‘I’d rather go to an unprofessional but unwoke publisher: professionalism is for soy boys.’

ANTHROPIC IS USING AI TO FUCK UP OUR CLAIMS ABOUT THE USE OF AI???? okay I feel like we should sue again for this

Government by Karen: ‘I want to speak to the manager!’

More evidence B-schools are merely a way to legitimate/promote the pursuit of profit as a "career." They teach, they attract big bucks, they enable networking...but they DO NOT EDUCATE Honestly floored by the claim that this is a way to talk to the past. But what do I know. I'm just a historian

Here's an Ivy league business school prof cheerfully touting an LLM trained on Victorian era texts as a way to "talk to the past" and how this is for some reason better than an LLM role playing a Victorian NO. YOU ARE NOT 'TALKING TO THE PAST' IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM h/t @rheinze.myatproto.social

That UK government ever considers asserting its contractual rights against a major supplier is rare and welcome. And here, this is especially welcome. This will not be easy but it can be done, but it is good it is being seriously considered at all. www.ft.com/content/2d2b...

Love the manspread on the left, with the bowler hat strategically positioned.

Petition circulating in Europe demanding that the EU follow Spain’s lead in saying NO to Tr&mp & Netanyah’s war. Please sign if you live in Europe

Lovely story: Theaster Gates gives one of Dave the Potter's works to the descendants of the enslaved potter: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/26/t...

Anyone know someone who does family-history research professionally? I'm looking for someone to track down some people from the 1940s: expertise in UK/German post-war field. Please do cross-post.

I'd order the memoir, but this 50-word summary looks hard to be beat.

The Labour party never moved past the Reagen/Thatcher era, swallowing whole the idea that the government must be run 'like a business', instead of that the government should be run to improve the lives of its citizens.

Great piece by @mtltoula.bsky.social 🙂 I think I’m ready for a rewatch!

@338canada.bsky.social I'm a fan of both Les Chiffres & The Numbers, so this is sent with all respect. Avi Lewis' first name is pronounced UH'vee not Eh-VYE. The 'av' comme la première syllabe du mot « avion », & then 'vee', not 'vye'. Stress on the first syllable.

‘Let us ask not what AI can do for Oberlin students, but what Oberlin students can do for ourselves.’ OH MY HEART indeed.

If the stupid people can rob you blind, what does *cough* that make you?

The last thing you see before the universe explodes

Even when writing take-downs of the rich and evil, the New York Times can't bring itself to call a lie a lie.

Wide entrance for women in crinolines.

Utterly obsessed with Nicolas Sarkozy's prison writings. Trop émotif

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico jury finds Meta's platforms are harmful to children's mental health and imposes $375 million penalty.

You people are just screwing with me now.

Freelancers who work for universities, rejoice! Government to make it mandatory for companies to pay supplier invoices within 60 days, or face fines/interest of 8% plus the base rate.

I did not know this. And it is completely wonderful.

BREAKING: Mocking snotty little ignorant pissants is a human right.

This confirms all my prejudices, and I will not be critically evaluating its claims or evidence at this time.

Enough with the FALSE CHOICE between increasing infill density or increasing the urban tree canopy. BOTH are not only possible, but absolutely necessary. Good design is the key. The real design challenge isn’t building density or the space needed for trees… it’s the space we still surrender to cars.

people, I am tired of repeating myself. re-file skulls when you're done with them. that means back in the skull filing cabinet. not on the cabinet, not near the cabinet, in the cabinet. we have a skull filing cabinet for a reason

Czechia trolls the Russian Embassy in Prague by renaming the streets :) (By reddit user /nezvany_host)

the US is having people die in completely avoidable incidents because it is run by people who have made a wholesale abdication of any notion of doing anything right or the public good

🚨What you won't read in the British media: on X, journalist @twelves.bsky.social has looked at Matt Goodwin's new book, Suicide of a Nation, and found that is packed full of fake quotes and material that appears to have been made up by AI.

BREAKING: You improve people’s quality of life, and they vote for your party. Who knew?

Meanwhile, in Paris, the new left-wing mayor is giving his first media interview since he won *WHILE* he biking.

Hello, all. I'm writing this thread to ask for your help. I know it's a bit of a downer at the start of a sunny spring weekend, but please read to the end. (1/?)

Oh, adorbs. @npr.org seems to believe that the other 500+ in the Lords are a) elected; b) not male; and c) not white. Hey, @npr.org , don’t forget the 26 unelected almost entirely white male Church of England bishops also infesting the place! Theocracy, anyone?

And another BIG win for the left: LYON. This means the left has won the 3 biggest cities of the country. For months, polls showed the right heavily favored win in this city, but the Green incumbent (here, in an alliance with LFI) prevailed over the conservative challenger by about 6%.

THE BIG ONE: The left has kept Paris. Emmanuel Gregoire has won a 3-way runoff, beating conservative challenger Rachida Dati. Gregoire is from the center-left PS, the party of the retiring incumbent Anne Hidalgo (well known among US urbanists).

🗳️ Municipales à Nîmes: le RN battu, le communiste Vincent Bouget élu avec 41% des voix, selon des estimations.

🇨🇿 Nearly half a million people took to the streets in the Czech Republic to protest against the government of Andrej Babiš, which they accuse of deliberately softening its rhetoric toward Russia. The main message of the demonstrators was: “Babiš, we will not let you steal our future.”

🧵And we're off, ladies and gentlemen! It's "they're banning the word EASTER" week. Regular as clockwork... So here comes a history lesson and media lesson all rolled into one thread! PS, I can't believe there's no easter egg emoji? This was the best I could do - 🗿🥚 🤣 I digress! 1/19

Attn: @misterslang.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/josh...

And now, we interrupt this programme to bring you an announcement from the ‘Fuck your feelings’ crowd:

‘How to prove Lee Anderson is a racist’? We don’t have to prove it: Lee Anderson has proved it. By doing racist shit.

Wild story. A woman has children by two sperm donors, who turn out to have fathered 600+ children between them &—are themselves father & son. Oh, kicker, she didn’t go to a formal donation place, so it’s referred to as an ‘artisanal donation’. Handmade, I guess.

Fabulous Liz Lapatto piece on why Silicone Valley mega-titans are actually AI’s first victims. archive.ph/08PLp

Who among us?

Show someone who absolutely rocks a hat (who isn’t Indiana Jones).

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