A lot of very smart people are predicting a reversion to the mean in US/Iranian relations at the conclusion of this…..crisis I guess. But, we just martyred the current Supreme Leader’s father and wife. We also bombed an elementary school and made the skies above Tehran rain oil.

“…about the 1873 massacre in Colfax, La., where dozens of Black men were murdered by a mob of former Confederates and Ku Klux Klan members. ChatGPT had deemed it “D.E.I.” Mr. Fox said he agreed. “Because it focuses on exclusively anti-Black violence, which is a race,” he said.”

As this was happening you were told shoplifting and home invasions were grave threats you needed to abandon any pretense of sympathy to address.

The sky is not falling; high-quality platforms (Prolific, Verasight, CR Connect) have low rates of apparent bots. osf.io/preprints/ps... But also not zero; vigilance is very much needed!

Absolutely chilling story

VACCINATE YOUR DAMN KIDS

NEW: The bad news about international-student enrollments at American colleges just got worse. An exclusive @chronicle.com analysis of just-released State Department data shows new visa issuances in the summer of 2025 dropped by more than a third. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI." But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined. They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.

Hahaha unfortunately consumers paid for like almost all of it in higher prices and they ain't getting a refund

David Brooks gives his first talk in his new role at Yale and, just as one would hope, it’s a bathos-soaked banger. yaledailynews.com/articles/dav...

The financialization of everything is all that is left. Which is why we end up with the totally insane situation that people are betting on whether world leaders are going to get killed, or that a nuke will drop this year Watch, subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=paHM...

Oh, cool. The guy who refuses to accept the obvious utility and safety of proven medical treatments is now using this prove-a-negative-style gimmick to bigfoot companies.

One of my favorite little dynamics of working at a destitute university that is also preaching the gospel of AI at every turn is it doesn't pay for any AI availability except for shitty copilot so presumably it's all on faculty, staff, and students to pay for the real stuff

i know we're getting a war powers vote. there are plenty of people *in congress* who want congress to exist and exert its powers. but i think the fact that the vote will eventually happen, days into the war rather than before it, sort of gets the larger point.

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

prediction markets' depravity economy is the culmination of deregulation and kleptocracy, lobbying to legalize sports gambling, the collapse of advertising markets, hustlebro culture, crypto, memestocks, ai bubble ... venn diagram of horrible: www.404media.co/with-iran-wa...

Hooo boy. There we go. It was about domestic surveillance after all.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

This turns 23 next month theonion.com/this-war-wil...

EXCLUSIVE: A draft executive order that would allow Trump to take unprecedented control over federal elections is reportedly being circulated with the White House. Democracy Docket obtained a copy. Read the full, 17-page order below👇

A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.

I can’t help but remember that an attempted regime change in Tehran was like the fantasy position of the fringiest group in Dick Cheney’s Circle 20 years ago

“Since I think this issue deserves a little more thoughtfulness than what we can provide at 3:43 in the morning and only 30 seconds of discussion on the bill, I vote no.” story via @jerodmacevoy.com

Budget models are not neutral admin objects. I tell everyone that the flow of resources reflects your institutional priorities. Changes in budget models are changes in institutional priorities. For example, modeling majors at the college level versus department level is a (deliberate) choice.

KERNEN: Casey Means founded a wellness business. She didn't really dispute claims linking vaccines w/ autism. Is she the best person for surgeon general? MAKARY: She talks about the micro biome & the importance of natural light exposure for kids instead of just medicating them. We need fresh ideas

the complete lack of backbone from numerous - though not all - academic institutions has been one of the biggest disappointments of the Trump 2 era.

You're telling me that word association tools trained on internet comments don't know how to deescalate? www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

Grateful that @theunpopulist.net gave me full sail on the history of Grant during the constitutional crisis:

NEW: Meta’s director of AI safety, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes...

Coffee-growing countries becoming too hot to cultivate beans, analysis finds. Five countries responsible for 75% of world’s coffee supply record average of 57 extra days of coffee-harming heat a year www.theguardian.com/environment/...

as far as i can tell “bio hacking” is just a goofy term for giving yourself some combination of an eating disorder and a drug addiction

as we continue to celebrate 40 years of Zelda i’d like to say that i sincerely love the existence of the official timeline. Nintendo got backed into a corner by forum nerds and said “oh you want a real timeline? here’s some shit that’s way more stupid than you expected”

Thousand potential confounders etc but also I'm not sure it's like helping

the glorious constitutional principle of "the president can't fuck with Supreme Court justices' investment portfolios" stands strong

Computer news: no computer for you. Computer is a service now it’s a chatbot that you gave to ask nicely of, just like no more searching for things on your own on Internet or downloading your own files Now it’s all an app And it’s your friend. And you owe us money for this now and no birds alive

We've finally come full circle. People are longing for less chatter dialogue in their games by referencing ocarina, a game that people consistently complained about Navi being too talkative to the point of it being a meme for 20 odd years.

It *literally* does. Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.

"isn't it great that you can just click a button to design a whole course and not even have to take a look at it?" I DON'T KNOW DARREN! IS IT GREAT? IS IT??

Just found five AI-generated, completely fraudulent submissions to the journal that I edit. Submitted rapid-fire by a gmail address affiliated with researcher who does not exist. The era of AI slop in academic journals is here, right now. The fraudsters will only get better from here.

"The company considers distillation to be intellectual property theft, it said" AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAG,LMAO

Guy's Entire Job Just Asking People If They Have Time For A Quick Chat https://theonion.com/guys-entire-job-just-asking-people-if-they-have-time-fo-1819574667/

New from 404 Media: we've confirmed cops are buying access to GeoSpy, an AI that can geolocate photos in seconds. Doesn't use metadata, but clues in the photo like soil, architecture, to pinpoint where social media photos taken. Being used in investigations www.404media.co/cops-are-buy...

Freedom of speech and so on. Time for an open letter, etc. This is all the fault of the campus left sort of thing.

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet: www.404media.co/with-ring-am...