Another reminder that people around the world risk their lives for liberties that many Americans seem ready to surrender without a fight or even a lawsuit. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

One of the things AI art trips up is humility. I watch humans grapple with the uncertain misery of making art, exposing the vulnerability of showing it. It’s a constant struggle. When the AI does it, your whole self just ain’t out there. You gotta put something on the line.

In het nos journaal net gaat het alleen over het geweld. Geen woord over het uitgedragen gedachtegoed, de vlaggen, de leuzen die ermee gepaard gingen en die dat geweld zoveel zorgelijker maken. Dat weglaten is echt kwalijk.

Het is weer zondag! Met deze week van alles over fun, maar wat is dat nu eigenlijk precies? Ook tips voor het leven zonder smartphone zonder neanderthaler genoemd te worden, en een paar woordjes over de mislukte demo van de Meta-bril.

this exists it is called thinking

nothing says "we care about your privacy" more than sharing your data with 222 partners

Kevin Coughlin, a self-described small business owner who's running for Ohio’s 13th Congressional seat, promises to put workers and families first. “Never politicians, lobbyists, or special interests.” What Coughlin doesn’t say is that the “small business” he touts was in fact a lobbying firm.

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

@zdnet.bsky.social thanks for writing this! > The authors urge educational leaders to act "to help us collectively turn back the tide of garbage software, which fuels harmful tropes and false frames to obtain market penetration and increase technological dependency." www.zdnet.com/article/stud...

It's not just the authoritarianism — it's how shameless, how *gleeful* this administration is about it

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Oh, you know the ones.

Hi @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, I just finished reading the pre-print. You really moved my needle! I realize I buying into the AI-is-inevitable-hype is wrong. We need to teach students how to be reliable, responsible and honest, which means putting a halt to AI usage in academia.

I really can’t tell anymore if they believe the things that they are saying or this is all just a weird performancebut anyway here’s david sacks calling paul graham a leftist

Het AI nieuws van week 37! Met onder andere: het einde van de "zoek"machine, AI ja of nee, het denken van Silicon Valley en vrouwenthrillers, en de uiterst schattige Curl-crested Aracari!

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer. New York Times tomorrow

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

every Tesla "innovation" turns out to be style-over-substance bullshit that has no place in a product class where peoples lives and livelihoods depend on safety and reliability

it's stunning what a rare and radical statement this is defector.com/five-years-o...

rich guys are gonna manufacture a doomsday because they want to use their apocalypse bunkers, is what i'm hearing

'Oh, you mean the number has soared/increased from 23% in March 2020 to 24% in September 2025?' yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.

What an exhausting time to be literate.

"For academia, AI is part of a techno-utopian attack on the entire system. It’s not great new technology designed to help us avoid chores. As one of their sources writes, “When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning.”"

No clear answers on whether mommy disappeared entirely behind hands during game of peekaboo Mommy's face was not visible from behind hands, and experts say they can't be sure

Good questions. One might add: Why are the leaders of our most important research universities almost completely absent from the public square as this existential assault on science, research, & higher education accelerates? Why do they think silence & lawsuits is enough? bsky.app/profile/mcop...

the first sentence is a Journey

Impeccable advice.

Ah I see this is where the bar is now, at "not destroy"

Het is zondag. Er is weer een nieuwsbrief! Waar zijn de vrouwen in de wetenschap? Die vraag leidde tot 40 jaar onderzoek en drie boeken. UvA heeft een eigen AI, goed idee of niet? Wat doet een leraar, wat doet een programmeur? Een korte geschiedenis van universiteitsbestuur in Nederland.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.

Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"

You guys see where this is going? Right?

✨📄 New blog post: An Interview with Felienne Hermans 📄✨ We talked with @felienne.bsky.social about her journey into #programming, creating Hedy, challenges + hopes for the #Python ecosystem, and what she’s most excited for at #PyConUK2025 🐍💜 📄👉 buff.ly/5tswnrb #SoftwareEngineering #manchester

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

New plan: we get Obama to demand the death certificate

Waarom is het eigenlijk ouderwets om lekker op papier te schrijven? Hoe moet het internet van de toekomst eruit zien? En wie mag er bepalen wat literatuur is? Ook deze nieuwsbrief zit weer bomvol manieren om na te denken over hoe de (digitale) wereld van morgen eruit zou moeten zien!

I have had this song stuck in my head for three days. I’m hoping by posting it here I’ll pass along the ear virus to you. Catchy AF.

70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem. Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

This article just reminded me of this old tweet