My child would have received an #AI tool in school along with all classmates, designed “to learn how to write better”. We did not give the permission. The app is called Fello Fish and infantilises pupils and their capabilities. We have renamed it F*ckFish or, alternatively, FlopFish. Poor kids.

Through an academic portfolio review, the university evaluated 107 programs across eight colleges and identified 44 programs for discontinuation. #HigherEd

Norway sold 12 petrol cars in February 2026. Out of 7,272 new passenger car registrations, 98% were fully electric. Just 67 diesel & 12 petrol cars were registered. Hybrids? Only 66 in total mostly plug ins. More in my new Substack newsletter coming out every 7 days. Sign up here: t.co/In5lBaF2ox

I am seeking the appointment of a Special Master to assist in getting the DOJ to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. It's time that the lawyers in the Trump Regime actually follow the law.

The chilling effect is an essential part of political repression.

To address the harms chatbots can cause, we need to start at the beginning, D&S exec director Janet Haven tells @npr.org: "Chatbots are designed to be agreeable & validating, and that can become really dangerous when users are spiraling or contemplating harmful actions." www.npr.org/2026/04/23/n...

had to double check that this wasn't a parody account

Some district principals have reportedly paused leave requests for next Friday, out of concern there will not be enough teachers on their campus.

Not surprised 😐

I am convinced that many mature applications have grown so ridiculously complicated that users are no longer willing to be "delighted" by new features the way they were when the applications were new and less ... featureful.

When Shakespeare said “When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes I all alone beweep my outcast state” I felt that because sometimes my posts get 5 likes.

We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...

Radicalized at a young age by Wrinkle in Time and Hitchhiker’s Guide.

"You cannot fight poverty with a tool that is invisible to poor people, and you cannot reduce inequality with a tool that helps the rich more than the working class." Must read by @scottsantens.com on how we can reduce poverty & elect more effective Dems scottsantens.substack.com/p/democrats-...

“I’ve been using ChatGPT to help with cooking for a while now, so I didn’t think too much of it when the ingredients list included a bottle filled with gasoline and a cloth wick,” said the alleged attacker

Tisza is projected to win 135 mandates in 199-seat parliament based on partial results with 45.7% of the votes counted… That would give Tisza a two-thirds majority in parliament, which would enable deep institutional reform and allow the new government to restructure key institutions. (Reuters)

1 in 4 employees surveyed say AI has automated some of their everyday tasks

Child care that ends at 3 p.m. doesn't work for many working families. So we're changing it. This fall, our 2-K program will pilot year-round care for 2-year-olds, with a full 10-hour day from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Because truly "universal" child care matches the reality of working people's lives.

Mental health care providers should inquire if and how their patients are using artificial intelligence, just like they seek information on sleep, diet, exercise and alcohol consumption. That's according to a new paper out in JAMA Psychiatry. #AI #mentalhealth

📣 New! @cariatida.bsky.social, @aihathing.bsky.social & Sanjay Pinto argue for understanding the sprint to create the "AI-first economy" not as the logical march of progress, but as a series of deliberate economic decisions that risk harming workers in ways old & new. datasociety.net/library/last...

A few deep breaths of fresh air, right here.

Great piece by @f-w-l.bsky.social:

For many different reasons, Americans are rejecting the infrastructure of fascism: detention centers and data centers.

Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanon, Iranian state media reports

Tucker Carlson: "It's vile. It begins w/ a promise to use the US military to commit a war crime. Those people who are in direct contact w/ the president need to say 'No. I'll resign. I'll do whatever I can do legally to stop this, bc this is insane. And if given the order, I'm not carrying it out'"

Amazon reportedly failed to create any new jobs at its HQ2 in Virginia last year, despite millions of state tax incentives. The company has cut 30,000 jobs since last October — while saving $4 billion in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill. Trickle-down economics is a hoax.

Tuition goes as high as $65k in these schools …

The train has left the station: Agentic AI and the future of social science research | Brookings www.brookings.edu/articles/the-t… #AI #education #academia #research

Sometimes readers are skeptical when I tell them that retailers would rather pay for self-checkout kiosks and product lockup systems and all manner of other questionable in-store tech rather than staffing because of an ideological preference for capital spending over labor spending and, well,,,

depressingly plausible that many prefer talking to a robot online instead of other humans because 1. they get immediate feedback and 2. the robot won’t disagree with them

“Although Mythos is currently far ahead of any other AI model in cyber capabilities, it presages an upcoming wave of models that can exploit vulnerabilities in ways that far outpace the efforts of defenders,” Anthropic said in the draft. 😐

You think AI will make life easier? Tell that to folks in Vineland, N.J., who live near a massive new data center serving Microsoft that emits a loud annoying hum, sometimes at 2 am With dozens of data centers in the works, your hometown could be next. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/data...

Exit of Trump officials including FBI director Patel under discussion, Atlantic reports reut.rs/3OebPEZ

It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

Bondi and Noem getting the boot while the equally corrupt and incompetent menfolk keep their jobs reminds me of this Table of RFK Jr’s CDC Directors I made last week. Only one person needed actual qualifications to be the CDC Director and that person was the only woman who had the job.

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions. Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased! osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread 🧵

Astronaut Victor Glover is set to become the first person of color in human history to leave low Earth orbit and embark upon a lunar mission. #ArtemisII

BREAKING: Artemis II launches on mission to moon
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Imagine going before the Supreme Court to attack birthright citizenship and being unable to say Native Americans are American citizens. This was never about the Constitution. It’s about exclusion.

BREAKING: At tonight’s NYC-DSA electoral forum, @aoc.bsky.social committed to voting against “any spending on arms for Israel, including so-called defensive capabilities.”

People in this country go about our daily lives as our government commits atrocity after atrocity. I don’t have words for it.

Pro-AI group Innovation Council Action, praised by David Sacks, plans to spend $100M+ in the US midterms to drive deregulation and support Trump's AI agenda (Alex Isenstadt/Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

“Computer Scientist” is a big-tent title, and lots of people use it to claim authority about LLMs & AI. Many critics (particularly those frustrated with the critical community) can valorize the credential as more objective or informed. Folks, this week I learned it really, really does not.

Yikes! “AI models that lie and cheat appear to be growing in number with reports of deceptive scheming surging in the last six months, a study into the technology has found.” #AI

According to a CBS News Poll, 62% of those surveyed did not think AI companies will use AI in appropriate ways.

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