Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

Researcher produces 100+ papers on "AI" in a year and what's worse than the shonky vibe scholarship and "slop flood" this represents is that he's doing it all as boss of an edtech company called Algoverse charging students $$thousands to do the actual work www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I think what must fundamentally sink any Pinker-style dogma of progress is the slightest examination of the society that has elevated it

censorship by AI-powered word search is significantly less intelligent and nuanced than the early modern church managed

the only reason i’m not completely losing my mind over what has happened at OU is because of what has already been happening at public K-12 schools for years they’ve *been* purging trans folks from academia since the rise of LibsOfTikTok you’re only paying attention now because of a news cycle

Jersey City! There are a couple more hours to vote for Solomon!

Organizers believe that Texas State University professor Tom Alter was fired under pressure from far-right Texas legislators and officials who see his case as a precedent for sweeping academic purges, writes David Finkel labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

Folks have BEEEEEEN saying this. No argument against anymore... eugenics at every turn

Leavitt confirms the Trump administration is only letting in white people

Air pollution from fossil fuels kills 200,000 to 350,000 Americans. Every year.

The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.

Curtailment of faculty authority in governing higher education institutions today will not only undermine professional freedoms--it will spoil the fruits of those freedoms: an independent, intellectually rigorous, and incorruptible education for future generations -- Afshan Jafar (Conn AAUP)

You mean this OpenAI?

Edtech has absolutely turned the language of regulation to its own advantage and maximization of opportunities. Also it is depressing that actual people utter words in this way now.

Once again, you now live in a country where there are two classes of citizenship, & those of us who hold the second class variety can apparently lose ours if we do not show good behavior to Dear Leader & the far right authoritarian party.

spanish flu was 1918........ the great wall street crash was 1929........... very cool stuff, history, very cool and not stressful

It was the evening before Thanksgiving...and EPA dropped a final rule granting oil & gas companies more than a year to comply with some Biden-era mandates to replace leaky equipment & routinely monitor for escaped methane. Story w/gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I'm not convinced that this is an issue that will win votes. I agree that it's legally and constitutionally an important issue, but I think voters want to see a plan to make their day to day personal lives easier

Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Lo and behold, reveries of the breakfast world

Russian asset Ron Johnson says there’s no money to give Americans $2K inflation checks. But there is money for a despot’s $250M ballroom and enough to give $40B to Argentina’s dictator. I’ll always remember Ron paying Putin a visit in Moscow on July 4th weekend in 2018.

“TikTok’s reliance on attention-grabbing short-form video content, coupled with apps like Sora 2, has made it far easier for non-Black creators and bot accounts to adopt racialized stereotypical Black personas using deepfakes.”

@schumer.senate.gov but they promised, right Chuck, & they always follow through with their promises…

Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.

University among nation’s first institutions to partner with serial arsonist on fire safety programs.

This is how to write an environmental news headline in the Trump era

Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water. What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains. And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.

"The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report all products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.

yes! wow

"Amazon" coffee from one of the world's most destructive corporations ... That's where we are, people ...

Scale/extract, repeat

Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.* The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.

Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the trafficking of humans for sex. “You could incur 16 violations and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended" time.com/7336204/meta...

Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:

Even if you don't want to use the Expensive Mistake Generator, Big Tech will use it on your behalf, whip up some unsolicited slop, and shunt it onto your timeline.

these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors

No matter how much you capitulate it’ll never be enough to get them to leave you alone

Socialism is cool now.

Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared. So did the air. That's because fossil fuels are massively polluting. Ridership jumped, people cut back on driving and, over the summer, the city extended the program another year. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

Actual originalism

"The goal was to shift surveillance from strictly utilitarian into something residents could feel proud of...the playful, abstract shapes invite a second look and spark curiosity and engagement with your environment instead of dread." cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual & I am going to explode

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

they are dismantling the department of education, full stop www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

NEW: The White House intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation. “It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said. www.propublica.org/article/andr...

This is a statement I received from a Epstein survivor who is a Jane Doe. Share it widely.

Schools in England have become testing sites for AI. I know it's common to say education is now an experimental lab for AI, but in England it's more methodologically true. 3 examples of escalating seriousness and an explanation coming up 🧵

FAARRRRRRR TOO MUCH of this is happening right now. Teachers, dont buy the snake oil thats colonizing our water, land and electricity