Again, this is right

Counter point— this is an old practice (I first saw it 30 years ago) that makes a ton of sense if you are traveling places where people might not be too happy with the USA. Also while it is on citizens not to be ugly Americans abroad, it’s not your job to be some kind of advocate for this country.

This. Brett is absolutely right.

Oh boy

OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization. We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition. Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

No notes

What does mimicking the ACLU from the 90s look like? Trying to win a bunch of lawsuits? I mean if that’s the plan, go for it?

AI driven enshitification: windows compy screen saver is Long Lake, CO. When you click on the “search web for more”, Bing with the AI assist assures me this is Long Lake, NY. It is not New York.

I really hope we are reaching rock bottom on the stupid callous nonsense.

Sad people unwilling to put in any efforts

@mattseybold.bsky.social justice finished the tale of today, great last episode. Thank you, awesome work.

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights

Very sad to hear Melvyn is retiring. As the article says, the best radio show period.

All levels of comment are great

We can set an example for the whole nation in this election.

You reap what you sow.

My take on one of the discourses of the day, which handily one cannot comment on: No one should have to clean toilets for a job, outside of hospitals and care facilities, maybe elementary schools. Everyone knows how to clean toilets because you (should do it at home). Clean them yourself at work.

I like my cat. She’s my cat if you don’t like my cat, that’s ok, I didn’t ask you to, she’s my cat.

Well, stick a fork in the Reds.

One of the miserable things about the moment is that American universities are really great. We built a peerless collection of institutions with many absolutely outstanding people. So many outstanding people. It really sucks to see the country turn on one of its great achievements.

I think the real problem here is Silverism, which is just another word for Hasbeenism and WhyArentIInvitedism.

Sen. Warren Daniel (R–NC, District 46) was caught trading stocks right on the Senate floor. Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.

AI in Higher Ed: What admins hope is happening is AI will let them fire a lot of faculty (it won’t). What’s really happening is that tech companies are siphoning more $$ from one of the regular public funds to private profits pipelines, but now at a moment when universities can ill afford it.

Excited to present this great essay by Ashanty Rosario, a talented young journalist who attends Newtown High School in Queens, about how she's experienced the arrival of AI in the classroom. "These programs have destroyed much of what tied us together as students."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... This is so silly. I think one of the things that is often missed with these statistics about student “self censoring” or turning in work that doesn’t reflect their personal politics is that this is OK. Not all college work is for student to express their opinions

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

Next he takes her out to the harbor in his homemade submarine?

This is all like some badly written comedy sketch.

This is really some shameful garbage. Was Nature’s reputation as a journal always just a cover for nonsense, or have they just suffered enshitification like everything else?

This is a stupid person’s idea of a smart way of doing history. The Italian guy quoted is the dummy here.

realistic Star Trek

Terms of course mostly to facilitate clarity in writing, but whatever. Boomer reactionaries…

Biden would use almost none of these words. Biden got bodied. Mamdani would use most of these words. Mamdani is cleaning up. Democratic consultants don't know anything. "Change your words to appeal to the people who are mad at the Cracker Barrel logo!" is just bad advice.

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

Look what you made me do, explained the secret police as they violently violated someone's rights.

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

My girls don’t want me to get any work done.

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

This paper this is based on imagines that something like 91% of the tasks historians do overlap with the tasks LLMs/GenAI supposedly do-- particularly collation and summation of preexisting information, as if history is just the record of things past passed on.

I really wonder wtf the end game is here, or what they think the end game is.

The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to enter the United States, a move that may make the process unaffordable for many.

History will remember… until they just rewrite the history Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Can AI help me feel better about putting my aging parent in a storage unit?!? How is it that almost every suggested use-case for AI is some kind of anti-human nightmare?

👇

@edzitron.com Hi Ed, have you done any reporting on this world bank paper with some superficially impressive results from a Nigerian AI tutor study? I read it, have some methodology doubts, at least… documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...

@mlb.com games that barely last two hours suck for those of us who buy tickets!

At the White Sox/Cubs game, and Kendall Coyne brought the #pwhl trophy out on the field and the Sox MCs totally failed to announce it properly. Sad nonsense, she’s a gold medal winner, to say nothing of her pro achievements (winning the damn league trophy). Bad show #whitesox