People don’t want to hear it but talls like Aaron Judge have an unfair advantage in sports. People say talls just want to play like everyone else—and look, however big they want to be in private is none of my business. But the fact is it’s unsafe for regular players to have to play with them. /s 🧐

The vast majority of the Irish public feel distress, sadness, anger, grief, fear, despair, guilt, frustration, and worry at nature loss and environmental decline. Why is this never reflected in actual government policy??? share.google/YVnm9xodOzuP...

Billionaires make up only 0.0003% of the U.S. population. They made 19% of federal campaign donations in 2024. THIS is why our politics are broken. We need to get big money out of politics NOW. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

For the same $6 trillion cost, you could crush child poverty with a child allowance and free childcare, fix unemployment insurance, do paid family, sick & medical leave, massively boost ACA subsidies, and eliminate child uninsurance with Medicare for Kids.

The Republican Party: Come for the Christian Nationalism, stay for the White Supremacy.

The war with Iran is costing taxpayers over $11K a second. Yeah a second. Hold on, Republicans are spending like drunken sailors on leave. They can't print the money fast enough. Military contractors can't stuff it in their pockets fast enough.

How much water do the data centres use? It’s a secret! Google goes to court not to tell you www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ4W... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260306-how... - podcast time: 7 min 35 sec

Deeply frustrated at this depiction of education research... ya'll this ain't it

Lying shamelessly is a defining feature for so many executives in today's tech industry. They learn from top dogs that this is the way to get ahead. Until we figure out how to publicly shame liars and hold them accountable, their lies will only grow.

James R. Ludlow Elementary School in North Philadelphia educates a substantial population of special-education students. And the learning environment for those students would be upturned by the school district’s recommendation to close Ludlow after next school year, teachers say.

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Time once again to share the little lesson from my Local Media class (drawing on the work of myriad other scholars!) about how this happened — and why it doesn’t have to be like this. The post office could + should be a vital institution for public connection — from postal mail to internet access

Daily reminder that calling ai dead labor and stolen labor is literal.

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

i think enthusiastic LLM use is mostly a stack of cognitive biases, unacknowledged plagiarism, and unmet needs in a trenchcoat but also my main objections aren't about them being bad at tasks so i don't care if you think they've gotten better at it

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

The model of unpaid academic labor required good jobs with ample unstructured time.

American working families are not going to get food or healthcare so Trump can buy more weapons for his stupid War against Iran.

israel just can’t help itself from bombing schools and hospitals. its genocidal leaders see civilians as legitimate targets.

Philadelphia—let's Stand Up For Science! AAUP President Todd Wolfson will speak at this rally that centers on scientists & academics standing up to ICE and aggressive immigration enforcement. Meet at the North Side of City Hall on March 7 at 11 a.m. Stand up for immigrants. Stand up to ICE.

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

Omg no, you’re not going to make Anthropic into “resistance tech.” Nope nope nope

Historian Carter G. Woodson showed that when systems are designed and governed without the people most affected, inequality is not a mistake – it is the expected result. Technological inequality, in this context, is not surprising. It is predictable, writes Danielle A. Davis Canty.

When I saw the news story about the girls school being bombed, one of my first thoughts was about how unlike American physics, Iranian physics is 50% women at the undergrad level and how some of those girls who had been murdered were going to be physicists one day

Banning Anthropic from government contracts is not about national security, it’s the opposite. No business should make that decision in the first place! CONGRESS must ban AI from being used in autonomous weapons and for domestic surveillance. This should be a topline issue for every nation.

“the Department of *War* displayed a deep respect for safety” according to the guy who is being sued eleventy times because his product tells children to kill themselves War is fundamentally unsafe and so is your piece of shit chatbot but COOL STORY BRO

How about Operation U.S. Congress FFS Impeach And Remove These Mongrels

Say it louder for those in the back!

Same OpenAI that's partnered w the American Federation of Teachers and whose models are used by popular ed-tech products like Khanmigo and MagicSchool. School admin/teachers who've ignored this company's disdain for people and planet need to explain why they keep doing business w these ghouls.

THIS.

What the actual fuck @harvard.edu

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

Repeat after me: being bombed to hell is not liberation or democracy. It is imperialism.

anthropic being one of the slightly less fulsome AI companies does not make them a 'good' AI company, please everyone get so fucking real

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation. “I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts

Mass horror at the killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti has DHS’s budget at stake. And yet in the past week, agents left a blind refugee to die alone. And lied about it. They pretended to be police looking for a missing child, to detain a college kid. And lied about it. What does this tell you?

'fraudulent amber alert' is the sort of thing that simply must have decades in prison attached to it because of how corrosive it is to one of the few remaining high-trust law enforcement/public safety mechanisms.

What could go wrong? "The smart speaker, the first device OpenAI will launch, is likely to be priced between $200 and $300 [and it] will have a camera, enabling it to take in information about its users and their surroundings, the report said."

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Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.

Kids: Study political science

Think about this. Armies of people out there, incentivized by a company hired by politicians to post AI-generated political messaging as if it’s their real, organic thought. Dystopian sci-fi? Nope. Reality. I’m partnering with @nationalobserver.com to share @rorywh.bsky.social’s huge story:

"This shameful attack on the St. John's faculty union betrays the university's history and most deeply-held Catholic values. It's outrageous that religious leaders are joining in the assaults on higher education that are happening nationwide." — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

kind of amazing how many people are still on X

Netflix's counsel did a jump for joy because now they have a smoking gun in the event that DOJ clumsily tries to block a merger to make daddy Trump happy