Vote with your dollars.

Bless the @nplusonemag.com editors for coining the term "a single-use plastic of the mind" to describe AI www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

I would just like to point out that this is a spectacular choice of cover image for this story.

AI is the wrong tool to tackle complex societal & systemic problems. AI4SG is more about PR victories, boosting AI adoption (regardless of merit/usefulness) & laundering accountability for harmful tech, extractive practices, abetting atrocities. yours truly www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/ai-...

Can’t stop thinking of this @sarahkendzior.bsky.social essay. So many truths. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-ti...

Colleges and universities are going way too soft on policing AI, Tyler Austin Harper argues. “Institutions of higher learning can abandon their centuries-long educational project,” he writes. “Or they can fight.” https://theatln.tc/C2g5ZCSZ

We. Must. Kill. Planet.

I’d give anything to rid society, culture, and our minds of this toxic poison.

Just a gentle reminder that generative AI is a technology that is capable of doing little more than very efficiently averaging the past creative work of humans. It literally can't discover things that are beyond the capability of the humans it plagiarised from.

Not only is this coming for you, it is here and we are collectively behind in preparing.

Violence begets violence and helps fuel authoritarianism. Nothing comes from violence except pain and fear, and I don’t give a shit what side you’re on. I don’t align with any of that guy’s abhorrent views. I don’t condone any act of violence. And I am scared for what’s coming…

I agree. But, to be fair, everything is making everything worse.

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"Why on earth would we abandon institutions that have genuinely made America great? ... Why would we put at risk laboratories that are working to cure cancers or perfecting artificial limbs or exploring deep space or testing the limits of artificial intelligence?"

You can’t write this shit.

The Gorilla Channel was real.

More like Tracy Letts me know it’s quality viewing!

Team Deluzio was honored to celebrate some amazing Western PA history this week. Proud to attend a ceremony to put up a new historical marker for the anniversary of the MLB's first all-minority lineup from the ’71 Bucs. [1/2]

Hummingbird.

AI is the clearest example of the way white supremacist capitalism extracts the talent, labor, and life out of millions of people for the enrichment and psychological enrapturement of a few. There is a pleasure there in saying you've beaten those with a talent you never had and never worked to earn.

Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business

I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Whenever I’m facing a moral dilemma, I think of the advice my father gave me. “Never leave a paper trail,” he’d say, tapping the glass partition between us for emphasis.

This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Taco gives, and the Taco takes away.

someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

"We all are going to die" seems to be the M.O. of this administration. Weed out the weak!

The first principle of the regime is that the leader is always right. The second is white supremacy. Political analysis fails if it doesn't start here.

Here I stand consumed by flowers (and some weeds, don’t look too closely).

Something good can’t hurt… garden updates… and a beautiful buck. I’ve named him Buck Showalter.

It is impossible to state how utterly deranged and dangerous this man is. I know that fascism always falls in the end, but my God are so, so many going to die before that happens.

I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.

There is a pig foraging along 64 west between Crozet and Charlottesville. Heads up if you’re driving that way—animal control has been alerted.

Revisiting @danielbachman.bsky.social's Tiny Desk all the way back from 2012. So young! Such a hurricane of a player! Still think this version of "Honeysuckle Reel" is his best. youtu.be/LKvFhPF0xYA?...

Tens of thousands of old oil wells still dot Pennsylvania’s landscape. The state plugged more orphan wells in two years than in the entire decade before – but 27,000+ still need attention.

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

I wish the AI discourse was centered around groundwater depletion & fracked methane gas powering it. Were on the edge of a 2C+ hothouse Earth scenario. Methane is up to 80% worse for global heating than CO2. Lets get real, this is going to quicken the deaths of billions of humans/non human lives.

The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off

Everyone involved needs to stand up. The stakes are too high.

I’m careful about what I post here because I know my teenager reads it sometimes. I hope they will be aware—so many of my students aren’t, yet—but not overwhelmed. Not defeated. Fascism is speeding up. But kiddo, it’s bound to lose. It always has.

If you're looking for a tipping point to conclude "OK, the U.S. is now authoritarian," this seems like it.

Weeks and months later, I am still thinking about Andor. We will surely rewatch it within a year. It’s just such a great parallel to current moment, and it’s Star Wars (best it’s ever been) and I am perpetually 12. But it’s a show about fascism that happens to be set in Star Wars universe.

Hot sauces.

I have harvested more hot peppers.

Essay | While science and engineering are about finding solutions to your problems, the humanities are about finding problems with your solutions.