Facing a proposed $1.2-billion fine and severe medical research grant cuts at UCLA, the University of California has not gone head-to-head with Trump in court. So on Tuesday, groups representing more than 100,000 of its employees did. www.latimes.com/california/s...

OpenAI is anything but “open”—very early on, it left behind that marketing tag to become increasingly closed, elitist, and inherently anti-democratic. Empire of AI had a rather different subtitle in its UK edition: “Inside the reckless race of total domination.”

I got to share a stage with the incomparable Karen Hao this morning and she is The Truth in every way. ♥️

the way someone was like “let’s invent an AI necklace that records and listens to your convos and berates you for said convos” when we have these horrific stories of chatbots influencing self harm is just expanding my understanding of hell

I'm proud to share a new project that @alexreisner.bsky.social and I launched at @theatlantic.com today! It's called AI Watchdog, and it's our new home for all of the investigations into training data sets, such as LibGen, Books3, and OpenSubtitles. www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...

These dangerous, faulty, copyright infringing, psychosis-inducing consumer products need to be made illegal now.

While reading and retention go more slowly for me nowadays... Last completed: "How to Stand Up to A Dictator", Maria Ressa. Right now, I'm rereading @safiyanoble.bsky.social 's "Algorithms of Oppression" because it is still relevant, even today.

Excited to announce that I am following in the footsteps of my mentors @safiyanoble.bsky.social and @kishonna.bsky.social as the 2025 keynote speaker for the Digital Library Federation at CLIR Forum in Denver! forum2025.diglib.org/speakers/

Solidarity with pro-worker champion Rep. Nicole Collier – we've got your back! 🔥 #txlege

Attention chumps: If you, despite all our dire warnings, decided to put your newsletter on Substack, the untrustworthy asses who run the company just did what we all knew they would, and made it impossible to take your subscribers with you if you want to leave. support.substack.com/hc/en-us/art...

Republicans are holding her And Dems let her sit in there alone

Jackson, Mississippi, a primarily black city and the state’s capital, hasn’t had a proper running water treatment facility since late August of 2022.

If you think cuts to funding science is somehow caught up in the “culture wars that have nothing to do with science,” you are missing the point. The entire project of education as a public good is under threat, and a threat to one university is a threat to all. We have to stand together #UCLAResist

The absurdity continues. UCLA should counter sue the Administration for not rooting out antisemitism among its supporters.

In other mob boss fascist move, Trump is now trying to extort UCLA for $1B, force it to adopt his racist, transphobic, xenophobic policies & accept a “monitor” to control the university. Hard no. UCLA is a California public university subject to CA law & built on CA values. The answer is no.

Where is @governor.ca.gov on protecting UCLA from federal extortion and unprecedented overreach?

The media needs to stop calling these “settlements.” They are extortion payments. UCLA did not do any damage to the federal government it doesn’t have to “settle” shit.

NEW: UCLA should not bend “on their knees” to Trump in negotiations, Newsom says, chiding Columbia and Brown deals www.latimes.com/california/s...

BREAKING: The Trump administration is seeking $1 billion+ from the University of California to restore UCLA's frozen federal funding. The payout would far exceed any made by universities so far. UC has not agreed to it, sources say. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Local reporting uncovered Amazon was behind the water-guzzling data center slated for the desert. Residents fought against the data center. Today, the city council unanimously voted against Project Blue. If you care about local journalism that drives impact, consider donating to @azluminaria.org!

I would also like to remind folks that OpenAI wrote a paper in which they prompted GPT-4 on which jobs they thought would be most exposed to automation. They validated it by comparing it to responses that people who worked OpenAI gave to the same question. arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130

The ai hot mic problem.

911

IMHO, it’s worth noticing how these dweebs are now more openly inserting their eugenicist talking points into the hype for their tech. In this instance saying people will be at a “cognitive disadvantage” if they don’t use his tech. Dude what.

what's that @hypervisible.bsky.social quote about how every future envisioned by a tech company is worse than the last?

BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.

Very cool how so many unis are adopting ChatGPT Edu this fall and that it’s also being integrated into Canvas.

“We haven’t figured that out yet” 💀 (Also please don’t use it as your therapist)

We've lost an icon. #RIP Brandi Collins-Dexter uccmediajustice.org/brandi-colli... thank you for all you did. #MediaJustice #RIP

Brandi was one of the greats and we will miss her dearly. www.freepress.net/blog/remembe...

Black women are the most degreed & credentialed subsection of the US population. If meritocracy existed under western capitalism their pay would be reflective of that.

There is no ethical AI. The tech is based on stolen intellectual property, anti-solidarity between workers, labor exploitation, environmental injustice, climate destabilization, structural racism, and gender inequalities.

@moderation.bsky.app suspended our director, Evan Greer's Bluesky account for speaking out about an awful experience from a transphobic bigot...is @bsky.app on the way to becoming the next Twitter/X ? Re-skeet + demand Bluesky unsuspend her account!

Carla Hayden, the ex-Librarian of Congress who was fired by Trump, has a new role as senior fellow with the Mellon Foundation

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Amplifying the voice of our friend and colleague, @brandicd.bsky.social tonight, in case you don’t know her work and contributions ♥️

The other week, I read something Brandi Collins-Dexter wrote for the Disinfo Defense League; I’m paraphrasing, but it was like, “One day, the lesser of two evils won’t be a good enough argument.”

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Join us next week to talk about THE #AI CON! Alex Hanna unpacks the myths and marketing that surround today’s #AI discourse, and @milamiceli.bsky.social‬ brings in critical insights from @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social‬ about the invisible labor behind AI systems. June 30, 6pm 👉 buff.ly/47fMwFf

NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill" On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

Trump's attacks on protesters show he will go to any lengths to crack down on dissent. Experts we spoke with tell us what we need to do to fight back. https://www.freepress.net/blog/trumps-attacks-protesters-los-angeles-show-need-protect-free-speech

Signal boosting this important information again. Stay safe ya’ll ♥️

UPDATE: 2 incredible people gave me $120, which leaves only $264!! My GoFundMe is 82% complete, Bluesky fam!! This = so close to completion, and so close to the end of the day. Can you help me out?? gofund.me/962358a4 💸💞

The Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-Defense newrepublic.com/article/1963... via @newrepublic.com

LA will win this fight against ICE by continuing to be itself. LA already knows who the cops are. LA already knows how to deal with them. And no one ever wins a culture war against LA. No one ever has. No one ever will. Just keep being you LA. ♥️

sending in the Marines is a declaration of war against the population of this country. Full stop.

NEW: Hegseth is deploying Marines against U.S. citizens. Mayor Bass says to know your rights :

“This is a chilling statement. Even if it were a joke, it was clearly designed to make the public afraid to exercise its First Amendment rights to protest and to hold government officials, including LAPD officers, accountable for their actions.”