Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

And there ya have it… Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.

He's doing foreign policy like a private equity firm.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

If you haven't read The Shock Doctrine (or it's been a minute since you have), now would be a good time to check it out

"...part of the crisis might very well be the response that people have had to AI, but no, I don’t think AI is the problem. I think the crisis is 25 years in the making and AI is the lens through which can finally see the problem for what it is."

Tech Bros really don't listen.........example 1 million

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

GenAI's capacity to reinforce paranoia combined with the antisocial corporate behaviour of its vendor lead me to suspect we shoulda buried the entire thing in the basement two years ago. but, but... innovation! 🫠

Yes it is curious. It’s because they lie. Someone on here mocked me a little when I (gently) explained that edtech’s entire use case in higherEd is to build a higher quality training dataset than the ones AI can scrape from the internet. And to labor bust. I don’t know how else to say it!

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

just saw the Trump post about Rob Reiner. how is nobody stopping this?

This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money. Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.

LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal. abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...

Absolutely chilling read (as a disinformation researcher): The systematic crackdown on disinformation scholars, newsrooms, factcheckers and NGO’s. All in the name of so-called free speech. By @jamesrball.com @theverge.com www.theverge.com/features/839...

cash bail is a blatant money grab, & an already-failed social experiment that Ontario should be able to reject flat out, based on its US record.

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

I spoke with The Globe and Mail about the lawsuit being over and the concerns that caused me to speak out. Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4e12d7e...

This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.

Tired: saying people today aren't reading capably Wired: sharing annotations & close readings publicly so interpretations are connected to evidence Inspired: sharing social media hatereadings of reactionary screeds as a way of enticing people to connect interpretations to evidence to consequences

periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides

Have you seen this? I like how it’s presented and really is interesting. www.authoritarian-stack.info

just in case anybody thought the 'AI everywhere' campaign was anything but a flagrant consolidation of power (also literally unconstitutional)

Honestly, this makes every org and institution that folded at the merest threat of an attack on trans rights just look as pathetic as they are. It does the same for everyone that excused them.

"It’s clear that schools have become a battleground for AI companies who desperately want to get their product ingrained into as many institutions as possible...they are rich sources of unique data that can be used to train models...& many of them have massive budgets & rarely ditch a service"

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

“Hype is seldom based on concrete promises,” explains Stewart. “It is, by design, a speculation boom: it generates a narrative of innovation and future value, but it is driven by logics of business and media, not education or the public good. Hype’s purpose is to generate investment.”

falalalala ahahahaaaaaagh!

The common good is a set of shared commitments. To the rule of law. To democracy. To tolerance. To equal opportunity. To upholding the truth. We cannot have a functioning society without these shared commitments.

This is terrifying. "[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them." ... "We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]

my campus news put out a piece on the 'AI hype awareness' work i've been doing lately, from a higher ed perspective. we need to understand that we are being sold a bail-out for billionaires, not an educational future. www.uwindsor.ca/news/2025-11...

Rededicating this poem in honor of the veterans of the Cloudflare outage

Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.

Preprint w/ (rapid) analysis of Grokipedia, showing it to be “highly derivative of Wikipedia”, but differing, often on controversial topics, in that Grokipedia includes content/cites from low quality (hyper partisan & conspiracy laden) sources like Stormfront & Infowars. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09685

Misinformation is harmless, they say, it's just a different POV they say ... "Canada has lost its measles elimination status, the Public Health Agency of Canada says. Since the fall of 2024, Canada has recorded more than 5k measles cases in 9 provinces and one territory." www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

We need this to penetrate public consciousness. Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.

Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers? For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

okay i feel attacked

online: it’s bad for us

"The question is whether Grokipedia can succeed not as an alternative to Wikipedia but as a means to delegitimize it. 'Flooding the zone with shit' ... doesn’t necessarily seek to replace institutions of collective knowledge generation; it seeks to deface them." indicator.media/p/grokipedia...

I tend to agree with this. If AI works like its cheerleaders claim/hope it will - replacing whole swathes of human labour - then they need a real economic plan for dealing with the consequences of that. This can only mean heavily redistributing the profits.

If you use Wikipedia, you might have noticed that it isn't cluttered with annoying ads. They depend entirely on donations to remain free & independent. Why not toss them a few bucks? donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php

grade 8. 1984. we were *briefly* allowed to play tapes in gym class. we'd never seen our gym teacher run until Darling Nikki came on. poor woman heard the word 'masturbate' & lit off across that court in a Chariots of Fire slow mo waddle/dash i can still see to this day. best gym class EVER.

"Tesla did not respond to CBC's questions about Nasser's experience. However, xAI provided what appeared to be an automated reply, stating, "Legacy media lies."" This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says www.cbc.ca/news/investi...

Teachers Are Using AI to Help Write IEPs. Advocates Have Concerns: Experts call for guardrails around the ethical, legal, and instructional concerns.

lemme get this straight: masked ICE 'agents' with zero ID or badge get to prioritize facial recognition tools - which are notoriously faulty, esp on faces that aren't white males - over people's actual IDs? to seize & disappear Americans? as policy? blink.