Ill be clear about why I am so angry and critical about it: Im seeing a good portion of my students who have imbibed the notion that they dont have to read, think or write for themselves because ChatGPT/CoPilot will do their thinking for them, and its terrifying. It should scare all of us.

This is my position. People outsourcing their thinking to AI means they aren't actually learning anything at all.

Logging on

Like in the past I would have said ‘spellcheck is fine’. No. Not anymore. Duck that shit. It all must go.

People keep saying we don’t allow room for nuance on Bluesky with regard to AI & the reason why this is the case is because under a capitalist controlled carcerally rabid surveillance state it is absolutely the only logical position. It always begins w Convenience Creep too. So now I’m against that

"restored the Constitution" lol don't piss me off also Senators start preparing yourself now to hold that seat open

there are definitely some people who just don't understand and don't want to understand the technology but i think the predominant anti-AI position on bsky is that all the people who promote it love saying stuff like "have fun staying poor"

When people say AI is useful to bosses, this is what they mean.

APOLLO: “.. There are no signs of AI boosting profit margins for companies outside the tech sector.”

UH asked me not to ‘indoctrinate’ my students. Here’s why I won't sign that pledge. | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

TIL what the Clever Hans effect is and goddamn if that doesn't just perfectly describe the AI hype. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_...

the modern right is pathologically obsessed with gender in a way that has absolutely no analogue on our side

Polymarket should be burned to the ground for even offering shit like this

Not going to read them all because jesus fucking christ but this is nasty work from Friedersdorf

"Minneapolis has shown me that even in the middle of grief and fear, people still show up for each other,” said Becca Good, the widow of Renee Nicole Good. “For that, I want to say thank you.” people.com/renee-good-s...

A great piece from @alibreland.bsky.social on Epstein's race science obsession—one he shares with much of the contemporary right wing elite www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This is exactly what you'd do if you wanted to make sure that wrestling fans chanted "Fuck ICE" throughout the hours of live wrestling you air in prime time every week.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal authorities announce end to Minnesota immigration crackdown that led to mass detentions, protests and two deaths.

I wrote about ICE's concentration camps and the tech bros' data centers as key elements of the economic infrastructure of fascism. And how politicians need to take the public's lead in opposing both.

Cardi B called out ICE at her show last night: “Bitch, if ICE come in here we’re gonna jump they asses. Bitch, I got some bear mace in the back. They ain’t taking my fans, bitch”

This kind of blatant hate is designed to scare women—particularly White women—into silence and submission. But fury is the better response here, because complicity is no protection from hate.

Imprison women for making men sympathetic to poors & coloreds!

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?" Because folks don't actually want to discuss AI, they want blind submission to the ideological structures that motivate the contemporary use cases and deployments of AI. They don't want to hear the concerns except to dismiss them out of hand.

There are *journalists* on here who will post something that is AI or photoshopped, and people will *tell them* and they will leave it up and continue having side conversations with the commenters who still think it’s real and the only conclusion I can draw is that they’re addicted to their numbers.

that’s it, i’ve finally taken my best photo of all time 😅 (this chubster is an unapologetic beggar so don’t feel bad for him) 🧪🌍 #bird #birb

On my flight today, a chatty lady said, “I can’t go to New York with all that’s going on over there.” And I said, “What? Free child care?” And she stopped talking to me.

Crypto transactions for human trafficking—both forced laborers in scam compounds and sex trafficking—grew by at least 85% in 2025. Now measured in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Almost all these deals are being carried out on Chinese-language Telegram channels. www.wired.com/story/crypto...

no, it simply isnt. People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

Hey, read this. lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...

“If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than AI. Authoritarian leaders & tech oligarchs are deploying AI systems to hollow out public institutions with an astonishing alacrity.”

Fascinating and deeply satisfying resolution to why adenovirus-based vaccines produced blood clots in 1 out of 200,000 people. Two factors interacted: a mutation in an antibody gene + weak similarities between a viral protein & a human blood-clotting protein = induced clotting cascade.

well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’

Fascists only need to win one election to destroy democracy, whereas democrats have to win every election to preserve it. That’s why fascists cannot be allowed into politics, why a tolerant society must never tolerate fascism or it will lose its tolerance. It’s the Popper Paradox and we’re living it

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Really powerful, really illuminating thread. Clear, precise, devastating.

The short story of the 21st century in the United States is that out of malice or cowardice or some combination of both, every presidency contributed to building and expanding a federal secret police of goons and thugs, despite clear warning and obvious abuses, until we got to this point.

SHUT THE FUCK UP

I guess this is going in my Social and Political Philosophy class as an example of whiteness leveraging our political structures for racist ends. Call your fucking senators.

Three stories that show what power without compassion looks like.

The world’s a mess. Here’s some good jazz. youtu.be/uJYKIEwhy6w?...

This is actually explicit Turner Diaries shit

feels like i should re-post this every few weeks

The God Bless America part of Bad Bunny’s halftime show when he starts listing all the countries makes feel so 🥹🥹🥹 every time I watch.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Tech executives have finally amassed their ultimate, long dreamed-of power: to summarily fire anyone who speaks ill of their desire to have sex with robots

There's a link between the AI disruption and the authoritarian political attacks on expertise. Highly educated white collar folks considered ourselves to be a powerful culture, on the basis of our expertise & credentials. But that's not where power comes from, and we're learning that the hard way.