No Kings to No Tyrants out of local sensibilities whilst in Ireland they are all like NO KINGS, do I stutter.

That sounds like it to me. non-violent movements work when they mobilize the people that authoritarians depend on to keep their agendas moving.

👇🏻👇🏻 I would even argue that even if they DID vote for this and now have had a change of heart to the point where they’re fucking protesting then I say welcome to the giant Fuck Trump tent party and happy hour is 2-5 weekdays

Okay, this is amazing.

good morning

Current politics seems to boil down very simply to: do you want perpetual hate or love? I don’t see anything the GOP or the right offers that isn’t seething with rage, smiles through clenched teeth of malicious glee. On the other side, dancing, frogs, drag queens, children, freedom?

Examples of how fascist untruths get regurgitated as fact by LLMs are ubiquitous, but this one is really jarring. The Harvard Kennedy School article Gemini scraped is entirely about how the claim is false. Gemini cannot parse this, instead sharing DHS propaganda as fact when you search her name.

“Your honor it is among the cherished traditions of the LAPD to beat up the media”

They'll cast these rallies as "angry" but everyone there is plainly having a great time because it's fun to get together with like-minded people to engage in the oldest American tradition: telling a tyrant to eat shit

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“People [in tech jobs] worry that not being seen as uncritical AI cheerleaders will be a career-limiting move…for those who aren't insiders in the tech industry, it's vital that you understand that you've been presented with an extremely distorted view about what tech workers really think about AI”

They’re strangling everything to death m. Education, art, free resources, jobs, the planet. Tech has become a cancer.

2025 feels like that late-stage game of monopoly where you just go round and round paying rent and utilities forever and nobody knows what the rules are anymore and everyone’s just waiting for it all to end except the one player who cheated and has all the money

goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

My partner was one of the researchers on this lost wallet study. Turns out people suck less than we expect. www.npr.org/2019/06/20/7...

Its happening so much faster than I feared it would.

I recently discussed this in a talk. On one side of tech, there is a real move to develop system redundancies. You need them for security, trust, safety, etc. On the other side, tech is telling education it can & should strip its redundancies. Watch what they do as much as you hear what they say.

Guys who crawled up into fame by running small businesses and mastering SEO and cloutchasing being more right wing than people who mastered a collaborative art form seems pretty intuitive to me

It should strike people that the stock market isn’t crashing despite the shutdown. Like sub-prime mortgages, it has yet again totally detached itself from economic reality while they speculate on how many workers they can fire to replace with AI. It is helping a failing economic strategy save face.

Not just undergrads using it to cheat.

I think there are basically only two positions in the debate about AI: 1) I have a brain and/or I'm an artist, I don't want to give them up, & f copyright theft 2) I know nothing about language, cognition, or critical thinking and I have no interest in learning, so holy cow it's transformational!

Covid gave me an astigmatism and farsightedness I previously did not have. I had it for the first time February of this year. I’m current on my vaccines. It literally reshaped my eyeballs, so I just don’t have a ton of space for the people who act like it’s lunatic behavior to ask for masking.

"[Yesterday's] raids across Southern California showed a continuing escalation of violence by masked federal agents as they kidnapped at least 20 people, including parents after their school drop-offs, U.S. citizens, and a mother is ripped from her infant." lataco.com/daily-memo-o...

the thing about zohran is that he can meme and do pop culture and speak in online parlance and it doesn't come off as fake or corny because he's not 5,000 years old

Consulting groups gotta go

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life. YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

Sigh.

Sooo much more money is moving into billionaire pockets under this admin. It’s actually kind of nuts that we don’t directly frame it this way.