HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

Colleges need to stop trying to teach students how to use AI. Even in the theoretical use cases, genAI requires the expertise to know the process and outcome WITHOUT IT to be able to use it for shortcuts and then THOROUGHLY vet the product. EXPERTISE. Students don't have that, they're students.

I blocked some friends on instagram tonight b/c they found it amusing to repost some AI slop they “generated“. This stuff is built with stolen material, is bad for the environment, bad for your brain, and feeds into an authoritarian surveillance system. AI IS BAD! DON’T USE IT! I will block you.

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

From Tuesday, February 17 –Friday, February 20, 2026, we will unite with our the union siblings at Teamsters Local 2010 to SHUT DOWN ALL 22 CSU CAMPUSES! Visit https://www.calfac.org/resources/cfa-with-teamsters/ and contact your local campus CFA chapters.

Speed limiters for cars do not necessarily mean more surveillance but for the record it is literally inhumane to think a three ton lethal metal box deserves more privacy about its location than a human tapping into a transit system

I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud

I found out that unfortunately she passed yesterday afternoon. I’m heartbroken. Thanks for being an excellent friend, Sherri. You are so loved.

My friend recently entered hospice at home and I am spinning a bit. I thought we would have more time. We were just texting this past weekend and now she’s very weak. It’s hard.

This has been my thinking as well!

Good morning West Coast darlings! We are raising funds today for rent relief for families in East St Paul, MN who have been impacted by the federal government's siege there. We have a brand new, limited edition shirt available TODAY ONLY for it. bikinikill.bandcamp.com/merch/limite...

Politicians in California on the climate:

I just signed and you should, too!

The GOP has offered nothing this century except for catastrophic wars. No healthcare plan; no re-industrialization. Now they're losing their only issue, immigration, as people see the violence and havoc that comes with mass deportations.

A dear friend has entered hospice at home and I am sad but also worried about supporting their spouse. Hug your loved ones, all. Cancer can fuck right off the bat

Goodnight, friends. Hug the ones you love. I love you.

That’s not true… he’s stood for sweeping homeless camps, and platforming bigots, and against trans rights. What do you mean?

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

If I had even a fraction of Bezos's money I would fund so much unprofitable shit and let it absolutely rip.

I’m gonna name it. This isn’t a case of “legitimately differing opinions.” It is blatant professorial malpractice to adopt/allow genAI (or really *any* new edtech) just b/c we are told that we must. Especially in the humanities classroom, the only “ethical use” or reasonable stance is to keep it out

It is exhausting to sit in meetings a/b “AI” & to have colleagues who’ve got nothing but logical-fallacy-laden big tech pro-AI talking points basically project on you their own laziness & malpractice. Care to see my no-genAI policy, bud? It’s got dozens of carefully considered rationales & footnotes

I just had the best meeting with a grad student and it has lifted my spirits! What a delightful reminder that there are so many people trying to do good and make this world a better place.

Sick of this dystopian tech overlord men with no panache and bad haircuts enabling a pants shitting president and bald hitler wannabe trying to undo things that can’t be undone ass reality we are living. They are so tedious and venal. It’s galling.

This family's blood is on the hands of the LA City Council and former Mayor Eric Garcetti. There's just no other way to put it.

Anyway friendly reminder that Good Omens going forward is being piloted by the Terry Pratchett estate, run by Rob Wilkins, no money from merch is going towards That Man, and Terry wrote 70% of the originally book

The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires. Anyone can sign the petition — link below!

Your friends who are sex assault survivors are having a rough week.

PSA if you have a 9-12 age kid…our pediatrician recommended getting HPV vaccine this year rather than wait because insurance companies promised to cover the vaccine at least through 2026 but no guarantee after & it’s one of the more expensive vaccines. It’s a two-shot series 6 months apart.

It’s pretty fucking wild that the DOJ is releasing files that include accusations that the President of the United States raped underage girls, to distract from the fact that the DOJ is covering up murders of US citizens by their own government.

For The Ringer, I wrote about how amazing it was that the brilliant Catherine O'Hara finally became a superstar in her 60s, and how sad it is that she was taken from us just when we had all finally begun to appreciate her:

Timeline cleanse: a Santa Cruz Island Fox yawns in the grass that isn't really that tall, he's just that small #mammals

“To the administration and the perpetrators responsible, you have awakened the most overworked, abused, under-appreciated, and organized workforce…” -San Diego vigil for Alex Pretti organized by VA nurses

I am so tired of all the things that we said would happen, and were routinely ignored or dismissed by tech bros and neoliberals for saying would happen, continuing to happen, in exactly the way that we said they would happen.

Dear mormon friends and family friendly reminder that the LDS church could do this at any time and chooses not to and can the church be "the true church" if it is never on the right side of history not even one time? Anyway.

elected democrats should probably internalize that ice now exists to attempt to prevent democrats from being elected

I know that there is a lot going on right now, but please send good thoughts to our dog Gracie tomorrow. She’s only 7, but has a mast cell tumor on her leg that is getting removed tomorrow. #FuckCancer

Kristi Noem should get sent to a nice farm upstate where there is lots of room for her to run and play with other Kristi Noems

A good news story: a year old male mountain lion walking around a San Francisco neighborhood was successful tranquilized and relocated to wilderness, in part because the neighborhood helped out and had the right attitude.

Thinking back, we probably should not have elected the horrifying nazi pedophile with severe dementia to be president of the United States

OH: If not Nazi, why Nazi shaped?

This afternoon has been spent watching the birds and the trees from my back porch. I also called two loved ones and checked in on them. Take good care, all. Remember to rest and look after yourself.

it's boring as hell but data governance and regulation needs to be a central plank of Reconstruction 2

Made my damn calls to my damn local politicians. Enough!

Need to print this out and carry copies around with me.

Right wing billionaires now control TikTok. It's unsafe.

You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer. In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.

There will always be enough votes to beat us but never to feed us. There will always be enough votes to spy on us but never to give us healthcare. There will always be enough votes to pay for prisons but never tuition. The parties aren’t the same but at the end of the day whoever wins, we lose