Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

In a theory-building paper on a complex topic like double binds in time- and safety-critical situations, posting an inadequate summary is a disservice to our work, the literature, and earthquake survivors who generously offered their time for interviews. GenAI summaries perpetuate lazy research.

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT

No one wants to watch their PhD program be eliminated. It’s nearly the same story when it’s “innovated” away. Me & @seeshespeak.bsky.social in the Chronicle. Read it below ⬇️ www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...

Faculty opposed this change; current students opposed it; program alum fought it. It’s happening anyway, because it satisfies administrative priorities and flatters the CMU “brand”—not because it’s needed or wanted, and not because it guarantees better job outcomes for program graduates.

The LCS program at CMU was one of the oldest in the country, inspired by England’s Birmingham School ,and infused with the spirit of critique. Computers can do many things, but they are incapable of critique. Replacing human critics-in-training with computers keeps institutions safe from criticism

Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI. That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself. I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student). www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...

damn, I wish there was a way to produce interesting, high-quality journalism without this software that make things up

I wonder how many of the cars parked around NYPD precincts (both department and personal vehicles) are really being used for police work, and how many are just sort of littered about for very occasional use in these various petty grifts nypost.com/2025/12/06/u...

This is in fact the material point: “The essay not only fails to meet basic college requirements — such as citing its primary source, the Bible — but fundamentally missed the assignment’s objective,” Tranquill said.

Also lol "Glitter-glue-as-a-service (GGAAS)" I would actually pay a subscription for that.

"The third feature of SparkleTek season is that you can’t exactly opt out. [...] the media is always banging on about it, wherever you go. That means that folks who just aren’t that into glitter have a tough time." Excellent xmas satire from @dawnnafus.bsky.social :)

I wrote a little Christmas satire of tech hype and the environment called "SparkleTek." It's always a glitter revolution. Every. Damn. Time. medium.com/@dnafus/spar...

At UCLA + others: “Long before President Trump adopted the allegation of antisemitism as the central tool in his crusade against higher education, university administrators…have elevated even the flimsiest reports of harm to Jewish students as justification to tamp down on pro-Palestine activism.”

me: "I feel like we're too in the weeds" @aviya.bsky.social: "but I am all weeds :(" me: "HAHAHAHA honestly same"

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

Hi! Ich bin @hagenblix.bsky.social, ich bin Kognitions- und Sprachwissenschaftler. In den letzten Jahren hat mich vor allem das Verhältnis von Kognition und KI interessiert. Es wird ja gerne behauptet, dass KI ähnliche Dinge tue wie wir, oder sogar direkt wie unser Gehirn. 1/4

Canadian "sovereign AI" project: Look at this sovereign computing facility we're building in Canada! There will be so much sovereign Canadian compute here! Facility hardware specifications: Dell, Intel, Nvidia

"The ICLR 2026 team permitted authors and reviewers to use AI tools to polish text, generate experiment codes or analyse results, but mandated disclosure of such uses." Great example of how policies that allow *any* use of AI in writing and reviewing readily give way to wholesale fabrication.

Many creative workers have been saying this is unethical vapor since the beginning, and we’ve been told off and mocked. I welcome people catching up. A lot of money was burned to try and bully people to buy into gen AI.

Instead, in ten years 1/3 of academic budgets are gonna end up in the hands of five or six people in the world who own AI corporations. 

If universities would prioritize smaller classes and fewer bells and whistles like third-party technology contracts, a significantly bigger number of PhDs would find a position in higher education.

New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street

I have a new Jotwell review of Tejas N. Narechania & Scott Shenker's _How to Save the Internet_, a really nice law/CS collaboration on Internet architecture policy. article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... review: cyber.jotwell.com/the-edge-of-...

this is it! this is how you do a PhD. this is how I do my PhD. and all my research since. From "There are people who are wrong on the internet!" to "There are institutions doing bad things!" I think anger is undervalued in research, and really helps students develop a politics.

my number one piece of advice to people wanting to do a PhD is to pick a topic that makes you so. fucking. angry. truly incredible the level of motivation that unbridled rage can provide

If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…

If inflation comes up at the dinner table, don’t forget to draw attention to a deeper structural driver of high prices: corporate power. Much of the food industry is dominated by a few corporate giants with the power to keep prices high because they face little competition.

Happy Thanksgiving

Really good book so far!

A gentle reminder that if you might want to do a PhD with me at University of Texas at Austin's School of Information, the deadline is coming up December 1st. Mention me in your application so I'll see it :) ischool.utexas.edu/programs/phd

«Spätestens mit KI-Bildgeneratoren, die mühelos Werke in beliebigem Stil produzieren und so unkompliziert Artefakte mit bestimmten Vibes erzeugen können, ist die Zeit der Vibes abgelaufen.» Elias Kreuzmeier @krzmr.bsky.social im neuen Merkur @redaktionmerkur.bsky.social zur Frage: «Was waren Vibes»

Faculty searches at Harvard Kennedy School in applied microeconomics and in technology and public policy www.hks.harvard.edu/more/about/l...

Just got a review request email with this compensation model. Peer-review crisis solved!

"This work builds on our partnership with the American Federation of Teachers⁠ to support teacher-led innovation [and] our collaboration with Ministries of Education globally, including Estonia⁠ and Greece..." that's some very collaborative grave-digging

Join us for the 6th event in our Gender & Tech Online Talk Series, "Trans-inclusive tech governance," on Dec 2 at 11am EST, with the amazing @blairaf.com (Univ of Alberta) and @histoftech.bsky.social (@uvadatascience.bsky.social). Free & open to all: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/gender.... See u there

The Ivy League, where racist correspondence with a sex trafficker is not politically problematic, but celebrating the olive harvest is.

if you are considering submitting an application for this position, you still have just under 2 weeks to do so any and all suitable candidates, please apply. everyone else, pls share with your networks

UK and Norway won nature's lottery in 1970 - found oil/gas in the North Sea. UK squandered wealth, appeased corporations. Norway levied 78% tax, took direct stake in companies. Norway now has $1.8 trillion sovereign fund. UK has public finance crisis. UK Govts still appeasing corporations/rich.

hate Adobe, hate Acrobat, but… their new Acrobat advertisement song is pretty catchy, the one podcast ad I don't skip. #iykyk

A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.

If you haven't joined your local AAUP, now is a great time to do so.

A bad day for education....

A&M President to teach all classes related to race and gender. #Satire apnews.com/article/texa...

I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide. And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft. What does OpenAI offer the world?

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

also: this book is $20, but as this review states, worth much more. great book exploring a marxist political economy of AI without jargon. I plan to teach undergrads with this, and its also the first book I recommend when friends and family ask me how to think about AI.